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I actually work in the nuclear power industry...

So did my grandfather, who was a nuclear chemist at ORNL for several decades.

I encourage you to read the energy from thorium blog and nuclear green. I think you'll find it interesting I too don't think nuclear should replace everything, and that energy diversity is good. I just think that nuclear constantly gets short shrift even though it's a viable option, and has been for several decades.

Internet addiction + electroshock therapy + broadband over power lines = The Matrix?

This could be what we've all been waiting for.

It isn't that big a whoops, especially for free image hosting services.

If they consistently filter legit images, to the point where people feel hassled, it would be an issue, but 1 in 1000 isn't going to hurt them any.

Still, people running free content hosting, of any type, have plenty of other headaches to deal with. Like hiding encoded data in Wikipedia's edit history:

http://pauldotcommunity.blogspot.com/2008/03/hiding-inside-wikipedia.html

Lightsabers are supposed to be closed circuits of energy that are held in shape by a confinement field (possibly the force imbued within the lightsaber crystals upon construction). Presumably it is the force that gives the blade its solid surface. Because lightsaber blades are closed circuits, they recycle their power and expend almost nothing unless they are in contact with a solid surface or another lightsaber. They do not cast shadows and even if they did, you would not be able to see it because the "blade" is microscopic in width. The fat blade that you see is mostly coronal light bleed, not the blade itself. As far as I know, any visible shadow in the films is an editing slip-up cast by the lightsaber prop. As you can see here and here, there are no shadows cast by the blades in the ideally lit Yoda training scene of episode 2, yet you can see the shadows of the lightsaber hilts. None of the Star Wars games that I know of have lightsaber blades that cast shadows either.

Of course it's all fiction and there is no plausible explanation for how one could possibly work in the real world, so the discussion is pointless beyond a fun factor. This is only they way I've come to understand how they work through the films, books and games based in the Star Wars universe.

Blah blah blah.
It obviously has nothing to do with the 15-30 year window before you reach 1:1 parity with energy invested::energy harvested.

Or with the cost of DC transmission.

Or with the potential impact on the weather.

You're right, it has to be Big %insert something you hate here%.
BTW--whatever happened to people complaining about Big GOVERNMENT, hmm? Nobody's complaining about Obama throwing around $800B, spending 20% of it, then claiming it was successful. Or Tim Geithner being willing to continue throwing money at banks for new derivatives that are being issued today.

There are much bigger things to worry about at the moment than "Big Coal".

your sig: New punctuation: "~" at the end of a line to indicate 'Snarky'. http://harns.blogspot.com/

Snarky isn't a word (yet), it's just something made up by Americans. It's not in any print dictionaries. And generally the definition is not well understood, even dict.org doesn't have it. And askoxford and wikitionary have brief and unclear definitions. Also special punctuation for "added clarity", seems like an excuse for people who can't write with clarity. Use your words!

Just about anything but nuclear is a mistake.

You're kidding me. You honestly couldn't manage to go to cinepaint's web page and figure out "click the download button, and double click the file that downloads"?

I did that. And when I launched CinePaint after installation all I got was a CinePaint titlebar, nothing else. I tried to open a photo with it, by ctrl clicking the photo and choosing CinePaint in the Open With dialogue. But it did not open.

Of note btw, while cinepaint is shiny (and easy to install), there's actually better software to do that kind of thing on Macs -- pixelmator for example.

Does pixelmator work with at least 16 bit colour channels, depths? I googled it, and oh surprise a license cost $60. Looking at a comparison between it and Photoshop Elements it looks like PE does more, and I got PE with the scanner I bought. However that comparison doesn't say what it's colour depth is, let's look more. Oh, here we go: "It should be noted that 16 bit raw files when saved out are reduced to 8 bits of color depth so using Pixelmator for JPGs would be fine but if you want to shoot raw I suggest using either the pro-level tools or the software that came with the camera." It only saves 8 bit colour channels? Not that good, at least CinePaint saves at least 16 bit depths. Now let me go over to photo.net and see what people there say about it... Not much, out of thousands of posts it's mentioned only 3 tymes though none of them say how well it works. One does say though that "the screenshots for Pixelmator are apparently created in PhotoShop" and provides a link. CinePaint works well enough to use on a number of movies including "Last Samurai", "Harry Potter", and "Lord of the Rings". And you think pixelmator is better?

Falcon

KDE 4.0, Amarok 2.0, and now Koffice 2.0 were all developer releases. KDEHater had a great writeup here:
http://kdehater.blogspot.com/2009/06/koffice-two-point-oh-no.html

Whoops. Get educated, now with fewer typos. I'm sure that you'll get pissy and stop reading because he's mean, no matter how right he is, but hey. He's the originator of the term "freetard," and his examples are awesome: people like you who try to pooh-pooh proprietary software--proprietary software that does it better--because of ridiculous and silly assertions, because it's not "free" (and while you did not use the term your leading to that point is transparent).

Get educated.

...for them to just give up like that. Scuttling programs with no real replacement.

Haven't heard of the Collapse? Haven't even noticed that food prices have doubled in the past year with many nutritional items going off the shelf or being replaced with high-fructose, high-subsidy corn syrup or high-subsidy, high-pesticide soy?

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENCA260&q=peak+oil+collapse

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/

(I bet a lot of you assumed that the Internet would be there forever, as well...)

If iTunes is such a great application, how come it isn't a choice?

iTunes is a choice. It does not come preinstalled on any Windows PCs so if Windows users wants to use they have to download and install it, and millions have exercised that choice. It's a choice on Macs too. Yes it is preinstalled on Macs however when I upgraded from Tiger and installed Leopard I didn't have to install iTunes. I did on the primary drive in my Mac but I also created a bootable USB Flash drive, in case of emergencies, without it. And if I want to play my music CDs on my Mac I do not have to use iTunes either. Audacity is an open source audio editing software that runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows.

So can you explain where the lock-in occurs? Or are you spreading FUD?

Falcon

Perhaps Canada is a leading the way on fees for once? (see bullet 6)

I have decidedly mixed feelings about Areca's controllers as well. The performance has been good, but the management situation has been awful. I wrote about some of my problems that popped up after the first time I lost a drive on my blog. If you get one of the cards that uses the network management port as the UI for doing things, supposedly that's better than what I went through, but that still makes for a painful monitoring stack. Compare to the 3ware cards I've been using recently, where it only took a couple of minutes to setup smartmontools to watch the drive health and I moved on.

A link to the announcement from Google.

When I read 2.190-2.193, the impression I get is "you can kill people who try to kill you,", especially given 2.192. That seems like a reasonable thing, and certainly not "go kill people who aren't Muslims".

I knew you would correctly point out the context is war. This war is against unbelievers, infidels, us specificly.

If you listen to the British Mullah Mr. Anjum Chaudri when asked if he supports the actions of his brothers to kill innocents, he indicates that he will always stand with his brothers no matter what their position is.

As far as the other quote, I'm not sure there's enough context to properly judge the sentiment there.

That's all the context there is. The Quran is like that in many places. 4.89 seems to indicate that you are in the same position as we are because you are rejecting their Jihad against us. To the "true" believers you appear to "desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved," in 4.89. This is a dangerous position.

But I remember reading an interview with an Iranian cleric whose brother is secular. His reply was lengthy and surprisingly rational; here's an excerpt.

We will only fight those who are enemies of humanity, those who humiliate others, abuse them, make mental and physical slaves of them, or think of them as lesser beings.

I believe that as human beings, we should worship and praise our creator. But this service to God shouldn't be of the kind that harms others. For example, you can say that you're secular, that you don't believe in a god, and you don't believe in worship. You don't think it's required of you. So your ideology is different. But based on this, we will never clash with each other. Whoever truly understands Islam will never wage war against you for not believing. This is why I will never have a conflict with my brother.

However, if someone's ideology says that I am a lesser person, that he rules over me, or he's my boss, we will probably clash with each other.

He says the same thing as the British Mullah "I will never have conflict with my brother." Yikes, that can not right. What if your brother flies a plane into large buildings? How does that get justified? Answer: I've heard Mullahs say that there are no innocents so it's perfectly ok to take these actions. Therefore, we must be "those who are enemies of humanity, those who humiliate others, abuse them, make mental and physical slaves of them, or think of them as lesser beings," otherwise they wouldn't attack us.

I'm assuming you're not one who would be happy at the thought of killing Muslims, but I assure you there are plenty of folks in the US who think Muslims are a pretty awful bunch; my own father says they are like pitbulls - the pitbulls are bred to fight and the Muslims are bred to hate America. Like those who would call us the Great Satan, Islamophobes are just confused sheep who listened to the wrong person when forming an opinion.

I'm just listening to Mullahs and they are very clear in their statements, which seem to agree with the scriptures. The bottom line is that they are at war with us, millions shout "Death to America." School children write essays on the subject and are raised to be the "pitbulls" you describe above. If you disagree with them they will eventually come for you.

You'll either have to take back your religion and concentrate on the Great Jihad, the struggle of self. Or, fight them.

Realistically, how hard would it be to include an OFF switch on the external interface used for doctor diagnostics?

I mean, for pete sake people, what possible gain would there be in trying to break into a mechanical leg?

Can you take any part of that to the bank? There is no money to follow. There is no information to gain.

Do you see anyone hacking your IP Oven, or you IP Coffee maker? http://workingmomwa.blogspot.com/2008/06/coffee-maker-needs-security-update.html

How does an interface to a prosthetic limb somehow suggest a "mine whipe". Does my pedicure predict a lobotomy?

Come on, people. There is some fool snickering somewhere that the drunken brainstorm he posted somewhere has actually morphed into a story on Slashdot.

Wrong
Wrong
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Hmm. How constructive.

While you might actually be correct when we're talking about the majority of cases, in this case I believe you are wrong on all points. The NYT article on the subject (which was linked from a certain well known blog referenced in a recent slashdot discussion (pretty recent, huh?) asserts that "In interviews the artist said that it was one he had found on the Internet." Stop me if I'm wrong, but Fairey doesn't seem like an incompetent to me; I think he's capable of recognizing the photo credit that typically accompanies an AP photo. I clearly am not a lawyer, but I think it's relevant that he likely understands the concept of copyright fairly well. Of course, whether he had the right to utilize that image for this purpose is not something to be decided on Slashdot.

Maybe Mr. Garcia is lying, but given what he has said about the use of the image, it might have been both trivial, and also very inexpensive or even nonexpensive to secure the rights to distribute a derivative work based on it. We'll never know now, I guess. I'm not sure what your primary counterargument is, perhaps it's that the image is iconic? Well, sure, it's iconic now. But maybe I'm attacking straw men here, it's just the argument I've seen used most often in this thread.

When I read 2.190-2.193, the impression I get is "you can kill people who try to kill you,", especially given 2.192. That seems like a reasonable thing, and certainly not "go kill people who aren't Muslims".

As far as the other quote, I'm not sure there's enough context to properly judge the sentiment there. But I remember reading an interview with an Iranian cleric whose brother is secular. His reply was lengthy and surprisingly rational; here's an excerpt.

We will only fight those who are enemies of humanity, those who humiliate others, abuse them, make mental and physical slaves of them, or think of them as lesser beings.

I believe that as human beings, we should worship and praise our creator. But this service to God shouldn't be of the kind that harms others. For example, you can say that you're secular, that you don't believe in a god, and you don't believe in worship. You don't think it's required of you. So your ideology is different. But based on this, we will never clash with each other. Whoever truly understands Islam will never wage war against you for not believing. This is why I will never have a conflict with my brother.

However, if someone's ideology says that I am a lesser person, that he rules over me, or he's my boss, we will probably clash with each other.

I'm assuming you're not one who would be happy at the thought of killing Muslims, but I assure you there are plenty of folks in the US who think Muslims are a pretty awful bunch; my own father says they are like pitbulls - the pitbulls are bred to fight and the Muslims are bred to hate America. Like those who would call us the Great Satan, Islamophobes are just confused sheep who listened to the wrong person when forming an opinion.

I went back to AP's answer and counterclaim to see what they had to say about why they felt they had the copyright to Garcia's photo. They said he was a "staff photographer".

If I were a judge reading that, I would assume they meant that he was an employee of AP. Garcia says he is not an employee, but an independent contractor. Since his allegations are specific while theirs is vague, I would assume he is telling the truth.

. I'm already on it. Look, here's the latest news from Uranus: Bruno & Senile Mice. .

you might enjoy this article (or perhaps you've already read it?): http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html

I know I did.

Gaming.

yes gaming

the judge is telling them to provide financial data on the specific songs that the RIAA has claimed were illegally distributed, to which they have made an outrageous claim of value and loss of revenue. They opened the door to this, not the defendant

Actually the judge isn't up to the "excessiveness" issue yet; she ruled that she will revisit that issue only if and when the RIAA gets a jury verdict for statutory damages. Her ruling ordering production of the revenue information relates strictly to the fair use defense:

However, because the Court has held discovery open on fair use, discovery requests on this subject served prior to June 22, 2009, the deadline set by the Court, are treated as timely. See Revised Scheduling Order at 5 (document # 850). Yet even here the Defendant's late-breaking effort to add the fair use defense, and the imminent trial date reaffirmed today by the parties, necessarily limits the breadth of the available discovery. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(b)(2)(C). Thus, to the extent that Interrogatories 2, 3, and 8 seek information related to the fair use analysis under 17 U.S.C. 107(4) (requiring consideration of "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work") , the Court will permit some investigation. By July 10, 2009, the Plaintiffs shall provide the Defendant with yearly estimates, beginning in 1999, of the revenues generated by their copyrights in the specific songs for which they intend to prove infringement at trial. They should separate physical and digital music sales and should provide Defendant with a description of the methodology used to arrive at these figures. The Court will reconsider the need for discovery on any issues relating to actual damages if and when the Defendant's constitutional challenge becomes ripe -- i.e., should the jury award damages against him." (Gaudet, Jennifer)

I am working on an UI right now that is inspired by Apple, and yes--it's based on Linux.

The long term goal is to put together an operating system. The short term goal is to create a intuitive, zooming user interace.

http://brevityos.blogspot.com/

Ever notice an SSID for "Free Public WiFi" just pop up while you're at your place of work?

When I first saw these, I assumed "someone got infected with some trojan which sets them up to pretend to be an open WiFi either to do a man-in-the-middle attack, or to infect my system with some kind of worm."

After a bit of digging, I discovered that this was actually not malicious, but was a viral-like spread due to some strange way that one of the MS Operating systems was handling ad-hoc wireless connections.

Here's a 2006 advisory on the issue
http://www.nmrc.org/pub/advise/20060114.txt

Here's a less technical explanation (in case you have to convert it to "boss speak")
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/01/ad-hoc-wifi-virus.html

So, pretty much everyone says it's harmless.

However, my initial suspicians (about MitM or worm infections) could easily be made to come true, and anyone who google'd it would say "oh, I guess it's that 2006 thing, no worries"

Of course, being an ad-hoc node, it'll be kinda obvious to most geeks... and of course, most geeks would probably make sure they were tunneling or otherwise using the network safely anyhow.

John Q. Public on the other hand? hoo boy. ... AND it doesn't help that so many products, in the name of making things easier on John Q. Public, will just auto-associate when they see an available connection.

I don't really know where I'm going with all this except to say "Never trust any network outside your own, never EVER trust the Interwebs, and only trust your own network as far as you have to in order to make things work... especially if you're not the only one using it.", but you knew that already.

Probably because of Flash's market share. Silverlight is more technologically advanced however.

This may be, but you still shouldn't be allowed in a jury if your mind is already made up on your verdict, or you are unwilling to listen to the facts of this individual case. A jury verdict shouldn't be about your single opinion on an issue.

Wrong, juries are a check on an overbearing government.

Here are a couple of quotes from some Founding Fathers of the USA:
Thomas Jefferson:
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
First Chief Justice John Jay:
"'You have a right to take upon yourselves to judge [both the facts and law]"

There are more quotes.

Falcon

8.6 compatibility is very good... so far. I'm testing the browser on my Cube, a Bondi iMac (running 8.6) and a Performa 6400 (ditto). It's definitely faster than Mozilla, Netscape, and WamCom, and fairly stable. Only certain sites make it crash, such as Alltop (if you hover over a link), and it has some rendering and scrolling bugs (such as on Blogspot). But on the whole, it's much more stable than the older browsers. And Slashdot no longer crashes either :)

I jumped on as a tester fairly early in the project; discussion started on the OS 9 list sponsored by Low End Mac about a modernized browser for the classic OS; as I still use my OS 9- running Cube daily, and got tired of WamCom crashing on me.

Likewise, your fifth citation regards dynamic classes. The other post was about dynamic methods. A dynamic class means you can create a new class at run time. A dynamic method means you can create a new method for an existing class at run time. While there's certainly similarity between the two, they're just as certainly not the same thing.

To give a really simplified (but hopefully not to the point that's it's actively misleading) explanation: for Java, think of a grid with classes along one axis, and interfaces along the other axis. A dynamic proxy class lets you put an 'X' at a more or less arbitrary box in that grid, setting up the connections so that class implements that interface. On the C# side, think of a class as having a row of boxes, one for each method in that class. A dynamic method allows you to add an entirely new box to the row, so it now has a method that didn't previously exist at all.

Unfortunately, if the method for that "box" is really completely new, you won't have other code that knows how to use it, and it won't necessarily accomplish a lot. One obvious use is about like in Java, to add methods that some existing code already knows how to use. OTOH, it certainly is possible to use it other ways. For one example, another program sends some previously unknown message, and you connect things up so that message ends up invoking your entirely new function. Taken to an extreme, you could define your "program" as little more than a tiny framework, for defining functions and connecting them to be invoked by messages (collecting appropriate data from dynamically generated forms).

Why NASA bothered with the Saturn I [wikipedia.org] or the Saturn IB [wikipedia.org] when they could have just waited until the Saturn V was built and then done everything after that shows what a waste of tax dollars NASA is.

Do you seriously think the Saturn I or IB are at all comparable to the Ares I-X? I mean, I'm certainly not against flight tests in general -- I think the Ares I-Y is useful, as it will test the 5-segment booster, one of the biggest question-marks about the Ares I. The Ares I-X is almost entirely PR, though. Ironically, it's looking like the Ares I-X schedule slips may result in the Ares I-Y being postponed/canceled.

Yeah, TFA doesn't list them, but they did link to the page that does.

What companies is Google working with to support Google Chrome OS?
The Google Chrome OS team is currently working with a number of technology companies to design and build devices that deliver an extraordinary end user experience. Among others, these companies include Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.

We have similar goals with our project Clearsite.sourceforge.net. We've learned our lessons and think we can begin taking on the likes of SolarWinds, OSSIM, ZenOss, SpiceWorks etc... We made the mistake of being to geared toward one vendor(cisco) but no longer. We're making the software work for us, were not working with the software. Crating a Snort interface that highlights the portion of the packet that trips the content rule, being able to note FP's, highlight the portion that's a FP in the packet, and it's added to the rule once you click submit. Some user-agent rule goes off, but it's your own app, highlight the user-agent your app uses, click submit and content:!"user-agent: xyz"; gets added to a display filter and or the actual sig itself. A snort rule is triggered for Bittorrent being used, a cron job connects via wmi, snmp or ssh to a host, runs a netstat -abn effectively and figures out the process and location of the executable that triggered the rule, or the lack of being able to get such a result back might further point to a FP or a machine not under your control. If no contact, check the mac address db to see if it's one of yours, if not, snmp set fa0/22 disable. Proactive. Naturally there are more checks and balances in there, but that's where were heading with just the snort portion. Again making the software work for us. As always we'll use our very popular ajax search for everything we can. http://clearsite.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=3 -rich (google: xinn.org contact)

Bill Gates is Microsoft and Microsoft is Bill Gates http://coretanimtihan.blogspot.com/

"Pay no attention to those things that look like missiles, they're REALLY a mix of lasers and machine guns"

So what would be so hard about making it look like this? It's a Catapult (basically the Madcat w/ no arms), but it still shows my point. Basically, instead of rendering large box missile pods, just put laser cannons on the shoulders.

Personally, I prefer the "do whatever you want" instead of "missile a, b, or c for generic box on the shoulder" because it lets you play around more and experiment.

This isn't about the PC market. It's about the emerging post-PC market. Google is creating a new application distribution market as well as expanding their mobile advertising business. The Chrome OS appears to be very similar to Android. If so, then comparisons to traditional PC operating systems and traditional marketing will really not apply. This is about enabling the cell phone contract model to netbooks.

Uh, Google did?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. "
" and we'll soon be working with the open source community, "

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-os-faq.html
"Later this year, the Google Chrome OS code will be open sourced. "

Uh, Google did?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. "
" and we'll soon be working with the open source community, "

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-os-faq.html
"Later this year, the Google Chrome OS code will be open sourced. "

Like this?

I thought I wanted something like that - but in the end I went for a Garmin Foretrex 101 and a solar AAA battery charger.

What really excites me about the new Google Chrome OS is the security aspect. As Google said on their official blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html:

And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

The Chrome web browser has been a complete revelation in terms of security with a track record of no security problems whatsoever. Since they are building Chrome OS on top of Linux then "completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS" presumably means redesigning the security architecture of Linux. Since Linux is GPL then clearly Linus will be able to accept all of Google's changes and redesigns and then Linux will have no security flaws ever again. I'm quite sure Linus will be delighted to do so.

It would be such a joy to have an OS that never needs a security update and I'm delighted that Google will implement one.

Google really are ever so kind and generous in doing this for the world.

It's here. I think this is the original news source.

Are you kidding. GPS is just wreaking of bells-and-whistles that GM/Toyota will never satisfy. Until they put a hole in the dash for 3rd party engine rewiring, then the accessory market will thrive, especially in GPS evolution.

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Speedlimits
New Android app needs your help.
The Future.

The land behind Walmart will soon become valuable.

After you buy at walmart, ask your netbook where you can buy some fresh berries, and it will show a 50% off coupon for the next 10 minutes along with reviews so you know the mechant is real and open for biz. Then you will discover hes located in a iff-ey neighborhood behind your Walmart, but its daytime so what the heck, you give it a go. If it went ok, you write a review which is published in 1 minute and others join you. Its a beautiful migration out of the big stores, a risky endeavour, but an exciting hunting expedition.

This will jumpstart mom and pops and give the feds new people to tax. ;-).

BTW, I use a Speederaser to avoid speeding. I also contribute to an open source speed limit database called Wikispeedia. I hope you will contribute there.

-jim

Blog

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January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.

On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.

As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.

Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.

Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.

Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.

Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.

The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.

Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.

Across the way, Emad pulled his tiny Iranian dick out from betwee

January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.

On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.

As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.

Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.

Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.

Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.

Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.

The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.

Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.

Across the way, Emad pulled his tiny Iranian dick out from betwee

First of all, nobody seems to appreciate how goddamn hard it is to make an operating system. You don't just wake up one day and fall out of bed and make one. Not even the smarty pants kiddies at Google can do that. These things take years. Decades, even. Ours started out 20 years ago, at NeXT. You could say it goes back to 1977, with the BSD guys. Heck, you could even say it goes back to 1969 with Dennis Thompson and Lionel Ritchie. Even Windows is -- what? Twenty years old? Something like that. For that matter, look at Linux. Correct me if I'm wrong -- and I'm sure you fucking freetards will find something to correct -- but I think Linus Tordalv started working on Linux back in 1991 when he was a high school student in his native Denmark. That's nearly twenty years ago, and the shit still doesn't run right.

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Ugh! Why won't this myth die?

Because ignorance never dies Rei.

Next time you run across an idiot that spouts the death of birds, simply show them some napkin-math that calculates 1,000,000 birds die each year by (ready for this?)...Cats...in the USA alone!

Sometimes, you just gotta point, laugh, and accept nature is in balance =)