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Old 02-21-2013, 08:04 AM   #1
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Not a DDoS, just cats!
My humble apologies to the forum hosts. I really wasn't making a desultory attempt at a Mobileread DDoS earlier this afternoon - it was my cats.

I popped out to the library for a short while, and came back to find something mysterious in the printer queue and my computer beachballing all over the place. I checked to see what was misbehaving, and found Firefox chewing over 4 gigs of memory. Sure enough, the cats had also opened three or four hundred mobileread tabs.

I don't know what they're planning next, but I'm thinking of keeping my Kobo Glo and iPad in a handle-less cabinet in the meantime.
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:06 AM   #2
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So it's NOT Chinese hackers attacking the USA! It's really Australian cats!
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:16 AM   #3
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:55 AM   #4
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. . . . . . . the cats had also opened three or four hundred mobileread tabs. . . . . .
Okay, let us in on it. Which threads were they reading? Politics and Religion or the Have a laugh thread? Oh! Of course, the Cats thread.
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Old 02-21-2013, 09:04 AM   #5
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Maybe they were downloading The White Mice by Richard Harding Davis?


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No, never mind, that's just a romantic fantasy...
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Okay, let us in on it. Which threads were they reading? Politics and Religion or the Have a laugh thread? Oh! Of course, the Cats thread.

It's a bit of a head-scratcher: they were looking at this thread on how to go to a particular location within a book.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=1865909
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It's a bit of a head-scratcher: they were looking at this thread on how to go to a particular location within a book.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=1865909
Clever cats. Covering their traces. Clearly, they have a plan.
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Clever cats. Covering their traces. Clearly, they have a plan.
Cats always have a plan. In most cases that plan revelves around how to get the next meal, but between all the eating I'm sure they're pondering more serious plans
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... but between all the eating I'm sure they're pondering more serious plans
Where is the next warm place to sleep?

Where should I deposit that hair ball so to maximize the discomfort of my owners when they step on it.

Where should I regurgitate that food I wolfed down.
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Where is the next warm place to sleep?

Where should I deposit that hair ball so to maximize the discomfort of my owners when they step on it.

Where should I regurgitate that food I wolfed down.
Yeah, things like that. And world domination (by means of adorableness)
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