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WTF is up with LocalArcade???
Organic Jerk:
--- Quote from: ahofle on September 25, 2006, 06:57:31 pm ---This is just as ridiculous a statement as the one that presumably has you all charged up in the first place. ::)
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out of*..... it's a typo. Must be a pretty bad typo if it invalidated the meaning of the entire sentence. Didn't realize. Did that help?
--- Quote from: saint on September 25, 2006, 08:43:18 pm ---From the posted forum rules:
6. Don't take it personally if you get edited by an admin or moderator. Things aren't always black and white and sometimes what is or isn't in line with the rules here is simply a judgement call. If your post gets edited but no other comment is made to you, don't stress about it. No one's mad at you or trying to censor your point of view. Just trying to keep it family friendly.
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I understand. And I agree that the outburst wasn't particularly family friendly, but I don't think having children come to a forum about custom arcades and seeing racial bigotry is family friendly (or appropriate), either. To say "don't take it personally" when you are the only one edited among a string of ignorance, only because you responded to it, doesn't really allow one's mind much room to "not take it personally."
But whatever. I'm done. Sorry I bothered to hold people accountable for what they say/type. I'm gonna go back to my glass parking lot and lay my sheet on the floor. k?
patrickl:
I agree that keeping your software up to date is really the only way to keep hackers out. These prefab websites are usually full of bugs. When they get hacked it will be fixed, but if you then don't install that fix you are open for attacks.
One thing that also helps is to remove all mentionings of the version or even of the name of the software you're using. When one of my sites got hacked (php-nuke) I saw that the perp simply found me with a search on google. I tried the search string he used (was in the log files too) and and thousands of others sites came up which he also hacked. For instance, search for "powered by 4images 1.7.1" (with quotes) on google and you'll find a whole list of sites which use this older version that has several reports of sql injection bugs.
mahuti:
--- Quote ---Even if he's flying the Turkish flag and his ip address is from Turkey, it does not mean that he's really in Turkey. If he's a script kiddie, then more likely so, but even a lame hacker should know to use a chain of free proxies.
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Which is why I implied it was pointless to try... but I figured I might as well do my due diligence on keeping him out
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Well, at any rate, it's updated now. There's normally not too much I can do about keeping the software up to date... sans staying up late overnight or putting in time on the weekend, which isn't so fun, you can imagine. Lately I've had so much work that I didn't get more than a few hours sleep a night so the AAL has been somewhat low on my priorities list. I LIKE to keep it updated, but I only have so much time for that.
Stingray:
--- Quote from: OrganicJerk on September 25, 2006, 04:15:06 pm ---
It's just really messed up that I have (rather recently) joined up to a hobby that accepts bigots who will talk of of their rear about an entire region of people of which they "figured" a member of did the deed, when their assumption is wrong in the first place.
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According to your profile you've been registered here since December 2003. If you've been here that long you should know very well that BYOAC is not the hotbed of racism that you want to make it out to be. Who's talking out of their rear now?
-S
ahofle:
--- Quote from: OrganicJerk on September 26, 2006, 01:20:49 am ---
--- Quote from: ahofle on September 25, 2006, 06:57:31 pm ---This is just as ridiculous a statement as the one that presumably has you all charged up in the first place. ::)
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out of*..... it's a typo. Must be a pretty bad typo if it invalidated the meaning of the entire sentence. Didn't realize. Did that help?
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I realize it was a typo, but you just generalized/smeared the entire arcade hobby as being racists/bigots based on one or two peoples' posts/actions. If you are going to be a member of the political correctness police you may want to practice what you preach.