IT Security Mag Tricked Into Publishing Hilarious Nonsense

[Kargathia]

The art of trolling. Now a university major that takes 6 years.

Also totally worth it. Whomever wrote this must've graduated with honours.

 

[antipunt]

....when we're clearly not interesting...

Little harsh on ourselves are we?

*opens mouth to speak

>_>

god dammit..

 

[Formica Archonis]

I think I'll just leave these here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Nights (An amazing book, I read six chapters before my brain exploded.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger (NSFW)

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StealthParody

 

[Valanthe]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StealthParody

And you Tvtropes'd me... there goes my evening...

On Topic, this is the most hilarious bit of news I've read in a while, I am also utterlly convinced that the "Timecube Theory," [http://www.timecube.com] is actually one of these.

 

[Lusty]

The minute I saw the headline I knew exactly who the magazine would be. They've been spamming me and a few people I know to write articles for free for ages. And to be honest none of us are really qualified to be doing that anyway.

It was only a matter of time before someone got annoyed and tried this.

 

[Evil Smurf]

This is the best kind of troll. I want to be this good

 

[Denamic]

Well, I got a migraine trying to read that article. Almost every sentence is gibberish. How the hell did this get published? Was it just copy-pasted?

 

[Formica Archonis]

There's the old Signetics write-only memory joke from way back, for example.

I had that printed off and posted by my desk for years before someone saw it was BS.

 

[Lemmibl]

This made my day! In their defense, though, sometimes it really is hard to tell the difference between random gibberish and advanced science terminology in highly specialized fields. As and explanation, check this out: http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/

That said, these guys are hilariously inept and should not be given any money.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

This article has made my weekend. I am crying with laughter right now.

 

[Xanthious]

Well you see what they needed to do was create a GUI Interface in Visual Basic and get to tracking IP addresses. Or at least that's what worked for the people on NCIS.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

This is pretty funny how can they have not seen it was gibberish. Surely it would only take looking at it for a few seconds? My knowledge of computer science is only degree level and even I can see this is taking the piss.

I mean 7TB USB drive? :/

 

[dfphetteplace]

This is just wonderful.

There is an upstart EMS magazine that has been spamming my agency for photos and stories about EMS, and trying to get us to pretty much write their articles for them. You ask a bunch of EMTs and Paramedics to send you photos and articles, and being total dicks about it, you will get some interesting submissions. We received a letter that said our entries would no longer be reviewed, and any more from our agency would be thrown away upon receiving. So we just keep sending different things in from ghost agencies that don't exist.

One article I wrote for them was somewhat like the one in the OP. I just wrote nonsense about resuscitation, including the definitive way to bring someone out of rigor and improve their long term survival.

 

[Lilani]

Well you see what they needed to do was create a GUI Interface in Visual Basic and get to tracking IP addresses. Or at least that's what worked for the people on NCIS.

-video snip-

I think that show is CSI, but yeah, NCIS is just as guilty. Once the NCIS computers were being hacked, and their two best computer geniuses strove to fight off the hacker...while using the same keyboard.


Because part of being a computer genius is having a telepathic link with other computer geniuses.

 

[lacktheknack]

Well you see what they needed to do was create a GUI Interface in Visual Basic and get to tracking IP addresses. Or at least that's what worked for the people on NCIS.

-video snip-

I think that show is CSI, but yeah, NCIS is just as guilty. Once the NCIS computers were being hacked, and their two best computer geniuses strove to fight off the hacker...while using the same keyboard.


Because part of being a computer genius is having a telepathic link with other computer geniuses.

I can't believe the actors didn't refuse to do it. Even my slightly technophobic Grandma saw that and asked how that was supposed to work.

Wasn't NCIS also responsible for having a character who had the highest score in, and I quote, "All the MMORPGs"?

 

[evilneko]

They should've labeled the other end of that um... "arrow"... "The Gibson."

 

[Lilani]

I can't believe the actors didn't refuse to do it. Even my slightly technophobic Grandma saw that and asked how that was supposed to work.

Wasn't NCIS also responsible for having a character who had the highest score in, and I quote, "All the MMORPGs"?

Oh yeah...heh, I remember that episode. Good stuff. And not only that, they went with the reverse-gamer trope. Rather than the person who has the highest scores on "all the MMOs" be a fat defenseless male nerd, it was a hot chick. Oh ho ho, how edgy and non-stereotypical they are.

Though I still don't think that's as bad as when in CSI, they tracked a person's IP address in an MMO by making chase in-game. For some reason, in order to track their IP, they had to physically chase his character through the world. Like, chase his character with another character. WAT?