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Comment by Laura

2006-11-27 17:43:26

Heheh, that made me laugh. I can’t believe I missed seeing it, though! That’s totally an Ohio news station, man- I should have known about it. They play commercials on every station. ^^; Oh, well. I would have been bored, anyway.

Truth be told, I’m a teenager, and I can’t understand 75% of what that crap is, but I don’t think it’s the lingo that’s dangerous, it’s the people who use it improperly. Like guns. Yeah. :D That’d make a good bumper sticker.

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Comment by Moondancer

2006-11-27 17:55:04

OH NOES! It’s the… l337 squad! *dies laughing*

Seriously, do they really think it’s only teens that use chatspeak?

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2006-11-29 16:58:16

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Comment by Meikou

2006-11-27 18:07:09

ROFL

OMG, I cant believe… haha… *dies laughing*

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Comment by Tom

2006-11-27 18:14:41

wow… is it really that hard to read “leet”? I mean, come on! Just use some common sense. It’s “dangerous” watch your teens closely, they’re going to take over the world.

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Comment by Sugendran

2006-11-27 18:21:45

SNARF!!!

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Comment by maieo

2006-11-27 18:30:34

hey everybody, guess what?! I’m NIFOC, so..you know, GYPO. Now.

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Comment by lazy_can

2006-11-27 19:17:22

i dont know if i should laugh or cry..is the world really that paranoid that a “code” used by kids makes the news..sad

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Comment by Zeph

2006-11-27 19:25:11

omg, rofl! t3h n00bs!

Haha that was priceless. Must have been a slow day in the newsroom. And yeah, it’s all Largos fault! :)

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Comment by Dematrah

2006-11-27 19:29:31

OH NOES l3375p33k 1z ou7 70 637 j00

They had something exactly like this on one of the stations in my city. They were just as wrong about it as this thing is.

Besides, I think there are some parents out there that are WAY too involved with their kids lives. :\

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Comment by James Delgado

2006-11-27 19:48:11

Bwahaha, there’s a similar news article on the wikipedia page about the dangers of leet.

Anyone else notice the similarity between “Dangerous code” with leet, and ‘devil words’ with rock and roll, and before that 70’s style, such as groovy and such? (Calvin and Hobbes, anyone?)

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Comment by Raphah

2006-11-28 02:15:06

calvin and hobbes = pwnage

i own all the books

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Comment by zizdodrian

2006-11-27 21:58:10

If you feel the need to obsessively monitor your kids, you are far more dangerous to them then they could ever be.

Idiots.

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Comment by Explodus

2006-11-27 21:59:42

Oh my goodness…that just shows that some people are worried about absolutely everything.

“Oh noes, they speak in gibberish; they must be planning the downfall of civilization as we know it!! Let’s kill them!”
“Actually…that was Chinese. We’re in Chinatown.”
“Oh…nevermind then.”

Yeah…

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Comment by Tashi

2006-11-27 22:14:49

I had no idea what half that stuff ment. lolwtfbbq

And I only know what 2 out of the 3 things I just said mean. XD

Leet speak eats english and burns eyes. It IS dangerous. To those who are grammar nuts, anyways. XD

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Comment by Raphah

2006-11-28 02:15:55

which one do you not know? bbq?

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Comment by SnowRaven

2006-11-27 22:15:00

The sad thing is that, while watching it, I realized that the news station was one of my local ones. I spent half the time going “that voice sounds really familar…” and then noticed the station logo

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Comment by 53lf 4pp0in73d 455h0l3

2006-11-28 13:04:05

By any chance you got their number or website? I’d like to tell them to watch out for binary… it’s underground right now, but it’s coming! 1011001010101

No really, gimme their website!!

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Comment by SnowRaven

2006-11-29 01:12:08

Since it didn’t seem to post the first time, let’s try thing again. The website is wbns10tv.com

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Comment by redheadfreak

2006-11-27 22:19:18

hahahahaha…i really dont see how people cant understand that…it looks the same as other type…blegh

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Comment by K-OSS

2006-11-27 22:21:18

Since when was LOL considered 1337? What the heck does NIFOC and GYPO mean (I have honestly never seen the majority of those examples in my days traversing the net, and I’m a WebDiver dangit).

I wonder if the parents recognize any acronym? What about military ones like FUBAR and SNAFU? Better yet, hows this going to affect Tech Support. “IP? You sexual predator you!”

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Comment by Kappa

2006-11-27 22:36:07

It just had to be a local station, I’m moving now.

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Comment by Av27

2006-11-27 23:18:17

::facepalms:: The stupid things small-town stations do. At least Ohio’s a blue state now. As for l337 being a dangerous code, any creative-minded person can look at a screen and puzzle out most of what’s going on. My mother, who never touches computers unless she absolutely has to, managed to read all of the l337 dude’s dialogue in MT (and had a blast, by the way).

I agree that parents who don’t give their kids the independence to make mistakes are the real danger, but it’s partly the fault of alarmist programming like this that makes parents paranoid in the first place. Instead of reporting psuedo “close-to-home” pieces like this, how about some world news instead? Keeping one’s eyes focused only on one’s neighborhood and city will make you blind to the rest of the world under the pretext of “addressing the issues”.

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Comment by Kappa

2006-11-28 00:38:47

Given your assumption, this should make you take notice. That “small-town station” is WBNS-10 out of Columbus, the capital city. These aren’t just some rural county rednecks out for more soundbite commentary on the dangers of the outside world.

I’ve never been big into 1337, but it scares me when the self appointed cultural “experts” get rattled enough by a new concept to begin attacking it. It proves that as a culture, we still have a long ways to go.

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Comment by SnowRaven

2006-11-28 05:51:14

It should also be mentioned that not only is it the capitol city of my home state, but according to the latest census, it is (if memory serves) the 17th largest city in the United States in terms of population.

That makes things just a little more frightening.

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Comment by ckneller

2006-11-28 17:58:40

15th, actually, but yeah, the newscasters are as bad as they are anywhere about over-sensationalizing the *dangers* lurking in society. Anything, everything, and everybody is out to get you, so you better watch our report to find out who it is today.

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2006-11-28 01:33:12

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Comment by underwearninja

2006-11-28 01:36:03

darn they cut off my message. i hate this they should be more worried that a terrorist is going to blow up something than they should be about l337. go to wikipedia and look up the history of l337. dam n00bs >

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Comment by Thrashiko

2006-11-28 03:05:36

hahaahahahah.. OMFG, wtf are parents going to do we start coding in Binary?!? i say wet them selves!

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Comment by Ben

2006-11-28 03:45:34

wow, I wish the media wasn’t so ignorant about the internet and gaming and such. looking at the video I see about only two sources of information, some teenager who was probably payed to say the things he did about using acronyms, not “leetspeak” as they would like to call it, and this ‘cyber investigator’, a glorified point-and-clicker with an opinion . I’m sure some Executive producer just saw their kid saying LMAO or LOL and got overcurious. Media, please quit trying to scare us.

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Comment by Creature of Unholy Doom

2006-11-28 09:19:47

My EVIL 1337 MINIONS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS! MWAHAHAHAHA… wait… /\/\w4h4h4h4h4h4h4h4h4h4!!!

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Comment by Cara

2006-11-28 09:38:55

OMG you have got to be kidding me! next there will be a 20 minuite brief on Pig latin!

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Comment by Alexandrukas

2006-11-28 11:54:07

Why did it have to be a news cast from a station in the state I live -_-* This is almost as bad as a piece a saw on the news last night where they were hounding a airport cop for parking his truck in a 30 minute zone during his shifts. When he told them hey I get free parking from the airport leave me be, the news crew went to city hall and reported the guy for parking there. How is this even news? To me its just some guy with a camera harrassing a city employee for nothing.

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Comment by cetra

2006-11-28 17:20:19

ROTFLMAO

I swear if this nation’s media gets any more petty…id10ts

Incedently…PH34R M3…

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Comment by VX

2006-11-28 18:40:34

Here’s some leetspeak:
“American”.
Whats that mean, you ask?
“Over Reacting Dumbasses”

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Comment by Stopa

2006-11-30 08:18:38

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Comment by Grason

2006-11-28 21:50:22

ph33r teh acronym!

Talk about a slow news day. The best part? The hopelessly clue-free anchorpeople giving the lead-in.

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Comment by rick

2006-11-28 22:25:36

i thought this definition of nifoc was pretty damn funny.

(chat) NIFOC - Naked in front of computer. Possibly also typing with one hand.

(http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/NIFOC)

“possibly also”

still no idea what gypo means though.

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Comment by SnowRaven

2006-11-29 01:20:44

According to NetLingo.com (I googled for it and that was the only place I found that had the answer), it stands for Get Your Pants Off.

Can we say lame, boys and girls? I knew you could =]

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Comment by Stopa

2006-11-30 08:19:36

Stop…stop killing my brain please O_o

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Comment by Serena

2006-11-29 08:23:05

Sad thing is, I recall my local station doing something similar about a year ago.

My parents laughed. ^^

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Comment by Nathan

2006-11-29 10:26:45

Before you know it, there’re be a report on MMOG’s and how they can be used to support subversive communities.

…
oh, wait, they just printed that on a newspaper here -__-

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Comment by Serena

2006-11-29 20:46:14

And where I am, they did an article on the Gender of characters in MMO’s…

Apparently, “THE INTERNET IS SPAWN OF … HECK! YES. HECK. BECAUSE WE DON’T LIKE BAD WORDS. D

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Comment by Formori

2006-11-29 11:46:48

you know, gamers and hackers (and even some of us that aren’t quite so involved) should start coding to eachother in binary, then we really might make people afraid… that their kids are turning into ROBOTS! Muhahaha.

But seriously, it’s just yet another dialect of english. In Canada alone i can’t count how many different ways there are to speak, yet we all understand eachother?

Parents really should take the media with a grain of salt.

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Comment by doingy

2006-11-29 12:55:12

My spleen…..the laughter is too much….tell my girlfriend I love her….*dead*

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Comment by Vegedus

2006-11-29 14:53:47

I can’t say anything but WTF?! Come on, if any of these persons knew anything, they would know that this isn’t a code language, at least not against parents. It’s just a fun way of communicating over the internet. Some of what they showed wasn’t even leetspeak. Stuff like lol are just abbrevations, made to make the written language faster. “But oh god, think of the children!”.

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Comment by Stopa

2006-11-29 16:55:41

UH…is anyone else getting a weird lag at YouTube today? Like sound playing but the page won’t load further than the title?
Or am i just a freak of nature and god hates me?=[

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Comment by Inx3n

2006-11-30 03:54:06

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Comment by Stopa

2006-11-30 08:20:51

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Comment by Stopa

2006-11-30 08:23:50

Hey by the way i think google is evil too!
Cos u can find porn on google!…but…google is on the internets…So…Internets are evil!
God, i should be reporting for Fox news!!

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Comment by Rofl oh noez

2006-11-30 09:32:39

I have a harder time reading broken, shortened English than I do with reading L337 5p34k.

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Comment by Xpheyel

2006-11-30 10:28:58

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Comment by Aruko

2006-11-30 10:55:34

They didn’t really show any examples of 1337 in its prime though. That was mostly just acronym stuff. I was actually hoping they’d tell us what GYPO was. lol

1337 43\/\3|2!!1!!1!one!11!!110n3!!1

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Comment by underwearninja

2006-11-30 11:38:35

gypo=get your pants off

\/|\/4 14 l337!!!

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Comment by Los

2006-11-30 13:04:53

This man is the king of l33t 5p34k
L33t in Jeopardy

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Comment by Simon

2006-12-01 00:19:07

I remember that from when it was first broadcasted. It made me so ridiculously happy.

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Comment by CyburNetiks

2006-11-30 15:09:44

this happened with a local tv station here a few years ago (i lie in edmonton, the capitol city of alberta) and i laughed for a good ten minutes. my mom, however, started asking what the hell i was doing on the internet. that’s the most scary part, mistrust between parents and kids.

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Comment by Mike

2006-11-30 16:18:32

I’m as much a gamer as anyone else but I refuse to speak as if I’ve had a massive brain injury. I see no point in speeking l337. Learn to pass english class like the rest of us.

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Comment by Raphah

2006-12-01 01:49:42

dude, maybe you do have a massive brain injury, cuz youre not lazy like the rest of the world

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Comment by Mike

2006-12-01 12:50:56

Not so much lazy. More like coherent.

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Comment by The Chosen One

2006-12-01 02:05:25

The Chosen One must speak on this,

lol tahts t3h suxor!

Leave it to the media to blow this whole thing so blazingly out of proportion.

It’s frikin’ replacing letters with numbers and symbols. Seriously people. And “ADIP” and “LOL”? Frikin anagrams.

[sighs and rubs temples] Gawd only knows what horrible linguistic threat parents will have to be on the lookout for in the next ten years. Kids speaking with British lingo? Learning sign language?

[sigh and groan]

The Chosen One has spoken. Heed and obey.

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Comment by underwearninja

2006-12-01 11:31:15

weres dr. who when you nee him? heh this is gonna turn into something from v for vendetta i know it.

\/|\/4 14 1337

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Comment by Garrett

2006-12-01 06:21:56

Most of the l33t I know comes from Megatokyo. Does that make Fred an enabler? (I’m sure someone’s already declared Dom an enabler-or worse-so I won’t ask.)

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Comment by underwearninja

2006-12-01 11:32:51

you live a sheltered life dont you?

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