Worst Puzzle Ever (2009) • Hacker News Board

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

#11

Post by IshKebab » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:07 PM UTC

He's clearly insanely paranoid about personal information, but that does sound like a terrible puzzle.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by gweinberg » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:10 PM UTC

jasonlotito wrote: post #9

vorticalbox wrote: post #4

Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.

Isis and ISIS are two completely different and unrelated things.

Yes, there are a lot of people named Isis. It used to be possible to get a Coke that said 'Share a Coke with Isis' on it, but i think they stopped making them.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by babuskov » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:13 PM UTC

cease wrote: post #5

vorticalbox wrote: post #4

Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.

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

It's not like the terrorist group choose that name. They choose to call themselves Daesh. ISIS was a term coined by Western miliary and/or media.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

#14

Post by bambataa » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:14 PM UTC

The comments on that post are particularly interesting.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

#15

Post by shmageggy » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:17 PM UTC

So did he ever get spam at the fake address?

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

#16

Post by x10001 » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:17 PM UTC

Amazing how clearly people wrote just 10 years ago. Compare to the cesspool of feelz, marketing and misdirection that "the web" is today.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by justaguyhere » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:18 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #11

He's clearly insanely paranoid about personal information, but that does sound like a terrible puzzle.

Maybe he is paranoid, but it is his information, so he has every right to be! If only more people are like him, we wouldn't have all these multi billion dollar companies doing whatever they feel like with their users' info

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by adrianmonk » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:21 PM UTC

cease wrote: post #5

vorticalbox wrote: post #4

Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.

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

Anyone remember the NFC mobile payments platform from 2011 that was called Isis Wallet?

It was a pretty big deal (huge backing by carriers, phone manufacturers, and credit card companies). They changed the name to Softcard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by invalidusernam3 » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:26 PM UTC

cease wrote: post #5

vorticalbox wrote: post #4

Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.

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.

Re: Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)

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Post by MithrilTuxedo » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:31 PM UTC

13of40 wrote: post #8

vorticalbox wrote: post #4

Why would anyone call a puzzle Isis.

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.