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Comments

Kiss my ass... I fell for it.

[torpor]

C'mon, it was knee jerk, but right as I hit Post I realized this was a joke.

Heh.

[torpor]

Okay, so it might be an April Fools joke. Then again, I didn't think April Fools happened until April 1st.

If its just an April Fools joke, then I'm an April Fool and will wear no underwear tomorrow in honor of having been fooled. Though, it's pretty poor to have April Fools jokes played too soon ... even if it is only early by one day.

Re:Heh.

[kuro5hin]

I posted it on advogato at around 3:00AM, April 1, EST. Apparently advogato's servers aren't *in* EST. D'oh, my bad. So, overall, I apologize for your April 2nd freeballing, but c'mon, it was pretty funny. :-)

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Re:What really would've been cool is if...

[X]

Done.

Re:What really would've been cool is if...

[X]

Iay eanmay oneday.

Re:CRAP

[BluBrick]

PS. is it australian or scottish?

No.

Re:Google's April Fool is much funnier

[Accipiter]

Of course it is, but alas....Slashdot didn't think so:

2000-04-01 06:46:13 Mind-Visualization Search Engine (articles,internet) (declined)

Ah Well.

-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?

Yes!!! Someone got it!!

[kuro5hin]

I am so glad someone got the joke about the name. I was wondering if anyone else was gonna pick up on that. :-)

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Re:The point of April Fools' jokes...

[stx23]

(If they wanted to get a snicker, they should have done one in '3733t hax0r sp33k' if anything.)

like HNN? Check your slashboxes.

Re:people with $35 to spare

[eyeball]

This AC post should've gotten modderated up.... He (or she) actually registered and is redirecting ashdotslay.org to slashdot! Right on!

The major changes

[seanb]

For the most part, the only changes will be enhancements to the standard library. There are a few major changes that have been discussed on the list:

• Strings now have methods. This brings most of the functions from the string library (split, join, istitle, upper, lower, find, index, etc.) into the core language. The old string library is still exists, this just provides a new way for accessing the same functionality.
• An undocumented holdover from the early days of python is being cleared up. Once upon a time, if a function expected one argument and you passed it multiple arguments, the function would recieve those arguments in a tuple. For example:

  l = ['a', 'b', 'c']
  l.append('d', 'e')

  would be equivalent to

  l = ['a', 'b', 'c']
  l.append(('d', 'e'))

  (the latter is the correct form). This was changed a while ago (Python 1.4?) and the documentation has not desribed this feature for a long time. Some methods, however (such as list.append or socket.connect) still allowed the old usage, even though it was undocumented (the above example with list.append is currently allowed, even though it does not write to the documented API.

  This does break some code of people who failed to write to the documented interface. The one problem that seems to be causing the most complaints on comp.lang.python is the fact that

  import socket
  HOST, PORT = 'www.slashdot.org', 80
  s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,
  socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  s.connect(HOST, PORT)

  is, and long has been, illigal. The correct usage is

  import socket
  HOST, PORT = 'www.slashdot.org', 80
  s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,
  socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  s.connect((HOST, PORT))

ATTN: Advertisers on /.

[out of control]

You are wasting dollars here.

Please consider moving your advertising efforts to a more responsible medium, linux.com, apache.org, apacheworld.com, etc. (you get the idea)

Spending your precious advertising dollars on /. banners might have seemed prudent at some point, but /. is now being administered by 8 year olds, and they have it in their contract with Andover to maintain editorial control. (Their parents insisted upon it when the contracts hit the graphite desktops).

I would urge all advertisers to consider a more influential and mature marketing strategy than /.

These children have reached the height of their juvenile years, and are sure to hit puberty soon, (and we know what happens to children when they reach that stage of growth!)

You can off course continue to advertise via banner ads or other clever means on /. but the children may just turn your company into Pig-latin (and to be fair to the /. boys? we all used it when we were 10).

Save your dollars for the sites that people actually purchase your products from....... /. is lowering the standards every day.

(BTW - to take a quick look at demographics? And to judge the maturity of the /. editorial staff? Watch the polls that are run.............. these guys have some serious growing up to do).

Your business acumen will show up in where you place your next advert dollars!

Translated to something more familiar.

[chazR]

For all you C programmers (and others who think in hex...)

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Apologies.

Re:Fuck. This is *HUGE* news.

[Signail11]

I *think* this is a joke, since the article references "US Patent No. 45,487,338,209, 'A system for organizing user-submitted text by means of collaborative ranking' and US Patent No. 46,773,228,287." I am certain that the number of patents issues is below well below 46 billion. Another link in the article points to http://63.196.208.222/frameset.html (nominally PR Newswire, but check out the reverse DNS and dig on that IP) wherein it states that "According to intellectual property expert Rob Enderly of the Giga Information Group, the patent most likely to be asserted is 5,876,324." Apart from the rather fake sounding name, the disreprency in patent numbers makes me suspicious, as does the actual content of that patent (hint). Finally, at the bottom of that page, you have the story "Red Hat, VA Linux Systems in bidding war for "Harry Potter" series," an obviously fake April Fools Story. In conclusion, it seems to be a well-planned and well-executed joke. I commend them.

Babelfish

[Trollberito]

Does babelfish do pig latin? It's too late at night to translate that thing by hand.

lashdotay rolltay hetay rollertay

[Martin Fitzgearld]

Iay houghtay dIay evernay eesay hetay daday!

what /. doesn't want you to see

[oog_rocks]

why is /. hiding this from everyone?
Andover.net is suing

Fuck. This is *HUGE* news.

[torpor]

I sincerely hope this isn't an April Fools joke, because if so it will go down in history as one of the most tasteless practical jokes on the Internet. Then again, I fucking hope this is a joke.

IF in fact Andover are suing these sites for this so-called 'copyright' and 'patent', then that is the end of Slashdot.org. For good.

There's not a geek out there who, having witnessed and participated in the many "Your Rights Online" articles posted to Slashdot over the last year or so, will not protest this unbelievably stupid action on the part of Andover.net.

There could be nothing more destructive than incurring the wrath of the Free Geek, and slapping sites like Advogado and Kuro5hin with an injunction for copying the 'look and feel' of Slashdot is a *HUGE* fucking mistake. Huge.

If this is a joke, it sucks.

If its not a joke, then *Heads Must Roll* at Andover for this, and there must be a widely-publicized retraction. If I don't hear about this retraction on *CNN*, then I will be seriously pissed off at Andover's control of its PR staff, and I will withdraw my investment, never to invest in Andover or any company helmed by its executive staff again.

And if this is just a bad joke, its fucked.

Oh man, thank god its just a joke.

[torpor]

Phew. I'm the April Fool. No underwear for me tomorrow.

But man, seriously, that's gotta be the harshest April Fools joke I've ever seen. Not only was it posted a day early (March 31st), but it *actually* seemed plausible.

Thank god for April Fools. Phew! Nice one guys...

Google's April Fool is much funnier

[mattbee]

Go see...

Again, Timothy?

[OOG_THE_CAVEMAN]

Dear Sir,

I am aware of the fact that I have stated this complaint in the prior article, and I am wondering whether you even cared to read it, or it blew it off like it was nothing. However, I must say that I was dreadfully serious in regards in to this April Fool's Day practice of yours. In all gravity, this joke has been stretched well beyond the bounds of light humor, and now comes across as merely nothing more than a juvenile prank.

For what reason do you refuse to return to the standard normal and articulate posting method of old. Even for a temporary one day departure, the joke has already grown well old beyond its lifespan, and I beg you to consider allowing it to die a dignified death.

Moreover, I cannot help but voice my concerns about how your childish joke will reflect upon the status of slashdot. Slashdot has been viewed for a long time as a premier supplier of quality technological news, cultural news, and opinions. It is a site that myself and others treat with the highest of respect. I swear upon my soul that I have never and would never dream of tainting slashdot's wonderous content by posting something inarticulate and hard to understand. Please reconsider this, timothy. You see, other major bodies also view slashdot as a center for information gathering. Tech companies and key open source figures pay heavy attention to this site and expect the dignity that it normally has. Worse, our political activism raised by this site could be in danger. The MPAA, RIAA, and other figures that stand in the way of the promise of open source, will no doubt use your April Fool's Day article in court battles over laws to dismiss claims on slashdot as juvenile and childish. And if they are able to paint a picture of the community as puerile, I shudder when I think of the greater influence they could exert and the potential destruction of open source liberties.

I hate to repeat myself, timothy, but I am shocked and appalled by your utter refusal to heed my serious words of warning. You are threatening slashdot's reputation, the reputation of many visitors and posters, and even the open source movement itself with your callow attempts at humor. Whats next, timothy? An article posted in all capital letters that sounds like neanderthal gibberish (TIMOTHY POST GOOD ARTICLE ON SLASHDOT!!! TIMOTHY BREAK HEAD!!!)? Please say it isn't so, timothy. For the sake of everyone involved, please cease with your activity and return slashdot to its status quo. It isn't too late to compensate for your prior mistakes. You may have put the future of this site in danger, but you can still return to normal and prevent the utter destruction of slashdot and its ilk. Heed my words, sir, or else I will be forced to come over to your place of work or residence and physically shatter your cranial region.

Sincerely and Urgently,
OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN

OOG WISH HAPPY APRIL FOOL DAY!!!

Re:Babelfish

[51M02]

I am an expert in Latin Pig translation, Here is mine:

There is a 1.6 version of Python in alpha. In addition, they have a schedule for future releases and some warnings about code breakage expected with those releases. It looks like the documentation will lag the releases a bit. "Apparently, it will breaks some code. The release notes describe them as "folklore APIs (that were never documented or endorsed but nevertheless were accepted and in common use)." The notes on 1.6 also lay out any ambitous roadmap toward Python 3000.

Python 1.6 Release Schedule

[stx23]

uffbeerday iteswray: "Erethay isyay ayay 1.6 ersionvay ofyay Ythonpay inyay alphayay...

You're not planning on keeping this up all day are you?
It's gonna get old soon...
You might want to vary it a bit...

What really would've been cool is if...

[eyeball]

What really would've been cool is if they registered ashdotslay.org and redirected slashdot to it. I wonder if anyone would've noticed...