[OT] NTK now, 2001-09-14 (excerpt)
http://www.ntk.net In these terrible times, it's good to watch the tech community put its problems aside, and supply what we were all so desperately short of: plenty of wild unsolicited opinions. After those first few hours of awful shocked silence - what a relief to be interrupted by the CEO of CoffeeCup Software, producers of an innocuous Windows HTML editor, e-mailing his 1.2 million customer base to "call for [the responsible] country's complete destruction and annihilation". And at the end of that fateful day, noted hacker Eric S. Raymond rained his thoughts like fresh water, revealing that those who "disarmed all the non-terrorists on those airplanes ... bear some moral responsibility". Thanks too to BYTE's Jerry Pournelle, who slowly toughened his demands from an early request that /usr/bin/laden be handed over "bound and chained", to Thursday's demand that Nablus, Gaza, Baghdad *and* Damascus be razed to the ground; to the Evening Standard infowar expert who warned that "inflamed young men" could escalate the conflict by releasing "cyber viruses, crashing our computers ... from council houses in Bradford"; and kindly John Keegan in the Telegraph, who wrote that ISPs should ban encryption among their users, and those who refused must be "destroyed with cruise missiles". And on through the lonely nights, as net.folk on chat traded credulous rumours and confused geopolitics, and Nostradamus buffs mulled seriously over a quatrain that, sadly, was probably invented by a skeptic to show how *any* random phrase could end up a doomladen prophecy. But be assured that the crisis is not yet over. Please help: opinions are still desperately needed - and bloggers, columnists and sleep-deprived newsreaders are running short of ideas. So: do you have some minority you'd like to haphazardly blame? Some half-arsed genocidal theory you'd like to insist become global policy? Some simplistic demonisation of a country's recent history that needs to be waved in the faces of everyone you know? Mail it to our hotline on devnull@spesh.com, and we'll pass it on to those who must fill the useless silence which would otherwise be wasted on slow, methodical grief. http://www.coffeecup.com/attack/ - "many e-mails thanking me for removing the word 'annihilation'" http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/9/12/102423/271 - Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics http://www.jerrypournelle.com/war/whattodo.html - "There may be other places." http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?pg=/01/9/14/do01.html - also, if their contention ratio goes above twenty, nuke 'em http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=45691... - no hidden meaning in using Bradford as an example http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.ed.brocku.ca/~nmarshal/nostradamus.... - search for "abstract" ----- End forwarded message ----- And, for the record, I agree that political stuff should be moved off of NANOG -- though I greatly appreciate the efforts of Sean Donelan and others to keep us all informed on how the disaster affects the Internet. -- J.D. Falk all good dreams return in time <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
jd, i miss you. ;) doc On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, J.D. Falk wrote: :Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:48:32 -0700 :From: J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> :To: nanog@nanog.org :Subject: [OT] NTK now, 2001-09-14 (excerpt) : : :http://www.ntk.net : :In these terrible times, it's good to watch the tech :community put its problems aside, and supply what we were :all so desperately short of: plenty of wild unsolicited :opinions. After those first few hours of awful shocked :silence - what a relief to be interrupted by the CEO of :CoffeeCup Software, producers of an innocuous Windows HTML :editor, e-mailing his 1.2 million customer base to "call for :[the responsible] country's complete destruction and :annihilation". And at the end of that fateful day, noted :hacker Eric S. Raymond rained his thoughts like fresh water, :revealing that those who "disarmed all the non-terrorists on :those airplanes ... bear some moral responsibility". Thanks :too to BYTE's Jerry Pournelle, who slowly toughened his :demands from an early request that /usr/bin/laden be handed :over "bound and chained", to Thursday's demand that Nablus, :Gaza, Baghdad *and* Damascus be razed to the ground; to the :Evening Standard infowar expert who warned that "inflamed :young men" could escalate the conflict by releasing "cyber :viruses, crashing our computers ... from council houses in :Bradford"; and kindly John Keegan in the Telegraph, who :wrote that ISPs should ban encryption among their users, and :those who refused must be "destroyed with cruise :missiles". And on through the lonely nights, as net.folk on :chat traded credulous rumours and confused geopolitics, and :Nostradamus buffs mulled seriously over a quatrain that, :sadly, was probably invented by a skeptic to show how *any* :random phrase could end up a doomladen prophecy. But be :assured that the crisis is not yet over. Please help: :opinions are still desperately needed - and bloggers, :columnists and sleep-deprived newsreaders are running short :of ideas. So: do you have some minority you'd like to :haphazardly blame? Some half-arsed genocidal theory you'd :like to insist become global policy? Some simplistic :demonisation of a country's recent history that needs to be :waved in the faces of everyone you know? Mail it to our :hotline on devnull@spesh.com, and we'll pass it on to those :who must fill the useless silence which would otherwise be :wasted on slow, methodical grief. : :http://www.coffeecup.com/attack/ :- "many e-mails thanking me for removing the word 'annihilation'" : :http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/9/12/102423/271 :- Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics : :http://www.jerrypournelle.com/war/whattodo.html :- "There may be other places." : :http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?pg=/01/9/14/do01.html :- also, if their contention ratio goes above twenty, nuke 'em : :http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=45691... :- no hidden meaning in using Bradford as an example : :http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.ed.brocku.ca/~nmarshal/nostradamus.... :- search for "abstract" : :----- End forwarded message ----- : : And, for the record, I agree that political stuff should be : moved off of NANOG -- though I greatly appreciate the efforts : of Sean Donelan and others to keep us all informed on how the : disaster affects the Internet. : :-- :J.D. Falk all good dreams return in time :<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> :
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