Paid To Fail

Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI

mefail — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:01:29 +0000

They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX.

The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board’s ACPI implementation, causing weird kernel errors, strange system freezing, no suspend or hibernate, and other problems, using my modifications below, I’ve gotten it down to just crashing on the next reboot after having suspended, the horrible thing about disassembling any program is that you have no commenting, so it’s hard to tell which does what, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to buy a copy of Vista just to get the crashing caused by Foxconn’s BIOS to stop, I am not going to be terrorized.

The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Company Has Failed

mefail — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:37:11 +0000

A reader writes: “Last night we were out with friends and went to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory at Bella Terra/Huntington Beach. We were eating outside as my 5 year old daughter got an uncontrollable urge to use the bathroom and began crying and screaming ‘diarrhea, diarrhea.’ I ran into the store with her in my arms, begging to use the bathroom and they refused multiple times.”

So great going Rocky Mountain, you are now plastered all over the internet. FAIL!

http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Chocolate_Company_Refuses_Bathroom_to_Girl_with_Diarrhea

3 fiber cuts in 3 days

mefail — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:44:43 +0000

Wow talk about running everything in the wrong spot…

(CNN) — An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days.

Dubai has been hit hard by an Internet outage apparently caused by a cut undersea cable.

Ships have been dispatched to repair two undersea cables damaged on Wednesday off Egypt.

The ships were expected to reach the site of the break on Tuesday with repairs completed by February 12, according to a press release from FLAG Telecom, which owns one of the cables.

SaveTerrick!

mefail — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:13:20 +0000

So my friend got ditched by his girl of 3 years via text message, so now he’s on a mission to drive 1000 miles to get an answer.

I can’t really say I blame him for wanting a face to face answer.

Stay tuned for the adventure. SaveTerrick.com

The war has started!

mefail — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:24:28 +0000

Woo, and everyone is getting involved!

January 23, 2008

The Internet-based group “Anonymous” has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a “War on Scientology”. Church of Scientology related websites, such as religiousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves “Anonymous”. On Friday, the same group allegedly brought down Scientology’s main website, scientology.org, which was available sporadically throughout the weekend.

Several websites relating to the Church of Scientology have been slowed down, brought to a complete halt or seemingly removed from the Internet completely in an attack which seems to be continuous. The scientology.org site was back online briefly on Monday, and is currently loading slowly.

On Monday, the group released a video titled: “Message to Scientology” on YouTube concerning their intentions to attack the Church of Scientology. A robotic voice on the video begins with “Hello leaders of Scientology. We are Anonymous,” and continues by explaining their motivations: “Over the years we have been watching you, your campaigns of misinformation, your suppression of dissent and your litigious nature. All of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organisation should be destroyed.” The message goes on to state that the group intends to “expel Scientology from the Internet”. As of Wednesday, the video had been viewed 370,347 times, favorited 2,473 times, and is currently YouTube’s top third video of the day.

Linkage

http://www.grupthink.com/topic/10253/What_Part_will_you_play_in_the_war_on_Scientology

http://digg.com/world_news/Raid_on_London_Scientology_HQ_planned_for_feb_10

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Anonymous%22_releases_statements_outlining_%22War_on_Scientology%22

Wow just wow, justice system is jacked up

mefail — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:20:22 +0000

Two cars collided last year on Cinco de Mayo.

Considering the date, you might assume that at least one of the drivers was drunk — and you’d be right. Laura Varker was 17 years old, and she’d been tubing down the Salt River all day with her eight best girlfriends. Their T-shirts all read “Cinco de Drinko.” Even an hour after the accident, Varker’s blood-alcohol level was 0.09, over the legal limit for adults. And, as an underage driver, she was in violation of the law by having any amount of alcohol in her system.

One of Varker’s girlfriends, 15-year-old Felicia Edwards, didn’t drink a drop. But it was Edwards who died when Varker’s Yukon Denali hit another car and flipped over and over like a tumbleweed before coming to a horrifying stop on the Bush Highway north of Mesa. Edwards was thrown from the SUV and pronounced dead at the scene.

Quote of the day…

mefail — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:14:02 +0000

“I’ve got more important things to do than show up for work”

Pets in the office…er, datacenter

mefail — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:13:32 +0000

[23:28] IT Guy 2: one of our 30 outbound mailservers just got listed
[23:29] IT Guy 2: dude, ***** is a fucking intense setup
[23:29] IT Guy 2: i love it
[23:29] IT Guy 2: 30 outbound mailservers, something like 40 inbound
[23:29] IT Guy 2: 65million connections a day
[23:29] IT Guy 2: and those servers dont handle logins nor actually store email
[23:29] IT Guy 2: hah frickin awesome
[23:30] IT Guy 1: wackwackwack
[23:31] IT Guy 2: aol has on occasion asked us to delay our emails to them when their email servers were borked
[23:31] IT Guy 1: in your server room spamming you frindz
[23:32] IT Guy 1: when we get the DC going we’re getting a kitten
[23:32] IT Guy 2: oh fuck ya
[23:32] IT Guy 2: OFFICE CATTTTTTTTTT
[23:32] IT Guy 2: IS IN UR OFFICE
[23:32] IT Guy 1: name it Cisco
[23:32] IT Guy 2: rofl. im getting a dog to hang out.. his name will be dos
[23:32] IT Guy 2: “DOS ATTACK”"”"”"”"
[23:34] IT Guy 2: the cisco will crumble
[23:34] IT Guy 2: that could almost be an entry on paidtofail
[23:34] IT Guy 2: lol
[23:35] IT Guy 1: Cisco, Firewall, Perl, Null Route
[23:36] IT Guy 1: haha a cat named null route
[23:36] IT Guy 2: lols
[23:37] IT Guy 2: have a damn funny farm before we end up using all the names we’d want to use
[23:37] IT Guy 1: haha null route against dos attack
[23:38] IT Guy 2: hah brb.
[23:45] IT Guy 2: i want to offer an email server
[23:45] IT Guy 2: er service
[23:45] IT Guy 2: so i can build an enormous *****
[23:45] IT Guy 2: lols
[23:45] IT Guy 1: fuck that
[23:45] IT Guy 1: gmail beat everything
[23:45] IT Guy 2: ha
[23:45] IT Guy 2: indeed
[23:49] IT Guy 1: name your dc dog “don’t be a fag”
[23:49] IT Guy 2: i will and he will eat you dead
[23:50] IT Guy 1: null route kitty will fuck up your dc dog with long haul laser eyes
[23:51] IT Guy 2: whatever. dos will attack.. and i will get him some partners and together they will be named wolfpak ddos
[23:53] IT Guy 1: null route will have kittens and one of them will be named top layer
[23:54] IT Guy 1: top layer will stand guard
[23:55] IT Guy 2: im going to create a dognet of zombie dogs and with their powers combined, your kittens will fall
[23:56] IT Guy 1: kitty will cut the fiberz
[23:56] IT Guy 2: but my wolfpack will still exist to fight another day and your network will be offline
[23:57] IT Guy 2: i win!
[23:57] IT Guy 1: kitta knows fdisk!
[00:00] IT Guy 1: kitta will fork your shit out of control till you dos is the crashz
[00:01] IT Guy 2: whatever. my wolfpack sits on irc all day just waiting … waiting .. until they decide it is best to destroy your upstreams
[00:01] IT Guy 1: null route knows the acl
[00:02] IT Guy 1: the kitta can go acl on your packetz
[00:03] IT Guy 2: whatever. you fear my dognet
[00:03] IT Guy 1: kitta is a ninja waiting in the racks
[00:04] IT Guy 1: I’m in your fiberz fucking everythings up
[00:04] IT Guy 1: omg we’re going to be so fucked with a cat in the office
[00:05] IT Guy 2: hahaa
[00:06] IT Guy 2: paidtofail(tm). thats how we roll bitch

Comcast lying as usual

mefail — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:27:06 +0000

A Comcast employee supplied The Consumerist with the following internal email sent out to all the customer service staff at the Maryland call center. It’s regarding recent reports that the cable company disrupts traffic between customers using the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol:

All,
You may get customers who are contacting us with regard to several articles which were published recently, accusing Comcast of blocking or otherwise filtering customers’ Internet traffic. An in-depth AP story suggests Comcast is hindering our customers’ ability to use BitTorrent, a peer to peer file sharing program. If a customer contacts us to inquire about this, please use the following talking points.Comcast does not block access to any applications, including BitTorrent

We respect our customers’ privacy and we don’t monitor specific customer activities on the Internet or track individual online behavior, such as which websites they visit. Therefore, we do not know whether any individual user is visiting BitTorrent or any other site…

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When are ISP’s just going to suck it up and admit they simply can’t handle the traffic? ah yeah NEVER because they are such “great” providers…let me make a suggestion to everyone reading this Speakeasy.net

TSA is another bunch of morons on a power trip

mefail — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:18:12 +0000

As I went through the final security check point at the Pittsburgh International Airport I had to practically get naked (remove belts, watches, shoes, rings, sunglasses, etc. etc.) and not only that, but I had to unpack my laptop and all of it’s goods. Well, I did all of this like normal, and after I passed through the x-ray machines, everything was great. No alarms. I start heading over to my laptop and belongings, and the TSA security guard was pushing my stuff to the end of the line. I approached the end of the line to collect my stuff as the TSA guard perhaps “lost control” of the tray my laptop was in … it CRASHED to the floor — cracking the bottom of my laptop, breaking the battery tray door, and damaging the hings to my screen.

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Another paid to fail job listing, nice to know this before I start hitting up airports for my world tour