Whoop de doo. That was the ad that was responsible for all of the outrage, and it bears no resemblance to the description in your OP.
Fag-bashing’s all well and good, but what’s with the Canada-bashing?
Which, if I’m not mistaken, originated—or at least was popularized—by Ann Coulter. Hope she at least sends a note of thanks for helping to keep the bullshit in circulation.
It’s worth little, but a relative of mine worked for Max Cleland and had good things to say about him as a boss and a human being.
I’m pretty sure those rumors have been around for a long, long time. I remember hearing them when I worked in politics prior to 2002, and I found them to be in very bad taste.
Max Cleland, in my brief interactions with him, is one heck of a good guy. My impressions of Saxby Chambiss are similar.
Don’t you know? Canada is just filled with…those types.
That’s one ad- there were several- and how does it not bear a resemblance to questioning courage when that’s pretty much the entire point of the ad?
Aw shit, now lil’ bricler is gonna have to flail around for some other shred if implausible deniability.
Still, seems to me that the router logging (assuming they’re using NAT/PAT) would be more likely to be lost than the DHCP logs. hell, pretty sure Windows defaults to a week lease time, so the guy probably still has the same address. Assuming the NAT info is still on the routers.
Normally I’d say that it would likely be on the guy’s cache, but when working for senator FagHater
You’d probably get gay blogs cleared out, even if you were just going there to express the boss’s opinion.
Gosh, I hope big daddy bricker can educate us further on technology, though!
-Joe
Filled? I wish! I’d have an easier time getting a date.
Lots of “it depends” here. But since they’ve narrowed it down to the office, t this point it’s probably quicker to go through cache information on desktops than to start looking at whatever router logging might have been going on. If they were using a low-end, home type router, it may not save anything of value. A higher-end router dumping to a syslog server or a SEIM like, say, ArcSight, might have everything needed. Or maybe there’s a filtering proxy server like Websense in play, which might also provide logs.
All this is speculation. My vision of a senator’s local office is not one of high-tech network topology, but that’s not based on anything concrete.
Sure… but now the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms is involved, which probably means someone with forensic tools like EnCase, so merely clearing the cache using the browser’s option won’t be of much help.
Happy to help.
You guys still haven’t grasped Sampiro’s point. Even if it turned out that the message had not come from Chambliss’s office, it wouldn’t matter. The point is that it’s kinda silly for a man who spews anti-gay rhetoric to act shocked and appalled because someone in his office may have posted a gay slur to a website. I imagine gay people in this country are less bothered by anonymous slurs and more bothered by the fact that they don’t enjoy the same rights that everyone else does.
So who cares about all this technical, detective crap about locating where the slur originated. Nerds.
Wouldn’t that shit make them geeks?
Thank you. As apt today as it was thousands of years ago: you reap what you sow.
And in fairness to Bricker the early reports kept saying “a server in the neighborhood of” Chambliss’s office, which is rather vague. (It was probably written by staff writers who didn’t have very high grasp of IP specifics- I’d certainly have to get a tech savvy friend to proof anything I wrote on the subject.)
Chambliss should do the right thing and release another statement: we don’t want all faggots to die, we just want them all to be “cured” and to vote Republican.
The Brits just love the accent.
Are you new here? Misinterpreting and obsessing over meaningless details is what we’re all about!
Depends. Is ACORN involved?
Yes, I get it… and perhaps on a fundamental practical level it’s silly to feel this way… but I do think there’s a distinction to be made between I oppose same-sex marriage, civil unions, gays in the military, and gays adopting… and All fags must die!
I know it’s commonly accepted practice to say that the first speaker is a hopeless bigot, but I think it’s acceptable to voice sentiments like that in public discourse without being called a bigot. If nothing else, there’s a practical aspect to that finding: there are plenty of people in this country who sign on to each one of those beliefs. I think there’s little value in pointing and shrieking “Bigot!” at the first speaker.
But I think the second speaker deserves such opprobrium.
And I also recognize that others may feel much more strongly about these issues, and not be willing to sit silently and listen to “I oppose same-sex marriage, civil unions, gays in the military, and gays adopting,” without seething.
Not just that, because (although a stretch) “neighborhood” could refer to the topological network neighborhood, some sort of VPN cloud arrangement with WAN links between the local office and DC. But they followed that on with discussion about how they checked a close office on the other side of the interstate, which really cemented in the idea that it was physical neighborhood, which simply made no sense to me. Still doesn’t, except to assume slothful reporting.
I don’t agree with your distinction, Bricker, but you’re not the first to make it, so I’m not going to yell at you for feeling that way. But in an Internet age when half of the things posted online are either “First!” or some derivation of “fag,” I think gay people would take what are ostensibly anonymous calls for violence less seriously than they would their current reality, where they’re deemed unworthy of getting married, adopting children, or serving their country in the military.
Where do you think “Gays are a plague on society” falls?