Another world wide attack?

Call Gore
It is his baby

Beware the surging robot!

Attack of the UNCAVE

re: #3 song_and_dance_man

I've noticed a definate slowdown in LGF's response. I've had to re-boot a number of times.

The Internet is Broken

Thats what I tell my eight year old when she can't log onto Nick.com

LOL

Cheap Chinese robots.

The ones from China are likely bots looking for security holes.
There have been a lot of web sites hacked with malware in the past few months.
But they'll be looking for holes in common software, not custom software.

Chrales, you got friends all over!

re: #7 OldLineTexan

Cheap Chinese robots.

I don't think Charles has anything to worry about until the Big Dog shows up at his door. And if that ever happens...we're all in trouble.

re: #2 LeftJustAintRight

Call Gore
It is his baby

Just got off the phone with him.

Excessive bots are a result of Global Warming.

Something’s going on out there on the innernut.

Beijing probing defenses again?

We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

Do not trust the Shanghai robot.

Gotta Run
Have FUN and Play nice all you Racist Islamophobes
Obama /Carter 08 !
Make the Change !

There's been an undeclared bot war going on within the innernut for some time now.

The usual cast of bad actors...

[Link: www.strategypage.com...]

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New at zomblog:

Anti-John Yoo protest at Boalt Hall law school graduation

On Saturday, May 18, U.C. Berkeley’s School of Law held its graduation ceremonies. As graduates approached Boalt Hall for the reception, they were greeted by protesters.

In fact, more than just “greeted” — they had to run a gauntlet of demonstrators just to reach the entrance to the party.

Why would anyone protest a law school graduation? Because Boalt Hall is home to controversial law professor John Yoo, who in 2002 co-authored memos which theorized that the President of the United States would not be liable under the War Crimes Act if under times of national emergency he sanctioned “enhanced interrogation techniques” to get information from terrorism suspects. Setting aside whether or not “enhanced interrogation techniques” count as torture, and whether or not Yoo’s opinions were legally sound, it should be noted that the Bush administration formally repudiated the memos, and the Supreme Court rejected some of Yoo’s arguments, so the memos’ actual importance seems to be wildly overblown. Yoo’s opinion seems to be based on the argument that Al Qaeda terrorism suspects are unlawful combatants and thereby are not protected by the guidelines of the Third Geneva Convention, which they themselves violate — so they would have no legal basis for complaint if they were mistreated in custody. I’m not going to get involved in the cacophonous debate over the significance of these papers, which have come to be called “torture memos” by Yoo’s detractors. The internet is awash in information — and even greater amounts of misinformation and disinformation — about Yoo’s opinions, so if you’re interested you can Google his name for an avalanche of conflicting claims. This photo essay is just a report on the protest of May 18, not a legal brief.

Most of the protesters seemed to be members of various communist groups — primarily World Can’t Wait, but also (as seen here) the Spartacus Youth Club, among others.

Also present was a large contingent of 9/11 Truthers.

...etc.

re: #16 Render

There's been an undeclared bot war going on within the innernut for some time now.

The usual cast of bad actors...

[Link: www.strategypage.com...]

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Interesting, thanks.
Will the Chinese be able to control all internet activity in country during their Olympics?

honestly, i don't understand this stuff. do people think charles won't notice? what's the point?

ChiComs have been engaged in Cyber Warfare with the Pentagon for some time.

Maybe they're branching out.

I thought Hillary was going to sweep Kentucky be a large margin.
But with 7% in it is 52% for her and 47% for Obama.

Robots

More seriously, I hope they stop now that they've caught the Grand Lizard's attention. For the little time I've been here today, pages seem to have been loading slowly.

re: #19 valentine81

honestly, i don't understand this stuff. do people think charles won't notice? what's the point?

Hey, valentine, haven't heard from you in a while. How are things in your neighborhood?

#10 bosforus

Here is a little better footage of that robot dog.
[Link: www.break.com...]

It ain't me Boss, I can only read one page at a time.
// {;-)™

re: #16 Render

There's been an undeclared bot war going on within the innernut for some time now.

The usual cast of bad actors...

[Link: www.strategypage.com...]

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From Strategy Page:

The Russian attacks against Estonia were the result of Estonia moving a statue, honoring Russian World War II soldiers, from the center of the capital, to a military cemetery. The Estonians always saw the statue as a reminder of half a century of Russian occupation and oppression. Russia saw the statue move as an insult to the efforts of Russian soldiers to liberate Estonia, and enable the Russians to occupy the place for half a century. The basic problem here is that most Russians don't see their Soviet era ancestors as evil people, despite the millions of Russians and non-Russians killed by the Soviet secret police. The Russians are very proud of their defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, ignoring the fact that the Soviet government was just biding its time before it launched its own invasion of Germany and Europe in general.

It was a statue of Josef fucking Stalin. I don't see what the "insult" was, since the Russians were knocking down lots of their own Stalin idols not that long ago.

Zombie...if you are in the neighborhood of UC Davis...

May 31, Saturday -- Via videoconference from Sudan, three former Guantanamo Bay detainees will talk for the first time to a U.S. audience about their prison experiences at a May 31 benefit for the Guantanamo Testimonials Project, a UC Davis-based effort to catalog accounts of prisoner abuse from print and broadcast sources around the world.

The event will take place at 8 p.m. in the Sciences Lecture Hall at UC Davis. Tickets are $10.

The former detainees -- Adel Hasan Hamad, Salim Adam and Hammad Ali Amno Gad Allah -- will be interviewed by Amy Goodman, executive producer and host of the independent news program "Democracy Now!" Goodman has won numerous journalism awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting.

re: #25 surrounded

#10 bosforus

Here is a little better footage of that robot dog.
[Link: www.break.com...]

LOL

re: #27 Spiny Norman

It was a statue of Josef fucking Stalin.

Source?

re: #17 zombie

What, no waterboarding demonstrations?

re: #30 autoexec

Source?

It was in the post from Render that Norman quoted.

re: #28 NJDhockeyfan

Lurid tall tales taken seriously by the usual suspects.

They turned me into a newt!

I'm surprised none of it is from Russia.

re: #32 Fat Jolly Penguin

It was in the post from Render that Norman quoted.

No, it was not.

Maybe the Chinese want to read about the greatness Savior that is Obama?
/(maybe?...right?)

...at least it wasn't Godzilla or Mothra!

Hhmmm two questions:

Does Godzilla believe in Intelligent Design?

Could Charles write a Terminator 'Bot Program?

re: #35 autoexec

No, it was not.

Actually, 'twas. (Fourth paragraph down.)

Are they outsourcing the left-wing hate machine now too?

re: #38 Fat Jolly Penguin

Actually, 'twas. (Fourth paragraph down.)

Sorry, there is no line "It was a statue of Josef fucking Stalin" in that article.

Charles
You could snag those bots
Rewrite the code and make them attack the host server they originated from.
Just a thought

re: #41 LeftJustAintRight

Charles
You could snag those bots
Rewrite the code and make them attack the host server they originated from.
Just a thought

I forgot
They need Viagra spam too

re: #27 Spiny Norman

The statue Estonia removed wasn't of Papa Joe himself.

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

Most of the Papa Joe statues disappeared between 1953 and 1955.

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re: #44 Render

The statue Estonia removed wasn't of Papa Joe himself.

Thank you for being a voice of sanity.

Polls closed in KY. Exit polls predict Clinton win. Fox calls it for Clinton.

re: #32 Fat Jolly Penguin

It was in the post from Render that Norman quoted.

No, what the statue was was not mentioned there, but the Russian-manufactured controversy it was all over the news recently. Including a photo of a statue of Stalin. I should have waited until I found the article I had read a couple of months ago before posting. Because I stand corrected:

The statue in question is of an anonymous Red Army soldier.

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

OT
Does anyone know any casting agents?

re: #40 autoexec

Sorry, there is no line "It was a statue of Josef fucking Stalin" in that article.

Oh, that's what you meant.

Norman, is this the statue? Cause that doesn't look much like Stalin...

re: #48 Charles

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

Soup Blog Nazi
Fixed

re: #51 LeftJustAintRight

Soup Blog Nazi
Fixed

I am picking

re: #48 Charles

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

Damned the bad luck.

re: #45 autoexec

Thank you for being a voice of sanity.

I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were talking specifically about Stalin; I thought you were asking for a link for the quoted bit of that article.

re: #50 Fat Jolly Penguin

Yup, that's the statue who's removal sparked a Russian internut attack on Estonia.

Norm got it.

It's all about fact checking.

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re: #48 Charles

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

Gee, its not like you own the site or anything. Just like free speech in the workplace, feel free to work (or post) somewhere else since you've been fired.

re: #50 Fat Jolly Penguin

Oh, that's what you meant.

Norman, is this the statue? Cause that doesn't look much like Stalin...

Apparently yes, but that is NOT the statue in the photo accompanying the article about the controversy I read a while back. It was on a pedestal in a square away from any walls. And Uncle Joe's big bushy mustache was clearly visible.

Charles avatar at the complaint desk. Funny visual.

re: #54 Fat Jolly Penguin

I'm sorry. I didn't realize you were talking specifically about Stalin; I thought you were asking for a link for the quoted bit of that article.

Just a misunderstanding, that's all. Nothing to worry about :)

re: #48 Charles

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

Like Josef Stalin? Or Kennedy? You're a Cult Of Personality.

Clint Eastwood feels 'sorry' for Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton, you’ve got a friend in Dirty Harry.

Though a longtime follower of John McCain — dating back to the Arizona senator’s 2000 run against George W. Bush in the GOP primary — Clint Eastwood thinks Clinton deserves some serious respect. And enough already with the calls for her to quit.

“Everybody’s trying to talk her into folding, but it doesn’t seem like the spirit of Americana,” Eastwood told Politico before heading to France’s Cannes Film Festival, where his period kidnapping drama “Changeling,” starring Angelina Jolie, had its world premiere Tuesday. Dirty Harry Loves Dirty Clinton

re: #48 Charles

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

Boo-frickin-Hoo! You laid out the ground rules for discussion several times, made several warnings. It's not your fault the cry-babies have problems with reading comprehension. T.S.

Something’s going on out there on the innernut.

I wonder if LGF's the canary, Charles.

Off to the bunker... oh, hang on, i don't have one... where's that shovel?

This week, we have had hundreds of thousands of SQL injection attempts from hundreds of IP addresses (50% from Poland). DECLARE VARCHAR etc. added to querystrings.

The IP Blacklist is getting huge.

One of the people who was banned in that ugly little meltdown a few days ago has also sent me hate mail. He's convinced that I edited a post, then lied about it, all in order to avoid admitting that it was deleted wrongly by a monitor. It's sad.

re: #58 snowcrash

Charles avatar at the complaint desk. Funny visual.

Kinda Dilbert-like. The Gorn sounds like it would be one of Dogbert's ideas.

_{Yes, I know Scott Adams has gone off the deep end...}

re: #48 Charles

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

I read several warnings from you; if they don't listen to the warning shot over the bow, it is their own fault.
But what kept me polite was the first post by someone else, on Saturday's thread, just asking nicely to stay polite.
I had a somewhat nasty, somewhat funny remark, nowhere near as bad as the stuff that got deleted, but I'm keeping it to myself.
The nasty stuff I save for terrorists and other evil subhumans.
(Like I hope Amadmanonjihad meets his end when he's visiting one of the centrifuge plants, and there is an accident, so he gets a lungful of UF6)

re: #48 Charles

A couple of people have sent angry email after losing their accounts in the Ted thread. I'm pathetic, I'm like Stalin, yadda yadda.

Sounds like a smart culling. Weeding the garden.

I'm just happy to be here after my mac link in the dead xp thread!

re: #65 Charles

One of the people who was banned in that ugly little meltdown a few days ago has also sent me hate mail. He's convinced that I edited a post, then lied about it, all in order to avoid admitting that it was deleted wrongly by a monitor. It's sad.

Somebody's still pissy about that? And I thought I had no life...

re: #19 valentine81

Hey valentine81 - How are you doing! Things ok in your neighborhood?

United Arab Emirates

I'm shocked NOT!

r2d2 would be ashamed

re: #3 song_and_dance_man

I've noticed a definate slowdown in LGF's response. I've had to re-boot a number of times.

If LGF is slow, why would you reboot?

I am seeing similar Charles but not the volume you see.
The devils. And its so tough to sort thru all the types of attacks
we endure. Ill bet these guys have some info if you asked
or complained. These guys are any site owner's best friends:

[Link: isc.sans.org...]

re: #73 DoubleU

If LGF is slow, why would you reboot?

Lmao!

Ontopic:
I think you need to 'Muslim Filter'!

Also? This guy lives for bot information. Good guy Anthony is.
And he gets on cases pronto.

[Link: www.forumpostersunion.com...]

re: #70 MacGregor

yep! for the moment, anyways...

Probing for site weaknesses to hack WoW gold if it's from China.

I do not have the time to read all of the comments on each thread but I try to on the tech threads. Charles, do you care to post up the IP's of those bots that are zoning you and how often they are hitting you? I would like to check my web server and IM server as well. I could also warn the rest of the IT folk about it where I work so we can keep an eye on it. I know our biggest problem right now (after p2p downloads) is phishing attacks.

re: #80 zerodamage

I do not have the time to read all of the comments on each thread but I try to on the tech threads. Charles, do you care to post up the IP's of those bots that are zoning you and how often they are hitting you? I would like to check my web server and IM server as well. I could also warn the rest of the IT folk about it where I work so we can keep an eye on it. I know our biggest problem right now (after p2p downloads) is phishing attacks.

Indeed. Great point.

China's got over 70,000 dead - probably more, and a generation of children in one region nearly wiped out - and those are IT. One child policy and the communists didn't build the schools right that the families had to put their only heirs into. China's population is close to imploding, from collapse of the upcoming generation. One child families losing that child through accidents, disease, bad medicine, poor justice system (dying in jail wrongfully accused) now mass casualties from earthquakes. Just how much of this spiritual abuse can families endure? How long will it be until the dead-ended population revolts? The Chicoms have taken erverything from them.
But, nooo. Spend time cyberhacking the Men of the West.

re: #82 wanumba

I don't fear the so-called "China century" the experts say we are entering. I think they've just about peaked. You are correct -- their demographics are a mess, the "elderly bomb" of the next few decades will hit China harder than even the worst nations of a depopulating Europe. The unfunded liabilities of the upcoming retirement of China's baby boom [yes... they had one too] are supposedly greater than the entire projected GDP of China by 2020. They opened up their economy two generations too late, and are consequently too far behind the curve to catch up.

re: #82 wanumba

My experience in China. A lot of nice people seriously abused by a politically correct power system. A total lack of safety and health standards. People were afraid of offending the government. The food there was much better than anything you can get here in the US. Huge cities that we have never heard of. Pollution that is probably 100 times worse than anything you ever saw in Los Angeles. The air in places was choking. There was a certain distrust of foreigners.

I can see how the Chinese economy is essentially a rube goldberg machine that dumps it's waste into the oceans. I was warned not to get any Yellow River water on me because of parasites. The locals brushed their teeth in it. A river is an easy garbage drain to float stuff to Hawaii.

They can make money off this botting and have no real consequences. A very polluting country.

re: #84 stevieray

re: #85 hazzyday
Yes! Let's expand for the general readership more, along the lines of what you both mentioned ...
A US school was explaining that they wanted to pick up a different foreign language and mentioned Chinese. Like for what? It's excellent if one wants to work in China, a necessity of course. But a global language? Noooooo waaaaaaay. These MSM/Progressive Left pumping of China as the next great economy ignores the internal stresses. They make a similar mistake with India for different reasons - totally uncomprehending as to the ball and chain that's India's rigid caste system on their national progress/expansion/growth.
China cannot get very far with a majority of their population over 45 - and older than that, with a declining number of babies.
See how long it took China's military to "hike into the worst-hit earthquake zones?" Hike? Hike? How many Chinese have died who could have lived IF rescue had arrived in a timely manner? We know it's in the thousands.
Pollution? Egads. If they don't care enough to build a decent school structure in an earthquake zone, what care do they have for pollution? But shut the USA down!
In New Delhi - in December, the impenetrable smog blanket over the city is suspended hardly above head height, coal fired electrical plants, wood fires and ugh! cremetoriums! And that was AFTER a big improvement of shifting public vehicles from petrol to CNG (Compressed natural gas).
Go back to the USA, see blue skies, view all the buildings - even to the top floors, no trash about, but yell yell yell at Americans while the rest of the world, especially and particularly, the communist regimes pollute as if there was no tomorrow. They do not care about human life and it shows in everything they do.

The China bot was using powerlineblog.com as a referrer, probably as a weak disguise.

The PowerLine Forum has been repeatedly hit by counterfeit-goods spammers lately. Every one traces back to Beijing. I've been filing complaints with their state-side upstreams and webhosts, as well as making reports to the FBI. No apparent results as yet.

A typical WHOIS:

Domain name: shoes-space.com

Registrant Contact:
lideyou
lideyou lideyou zpq888@gmail.com
13929990000 fax: 13929990000
xiamenshigaoxinqu
xiamen Beijing 210000
cn

A couple of weeks ago, Lucianne.com was brought down by a chinese attack. Don't know why they did it, don't know why they're doing it. But they are.

As long as none of the robots build models that look like Tricia Helfer that go into your mind and tell you that God loves you, you are OK.

Relax. It's just those Carnegie Mellon folks doing more research for their blog-analysis project.

re: #87 Rusty Bill

A typical WHOIS:

Domain name: shoes-space.com

Registrant Contact:
lideyou

lideyou?

as in "I would never lideyou" ?

show those bots who's boss.

re: #91 Izzy Dunne

Of course it's a fake. Worse, it's an obvious fake; these idiots think everyone is as stupid as they are.

Today's crop resolves to a registrant in Shanghai. But both are accessing the U.S. network via service providers - Beyond the Network and AKANOC Solutions - that are known to be havens for offshore spammers and scammers. Just do an ask.com search and read the results.