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Underground Mac Community Foils a Coup
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kdawson
on Sun Sep 09, 2007 03:24 PM
from the fortunately-bloodless dept.
from the fortunately-bloodless dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In an attempted palace coup that would not have been out of place in a Shakespearian tragedy, a moderator faction at Mac Serial Junkie, one of the largest underground Mac communities, was shut out this weekend after it was discovered that many staff members were plotting a coup. The plans included a surreptitious takeover of the domain name macserialjunkie.com. In an Open Letter to the Community, the founders of MSJ explain how a number of people at the highest levels of the underground planned their takeover activities for almost two years, only to be foiled at the last minute."
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Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Sunday December 04 2005, @12:42PM)
No kidding. This is like the stories about scams and drama in EVE Online, but even more irrelevant.
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://aboveaverageurl.com/ | Last Journal: Monday June 27 2005, @03:46PM)
Because no one cares.
Get this off the front page.
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/~Himring/journal/179579 | Last Journal: Saturday August 18, @11:20AM)
[Takes hit off joint] Editor: "Let's see [in a holding-breath-talking-way-that-pot-smokers-do], submissions, submissions, submissions.... Hrmm, 'Life found on mars'
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Wednesday January 21 2004, @09:06PM)
The best is when they called you out for downloading porn that obviously was predominately female, and telling the sysop that you really liked girls as well as guys and before you know it you have superuser status. You could download all kinds of things with that. (I think this is how I played police quest 2.) I remember having to setup fake 'meetings' with some of these sysops, just to keep status for a few more days. Nothing elevated user privelages faster than the possibility of some "hot chick" who is into girls and wants to meet you. Then I'd hide out for a few months and repeat the process all over again.
My pops at the time didn't have unlimited local calling for the phone line and our first months phone bill was something like 700 dollars. Ah, those were the days.
Anyway, don't always assume that the "chatroom moderator" isn't just out to find some busty images back in those days. Often it was guys pretending to be girls.
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Funny)
Re:tag this whocares (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday November 05 2006, @05:31AM)
-jcr
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Funny)
No, there's too much of a risk that someone will think that Dr. Who or those simpletons the Grinch was ripping off actually care about this tempest in a teapot.
It would make more sense if Slashdot started a section specifically for stories like this. They could combine it with stories about changing alliances among pre-teen girls at our local Junior High School and which C-list celebrities are feuding with their former cast members. They could even reuse the OMG Ponies theme.
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday December 04 2005, @12:42PM)
Yes, and to further drive home the distinction, they could even place it under a different domain. Something like, Fark.com [fark.com] perhaps...
/kidding
//this is probably too irrelevant even for Fark
///slashies on Slashdot
Re:tag this whocares (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps the Mac Serial Junkie People's Front?
or the Popular Front of Mac Serial Junkie?
or even the People's Front of Mac Serial Junkie?
but not to be confused with the Popular Front of Mac Serial Junkie.
Re:tag this whocares (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.aptenobytes.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday September 27 2003, @09:37PM)
Oh god... (Score:5, Funny)
On the plus side, though, it might bring more girls to Slashdot.
Re:Oh god... (Score:4, Funny)
I am hot Russian chix.
You are makng me all moisty with insighful, funy and interstink commemt.
Moderate me from behind, you big trouts!!
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://evil.google.com/)
Boiling water? Tea? Why yes, I would love a spot of tea.
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Nice little Freudian slip there.
I'd wager that most of the successful commercial software companies treat their developers with a modicum of dignity. Sure, there have been dozens of exceptions over the years, but by and large it's hard to stay in the business if you treat your programmers like shit. It's a good way to make sure your company is a one-hit wonder. Perhaps that's why Adobe, Microsoft, and Google have all been on the "Best Companies to Work For" list, as have other software firms. They may not please all of their employees, but they generally have a reputation for taking care of their own.
It's often a meaner existence for programmers who work for non-software companies like financial or logistics firms--they're viewed as a "cost," not a revenue stream.
Drat! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://peacefinder.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 24, @04:06PM)
Darn, I was hoping it was a site about Mac serial ports. I was gonna go ask a question...
Re:Subterranean Homesick Blues (Score:5, Funny)
(http://evil.google.com/)
Re:Who cares? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Hmm... (Score:1, Interesting)
This Is News For Nerds?? (Score:4, Insightful)
Are you guys going to cover how Timmy is going to plotting to take over the treehouse next?
kdawson is a shared account (Score:4, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Friday October 19, @12:23PM)
Re:This Is News For Nerds?? (Score:4, Informative)
No, kdawson just posts crud. Period.
who fucking cares? (Score:2, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday October 06 2006, @08:59PM)
Re:who fucking cares? (Score:5, Insightful)
Was anybody surprised Kdawson posted this? Seriously, anybody.
One person was (Score:5, Funny)
Ob: lame dupe joke, about dupes (lame, not funny) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:who fucking cares? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://stylus-toolbox.sf.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday May 15, @11:50AM)
Days of our lives (Score:5, Funny)
Next week on slashdot: How one moderator over at knittingmachines.org thwarted an attempt by 31337gr4ndm4 to copy the patterns of beloved moderator iknit4u.
WGAF (Score:4, Insightful)
None of this shit means anything outside of your silly little group. Sheesh!
Re:WGAF (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.poromenos.org/)
In response to prior comments: I CARE (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @01:01AM)
*Yawns* (Score:1)
It's hardly "underground" if it's on
This story sounds like a gaggle of teenage Wow/second life-types plotting little games from their mums' basements...
Hardly: "News For Nerds. Stuff That Matters"
It had to be said (Score:5, Funny)
coup? underground movement? (Score:2)
Who the hell are those people anyway? I have never heard of any of it.
How the hell did this make the front page? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.visualcore.co.uk/)
Stupidity (Score:2)
(http://mikebabcock.ca/slashdot/ | Last Journal: Sunday November 05 2006, @05:55PM)
I wonder... (Score:1)
tag: firehoseabuse (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 29 2006, @06:44PM)
The motive is clear (Score:1)
... Which would explain this story, if this were 4chan. Since it's Slashdot, though, one can only wonder.
In Other News (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.vizantgroup.com/)
"In an attempted anthill coup that would not have been out of place in a tragic Discovery Channel special, the red ants in my backyard, owners of one of the largest anthills underground in my backyard, were doused with gasoline this weekend after it was discovered that a faction of the worker ants were plotting a coup. The plans included an unprecedented and sneaky incursion into my kitchen trash containing an old big Mac, cereal, and tasty junk. In an unexpected move I placed some honey-soaked borax in their trail and the poison infiltrated into the highest levels of their underground empire. Then dousing thier anthill with gasoline I ended their reign of almost two years, and thus they were foiled before my wife got home."
Honestly, I think my story is more interesting.
SmR
Re:In Other News (Score:5, Funny)
(http://iroll.port5.com/)
Profit? (Score:1)
(http://www.slashdot.org/)
I found it interesting.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Not sure who is in the "right" here but the domain owners kinda get the last word on what they want and how to do things don't you think?
It's also kind of curious that the first few posts here seem to be so vitriolic against the posting of this article. As I recall
Then again, I must be new here...
Re:I found it interesting.. (Score:4, Insightful)
It's also interesting how many people who don't care took the time to post flames about how much they don't care.
It's the difference between a mature human being comfortable with his or her place in the universe, and an immature person who thinks he or she is the center of the universe. The mature individuals know some things interest them and some things don't, but that some of those things that don't interest them do interest other people. They simply skip over anything that doesn't interest them. The immature people get upset that something that doesn't interest them was posted. If it doesn't interest them, why did anyone waste the time posting it? If anyone else is interested in it, they must be "losers".
The real problem at the core for them is, every time something is posted that doesn't interest them, it proves that the universe does not revolve around them, and they just can't stand that. So they must complain. Any time the universe does not appear to be specifically tailored for them, they must complain. Obviously something is wrong with the universe if it isn't arranged for their ultimate convenience.
My How Slashdot has fallen. (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
There are losers on the internet (Score:2)
(http://sam.holden.id.au/)
File under "Who gives a shit" (Score:4, Insightful)
These guys really need to get a life.
It's not bad - it just needs the "humor" tag (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Friday February 18 2005, @09:17PM)
Come one, who can avoid imaging those Villians twiddling their beards in glee, in anticipation of their devious dastardly deeds.
The head admin first realised something was amiss (Score:2)
Hoax anyone? (Score:2)
(http://www.fundraw.com/ | Last Journal: Friday October 26, @03:42AM)
Anyway, anyone knows that if you want a serial number, you download a keygen off a filesharing network. And make sure that you *don't virus scan it* or you could break it.
- G
Arrrr, there be idiots there (Score:1)
Hypocrisy (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www1.istockph...ind_your_own_busines)
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/26
By the way, don't give me any bull that one is free and the other is a paid for service... they're both internet communities. No one is forced to use them.
So, I guess the lesson is it only matters to you when it's a forum you happen to use.
Re:Hypocrisy (Score:5, Insightful)
Most of the reason this is a non-story is that there's a total of four people with two servers involved. I'm far from certain that there's more than 100 people who even give a shit about the 'attempted coup'.
Honor among thieves? (Score:4, Insightful)
Press releases for nerds, stuff that's made up (Score:3, Insightful)
Another non-story posted by kdawson (Score:1)
Hey Apple stole FreeBSD (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://------.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 25 2005, @06:16AM)
Turn the fucking firehose off (Score:1)
Or just change the slogan to:
"News for nerds (and anybody else), Stuff that matters (or doesn't)"
only to be foiled at the last minute. (Score:2)
(http://www.brynmosher.com/ | Last Journal: Monday August 27, @10:15PM)
Drats!
Curses! (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.gamerslastwill.com/)
Oh Noes! (Score:1)
Then we'd get miscellaneous funny cat pictures before the thread devolved into a Bush flamewar.
Wow - great community (Score:2)
(http://www.webgeekworld.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday April 27 2006, @07:47AM)
Shakespearian? (Score:2)
Spotty nerds spatting on a warez forum is a "Shakespearian Tragedy"? That must have been one of the lost folios.
Thanks (Score:2)
All that to say, I for one really enjoyed the article. It's one of the few articles that I found interesting and read in this morning's lineup, and I thought it applied very well.
Thanks!
--clint
P.S. Why do all of the trolls on the first page of discussion navigate into articles that don't interest them just to complain? Haven't they realized that if they're not interested in reading a particular article, that _they don't have to click on it_? Slashdot's an omelet with all of the fixin's, and you're bound to hit topics that you don't like. Everyone has their anchovies -- just eat around them, and let us enjoy our articles in peace. If a particular article has 4 comments, then it will be painfully obvious that it was a boring article -- we *don't* need 200 trolling complaint posts that drown out real discussion from people who are actually interested in the topic at hand. [/rant]
P.S.S. [oblig] I must be new here. [/oblig]
Website drama (Score:2)
Re:Mac's (Score:1)
(http://www.supernovajuice.com/)
Actually... (Score:2)
(http://www.visualcore.co.uk/)
If kdawson is having such a boring Sunday that this stuff appeals, why don't we petition for an OMGPONIES!!! revival to liven up the day? Everyone likes ponies...
Or, alternatively, a topical OMGPARROTS!!! day - a memorial, if you will.