Meme Machine Memorial Thread of Things You Saw on Reddit

[Eel O'Brian]

wiki'd:

Gawker Media is an American online media company and blog network, founded and owned by Nick Denton based in New York City. It is considered[1] to be one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies. As of March 2010[update], it is the parent company for 10 different weblogs, including Gawker.com, Fleshbot, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, io9, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Gawker.tv, and Cityfile.

[Himu]

haven't heard of any of those except gizmodo, io9 and kotaku.

[Boogie]

haven't heard of any of those except gizmodo, io9 and kotaku.

jalopnik is a big automotive blog.

[CajoleJuice]

Deadspin is a huge sports blog, even though it's fallen off a cliff the past few years. Lifehacker is a cool blog.

[Phoenix Dark]

Guess it's a white people thing Himu

[Shaka Khan]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-gawker-hacker-gnosis-explains-method-and-reasoning-behind-his-actions/

We went after Gawker because of their outright arrogance. It took us a few hours to find a way to dump all their source code and a bit longer to find a way into their database.
We found an interesting quote in their Campfire logs:
Hamilton N.: Nick Denton Says Bring It On 4Chan, Right to My Home Address (After
The Jump)
Ryan T.: We Are Not Scared of 4chan Here at 210 Elizabeth St NY NY 10012
I mean if you say things like that, and attack sites like 4chan (Which we are not affiliated to) you must at least have the means to back yourself up. We considered what action we would take, and decided that the Gawkmedia “empire” needs to be brought down a peg or two. Our groups mission? We don’t have one.
We will be releasing the full source code dump along with the database at 9PM GMT today. You are the only outlet we have told the release time.

We cannot provide any more information as to how the attack was carried out, because this could be used against us.
We have been cracking the database for about 17 hours and have managed to retrieve 273,789 passwords. If our release schedule wasn’t so tight we could get 500,000+. Included in the dump are passwords linked to accounts from Nasa, about every .gov domain you could imagine and hundreds from banks. One can only pray that they do not use the same password everywhere. The actual database size is 1,247,897 rows, which is 80+% of their database.
(Private data redacted)
We have had access to all of their emails for a long time as well as most of their infrastructure powering the site. Gawkmedia has possibly the worst security I have ever seen. It is scary how poor it is. Their servers run horribly outdated kernel versions, their site is filled with numerous exploitable code and their database is publicly accessible.
We will be releasing the full source code to their site as well as the full database dump later today or tomorrow, when we get enough press to stir up the release. We will also be releasing a text file describing Gawkers numerous security failings.
Regards,
~Gnosis

More at the link.

[Great Rumbler]

Ah Gnosis, that noble, selfless man who's only looking out for everybody. Wouldn't want some evil hacker coming and stealing all their passwords and information, after all!

[Shaka Khan]

http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/13/the-lessons-of-gawkers-security-mess/

Ah Gnosis, that noble, selfless man who's only looking out for everybody. Wouldn't want some evil hacker coming and stealing all their passwords and information, after all!

My enemy's enemy is my friend etc etc.

[Eel O'Brian]

"We're offended that they went after 4chan, but we're not affiliated with them, or even visit the site, or even know what the url is, or anything.  Coppers."

[Shaka Khan]

lol yeah that line got me rolling.

Also:

One can only pray that they do not use the same password everywhere.

Or one can refrain from releasing such sensitive information.

[Eel O'Brian]

one can only pray!  pray, i tell you!

[Dickie Dee]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Shaka Khan]

WAT

[Robo]

I can't hear it because I'm at work, but it seems to parody the end of the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. 

[Madrun Badrun]

[Great Rumbler]

That's a lot of quarters.

[Himu]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Reminds me of these gems:

[youtube=560,345]Lzo8xADFwjA[/youtube]

[youtube=560,345]26BWe3h13j0[/youtube]

[youtube=560,345]_0oF_G4aWSU[/youtube]

[Himu]

[youtube=560,345]dOP76UyeDJM[/youtube]

[magus]

Reminds me of these gems:

uh... i don't remember yogi bear being like this... what's the deal with these video? are they older than the yogi bear i know? parody? or what?

[Great Rumbler]

Reminds me of these gems:

uh... i don't remember yogi bear being like this... what's the deal with these video? are they older than the yogi bear i know? parody? or what?

Dude, it's John Kricfalusi.

[chronovore]

(Image removed from quote.)

[magus]

Reminds me of these gems:

uh... i don't remember yogi bear being like this... what's the deal with these video? are they older than the yogi bear i know? parody? or what?

Dude, it's John Kricfalusi.

never heard of the guy

[demi]

uh... he's the guy who started Ren & Stimpy.

[fistfulofmetal]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=415774

[Madrun Badrun]

egg beater 

edit:  picture fail

[lennedsay]

Lose 30 pounds fast; chop off your leg!

It's not far from a real cover either. They all have the same 101 sex tips for this or that. And they're tips you'd absolutely expect a woman to come up with. Some of the most homo sounding shit on the planet. I'm too busy having crazy, hot sex to be bothered to tickle his prostrate with rose petals soaked in lavender essential oil.

Edit: WTF happened?! Eh just post a cover of Cosmo and it's just as ridiculous.

[Madrun Badrun]

Is it back?  I couldn't see it after I posted it.

[lennedsay]

I saw it then I didn't and now I see it. WTF?!

Edit: nm can't see it now

[Madrun Badrun]

I't gone.  I blame Demi.

[demi]

Why arent you tickling his prostate? Feels good man.

[lennedsay]

Yea, but not with rose petals soaked in lavender oil. Please understand. It's always half decent or advice mixed with the most homo thing imaginable that men absolutely do not care about.

They have the worst advice ever in women's magazines. No wonder women are so weird/crazy/psychopathic. "How to snag a man: Tip #102 - Be fucking weird. MEN LOVE IT!" Well, I guess some guys do though, just like some girls love assholes.

[ToxicAdam]

31 foot snowman built in Poland over 6 days.


 

[Cormacaroni]

gonna be comedy when that thing thaws and washes away the dude's house and family

[ToxicAdam]

[youtube=560,345]rwufm8v9beo&   [/youtube]

[Shaka Khan]

Blackface?

[Diunx]

gonna be comedy when that thing thaws and washes away the dude's house and family

Please Understand

[chronovore]

i don't recall "wakfu" ever getting announced... apparently it's a f2p french browser MMORPG
what's this stuff about gawker leak?

They misspelled "waifu"...

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Ah Gnosis, that noble, selfless man who's only looking out for everybody. Wouldn't want some evil hacker coming and stealing all their passwords and information, after all!

I think that sums up most internet justice pretty well: self absorbed with justifications that are completely irrelevant.

It's why people who download a movie claim they are doing it to fuck the man.  In reality, they just want free shit.

[Dickie Dee]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Tieno]

Facebook friendships, mapped


http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919

[cool breeze]

Africa

[Madrun Badrun]

[Brehvolution]

Communism hates facebook.

[Mupepe]

(Image removed from quote.)

[Robo]

The AV Club updated their 90's rock feature: http://www.avclub.com/articles/part-6-1995-live-bush-and-alanis-morissette-take-t,49004/2/

Reminded me of a time in middle school when I gave some bro in home room a copy of Bush's Sixteen Stone for a mandatory Christmas gift exchange without having ever listened to it myself.  I bought it for myself a few months later and felt like such a jerkass upon realizing it was almost entirely terrible. 

I did love Alanis Morrissette unabashedly at the time though, so I guess I didn't actually have any right to pop my monacle.

[Mupepe]

Yeah, you're a dick.  There's only 3 good songs on that cd.

[Mupepe]

[Mupepe]

[Great Rumbler]

*nostalgia in image form*

[Mupepe]

[Mupepe]

[T234]

That cash 4 gold picture has me dying

[Brehvolution]

  damn

[Mupepe]

That cash 4 gold picture has me dying

You never sent me a follow up PM 

[Raban]

the big nostalgia image

Some of these are a total miss for me, but other ones hit so close to home.

Space Jam > Everything.

[Mr. Gundam]

the big nostalgia image

I was too old for a lot of those (Rugrats, Doug, All That, Keenan and Kel, Catdog, Space Jam, Power Rangers, etc.), but some still hit home with me.

[Mupepe]

Oh man, Mr. Gundam.  You missed so much good stuff.

[Raban]

Seriously, Gundam.

I was too old for a lot of those (Rugrats, Doug, All That, Keenan and Kel, Catdog, Space Jam, Power Rangers, etc.), but some still hit home with me.

All of those are absolutely fantastic. I love Power Rangers, but it's not very good if you don't have nostalgia for it. Doug and Catdog are just tho

[Shaka Khan]

^ aren't you, like, too young to remember most of those shows?

That is unless you're Canadian, where some of those shows are still considered newish.

[Robo]

I always hated Nickelodeon, save for Ren & Stimpy and Rocko - the only shows that were actually funny; yes, even then.  I was an MTV brat when most of those shows were airing.