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Yup. Sure looks prime to me, yessir. Cesaro writes: "BBC is reporting that the largest prime number yet found has been verified. This number is 4,053,946 digits and took them almost 2 years to find on the GIMPS distributed system. More information can be had here"
This punishment may have to be let out for certain crimes. A semi-anonymous reader wrote to point out that implications of the recent Windows virus Goner may have broader implications than were previously clear. "With word that the new 'Goner' email virus was quickly spreading across the globe, 41 U.S. states and six European countries today announced that anyone caught creating or purposefully distributing a computer virus will be prosecuted under hate crime statutes for intentionally targeting 'people of stupidity.'
The trouble with sounding too good to be true ... Greg Titus writes "As a followup to yesterday's story about the Treo MP3 player (touted as iPod competition) ... Check out the Treo web site this morning (http://www.treoplayer.com/): 'Due to issues beyond Hy-Tek Manufacturing and e.Digital Corporation's control, Hy-Tek has discontinued production of the current Treo design.'"
Getting at the guts of a Linn. thegadgetman, in a fit of "blatant bit of self-promotion" with some more information about the technology that runs the recently-featured (and incredible looking) Linn KiVOR.
"The Linn KiVOR is the first of an ever increasing number of companies adopting our XiVA software for powering the next-generation of media appliances. Built from the start to run on Linux (now running 2.4 series kernel) XiVA blends hard disk technology, advanced software design and embedded Internet technology to provide amazing features.As well as OEMing our technology, we have our own range of hard-disk audio products - our SoundServers. The M1000 is a range that goes up to 16 outputs and 3 hard-disk, and our S1000 range includes intuitive TV interface and a range up to 3 outputs. All the current products feature professional quality audio cards from Midiman. All these feature the XiVA-Link protocol which has been adopted by many of the major Home Automation controllers (AMX, Crestron etc), and is used by our XiVA-Producer PC application for meta-data editing and MP3 transfer. We also have software for automatic generation of Pronto CCF files, and an application that turns a Visor (with IR booster) into a graphical remote control that contains a listing of all the albums on the server.
Our recently launched XiVA-Net portal is the exciting new Internet based entertainment service from Imerge! It is dedicated to delivering entertainment to the new wave of internet-connected AV products. It will enable you to find out more about the music and artists you love as well as thousands you have not yet had the chance to listen to. XiVA-Net will allow you to buy music, book concert tickets and get the latest music news and gossip from the comfort of your living room. see our web-sites (http://www.imerge.co.uk http://xiva-net.com and http://www.xiva.com) for full details"
Are there no sections? Can they not delve? Since many people have submitted this story, please note that an interesting story on the Higgs Boson, or, perhaps better said, on the lack of Higgs Boson ran in the science section, and is worth checking out.
Nutha Fp, suck mah wang!
Just 'not found at 115GeV'. Besides, the article was in New Scientist, not exactly the epitome of scientific journals.
Reply to this comment with complaints.
The Treo information page at edigitalstore and their order page says *nothing* about this. Is it for real, or just a decently made hoax?
:(
Anyone have any updates at all?
Here's the original link.
And I wanted one for chanukah, too.
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Bastard Squad - Pulling On The Boots
(aka Romper Stomper song)
Pulling on the boots and tying up the laces
Shaving our heads and strapping on our braces
Now you're a skinhead looking for a fight
Skinhead skinhead, running from the law
Skinhead skinhead, running from the law
Making lots of trouble, starting lots of fights
Skinhead skinhead, getting really pissed
Skinhead skinhead tattoo'd on my wrist
Laying in the laneway, waiting for the scum
Smash their yellow faces, kick their fucking bums
When [something something], we will should it loud
Skinhead skinhead, till the job is done
Skinhead skinhead, pulling on the boots
Looking for a streetfight, looking for a root
Skinhead skinhead, running from the police
Skinhead skinhead, stomping on your face
When the coppers see us, first they pull their guns
But when they see us come towards, then they start to run
When we wear our badges, it makes us feel proud
Skinhead skinhead, shout it loud
Skinhead skinhead running from the law
Making lots of trouble, starting lots of fights
Skinhead skinhead, getting really pissed
Skinhead skinhead tattoo'd on my wrist
[Some lyrics in German]
As nice as that would be... I just want to make sure some of the people who would be covered under said law know that this article is fake.
This is my haiku
There are many more like it
But this one is mine
Semper Fi, Devil Dogs!
Let's see. A good 80% of the posters (not counting the iPod astroturfers) on that topic were unimpressed with the Treo. It has half the capacity, 1/10th the download speed, and a terrible UI.
/. was their way of gauging customer response. The poor man's market research. :-)
Is it any wonder that they discontinued it? Perhaps submitting the article to
Killed by fucking Pirates. Read about it on CNN.
"My virus wasn't targeting stupid computer users specifically, just anyone using Microsoft's Outlook Express or AOL," he said. "Oh... damn."
Haha... that all most made my coffee come out my nose.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
That Treo announcement was for their old Treo product. This new product (the Treo 10) has been announced long after that message was put up. I have recieved confirmation of this by eDigital on the Treoplayer mailing list at Yahoo groups. It should still be coming out.
nigger lover
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dead
This is the stupidest law ever. By stupid people, for stupid people, to protect stupid people from themselves.
It sounds like some public officials are tired of frying their networks and getting "that guy who knows computers and stuff" mad at them!
No sig for you.
Since these guys used the Handspring Treo name with different letter accented maybe the replacement will be called Ipód
Help fight continental drift.
Maybe if you had noticed that the URL at which you could go read that story was SATIREWIRE ...
Yeesh... Nevermind.
This is not a troll, off topic, or flamebait.
If anyone is looking for a cheaper portable music player, check out the iPod LC.
'Due to issues beyond Hy-Tek Manufacturing and e.Digital Corporation's control, Hy-Tek has discontinued production of the current Treo design.'
1. Insert Tongue in Cheek
2. Begin Speculation
RIAA Lawyers prob'ly threatened 'em with all manner of legal trouble when they got wind of the lack of DRM on the Treo.
Where do we post our agreements?
Just wondering because everyone is taking this
Satirewire article as real...
Something to think about.
That's why we only have filthy rich clients.
Never never never smoke crack before geometry class!
This is not a troll, off topic, or flamebait.
If anyone is looking for a cheaper portable music player, check out the iPod LC.
Should we be relieved or terrified that 'stupid people' are being given specific protection under the law now?
The treoplayer.com website is registered to an individual and he is the only contact. Its some dude with an earthlink email address. Check it out. There is no mention of the discontinuation at the manufacturer or distributors websites. Plus, the layout of the treoplayer.com site is amateurish at best. Me thinks Slashdot has been had.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
I have pictures proving that you enjoy slurping JonKatz and Michael in a h0+ w3+ 69
Pay me $50 or I'll post them all over Slashcrap. I swear I will!
--
$ chown -R us:us yourbase
Why have I been receiving emails from CmdrTaco, in which he seems to be speaking in some kind of code language?
Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"
Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?
I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?
Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?
That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?
Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a paedophile, not a homosexual.
No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.
________________________________________
READER COMMENTS
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.02 19:01 (#2644105)
this is good shit man
by Dark_Cobra87 on 2001.12.01 23:03 (#2642180)
Oops, forgot to check that Taco-snot option...
by Fecal Troll Matter on 2001.12.01 20:55 (#2641791)
Mmmmmmm, Taco Sauce...
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
by ArchieBunker on 2001.12.01 20:19 (#2641679)
I love trolling but this shit is getting old, fast. At least start mixing them up a little bit. How about the 'How OSM was Freed' series?
http://www.naawp.org/
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.12.01 8:37 (#2640602)
Stop posting this! I've got hangover and Taco Snotting doesn't make me feel any better.
I'm really glad that Taco Snotting is illegal here in Europe.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.30 1:01 (#2634213)
Get a life you loser! Don't you have anything better to do than insult CmdrTaco and the gay community? We are not perverts, we are human beings just like you. So give it a rest!
by perdida on on 2001.11.27 14:13 (#2618764)
Shut up you asshole.
I am not great, I am merely adequate. I live in adequacy.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.26 22:22 (#2616035)
You weiner trool!
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.25 9:14 (#2609574)
try to find a pic of actual "taco-snotting"! fucking funny it would be! so go to gay porn sites day in and day out until you find a man giving another man a blowjob that has jizz coming out of his nose and mouth. by the way, keep up the good work
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 12:18 (#2603370)
WIPO, this is getting waaaay old, either drop it or revise it.... there've been no updates for days now...
CmdrTaco
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.22 17:28 (#2600815)
A truly excellent and very humourous troll indeed!
However...
To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie often join in, dressed in black Gestapo uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves.
Black GeStaPo uniforms? The GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei - Secret State Police) wore civilian clothes (although there are reports on them occasionally using Allgemeine SS uniforms in occupied territories).
I seriously doubt that perverted individuals like CmdrTaco et al would have the good taste to ever wear the outstandingly beautiful black Waffen SS uniforms! Please update the FAQ accordingly.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.23 4:06 (#2602610)
Actually, it appears you are both wrong!! Ah ha!! I think our boy WIPO was thinking of the Allgemeine SS uniforms. Waffen SS were grey.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:49 (#2594325)
oh yeah, you say you have masturbated only 2 times to this post. well, by the time it takes for me to get through reading it, i usually end up masturbated 5 to 6 times, 10 to 12 if i have the goatse.cx homepage loaded up and am looking at it side by side with the slashdot page. my keyboard, hands, mouse, monitor, the underside of my desk and around the floor under my desk are cum soaked and sticky with the man smell i know and love.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.21 4:41 (#2594311)
for version 2 you should make a total re-write of the cod...errr...text and add some details about cmdrtaco and the homo-gang's happenings with their coworkers (osdn?) and all of the gay revelry they enjoy and promote. by the way, did i just see cmdrtaco on television promoting the nax hair removal system? i guess after using vaseline in and around his ass he grew quite a ponytail and it had to be removed somehow...ouch!
by TRoLLaXoR on 2001.11.21 3:59 (#2594191)
WIPO, do you notice how few comments you get for anything you write/post/spam nowadays?
-Trollaxor
by sales_worldwide on 2001.11.20 11:53 (#2588488)
You forgot to mention Jon Katz's "docking" games, where he places his chopper head to head with another chap, and rolls the other guys foreskin over his own circumcised end ("docking"), providing him with fantasies of actually having his own forskin
"Making linux GPL was the best thing I ever did" - Torvalds. I'd hate to see the worst thing...
by Fucky the troll on 2001.11.20 11:28 (#2588446)
Woah! When did the WIPO troll get freed? And how the fuck did I miss it?
Excellent FP, sir.
This is a sig virus. Please put me in your sig
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.20 11:04 (#2588407)
omg that is crapflooding material if i ever saw it!!!!!! and u got a first post!!!! whoot to the wipo troll!!!
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 9:03 (#2583756)
GW...you know we love every hair on your 27 acre ass... and I, for one, would never do anything untowards your graceful demeanor. And you probably have several friends that would love to help you do the bear dance all over my face if I so much as spelled your name wrong. And you know I'd defend your Constitutional right to defame God in heaven. I'd even help fund your education, should you ever decide to take that route. Hell, I'd buy you a tall tepid bear-whiz beer if you were here with me, right now!
But.
Now go stick your shaved head back down inside the woman's toilet, and just to show there's no hard feelings, I'll jump in the tow-truck and drive right over to help you pull it right out...ok?
thanks
by mark knopfler 69 on 2001.11.19 8:25 (#2583695)
I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU SIR. FOR ONE THING, THE E-MAIL FROM CMDRTACO DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING MISTAKES. Let's be realistic here, CmdrTaco usually types with one hand, and since he is shaking from jacking off his aim on the keyboard isn't too good. Those e-mails were a little too well written. Sorry boy, you'll have to do better.
by WeatherTroll on 2001.11.19 8:14 (#2583667)
You should update this to say VA Software instead of VA Linux.
by smackmonkey on 2001.11.19 7:06 (#2583510)
Crackhead moderators: this is +5, Hilarious material.
--
CNN declares War on Islam!
Left-wing America declares War on its Civil Liberties!
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.19 5:40 (#2583336)
This was funny the first 100 times. Now it is getting boring!
by egg troll on 2001.11.18 22:27 (#2582054)
Having masturbated *twice* to this post, I'm still incredibly aroused! Come over for a Taco Snot. I'll be wearing my crotchless Clifford the Big Red Dog outfit!!
For more info check out this
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:03 (#2580822)
add more links to goatse and to cowboineal's site to make it better. a link to rotten.com would be nice too
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.18 12:18 (#2580832)
and a link to michael's site and to jon katz's site if he has one and homo's site. i dont know what else to say. maybe a few links to phallic.org they have nice penis pictures! a link to the planet quake site or whatever. really make the reader feel this faq really answers their questions. oh yeah, and when you talk about cmdrtaco snotting you, say he brought you to "orgasm after sweaty orgasm". describe it more is all i'm saying. and use more italics and bolding! and when you talk about jon katz shitting or whatever have a link to fecal japan on rotten.com
other wise a great job wipo troll! keep up the good work!
by Wil Wheaton on 2001.11.18 6:41 (#2580438)
Hi. Let's be buddies.. butt buddies.
--
WIL WHEATON DOT NET
by dead_puppy on 2001.11.18 5:33 (#2580342)
Here is an e-mail I received a week ago:
From: malda@slashdot.org
To: puppy_dead@hotmail.com
Subject: were where you last friday?
I thought we where supposed to meet at Backdoor's at 8-ish, sugar-lips? You could've at least told me that you could'nt make it! I was even in my favorite pink skirt for you, honey-cup... next time, you could be more considarite and tell me you cant come... bastard.
--
CmdrTaco (malda@slashdot.org)
You finding Ling-Ling's head?
by Big_Ass_Spork on 2001.11.18 4:53 (#2580300)
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
---
All your Sporks are belong to Big_Ass_Spork! What you say?! All your Sporks are belo... forget it...
by j0nkatz on 2001.11.17 22:54 (#2579596)
I just heard some sad news on the radio -- famous queerbait Rob Malda was found dead in his Holland home this morning. The details were a bit hazy, but it seems that he drowned in jizz while Taco Snotting his friend Hemos. I'm sure everyone in the
I wanna Open Source sex so it won't be worth a shit either.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.15 6:38 (#2567601)
No no no, the correct term for that is "donkey-punch". I have eye-witnessed this amazing eye-popping event demonstrated on unsuspecting hose-monsters by my frat brothers in the past.. .
by AbsoluteRelativity on 2001.11.15 5:31 (#2567457)
The WIPO Troll
Slashdot and the Karma Lottery - News for uber monkeys, by uber monkeys.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:27 (#2557632)
Oh, man that's just sick !
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.13 9:03 (#2557604)
TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET AN ANONYMOUS proxy please WIPO Troll. Maybe later i will join you in a snotting at my place.
by vikool on 2001.11.13 7:43 (#2557495)
what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured
by I.T.R.A.R.K. on 2001.11.11 22:38 (#2551890)
Where the fuck do I sign up?!
- I throw rocks at retarded kids
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 21:53 (#2551753)
this shit is hilarious..keep up the good work.
by rockwood on 2001.11.11 21:49 (#2551746)
OMG! That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard! WHo in their right mind would sit down and waste the time to construct such a replusive story. I guess I'll be skipping lunch and dinner today.. and possibly tomorrow also. The game doesn't affect reality. Reality affects the game.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 14:43 (#2550701)
dude, this is crap-flood material if i ever saw it.
duuuuuuuuudddddddddddddeeeeeeeee.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 8:16 (#2550266)
horny_rob_6969@hotmail.com
Ah, so that's what the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.horny-rob newsgroup is about!
by egg troll on 2001.11.11 5:34 (#2550024)
+5, Arousing
For more info check out this
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:39 (#2549891)
WINNER>
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.11 4:37 (#2549887)
I love you. Why do you use your bitchslapped account, rather than signing up for a new account to post at +1 before getting bitchslapped by the censors here? I guess I should speak for myself, but I don't want to log out and lose all my slashdot customization properties, nor do I want to lose my 50 karma yet.
by Anonymous Coward on 2001.11.09 9:19 (#2542412)
you fucking rock! right down to the expanded cvs id!
WIPO trolls > linux
________________________________________
J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
damned vapor-ware!
ahh well... 10GB drive did sound too cheap...
:-(
Can you imagine the happiness, then the happiness turn to horror as the server crashes 5 minutes before it gives the actual answer(its count got so high it rolled back to 42).
iPod LC. For about the amount of money you have buried in your couch (if your like me) it's all yours!
Slashdot shit on itself this afternoon, it's amazing how this site pukes at random.
These guys should really work on improving the db shit instead of lameness "filters".
Hey! Isn't prime number research prosecutable under the DMCA? They should shut those pirates down! A whole network of people trying to hack DVDs!
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What follows is my favorite prime number, wihch fun unzipping properties:
48565078965739782930984189469428613770744208735
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
Why complain about the Treo? I got my 20 Gg MP3 player at http://www.archos.com/. It works fantastic.....I have 4 gigs of songs, more than I could ever need, as well as a backup of all my important files, like my resume!!!!! A USB connector and cig-lighter power lets this thing go from work to car so I can listen to tunes on the ride home. Has anyone else got this as well?
Really. Go look at that "hate crime against stupid people" link. It's from SatireWire - come on, guys. Read the disclaimer: "All stories are fictional and satirical and should not in any way be construed as fact."
Oops.
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
At least, it is if Microsoft is prosecuted for releasing Outlook in the first place. :)
That virus hate crime thing is satire, as in: "It's funny. Laugh".
I don't believe it for a second. Does anyone actually own one of these? Looks like a complete sham to me. Trying to steal some thunder b/c apple, as usual, came out with a device that blows everyone elses design away.
Regardless, i thought this thing looked unlikely in the first place -- now even more so. If someone actually has a working unit in their possession, i will retract my disbelief, but will redouble my dislike for inferior copycats...
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J. Wipo Troll, Esq.
Crapflooder Associates
Slashdot.org
Unless you're a Jew or an Arab.
...on TreoPlayer.com reveals some interesting facts:
:D
;)
Check out the source code. Lovely ol' Frontpage inserted an author meta tag with the name "Jerzy Bilyk".
Here is where it gets interesting. Run a Google search on "Jerzy Bilyk", and you come up with this page (Google cache used because the original doesn't exist anymore). It lists a "Bilyk, Jerzy" as having a supended license (among other crimes.) The police department is in Plano, IL.
Now here's the really interesting part: a WHOIS on treoplayer.com shows a John Bastion as owning the domain. His address? Sugar Grove, IL: about 12 miles from Plano. (Mapquest proves it).
I think, from this, we can safely declare one golden rule: if you're going to do a hoax and submit it to Slashdot, don't freakin' use Frontpage!
P.S. I'm available as a consultant if anyone from Slashdot would like to hire an editor/story checker.
Half the Slashdot stories these days are already covered -- days earlier -- in BottomQuark. Please, quit it! We don't need the duplication.
As we all know, attempting to determine the mass of the Higgs boson is what causes Type 13 planets to collapse
to the size of a pea. (Scroll about halfway down the page for the reference, then see here for an explanation of the reference to fans.)
Shiver me timbers, and I'll shiver yarrrs!
"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
"I am not a victim of a hate crime because I am not stupid," said Smith. "I got an email with an attachment from my buddy in Phoenix, so naturally, I opened it. What's so stupid about that?"
What, Smith was asked, did the email say?
"It said, 'I_love_you.' Why?"
In the words of the great Homer Simpson....Doh!
This is the most informative and acurate article I have seen posted in a very long time. Too bad people think it's a joke.....
I thought that most of the articles came from random word generators. They certainly read like it.
Now before some moderator with an itchy finger mods me down as flamebait, I want to explain my (only somewhat) facetious comment there.
(WARNING: The following has little to do with tonight's slashback, and is mostly a rant)
Three years ago or so, the LDP looked to be the ultimate collaborative project to complement the coming victory of open source software.
Unfortunately, something got lost along the way. There are "current" documents in the LDP that haven't been looked at since 1998. The articles are taken as submitted, and not even proofread for accuracy, let alone timliness, relevance, grammar, or spelling.
Furthermore, when I last offered to help, I got ignored. While I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough to write HOWTOs or the like, I would have been quite happy to do those annoying jobs--proofreading, editing, and the like. The responses I got were: "," "Thanks but no thanks--we don't need editors" and, "Editing would introduce technical errors."
Maybe things have changed recently, but for quite a few years the LDP was one of the biggest hinderances to Linux getting better accepted.
Now as far as the licensing issue goes, who CARES??? All of these stupid little fights over which license is better, how we can avoid infringing that license, etc. etc., are pointless and damaging. If someone infringes license "x", then it's up to the owner/creator of the license to prosecute. If there's no desire to prosecute and/or if there's no clearly no deliberate abuse, then there is no need to make any issue of this at all. The LDP authors don't need to be bothered. Period.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Well, if it helps any to you Ipod jonesin' Windows folks out there, you might want to keep an eye on XPlay by MediaFour. It's a Windows Ipod package... Here's the link:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/xpod/
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
It seems to have been created with Microsoft Frontpage. Check out the source.
:))
Ah ha! So Microsoft Frontpage was used to build the hoax! Another terrible reason to hate a terrible company... (just joking
No, really, it appears to be false in many ways. Disregard it completely.
www.treoplayer.com is mentioned here as the official website of Hy-Tek Manufacturing, the alleged "manufacturers" of the Treo. Also, they are located in Sugar Grove, IL., just like the whois info for the domain.
So THERE, Mr. Smarty-shitpants.
...and get over your bad ol days B.S.
Yep it was a rant and I shouldn't have been tempted to reply but hey.
The people on ldp-discuss@ are the nicest and most down to earth people.
"3 yrs ago it was a bit rude - so people thought linux sucked" is not argument. The linux audience was massively different 3 yrs ago anyway.
If you wanna put your money where your mouth is check out the LDP web site for info on how to help. I hope you will be plesently suprised.
I have been watching e.digital for a while, they seem like they're interested in only one thing - getting more people to buy their stock. They haven't sold a product in years, but they've certainly been able to spend $38 million so far on R&D. Look it up.
They're a fishy company, to be sure. The more you read about them, the more they stink.
well, if u ppl want to volunteer as editors, why don't u approach the authors directly? i'm a minor LDP author myself and i find it really painful to go thru my doc again and again. and as for outdated stuffs, yes, definitely i agree. however there is a call for new mainatainers for really outdated docs at the LDP site itself things are really changing with the LDP having a big database for authors and editors (www.gldp.org) weekly call for maintainers of unmainatained docs and things, and let's hope for the very best
Can you imagine better protection for a virus writer?
"Mr. Prosecuter, was your client adversely affected by Mr. Jones malicious program?"
"Yes sir, he was."
"And is your client 'stupid,' under the statuates of the State of New York."
" Uhh.. No sir? He's not?"
"CASE DISMISSED!"
----- "Oh, Stewardess! I speak l33t!"
That Treo homepage has been up for more than a year. It previously had information about the Treo and was linked to by other technology and music sites. Probably at least a month ago, the site posted the message you now see, which was no surprise because the Treo was scheduled to come out in Fall 2000. Obviously eDigital has decided to pick a different manufacturer than Hy-Tek and go ahead with the production of the Treo 10. Hy-Tek did claim to be based in Illinois on the old site and seem to be legitimate from all I've seen. Maybe they just picked a shady webmaster.
If this was an intent to defraud people by floating a bogus MP3 player that one-upped the iPod, why would he be selling a 6 GB drive with a USB connection? The speed of the FireWire connection on the iPod is one of its main selling features, and is the one feature it has that no other MP3 player on the market has. And the Treo has a USB 1.1 connection at that.
Granted, most PC's don't have a FireWire port, but I think I would have at least said it had a combo USB/FireWire port.
America is turning totally into a fascist hell. Anyone with any sense should ditch that nazi country and move to Europe, where at least there's some hope for the future.
and the corpse is rotting.
No, it is our laws that are stupid. Nonsense like "hate crimes" and all the other millions of stupid, illogical laws are why it is so easy to believe that this one is real too. There are actually entire books written that make fun of some of the stupid laws we have!
On a related note, the Classic XP3 player sold by circuit city uses the same base design as the true, and sports a few extra features like recording and extended battery life. I read a few reports of problems with it though, usually due to the fact the case is made out of plastic instead of aluminum like the Treo.
-- Classism is the new racism
I suggest you try the http://www.treoplayer.com link again. It now redirects you to http://www.edig-store.com , where the Treo 10 can be purchased for $249.95. Also, a clone of the Treo is being sold as the Classic XP3 at Circuit City stores nationwide for $279.95. Same 10 GB capacity, and both players can encode in MP3 format from their audio input jack. (No PC required). The can also act as external hard drives via their USB port. (Rumor has it that Firewire and USB 2.0 capability will be added in 2002.) If the Circuit City salespeople can't point you to the XP3, have them look it up on their inventory computer. It is listed as 'CHD1000'.