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Sure is a good thing that Linux doesn't have this problem.

BBSpot reported on this ages ago!

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/05/intel_virus_cop rocessor.html

http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html my two favs :p (sorry, I could have sworn they were Onion when I went to google them.. nonetheless)

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html my two favs :p (sorry, I could have sworn they were Onion when I went to google them.. nonetheless)

Hmm. If you want fun, try this: http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html. It oftens generates far better stuff than Slashdot does. :)

"We Didn't Stop Atari" By Francisco Rangel

(To the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel)

Harry Potter, Pokemon, Tomb Raider, Digimon
Monkey Island, Space Invaders, Super Mario
Maniac Mansion, Zero Mission, Mortal Kombat, Pole Position
Grand Theft Auto, Ninja Gaiden, Pong and Yu-gi-oh

Megaman, Depth Bomb, Asteroids, Robotron
Tetris, and Army Men, River Raid, and Suikoden
Castlevania, Kirby, Demolition Derby
Dragon Warrior, LEGO Racers, Yoshi's Island, Gauntlet

I really miss Atari. From when I was younger, Now the games are longer
So, I still play Nintendo. Like to keep it old-skool, 8-bit's always so cool

South Park Rally, Harvest Moon, Jungle Hunt and Zoo Tycoon
Double Dragon, Puyo Puyo, NBA Jam
Duck Hunt, Tony Hawk, Chrono Trigger, Chuck Rock
Q*Bert, Sonic, Worms, and Serious Sam

Half-life, Max Payne, Zak McKraken, and Bloodrayne
Onimusha, Sam and Max, Age of Empires, Golden Axe
Home run, Outer Space, Prince of Persia, Death Race
Alley Cat, Paperboy, Sinistar, SimCity

I used to love my gameboy
First they made it Color, Then they made is smaller
My portable companion
It has been enhanced now, So it's called "Advance" now

Bomberman, Burning Fight, Killer Instinct, Gyromite
Frogger, Basketball, Day of the Tentacle
Solitaire, and Sim Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ice Climber, and Descent, and Unreal Tournament

There's Street Fighter, Zaxxon, Duke Nukem, Mafia
Need for Speed, Halo, Turok: Evolution
Rampage, Deus Ex, and that BMXXX
Metroid Prime and Fusion, Dance Dance Revolution

Genesis made by Sega. 16 bits of power Made Nintendo cower
They made Super Nintendo. Neither one was hated, Neither dominated

Leisure Suit Larry, Project Gotham Racing
Punchout, Zork, Doom, Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Legend of Kyrandia, DOA Beach Volleyball
Dig Dug, Nethack, Contra and Plaque Attack
Zelda, Moon Patrol, Battlezone and Star Control
Zero Wing, Baldur's Gate, FIFA Soccer 98

The 3D Revolution. First we saw Playstation, Our infatuation
N64 and Dreamcast. Came along to fight it, But they couldn't smite it

Splinter Cell, Ms. Pac Man, Donkey Kong is back again
Warcraft, Starcraft, Centipede, Xybots
Pitfall, Pengo, Burger Time, 3D Castle Wolfenstein
Ninja Turtles in Japan, Roger Wilco needs a tan.

Hogan's Alley, Excitebike, Quest For Glory, Counter-strike
Ultima, 7th Guest, Quake, Joust, Everquest
Klax, Defender, Earthworm Jim, The Incredible Machine
Final Fantasy, and Loom, I have no space in my room

New consoles are arriving. GameCube, PS2, We've got Xbox,too
New consoles will be coming. But when these are gone
We will still play on and on and on and on...

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/06/stop_atari.html

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/05/bbspot_labs_ice _drive.html

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/11/mailbag_2004111 7.html

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/05/bbspot_labs_ice _drive.html

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/11/mailbag_2004111 7.html

whatever happened to "request a feature" button... Now were gonna need a "plant a rumor" button...

That's what the BBSpot Slashdot Story Generator is for. Sooner or later, one of these will get through per year, then several, or not. I note Dupe-A-Mania has been somewhat less of late than the early summer high.

Google needs a "stop and shore up what you already have" button before they spread out thinner than a supermodel with a fresh supply of laxatives.

If you're a real console gamer, you need the Radeon 9500 ASC.

Hell, even Microsoft isn't that evil

Yes.

...as a factual news site!

Following Microsoft's inclusion of a real red screen of death in Longhorn/Vista/Foo, yet another perfectly good piece of satire is rendered pointless by real news.

Maybe BBspot should market itself as a prescient news source rather than a humour site.

...as a factual news site!

Following Microsoft's inclusion of a real red screen of death in Longhorn/Vista/Foo, yet another perfectly good piece of satire is rendered pointless by real news.

Maybe BBspot should market itself as a prescient news source rather than a humour site.

I feel almost sad for my nigerian spammer alter-ego

But you neglected to mention this.

Actually, the details of Bill Gates' attack monkeys are already well known.

According to BBSpot, we already have smarter-than-human computers ;)

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/08/computer_intell igence.html

argh! it could be straight out of the sloashdot story generator

"...but it's bound to have a stupid name."

This makes me think that http://bbspot.com/News/2000/4/MS_Buys_Evil.htmlthi s is maybe more true than I thought originally.

Aside: (but related), I wonder, has anyone ever investigated, researched, done any benchmarks about how many/what percentage of CPU cylces are allocated just for virus checking (and other security checks)?

Article says 4 GHz...

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/05/intel_virus_cop rocessor.html

It's obviously Gungle.

Maybe it'll be released using this new license!

http://bbspot.com/News/2000/6/php_suspend.html

Yes ...

I reckon they got taken in by this BBSpot spoof which I remembered from ages ago: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/01/exercise.html

Or maybe BBSpot somehow stumbled on the truth?! If so, truth really is stranger than fiction!

I've emailed the author at BBSpot, although it's four years on,

When I feel that way, I simply go to my happy place.

We should use the API's to generate automatic stories on slashdot.
Ofcourse, generated stories will be rejected if it does not contain certain keywords or dupes. So I propose combining this with Slashdot random story generator

BBspot had an article on this long ago

Grump

"Via google news, whilst doing butt-clenches, feeling guilty having had extra marmalade on my toast this morning, I found an article at MSNBC...

In future, please just give us the relevant links. The editors around here are so bad they don't even notice people giving out about them. Editors sans narcissism, what will they think of next?

Is it just me.. or do all OSes do this?

Can you clarify... which OS are you?

Oh, and thank you for not using the term OSen :-)

Exactly. You can replace "emergency" with just about anything else (financial, educational, etc.) and likely have a valid, completely new patent with little modification.

I'm vaguely reminded of the Simpson's episode where Homer asks Bart and Lisa to combine two words to make an invention. Although I don't really see an automatic butt being inventable, it seems that if you cover anything in enough patentese the USPTO gives it the green light.

Screw prior art bounties. I'll even whore myself out to raise enough money to reward the first person that gets something patented from the output of an automatic patent generator--see the BBspot Slashdot Story Generator for an example of how ridiculously easy this might be.

Use the Slashdot story generator and your story is sure to be accepted.

you mean like this one

It even has the spelling errors!
Posted by brian on Wed April 13, 03:24 PM
from the have fun hitting reload page dept.
Cityslicker asks "I used to be a coder fro Cisco until I got laid off three months ago. Now that I have some free time I'd like to spend it finding a way to stop global terrorism. I've thought about rounding up some immature creationists to use them as alligator food. Do you think this would be helpful? Have any other Slashdotters had any experience in this area, or are most of you just interested in overthrowing the government? I'd love to haer your ideas."

http://bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/

Admit it. You would swear you're looking at a real slashdot story :)

What about using it for slashdot? Train it on slashdot stories and replace the editors. Done right, this should not only reduce spelling errors, but also misleading front page content.

Hasn't this already been done?

Wow... Imagine a beowulf of those. Probably turn out something like this...

Yes but they must be careful with their brand recognition. I recognize verizon as that infernal "Can you hear me now?" phrase and will not touch it with a 10 foot pole. Stupid idiots, why do you go out of your way to annoy me and turn me off to your products? http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/02/verizon_tumor.h tml

Slashdot Story Generator only they one the editors have is better, because it actually links to real stories.

... the Random slashdot story generator

So Microsoft has just bought France to go along with their acquisition of evil?
Sounds like a matched set to me.

You'd better read this.

... for a second I thought I clicked on the "Slashdot Story Generator" by mistake!

It can be pretty funny though, like it is here.

See here for a laugh: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/03/google_guns.htm l

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