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I Pity The April Fool!
Well, we hope you had a good April Fool's here at Slashdot; we're done with weird translations for the day. It's been an interesting day online, from Andrew Leonard's Salon piece to the Google MentalPlex to the l33t.freshmeat.net post over at Freshmeat, and of course, the Advogato joke on Andover. Also check out the 'Windows Games' post on Linux Games. Special thanks to Rinkworks and Babelfish for translations. Personally, my favorite April Fool's site on the entire web can be found here. Oh, you mean it's not? Oh, dear...
I think you jumped the gun on declaring april fools. It's not even noon in many parts of the US, and since it's Saturday, many people might not have even checked /. before this announcement. April Fools day jokes don't work if you say, "April Fool! And now here's my joke..."
Am i the only one that thinks that the number of people who took the Advogato/Andover thing seriously is representative of how much trust the community generally puts in /. nowadays?
Sad, really...
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
We will never be able to come to a consensus on which 10% ISN'T crap.
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
Serious Request: Now that April 1 is over can you please delete the April fools posts and update the non-April fools posts to indicate that they really aren't April fools gags. Thank you.
Oh, nice behaviour. Yeah, go ahead, reproduce my translation of the stupid "Slashdot Marketing" story on the main page without giving me credit. Yeah, go ahead, post the Advogato and Google links without crediting the people who mentioned it on the site or tried to submit it, without success. Yeah, go ahead, post the FIN link without mentioning the guy who first brought it up last night. After all, it's not like we want to be moderated up or get Karma, right?
Blargh.
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
I'm sorry, but translating every story to Italian, Portuguese, "Swedish Chef", "Hick" or "Skript Kiddie" does not qualify as a "classy sense of humour". As other people have pointed out, the real trolls did a much better job at spicing up this April 1st than the faux-troll editors. Sure, "humour" is a subjective thing, but I'll be damned if there ever was a day with so many complains about /. as there were today.
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
You've been hoaxed.
Using NS, right-click on the story and choose "View frame in new window" You'll notice the URL is kinda suspicious:
http://www.publius.net/hoax/home.html
On a side note, this is one of the problems with frames.
Actually the Gnome folks *are* trying to implement a GNU Visual Basic (or whatever they choose call it) to be used inside Gnumeric, in order to import Excel spreatsheets. I've read this in several of the GUADEC accounts. Sad.
www.hackernews.com
You know life is getting weird when you get moderated up for a troll in binary.
I must say that the quality of trolling today was *far* better than usual. And I suspect a few of the regular trolls will be feeling their noses *well* out if joint.
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I was moseying on my April Fool's high when you had to just go and ruin the whole day by posting this drivel. shame :P
Chris Hagar
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
The Advogato thing is not a joke. Andover cleverly timed their harrasment of Advogato to conincide with April fools, so that no one would believe them when they cried for help. This is despicable.
I've often wondered, reading the trolls and silly people, musing at the real time spent (wasted?) with ascii art to bloat my average page, set at 50 comments limit -1 flat, to 70k dowload, whether this recent outburst of noise is not a part of the psyche of /. which portends ill
Moot the linux / free sware / open source predications, whom I understand, but is it not narrowcast *advocacy* itsself the root of wild instability in the coherence of what people write here? So that, in a rush to say something of value, even good people fail to craft an argument, and default to invective.
Does that sect(ion) of the /. community want to loose their voice so much? I for one am a little tired to load such large pages just to get a low point limit. And the number of times my browsers (from IE to M13, depending) just fail to render a real long page totally sucks the virtue out of the medium.
But I for one am adamant, with the erraticism of moderation as it stands, front loaded, often wasted in "killing off" trolls and flames, that I *will* continue to read "uncut" (or maye if in hurry with work at +1 or +2, itending to come back later.
Those posts I come back here for *again and again* are (guess) 60% at +1, of which maybe half AC.The system works - yes, I get some of what I came for. But also I *want BAD* to loose this cruft of bad language and insult, of deliberate and pointless provocation which comes with every article
Shame has no face in a sea of people
Does this mean you are done with the April Fool jokes, or just the translations?
Fight Spammers!
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...can be found here. There are a bunch of other cool pieces there, too.
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#1. Read the story at advogato if you haven't already.
#2. Cordwainer Byrd from the "law firm" representing Andover has an email address from bbmma.com. A simple check at Network Solutions reveals the domain name is still available.
#3. The patent #'s in question(45,487,338,209 and 46,773,228,287) looked a little suspect to me so I checked them out at the patent office. Nope, no patents.
#4. It gets better. PR Newswire"(whoever they are, their website only has an IP address, not a qualified domain name) refers to a different patent, #5,876,324. I won't spoil this part for you. Just follow the link.
Happy april fools day! Good one, slashdot & advogato. I for one am glad there's a day where you can take things not so seriously.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
Okay, don't take this the wrong way, Slashdot crew...
:)
I'm sure you're all very intelligent and quite accomplished... but...
You might want to look into using some of the Andover money to buy a sense of humor.
love,
br4dh4x0r