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I heard on the radio today that there are passwords to announcing school closures on the radio. So if a school phones in and says they are closed, they have to give the password for their school. I guess to stop any old tom dick or harry phoning in and saying the school is closed.

If you could get hold of those passwords...imagine the fun!

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I heard on the radio today that there are passwords to announcing school closures on the radio. So if a school phones in and says they are closed, they have to give the password for their school. I guess to stop any old tom dick or harry phoning in and saying the school is closed.

If you could get hold of those passwords...imagine the fun!

Back in '04 some university students in North Carolina basically did

A cable news channel in Raleigh, North Carolina shut down a Web application designed to allow local schools and businesses to report weather-related closures last week, after a handful of puckish university students discovered they could use it to add textual graffiti to the station's newscast.

Before the system was pulled, viewers tuning into Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina for updates on last week's record-breaking snow storm could read in the text ticker on the lower third of the screen that a company called "h4x0r3d Computer Services Inc." was among the business that would be shuttered the next morning because of the storm.

According to screen shots saved by observers, other messages sprinkled among the genuine closings that rotated through the ticker included "1337 5p34k Linguistic Services", "All Your Base Are Belong To Us", and a note that "Tutone Inc." would be closed, and employees should call "Jenny at 867-5309" for more details.

"We immediately implemented changes to the system," says News 14's Charlie Schell. "It was a Web-based system that we had used two, almost three years, with nobody taking advantage of it."

Before a submitted announcement would appear on the air, it had to be approved by a reviewer, said Schell. But once approved, the system allowed a business to change their name and the details of the closing through the website without any further human attention.

"They didn't actually get in there or compromise any of our equipment. They just signed up as a legitimate business, and then changed their information half-an-hour later," Schell says.

A prankster with the online nickname "underPSI" discovered the loophole Thursday, and, posting to a Web forum for students at North Carolina State University, extolled others to try it. "Be creative," he wrote. "It's pretty neat."

The frenzy of fake announcements that followed included "Windows32 Exception Error. If this is your first time seeing this, please reinstall Windows," and several adult-themed puns. News 14's Schell claims the station received no complaints from viewers.

Businesses in the Raleigh area can still report weather-related closings through the cable channel, but they'll have to pre-register, and phone them in to the station, Schell added.

The forum where the loophole was posted

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Yesterday my best friend got a daughter. And as she herself is a Villa fan so will her daughter be. She's already bought her two sets of Villa dresses. One for now when she's new born and one for when she's about half a year I think it was. And she's also bought those things you put in the babys mouth to keep them quiet ( :oops: ) with Villa on. I've taught that girl well. :nod: Anyway, the baby is all well and evrything's gone as it should. So happy for her. :cheers::hooray::flag:

You the Dad?

No, not really. :P And I'm glad the little girl don't look even slightly like me so the father don't have anything to suspect such thing for. He would, believe me. Just happy for my friend. He can, well, hm, I don't like him. During her appr 24 of labour and pain he was sitting with his laptop on bet365 not caring that much about her. She told him to go home.

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Yesterday my best friend got a daughter. And as she herself is a Villa fan so will her daughter be. She's already bought her two sets of Villa dresses. One for now when she's new born and one for when she's about half a year I think it was. And she's also bought those things you put in the babys mouth to keep them quiet ( :oops: ) with Villa on. I've taught that girl well. :nod: Anyway, the baby is all well and evrything's gone as it should. So happy for her. :cheers::hooray::flag:

You the Dad?

No, not really. :P And I'm glad the little girl don't look even slightly like me so the father don't have anything to suspect such thing for. He would, believe me. Just happy for my friend. He can, well, hm, I don't like him. During her appr 24 of labour and pain he was sitting with his laptop on bet365 not caring that much about her. She told him to go home.

He sounds like a jerk and you sound like you're in love with her...

Have you considered Jeremy Kyle?

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Yesterday my best friend got a daughter. And as she herself is a Villa fan so will her daughter be. She's already bought her two sets of Villa dresses. One for now when she's new born and one for when she's about half a year I think it was. And she's also bought those things you put in the babys mouth to keep them quiet ( :oops: ) with Villa on. I've taught that girl well. :nod: Anyway, the baby is all well and evrything's gone as it should. So happy for her. :cheers::hooray::flag:

You the Dad?

No, not really. :P And I'm glad the little girl don't look even slightly like me so the father don't have anything to suspect such thing for. He would, believe me. Just happy for my friend. He can, well, hm, I don't like him. During her appr 24 of labour and pain he was sitting with his laptop on bet365 not caring that much about her. She told him to go home.

He sounds like a jerk and you sound like you're in love with her...

Have you considered Jeremy Kyle?

:lol: He is a jerk and I'm not in love with her. I was a long time ago, but it didn't work out and now she's kind of the little sister I never had. How gay did that sound? :P Too long time and too many things have happened for me to still be in love with her. But I don't like the way he's treated her and how he keeps her away from me. Everytime we've taken a lunch together he goes on and shouts at her for a couple of days. Do I need to sya that we don't have that many lunches together these days?

Edit: Who's Jeremy Kyle? :oops:

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Yesterday my best friend got a daughter. And as she herself is a Villa fan so will her daughter be. She's already bought her two sets of Villa dresses. One for now when she's new born and one for when she's about half a year I think it was. And she's also bought those things you put in the babys mouth to keep them quiet ( :oops: ) with Villa on. I've taught that girl well. :nod: Anyway, the baby is all well and evrything's gone as it should. So happy for her. :cheers::hooray::flag:

You the Dad?

No, not really. :P And I'm glad the little girl don't look even slightly like me so the father don't have anything to suspect such thing for. He would, believe me. Just happy for my friend. He can, well, hm, I don't like him. During her appr 24 of labour and pain he was sitting with his laptop on bet365 not caring that much about her. She told him to go home.

He sounds like a jerk and you sound like you're in love with her...

Have you considered Jeremy Kyle?

Does Jezza swing both ways then? :? :P :winkold:

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Who's Jeremy Kyle? :oops:

He is a stupid man that tells people who are even more stupid than him to sort their lives out. The fact you can use a computer makes you unsuitable for his show.

Pelle,

The fact you can speak, write and read more than 1 language, use a computer and hold down a job makes you more intelligent than the entire audience for his show

He's a cheapskate, undertallented erzatz UK copy of Jerry Springer

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