Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Wow. What a day for freaky coincidences. First, your school friend shows up on the new Yahoo page. Then, a company run by a guy who went to band camp with my best friend from high school is mentioned in a WaPo story that also mentions Yahoo. Plus, the other day, Anderson Cooper was on my plane to NY, and fringey loves Anderson Cooper, and she loves TM, and TM lives in NY. This almost makes me believe in a divine entity.

six degrees of separation....

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I agree. By using the picture they picked for him against the picture they picked for her, they are putting a bias in the minds of people to suggest he must be guilty of battering her. I think it is worse than the OJ Simpson picture simply because you are forced to directly compare the images of the two people involved.

true. I note that when I read the story this morning there were no photos up. I wonder if they had trouble getting a picture of him. I know TM found another one, but I wonder how easy it is for CNN to obtain photo rights to non-AP photos. Looks like the posted photo is an AP photo, which is what CNN often uses.

That said, they should have left the story photo-free before adding that one to it.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I would guess that was sort of the point, to get a chapter thrown in between the songs.

The story does not hold together. He says:

"It was not until Pennsylvania that we realized that we had neglected to turn off the "random" feature of the iPod, so we were getting chapters in arbitrary order, the plot entirely in the mischievous hands of fate."

If he was getting songs interspersed with the chapters, he would not have forgotten that he had neglected to turn off the "random" feature.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Wow. What a day for freaky coincidences. First, your school friend shows up on the new Yahoo page. Then, a company run by a guy who went to band camp with my best friend from high school is mentioned in a WaPo story that also mentions Yahoo. Plus, the other day, Anderson Cooper was on my plane to NY, and fringey loves Anderson Cooper, and she loves TM, and TM lives in NY. This almost makes me believe in a divine entity.

Oh, I'm so confused. First everyone has trouble logging in to yahoo, and then I discover that I'm seeing one person everytime I try to log in and someone else is seeing another. It's like there are multiple realities or something. Your best friend in high school was in band? You are such a loser. Glad I don't have THAT in common with you.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't love Anderson Cooper. Therefore, there is no God.

Thanks. Now I don't have to worry about finishing the Nietzsche that I started 10 years ago.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No. You are absolutely wrong.

If this was a story about him as an artist, I would agree with you.

If this was a story about him being convicted of a crime or even losing his house and kid to T-Boz because the judge found her story more credible than his, I might let it slide.

But it is neither of those two things. It's an accusation for which he has submitted a credible defense in the proper forum. That makes CNN's usage of this photo disgusting. Especially when I found the one I posted here of him on the first page of a Google search. It's not like it was hard to find a normal photo of him.

TM

You're probably right. I'll just point out that finding photos on Google is not the same as obtaining rights to use such photos from the copyright holder. Internet news sites are probably pretty limited in the scope of cleared photos they can use - I'd think they'd be limited to works-for-hire created by their own company (which in the case of CNN/Time Warner is pretty broad) because they need to find photos fast and couldn't possibly approach the copyright holder for permission between when the story breaks and when it goes up on the page.

[NotFromHere]

So I'm in the middle of reading about Jesse Palmer's and Jessica's dream wedding. Deep and the imagery is amazing.

re: Merchant of Venice - I think it's torture to make high schoolers memorize that damn "quality of mercy" thing.

re: Fabio, while scanning the channels after For Love or Money last night, I caught a glimpse of the contestants in the new hit reality show "the Next Action Hero" or some shit like that. And saw the woman from Average Joe - the one who got dumped by the Fabio hater. Apparently she's trying out. Another guy was on the other stupid Fox show - gay or not gay. Apparently when you've done on reality show, you're hooked and must do others - even if it means you are not qualified to be an Action Hero.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
six degrees of separation....

Another one of my friends used to get her dirty diapers changed by Kevin Bacon, so that puts y'all like 3 degrees away from Kevin Bacon or something.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Oh, I'm so confused. First everyone has trouble logging in to yahoo, and then I discover that I'm seeing one person everytime I try to log in and someone else is seeing another. It's like there are multiple realities or something. Your best friend in high school was in band? You are such a loser. Glad I don't have THAT in common with you.

Oh, God, no, I got that wrong. Good catch. I was in band (the flute, but of course). My best friend was in chorus. If it helps, I see your friend on my Yahoo page. Did you have trouble with hotmail last week?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't love Anderson Cooper. Therefore, there is no God.

good thing because he doesn't swing your way, iykwimaityd.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
true. I note that when I read the story this morning there were no photos up. I wonder if they had trouble getting a picture of him. I know TM found another one, but I wonder how easy it is for CNN to obtain photo rights to non-AP photos. Looks like the posted photo is an AP photo, which is what CNN often uses.

That said, they should have left the story photo-free before adding that one to it.

I totally disagree with y'all. The disparity between the photos tells me that she was just a greedy whore and got what was coming to her. Bitch.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
good thing because he doesn't swing your way, iykwimaityd.

I know; I did a search and discovered that quite possibly I'm obsessed with him, but I have never said I love him. even in a non-sexual, non-romantic way.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Another one of my friends used to get her dirty diapers changed by Kevin Bacon, so that puts y'all like 3 degrees away from Kevin Bacon or something.

Personally, I'd like to be much closer to Kevin Bacon than that. But that's probably just me...

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
The story does not hold together. He says:

"It was not until Pennsylvania that we realized that we had neglected to turn off the "random" feature of the iPod, so we were getting chapters in arbitrary order, the plot entirely in the mischievous hands of fate."

If he was getting songs interspersed with the chapters, he would not have forgotten that he had neglected to turn off the "random" feature.

So you're saying one of Ty's blogger sources might be lying? Can I quote this on Politics?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I keep getting Paige's face. Who is Suze?

I guess it was a roll out that unfortuantely came at the same time as a web attack:

Attack Blocks Access to Popular Web Sites

41 minutes ago Add Technology - washingtonpost.com to My Yahoo!


By Brian Krebs, washingtonpost.com Staff Writer

A widespread electronic attack on a company that handles traffic for some of the world's most-visited Web sites knocked several high-profile sites offline for at least 45 minutes early Tuesday.


•The attack targeted Internet servers run by Cambridge, Mass.-based Akamai Technologies, which distributes and manages Web data for companies such as Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), Federal Express and Xerox Corp. It also handles traffic for the FBI (news - web sites) and washingtonpost.com.


Akamai spokesman Jeff Young said the attack interrupted service to the Web sites around 9 a.m. ET and lasted for just under an hour. All the sites are currently accessible.


Young said that the attack was targeted at the Internet infrastructure on a large scale, and that "We have no reason to believe that the attack was directed solely at Akamai."


Amit Yoran, chief cybersecurity officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said federal authorities are working with Akamai and the companies that operate the Internet's underlying infrastructure to determine the source of the attack.


One of those companies, Ashburn, Va.-based MCI, noticed no unusual traffic on its network, a spokeswoman said.


Akamai manages high-traffic Web sites by storing its 1,100 customers' Web content on thousands of Internet servers around the world. It manages approximately 15 percent of the traffic on the Internet.


Young said that most of the sites that were affected are search engines that use Akamai's services.


The company's important role makes it an attractive target for hackers who use "distributed denial-of-service attacks" -- huge bursts of data sent by computers that they have taken over -- to overwhelm computer servers and render popular Web sites inaccessible to Internet users.


Akamai's clients often can withstand these data blasts because attackers must knock out all of Akamai's thousands of servers before they can claim success. Microsoft, one of Akamai's biggest customers, used the company's service to keep its Web site online last August, when the "Blaster" worm told infected computers to attack Microsoft's Windows security site.


Young said the attack seemed to be designed to interfere with its "DNS servers" that convert numerical Internet addresses into more recognizable names like "www.microsoft.com."


"Essentially an attacker would need to have enough [compromised computers] under his control to knock out the thousands of Akamai servers and achieve the kind of global outage we saw today," Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Bethesda, Md.-based SANS Institute.


Ullrich said the assault was most likely launched from an army of home computers infected with a virus or worm that gives attackers full control over the machines, which can then be used to send out spam or crippling Internet attacks like today's assault on Akamai.


Security experts have been warning about the growing number of computers infected with such programs. One of the most aggressive and powerful such programs, called "Phatbot," has already spread to millions of machines over the past several months.


Russ Cooper, chief scientist at TruSecure Corp. in Herndon, Va., said the attack probably involved "at least tens of thousands of systems that would be needed to busy Akamai's network so much."


Cooper said the attackers also might have targeted a previously unknown design flaw in Akamai's software.


The company said that a similar incident last month was caused by a software flaw in one of its Web site management programs.





Computer security experts and law enforcement authorities said that it is often extremely difficult to find out who is responsible for denial-of-service attacks.

In October 2002, a denial-of-service attack disabled most of the 13 "root servers" that provide the primary roadmap for almost all Internet communications. The Department of Homeland Security is still trying to find out who launched that attack, Yoran said.

Next thing you know, someone will be trying to shut down popular message boards by spamming them with boring news stories.

Pot, kettle ...