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Now they've even come up with a device that will help them to control the population.

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...what Microsoft would do with these pages.

...what Microsoft would do with these pages.

Bill Gates, exposed just a year ago as a ruthless and less-than-candid corporate predator, is today the King of the Corporate Republic, the CEO of Internet, Inc.

Like the article says, a year is long time in computing. A long time before this press conference.
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No they'd make money from it. Didn't you see the latest announcement about ActiveDeath on the Xbox?

Ummm, until your favorite packet sniffer starts decoding stuff like this on the fly. After all, if your email reader can decode it, what's to stop anyone else from decoding it? This is about as useful as Microsoft's Obscurity server.

Yeah, I know what you mean. If I want to read BBSpot, I can go there.

I'm gonna set up a script to scan other news sites and submit their articles to Slashdot. Then maybe at least I'll get karma for it.
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The licensing could be a bitch, but check out their cure!
http://bbspot.com/News/2000/12/ms_cancer.html



Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

Actually this brings new meaning to the bbspot article:

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/12/ms_cancer.html (Office 10 will cure cancer).

Well, Linux is about freedom of knowledge. It's the liberty. As a nature of humans on earth, not borg, we must defend it to the very last drip of our blood. Thus, we don't want others to steal it and seize it for their own. We know that M$ always use this dirty strategy is used by Microsoft as a part of its plot in world domination. GNU/Linux/OSS are immune to this so-called "embrace-and-extend" thing. No wonder this Balmer guy (or any M$ cohort) tries dissing Linux in every event.

P.S.: Linux does help in solving cancer. And how 'bout Microsoft? Read here muhahaha...

Good call, I'd mod you up if I had the points.

But I don't, sadly...

I've always argued that it doesn't really have to matter to Linux users if MS survives, grow, shrinks, or starts breeding monkeys. We're using Linux because we see the benefits to it, we get faster internet connections (at least I've noticed with my cable modem), we have much more attractive desktops and are not faced with AOL "free trial" icons every time we install new software, we don't have to reboot all the time or pay for expensive software, and we have much more secure systems.

Linux doesn't look at software as an industry. The idea behind it is that we can use it if we want, for no charge. If operating systems were parks, Linux would let you bring your dog, move a picnic table, have a cookout, even invite 200 of your closest friends for a party on its lawn. Windows would charge $250 at the entrance or $90 if you could prove you'd been there before (and there's only one entrance in the Windows park, if you don't count the holes), only one of you could be in at a time, you couldn't move anything, or look too closely at the grass, and if you tried to have too much fun it would freeze and you'd land on your ass outside the fence.

That's the best analogy I could come up with. But you see, it doesn't matter if your boss wants to use MS software. So use it, that's what they pay you for. If you can convince him/her of the benefits of a Linux solution, then that's great for your company, but that's as far as it goes. Even if 99% of the world uses Windows, Linux won't die, because it's not dependant on sales -- it's made by people who want to use it, not by people who get a check every time somebody else uses it.

the story obviously belongs on /. because:

- JWZ bought the club so it's going to be cool and technical and have little in common with the old DNA lounge.
- linux terminals are used
- there is a detailed, technical description of how they are made
- the article in question is several months old
- CowboyNeal [uh, time to leave the basement...]

also, as a reminder, having the word "Linux" in it is a perfectly good reason to post something on /.
if you don't like it, look for real news on the Onion or bbspot (both recommended).

laters,
nik

You've all probably seen this already, but you may be interested in the /. Random Story Generator

Here. I guess Jobs was just trying to mislead us earlier.



Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

Taiwanians, being famous for their overclocking fenzy, made water-cooler for CPU years ago:

... I saw this exact topic months ago here.

Scooby Dooby

"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
Samuel Goldwyn

I remember reading this on "SlashDot" weeks ago :)

I saw this article a few days ago on BBSpot.com. I'm an avid reader of both yet I have to side with Brian for posting his originally.

Most importantly, as a Monty Python fan, how do you feel about the treatment of fellow programmer Jared Blanks?

They really had something, especially when those videos were teamed up with my Fleshtonic video card. You just gotta get one.


Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

The sort of willfully ignorant, nonsensical, masturbatory blather that if I enjoyed, I'd be reading Kuro5hin (and compulsively talking about how I don't read Slashdot) instead of reading Slashdot.

Thanks, Michael. For a better read, here's BBSpot on Kuro5hin.

Unsettling MOTD at my ISP.

In the films, sometimes, hackers actually get laid. This never happens in real life and is a real misrepresentetion of the hacker culture.

More info on this here...

"People get scared when they hear the word Apocalypse"

Some people get scared when they hear the word Perl...

Its too late. Microsoft Office 10 is already slated to cure cancer.

BBspot Interviews Apple CEO Steve Jobs

this reminds me of the immortal Dilbert comic where the boss walks in from some idiot leadership meeting and suggests they install a "SQL". Dilbert then (knowing his boss doesn't kown diddly) asks him if he already knows in which color he wants the server ... which of course makes things for the pointy-haired boss *very* -if not to- complicated...
the point to the whole story is the joke about the colors isn't so absurd anymore...

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Here is an author approved mirror of the article.

Foot and mouth http://bbspot.com/outlook.html

No, it missed!

.....when all Apple are really concerned about is the packaging design!

Mir hit a Taco Bell in Sydney and killed four people.

Heh. Top this.

....Tests show 99.99% high school seniors can't read Perl.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

In the news today, a local overclocker and avid QuakeIII player died in an accident when his AMD Megatron 100,000,000 GHz suddenly overheated and self destructed.

Fellow gamer, who goes by the name "1337", was in a game at the time that the accident occured. "The last thing I remember he was up about 15,000 frags, and boasting about how he was getting 2,000,000 FPS on his machine." 1337 said. "Then suddenly he disappeared. Served him right, he had an unfair advantage."

Experts who have been investigating the accident have managed to peice together a probable chain of events. "From what we can figure, a pump failed in the cooling tower that he had in the back yard, and caused the chip to overheat" claims Cho Man Foo, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the many expert quantum phyiscs experts called in to reconstruct the chain of events. "He may have survived the incident," states Mr. Foo, "except when the chip detonated, it started a chain reaction that caused the magnetic shiels around his Segate black hole quantum hard drive to collapse, imediatly consuming everything within 500 feet."

Pictures of the aftermath can be found here.

In related events, LAN party co-ordinators have been advised to postpone all further gatherings untill a meathod of confirming that no overclocked machines be used in game meetings. AMD and motherboard maker ASUS will be taking steps to insure that further incidents will not happen. In the next version of their products, the clock multipliers will be locked at the factory, hopefully preventing further injuries from their products. Also, tobacco giant Phillip Morris is suing AMD, claiming that the chips cause danger to their large customer base, and they could potentially loose a large number of customers if there was to be a major accident.

Related articles:

Overclocker Creats Rift in Space-Time Continuum

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

An estimated one-third of all shopping cart applications at Internet retailing sites have software holes that make them vulnerable to the price switching scam said Peggy Weigle, chief executive of Sanctum, a security software company in Santa Clara, Calif.

Of course Peggy will sell you software to prevent this from happening.

This stat is also misleading. 1/3 of the number of sites might be vulnerable, but I doubt that 1/3 of all online purchases are vulnerable to this type of tampering. Joe Schmoe's T-Shirts may be vulnerable, but I doubt you can do this on Amazon.

Verisign will retain permanent control of the .com registry (they were supposed to separate the registry and registrar businesses), long-term control of .NET (plenty of time to

I disagree that everyone is using MS products because there isn't something else. Have you ever tried to setup a 50 year old dial up customer who has never touched a computer in his life? I wouldn't bother if they didn't use Windows. I have to tell them whether to do one click or two, right click or left click. Can you imagine them trying to walk them through a pnpdump and setup eth0? (actually I have no idea how to setup dial up on linux, so Im comparing with LAN) And what if they are running Joe-Schmoe distrobution, do they use debian like packages or RPM? Because of the microsoft ease of use and huge market I can remember the setup on 4 versions as compared with this type of linux satire

The random slashdot story generator! It's too funny. Complete with bad grammar!
plain text for those of you afraid of a goatse.cx link..
http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html

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I was working on a flat tax proposal and I accidentally proved there's no god.

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I was working on a flat tax proposal and I accidentally proved there's no god.

This just in...

Maybe I will write a Perl program to post that comment to Slashdot about every article that comes up. I'll call it "first_post.pl" It will do constant HTTP GET's of the webserver, and post that comment right away whenever there is a new article. I will be the first-post king!

If you tie it in with this, you'll never have to bother with Slashdot at all.

Today Dell ships a copy of Office 2000 that will run forever

Ahhhh.....But will it do what my version of Office does???

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What else is all over the planet, and in the same size everywhere?

Try: Larry Ellisons Ego

I found this last night on BBSpot. It's a Random Slashdot story generator. Good for about 10 good laughs, about 3 deja-vu experiences, and for fooling that gullible newbie about 4 times...

Apollogies if this was on slashdot already, I must have missed it.

Someone needs to write a perl script to take this story, and s/x/y/g the names and technologies, and then feed every company and technology into it.

I know it's been mentioned before, but there's something better-- it covers far more than just patent lawsuits. That's right, folks, the slashdot story generator.