antispammers: are they vegetable or mineral?

[rone]

venividi pointed me towards this bit of information regarding yesterday's DDoS against LJ.  Needless to say, my contempt for Blue Security has reached a level reserved for people like Colin Powell and John McCain.

I interviewed at Six Apart today, but i signed an NDA, so anything i overheard or discussed today regarding the outage is not something i can repeat here.  The interview, however, went well, despite the lack of sleep of my interviewers (one of whom was lisa, if i may namedrop).  Sleep well tonight, guys!

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Can't say I even noticed an outage, when was it? I think I heard about Blue Security, or someone with similar ideas, a while back, and suspected then that there'd be some high-profile collateral damage, though not by the mechanism described in the link.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

The sanitized executive summary (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/112766.html) was posted in lj_maintenance yesterday.

I didn't notice an outage, but I don't spend much time on lj either.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Ah. 4pm PDT is midnight here, so it's not surprising I didn't notice it l-)

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

In some ways, I hope you don't get the job. My dislike for LJ's post-move shenanigans has been stated before.

However, if you do land the job there, you can help them get their heads back in order.

And yeah I'd be subscribing again if you did in support. Tho I'd prolly only sign up for 3 months just in case your ex-boss moves there too (:

Gooder And Badder News

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info on Blue Security - clearly under the Patriot Act launching Nuclear Weapons on them because they MAY be Iranian Flying Saucers seems like a viable solution.

It is tragic to hear that your job interview is going gooder, as that would suggest that you will get employed, and from there there inevitable down hill slide into the bourgiese sentimentalities of the era....

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid you're too late with your admonition; i've been steeped in bourgeois sentimentalities since i was a child.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What kind of post-move shenanigans? I must've missed it.

I wouldn't be doing support, i'd be doing second-tier sysadmin work.

Hope Spring Eternal

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

When You were A Child, you Thought Like A child.
But when You became a man you put away childish things.

Just as All TRUE Patriotic Americans DID the second time that the World Trade Center was attacked and all True Patriotic Americans became Aware that this time it was important to be vocal about being the Victims of Chicken Hawk Angst Syndrome, or those Evil Iranian Flying Saucers would attack....

So Clearly YOU must do your Part to stop the growing threat of Iranian Flying Saucers...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I put away childish bourgeois mentalities and took up adult bourgeois mentalities. Duh!

If you're concerned with Iranian flying saucers, buy some Le Cigare Volant (http://www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/wine/view/121).

[waider.livejournal.com]

That bluesecurity thread is scary for the amount of idiocy it contains on the part of defenders of bluesecurity. Holy crap.

[omarius.livejournal.com]

I noticed it. It seemed to be DNS-related (I haven't read any of rone's links yet), since I could get to LJ's IP but couldn't resolve any username-subdomains.

[omarius.livejournal.com]

That's PFC, man. Rone the man, from Blogistan! May they throw buckets of money at you and the road rise up to meet you &c. &c.

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!!!

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

All True Believers, who accept that the Divine Decider Decided Didactically De DeCiderInChief, will all chant

If the Blue Dress Does Not Fit!!!
Then You Must Acquite!!!!

ad the only decided method for keeping the Iranian Flying Saucers From RETURNING to do the damage they did on 09/11/2001!!!

Anything Less and the Apostate God Hating America Bashers Win!!!

[dwell.livejournal.com]

well! i hope you get the offer and i'm sure you'll make a great decision.

a little more info about the attack is here (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/04/78074_HNbluesecurityddos_1.html).

bt

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Thanks, man. Hope things are going well for you, too.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

Probably just me, but everything they do post-move, from not being able to work their email to support agents who post insulting comments like "We know you think the site is down. Did you try to refresh your browser?" and then disallow comments... it just seems to me that post-purchase, post-move, the team that was working together to make a successful web-based journal community is now being forced into the myspace mold, and it's not a good fit.

Mainly, though, it's the folks who would be below you, and above you, who would be the ones I'm having issues with.

So I really don't want you to get the job, as I can't imagine it would be any better than working at a telco. And I fought those battles, and I won several, and I'm still insane. But I started insane... not sure you need the stinging armor of insanity's penalty throws...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well... your experience is certainly unique. Seriously, though, your anti-LJ and anti-Wikipedia sentiments makes your crank levels far exceed mine. That's impressive.

All i can tell you is that i didn't get that impression even in the slightest sense while i was there interviewing.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yay interview! Good luck with job.