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Erin Pavlina said:
Sorry for PMing out of the blue. Here's the thing.

I wrote a book with a friend of mine. My husband keeps saying it sucks. I think he's just jealous tho.

He spends a lot of time on these boards, so I told him I'm going to pick a random person here, and ask them, and we ended up betting on it.

So go to http://zenofeller.com/books/asylum/asylum_chapter1_b.html and make the call. Does it suck?

Thanks.
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This is the second board they hit me on ... :doh

anyone else been hit?
 
Yes, and I clicked the site too.

Hopefully, there is not a virus. I don't think there is, it seems to be legitmate (why would someone bother to write a whole book for the sake of infesting our computers with a virus?)

But anyways, it was an interesting book. I'm on chapter 3 now.
 
Yeah, I had this in my PM box today.
What in God's name is it all about?
I was afraid to click on the link.
Are they selling something, or what?

:confused:
 
yea life imprisonment for these hackers no need for it.Stop it at the core dunno if it was a virus but ****em
 
I wonder if they have something to do with why the forum was down earlier.
 
1069 said:
Yeah, I had this in my PM box today.
What in God's name is it all about?
I was afraid to click on the link.
Are they selling something, or what?

:confused:
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Me too........
 
No doubt they were hackers, the PM was sent during the time the Forum was down!
 
Damnit all, I thought I was special and she only picked me to read it :lol:
 
I think I'll just delete it.
 
I figured if the book wasn't horrible, some publisher would pick it up and I would end up reading it at some point in my life. But since she was begging for someone to read it instead of sending it to publishers, I figured it must suck so I didnt bother with it.
 
I only saw that he/she had sent 5 PM's - you all got it!?

It was kinda strange that while those PM's were going out - the site went down. :(
 
ahhhhh $hit...

...I thought i was special... :(
 
I got one too. I ignored it and I will delete it.
 
I got the PM too.


vauge said:
It was kinda strange that while those PM's were going out - the site went down. :(
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Someone maybe tried to setup a PM bot and it crashed the vBulletin database? I would think a lot more people would have had to receive the PM to do that though. A few hundred withing a few seconds might corrupt a table and crash the site.

Anyway, glad to see the site is back up.
 
3 minutes. That's all I needed. I was logged on and got the PM; the site started getting slow at the same time. I was about to ban the nitwit, as I noticed he/she/it was still PMing at a huge rate, and I figured this could have been the cause for the site problems. Just as I opened his/her/it's profile to ban him/her/it, hopefully putting a stop to this, the site went down. Damn!
 
Gibberish said:
I got the PM too.




Someone maybe tried to setup a PM bot and it crashed the vBulletin database? I would think a lot more people would have had to receive the PM to do that though. A few hundred withing a few seconds might corrupt a table and crash the site.

Anyway, glad to see the site is back up.
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Yes...thank you vauge.
 
FWIW...

October 3, 2006
New Website Incites Electronic Jihad

Internet Jihad Update from Global Terrorism Analysis:

The latest criticism of Islam being a violent religion, which was sparked by incendiary comments made by Pope Benedict XVI, has caused internet jihadis to launch a new website called Electronic Jihad, located at http://www.al-jinan.org. The purpose of the website is to help organize an electronic jihad against websites that insult Islam and Islamic sacred figures. The site has been well publicized on more established jihadi websites. Jihadi forums are posting quotes from the Quran in order to encourage and convince jihadis and regular Muslims of their duty to engage in electronic jihad and to attack anti-Islamic sites in order to shut them down. Furthermore, postings from August on the Electronic Jihad site already claim that they successfully shut down the Israeli website http://www.haganah.co.il. Thus, it seems that while street protests in response to Western criticism of Islam have died down in the Islamic world, the battle is still raging on the internet.

The way that the Electronic Jihad site works is by coordinating and organizing its users and followers. The website offers programs that those willing to engage in the electronic jihad need to download. Currently, there are two main programs that the website is offering. The first program is used for hacking attacks. The second program, when installed, places a toolbar on the user's computer that connects automatically to Electronic Jihad and acquires data containing the specific date, time and target site for the attack. When that time arrives, the user simply has to run the first hacking program, select the target site to be attacked and then allow the program to do the rest. The key to these attacks is that they must be done simultaneously by many different users so that they can overload the target site. The hacking program is called the Electronic Jihad Program 1.5 (Silver Edition). One individual in palestinianforum.net claims that the program was designed by a Saudi national.

The website also lists the results of previous electronic attacks, noting that it had hacked 14 anti-Islamic websites successfully, although it did not provide the addresses for these websites. The site also claims that one server hosting an anti-Islamic site acquiesced to their threats and suspended the site. The site owners remind Muslims of the harm done by anti-Islamic groups that have hacked into Islamic sites and turned many of them into pornographic websites. To convince indifferent Muslims of the importance of electronic jihad, the site has a link to a report on the al-Jazeera Forums site mentioning Electronic Jihad's achievements in shutting down anti-Islamic websites (http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/forum). The al-Jazeera report, however, does not identify the attackers as "jihadis," but rather as hackers and pirates.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013392.php

I'm just sayin...
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
No offense, bhkad, but you've totally lost it.
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No offense, Captain Courtesy, but how would you be able to deny these kinds of attacks happen? And how would you be able to categorically discount this type of attack?

And if you have confidential knowledge which would make it obvious to you that this wasn't a Jihadist attack then your comment to me would be completely uncalled for.

It would be what's known as a cheap shot. A low blow. Like Police Brutality. Delivering a blow under the color of your authority.

So, wass up?

In any event, that wasn't very courteous.

And to be completely candid, your sense of impartiality and fairness is your saving grace. Lose that and you'd personify the principle you protest in the waterboarding thread.

Hmph.
 
bhkad said:
No offense, Captain Courtesy, but how would you be able to deny these kinds of attacks happen? And how would you be able to categorically discount this type of attack?

And if you have confidential knowledge which would make it obvious to you that this wasn't a Jihadist attack then your comment to me would be completely uncalled for.

It would be what's known as a cheap shot. A low blow. Like Police Brutality. Delivering a blow under the color of your authority.

So, wass up?

In any event, that wasn't very courteous.

And to be completely candid, your sense of impartiality and fairness is your saving grace. Lose that and you'd personify the principle you protest in the waterboarding thread.

Hmph.
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I didn't deny these attacks happen. I'm sure they do. However, I believe I do know where the problem originated. It wasn't the Jihadists attacking Debate Politics. My comment was more based on this and your penchant to bring up Jihad in every situation, no matter how obscure. Like this situation. And to be completely candid, bhkad, you have earned a bit of my respect in your tenure here, at DP, not so easy considering how we started off. It is this one issue that, to me, prevents you from having more credibility than you have. Everything does not relate to Jihad. Some things do, but not everything, as you seem to post. This is just my opinion of how you present and the impact it has, and you can do with it as you wish.

Thank you for your comments about my impartiality and fairness. I do strive for that.

And which waterboarding thread? I thought you and I were having a nice, intelligent, non-aggressive debate on one of them. I was about to buy you a drink in the Tavern.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
I didn't deny these attacks happen. I'm sure they do. However, I believe I do know where the problem originated. It wasn't the Jihadists attacking Debate Politics. My comment was more based on this and your penchant to bring up Jihad in every situation, no matter how obscure. Like this situation. And to be completely candid, bhkad, you have earned a bit of my respect in your tenure here, at DP, not so easy considering how we started off. It is this one issue that, to me, prevents you from having more credibility than you have. Everything does not relate to Jihad. Some things do, but not everything, as you seem to post. This is just my opinion of how you present and the impact it has, and you can do with it as you wish.

Thank you for your comments about my impartiality and fairness. I do strive for that.

And which waterboarding thread? I thought you and I were having a nice, intelligent, non-aggressive debate on one of them. I was about to buy you a drink in the Tavern.
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I only drink with Jihadist hating, waterboarders. :cool:
 
bhkad said:
I only drink with Jihadist hating, waterboarders. :cool:
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So if I hate Jihadists, but also, don't support waterboarding, you won't drink with me? :-(
 
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