<Session setup in progress>
<Negotiating encryption protocols>
<Connection established>
"Welcome to VPR Holo-mail, please enter your password to continue"
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"Good evening, Nerde Verde.
You have Seventeen...Thousand, Four...Hundred...Twenty-Five new messages.
This terminal does not support holo-display, messages will be audio only.
To listen to your messages... press '1'.
To begin heuristic classification of messages, press '2'."
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"Heuristic classification in progress"

<5 hours later>

"Heuristic classification complete"
"25 new messages from VPR Council and Officers are flagged for high-security, and cannot be accessed from this terminal."

"2620 messages classified as advertisements, scams and hoaxes, and have been forwarded to the UIT Intersystem Commerce Enforcement Division for prosecution."

"10965 messages have been classified as death threats, and have a 99.9% positive match rate against known and suspected pirate aliases in the VPR database. 11 messages added to processing queue for further correlation."

"2611 messages were of anonymous origin, and have identical, audio-only content. Sample message begins:"

'SUBMIT'

"End of sample message. Voice pattern has been disguised through multiple layers of digital and analog alteration, and cannot be reconstructed at this time."

"1200 messages classified as emergency broadcasts via VPR Dispatch Hotline. Messages discarded based on status in VPR Dispatch Tracker."

"4 messages classified as sales calls from Redenbacher Weapons Systems."

"You have 25 remaining messages. Please log in from a VPR Secure Terminal to access your remaining messages. Have a nice day."

<Connection Terminated>

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It's been too long since I've had time to look in on the game, much less get in the cockpit, but I've been a bit busy preparing for a certain sporting event in Vancouver in about 3 weeks. Video doesn't record, edit, encode and transmit itself without a bunch of geeks keeping a sharp eye on it.

I miss you all (but the scorch marks say otherwise),

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Nerde Verde

Heh.

/me salutes.

...but I've been a bit busy preparing for a certain sporting event in Vancouver in about 3 weeks...

Same here! I just bought a ticket out of this, soon to be, hell hole! Chamonix, here I come! What brings you to our little neck of the "soon to be f***ed in the ass five ways till sunday" woods?

Edit: Yeah, I voted "no".

Edit2: Back on topic:

2611 messages were of anonymous origin, and have identical, audio-only content. Sample message begins: SUBMIT

I seem to remember BlakHive going apeshit for a while a couple years ago...

"1 Message was from LeberMac demanding to know if he left his bottle opener in your VPR office. You know, the one that's been closed for 3 years..."

Good ta hear from ya, Nerde! Enjoy the "front-row-seat" at the Olympics.

Heh. "ICED". Nice acronym. And Redenbacher Weapons Systems? Nice touch (although I suppose we should have seen it coming).

Good to hear you're still alive, Nerde. =^)

-Captain "Nice" Hardrive

What brings you to our little neck of the [Expletive Deleted] woods?

I work for NBC. I'm part of the team putting up live streams and on-demand clips of the Games on our website http://nbcolympics.com and a number of other outlets. (Apologies to those outside the US that the video content is blocked. Not our choice.) Might not be so much a "front row" seat as a "first monitor" seat for me. I get to play with the expensive technology that makes it all work though.

The video is only blocked for those outside the US too dumb to use a proxy ; )

wow, aint seen nerde in a damn long time, good to hear your doing well

He killed me with flechettes in my newbie days!
-Chaakin Tockoa

Mmm, popcorn.