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Slashdot really has stayed still while the internet changed and matured around it, other than the absence of some memes and Y2K stories the slashdot of '99 looks much like today. (For better or worse) ...

We are the tech Luddites!

And yes "Slashdotting" is such and incredibly dated and egocentric word dating back to when our population was something to be impressed with, that day has long since passed, the few times we do "slashdot" a real server everyone gets all giddy, and I just don't have the heart to tell them that it was fine when it hit our front-page, but it just hit the front of reddit and digg.

(If you don't recall what it looked like, this is what ten years of progress on a cutting edge geek/tech site looks like http://web.archive.org/web/19991013054427/http://slashdot.org/ )

It's ok. For those who couldn't afford them back then, there will always be the internet archive.

"Nationalist"? "Homophobic?" "Anti-Freethinking?"

Nationalist: read about the history of the split between Ernest Thompson Seton and Robert Baden-Powell. Baden-Powell took Seton's woodcraft organization and twisted it into something meant to produce soldiers for the Empire; and that fed back into the American scouting movement. "The tone of militant patriotism, the concern for individual efficiency within a nationalistic context, insistence on uniformity and centralization or authority, and the attraction of Scouting for preadolescent boys -- all these traits of British Scouting took root in America..." -- David Macleod

Anti-Freethinking: according to the wik, "Boy Scouts of America's position is that atheists and agnostics cannot participate as Scouts (youth members) or Scouters (adult leaders)". They have expelled young men for being atheist.

Homophobic:"Boy Scouts of America believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed....In the unlikely event that an older boy were to hold himself out as homosexual, he would not be able to continue in a youth leadership position." In 2005 a BSA employee was fired for being gay.

Please, whatever you are smoking, please stop. It's obviously damaged whatever feeble quantity of functional brain cells you had prior to starting.

Now that I have cured your ignorance, I will be glad to accept your apology for that insult whenever you are ready.

Look at the screenshots of Bluefish from 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040715074025/bluefish.openoffice.nl/screenshots.html

The bluefish editor has been using contextual tabs since 2000 or so. Ribbon is new for office, but contextual layout with a tabbing interface is not new at all.

may i recommend detiny url expander a small add on for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13140

which expands the above link to http://web.archive.org/web/20001202200100/http://---www.goatse.cx/ (If you really want to click it you will have to go to the parent post)

After the Cunard ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed by the German U-Boat U-20 in May, 1915, the great Winsor McCay was asked to animate the disaster. This was not a minor film; McCay was not only the best animator alive, he had invented the medium himself. It was released in 1918 and used as part of the ongoing anti-German propaganda effort.

• Background on the 18-minute film can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sinking_of_the_Lusitania
• The Sinking of the Lusitania can be found on YouTube, but a higher-quality version can be viewed or downloaded at the Internet Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/Sinking_of_the_Lusitania
• More on the ship can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
• If you're interested in Winsor McCay (and you should be if you like animation), this is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_McCay

Curiously, even this 92-year-old pioneering classic demonstrates the dangers of using animation based on incomplete, mistaken or biased reportage and presenting it as fact. The film depicts the liner being hit by two torpedoes, when in fact the second explosion was internal. The Lusitania was described as an innocent passenger liner, but the Germans contend to this day that she was transporting far more munitions than were recorded in her manifest, and was thus a legitimate target. The English have not helped their cause any in the intervening years: they did their best to destroy the wreck with depth charges in the 1950s. More recently, millions of rounds of unrecorded ammunition have been found by divers at the site, lending credence to the German claims.

On a mildly related note, around this time the Hearst papers (and others, but Hearst was notorious for it) routinely used artists and retouched photos to "reenact" extremely lurid depictions of crimes, with helpful arrows and labels presenting their suppositions as fact. This practice was continued for several decades, and Lord knows how many innocent people were sent to prison or executed because of the bias these "reconstructions" introduced into society.

It was bad then. It's bad now. This is a dangerous path to tread.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux/Apple/QuickTime/Qt/Nokia/Amazon/Kindle community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he'

yes cheap laptops exist, but the point is the last cheap Hivision laptop that showed up everywhere never materialized so it's safe to assume this might be vaporware as well.

The hivision mini note was reported to offer Linux, wifi, 1gb flash storage, 3 USB ports, ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out, voice chat and the multi-tabbed firefox browser.

The devices you linked to run the 6 yr old Windows CE 5.0 OS which was popular for $200 PDAs in 2004, 266 and 400mhz processors, and no mention of the type of browser but claim to play flash videos by downloading them and watching on a flash player. The only difference between these "cheap laptops" and PDAs from 2004 is the $100 price difference, the larger screen and the attached keyboard.

I really hope I'm wrong, I'd love to see a $100 Android laptop because someone already offers the $100 Android PDA

Populations are collapsing in industrialized countries, and there is room for quadrillions of people in space habitats, as I outline here:
http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/2009-August/004174.html
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The less peers that are around, the less peers can help each other and contribute to a free commons. Maybe there are laws of diminishing returns, but are we anywhere near them? What would Wikipedia be like with only 100 contributors instead of 100 thousand? Especially in a digital age, it is easy for a peer to add more to the free commons than they take away. What do you take away from Wikipedia by reading a page? A little electricity power perhaps, but Wikipedia shows us how to get all the power we need from the sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
So, even in a physical sense, Wikipedia is helping peers physically power it by giving away such knowledge.
We can support quadrillions of humans in the solar system (see my previous references to Dyson, Bernal, Savage, O'Neill, and there are many others), or about a million times our current population on Earth. We essentially had the specific technological ideas in the 1970s we needed to do that, even given refinements since then. So, a focus on zero or negative population growth for the human race as a whole right now, as opposed to just limiting the population currently on Earth (which might be sensible, even though I think we could easily grow 10X on Earth), has created a "Peak Population" crisis that we didn't need to have for 1000 years when we filled up the solar system (and by then, we would have better technology and better social ideology to deal with changing demographics of moving from a triangle to a square of population by age).
Sure, let's set a population target for some carrying capacity on Earth the same way the health and fire departments limit the maximum number of people in a restaurant. But, you don't limit the human population of a city (or the solar system) the same way you limit the number of people that can safely be in a restaurant (the Earth). That is ultimately the mistake that gloomsters like Catton make -- they confuse the two, mostly IMHO from lack of imagination, but also because some profit from artificial scarcity, as well, as in Catton's case, the hypocrisy of having four children while telling everyone else to have less.
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One of the reasons people want to have less children in industrialized countries is that they are family unfriendly. The US is rated the second to worst industrialized country to be a child, and the UK is worst:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080119001830/http://www.adbusters.org/the_magazine/71/Generation_Fcked_How_Britain_is_Eating_Its_Young.html
""The reason our children's lives are the worst among economically advanced countries is because we are a poor version of the USA," he said. "So the USA comes second from bottom and we follow behind. The age of neo-liberalism, even with the human face that New Labour has given it, cannot stem the tide of the social recession capitalism creates.""

Although, as I say elsewhere, people not getting enough sunshine and vitamin D3 from being indoors a lot may have a role to play in that too:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/treatment.shtml
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/depression.shtml

And here is a book outlining the social problems of industrialized countries and their mental health services and why much of industrialized populations are mentally ill:

To be fair, Netscape did something similar. In 1995.

http://web.archive.org/web/19970614002944/http://home.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease48.html

The article told us nothing new. If you want good background information about Advance fee frauds, read these:

• Harvey Glickman: The Nigerian “419” Advance Fee Scams: Prank or Peril? (117 kB PDF)
• Nigeria-Related Financial Crime and its links with Britain (280 kB PDF)
• Pauline Reich: Advance Fee Scams In-Country and Across Borders (490 kB PDF)

The article told us nothing new. If you want good background information about Advance fee frauds, read these:

• Harvey Glickman: The Nigerian “419” Advance Fee Scams: Prank or Peril? (117 kB PDF)
• Nigeria-Related Financial Crime and its links with Britain (280 kB PDF)
• Pauline Reich: Advance Fee Scams In-Country and Across Borders (490 kB PDF)

I knew there was a reason I printed that to PDF before I posted! Also, archive.org has got it, at least until the takedown there.

If goverments were so bad, why is much of Western Europe with more intervention but more democracy overall generally happier than the USA?
http://web.archive.org/web/20080119001830/http://www.adbusters.org/the_magazine/71/Generation_Fcked_How_Britain_is_Eating_Its_Young.html

The biggest point is from here, that the income-through-jobs link is becoming more broken every day as we see sci-fi robots become reality, as forseen in 1964:
http://educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC2a_TripleRevolution.htm
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The fundamental problem posed by the cybernation revolution in the U.S. is that it invalidates the general mechanism so far employed to undergird people's rights as consumers. Up to this time economic resources have been distributed on the basis of contributions to production, with machines and men competing for employment on somewhat equal terms. In the developing cybernated system, potentially unlimited output can be achieved by systems of machines which will require little cooperation from human beings. As machines take over production from men, they absorb an increasing proportion of resources while the men who are displaced become dependent on minimal and unrelated government measures--unemployment insurance, social security, welfare payments. These measures are less and less able to disguise a historic paradox: That a substantial proportion of the population is subsisting on minimal incomes, often below the poverty line, at a time when sufficient productive potential is available to supply the needs of everyone in the U.S.
The existence of this paradox is denied or ignored by conventional economic analysis. The general economic approach argues that potential demand, which if filled would raise the number of jobs and provide incomes to those holding them, is underestimated. Most contemporary economic analysis states that all of the available labor force and industrial capacity is required to meet the needs of consumers and industry and to provide adequate public services: Schools, parks, roads, homes, decent cities, and clean water and air. It is further argued that demand could be increased, by a variety of standard techniques, to any desired extent by providing money and machines to improve the conditions of the billions of impoverished people elsewhere in the world, who need food and shelter, clothes and machinery and everything else the industrial nations take for granted.
There is no question that cybernation does increase the potential for the provision of funds to neglected public sectors. Nor is there any question that cybernation would make possible the abolition of poverty at home and abroad. But the industrial system does not possess any adequate mechanisms to permit these potentials to become realities. The industrial system was designed to produce an ever-increasing quantity of goods as efficiently as possible, and it was assumed that the distribution of the power to purchase these goods would occur almost automatically. The continuance of the income-through-jobs link as the only major mechanism for distributing effective demand -- for granting the right to consume -- now acts as the main brake on the almost unlimited capacity of a cybernated productive system.
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Some of this may be that you are seeing the part you want to see and trying to pigeon hole these arguments. Here is a good essay for a broader perspective:
http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
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To make things worse, the solution to this is not simply to begin adding meshwork components to the mix. Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constan

http://web.archive.org/web/20071202115315/http://www.newsday.com/

You should have seen it before they "settled" on the white background and made the text black-on-white... Seems the wayback machine found it too horrible to archive, but here's the "before" to the current redesign's "after": http://web.archive.org/web/20080513191349/http://www.newsday.com/ (Beware! stop loading after you can see it... some crazy scripts there) Anyway, I think a lot of people are feeling insulted by the all-lowercase format on a newspaper site.

The day you can prove you're the first to come up with a widely used technique to improve performance that is widely used now as this exemplifies:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010405012842/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml

Search this there SWAPFILE PLACEMENTS & IDEAS FOR IT from as far back as 2001 or earlier and is the oldest one of its kind I have found on that note no less?

and when you've done what he has per one of his posts here

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

(That last one's also featured here as one of your "ESSENTIAL GUIDES" -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=ded3dfdba4dba2091d4d73d674bbfdf6&showtopic=602537 )

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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." - Corinthians Chapter 10, Verse 10

(And, because I got LUCKY to have been exposed to some really GREAT classmates, professsors, & colleagues on the job over time as well)

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then you can talk, talker. You are nothing but a jealous troll it seems and especially now since he has gotten the attention of a very important person at microsoft on his points on hosts files and pagefile too.

The "drop dead date" for running out of address space keeps getting pushed out....

These are the archive.org history for the potaroo.net automated IPv4 exhaustion counter. The two dates are "Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion" and "Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion".

2006-08-23 : 2011-03-30 , 2012-07-14
2007-01-25 : 2011-07-24, 2012-07-19
2007-08-27 : 2011-06-10, 2012-03-19
2008-01-29 : 2011-06-02, 2012-08-05
2008-07-30 : 2011-02-01, 2011-12-25
2010-01-25 : 2011-09-09, 2012-09-01

I can't seem to find this so called "pushing out" that you are talking about.

The "drop dead date" for running out of address space keeps getting pushed out....

These are the archive.org history for the potaroo.net automated IPv4 exhaustion counter. The two dates are "Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion" and "Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion".

2006-08-23 : 2011-03-30 , 2012-07-14
2007-01-25 : 2011-07-24, 2012-07-19
2007-08-27 : 2011-06-10, 2012-03-19
2008-01-29 : 2011-06-02, 2012-08-05
2008-07-30 : 2011-02-01, 2011-12-25
2010-01-25 : 2011-09-09, 2012-09-01

I can't seem to find this so called "pushing out" that you are talking about.

The "drop dead date" for running out of address space keeps getting pushed out....

These are the archive.org history for the potaroo.net automated IPv4 exhaustion counter. The two dates are "Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion" and "Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion".

2006-08-23 : 2011-03-30 , 2012-07-14
2007-01-25 : 2011-07-24, 2012-07-19
2007-08-27 : 2011-06-10, 2012-03-19
2008-01-29 : 2011-06-02, 2012-08-05
2008-07-30 : 2011-02-01, 2011-12-25
2010-01-25 : 2011-09-09, 2012-09-01

I can't seem to find this so called "pushing out" that you are talking about.

The "drop dead date" for running out of address space keeps getting pushed out....

These are the archive.org history for the potaroo.net automated IPv4 exhaustion counter. The two dates are "Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion" and "Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion".

2006-08-23 : 2011-03-30 , 2012-07-14
2007-01-25 : 2011-07-24, 2012-07-19
2007-08-27 : 2011-06-10, 2012-03-19
2008-01-29 : 2011-06-02, 2012-08-05
2008-07-30 : 2011-02-01, 2011-12-25
2010-01-25 : 2011-09-09, 2012-09-01

I can't seem to find this so called "pushing out" that you are talking about.

The "drop dead date" for running out of address space keeps getting pushed out....

These are the archive.org history for the potaroo.net automated IPv4 exhaustion counter. The two dates are "Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion" and "Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion".

2006-08-23 : 2011-03-30 , 2012-07-14
2007-01-25 : 2011-07-24, 2012-07-19
2007-08-27 : 2011-06-10, 2012-03-19
2008-01-29 : 2011-06-02, 2012-08-05
2008-07-30 : 2011-02-01, 2011-12-25
2010-01-25 : 2011-09-09, 2012-09-01

I can't seem to find this so called "pushing out" that you are talking about.

Actually, the 3D GUI in Jurassic Park did exist.
Although the official page is already down, you can check the internet archive version here. (Also seems down at the moment, quite sad though).
It was an experimental file system navigator called FSN, written by Silicon Graphics. Who else would try to push 3D even where it's not that useful?

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It's just another CMU hoax like Forum 2000. Read End of an Era: Forum 2000 Closes for details.

Greetings to Corey Kosak, Andrej Bauer and the Forum 2000 students for all the laughs.

World Net Daily is a few fries short of a happy meal. This is the same news organization that claims that Obama worked to fund terrorists, that 9/11 was caused by the New Yorkers who had it coming, and that the Russian spy poisoned by the KGB using polonium was actually a muslim terrorist trying to sneak radioactive materials into the US. They are basically a forum for conspiracy theories wrapped up in nice packaging.

There was a turtle by the name of Burt, and Burt the turtle was very alert...

You should read up on Sayyid Qutb

He was an Egyptian author who studied in the US in the 1950s. He was shocked and appalled at the licentiousness of US culture, its focus on materialism and immorality. When he returned to Egypt he wrote extensively on the subject and gained a good many followers, including many who would go on to form the current crop of islamist groups. The early motivation seemed to be to prevent the creeping westernisation, and consequential moral decline of muslim nations. Coincidentally, the same root cause (1950s rock-and-roll) was the crucible in which Leo Strauss saw "permissive egalitarianism", and consequently birthed "Neo-conservatism", and this also was related to his political zionist views.

The documentary The Power of Nightmares covers the rise of Radical Islam and Neo-Conservatism. I'd recommend watching it to anyone not familiar with what you wrote.

A couple of years ago, I had the chance of going to a talk from the guys of E-ink. They showed the B&W and Color displays before the e-readers came out. I was amazed at the picture frame prototype they had, and always wonder what happened to it.

I'm curious about the reason they are holding back the release of color screens and waited for a punch from the competitors. I had it in my hands, so I know it existed way longer than the first Sony reader came to the market.

This is before they took that off of their website

I read this post a couple of years ago. Why is it just now making Slashdot? According to the wayback machine, this essay must have been written in May of 2006.

It looks like the author of this program spent(wasted?) a lot of time trying to use Gstreamer as the back-end for his project but basically ran into a brick wall.

If I remember correctly the developers of another Linux NLE called diva finally gave up on Gstreamer after years of struggling with it and subsequently abandoned their project altogether. Didn't the Diva developers also clash with the Gstreamer developers?

So it appears that the above developers put a lot of effort in writing Linux NLE's using Gstreamer but still ultimately failed at their attempts. Is there something inherently flawed with Gstreamer/Gnonlin? If Video software using Gnonlin as its back-end(Pitivi) can only be written by its author(Edward Hervey), Gstreamer must be too cryptic for mere mortal programmers. I wonder if anything formidable will ever come of Pitivi.

Except that if you read between the lines, this is all a subtle stab at the 2 year estimate. "A couple of years ago" we were slated to run out of addresses by 2010. Now they're estimating 2 more years.

It has? This is where the internet wayback machine is so nice

2007-01-25: Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 24-Jul-2011
2008-01-29: Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 02-Jun-2011
Now: Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 30-Sep-2011

As these are automated momentary estimations, they are fluctuating all the time, depending on current allocation rates which seems to depend on time of year. Generally, the numbers are the best during the winter with exhaustion dates being somewhat further away, around the midlde or end of 2011, while summer estimations move towards the earlier 2011 or even 2010. I don't see any evidence about your assertion that the exhaustion estimation date has been getting much further away.

Except that if you read between the lines, this is all a subtle stab at the 2 year estimate. "A couple of years ago" we were slated to run out of addresses by 2010. Now they're estimating 2 more years.

It has? This is where the internet wayback machine is so nice

2007-01-25: Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 24-Jul-2011
2008-01-29: Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 02-Jun-2011
Now: Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 30-Sep-2011

As these are automated momentary estimations, they are fluctuating all the time, depending on current allocation rates which seems to depend on time of year. Generally, the numbers are the best during the winter with exhaustion dates being somewhat further away, around the midlde or end of 2011, while summer estimations move towards the earlier 2011 or even 2010. I don't see any evidence about your assertion that the exhaustion estimation date has been getting much further away.

[[citation needed]

It was an online transcript of an interview with Carmack at CES 2007. The original link is now dead, unfortunately, so Wayback Machine to the rescue!

Too bad he didn't build a solar updraft tower instead. Dubai might be worth something.

That's not what I thought of when I read downloading the data. I thought I'd be pointed to an FTP server of huge files or something similar. Instead I've found my way to a map where I can use various graphical means to select which subset of the data I want. There are many limitations with this interface.

Why isn't this data posted to a large archive site where people can freely download more than that GUI allows (or get data in a differently controlled way that facilitates big downloads). Perhaps the Internet Archive can host all of the data and allow such downloading.

To shutdown the Amiga, you turned it off. There was no delay, no Start->Shutdown...wait possibly forever...

The Amiga didn't commit changes to disc synchronously, but it provided no sure-fire way to flush all pending write buffers.

Sliding screens. Why not give each application its own full screen and allow the user to pull down the top menu to slide between these screens.

That was a workaround for low resolution displays with small colour palettes. With 1920x1200, 24bpp displays being common place these days, it's easier to just have applications in windows. Remember that nearly 15 Amiga "hi-res" (640x256 for PAL) screens will fit in on a single desktop these days. And we have virtual desktops and multihead, if you need more than that.

Simple speech device. What could be easier than "LIST > speak:" to say a directory listing?

speechd claims to provide equivalent functionality

Bidirectional linked list filesystem. If you lose a sector or sector link, most of the file could be rebuilt by following links from both ends towards the bad sector. (Disk doctor)

On the other hand, we have RAID1(0), RAID scrubbing and SMART these days. If used correctly, you're less likely to lose a bad sector in the first place. Furthermore, Amiga floppy handling was particularly unsafe; writing a sector caused the whole track to be rewritten, without verification (unless you used TrackSalve to patch trackdisk.device, If you insist, you can always use the affs (Amiga FFS) filesystem under Linux. Thought I'm not a filesystem expert, I suspect that it's been superceded by more modern filesystems.

The keyboard garage. The 1985 Amiga 1000 keyboard tucked neatly under the computer where it didn't take up desk space, was hidden from children's fingers and was spill-proof.

USB rollable waterproof keyboards made out of rubber?

Tight integration of hardware with O.S. O.k. this works against everything we've been taught about abstracting everything but since the PC world has boiled down to little more than an O.S. monopoly, a hardware monopoly and a graphics card monopoly, why not eliminate some of the levels of abstraction that will never be used and make my 2Ghz PC perform every day tasks at least as well as my 7Mhz Amiga did?

And cement those monopolies further and make it hard to expand in the future (cf. the trouble Amigans had to go to to introduce support for 'chunky' graphics devices and 24bpp displays)? No thanks.

Yes Mr. Pedantry, you are correct, but in fairness I used a simile, I did not state that mushrooms gave fire power, but rather things like it. Generalized far enough, mushrooms give power ups is a true statement, that fire power is a power up is also a true statement, so to say that mushrooms give power ups like fire power is actually true, not because mushrooms give fire power, but because the categories and relationships are similar enough (hence, simile).

Oh yes, and you can call me Dr. Pedantry. Here is your assigned reading (Organon I-VI) for winter quarter.

Lastly, there is NOTHING wrong with a biased search engine as long as the people using it understand the bias. Business, environmental, left wing, right wing, socialist, communist, capitalist and what-ever-ists might like to have a search engine that gives them results according to their political views.

Exactly. And it should be the FTC that regulates it, not the FCC. FDR created the FCC to censor political speech under the guise of allocating limited spectrum. Since the Internet is not restricted by limited spectrum, the facade has been thrown off and the FCC is only about censorship in relation to the Internet.

As I've argued before here, bias is good, as long it is disclosed. It was the Progressive Era that ushered in "neutrality", as if there could ever be such a thing, which has only allowed biased views to masquerade as unbiased views.

What is Google's bias? For starters, they should more prominently disclose their association with the federal government. I still remember Google censoring my AdWords in 2002 for "anti-GOP views" (at a time when Bush was leading the U.S. into a an unjust war).

Yea, the Google-DoubleClick acquisition:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070915143243/http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/04/in_role_reversa.html
http://digg.com/business_finance/The_Irony_of_Google_s_acquistion_of_DoubleClick
http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/04/15/google-says-we-gots-money-lets-buy-everybody/
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-theres-no-doubleclick-ad-on.html
http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/google-buys-doubleclick---is-banner-advertising-making-a-comeback/

Anyone remember Yahooligans?

So, are you going to play the current contest?

You could probably find a php-related domain name that's a zombie. It only took me a minute, using random names and whois from a terminal window, to find out that phprocks.com is currently expired and shows as being in the 30-day redemption period (but even that has passed), and will probably become available over the next week once they update the status. It's also about to pass through pending-delete phase, since it expired Nov 7th, 2009. It qualifies for the contest, since it shows up in the wayback machine.

Don't bother using a "domain-name-sniping" service ... just wait until it goes back into the pool (it won't show up in a whois search) and grab it. BTW, you'd be at least the 3rd owner, since the current owner sniped it the previous time it expired.

"If a business or trademark name is "deceptively or intentionally similar" to an established entity, it is technically in violation by definition."

Bing! did purchase bing.biz back in 2001, so I'd say that's prior art, although bing.com has been registered since 1996, but bing.com use to be some kind device that notifies you of cellphone calls(more info) so that certainly wasn't conflicting with a web design site.

I can understand why they'd want to sue, after all whenever you search for bing all you get is the microsoft bing, they're no where to be found.

Interesting. The Wayback machine reveals that during the Australian Period bing.com was a "print your email out and snail mail it" utility.

So, Microsoft could be in trouble, unless (which I doubt) there is a history of use in trade which someone kept track of and eventually sold to Microsoft.

BTW; where is MS IE 8 for OS X?

Well they did try. When it did fail they told users to move to safari

Well, crap. Google says it's still there -- they even have the first part of it cached.

  Oh well, here's a wayback link to back when it was all on one-page.
The War Nerd, on The French

Score one for the French. Proprietary software does not belong on the computer systems of any significant (ie, state or national) government. Access to source code is necessary in order to ensure that secrets remain secret and the software is up to any custom tasks the government might require.

This is a letter written by a representative of Peru's government to a representative of Microsoft in 2002, explaining to MS exactly why the government feels that free software is necessary on their computers. Not only does it provide some insightful reasons as to why they're using FOSS, but you get a chance to laugh at the Microsoft rep's arguments. ;)

You already got one in 2006! And you killed it! No pony for you anymore, young man!

using Wayback Machine to read their first edition of /., not much have changed, more or less the same articles