"Asswipe," replied Yahoo's server. That's when I knew I had it
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fish is my most-favorite tongue-in-cheek technical blogger ever. He doesn't blog too often, but they're almost always very useful (and very witty!) gems.
(Hint: you can find out who he really is by reading far back enough.)
>co rydoras
>cory doras
>coryd oras
>corydo ras
>corydor as
>corydora s
I'm going with coryd oras, sounds like a real name.
Cory D Oras.
Obviously.
http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/my-one-lame-steve-story...
Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris:1 and Hackers' Lounge:2 were the first major time sinks of my digital life in the late 90s and early 2000s. ychat and ymsg were my intro to network protocols. I learned Makefiles, C, C++, and Python so I could build, understand, and modify programs like curfloo, curphoo, zinc, and gchat+/gyach. Although I moved on to IRC, I'll never forget when someone passed me "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" (and the implicit link to Phrack) or the first time a bot I created logged in and took drink orders. The pride the first time I wrote a patch for my client to handle a login change all by myself.
A lifetime later, I know I wouldn't be where I am as a programmer if not for the encouragement of friends (some of whom I still talk with and do business with) I made as a teenager on yahoo chat. A lot of people I know grew up on IRC, but Yahoo Chat was my first love. Good bye, I'll miss you!
My first experience with programming was writing bots in the mIRC scripting language. After first getting things to work the feeling was truly empowering. I have to say though, my next attempt in programming was in C and I found it extraordinarily difficult to get started in. Having said that, I was 14 at the time.
I think the fact that my first programming experience was with a scripting language really affected how I how I think about programming now. Ever since then I've found it easier to learn scripting languages than systems languages. Maybe that doesn't make sense to some but that's just me.
There was a guy that hung out in the Programming:1 chat room with the chat handle was 127001 (he was able to create that handle before Yahoo became more strict with the chat handles one could create) that had reverse-engineered the protocol and posted a guide online. I wonder what happened to him. Thanks, loopy!
Anyway, I created a Yahoo chat client in Win32/C as I was learning the API and the language. I was the only user for quite a while, but eventually I posted it using the free web space EarthLink gave me for being a dial-up subscriber. It got pretty popular through word of mouth. Later, when I installed Linux for the first time, I took that code and turned it into an ncurses-based client. It was a lot of fun, and somehow I ended up turning the fun I had hacking on little projects like that into a living.
I always wondered who at Microsoft was tasked with keeping that list 'up to date'.
Maybe someone should ask Dan if we can stick them in plain text somewhere easily accessible for future projects to reference. I know we don't really need to ask, but it's polite.
We could then let the moderators of certain subreddits, or 4chan, have commit access to add new, creative terms of profanity!
I think this would be a humorous list to have around, if only to find out what people are being offended by these days. I have a feeling that, for every term, phrase or word you care to quote, there'll be someone who's offended by it.
Which brings me to the point that there has been a fair bit of debate over the use of profanity filters (a few good links at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273516/how-do-you-impleme...) and how effective they are. One of the references in the link above is for a 14yo circumventing a profanity filter (based on a white-list) with the phrase "I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny."
I run a slang dictionary website where visitors can score how offensive they find the terms. The 100 most offensive are listed here:
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/lists/most-vulgar-words/
It's not multilingual and not open source, but it does capture some of the "state of the art" of dirty words.
Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site? If so, is there anyone from Google reading this that can have a look into this for him? It seems a bit unfair (to say the least) that a dictionary is penalized for citing sources, surely that's just responsible editorial! (Link with some info if you're interested http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/)
Thanks!
Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way?
I'd absolutely love to. But with Google penalizing the site for the majority of the past 2 years, I've become extra-sensitive about content on my site being available anywhere else on the web. In another world, I'd be ecstatic any time I came across material sourced from the site. But as it stands, I've given some thought to filing my first DMCA requests - thus becoming part of that chilling effect that gave chillingeffects.org its name.
I have put the data to some good use. http://www.offensivest.com/books/ ranks English works in the Project Gutenberg corpus by vulgarity. The site desperately needs some TLC: at the least, tweaks to the methodology and a page explaining what that methodology is.
I have more ideas for using the data, but I spend 90% of my time trying to get rid of the penalties.
So...
Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site?
Yes, very much so.
You have my promise, at least, that I won't reproduce any of your work (until you deem it good to go) except in the form of drunken pub factoids :-)
I love, for example, that the complete works of William Shakespeare is currently number 4 on the most vulgar books list!
I don't see much use in profanity filters on the net these days, but it is definitely useful for businesses working with external teams just to sanity check content before publishing :)
Compare that with the source of Win2k (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795) where there were apparently "a dozen or so "fucks" and "shits", and hundreds of "craps"."
It seems greater stability is achieved when devs are allowed to express themselves in comments.
If UD doesn't have it, I'm convinced nobody has ever used the word to mean anything dirty.
I know that "88" is used as a surrogate for "Heil Hitler" in neo nazi circles (H is the 8th letter of the alphabet), but "Realist" doesn't ring any bell.
I hope 81 isn't some kind of code either :)
In human-moderated systems like XBox Live I've seen some relatively 'sophisticated' offensive names get called out and banned by the moderators.
I was wondering how username-blacklist systems worked, and how they deal with names which are obviously offensive to anyone who's dealt with the likes of Stormfront et al. before, but could theoretically be chosen by a totally innocent unfortunate.
For anyone who wants examples, reading a couple of pages of http://whywasibanned.com/category/gamertag/ should give you some examples
It is interesting to think about where the line should be drawn. Especially in human moderated cases.
Perhaps because english is all it matters to them. Who in Europe, for example, even cares if a forum or chat has some swear words in his language?
We might be even more pissed off that we can't swear and leave the service, rather than complain about it.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98y4u_eminem-interview-on-...
It's at 2:30 where he talks about it. And swears a "little".
When I watch Misfits (UK show) they say some things that I never hear on American shows. It only happens on shows that are after the watershed[1] though. Before then I don't know which parts are censored.
It always amuses me a little how Americans seem to be more strict than the Europeans for media censoring.
(The substring part of it, not the locale-sensitive part.)
There's a blog post on it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2010/12/04/10100294....
As a result, the father of one of her students was unable to receive emails from her at his work address, due to their filters.
I'm not really sure how (or if) they solved that problem.
We had to put in some filtering after a customer's order ID ended up being something along the lines of CRAP or SHIT or something.
You can send instructions to manipulate the client and have it do what you want almost as easily as you could if you knew their protocol. And that's without all the cat and mouse headaches.
In the same way applications use the win API to create their UI, others could use it to manipulate and control the interface of other programs. It's powerful.
Event spoofing is pretty limited. While having a thread under your control gives you full power as you have full access to the process' memory and can call any function you want.
I have actually done a lot of this, putting old sourceless win32 and win16 programs run in the background on virtual machines on the server and building new web-based interfaces on top of them.
I'm sure it's more complicated than that however, like client side rate limiting or something.
I bet they would put the rate limit in the client, since they did that with the banned word list, but rate limiting would make more sense at the server. Maybe they did both.
Now you could fire up a new VM for each client or use a botnet to do your bidding. Oh, how the Internet has advanced.
The only time I've every bothered to write my own chat protocol client was for IRC in the late 90s (at which point I'd left college, was working full time so had turned my programming skills to good) and the only reason I bothered to write my own IRC client was because I was utterly fed up with the quality of Windows clients.
Back in the old days, Win32 APIs were so insecure that you could have all sorts of fun with them. I'm not sure how things stand these days though; my development these days are almost exclusively Linux and UNIX based.
http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
Visiting http://example.com/index.html.nyud.net would send a request to "example.com" for the path "/index.html.nyud.net". That's not what you want.
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