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Slashback: Python, Giveaway, Collection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-to-sleep-late-than-die-early dept.

Slashback tonight with more on poseable Python figures (sorry Guido, the other Python -- your turn will come), Brian K. West (sigh), preserving transient websites for historical purposes, and giving away Free software. Bulk order from CheapBytes, perhaps? GigsVT writes: "From FreeLinuxCD.org: CD reserves getting very low: If you have been thinking about contributing CDs, it is the best time to do so. We are running dangerously low on our reserves. With the best of luck we will only be able to go one more week after which we will have to pause until the next batch of contributions comes in. Please consider giving back to the Linux, Open Source and Free Software communities that has helped you in many ways in the past so that we can keep taking Linux, BSD and other Free Operating Systems to people who will have their lives changed by them."

Let's make this a closed collection, please. gmr2048 writes "In the WashTech section of the Washington Post there is a story about organizations (working with the Library of Congress) trying to catalogue and store web pages from the attacks of Sept 11, 2001. Towards the end of the article is this request for help: "...are developing a cataloguing system to help navigate the terrorist attack archives, and they are seeking the public's help in identifying Web pages that should be included. Their Web site is at www.webarchivist.org.

I thought slashdot'ers could lend a hand. I know I got most of my info the day of the attacks from /."

Hopefully, they will include Robert Liedlein's site. Lieblein writes: "Quick backstory, 4 or 5 years ago I shot footage for an IBM commercial down in the World Trade Center area. It was actually one of my favorite days that I ever spent in New York, just me and a camera. I kept thinking about that day after the tragic event. 5 years in New York city and only once was I right directly in the area that is ground zero, and I happened to have a camera and an objective of the day was to film the people, the energy, the life. A few days ago I finally found an old VHS tape that had about an hour of transfers of the footage. I knew I had that tape somewhere. I wanted to watch just for the reason of being able to go back there, to understand what it was like and what had happened. I realized that I had footage that was refreshing from the devastation we are all viewing and cut it into a 4 1/2 minute video. I hope the memory of the WTC alive and breathing life gives hope to a new day when that energy and vitality can thrive again."

Outliving the presumption of innocence. Keefe writes "I am sure that we all remeber the name Brian K. West. He is 24 year old sales and support employee for an internet service provider in SE Oklahoma. Mr. West alerted a local business to a serious security flaw in their website. The business had him investigated by the Justice Department for helping them fix a website security hole. The online community cried out to help him because of his innocence. It turns out that he actually was intending to modify the newspaper's Web applications -- written in the Perl language -- and modify them and market his own versions."

Patsy! Patsy! Patsy! (It's only a model.) Shere Ermilio wrote to point out that if you're interested in the Monty Python action figures hemos posted about not long ago, this could be your lucky month -- here's the link to Sideshow Toys' Monty Python giveaway for October. Those with spare cash and less hope can buy them the usual way. (And No, I'm not getting any free dolls ;))

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  1. Am I the only one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who thinks that the WTC towers are better off dead? Not the people, the towers. They represented everything that was wrong with capitalism. The excess, the waste, the environmental destruction.

    How about this as a monument to the people who died: clear off manhattan of all buildings and people and turn it into a nature reserve, the way it was originally? Hell, give it back to the indians. Put a tribe back on Manhattan.

    1. Re:Am I the only one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Nah, the indians would just sell it again to the first white man that came along with 24 dollars' worth of beads, trinkets and liquor.

    2. Re:Am I the only one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      WOuldn't take that. Just wave a bottle of cheap liquor at them from the other side of the river and they'll give up the island to come to the other side.

    3. Re:Am I the only one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Flamebait

      who profitted most from the wtc bombings?

      Gary Condit, the California congressman and mistress murderer, whose bizarre sexual practices are no longer front page follies?

      George Bush, the "unelected" President, who now has approval ratings higher than any of his predecessors could have dreamed possible?

      The Defense and Intelligence industry, after years of scandals, fuckups, embarrassments, and dwindling budgets, they've been given a blank check and new powers?

      Rudy Guliani, the mayor who made New York livable again, but then was sidelined by term limits, prostate cancer, and a divorce, who is now seen as one of the greatest mayors ever and may be re-elected by unorganized writeins?

      Or VA Linux, whose slash.org web log recieved more "hits" in the days following the crash as they had the previous 3 months, and whose imminent Nasdaq delisting was put on hold?

  2. MODERATORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is my post Flamebait? You may not agree with it. You may not think it's worth moderating up. But it's hardly "flamebait".

    Unfortunately, opinion that are too outside the "mainstream" too often get moderated down.

  3. Re:There is no such thing as racism against blacks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yes they are the ultimate monkey-servant

  4. Re:There is no such thing as racism against blacks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey, shut up. You might get them cranky and you know hard it is to make them quiet. Unless you know how to discipline them of course. But these days disciplining your negroes has fallen out of fashion.

  5. Re:i couldn't help it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I bet you don't even know what the words 'Saudi Aramco' means, you racist American pig.

  6. He IS GUILTY you dumb fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    from wired

    , says that before phoning the paper's editor, West downloaded proprietary program and password files and used those to force his way into private areas of the Poteau Daily News and Sun's site.

    West admitted he intended to modify the newspaper's Web applications -- written in the Perl language -- and modify them and market his own versions.

    read that, he ADMITTED IT JACKAASS!!
    how is this tripe getting moderated up??

  7. Dear Ann Landers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Dear Ann Landers, please help, i have a problem with my son Rob. Rob is homosexual. Although I try not to be judgemental, even though homosexuality is an abomination, I can't help but vomit at thoughts of his face covered in spooge or moaning in pleasure as some random man's cock is plunged into his unlibricated asshole.

    Recently, I invited him and his boyfriend Jeff over for a formal dinner. Halfway through, he loudly passed gas, and Jeff yelled out, "so that's where our hamster is!". I fainted from the shock. I don't wish disown my own son, but his lifestyle is disgusting.

    Malda's Mom.

    Dear Malda's Mom: Please seek counseling at once. Disgusting sex practices are a normal part of being a turd burglar. The two of you need to bond more. Consider taking him shopping with you next time you need to buy a new dildo, and then pick up a well-hung negro for a 3-way orgy.

  8. WTC Life : Pul-leeze ! by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Okay, so we're all shocked by the WTC disaster (and the Pentagon attack too, although all media channels seem to blissfully ignore it for lack of terrible images to broadcast, but I digress). We've all donated blood and $$$, everybody is angry at the terrorists, Laden or someone else, America and its allies are determined to squash all terrorism (but the IRA) and everybody agrees with this.

    Now, can we PLEASE do away with footages with shitty violonist music over it and stop pretending it's moving ? When will video and cinema people realize that a bland piece of tape isn't turned into a piece of art just because they slap a Schinlder's list soundtrack on top of it ?

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash