Gangs on the Internet 402
mikesd81 writes "Apparently street gangs have gotten Web-savvy. Web Bangers are posting potentially incriminating photos and taunts on their websites. Police departments suddenly faced with gangs are looking for help on the gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites. The director of the National Gang Crime Research Center has stated "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.'
Knox said it's important for police to learn how to read between the lines on gang Web sites and blogs. Just as time on the streets has given gang investigators the ability to read the hieroglyphics of wall graffiti, time on the Web helps them understand arcane Web clues. Gang identifiers, such as tattoos, graffiti tags, colors and clothing often are embedded in each site."
I know what to do... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I know what to do... (Score:2)
I'm going to start a GTA LARP just to mess with these kids heads.
Re:I know what to do... (Score:2)
but all i got to go on is a promo video a person had gotten on a magazine dvd...
but from the looks of it you could steal cars, tune cars, and have your "friends" pile in to do drive-by shootings...
Re:I know what to do... (Score:2)
What does this mean? (Score:5, Funny)
What the heck does this mean?
I don't even know what the heck this means.
Gangsters use MySpace (Score:5, Funny)
Nooooo!
Re:Gangsters use MySpace (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, I can just see it (Score:5, Funny)
In which you play the role of a pale pimple-faced nerd with an inhaler, posing as a big bad nigga online. Spend days photoshopping a grand theft auto or grafitti, instead of actually doing it. Brag about your bad-mofo inner-city gangsta exploits, from the safety of your parents' basement in the suburbs. Spend hours playing CS and GTA while listening to wannabe wigger rappers, as material for those bad-mofo gangsta stories. Throw in some porn late at night, after your parents went to sleep, as material for some gangland rape story. Spend a couple of days trying to get the Audigy 2 you got for your birthday to make you sound like a bad-mofo gangsta on voice chat, then give up and revert to typing pseudo-ebonics. Etc.
Yup, the high-tech law-breakin' game of the future. I can just see it.
Re:Yeah, I can just see it (Score:3, Insightful)
I see no problem with games being an outlet for a life that a person would otherwise shy away from. Nothing wrong with make-believe.
1337 gangsta... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1337 gangsta... (Score:5, Funny)
I got mad hoes and I got mad bitches
I'm coding in C and I branch with switches
Java programming and C++
I program high homie, pass the dutch
Re:1337 gangsta... (Score:2, Interesting)
If you a bitch and you wanna step (Score:3, Funny)
Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
How long until gangbangr.com 2.0 websites talking about the gangosphere?
Amish (Score:2)
Gangster Help Wanted Ad (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gangster Help Wanted Ad (Score:4, Funny)
In other news, a cyber turf war was sparked today when the MySpace Crips DDOSed the Geocities Bloods. The Bloods retaliated by hacking the Crips website to say "Eastside is t3h sUx0r"...
Re:Gangster Help Wanted Ad (Score:2)
Re:Gangster Help Wanted Ad (Score:2)
those evil Wiccans (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, but comparing witches to Al-Quaeda is a bit of an ad absurdum. We all know witches are more powerful, which is why we dealt with these terrorists in the 1600's, and did not not deal with the latter terrorists in the 1980's when we could have.
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:3, Insightful)
When all those wars are complete, we can expect a War on Wars, which will involve the peaceful use of tactical nuclear weaponry on all those who remain after the subcultures have been elimin
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:2, Interesting)
Round where I live we still have to deal with witches and their pagan rituals.
Here is a recient story (last week) of a witch torturing her lover and dumping his body in the sea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/5150 954.stm
She was caught texting messages to her (dead) lovers other girlfriend, using his mobile...or something equally hi-tec and complicated.
cool huh?
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:2)
Well, I lived in Cornwall (Connor Downs to be precise) for about 10 years, and saw no evidence of any witchcraft or related activities.
Then again, I spent a fair amount of my time either drunk or stoned...
No. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:5, Interesting)
It was a sweet deal, if you think about it... want someone's land? Turn them in for "witchcraft" and you and the government get to split their assets after they're roasted. Angry at a woman for rejecting your advances? No worries, she'll probably have a freckle - oops, I mean "devil's mark" - one can blame the world's problems on, and up in smoke she goes. Afraid of your wife because she knows how to read better than you do? Poof, and you get to look for someone younger and stupider next time.
400 years ago it was "witches." 50 years ago it was "communists." These days it's those darn "terr'rists." People will always find a way to persecute other peoople they don't like for whatever reason.
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:4, Insightful)
Sure, there were people calling themselves "witches" in the 1600s. There were also real practicing Communists in the 1950s, and there are actual terrorists in the world now. But how many non-witches were burned at the stake? How many innocent people had their lives ruined by being accused of Communism during the McCarthy era? And how many people are now called "terrorists" for looking or thinking differently than you?
Nothing justifies taking a word that scares the majority, and using it as a blanket term to describe anyone you hate/fear/disagree with, and to ultimately effect their dissappearance.
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:5, Funny)
My dog does that one before she lays down. She also drags her ass on the ground for no apparent reason; is that a Wiccan thing?
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:5, Funny)
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:3, Informative)
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:2)
Re:those evil Wiccans (Score:2)
They're trying to take our guns!
Appologies to The Colbert Report.
Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs? (Score:3, Insightful)
Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here. We don't go on Crusades to conquer someone else's Holy Land...
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:3, Funny)
They mean the kind of witches with wart covered noses, flying brooms, and bubbling cauldrons..
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2)
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2)
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:4, Insightful)
The "Witches are Happy Peaceful People" diatribe is even slighthly more annoying then the "Hackers are Happy Curious People" screed. Both words mean something else in popular parlance, and that's all there is to it. I have more sympathy for the "hackers-are-good" crowd, because they legitimately lost their word to a media gone suddenly cyber-melodramtic, but the Buckland and Gardner crew deliberately took an already negatively charged word, stuck it up there with all the other chips on their shoulders, and tried to win it back -- in the most irritating and condescending way possible -- from all us ignorant "mundanes." Sure, good luck with that...
Oh, yeah, about those Crusades: many, many, centuries ago, my li'l crystal polisher. Better analogy would have been, "Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here. We don't crash airplanes into someone else's building in the name of our goddess..."
oooooh, i'm gonna get modded down so-o-o-o-o fast.....!
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:3, Informative)
OK, I'll bite.
On Sunday, Bush warned Americans that "this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile." [crescentlife.com]I'll leave it up to you to decide whether Bush really does want a Christian war in the Middle East or whether he's just stupid and ignorant.
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2, Interesting)
Where's the "all of the above" circle?
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2)
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2)
I wish
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:5, Insightful)
So yeah, I look down on it.
Does it make much difference if something was completely made-up out of thin air 50 or 100 years ago, or thousands of years ago?
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:3, Insightful)
"Witches" in common parlance refers to mythological people who sign a compact with the Christian Satan. Seeing as these people do not exist, it seems pretty ridiculous to talk about them. Furthermore, the Christian notion that there are a significant number of devil-worshippers who are in league with him to oppose the works of Christ is equally ludicrous. To talk of these groups as threats is to reveal one's ignorance. He mig
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:3)
Fuckin' A right, Mister! All those wars in the name of evolution, all that slaughter in the name of natural selection, that was for progress! I'm killin' this cross-wearer for Darwin, gene-damnit!
After that, I'm going to have a little holy feast in the name of physics.
Then I'm going to start the astronomy crusades! ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay! (That's my war cry. Scary, isn't it? It's scientifically calcul
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2)
Replace slaves with captives held without reason or trial
and how is this diffrent than the current US Administration?
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:5, Funny)
Replace slaves with captives held without reason or trial
and how is this diffrent than the current US Administration?
Replace "wars" with "grandpa," "slaves" with "naps" and "slaughtered civilians" with "baked cookies"
and how is that different from my grandma?
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2)
You could say the same about Christians, if you study your history. Remember the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, slave owners in America and elsewhere? Does that mean that someone who claims to be a Christian today supports all of these activities?
Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs (Score:2)
Re:Al Queda, witches--WTF?! (Score:2)
But it was the director of the National Gang Crime Research Center who said it,
so direct all complaints thataway. I don't even practice Wicca, and find that
sort of uninformed lumping-together fucking disgusting.
And devil-worshippers? There aren't really many devil-worshippers, apart from
various criminally insane cases. If he meant Satanism, it's more of an
ego-centric religion. I got the impression that director has lived a very
sheltered life.
Myspace idiot gangsters (Score:3, Insightful)
"Your arm is missing!" (Score:5, Funny)
You don't frighten us, Crips pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!
nothing to see here (Score:2)
nah . . . it's not quite the same.
Tagging (Score:5, Funny)
Witches? (Score:3, Funny)
Witches? Devil-worshippers?
Is this from the Nation Gun Crime Research Centre or the Ordo Hereticus?
You ALMOST had me (Score:3, Funny)
Then I knew you're a loonie.
Witches? Hello? Could you join us in the 21st century? If people want to believe in witchcraft, so be it. It's not like they mount their brooms and fly off to some mountain anymore. That's the fad of the past, it's been over for like 400 years by now.
No wonder that they spend their time puzzling what those tags could mean. I mean, if you can't get a clue after 400 years when it's hit you with a broomstick... MAN, some people are slow!
Re:You ALMOST had me (Score:4, Funny)
Everyone knows that devil worship and witchcraft increase by orders of magnitude every time a new Harry Potter book or movie is released. Why do you hate Jesus?
Re:You ALMOST had me (Score:2)
Hmm. Gangs on the web? (Score:2)
"That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence. "
Secret handshakes... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously...secret handshakes?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
"Yeah man...those 18th street guys are badass. They have secret handshakes and everything..."
Re:Secret handshakes... (Score:5, Funny)
You mean stuff like 'HELO', 'GET', and 'POST' secured by SSL.
Re:Secret handshakes... (Score:2)
Re:Secret handshakes... (Score:3, Interesting)
Hard to believe, but these pathetic creatures actually think anyone outside of their shitty neighborhoods gives a rat's ass about their symbols. They don't even realize that, even in their shitty neighborhood, their gang won't even be remembered in 20 years. But that's how things seem to people whose "world" doesn't extend
On YouTube. (Score:2, Informative)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bMJjIFZYq3I [youtube.com]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bhNuETvjakw [youtube.com]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w2G_PwKwK7Y [youtube.com]
Not a gang but.. (Score:3, Interesting)
The video was posted online. The guy who sucker punched Jihad is now dead.
Moral of the story: People do stupid shit and post it on the i
Re:Not a gang but.. (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/inquirer/sports/1
I personally don't think a sucker punch is worth someone's life, but that's me.. and I'm not "from the streets".
Shocking (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shocking (Score:2)
The THE opportunity for spotty and smelling nerds! (Score:2)
Go and easily be part of one of the coolest gangs in your town... You'll have a GF (yeah, a *real* one, not a real-doll) a convertible, some guns, everyone's gonna treat you respectful...
Go and f*cking build a website, the stuff you do best
"Web Bangers" (Score:2)
Broken Windows Gang (Score:2)
The gang's activities will primarily consist of breaking Windows, online and off.
No pre-requisites for joining except for 1337 hacking sk177z and good aim.
Re:Broken Windows Gang (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Broken Windows Gang (Score:5, Funny)
That is funny.
Did you put up a blue tarp to cover the screen?
Press any key to continue.
Bad Grammer (Score:3, Funny)
What the hell does that mean?
Re:Bad Grammer (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:Bad Grammer (Score:2, Funny)
witch hunts? (Score:3, Insightful)
"In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language," Knox said.
Devil worship and witchcraft aren't illegal in the US and are rarely linked to illegal activities; the police has no business getting involved in that "subculture" at all.
Furthermore, even when it comes to al Quaeda and gangs, they should be careful: after all, if we can get al Quaeda and gangs to limit their activities to free speech on the Internet, then that's a good thing. We should encourage these groups to use the Internet, not drive them away.
Re:witch hunts? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:witch hunts? (Score:2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Of_Satan [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca [wikipedia.org]
Coming this Fall . . . (Score:5, Funny)
It's must see TV!
Re:Coming this Fall . . . (Score:2)
Ice T: Condoms, wine coolers, what, are you gettin' freaky with the Hamburglar?
Coolest link at bottom (Score:2)
"Gangs of America - Browse a huge selection. Find exactly what you want today."
It was sponsored by eBay.
Re:Coolest link at bottom (Score:2)
"Gang Violence - Browse a huge selection. Find exactly what you want today."
But then I reloaded again and it only said:
"Books - Browse a huge selection. Find exactly what you want today."
Not always cool, I guess.
Please, for the love of all that is holy (Score:2)
This no more belongs in YRO than would an article about the latest Linux kernel release.
Re: (Score:2)
Article translation (Score:2)
I found the translator at http://www.psyclops.com/translator/ [psyclops.com].
Gangs Use Internet to Showcase Exploits
Jul 6, 4:08 PM (ET)
By ANDREW GLAZER
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Some of da country's most notorious street gangs has gotten Web-savvy, showcasin' illegal exploits, makin' threats, 'n honorin' killed 'n jailed members on digital turf.
Crips, Bloods, MS-13, 18th Street 'n others has staked claims on various corners of cyberspace n' shit. "Web bangers" be postin' potentially incriminat
DKP? (Score:5, Funny)
better analogy? (Score:3, Funny)
Gangs of Bathurst? (Score:2, Insightful)
Seemed a bit pathetic at first, really, some kid from small town Canada pretending he's a member of a gang he probably saw on TV and thought looked cool. But I have to wonder if these sites aren't more of a recruitment tool than anything else, an attempt to start branches of these gangs in places where they would normally would have no reach.
Having small local gangs with national and international affiliations
Is "devil worship" making a comeback? (Score:2)
al Quaeda, witches, devil-worshippers and gangs? (Score:3, Interesting)
Wow, does this guy have an ax to grind. What does an imaginary network of terrorists, practitioners of a polytheistic nature religion [wikipedia.org], angst-filled teenagers, and small cliques of violent street thugs have in common? None of them are a threat to society but provide a convenient fantasy for people obsessed with some silly notion of an epic battle of Good versus Evil. People like this scare me more than a few scattered street gangs.
Re:Seriously... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Seriously... (Score:2, Interesting)
People have been complaining about dumb people using the internet ever since AOL started giving their users access to it.
(i would hardly be surprised if the guys that created Darpanet were the first to get concerned about dumb people accessing the would be Internet when universities started giving students access to it)
Dial 100 for assistance (Score:2, Informative)
http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
Balmer!
Re:They aren't career criminals (Score:5, Interesting)
When I was a teen, hung on kind of a rough corner. More than a few of the kids were dealers. Mostly pot (though most of them graduated later on to actual harmful drugs). Besides smoking most of their stash, they'd do stupid things like blow money on other drugs or buy Don Perignon, etc.
Two of my friends wanted me to go into "business" with them selling weed. It would have been a pretty sweat deal actually as I really wouldn't have to do much of anything except put up a small amount of cash at the beginning and then just manage the money after and have no liability.
I was tempted, but that's not my thing so I declined, but I did the math on it before saying not, it would have been around $3500 profit a week.
By rights, most of them should own houses.
Re:Just means... (Score:2)
They all hate Teh Jebus! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:yet more proof (Score:3, Interesting)
"War on Drugs - The dealers around here all wear red bandannas, and don't let anyone else wear them. If it was a real war, it would be over in 15 minutes - me 20, gang 0!"
This guy used to show up for basic weapons qualification on rifle ranges I was adminning, fire 38 rounds, put the M-16 down with 2 rounds left, and insist on sticking with a score of 38 out of a possi