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You think it really is satire? They used to say the same thing about adequacy.org but it turns out they were dead serious. Apparantly AMD sued them and put them out of business.

just like this one :

http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html

That "lunux" is actually illegal now? Is your son a Computer Hacker?

Indeed. And there are sites which are able to simply exclude anyone who is even remotely working class by virtue of the sheer erudition of the community.

Well, we all know Linux IS a hacker tool

Minix was not based on Xenix, at all. Linux was only superficially based on Minix. So how do you conclude that Linux is based on Xenix?

1. So called "nerds" can be pretty bad at picking up when somebody is playing dumb. Especially since they commonly believe that they're oh so much smarter than the non-nerds they talk with, which means that, of course, if the non-nerd says they don't know X, it's because they're too stupid to know. Because of this, it's trivially easy to troll nerds.
2. Can you get me that woman's phone number?

It's hardly surprising that the morons who make up the general public are falling for the ridiculous "man-made" global warming scam.
I mean, if something as obviously trollish as this gets 5000+ bites, what hope is there for Joe Sixpack when he is bombarded with "scientific" "evidence" for man-made global warming every day?

I mean, I can see what a load of BS it all is, and even if I wasn't a God-fearing, Bible-believing Christian, I would still find the idea of mankind presuming to control the Earth's climate utterly laughable.

I actually don't care much what people believe though, since I'm waiting for the price of SUV's to come down as the state-sponsored enviro-guilt hits the tree-hugging scientific illiterates. There'll be some bargains to be had to be sure!!!

Not criticizing him.

The Scriptural proof of extraterrestrial life :)

Is this the same AMD that got adequacy taken down for their investigative journalism?
Not surprised to see them supporting law and order!!!

You'd love to believe that I dismissed Nagios without evaluating it, wouldn't you?
Do you really really think that major financial corporations would spend money on software and services that they could get for free?

Contrary to the groupthink attitudes of the basement-dwelling Linux Zealots that infest this site, "pointy headed bosses" are NOT the norm, and these corporations are making $$$s because their employees are smart enough to differentiate between immature "hobbyist" software and something robust that you could trust with your bottom line.

I have to account for every last cent I spend. If Nagios could do what real enterprise monitoring software could do believe me, I would be using it.
As it is, it is borderline unusable for all but the most trivial and simple monitoring tasks.

Get back to your basement and carry on with your blinkered 'open sores is best' outlook. Reality will catch up with you in the end...

The grandparent post was plagiarized, so definitely trolling.

I've been ignoring ESR since I first saw this. (Warning: Knowledge of that particular writing will scar the psyche, go here to detox)

Looks like we've hit the Linux Fault Threshold.

"BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone."

lol read more at:
http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.21 47.html

Frankly I would not at all be surprised. As we all know, lunix is an illegal operating system created by a communist hacker from Finland by the name of Linyos Torovoltos. It hid behind the thinly veiled name *RED* hat in order to creep into the basements of millions of americans homes and corrupt the minds of children with communist propaganda. At least we can know see the beast for what it truly is! http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.4 2056.2147.html

But I would like to point out that some of the problems you faced (like integration with MS Exchange server) are simply Microsoft not wanting to release/support/adapt to standards.

WARNING: LINUX FAULT THRESHOLD CROSSED

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux product lifecycle provides seven years of support for every release. New versions are introduced on a predictable 18-month schedule. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - released in February 2005 - is the latest release.

Joke about it all you like, but the causal link between violent videogames and violent crime is well proven.

It probably will hurt your ego to learn that ridiculous liberal myths are a meme and the most popular variant is The "Moon".

So here it is: http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.21 47.html enjoy

Good call... sort of....

I happen to attend Lee university in Cleveland, Tennesee. It is located on the orrigional campus of Bob Jones University. In some ways -- though not as rabidly -- Lee has maintained some of the "conservative" nature that was -- and still is -- Bob Jones U. To that effect, they use a product called iPrism by St. Bernard technologies. It censors what they would considder offensive content such as adult entertainment sites, but it also blocks thigs such as the nmap site (http://insecure.org/nmap/) or http://peacefire.org/ incorrectly as "anonymizer" and blocks many pieces of OSS as "hacking tools." In some ways, the way people here view technology are frighteningly simmilar to: http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.4 2056.2147.html . Also, as of late, they have implimented a new security device that requires Windows users to install a product called "Cisco Clean Access" in order to gain access to the school's network. "Clean Access" forces users to install and use AV software and ever single Windows Update within a short period of its releas -- sooner than any normal power user would normally dare to install an update for fear of breaking something -- in order to validate the machine for access. It is intended in the near future to require Mac and Linux users to run some sort of AV software as well -- even though Macs have no viruses and Linux users tend to practice "safe computing." At the moment, the system is already performing Nessus scans on machines on the network with little warning of this.

To conclude, the use of internet censorware is problematic and generally a bad idea regardless of the intent unless there is only a specific selection of networked content that needs be available -- such as is the case of networked cashregisters at FYE where they only have access to parts of the FYE web site.

Read this

http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.10.2.33542.40 10.html

Now for each reply to your post, see if the LFT threshold is reached. Flame the shit out of any that do.

Way more fun than F.E.A.R or Doom3. And people complain that Linux users can't play games.

This review is just an improved version of this classic adequacy troll: http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.10.14. 163749.94.html

The obvious mistake in the distance formula and the interpretation of the "fields of characteristic 2" exception are intended to rile up people who *are* familiar with these things.

So don't blame Linux, blame your graphics card makers.

I hope you realize how close you are to the legendary linux apologists. Such justifications as yours never work BTW. Basically you are saying "It's ok to ship applications that do not work until the user goes to a weird URL and download a package which happens to be the runtime environment for those applications".

Why won't my fucking Linux computer print?

I don't know. It's a Hewlett Packard desktop inkjet number [You can get more information than this just by looking at the computer]
 
...I've got a floppy disk from HP, but my floppy drive is a USB drive and Linux doesn't have fucking USB support.["Linux doesn't support peripheral X" is a far cry from "Linux doesn't have USB support."]

From a slashdot newbie - is it normal to cut and paste responses from elsewhere? The original

Yes, BSD, Linux, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.

http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.21 47.html

LFT REACHED !!!!!

guys, if you're reading a satirical British website and you don't get something, ignore it.

For point of reference to those that take his column seriously, there should be a foot icon next to it.

I'll spell it out: it - is - a - joke

Sorry if I'm condescending you, but I thought that such net veterans as yourselves would be used to this kind of thing by now (refer to the classic "Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?" page: http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.4 2056.2147.html)

I honestly don't see why the Grandparent was modded as a troll. Whoever modded him down clearly missed the humor in the Linux typo, Lunix, which actually is an OS: Little Unix. On top of that, it was probably an obscure reference to the humorous article Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?.

Learning Linux isn't one of those things "people" regularly do, when compared to the other things they learn. I'm reminded of a comic that clarifies the type of roadblocks you'll run into getting Linux into the homes of normal people. My grandparents are smart. They know how to do lots of specific things on the PC (in Windows). They use Firefox and Thunderbird because I set them up to look like IE and OE, and my grandfather appreciates the junkmail filter in Tbird. However, I would never think of moving them to Linux. There are huge numbers of people out there who still need help deciding "left or right button?" when you instruct them to "click", and Windows and MacOSX are miles ahead of Linux when supporting this crowd. As long as Linux caters to the geek, it can't cater to the grandparent.

Sadly, some people think that's a good idea.

First point: Yes he did cause damage. Money was spent investigating the intrusion which is monetary damages.

Second Point: He very well could have caused damage had he successfully broken in. Do we not punish crackers now just because they didn't destroy data?

Thirdly: He is a professional in the Information Security field! Of all people he should be held to a higher standard because of his career field.

Everyone should be aware that "Anime" is not just harmless fun.

lol here is more great information: LINK
thank god i read it now i am at least informaed.
lol how do i get to the contrl panal??????? SOMEBODY HELp PLEASEQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think I've ever seen a joke go whizzing past so many heads.

Actually, this is from Adequacy.org (which is now an archive-only website). See http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.4 2056.2147.html for the story.

They have some pretty funny stuff on there. The sad part is that some people actually believed it.

I thought I read this story before, so did some googling, and sure enough, its an old ctrl-c,ctrl-v story from 2001: http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.4 2056.2147.html

nevertheless a funny one :)

http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.7.3.10 427.49860.html

(nterpret as: non-intel CPU's are a scam)

Is your son a computer hacker? See number 3.

Actually, "Lunix" was done by soviets: http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.4 2056.2147.html

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8. Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War.
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You are SO right. I think that's what this guy was getting at with his hilarious online 'comic'. Well worth a look!

I thought this was a little well written to have been posted that quickly. This is originally from http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.7.8.10 5659.2501.html and written in 2001. I would hope that this posted does not repeat this stunt in the future, regardless of the topic or their opinions.

I wish you'd posted under your user ID so that I could befriend you

Don't bother. Trolls (terribly unoriginal ones, no less) aren't worth it.

OP: come on, that's four years old! can't you come up with some new material?

I guess Adaquacy trolls shouldn't come as a surprise in a story linking to something on K5.

Its a fucking website, not a serious scholarly work of investigative journalism. Having said that, even adequacy.org maintaned some level of journalistic integrity, so how hard can it be if that bunch of retards can do it!

I don't my child to become a hacker http://adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056 .2147.html

Definitely use this too, after all your child could be a computer hacker.