Worst Puzzle Ever (2009) • Hacker News Board

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by code_duck » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 8:18 AM UTC

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #19

cease wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isis was an Egyptian goddess before her name got coopted by a terrorist group.

My brother adopted a dog a few years back named Isis (after the Egyptian god). Even though Isis now had a very different connotation, they felt bad to change the dog's name. They recently adopted another dog which I jokingly recommended they name Al Qaeda.

My friend has a 10 year old daughter named Isis.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by psergeant » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 8:59 AM UTC

vorticalbox wrote: post #4

Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.

Parts of the Thames that flow through Oxford are called “The Isis” (presumably after the Goddess), and there are (or at least were) a good number of Oxford things called that

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by probably_wrong » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 10:20 AM UTC

MithrilTuxedo wrote: post #20

13of40 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it came out when Al Qaeda was the boogey man. ISIS didn't get any press until 2013: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=i...

The Pentagon didn't start calling it the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) until 2017. Prior to then, it was the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Worth noting that the Islamic State has preferred being called ISIS. I think calling them ISIL was being done in part to annoy them.

There was a tweet about the poor NSA intern who would be tasked with the code to identify whether "is" referred to the organization or the verb. The paranoid side of me always assumed that the rebranding to Isis could have been suggested by the Pentagon to news organizations for that reason.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by teddyh » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 10:36 AM UTC

autokad wrote: post #3

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #2

The puzzle website is obviously dead, but the domain is still registered: isisadventure.com. Good luck to anyone doing anything with that domain

the domain is registered by info@chinacapital.com, which registered over 500 domains, 2 of them marked malicious. the cisco umbrella risk of the domain is 77, medium

“Marked malicious” by whom?

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by cuboidGoat » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 10:48 AM UTC

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #19

cease wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isis was an Egyptian goddess before her name got coopted by a terrorist group.

My brother adopted a dog a few years back named Isis (after the Egyptian god). Even though Isis now had a very different connotation, they felt bad to change the dog's name. They recently adopted another dog which I jokingly recommended they name Al Qaeda.

"Al Qaeda" can be translated as "The Foundation", and there is apparently some discussion about Bin Laden being an Asimov fan and basing the name of his organisation on the Foundation Series. Also, I am reliably informed that wiping your Al Qaeda has apparently become slang in some places.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by Marazan » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 11:09 AM UTC

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #2

The puzzle website is obviously dead, but the domain is still registered: isisadventure.com. Good luck to anyone doing anything with that domain

The company website is still up and they have produced further 'puzzles' in the series.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by makomk » Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 3:32 PM UTC

LandR wrote: post #7

vorticalbox wrote: post #4

Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.

Was Isis a well known terrorist organisation in 2009 ?

They weren't even calling themselves ISIS back in 2009, so no.