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I'm at work. I could be monitored any time.

Links like that are diabolical.

maybe i said that because, *gasp*, i really did expect that mentioning FreeBSD as a valuable source of potential design information for Linux would cross religious barriers, and get me marked as flamebait.

Impossible you think? Then look at the maturity which exudes from your reply to my message, and think about what you've added to the /. community. The answers, in case you missed them, are both negative. And that's *really* common, especially among the karma whores who play the /. game very well, as long as the goal isn't the disemmination of useful information or the creation of interesting dialogue. I'm referring instead to the people who think that a goatse.cx or rotten.com link is the coolest thing on the planet.
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It's like when Hemos misspelled Babel Fish in a story.
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)
TIP: If the URL is valid, the link will be black on the preview (you've been there) instead of blue-green (you haven't).

That's not bad karma. Bad karma is when you get moderated up despite a Goatse.cx link.

Is there something fundamentally different about online businesses that mean that they seem to feel that they can avoid the law? Without meaning to put them down, it does seem like a disproportionate number of them have run into conflict with the legal system, and especially when it comes to the area of copyright.

Whilst we all agree that copyright needs to adapt to the new paradigm of online digital music, it does seem like "dot-coms" are jumping the gun and attempting to implement systems which are patently illegal under current laws rather than doing the sensible thing and lobbying for changes in the law. After all, what sensible company would risk the troubles that Napster and MP3.com have suffered?

Maybe it's because of the shortcomings in the viability of the "dot-com" model, in which profitability comes from selling equity rather than from making a real profit. With such an abstract model anyway, companies may feel that they have little to lose in taking the big risks of breaking the law. After all, if it wins, it could win big. And if it fails, well they'd probably have run out of money within a year or two anyway, like other companies have done recently.

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Jon E. Erikson

Messing with aliens is dangerous ... just look what happened to this poor chap when he suffered a particularly nasty probe.

Off topic, but once I bought a 50-pack of "blank" CD-R's from CompUSA. Well, for some reason I couldn't burn onto them. I discovered that about 10 of the CD's had Monty Python videos on them. I love Monty Python, but this wasn't too cute. Evidently, CompUSA (There's that goatse link again)someone had returned these to the store and they just repackaged them. Now, to quote the previous poster,
"Don't you think that if a huge chain like CompUSA was doing this (and somehow you found out about it), they'd have a tremendous problem on their hands? "
Go figure. If CompUSA would sell known defective products ( the discs must have been returned as 'defective'), what's to stop them from selling only 'partially' defective products like OC'd CPUS?
Just my story for today,
Max

Off topic, but once I bought a 50-pack of "blank" CD-R's from CompUSA. Well, for some reason I couldn't burn onto them. I discovered that about 10 of the CD's had Monty Python videos on them. I love Monty Python, but this wasn't too cute. Evidently, CompUSA (There's that goatse link again)someone had returned these to the store and they just repackaged them. Now, to quote the previous poster,
"Don't you think that if a huge chain like CompUSA was doing this (and somehow you found out about it), they'd have a tremendous problem on their hands? "
Go figure. If CompUSA would sell known defective products ( the discs must have been returned as 'defective'), what's to stop them from selling only 'partially' defective products like OC'd CPUS?
Just my story for today,
Max

There are a few other codecs that are important including Sorenson (Quicktime's primary codec these days)

I wouldn't be surprised if Sorenson were patented up the ass.

References please? Otherwise take your troll elsewhere. And a reference that points to goatse.cx isn't what I'm looking for.

DUDE!

I DID NOT need to see That!

That is going to haunt me for the rest of my life, and may just make me impotent.

I think I am going blind.

Ok, it's really easy to get the attention of developers. You just need to figure out where they hang out.
The kernel mailing list is a bad choice since it's read by thousands of M$ spies. The kernel developers know this, so that's why they post misleading and erroneous mailings there. It's all about subterfuge.
So if they're not on kernel-dev, where are they?
Simple you moron, they're reading slashdot. They use /. as a covert channel to discuss the kernel. You haven't noticed since they use steganography to hide their messages from m$. It's true - vladinator is actually hans reiser, spiralx is alan cox, trollaxor is ingo molnar and magenta syringe is linus.
They use the   entities and goatse links to communicate in a form of morse code. Try viewing source - it's informative.
Anyway, now that you know where to find the kernel developers, you need to get their attention. This is easy since linux hackers are only interested in one thing: Natalie Portman.
(note for the confused, Natalie Portman used to be the code word for the rewrite of the scsi subsystem in 2.4, but it was causing too much of a problem with spontaneous orgasms, so they switched to olsen twins this is why osm *actually davem@redhat.com* used to post about it all the time.)
At any rate, claim that you have nude photos of Natalie Portman and you'll get their attention. Now that you've got their attention, post a link to the Portman pix that points to goatse.cx. This will let them know that you want to participate in kernel development. Now you wait. They'll contact you and integrate your patch.
--Shoeboy

Ok, it's really easy to get the attention of developers. You just need to figure out where they hang out.
The kernel mailing list is a bad choice since it's read by thousands of M$ spies. The kernel developers know this, so that's why they post misleading and erroneous mailings there. It's all about subterfuge.
So if they're not on kernel-dev, where are they?
Simple you moron, they're reading slashdot. They use /. as a covert channel to discuss the kernel. You haven't noticed since they use steganography to hide their messages from m$. It's true - vladinator is actually hans reiser, spiralx is alan cox, trollaxor is ingo molnar and magenta syringe is linus.
They use the   entities and goatse links to communicate in a form of morse code. Try viewing source - it's informative.
Anyway, now that you know where to find the kernel developers, you need to get their attention. This is easy since linux hackers are only interested in one thing: Natalie Portman.
(note for the confused, Natalie Portman used to be the code word for the rewrite of the scsi subsystem in 2.4, but it was causing too much of a problem with spontaneous orgasms, so they switched to olsen twins this is why osm *actually davem@redhat.com* used to post about it all the time.)
At any rate, claim that you have nude photos of Natalie Portman and you'll get their attention. Now that you've got their attention, post a link to the Portman pix that points to goatse.cx. This will let them know that you want to participate in kernel development. Now you wait. They'll contact you and integrate your patch.
--Shoeboy

How do you get karma for posting stuff like this?
I don't, but thanks to the new /. bug, my karma stays at the same place regardless of what I post.
For example, this goatse.cx link will do nothing to damage my karma.
Ain't life grand?
--Shoeboy

See, well fucking done! You just achieved something that "your friend", Emmett "hung like Robert" Plant couldn't quite get it up for! You just gave us .... a "disclaimer". So now, we can take with, shall we say, a grain of shit, your comment that "I think that attacking Emmett's journalistic integrity is immature" ("immature"!, ye fucking gods! Why not just say that you think it's "gay" or "spastic" if you don't have any arguments!). We can tell that, whatever your views on journalistic ethics, you're probably prepared to prostitute them in order to help out your friend.

Now, if you'd dropped in and said "Hi, I'm Nitrozac, I have no connection to Emmett or anything, I'm just a stuck-up internet loudmouth and censorship advocate with a wholly unrealistic view of "geek" culture. I just took time off from simultaneously patronising and demeaning women by calling them "Techno-Talking Babes in my ludicrously unfunny comic to drop over here and tell the world that, in my considered opinion, "freaking out" over a journalist providing free publicity to his cronies without disclosure is "kinda dumb. Now kiss my ass, and tell me how great you think my boots are." --- then that would be kind of dishonest.

And indeed, given that the context is a story about Internet privacy and "Your Rights Online", am I the only one to think that there is something supremely fucking hypocritical about you daring to raise your square head above the parapet, given that you're the proprietor of a bulletin board which is notorious for censoring contrary opinions and logging IP numbers of anyone who sails by? Though, I doubt that either Slashdot or Interhack will be doing an article on that any time soon.

Please feel free to reply here, or contact me by email, or indeed to do anything that will distract you from drawing another episode of that godawful comic, User Friendly. Before you make the obvious response, I'll point out that I don't read the fucking thing, I just think that you have far to many preteen dittoheads, and anything that reduces their numbers makes the world a less shit place. Not necessarily better, just less horribly shit.

In conclusion, fuck yourself.

Let all users rate sites. Let the set of all users be U. Now when a user A, who has already rated a bunch of sites R, goes to a new site W: take the subset S of U containing users who have rated a subset of R with the same ratings as A, and have also rated W. now, average S's rating of W, and bingo! - censorship that A most probably finds accurate :) now, ignoring the ludicrous amount of processing power required to efficiently do this for millions of sites plus hundreds of millions of users, I think I'm onto a winner. anyone wanna pay me to implement it? hmm I'll be the biggest dotcom of them all.. I'm gonna be rich.. I hope these fascist fuckwits don't suddenly all decide to stop "protecting" the world at large from every little thing that doesn't fit into their narrow world view.

>[...]They want finely crafted, highly polished music[...]
>Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and Eminem records[...]

Ummm...Are you suggesting those are 'finely crafted' and 'highly polished' and not 'unlistenable shit'?

It might be popular, but it's still shit. (Check out this link for proof.)

Note to crackhea^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H moderators: see SARCASM(1) and HUMOR(3) for details.

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I find humor in the fact that Emmett didn't even provide a link to the Ottawa Linux Symposium website... Anyway a couple others are listed here: Most notable and/or accessible for North-Americaners would be the Linuxworld Expo in San Jose, August 14-17, and the Atlanta Linux Showcase Oct 10-14. Also, here is a list of Corel tradeshows.

If anyone knows of others, please speak up (It took 2 minutes on Altavista to find these).

And I don't see why Slashdot couldn't announce every upcoming conference, or at least every conference that requested announcing. iT's only an inch of screen space... this is supposed to be a community site, after all. Sounds like a slashbox-in-the-making.

imuho

I think this invenustus is a visitor of http://gnap.sourceforge.net/

Actually, I'm the same old troll, now with new and improved triple digit karma!

Virtual Strip Club 4.0

Sex Simulator

Sex Unlimited 3D

Jane's ******

etc.

Or more generally: low class sex games, which although crappy, go beyond the FPS Allah Doom/Quake/Unreal in terms of plot and characters.

This is the main reason why I dual bot into Win these days. For regular porn, I've found pretty much everything I need on the Linux side (however, once I'm already in Win, it's a lot faster to just fire it up then reboot into linux, especially since my personal life is a trough from which pigs, rats, and other disgusting mammals refuse to eat from)

..And I know about Richard Gere, thank you.

I am alone here.
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Let's start with this one!

Is here.

C.Lee, you're a twit. You're a complete moron -- nobody on Slashdot likes you. In fact, nobody likes you, period. You're a idiot who can't go for 2 seconds around here without flaming someone. And when you do flame someone, you just sound like more of a moron. You're a dumbass. A failed slashbot. A slashdot-terminal wannabe. You really need to take a gun to your head before you somehow get extremely lucky and propagate.

There's been a history of you sounding like a jackass. Nothing you ever post is credible, or intelligible, at all -- a drunken 2 year old makes more sense than you do. And a drunken 2 year old is nicer too. Have you had a lobotomy? That would explain quite a few things. If not, may I recommend one? You should also have a castration done as well, nobody wants your genetic material to be passed on in the gene pool. We'd be better off if you were a eunuch. At least that way all the pent up testosterone wouldn't become a factor. You should seriously seek mental help. And physical help. Emotional help would be a good idea, as well. Or you can take care of all 3 at once, and just put a gun to your head. Or at least to your gonads. And if you're unwilling, I'm sure there's plenty of people around here who are.

C.Lee, you're a twit. You're a complete moron -- nobody on Slashdot likes you. In fact, nobody likes you, period. You're a idiot who can't go for 2 seconds around here without flaming someone. And when you do flame someone, you just sound like more of a moron. You're a dumbass. A failed slashbot. A slashdot-terminal wannabe. You really need to take a gun to your head before you somehow get extremely lucky and propagate.

There's been a history of you sounding like a jackass. Nothing you ever post is credible, or intelligible, at all -- a drunken 2 year old makes more sense than you do. And a drunken 2 year old is nicer too. Have you had a lobotomy? That would explain quite a few things. If not, may I recommend one? You should also have a castration done as well, nobody wants your genetic material to be passed on in the gene pool. We'd be better off if you were a eunuch. At least that way all the pent up testosterone wouldn't become a factor. You should seriously seek mental help. And physical help. Emotional help would be a good idea, as well. Or you can take care of all 3 at once, and just put a gun to your head. Or at least to your gonads. And if you're unwilling, I'm sure there's plenty of people around here who are.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=youllneverfind this

How Can I Promote Open Source On The Macintosh?

It seems to have something to do with programming backends or something. Friends of the he-haunch, anyone? that fits the whole Mac scene real nice.

Ok, ok. I realize that it is getting ridiculous, trolling everything in goddamn sight, but slashdot needs a lesson to be taught - They shouldn't sue the frickin readers, folks. Anyone notice that trolling ratio has been upwards of 15:2 as opposed to the usual 5:2 from before osm went silent? is this rate climbing? when does it stop? Will any of you fall for my ratio numbers? correct me! correct me! correct me! make a troll happy today.

Linus Takes a Poop - Slashdot Posts
posted by CmdrTaco
Joe The Trollbaby writes:"Linus torvalds took a poop. Since this has something to do with linux, being that linus developed the linux kernel - it must be slashdot news-worthy." - note: linus has taken poops before. check here for more.


FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network

And our mascot is an ickle teeny pixie with an "I Luv Jesus" badge.

Now you'll have more time to visit http://www.fsf.org.

kiss my bitch ass

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(i) Giving a copy of the software 'to your mates' will be punishable by a low ranking Microsoft employee coming round to your house and stealing one of your favorite DVD's or CD's. (ii) Installation of the software product on a home PC while the System Administrator has turned a blind eye will be tolerated until such times as a useful application has been developed. At such times, Microsoft will own the application on question, and shall have free reign to make the product integral to NGWS, therefore dictating that you no longer own any part of the original application, and must pay for it's continual usage, now and for evermore, amen. (iii) Mass copying of the software product for profitable reasons will be addressed by the cruellest punishment imaginable. Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer will come round to your house and perform a floor show for you.

I've seen .us domains (e.g. FWCS) without a city. Couldn't .co.us (State of Colorado) sell its namespace like Christmas Island (of Goatse.cx fame) did?

You are thinking of goatse.cx, which is a very nasty link often thrown out by trolls like you.

The link given was perfectly fine.

you must truly open your buttocks

you walked right into that one.

They might have to search his car, too, and all his clothes

Don't forget the full-body cavity search! He might just have a beowulf cluster of wearables rammed up his ass.

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Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Well, I'll show you.

First, trot out the problem, a problem which most people who don't already understand it will think is nonsensical and obvious. Like this:
You are allowed to choose between three doors. Behind one door is a prize - behind the other two, goats. After you choose a door, Monty Hall (the gameshow host) will reveal what's behind one of the other doors (a goat), and then ask you whether you'd like to stay with your original choice or choose the other door.

The problem: should you choose the other door?

Most people will say that it doesn't matter, as it's a "50/50 chance" that you'll win or lose. Most people will be wrong, since they haven't thought about the problem in a set-oriented way. (Excuse my forthcoming explanation, I'm into this by way of philosophy and formal logic.)

The problem seems simple on a small scale. Consider what happens when you have 100 doors, and the process keeps iterating until you're down to (again) two doors. At first, the likelyhood you'll choose the correct door is 1/100. If you hold on to that choice through all the subsequent rounds, including the last round, your likelyhood of correctness is still 1/100. On the other hand, if you choose a different door in the last round, you are effectively using Monty's knowledge against him - he will have eliminated many many bad choices, and the likelyhood that you initially picked the right door is much lower than the likelyhood that he had to consciously avoid a (1 of 99) different door. If you picture this with actual doors, it's a bit more intuitive (if that means anything to you).

For the mathematical basis and the actual relationships, which I'm not qualified to give, try this site, or search google. There's quite a large community trying to educate the world about this one. :)

It is available at ThinkGeek:
http://www.thinkgeek.com .

It'd be pretty funny, tho, if someone managed to crack into the newspaper's printer's control machine and make all the links point to something... unexpected.

For the same [FIR57 P057!] reason that [hot grits down your pants] people say [Natalie Portman naked] dumb things for me to poop on at all, [goatse.cx] to get attention. It probably wouldn't bother us as much if it were part of a sig, but when it's the only thing in a reply...

If you payed attention and didn't spend all your time with your incredibly weak attempts at flamebait you would notice that some people post at +2 by default. This is after they have reached a certain level of karma.

Of course you are too busy trolling for Goatse.cx and rather immature name calling to notice such things aren't you?

Love,

-Marc

Flame all you want, I'll post more.

Okay, how about a couple of new moderations like "Me too"

There's already one: "Redundant"

"First post" "Not that goddamn Kevin Mtnick film guy again" "Not that goatse.cx guy again" "Grits" "portman"

"Offtopic"

"Insulting CmdrTaco"

"Offensive"

"Karma whore"

Possibly "Overrated" if at 3 or higher already.

Summary: If the text of a post does not relate to the article, the post is Offtopic and should be moderated as such. At least that's how I see it.

JASON SAYS HI TO ALL THE IDIOTS THAT DONT BELIEVE HIM

stuff accesses just as easy to the web surfer, no matter where it's located.

Not 100% accurate. The user might only see com instead of co.uk (or even better to), but ping times to faraway sites are bound to be lower because, for example, light moves only 299.8 km per millisecond. Latency produces slow loading sites, which turn off users who browse linearly and don't use Open Link in New Window aggressively.

i have a bigger cock beeyatch! nuff said

i posted a picture of it for beeyatchs like you. it's here

I think this would make a better icon.


john

which goat? This goat?

I put up a mirror here

I think these stats prove you are wrong about this:

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