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Category: Why The Hell Not? (Part 2)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the are-we-having-fun-yet? dept.

Here's the categories for the other half of the 'Why the hell Not' awards...
  • Best Dressed
  • Big Dumb Patent Bully
  • Big Dumb Domain Name Bully
  • The Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism

32 comments

  1. dvorak for cluestick. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    enough said.

    1. Re:dvorak for cluestick. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      amen.

  2. best dressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    tux

    1. Re:Best Dressed by Uart · · Score: 1

      I nominate myself for best dressed. I am the only one on slashdot that wears a tie everyday and i add my own personal touches (Old Navy Performance Fleece for example).

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    2. Re:Best Dressed by MissMarple · · Score: 1

      Blarharharhar, I can top that with ease...I can venture with a reasonable confidence that I'm the only patron of the venerable Slashdot who wears a skirt every day.

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      --Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around.--
    3. Re:Best Dressed by Kimagure · · Score: 1

      NullGrey: "My "Best Dressed" vote is going towards Nitrozac from After Y2k. Leather boots....."

      You took the words from my mouth. But , yeah!, Nitrozac for BEST DRESSED

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      I'm so tired I haven't slept a wink. I'm so tired my mind is on the brink. I wonder if I should get up and fix myself
    4. Re:Best Dressed by cjs · · Score: 2

      Sorry to break it to you, but you're not the only one on Slashdot that wears a tie every day. I wear a suit and tie every day, though on Fridays I give in to casual day and wear just a jacket and tie. And of course I never go out without a hat on.

      And I'd never be caught dead in anything from Old Navy.

      cjs

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    5. Re:Best Dressed by Uart · · Score: 2

      sometimes I wear a kilt.....

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      Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
  3. Bullies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Patent Bully: All of them. Whoever patents software must be one.

    Domain Bully: Procter and Gamble for most mindless domain squatting (diarrhea.com)

    Copyright Bullies:
    a) Harry Fox Agency for taking down Lyrics.ch and The Online Guitar Archive
    b) Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, TriStar Pictures, Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, United Artists Pictures, Inc., United Artists Corporation, Universal City Studios, Inc., Warner Bros., a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P. and their respective lawyers, Sargoy, Stein, Rosen & Shapiro because of DVDCA

  4. Best Dressed: Larry Wall by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I nominate Larry Wall. That man wears real tuxedos (of very wild colors).

  5. Cluestick: Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can there be any doubt?

  6. Best Dressed & Patent bully by algae · · Score: 1

    I nominate Richard M. Stallman for best dressed, because it's not the clothes that make the man.

    And who were those people who patented streaming media sales? I nominate them.

    --Alex

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    Causation can cause correlation
  7. Best dressed--second on Nitrozac by mavpion · · Score: 1

    Not only does she dress well, but she has an awesome comic as well. After Y2K is the funniest comic I've seen. It is in color (and usually animated), and appears daily. Unfortunately there's no award for "Person that keeps hackers spirits up so they can continue coding."

  8. Re:Best Dressed: by szyzyg · · Score: 1

    And .... when she does decide to get dressed up she does have some really good dress sense...

  9. Bob Cringle by Maxwell_E · · Score: 1

    Deserves the cluestick with a nail thwack.

  10. Nominations for all 4 Categories by Kagenin · · Score: 1

    Best Dressed: John Carmack in "After Y2K." He looks SOOO pimp at the Geek Rehab clinic.

    Patent Bully: This is a tossup between Amazon.com for pushing around bn.com and the guys in charge of the LZW Algorythm for pushing whoever they can. Also, I'd like to nominate the DVD Control Association for using crypto to limit the number of DVD Hardware vendors. This is not a good application of Crypto.

    Domain Bully: To either AOL.com for trying to push around aolsucks.com, or to Etoys.com for their threats (and legal action) to etoy.com.

    FUD: Without question, I nominate Bob Metcalf, Credited with the creation of Ethernet, for his article about Linux's "Open Sores." How's that 30 year old technology treating ya, Bob?

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    "All warfare is based on deception."
    Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
  11. Amazon by ReadErr · · Score: 1

    I nominate Amazon for the Big Dumb Patent Bully.

    You know the reason ;)

    1. Re:Amazon by jeffsenter · · Score: 1

      I agree. I don't think Amazon can be beat for Big Dumb Patent Bully even if it is unoriginal.

  12. Best Dressed : Marc Merlin by a.out · · Score: 1

    From the windows refund day...

    http://marc.merlins.org/linux /refundday/penguingear.jpg

  13. Best Dressed by NullGrey · · Score: 1

    My "Best Dressed" vote is going towards Nitrozac from After Y2k. Leather boots.....

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  14. The BSD "Daemon girl" by Brett+Glass · · Score: 1

    I nominate Ceren, the BSD "Daemon Girl" who appeared at COMDEX. With red leather pants, a trident, a red leotard, and cute little horns, she was the star of the Linux pavilion....

    1. Re:The BSD "Daemon girl" by Brett+Glass · · Score: 1

      For a picture, see http://www.gci-net.com/~users/f/fluke/comdex/bsdgi rl1.jpg

  15. Nominations by __aapbgd5977 · · Score: 1
    The Big Dumb Patent Bully HAS to be Amazon. I'll second that nomination.

    I'll nominate for Domain Name Bully WhatsHappenin.com for their silly lawsuit against QuePasa.com. The internet is NOT english only.

    The Cluestick award should go to 2600 Magazine. When will they take down the "Free Kevin" crap? Not only did Mitnick ask for a bunch of the delays in his case, HE PLEAD GUILTY. Biggest media punt of the year.(puts on asbestos underwear)

    I nominated for everything but Best Dressed... hmm... maybe Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee?
    "This is the nineties. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first."

  16. big domain bully by Gazateer · · Score: 1

    Has to be the US Government, if they hadn't messed with NSI in the first place we wouldn't have to worry about it and deal with this lame shared WHOIS database where you have to enter specific servers just to get detail. What a waste of a good thing. Gaz

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    --- We all brains, why not use them?
  17. Re:NSI -- all the way. by hoegg · · Score: 1

    Amen. Pick a first name, append a .com, .net, or .org, and do a whois. You get NSI. Pick almost any cool idea for a domain name, they are already there. For example: bigcheese.com, everything.com, ospf.com, opensource.com, etc etc etc. From their website: Network Solutions' ability to scale with the tremendous growth of the Internet is unparalleled: While it took four years to register the first one million domain names, it took 11 weeks to register the one million names leading up to the six million mark. http://www.netsol.com/nsi/index.html

  18. Y2K windowing patent by ateras · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is not the biggest fight, but the most stupid patent is the Y2K "windowing" patent by McDonnell Douglas. A nominee for the Big Dumb Patent Bully category. Has the patent already been cancelled, by the way? (see USPTO Takes Second Look)

  19. Jessie Berst for Cluestick Recipient by skorj · · Score: 1

    Dvorak might occasionally come off as being unsympathetic to linux and open source software, but at least he thinks about what he writes before he publishes it. A child flipping a coin would have better success predicting future technological trends than Jessie.

  20. Best Dressed: by crayz · · Score: 2

    Very simple. Jenni on Jennicam(in the Slashbox), nude. No one can beat that.

  21. Rasterman by zuvembi · · Score: 2

    Top coat and tails.

  22. NSI -- all the way. by jmauro · · Score: 2

    Big Dumb Domain Name Bully -- Network solutions...the seem to be the root of all the problems. They could always use it as a prepayment for microsoft.

  23. Best Dressed by gnarphlager · · Score: 2

    I belive that I am the only choice for best dressed; I won't repeat my reasons, but I will add that I will personally bake the aforementioned cookies myself. They shall be unlike any cookie you have tasted before, and oh you shall like the cookie.

    oh, that and the fact that none of you really know me, and it would be silly and fun :-)

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    Bad things often happen to good people,
    It is up to them to see that they remain good.
  24. ZDnet interns by Money__ · · Score: 2
    The ZD net interns.

    Allow me to be one of the many, many people to nominate the
    Ziff-Davis (ZD Group) in it's many forms.

    Their particular style of "rip and read" journalism, and complete
    lack of objectivity over the years, has earned them the respect
    and honor of only the most "clue starved" trolls all over the
    world. It is my belief that this perverse propagation of
    Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) puts the ZD Group among the
    front runners in the race for a firm twack with the
    /. Cluestick.

    More to the point, I would like to nominate the hard work and
    dedication of the many ZDnet interns who (like so many sweatshop
    workers in a Nike factory) tirelessly toil to cut and paste
    microsoft press releases into Jerry Bursts' article of the day.

    ZDs' blatant pursuit of mediocrity makes them a prime
    candidate for The Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism.
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