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Yet Unuzeer Internet Treckeeng Ixplueet
Um de hur de hur de hur. Ununymuoos in Indy vreetes: "Su yuoo'fe-a shoot ooffff yuoor cuukeees,
blucked thuse-a bunner-ed seetes, und instelled Joonkbooster. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Feeleeng secoore-a in yuoor ununymeety? Vell,
Merteen Puul et Leenooxcere-a Oostreleea knoos a vey zeey cun steell treck yuoo vhee yuoo soorff: By useeng zee HTTP ceche-a-cuntrul heeder.
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! It's fer mure-a defeeuoos thun cuukeees, und mure-a deefffficoolt tu bluck, tuu. Hees erteecle-a Zee Meunteeme-a
Ixplueet veell geefe-a yuoo a descreepshun und a demunstreshun." Es a bunoos, Merteen's vreeting is foonny und cleer. Hurty flurty schnipp
schnipp! Velcume-a tu Stunderd Perunueea Teeme-a.
uh theenk three eepril feewls jukes eez enuf.
Are we going to have to deal with this all day? I know you're editors, but it really seems to seem a bit unoriginal and quite annoying after the first April Fools post.
DON'T be a "First Post" troll!
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Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
I know this is offtopic, but Slashdot readers have a right to know, and they're sure as hell not going to post it on the front page.
Maybe some of you have heard about the legal battle brewing between Andover.net (slashdot's corporate parent) and Advogato. Well, today the shit hit the fan - Andover filed an injunction to shut the site down. The full story is on PRNewswire. I'm pissed and I'm going to fight this, but I don't have the resources for a protracted legal battle.
Thanks to everybody who's sent me letters of support.
LILO boot: linux init=/usr/bin/emacs
The User Friendly/Segfault scam was amusing, this year's /. jokes are terrible. I'm officially "complaining about lack of options," just in case there's ever a poll.
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For those not fluent in Swedish Chef speak:
Yet Another Internet Tracking Explot.
So you've shut off your cookies, blocked those banner ads (...?), and installed JunkBuster. Feeling secure in your anonymity? Well, Martin Paul at Linuxcare... etc.
I urge you all to spread the word about this heinous tripe, and to boycott this site and all andover holdings until they stop trying to sue the competition out of existence.
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There is no K5 cabal.
I am not the real rusty.
Slashdot is a news portal for geeks. Slashdot's mission is to post links to relevant news around the net. Slashdot's primary mission is to spread information.
Posts such as this, masking news in some twisted, somewhat racially slurred (it can be read into it), is violating a primary rule of communication: Communicate, damnit, or shutup. (Specifically it violates Paul Grice's {philosopher} Rule of Manner:)
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Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is a misnomer? Perhaps Macrosoft would be a better fit?
Timothy, while I understand that this the initial day of April, also regarded as the prank day April Fool's, I still must question the intentions of your article.
You see, we at slashdot try to respect this forum as a posting area where the intelligent, wise, and technologically saavy can exchange valuable information and even discuss ponderous philosophical issues. Indeed, in my own posts, I work exceptionally hard to present my arguments in clear, crisp, and coherent manner such that others my understand and benefit from what I have to share intellectually. I expect and recieve the same treatment from the other fine members of the slashdot community.
While, I again would like to reinforce that the aforementioned post does have its moments in jest, the crude and garbled presentation only takes away from slashdot and its respectability. I expected more high brow, intellectual humor from people like you and this site. And to be honest, any relevance contained in the actual article is lamentably lost because of the coarse summary of it that you display. I implore you, sir, to consider the levity of such a practical joke and to present your humorous intentions in other ways so that we readers may enjoy and comprehend your humor instead of simply staring a the screen with a baffled haze on our faces.
I realize that many of my slashdot peers, including the moderators who evaluate and critique the posts of slashdot, may consider this plea a troll or offtopic or such, but I must butress my current argument by saying that timothy's presentation of the article fully justifies my heated response. Humor is humor, and a joke is a joke, but I really cringe at the thought of deciphering such babbling, nonsensical language. I, for one, never have and never will speak in such confusing tongues, and I feel it benefits the quality of my posts and allows others to glean from it. And I respect my aquaintances at slashdot for doing so as well.
In conclusion, I would like to ask that you, timothy, would reconsider the obvious impulses to perform such a chilidish joke before the deed is done. Indeed, I have managed to see some humor in your joke, but the cost is at the quality and respectability of this fine web site. I trust your good judgement and am fully assured that you will make the correct decision should the thought present itself in the future. And if you do not, I am afraid that I, OOG THE CAVEMAN, may find myself compelled to approach you and rupture your cranium.
Cheers and Happy April Fool's Day,
OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN
OOG SAY YOU APRIL FOOL!!!
OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN!!! OOG BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN SOURCE CD!!!
Ok Happy April fools day... I was bored so I thought I would translate this for people who don't speak this special language! =)
Anonymous in Indy writes: "So you've shut off your cookies, blocked those bannered sites, and installed Junkbuster. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Feeling secure in your anonymity? Well, Martin Paul at Linuxcare Australia knows a way we can still track you while you surf: By using the HTTP cache control heeder. It's far more devious than cookies, and more difficult to block, too. Here's the article The Meantime Exploit will give you a description and a demonstration." It's a bonus, Martin's writing is funny and clear. Welcome to Standard Perunueea?? Time.
The original BUGTRAQ post is here. Taken from the post, the summary reads:
Essentially, instead of giving you a cookie (which many people refuse/block) they give you a unique "cache freshness" timestamp, which your broswer nominally sends back with the conditional-GET request [see the HTTP RFC esp. sections 9.3 and 13.3.3 for description].
Note that the site would have to use the same thing linked from every page to track you, e.g. a 1x1 transparent gif. Also note that this becomes pretty useless for them if you block the REFERER header, which you should be doing any.
If this kind of thing bothers you, you should be using the Internet Junkbuster anyway.
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New rules going into effect on April 1st.
1) All posts concerning Natalie Portman, or the word "goat" will be automatically moderated up to a score of at least 3:Interesting.
2) Anyone mentioning or participating in a troll, or troll based thread will be givin a score of 2:Insightful.
C) Comments containing logical thought, or insight that had not previously been discussed will be summarily dismissed as Flamebait!...now, on to my real post:
(Score, 4: Insightful)
YOO AL AHVE WEERd HAR3! N4t4LeE P0TRMAN RULLLLEEEZZZZZ!!!!! B00\/\/ 2 D3 GOOT1!!1!!1@1@
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for sucking
I agree - the humour isn't the story, but the reaction. Which is really funny - I have never seen so many people so upset over the Swedish Chef filter.
yes, exactely 1 year, oddly, that Microsoft took legal action against segfault and userfriendly.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
so you won't be late for work Monday...
This is especially important if you've just moved to Arizona or Indiana
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
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Will you stop jargonizing the goddamn articles...it's really annoying already.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
To give an example for other readers, too: Presuming you are blocking referer, the site would use the cache-timestamp to link your (possible changing) IPs addresses as "one person", and then track your sessions from the IP you are coming from.
Of course, one can battle back and forth with client workarounds, but it always does come back to that general point.
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