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Morons with mod points; either that or Microsoft knee-jerk astroturfers.

For the learning-impaired at "news for nerds", the parent's point was that the only thing that should matter to you or me about Hans Reiser is the file system he designed and the programs he wrote, and then only if you use the damned things.

Did you throw away your Naked Gun movies because OJ Simpeon killed those people?

The tabloid mentality that seems to have overtaken the entire world makes me sick. The file system's designer's personal life is none of my (or your) business.

On a lighter note, the parent was wrong. Bill Gates doesn't strangle puppies, he shoots them! And he doesn't stomp kittens' heads, he huffs them.

Speaking of spam, there are all kinds of spam. There's what some humorless dweebs call comment spam, and then of course I must try to sell you some of this stuff.

Then of course there's Spam, SPAM, and S.P.A.M..

CLICK HERE FOR FREE!! pr0n

Speaking of spam, there are all kinds of spam. There's what some humorless dweebs call comment spam, and then of course I must try to sell you some of this stuff.

Then of course there's Spam, SPAM, and S.P.A.M..

CLICK HERE FOR FREE!! pr0n

Speaking of spam, there are all kinds of spam. There's what some humorless dweebs call comment spam, and then of course I must try to sell you some of this stuff.

Then of course there's Spam, SPAM, and S.P.A.M..

CLICK HERE FOR FREE!! pr0n

"Its in the corner of North America, and mostly empty, except, of course, for all the fail." ~ Oscar Wilde on Where Canada is, and what its filled with.

Canadian map of the world, eh?

If I linked to the Uncyclopedia entry on the UK I'd be modded down. If I linked to the uncyclopedia entry on the US I'd be shot. If I linked to the uncyclopedia entry on Australia I'd be drunk.

Solution: Upgrade to Windows Vista!

link link link link

No. IIS is a Microsoft server. I've heard that IIS stands for "It Isn't Secure".

Does half a million compromised servers comprise a beowolf cluster? No again.

I'd quote the uncyclopedai entry on Microsoft, but the Microsoft <strike>shills</strike> fanboys would mod me "troll".

Yes, I wrote it ;-)

Companies that fail to do so may be liable for large fines or jail time

They're going to put whole companies in jail?

But at any rate, after Sony's criminal rootkit vandalism of millions of computers, I'm going to have to see a CEO in shackles before I believe it. And Martha Stewart doesn't count.

For those of you unfamiliar with Sony's evil, deliberate vandalism, here are two links:
serious
content-free

Link to original version of this UnNews

IINM they're planning to do "The Hobbit" in two parts so they can get the whole book on screen. People screamed bloody murder when Jackson took Tom Bombadil (among other little things) out of LOTR.

They goddamned well better leave the trolls that Bilbo turn to stone in. I'm sure they will, one or two of the trolls Bilbo vanquished have shown up in this slashdot commentary. ;)

The uncyclopedia has an entry on trolls but it's not the Tolkien trolls, it's more like the slashdot version.

"Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero" ~ God on Black Holes

"That's crazy" ~ Mr. Replier on God's black holes

"Originally, Black Holes where known as 'Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars'" ~ Steven Hawking on Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars

"Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero" ~ God on Black Holes

"That's crazy" ~ Mr. Replier on God's black holes

"Originally, Black Holes where known as 'Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars'" ~ Steven Hawking on Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars

"Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero" ~ God on Black Holes

"That's crazy" ~ Mr. Replier on God's black holes

"Originally, Black Holes where known as 'Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars'" ~ Steven Hawking on Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars

"Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero" ~ God on Black Holes

"That's crazy" ~ Mr. Replier on God's black holes

"Originally, Black Holes where known as 'Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars'" ~ Steven Hawking on Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars

Wilipedia is often inaccurate. I mean, would you cite Wikipedia on your doctorate thesis? Instead, you should cite the real Uncyclopedia!
"Noy ya lissen ta me ba, thur's ten poynds o' saimtex under yer carr, an' it's gonna fockin' bloe ya ta kingdom come!" ~ Oscar Wilde

This is just a Lava Cannon with metal in the hopper instead of rock.

Sure they apologized

So did Kevin Mitnick, but he still went to prison. Why didn't anybody go to prison for XCP (alternate less serious link)?

Anybody know of a good media player, now that I can't use Winamp any more? One that's like XMMS would be my first choice.

Or better yet, get Winamp to not use Gracenote? If it's using Gracenote to get song titles, why won't it use FreeDB?

Rolf Schmidt-Holtz? Is that you?

"Silence is golden, duct tape is silver coincidence, I think NOT!" ~ Oscar Wilde

Duct Tape has amazing adhesive propertiesDuct Tape is the preferred material for Tuxedo construction. It is also a mystical force with a light side and a dark side. It is said to bind the Universe together, and this, combined with the moral duality of the substance, has made it a coveted object of power and worship among several religions, including the Druids(otherwise known as Jedi.) In fact, the bible states that on the third day, God invented Duct Tape.

The Duc(k)t Tape Conspiracy
Duct tape is, obviously, made of ducks. Only an idiot would say it's not. However, nobody is completely sure just how the factoris make it. Some say that after the cute little duckies hatch they are ground into powder, which is mixed with water and forms a glue. Others say they don't know. Whatever the method, duct tape is made of ducks.

"Uwe Boll Number ONE filmaker, all Khazakhstan!"~ Borat on Uwe Boll

"It's Toilet Boll, damn it! "~ Internet User on Toil.. err... Uwe Boll

"I still can't believe I actually reached to the point with the sex scene when watching Uwe's Bloodrayne film " ~ Oscar Wilde on Uwe Boll

"UWE BOLL! UUUUWEEE BOOOOLL!" ~ Jon Stewart on Uwe Boll

"Uwe Boll Number ONE filmaker, all Khazakhstan!"~ Borat on Uwe Boll

"It's Toilet Boll, damn it! "~ Internet User on Toil.. err... Uwe Boll

"I still can't believe I actually reached to the point with the sex scene when watching Uwe's Bloodrayne film " ~ Oscar Wilde on Uwe Boll

"UWE BOLL! UUUUWEEE BOOOOLL!" ~ Jon Stewart on Uwe Boll

Talk of trusting MS is like talk of trusting Sony-BMG, or trusting Hannibal Lecter not to eat you.

For those who don't trust Wikipedia, Here is another cannibal.

"How can a guy with that much money not afford contacts?" ~ Linus Torvalds on Bill Gates' coke bottle glasses

better link, and a quote: "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." ~ Oscar Wilde on Wikipedia

This equation was devised by Dr. Frank Drake (now Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz) in 1960, in an attempt to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact. The main purpose of the equation is to allow scientists to quantify the uncertainty of the factors which determine the number of such extraterrestrial civilizations.

There is no page titled "Drake equation".

"D'Oh... I really should have read that book by that wheelchair guy." ~ Homer Simpson on Quantum Singularities

This equation was devised by Dr. Frank Drake (now Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz) in 1960, in an attempt to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact. The main purpose of the equation is to allow scientists to quantify the uncertainty of the factors which determine the number of such extraterrestrial civilizations.

There is no page titled "Drake equation".

"D'Oh... I really should have read that book by that wheelchair guy." ~ Homer Simpson on Quantum Singularities

Oops, I forgot how unreliable it was! Here you gow.

"Isaac Asimov is in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously."
~ Arthur C. Clarke on Isaac Asimov

That was only PART of the joke. The bigger joke is PETA.

I looked it up.

"Yeah, I heard they caught a couple of animal rights activists trying to start a fire at Macy's but they passed out because they were too weak from only eating vegetables."
~ Oscar Wilde on Animal Rights Activists

I used the Uncyclopedia because everybody knows wikipedia is unreliable. Like, you know, Britannica is flawless and all.

It used to be that we only had idiots running the public schools, now it appears we have idiots running at least one university.

If I were going to school there, I'd transfer to a different school, there are a lot of them in the area. Perhaps U of C should rename itself "Luddite University"?

Kids, this comment came from a 56 year old geezer. I can only imagine how a young person who grew up with the internet would feel about this, it's like if SIU had outlawed using electricity when I was in college in the seventies.

Wow.

There's an uncyclopedia article about the guy who implimented U of C's stupid anti-internet rule.

-mcgrew

Both Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia have entries on bullshit (linked). On top of that, all of Uncyclopedia and some of wikipedia is bullshit. From the Uncyclopedia entry:

"Wow, even I can admit that's total bullshit."
~ Jack Thompson on Everything he says and does

As I say to my students 'if you had to have brain surgery would you prefer someone who has been through medical school, trained and researched in the field, or the student next to you who has read Wikipedia'?

As someone who uses wikipedia quite frequently, I would like to answer "what a stupid question that is" and ask the idiot professor "if you had to have brain surgery would you prefer someone who has been through medical school, trained and researched in the field, or the student next to you who has read the encyclopedia Britannica?'

I'd also ask him, if you were on a desert island with two people who were not medical doctors and suffered appendicitis, would you rather have your surgery from the one who has read the wikipedia article on appendicitis or the one who can't read?

But since the professor doesn't trust wikipoedia I looked him up in the Uncyclopedia, which actually has a news item on the subject today.

The topic is proof that a PhD is not proof of intelligence. I have known some very intelligent PhDs and some moronic ones, and discovered that the morons always add "PhD" to the end of their name, while you may know the smart ones for years before discovering that they have ever been through grad school. My money says this guy puts "PhD" in his written signature.

As I say to my students 'if you had to have brain surgery would you prefer someone who has been through medical school, trained and researched in the field, or the student next to you who has read Wikipedia'?

As someone who uses wikipedia quite frequently, I would like to answer "what a stupid question that is" and ask the idiot professor "if you had to have brain surgery would you prefer someone who has been through medical school, trained and researched in the field, or the student next to you who has read the encyclopedia Britannica?'

I'd also ask him, if you were on a desert island with two people who were not medical doctors and suffered appendicitis, would you rather have your surgery from the one who has read the wikipedia article on appendicitis or the one who can't read?

But since the professor doesn't trust wikipoedia I looked him up in the Uncyclopedia, which actually has a news item on the subject today.

The topic is proof that a PhD is not proof of intelligence. I have known some very intelligent PhDs and some moronic ones, and discovered that the morons always add "PhD" to the end of their name, while you may know the smart ones for years before discovering that they have ever been through grad school. My money says this guy puts "PhD" in his written signature.

I woke up with a lot of courage today.
What the gp asked and what the parent referred to.

If you're wondering why your post was marked "flamebait" it's because there's no mod "-1, incorrect and false". Also because you are calling people thieves when, in fact, they are NOT thieves. Here is the difference between copyright infringement, stealing music, and piracy:

Stealing music: You walk into a record store and stick a CD under your shirt when nobody is looking. You then walk out without paying. If caught you will be charged with misdemeanor thieft and pay a few hundred dollars fine. The store has paid for the CD you stole and no longer has that CD.

Copyright Infringement: You walk into a store, pick up a CD and pay for it. You then rip the tracks to MP3 and place them in your shara folder in kazaa, allowing people to download them from your computer. The people downloading them are not breaking the law. Rather than a criminal matter, it is a civil matter and if caught you will be liable for thousands of dollars, despite the fact that the people downloading from you may discover that although they "kinda" like the track they hear on the radio they LOVE the one you provided, and go buy the CD.

Piracy: You go on the high seas, find a rich man's yacht, kill him and all his passengers and take his boat. It is a felony and if caught you will face prison or perhaps even the death penalty.

Flamebait: See the uncyclopedia entry

-mcgrew

"Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero"
~ God on Black Holes

"That's crazy"
~ Mr. Replier on God's black holes

"It's a hole that is black"
~ Captain Obvious on Black Holes

"It's a hole that is white"
~ Captain Sarcasm on Black Holes

"Falling in is bad for your health"
~ Captain Understatement on Black Holes

"Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars'"
~ Steven Hawking on Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars

So I was online, right, just chatting away with my friends about normal things. Porn, killing fluffy bunnies, the sad state of the world, things like that.

When all of a sudden --
Well, maybe it wasn't all that sudden, when you're online you're used to sudden things like popups and viruses and parents bursting in when you're Googling Lesbians Gone Wild 4 --
This guy IMs me.

He's one of those people that've migrated to the bottom of your buddy list, you know what I mean? The kind of person you may have talked to once regarding some homework assignment or other that you've never really had the balls to delete because you think having a long buddy list means you have a social life. And you don't remember why they're there. And you'd never expect someone like that to actually make contact with you again. But he did.

So he says

isllcrk88 [6:14 PM]: hey
Okay. So what have I got from him so far?

Username Seems standard enough. Bunch of random letters and two numbers: Maybe a birth year or something?
Font Default font, no webdings or any other communication problems there.
Greeting "Hey." Pretty typical. Neither suggestive nor harsh, not too formal or too friendly. Nothing to trip any alarms here. No misspellings yet, although I could be judging too soon. [More]

"Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero"
~ God on Black Holes

"That's crazy"
~ Mr. Replier on God's black holes

"It's a hole that is black"
~ Captain Obvious on Black Holes

"It's a hole that is white"
~ Captain Sarcasm on Black Holes

"Falling in is bad for your health"
~ Captain Understatement on Black Holes

"Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars'"
~ Steven Hawking on Gravaitationally Collapsed Stars

So I was online, right, just chatting away with my friends about normal things. Porn, killing fluffy bunnies, the sad state of the world, things like that.

When all of a sudden --
Well, maybe it wasn't all that sudden, when you're online you're used to sudden things like popups and viruses and parents bursting in when you're Googling Lesbians Gone Wild 4 --
This guy IMs me.

He's one of those people that've migrated to the bottom of your buddy list, you know what I mean? The kind of person you may have talked to once regarding some homework assignment or other that you've never really had the balls to delete because you think having a long buddy list means you have a social life. And you don't remember why they're there. And you'd never expect someone like that to actually make contact with you again. But he did.

So he says

isllcrk88 [6:14 PM]: hey
Okay. So what have I got from him so far?

Username Seems standard enough. Bunch of random letters and two numbers: Maybe a birth year or something?
Font Default font, no webdings or any other communication problems there.
Greeting "Hey." Pretty typical. Neither suggestive nor harsh, not too formal or too friendly. Nothing to trip any alarms here. No misspellings yet, although I could be judging too soon. [More]

Indeed, and here is an article that goes at length in describing the wonders of caffeine. Judging by your writing, you should have no trouble reading it.

Smart != educated. Smart+educated is better than either one alone.

But you're not going to have a clue about any actress' intelligence or education from watching her in a film, whether porn star or G rated actress.

What would happen with a pr*n start as president?

Maybe they'd finally legalize prostitution? I'd vote for her!

Dumb peple are IMHO irritating, especially when they become president.

You know, I never thought I'd see a worse President than this guy (Bachelor of Science degree in physics), until This guy (MBA) moved into the White House.

So for the people who know and use the term "behavioral targeting", we can already assume they have a predisposition on the topic a bit. If instead we use "relevant advertising" to refer to the same technique, surely this will effect the way it is perceived.

Whether you call it a "spade" or a "pointy shovel" the result is the same: a hole.

Whether you call it shit or excrement, the odor doesn't change. As the Bard said, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".

I don't dislike shit because of the name "shit", I dislike it for the same reason I dislike advertising.

You're getting free content

No I'm not. My ISP charges me. I never contracted to get the "free" ad supported "content". I am under more obligation to look at or even load your ads. I don't want your ads there. If your web site goes away, I don't give a rat's ass! There are billions of shitty web sites, and the best ones either have no ads at all or unobtrusive ads.

I, for one, would welcome the death of advertising, period. Especially on the internet. Even if it means your shitty site is gone, 'cause like I said, the internet is infested with web sites.

I always called it "bullshitting."

This is slashdot, you need links.

Bullshit
Bullshit
Bullshit

You need to bring about higher levels of Education in the population

I just don't see that happening. America seems to worship ignorance almost as much as it worships money. The corporations that run this country aren't about to let the population become educated.

I guess you could get people to read, but then all they'd read was People Magazine. (alternate link)

In case you haven't heard yet, April Fool's day has been postponed to May.

It's much better than the April Fool's jokes I submitted.

What? You're serious?

projectors will initially cost about $350, then quickly drop to less than $300.'"

Yeah, right. One that's as big as a kid's lunch box is thousands now. Well, let's see if we can find a link or two.

You guys have way too much money! Gees, that's more then Elliot Spitzer pays!

My friends only charge $20-$50 (more, of course, if you're stupid. One young lady that charges me $20 gets ten times that much from rich politicians here in Springfield).