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Yet another classic example of Internet humor at work. In this case, the classic formula of describing something decidedly non-intellectual in an intellectual m

Yet another classic example of Internet humor at work. In this case, the classic formula of describing something decidedly non-intellectual in an intellectual manner. Never gets old.

spodek 10y ago
It's more general than internet humor. In general, people in community A talking about disparate community B in the language of community A will find it funny. For example, programmers at a baseball game talking about baseball in terms of programming, like calling one team emacs and the other vi or one Linux and the other Windows, and then following where it goes.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  I think security analyst baseball commentary could go somewhere: you'll never see an MITM attack the same way again.
digi_owl 10y ago
Indeed. I found myself reminded of reading Ignition.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  Does a copy exist that's not a mangled PDF of an OCR of a scan that someone reassembled from a shredder's output bin?
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    Not that i know of.
  - paol 10y ago
    I read the PDF version that is floating around the net and it wasn't mangled. What problem did you have with it?
    - pavel_lishin 10y ago
      Hm, copying and pasting text, it seems that it does work fine - it just looks weird: http://imgur.com/6IB5cwb http://imgur.com/6IB5cwb
  - yoha 10y ago
    Ask your search engine: "ignition" filetype:pdf
hammock 10y ago
Old-school internet humor. Writing-based (as opposed to visual), and with a lot of in-depth thought and time going into it. That you used to find on BBS and the like. Where can you find it today?
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Through miscellanious old sites and The GNU Humor collection. It's hard to find new material: it's out there, but the signal:noise on the internet sucks, so you have to be really lucky. Oh, and BOFH is still going strong. So go read that if you haven't yet. The official archives are down, but there are mirrors, of you want to read '95-'99.

Yet another classic example of Internet humor at work. In this case, the classic formula of describing something decidedly non-intellectual in an intellectual manner. Never gets old.

spodek 10y ago

It's more general than internet humor. In general, people in community A talking about disparate community B in the language of community A will find it funny. For example, programmers at a baseball game talking about baseball in terms of programming, like calling one team emacs and the other vi or one Linux and the other Windows, and then following where it goes.

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I think security analyst baseball commentary could go somewhere: you'll never see an MITM attack the same way again.

digi_owl 10y ago

Indeed. I found myself reminded of reading Ignition.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
Does a copy exist that's not a mangled PDF of an OCR of a scan that someone reassembled from a shredder's output bin?
- digi_owl 10y ago
  Not that i know of.
- paol 10y ago
  I read the PDF version that is floating around the net and it wasn't mangled. What problem did you have with it?
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    Hm, copying and pasting text, it seems that it does work fine - it just looks weird: http://imgur.com/6IB5cwb http://imgur.com/6IB5cwb
- yoha 10y ago
  Ask your search engine: "ignition" filetype:pdf

hammock 10y ago

Old-school internet humor. Writing-based (as opposed to visual), and with a lot of in-depth thought and time going into it. That you used to find on BBS and the like. Where can you find it today?

qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Through miscellanious old sites and The GNU Humor collection. It's hard to find new material: it's out there, but the signal:noise on the internet sucks, so you have to be really lucky. Oh, and BOFH is still going strong. So go read that if you haven't yet. The official archives are down, but there are mirrors, of you want to read '95-'99.