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Slashdot is good for teaching me new (or old, but new to me) internet memes: kill it with fire.

"Microsoft's strategy of building bigger versions of windows, which require bigger versions of PCs is flattening out on the curve, with Vista adoption quite slow."

To that, I'll add:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Windows&defid=1581637

No, it is still FUD, but it gets stuck in an infinite loop, and then my head asplodes.

Besides, there is no such thing as anti-FUD FUD. FUD, by its definition, can only be defeated with facts that spread reassurance, certainty, and truth.

...by falconwolf (725481)

Falcon Wolf? Did you just pick a few things you thought sounded cool and mashed them together?

Maybe I could interest you in a car...

...that these guys were their GUI designers.

hmm... Does it taste salty boys?

From your link to the definition of "hooptie":

e) must open door at drive-threws as windows don't roll down

Is a "drive-threw" where they throw your food at you? Now there's a unique concept: a dictionary that doesn't know how to spell! What will these younguns come up with next, ray guns to kill cars with?

Oh, and from the definition (which I'm afraid I can't trust too much as it is from a dictionary with spelling errors), this car-killing ray gun wouldn't work on a hooptie; old junkers don't have microprocessors. New junkers do, but not old ones.

-mcgrew

He didn't fail reading comprehension. My guess and my opinion is that it is either extreme ignorance or deliberate fraud, and maybe someone at Slashdot is taking money to post articles about companies that want "investment" money.

Fraud Alert. Fraud Alert. Fraud Alert.

Read the first comment to the article: "What happens to the pacemaker in the guy driving? Does speeding become a death sentence?"

Another comment: "If there are innocent victims in such incidents - such as hostages - how are you going to microwave the car without hurting the people?"

What about reflections? Fried police car, anyone? "I just looove the smell of burning plastic in the morning"?

I think November 13 is a little early for April Fool's day.

Quote: "These pulses are amplified to 640 kilovolts..."

Did you see the red whiskery antennas that extend in front of the car? Criminal: "There's that dorky police car again. Turn right. Microwaves only go straight." Or, are those not antennas, but an artist's rendering of microwave flames shooting from the top of the police car?

From the article: "The system has been tested on a variety of stationary vehicles and could be ready for deployment in automobiles within 18 months..."

Translations: 1) It hasn't been tested in heavy traffic. 2) As soon as we find some really, really, really dumb people with money to invest, something could happen.

Moral of the story: There is no time to play video games. You need all your time to learn about the world around you, not about fantasies. If you spend all your time with fantasies, anyone can tell you anything, and you won't be able to evaluate if it is the truth.

Quote from the story: "Finally, a specially designed antenna beams the microwave energy toward an opposing vehicle through a part of the car, such as the windshield, window, grill, or spacing between the hood and main body, that is not made of metal. (Metal acts as a shield against microwave energy.)"

Ohhhhh. It must be an opposing car, not one going in the same direction. The car must have no mirror-like surfaces. There must be holes. It can't be a camper going in the same direction.

Has no one who already commented on this story heard of firewalls, the kind in cars? Has anyone heard about tight-fitting hoods? Does the invention work only with hoopties?

Is it really true that no one who reads Slashdot has looked at the insides of a car? Does this "invention" work only with cars that don't have electronics shielded with a metal covering?

Those dumb car makers never heard of electromagnetic noise? Even though spark plug wires have 40,000 volts? Car computers have no shielding?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Green+M%26M

I think it's more of the "kid with hands in the cookie jar" type of blatant and deceptive.

Parent: "Are you stealing cookies?"
Child: "No, I'd never do that!"
Parent (pulling childs hand out of cookie jar, revealing a hand covered with melted chocolate bits): "Then why is your hand in the cookie jar?"
Child: "It wasn't!"
Parent: "And why are there crumbs all over your shirt and your face?"
Child: "There aren't!"
Parent: "Really?"
Child: "Of course! You know I'd never disobey you!"
Parent: "So your hands are smeared with chocolate, your mouth isn't covered with crumbs, and cookie jar that was full when I left isn't now half-empty?"
Child: "Sounds right!"

Although in the case of Comcast, it's not like the people in the "parent" role can do anything, and Comcast gets to continue providing Comcastic service. ("Why are you blocking BitTorrent?" "We're not!" "But I can see you sending RST packets!" "I can't see any!" "I've got a log right here!" "Your client is just pining for the fjords!" etc.)

And I think there's also a Senator Craig joke in there somewhere.

This reminds me of the whole sock water incident.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sock+water

A jock is not an athlete, see here for clarification.

Ricer comes from rice, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ricer

-- To the Prat-cave!

(prat)

so, unless one of you mooks gets lucky and hits the trillion dollar lottery, fuggedaboutit.

RS

1. craptastic
2. Crap
3. Comcast

Are you saying he's an xbot or a wiitard?

Are you saying he's an xbot or a wiitard?

We are going to give you a tool. We are going to call it a "cyber sidearm". However, we don't know what it will be, or what it's purpose is, yet.

The Good Idea Fairy strikes again!

it doesn't half sound like some kind of fancy porn detector...

Something that is sexually desirable, or deemed high enough quality that it can be used for masturbation purposes.

• I'm a moron,
• I disagree with you, but
• I'm too ill-informed to argue my side of the debate, and
• I'm too lazy to look up the resources which are freely available which would help me construct an argument, so
• I'm going to take the low road, and snidely suggest that you defend your argument, whereafter
• I'll assume that you are wrong and I am right because you didn't respond by falling all over yourself by quoting chapter and verse to me,
• but because I have this lingering sense that I might not know what the hell I'm talking about, I'll just post this retort as "Anonymous".

Well, now I have to go find some other way to draw attnetion to myself. *Logs into Facebook*

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=furry

Also I dare you to Google image furry.

I FUCKING DARE YOU.

No... it's because of the concept of IOIYAR - It's Ok If You're A Republican.

When the Democrats were in the minority and there was even a hint of a filibuster by the Democrats, Republicans went crazy, and threatened to invoke the nuclear option, which would have basically shut down the senate.

Now that the Republicans are in the minority, they can and have threatened to filibuster. But because IOIYAR, no one's making a stink about it, and you even have the press reporting that these bills "didn't pass", or "Democrats failed to pass", or "Republicans blocked", which makes it sound like they got less than 50 votes in the senate, but they didn't pass their cloture votes, which is an agreement to stop debating a bill that needs 60 votes to pass. If the cloture vote doesn't pass, the debate can continue... In other words, a filibuster can take place.

So, in essence, the Republicans are threatening to filibuster on lots of things (this habeus legislation, Iraq-related bills, etc, etc), and therefore requiring a successful cloture vote to move the legislation forward, and raising the necessary vote threshold for anything to pass up to 60. The Republicans are voting to not allow legislation to be considered... They are not interested in giving the legislation a "fair shake" or an "up or down" vote.

Of course 2-3 years ago, that was reason enough to threaten to force a shutdown of the senate, but IOIYAR.

Caligula reigns

GOURANGA!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gouranga

(1) a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment.

(2) An insult implying that someone is incompetent, stupid, etc. Can also be used to imply that the person is uncool or can't/won't do what everyone else is doing.

(3) A sex slave or submissive, usually male, as popularlized by the movie Pulp Fiction.

Look at that gimp in the wheelchair

Dude, quit being a gimp and take a hit!

Bring out the gimp!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gimp

so to the "street" (or younger population who you should be targetting) its an insult (has been my whole life and im 39), hardly surprising nobody wants to use it

With the risk of showing my age, when you said "that's pretty gay" its something from "the bad hair day" 80's.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gay

3. often used to describe something stupid or unfortunate. originating from homophobia. quite preferable among many teenage males in order to buff up their "masculinity"

The part that says, "originating from homophobia" I think is a bit of stretch, though the first part is true.

Though these days I don't use the expression. I usually say, "that's pretty lame..."

Based on his style of writing and it's resemblence to The Daily Mail (a British newspaper aimed at the middle-class closet nazi who thinks that things aren't as good as they used to be), I'd say he's trapped somewhere in the fictional 1950s. You can't blame him for missing the 80s, he hasn't even reached them yet.

Umm, I (not the same as the AC you reply to) know it to mean something along the lines of "strongly liking something". You know, it makes intuitively more sense and urbandictionary.com agrees with me: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=har d+on Maybe you heard the slang only in instances when people were ironic?

Man, I know. I'm sorry if you missed the joke.

Snoop-speak isn't that complicated, it's like pig latin. Basically for certain nouns and other key words, take the first word sound and put "izzle" on the end, the remainder is in standard ebonics. Therefore "Fo' shizzle ma nizzle" means "For sure my nigga". Of course there are numerous possible mappings, but only a few standard ones and you can figure out which from context. E.g. "hizzle" usually means house but "This shizzle be off tha hizzle!" means "This shit is off the hook!"

For slang in general, UrbanDictionary is full of crap but you can generally trust the top-rated definitions.

If it's a choice between Windows and PMITA Prison, Windows is a slightly better option :)

1. Dutch Rudder. . . . . . . . . . . .[thumbs up] 362 up, 17 down [thumbs down]
   
   Having someone complete the act of masturbation by pulling up and down on the forearm, while the male holds his own penis.
   
   SnackCake gave Tonkin a Dutch Rudder, because they are two freaky people who like to try new things.
   
   tags masturbation sex acts kinky sex play tonkin snackcake
   by nfkiller Canada May 10, 2006 email it
   
   
2. Dutch Rudder. . . . . . . . . . . .[thumbs up] 79 up, 35 down [thumbs down]
   
   When a man masturbates, and another person grabs his arm and makes him do the motion. It's sort of like a cross between masturbation and a handjob. He is still holding on, but the other person is still moving your arm.
   
   She gave him a dutch rudder last night.
   tags sex act masturbation group thing new handjob tonkin
   by Some Crate Denver May 10, 2006 email it
   
3. dutch rudder. . . . . . . . . . . .[thumbs up] 51 up, 25 down [thumbs down]
   
   Noun - Halfway between masturbation and a handjob. i.e. when a man has his own hand on his penis but someone else is controlling the motion.
   
   SpinalTapp gave me the ole' dutch rudder one summer up on brokeback.
   
   tags hand job masturbation whacking off jerking off brokebackin' it
   by Josh Edwards denton texas May 11, 2006 email it
   

Then clearly you are not a fan of Futurama. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ure ctum

Whether or not VMWare violates Linux copyrights, the mere fact that this is being discussed may add to the perception of the GPL as a "viral" license, and steer developers/businesses away from using Linux and other GPL software in their products.


Is this a form of concern trolling? I mean, if we can't talk about possible violations of the GPL because people will become afraid of... violating the GPL... where are we at then?

As a fellow mac user, I'll take a brown hat over a red one any day. And when I say take, I mean take. Ooooh.

i'd still have to agree with that partialpeople bloke commenting on your first story. By the way, pointing to your own postings as fact or as unbiased stories is perhaps still a touch megalomaniacal. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meg alomaniacal&defid=1285064

I must admit, I didn't disclose this in the manual I handed over to my wife, but occasionally I drop the odd smelly fart (heavens above!). Can she file a class action for a particularly bad dutch oven? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dut ch+oven

Does that mean you're enjoying some fresh vegetables? :P

OSCE.org's fresh report "Governing the Internet," has a partial answer, stating that about two dozen countries practice censorship. And in addition many other countries have adopted needlessly restrictive legislation and government policy.

For example, in Malaysia government official said this week that laws would be drafted for bloggers and authorities would not hesitate to prosecute those deemed to have insulted Islam. And in Thailand insulting their assaholian King is almost guaranteed to result a jail sentence.

Oups, did I just call thailands king assaholian? Well sorry about that... (in case TOR does't work as advertised)

and whenever they start teaching it i pull out my laptop and get back to working on whatever program i was coding last. as far as teaching technology at my school goes, well it sucks. Other than the programming classes, which are taught on a linux lab that is free of district bullshit and student maintained, all of the technology lessons are mostly repeats of what they taught us to do in elementary school. We recently got a brand new computer lab, new hp desktops with LCD's and win xp, but the district techs are idiots and the current technology specialist is an idiot and lazy. I don't go to a bad school ( well actually i do but for different reasons ) but why are districts always pushing bullshit that even the schools don't want?

among our districts genious decree's:
no linux webservers
linux is a social disease
sites about linux or open source are "hacking" and blocked
only the head district tech can get around content filtering ( not even the pricipals can bypass )
all internet for all the schools is routed through the district office
it goes on

WHY! WHY ARE IDIOTS RUNNING THE SCHOOLS? FUCKING THINK OF THE CHILDREN, THEY'RE SMARTER THAN YOU!

and for anyone wondering what school this is, your answer is: Monta Vista, i suggest looking it up on urbandictionary.com
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mon ta+vista/

Wikipedia
Urban Dictionary
Encyclopedia Dramatica
Uncyclopedia

Enjoy!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rul e+34

Confucius say: Be careful what you wish for on the internet.

Nasrudin say: Be more precise in what you wish for on the internet.

I had to look it up, myself.

I always liked the idea of YL=young lady and XYL=wife

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=xyl

I think "booze" should be spelled "boos"--"boobs" without the second "b".

i spell that with an EW, like LEWT.