The Mike Abundo Effect

The 4chan community now suspects sixteen-year-old hacker Joseph Biaso, alias “pacifico”, of DDoSing the popular imageboard. Enraged and resourceful, they’re now posting his personal information across the Web.

In response, Biaso taunted 4channers on his YouTube account, verifiying the information. Perhaps upon realizing that he could go to jail for what he’s done, he closed his YouTube account mere hours after his taunt.

Since it will probably be used in his trial, here’s the video of Joe Biaso taunting 4channers on YouTube.

I just saw this in an email from Multiply:

One particular article, posted on TechCrunch, received a few replies from loyal Multiply users, who were subsequently accused, by a couple misinformed commenters, of being Multiply employees (or “plants”) posting fake comments! (For the record, we would never do that.)

Multiply sent this email to all its users. I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to respect a company that bitches to its users about drama on someone else’s blog comments.

I am so glad I only heard about this now. That means my friends aren’t morons who forward dumb emails. Gerry Alanguilan reminds us that there are still too many n00bs in the Philippines, even among its so-called “educators”:

My dad called me up to say that he won’t be teaching tomorrow at a local school, a Catholic school, may I add, because classes were suspended because someone predicted that there will be an 8.1 Magnitude earthquake in the Philippines tomorrow, and that thousands will die.

My dad doesn’t believe it, and neither do I.

The rumor stems from an email that had originated from a Brazilian psychic named Juseleeno Nobulega DaRoose, and apparently people say he has credibility because he predicted 9-11, the Indonesia Tsunami, the death of Princess Diana, etc.

Yes, folks, a Philippine school is canceling classes over a forwarded psychic email hoax. Read the rest of this entry »