Holla at P. Nis for more info

12/15/2009 10:36:17 AM

call Jenny at 867-5309 for more info

12/15/2009 10:38:02 AM

12/15/2009 10:38:07 AM

this was still one of the most epic nights for TWW

12/15/2009 10:45:15 AM

Cecils cockring emporium

be back up tomorrow

12/15/2009 10:45:22 AM

I remember this from my freshman year.

Sitting in my room in Carroll laughing so hard I thought my internal organs would rupture from the hilarity.

12/15/2009 10:46:45 AM

I, too, was in on this. Great times! TWW has gone WAY downhill since then.

12/15/2009 10:47:38 AM

I missed out on this, but I still embrace it

Kinda like how no one hear remembers the '83 title, yet you all act like you were there

12/15/2009 10:51:36 AM

^ I lol'd.

12/15/2009 11:07:02 AM

12/15/2009 11:11:44 AM

It was epic.

12/15/2009 11:12:29 AM

12/15/2009 11:13:16 AM

What has happened to the mass organizational skills of this collective in that time??

12/15/2009 11:13:32 AM

Stop bitching about how great 2004 is. Get off your lazy ass and make something epic happen.

12/15/2009 11:20:54 AM

this was pretty gay when it happened...there were some funny ones, but mostly stupid

12/15/2009 11:21:06 AM

I like this Brit article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/wags_hijack_tv_channels_onscreen/

Wags hijack TV channel's on-screen ticker
Not quite the weather report viewers expected

Posted in Security, 5th March 2004 12:18 GMT

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.


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And for some reason, this incident is mentioned under the wikipedia listing for "All your base are belong to us"

Quote :

"In February 2004, North Carolina State University students and members of The Wolf Web in Raleigh, North Carolina exploited a web-based service provided for local schools and businesses to report a weather-related closing to display the phrase within a news ticker on a live news broadcast on News 14 Carolina. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

[Edited on December 15, 2009 at 11:34 AM. Reason : lawl]

12/15/2009 11:32:27 AM

yeah, this was a great one. didn't really hurt anything, but was funny.

12/15/2009 2:35:36 PM

YOU KNOW HOW WE DO

12/15/2009 2:39:34 PM

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if you must

12/15/2009 2:40:42 PM

ah yes, this was definitely funny. i was in my first year at grad school. hilarious. my favorite was probably the family reunion, holla at p.nis., you know how we do.

12/15/2009 2:40:57 PM