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Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :

Do you think it's just a coincidence, or is it a tribute?

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

I would like to think it's a coincidence, but I know techies all over the world are laughing their asses off.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Crap. My visual omniscience slips when I don't get stuff like this.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

What am I missing?

Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :

I'm assuming it has to do with the hands? I don't know what though. [Dont Know]

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

From Snopes, a related explanation

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

Ummm... If you look at it sideways, it looks very much like an oft-linked internet shock phenomenon..

The wikipedia page

Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :

I made the unfortunate mistake of seeing a miniature of the infamous picture. I was reading a /. article about the guys at Defcon (was it defcon?) who put up a relay program on a laptop for wireless that hijacked wireless http requests and forwarded them to the infamous site.

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

[Eek!]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

[Eek!]

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

<---- really glad I didn't know about that.

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

I was browsing through the "new" section of Snopes yesterday and saw it.

[Frown]

Yeah. Sorry.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

Um...yuck.

Anyways, did anyone read the cover article from Time? Is what they're saying legitimate cause for alarm, or just xenophobia, or both?

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

I think it's a legit worry...

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

*waits for celia to discover this*

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

I'm not quite sure whether to snicker loudly or [Wall Bash]

myself into a coma...

--j_k

[ September 16, 2004, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: James Tiberius Kirk ]