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Today, I'm diverging from posting programming books to highlight the phenomenon of online shaming. I'm a big fan of Jon Ronson as an author, and his book So You've Been Publicly Shamed[^] covers what happens to people when they face a massive attack over the internet.
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Yes, An interesting and frightening read.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Love the description..
"A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control."
Shame used to be a form a social control long before the internet, mainly to discourage the majority from doing things that generally harmed society.
I'm not sure the internet is about that though - it seems to be more about oppressing those with different opinions and forcing everyone to go with the popular view regardless of whether it is right or wrong (or good or bad).
I've always loved technology, but I think the internet has enabled an awful lot of damage to be done to societies all around the world. I'm not sure how we'll recover from it. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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nicely stated
Brent Jenkins wrote: I'm not sure how we'll recover from it. [Coffee]
that wont be an issue when skynet takes over
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: when skynet takes over
I wouldn't worry about AI (especially considering Microsoft's recent Tay debarcle  ) but things like the so called "Arab Spring" and the current migration crises have been enabled by social media and instant messaging.
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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does looks like it could be an interesting read! 
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It certainly is. It's an interesting insight into the mob mentality of internet shaming. Some of the people in the book, you end up feeling really sorry for. Others.... well, less so.
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And that clarifies why essentially everyone on CP uses an alias.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Indeed. Pete O'Hanlon is the alias of Yoda.
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Google "Pete O'Hanlon" . You could be anybody.
Anybody can be anybody.
The world's gone mad. Ah ha ha! Soon they'll be In My Power!
(sorry - I digress)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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This why the google sites all require ID to verify and phone.
They want people hurt as much as possible
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Your evidence for this claim please. You can't just make statements like that without the proof to back it up.
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Hi All,
This morning while having a shower I happened to look at the plug hole in the bath/shower combo and saw a blurry brown thing. Just to clarify I normally wear quite strong glasses so that was not a major surprise (blurry brown thing). Later when I go to brush my teeth (I am wearing my glasses) I glance over at it...and it's a black mass coming out of the plug hole.
I decide to investigate remove plug find it coated with black gunge and the plug hole coated in a black gunge as well, the shower has been draining away though a very small hole. Further attacks on the black mass reveal it to be hair,<<'vomit'>> black hair <> so in manly fashion I clear this mess and start thinking I have brown/grey hair, my flatmate also has brown hair where did the black come from?  , please no!!!
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Brown left to rot would turn black, wouldn't it?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Spider fur.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Can't be spiders - the rats must've eaten them all by now... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Black rat stuck further in the drain possibly? As it's decomposing, its fur could be making it's way back up the pipe..
Or maybe your flatmate dyes certain bits?
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Your signature quote, Mad Max II??
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It is
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
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I am pretty sure it was hair, black mould doesn't separate to folicals when blasted with water does it....
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Hair is porous and black mould is microscopic so (I think) the mould has turned the hair black.
If you should ever be unfortunate enough to do any work on waste water systems you will find this staining is quite pervasive...
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I guess that's why 'they' tried to use cut hair to solve the Deep Water Horizon oil leak. I must say while I have worked in the water industry I have only worked on the supply of fresh water.
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