Farewell, 11111010001

As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time. That means that you're reading the last story posted in 2001, in which we've gathered some more year-end submissions. Happy New Year to all, no matter what time zone you're in! Zargo writes: "Infosync.no has a great collection of articles named Rewind 2001 looking back at the best stories of 2001. Lots of cool gadgets in there. Samsung 3G prototypes, a car designed by Bella and Nokia, soft hardware by IDEO, Siemens wristphone, Compaq's project Mercury, the Agende VR3 Linux based PDA, the Pogo, Psion's über gadgets, Handspring's Treo, Fathammer's X-Forge, Samsungs YOPY (Linux PDA), Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 including screenshots. Lots and lots of cool stuff to read."

Speaking of Stuff, Dave Gould writes: "I have published my picks for the 2001 Stuff of the Year. Here's hoping for lots of neat new stuff in 2002!" I bet high that stuff continues to arrive. Maybe even more IT.

Weedstock writes: "EE Times has a list of 15 interesting articles about technologies to watch in 2002. One of those articles, Software model needs overhaul, explains the current problems with computer processing and describes new technologies (Such as the Reconfigurable Architecture Workstation processor from MIT) that will affect this domain in the next year."

uninet writes: "'Looking back over the past year, I think most people would have to agree it has been a ground breaking time for open source. While it is true that open source companies suffered just like the rest of the tech sector from poor economic conditions, those same conditions have also made open source appear even more attractive.'" Here's the rest of Open For Business' analysis of the year past and coming.

There are plenty more year-end wrap-ups filled with bulleted lists and instant nostalgia, but few can top Llewyn, who writes: "The couple who met on Slashdot two years ago are celebrating their first wedding anniversary! you can email them at scott@asofyet.org and elysse@asofyet.org or visit their reminiscing website." Congratulations!

For those into New Year's festivities of the more athletic (and semi-athletic) variety, burntfungus writes with words on "Security and open 802.11b WLAN Access Points along the Rose Parade route, Pasadena's yearly event that allow anyone to be a street person for two nights a year! If you get cold there are many places to get a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate. Watch floats (on webcam, blimps and low flying stealth bombers! Find a public WLAN access point or two."

At least partly wrapping up one of this year's oddest stories, several readers have submitted a link to a CNN story which says that Dmitry Sklyarov has returned home to Russia, and has already raised a toast with his wife and children. I hope Dmitry's treated a little differently on his next visit to the U.S. suwain_2 adds a link to this Newsforge story as well.

Comments

There's really only one thing to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

First post of 2002!!

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[The WIPO Troll]

You sir, are worse than Hitler, and if I ever meet you, I shall surely kick your ass!

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like you're jealous.

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[The WIPO Troll]

You, sir, are worse than the anonymous coward who is worse than Hitler, and if I ever meet you, I shall surely kick your ass twice!

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

I can take a day's worth of vacation. Just tell me where you want to meet. You'll need longer than a day, however (for recuperation purposes).

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[The WIPO Troll]

How about you just shove your head into the anus of a well-oiled goat?

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

fuck you WIPO you god damn cock-sucking homosexual faggot.

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds to me like you're an all-talk, no action nancy-boy.

Here's a piece of advice. If you threaten to kick someone's ass in the future, you better be prepared to follow up.

I reiterate. Name the place.

Re:There's really only one thing to say...

[The WIPO Troll]

Right here, you dickslurp. Right now!

Whee!!! FP of the new year!!

[The WIPO Troll]

I LIKE TO FUCK MY LITTLE SISTER! (AND OTHER SHIT) By J. Wipo Troll, Esq., $Revision: 1.4 $ Whats black, blue and green and doesnt like sex? The Girl Scout locked in my basement. Whats the worst part about having sex with a six year-old? Getting the blood out of your clown suit. Whats the best thing about getting a hand job from a five year-old? That little hand makes your thing look really huge. Guy comes home from work to find his girlfriend sitting on the porch, crying. Whats wrong, honey? Im leaving you! I just found out youre a pædophile! Pædophile? Why, thats a pretty big word for a ten year-old. How can you tell when your sisters on her period? When your dads dick tastes like blood! Two pædophiles are lying on a beach tanning, one turns to the other and says, Excuse me, youre in my son. Whats 18 inches long, blue, veiny, and makes a woman cry? Crib death. How could the mans seven year-old son tell that his dad had fucked his eight year-old sister? His dads weiner tasted like blood! Watson returns home to find Holmes in bed with a child. He shouts, Is this some sort of a schoolgirl? Holmes replies, Elementary, my dear Watson. So I was having sex with my girlfriend, and I decided I wanted to get kinky and try and do her in the ass. So I slipped around back; she looked over her shoulder at me and said, My, how presumptuous of you. I said, Presumptuous? Thats a big word for a ten year-old. Two guys are walking down the street when a beautiful woman passes. The first guy says, Damn! Id love to tear her clothes off, do her in the rear, smear my fæces all over her, slice off her breasts, chop her into little pieces, put her in a garbage bag and toss her into the river! Second guy says, Yuck! Youre a sick bastard! First guy says, Whatre you? A fag? A kindergarten teacher is asking the kids what their father does for a living. All the kids answer except for Little Johnny. The teacher asks Little Johnny what his Dad does and Johnny replies, My dad is dead. The teacher says, Thats terribile, but what did he do before he died? Little Johnny replies, He turned blue and shit all over himself! A guy calls in sick to work. Whats wrong? asks the boss. Im sick, the guy replies. You sound all right. No, Im really sick. Believe me. Listen, you were fine yesterday, and we have a lot of work today. I want you in here. You cant be that sick! Dude, I just banged my sister. Dont tell me Im not sick. A little girl accompanied her father to the barbershop. While her dad received a haircut, the little girl stood next to the barber chair, enjoying a snack cake. The barber smiled at her and said, Sweetheart, youre going to get hair on your Twinkie. I know, the little girl replied. Im gonna get tits, too. An older man and a small boy walk hand in hand through the woods. Boy: These woods sure are spooky! Man: You think youre scared, Ive gotta walk out of here alone. Whats the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson? One walked on the moon, and the other rapes little boys. Has anyone read Michael Jacksons new book, The Ins and Outs of Child Rearing? Q: Whats the difference between a dead baby and a golden delicious apple? A: I dont cum all over the golden delicious apple before I take a bite out of it. Q: Whats the difference between a dead baby and my girlfriend? A: I dont kiss my girlfriend after sex. Q: Whats the difference between a dead baby and a table? A: You cant fuck a table. Q: Whats special about a dead baby over all other forms of life? A: You can achieve deep throat from whichever way you enter. Q: What do you have when you have four dead babies, take away two, and add five more? A: An orgy! Q: Whats better than three 14-year-olds? A: 14 three-year-olds. Q: Whats white and bobs up and down in a babys crib? A: A pædophiles ass. Q: Whats the safest way to play with a baby? A: With a condom. Q: Whats more fun than feeling up a dead baby? A: Feeling up a dead baby with three nipples. Q: What does a baby and a Pinto have in common? A: Theyre fun to ride until they die. Q: What do you get whan you dislocate a dead babys jaw? A: Deep throat. Q: Whats the difference between a baby and a grandmother? A: Grandmothers dont die when you fuck them in the ass. Q: Whats the best sound in the world? A: Hearing dead babys hips crack under pressure! Q: Whats worse than a having sex with a dead baby? A: Having sex with a dead baby filled with razor blades. Q: How do you stop a baby from choking? A: Take your dick out of its mouth. Q: Whats worse than finding a dead baby on your pillow in the morning? A: Realizing you were drunk and made love to it the night before. Q: How do you make a baby cry twice? A: Wipe your bloody cock on his teddy bear. Whats better than sex with a twelve year-old boy? Absolutely nothing.

[Thanks to Fark.com for all of these wonderfully sick jokes! I couldnt have done it without you! And thanks to all the Anonymous Cowards who have flamed me, I have three words for you! YHBT! YHL! HAND! Apparently this post is extremely good at getting biters. According to an anonymous coward, Attorney General Ashcroft is also after little old WIPO Troll now, in addition to the Canadian cops-on-a-horse that another A.C. sent after me a couple days earlier. Well, this should be fun. Keep up the biting, Slashdotters! ed.]

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Copyright © 2001 J. Wipo Troll, Esq. Verbatim crapflooding of this document is permitted in any medium, provided this copyright notice is preserved, and next time you take a dump, you think of the WIPO Troll and all hes done to make Slashdot a better place.

Could it be?

[SumDeusExMachina]

Oh yes! First post of 2002!

Re:Could it be?

[Jucius Maximus]

"Oh yes! First post of 2002!"

Maybe someone in your time zone will use a proxy in North America and get the second first post of 2002 ;-)

Re:Could it be?

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad I beat you to it, fucknut. Try again next year!

Re:Could it be?

[The WIPO Troll]

Once again, sir, you are worse than Hitler, and if I ever meet you, I will kick your ass.

So......

[nuintari]

Are the first post lamers gonna fight over who gets LAST POST?

Re:So......

[Anonymous Coward]

You're the lamer squid fucker.
Happy fucking new year.

First troll or first post?

[Anonymous Coward]

First Post Troll!

Re:First troll or first post?

[Anonymous Coward]

Since your comment is modded as "Score:-1, Troll" with moderation totals of "Troll=1, Total=1", I am willing to wager that your comment is indeed a troll. I am too lazy to confirm your first posting standings if you have any. Sorry, but I am a "qualified lazy jack ass."

Thank you! This troll couldn't be possible without the help of The Goatse Man and The Giver's Huge Throbbing Penis.

Farewell, JonKatz!

[Anonymous Coward]

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\\ II IIIIII | ** YOU ARE NOT A MAN! ** | tz JonKat //

The Postercomment Compression Filter Will Not Stop Us.
We Are Trolls. You Have Lost. Have A Nice Day!(TM)

T H E _ M E S S E N G E R

Re:Farewell, JonKatz!

[Anonymous Coward]

By the way, the newer folks should know that this post is based on the original "HEIL JON KATZ!" banner from my "JonKatz is a NAZI Childfucker" campaign in 1998/1999. That campaign, along with the wonderful "JonKatz in Columbine" posts (who wrote those, anyway?) and the Hellmouth fiasco, went a long way toward spreading the truth about how awful Katz is. I reposted the old banner to remind everyone that even in the year 2002, Katz is a menace which must be dealt with by hardcore flaming and insults. Do your part, and shit on Katz today!

-- The_Messenger

Re:Farewell, JonKatz!

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you create that homepage? It is very nice. While watching "The Birdcage" movie on TNN, I believe I caught a glimpse of CmdrTaco as one of the homosexual extras.

Re:Farewell, JonKatz!

[The Turd Report]

Do your part, and shit on Katz today!

Um...Shouldn't we do something that Katz won't like?

Not such a good page

[J.D. Hogg]

"Infosync.no has a great collection of articles named Rewind 2001"

Read : Infosync.no vividly reminds you of all the cool toys you really wanted to buy in 2001 but couldn't afford, and probably won't be able to afford in 2002 either.

Roman Numeral Years

[Jucius Maximus]

Alas, we will have to use an extra roman numeral to write the year (when we want to use that format.) It was so great back in 2000 ;-)

1999 = MCMXCIX
2000 = MM
2001 = MMI
2002 = MMII

I missed something

[Mofo_abc123]

If slashdot is run on GMT, then why is that post dated: Monday December 31, @07:59PM. Shouldn't that be 11:59PM if its GMT?

Re:I missed something

[The WIPO Troll]

Woah ho ho, you're a genius. Check your preferences, you dumb fuck. You can set the time zone you want Slashfuck to display stories in.

*looks at your user ID*

Oh, that explains it. Nevermind.

Re:I missed something

[Rudyatek]

It shows 4:59 PM to me. It must be timestamped in your local timezone.

Re:I missed something

[Anonymous Coward]

GMT is used for time representation internally in Slashcode, and any other timezone can be used as the "display" representation.

AFAIK, the reason for using GMT is that Slash is designed to work on multiple boxes, and horrible race conditions etc. could arise if different timezones were used. So, it makes sense to standardise on the most widely-known timezone, GMT (sorry, but it's true!)

Happy New Year.

<rant type="offtopic">
Perhaps CmdrTaco and Co. can take note of the following 3 improvements to Slash for their New Year resolutions:

1. Make nested mode the default. How can threaded mode ever be desirable, unless you want to give yourself RSI?!
2. WTF is up with the story text vanishing when you change the display mode or threshold?! Again, how can this ever be desirable? <phrase type="trollish">Kuro5hin can do it ::grin:: </phrase>.
3. For my sanity, include the year in dates in comments and story dates in search results!

</rant>

Re:I missed something

[J'raxis]

Threaded mode is desirable if there are a lot of comments with a lot of replies (i.e., nested tables). Try rending a hundred tables, eighty with one or two nested inside, and a dozen or so with tentwenty nested inside several levels deep, and see how long it takes on various browsers. What Slashdot needs is a mode like Kuro5hin where you can set it to display nested for a few comments (user-configurable), and threaded for stories with more. Of course, what Kuro5hin needs is the ability to break up comments across several pages (25 comments per page), because there are still rendering-time issues with K5 stories since their HTML is even more atrocious than Slashdots.

The reason the story disappears is that the Change form submits to comments.pl, not article.pl. It might not be possible to submit the form to article.pl; check the source, does article.pl support all the parameters (threshold, sort, etc.) that comments.pl does?

Thirdly, change your date format! Several of the date formats do have the year embedded in them. I use the %Y.%m.%d %H:%M format, which does.

Re:I missed something

[kimba]

The code is broken. It says "6:59 Tuesday 01 January 2002" for me, and I am GMT+8.
And yes, my timezone is set correctly.

Re:I missed something

[Anonymous Coward]

Try rending a hundred tables, eighty with one or two nested inside, and a dozen or so with ten-twenty nested inside several levels deep, and see how long it takes on various browsers.
Rendering time was certainly an issue with Netscape 4.x, but no story /. has ever taken more than a few seconds to render for me on Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and IE. The actual indentation on nested mode makes it a lot more readable (why can't NNTP clients display news messages like that?!) and is IMHO definetly worth the extra 'cost'.

What Slashdot needs is a mode like Kuro5hin where you can set it to display nested for a few comments
Agreed. Configurability is good.

It might not be possible to submit the form to article.pl; check the source, does article.pl support all the parameters
Thanks for enlightening me, I'll check this out!

Several of the date formats do have the year embedded in them. I use the "%Y.%m.%d %H:%M" format, which does
Amen. Either the date format ISO8601 should be used (e.g. 2002-01-01) or something like "01 January 2002".

Another nice feature would be valid XHTML output, but I think we shouldn't expect that anytime soon!

Re:I missed something

[mokyar]

I wish I could mod you up. Maybe CmdrTaco and Co. would have seen it better. :-) But because of a 'troll' (yes I eat human), I won't get a chance for sometime.

Re:I missed something

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh yes! This URL corrects the "story text disappearing" behaviour.

Thanks for the article.pl tip :-)

Re:I missed something

[J'raxis]

I use IE/5.0 on Macintosh (MacOS9.2, 450MHz G3) and there are significant slowdowns with heavily-nested comments. Rendering can take several seconds, sometimes longer. The comments/page setting only seems to control how many top-level comments one sees: e.g., if I set it to show 25 comments/page, but every comment has 4 replies (or reply-replies, etc.), I see 125 comments/page.

I wonder how difficult it would be to write a web script (CGI/Perl or PHP) to fetch Usenet messages (NNTP is a text-based, line-oriented protocol, with commands similar to SMTP, POP, FTP) and organize them (based on the References header, sort of how Slashdot comments have a Parent ID [pid]) in tables.

The format specifier %Y.%m.%d %H:%M is nearly ISO8601 (which is the format I prefer), its just using dots instead of dashes. It would output a date such as 2002-01-01 00:00.

Slashdots HTML definitely could use an overhaul, and I think that even the tables could go (in favor of some nested DIV tags whose appearance could be controlled via stylesheets). The comments are not tabular data, hence using the TABLE tag is incorrect by definition. I was messing around once with this kind of layout a while back to see what it would look like. In my example, I used borders around the comments to show the parentchild relationship, but the stylesheet could be set to look nearly identical to Slashdot in its current state.

Re:I missed something

[Anonymous Coward]

I use IE/5.0 on Macintosh (MacOS9.2, 450MHz G3) and there are significant slowdowns with heavily-nested comments. Rendering can take several seconds, sometimes longer.
Oh. I rarely browse the web with a Mac, and if the /. rumours are to be believed, IE 5.0 for Mac is significantly different from the Windows version.

I wonder how difficult it would be to write a web script (CGI/Perl or PHP) to fetch Usenet messages
That's what I'm going to have to end up doing :-( I had hoped there was an NNTP client out there that did that that I hadn't found yet! For Perl, Net::NNTP is already available, so that'd help a bit :-)

Slashdot's HTML definitely could use an overhaul
Absolutely. I like your idea, and the test page looks very nice. CmdrTaco, take note!

Re:I missed something

[jvj24601]

I use IE/5.0 on Macintosh (MacOS9.2, 450MHz G3) and there are significant slowdowns with heavily-nested comments. Rendering can take several seconds, sometimes longer.

This is a problem/limitation of IE 5 for Mac. Try it on Mozilla - you'll notice it's as fast as IE on Windows (that is, no huge delay in rendering deeply nested tables). I use IE on my Win98 laptop, but I use Mozilla on my G4 tower.

Re:I missed something

[Anonymous Coward]

I completely agree with all of your points! Glad to know I'm not the only one annoyed by the missing year in search results.

BTW, last post jc

^^ MOD PARENT DOWN - REDUNDANT^^

[Anonymous Coward]

no/text

And what a year it was

[beefstu01]

Boy, I'm wondering what the hell didn't happen this year. Terrorist attacks, new prez, cloning, artifical hearts, iPod, 2.4.x, Linux PDA's, Pentium 4, RAM prices fall, RAM prices go up, people born, people die, text Quake II, etc...

Oh what a year it was. Hell, I think the only thing that didn't happen was me getting a girlfriend...

Happy New Year everyone!

Re:And what a year it was

[The WIPO Troll]

I know what didn't happen in 2001: You didn't get your ass raped by The WIPO Troll. Bend over and spread your pasty-white cheeks, and we can correct that for the year 2002.

Re:And what a year it was

[nyteroot]

ah.. dude..
its a beautiful thing
all that happened and i actually got a girlfriend..
oh, a couple of other things: pigs flew, and satan got pneumonia
really..

Re:And what a year it was

[Anonymous Coward]

yes, I got a girlfriend about a week ago. WOHOO! first real kiss with her happend tonight!

Wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

When writing roman numerals it is incorrect to skip one of the bases (or whatever they're called; the name slips my mind for some reason; "sections" of numbers like 10, 100, 1000). Since MMII skips the 100s column it is wrong to write it like that. You lose, sucker.

Re:Wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, the first troll of 2002 ;-)

Re:Wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

so tell us how it is supposed to be written.

Re:Wrong.

[steelhawk]

There is no rule like that...

The only rule that remotely resembles what you're talking about is that you can only put an I in front of V or X, only put an X in front of L or C, only put C in front of D or M. (that's the reason why MIM was invalid for 1999, MCMXCIX was one of the more correct options you had. 2000 was simply MM, 2001 MMI and 2002 MMII..)

Re:Wrong.

[coyote-san]

I read someplace (Knuth? Burke?) that this rule was invented long after ancient times. For most of the empire there was only addition - with the symbols often "out of order" to modern eyes, and even after the subtractive rule was introduced there are some truly bizarre constructions found in the ruins. Not only would the ancients use MIM for 1999, they were just as likely to use IMM.

Save Us!

[cscx]

To reduce vomiting, and for your own safety's sake, do NOT view this picture of the chick from the 'Slashdot Couple' (linked from the article above) ... Hint: you do not look good in a bathing suit, and rubbing up against a pole doesn't help either, tootsie. Excuse me while I go take half-naked pictures of myself and submit them in a story labled "Hottest new things of 2002"......

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

heres another hint, nobody who reads tarot cards looks good in a bathing suit.

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

Excuse me? but she is a helluva lot prettier than anytinhg you can attract.

in fact, she's pretty hot.

Posting as an AC to not sound like a perv... Cus I'm tooo old to have anytihng that fine anymore.

Re:Save Us!

[xfs]

Actually, yeah... she's not that bad looking... maybe your screen size is a bit out of proportion?
more power to them

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

hmm, them thighs've got a bit of meat on 'em, but still not bad at all.

needed to use the flash tho, can't really see anything.

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe she can work for miss Cleo! Come call me for a reading mon! I'll read your tarot and take your money.....

It's all a scam..... although those wiccan chicks are great nymphomaniacs... got laid more times in the 4 months before I had to make her leave for being a freak than ever in my life.... (3 times a day for 3 months straight and then 2 times a day thereafter is NUTS! wow.... I wonder if she is still single...

Re:Save Us!

[J.D. Hogg]

"Hint: you do not look good in a bathing suit, and rubbing up against a pole doesn't help either, tootsie"

I suggest you stop viewing jpegs in your hex editor : she's not bad really. I agree that she should leave the pole alone, but other than that she's quite a cutie.

Re:Save Us!

[grub]

Bastard!

I've had my RealDoll dressed up like her and in that pose around a telepost in my basement!

Re:Save Us!

[linzeal]

WTF from the same place as the pole woman.

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

What are you talking about dude? I'd stick it in her pooper.

Re:Save Us!

[Al Gore]

That is the pole woman!

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

You sir, are a gay.

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL...

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

your sig link is kind of interesting, but most of your points about confusing fantasy with reality apply much more to M$ than to Linux. I'm thinking here about things such as Windows XP, the 'most secure windows ever'--excuse me, but i don't think win2k shipped with a security hole so dangerous that it caused the FBI to issue a warning. And having all accounts administrators by default and allowing no password on such an account is so absurd that I fail to see how they think it could be considered remotely secure. The marketing drones at M$ have no regard for reality and truth at all. Their pathological dishonesty and disingenuity is the reason that M$ is doing so well. Other companies at least have some scruples, and open source developers a lot more; in the open source world, at least, lying isn't institutionalized and rationalized away by saying "that's just business." Marketing is institutionalized lying, and M$ is the king of marketing--nothing else.

Re:Save Us!

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, you must be one of them homer-seckshualz I've been hearing about. I take it you would rather see the guy taking the photos posing instead. You are entitled to that opinion of course, and there's actually a little something for you there as well. This is probably more to your liking:

http://www.asofyet.org/muppet/other/roatan/poolsid e_06-crop.jpg

You like? No?

Of course, this nice picture makes your stomach turn inside out:

http://asofyet.org/muppet/other/roatan/poolside_07 -crop.jpg

Other nice pics:

http://www.asofyet.org/muppet/other/roatan/las_p al mas_03-crop.jpg
http://www.asofyet.org/muppet/other/roatan/las_pal mas_02-crop.jpg
http://www.asofyet.org/muppet/other/roatan/las_pal mas_12.jpg

Hmm, methinks I need a girlfriend now. I feel a strange sensation in my pants.

WooHoo!

[The Paradox]

And Slashdot enters the New Year.

I wasn't around time before last; was everyone worrying that their nerdy news site would be toppled by the non-event of Y2K? ;)

Happy New Year to everyone... Even the trolls. Me, I'm on EST. Ain't gonna be there for four more hours. Maybe I'll spend the time on my New Year's resolutions. :D

Re:WooHoo!

[Jethro]

I wasn't around time before last; was everyone worrying that their nerdy news site would be toppled by the non-event of Y2K? ;)

No. We all spent most of the previous 3+ years fixing all the would-be y2k problems, only to get yelled at by non techies for causing hysteria, because, since we fixed everything for them, nothing happened. Bloody ingrates.

Enter the Palindrome

[LionMan]

The last one was 1991 - now we have 2002.
But we won't have another for 110 years! (and then 110 every time after that one until 2992, after which we'll wait for 3003. But I'll be dead by then. Maybe slashdot won't!)

Re:Enter the Palindrome

[linzeal]

Will we pass our userids onto a new generation? It would be sorta freaky if cmndrtaco's great...grandchild userid (0) was still posting in 3003.

Re:Enter the Palindrome

[Anonymous Coward]

In many countries (like my one) dates are expressed in the form DDMMYYYY. So, a cool palindrome will be 20 February 2002: 20022002.

Re:Enter the Palindrome

[red_dragon]

I'd be more afraid if Meept's great...grandchild were to post on Slashdot in 3003. Think about it...

New Year's resolutions:

[Byteme]

1. Give up asking Santa for Peace on Earth each Christmas.

2. Turn off the TV during war/disaster/election controversy.

3. Attend more Free Jazz concerts.

4. Do not boot to Windows once (at home, forced to at work)

5. Take para-gliding lessons.

6. Get a sick stereo (Krell and B&W).

7. Badger slashdot staff until I see a poll without the CowboyNeal option.

8. Knock over the first person I see driving an "IT".

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Lumpy]

Cool list, although Add a few more...

Get in better health. (EVERYONE needs this)

spend more time with the arts like Theatre and museums instead of fragging in Q3,UT,SOF, or other non outside activity.

Try to be less cynical... It's hard in today's world to not be cynical... with all the idiots on the road, every woman I date is a lunatic... (no really, they are! I have some kind of dysfunction that I attract or seek out these freaks.).

oh, and my personal 3 -- Master the Acoustical guitar, master C programming with SDL, and maybe get enough guts to shave my head, as I look like a monk anyways with no hairline and the horseshoe. Life sucks at 31.

Oh and being Microsoft free at home... Except for my audiotron, I have been microsoft free cince September. All computers are microsoft free in the house. And as soon as I can figure out how to change the OS on the audiotron and retain all functions (I.E. rewrite the entire app suite) that will eliminate Microsoft from my home. My car is next... That autopc will get linux on it or it will get sold on ebay... either way... microsoft is banned in this house from now on.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh and being Microsoft free at home... Except for my audiotron, I have been microsoft free cince September.

Which once again proves that mainstream Linux people (k1dd13z) can't spell worth a damn.

And as soon as I can figure out how to change the OS on the audiotron and retain all functions (I.E. rewrite the entire app suite) that will eliminate Microsoft from my home. My car is next... That autopc will get linux on it or it will get sold on ebay... either way... microsoft is banned in this house from now on.

Man are you fscking paranoid or someting? Did Bill Gates break into your house and rape you with a wire coat hanger? I mean, it's an AutoPC, for Pete's sakes!

Stop the hate, mang.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a lifestyle man.... do you go bashing queers? That's it' the fricking MS zealots are homohobes and hate anything that isnt their idea....

Siek Heil Gates.... Siek Heil Gates!

Heil Gates! Acktung!

Fricking MS non-thinker.... try fricking thinking for your self once buttboy... I bet you cant even figure out how to install linux.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Anonymous Coward]

Q3, done properly, -is- art. Especially rail-only freeze tag, performed while naked and smeared with peanut butter.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Anonymous Coward]

Who the hell needs lessons to go para-gliding.

try something adventurous instead

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[nyteroot]

1) stop arguing about politics; the republicans have taken over and there's no stopping them
2) stop trying to lose weight; its not gonna happen
3) stop trying to have a love life; its not gonna happen (see #2 for details)
4) stop hoping to get into my #1 college; ill get rejected, just like i got deferred

its been such a great year..

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Microbrain]

4. Do not boot to Windows once (at home, forced to at work)

You could always ask someone else to boot ... that for you :-)

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Al Gore]

Hey, fatass, if you think that the Republicans have "taken over," you need to add a fifth resolution: stop smoking prescription antidepressants through a bong made from your mom's pantyhose packages. You'll feel better about yourself, and probably come to terms with your homosexuality. Increase your self esteem while learning the art of fellatio! With your new outlook on life, you may very well realize your destiny as a Senior Waiting Engineer at TGI Friday's Institute of Technical Burgerology.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[biohazard99]

The head shaving is easy, see my homepage for my long haired pics. I suggest a gillete mach3 and a baby shampoo the first time you do it though, the first good nick will lead to 3 more if you arent careful. Another thing go out and buy a ~$15 set of hair clippers (I use Wahl's) and no guard it to start, then bring it down with the razor.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Byteme]

I did go to MASS MOCA just yesterday. If you are headed this way, it is a rare gem that is asking to be absorbed into your psyche. About an hour point five away from me, but closer and just as great as any contemporary art in NYC or Boston.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[discstickers]

I'm at CMU. =) It's cool, especially the wireless network.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Anonymous Coward]

6. Get a sick stereo (Krell and B&W).
You might look at Paradigm, I love mine, and i think they were considerably cheaper.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Mulletroll]

These are good ones. May I suggest quitting caffeine to the slashdotters? I have. Water starts to taste pretty nice after a while and without all the headaches, sugar and expense. SDL is great fun. And I've been MS-free at home for quite a long time. Not just for the l33tness factor, but also because I want to get work done at home.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[anfloga]

And #5, above all, stay optimistic! :)

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[TrickyRick]

4. Do not boot to Windows once (at home, forced to at work)

The best way not to boot Windows is not to have it installed. I haven't had Windows on my computer in about 15 months.

If I could find a good deal on another computer I might put windows on one to control my PRO-92 and PRO-2052 scanners.

6. Get a sick stereo (Krell and B&W).

I guess that is supposed to be slick.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[Byteme]

That would be "sick"... the slang definition that equates to bad-ass.

Re:New Year's resolutions:

[while(new char)]

> 4. Do not boot to Windows once.

Ah, this one is easy for me. I was installing GRUB and I mindlessly overwrote the master boot record instead of the linux boot block. So, bootmagic no longer booted. I couldn't boot Windows (for some reason GRUB won't do it right), and I haven't since!

Viva Linux!!! (Even if it is accidental)

Are you guys crazy?

[cscx]

Dave Gould's page (no offense Dave) of the "2001 Stuff of the year" has nothing to do with 2001. How do a 1992 Mazda Miata and a 1984 (!) pickup truck end up as "best vehicles of 2001". Perhaps this page should be best labeled as "Page 'o My Favorite Stuff." "My Dad" and "My Ex," I'm sorry, aren't high-caliber candidates for "Person of the Year." Shit, I could come up with this stuff! Although I'll agree with you on the Art Bell rating -- and the Entertainment page.

Re:Are you guys crazy?

[TheKey]

You know, I found it quite amusing. Perhaps my time is invaluable.

Yay!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hapy knew yare!

Juste ceping upe teh grate tradittion fo amazzing speeling hear no Slahsdot itno 20002!

Chinese new year?

[checkitout]

Apparently this year is the year of the horse.

http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2002.htm

Of course, it doesn't start until February 12th but since our own calendar system doesn't include fortunes, it might be fun to look at.

Re:Chinese new year?

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course our calendar system includes fortunes; they just go by the month instead of the year.

Archive of Cupidon's work

[J.D. Hogg]

"The couple who met on Slashdot two years ago are celebrating their first wedding anniversary!"

Here is the thread of their encounter on the well-known matchmaking site Slashdot.org :

Elysse : fIrST Pr0st !

Scott : What is taco-snotting? its when kids like SuckMyAssRaw43 give a "hetero-sexually challenged" boyfriend head, then take the cum load and blow it into his noze. ...

Elysse : Please mod this -1: Offtopic

Scott :
. <O)
. ( \
. .^
.8====D

Elysse: Dude, you're a 1337 troll, wanna come up to my place ?

Scott: Yeah okay ...

The rest my friends, as you know, is Slashdot history...

(\/)
.\/

Re:Archive of Cupidon's work

[Anonymous Coward]

Scott: What is taco-snotting? Its when kids like SuckMyAssRaw43 give A " hetero-sexually challenged " boyfriend head, then take the cum load and blow it into his noze.

Boy i'm glad I read that!

Re:Archive of Cupidon's work

[The WIPO Troll]

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By J. Wipo Troll, Esq., $Revision: 1.16 $

[This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as Taco-snotting, or simply snotting. Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help before it is too late. ed.]

Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pædophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.

This time, he found you. Lucky you.

Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.

I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.

And if thats not bad enough

A circle-snot is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum spooging their jizz-snot all over each others faces and pasty, white bodies, until theyre covered head to toe with their own and each others man juice. This vile, ungodly ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limousine service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow faggots Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The homosexual shenanigans that follow are nearly beyond description. The whole group begins to snot each others spunk and whip each others pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully, but I wouldnt count on it.

To begin with, you most likely forgot to uncheck the Willing to Snot checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad (do you have a homosexual-sounding nick?), and hes probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube, just waiting to pounce and declare you his new bitch. Theres no escaping a geek in heat (trust me), so its probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTacos sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to Willing to Snot. Maybe hell ignore you. Probably not.

I cant stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot all over you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met Mr. Malda at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some gourmet Tacos, but when I got there, the perverted geek jumped me and handcuffed me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his Commander out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times, virtually nonstop. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm then he snotted my own thick, gooey jizz back onto my face out of his nostrils! He snotted me two more times, first into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, Open Sauce man sauce) buddies over to continue their ungodly snotfest. European hacker and known überfaggot Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his monolithic kernel; his partner-in-crime Anal Cox used their network stack in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice of my defenseless, tender, young body. Michael Sims was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my previously-virginal ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about all those Censorware freaks out to get him.

That is so disgusting! How did you finally escape?

After about 16 hours of countless unholy, homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, completely covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door (of the apartment, not their back doors). Im just glad I survived the awful ordeal. These sexually-repressed hackers had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads I couldve easily been drowned!

Thats horrible. Does Taco-snotting have anything to do with CmdrTacos special taco?

No, thats a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. Mr. Malda is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTacos special taco is. You will be wishing that you hadnt been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his special taco, CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, takes out his tiny withered dick (otherwise known as his Commander), puts his special taco sauce on it which means he jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim. After all, who would knowingly eat shit and CmdrTacos jizz?

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTacos nefarious homosexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victims ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved. Trust me, you do not want Jon Katz anywhere near your unconscious body. Also, rumor has it CmdrTaco is looking for a new goatse.cx guy. Dont let it be you!

Different ungodly perversion, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that Robert CmdrTaco Malda is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. Hes also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zoophile.

Mr. Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesnt involve himself in the circle-snots, but that doest mean hes any less of a freak than the rest of the Slashdot crew. Katz often engages in a game called juicy-douching with a harem of little-boy slaves that he has collected over the years: yet another vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boys urine (forced out of them with a pair of pincers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then dribbling and slathering the goo all over himself and the boys chained, naked bodies. If hes in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag from his distended anus and just squirt it from his ass onto the crying, terrified boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pincers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them at will. A boy will usually last about two years before Mr. Katz either accidentally drowns them in diarrhea or kills them once they get too old, usually around 13 or 14.

Not content with being a pædophilic coprophile, Mr. Katz is also quite the zoophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys arent enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goats anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goats small, bean-like turds, and he often kills his older boys by letting his goats trample them.

Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. Im already CmdrTacos boi toi.

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Copyright © 2001 J. Wipo Troll, Esq. Verbatim crapflooding of this document is permitted in any medium, provided this copyright notice is preserved, and next time you take a dump, you think of the WIPO Troll and all hes done to make Slashdot a better place.

Re:Archive of Cupidon's work

[Anonymous Coward]

Your sister gives great head WIPO (i am the large dicked negro)

Re:Archive of Cupidon's work

[The WIPO Troll]

That's the most fucking hilarious dicksucking movie I've ever seen!!

New years resolution

[FeanorOfTheNoldo]

My new years resolution is 1024x768 ;)

Re:New years resolution

[gatesh8r]

And you won't do 1024x768 by the time April comes around, and you'll end up doing 1600x1200...

Re:New years resolution

[sparcv9]

This year, I resolve to 127.0.0.1.

(I seem to have the same resolution every year.)

Re:New years resolution

[lines]

my roommate's resolution is to stop drinking beer. he's going to drink *hard liquor only*

when? what?

[jjeffries]

Posted by timothy on 18:59 31 December 2001

I'm set up for EST... /. will use whatever time zone you want it to.

I'd like to have the time displayed in seconds since the Epoch. Surely I'm not alone! Everyone knows nothing important happened before 1-1-1970 anyway, no?

2002, The year linux...

[Anonymous Coward]

...moves to the "who gives a shit" category.

Yes, its sad, but inevitable. In 2002 all of the people who functionally use linux on the server will get sick of talking about it, and the few diehards who are sticking by linux on the desktop will get tired of not being able to connect their digital camera or MP3 player up to their computer and will finally reformat for the last time after concluding that KDE and GNOME are pleasant, amusing, and largely a waste of time.

Yes kids, 2002 is the year that people will realize that linux is stable, secure....and little else.

Re:2002, The year linux...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm. I use linux exclusively... I have 3 different digital cameras.... they all work perfectly under linux. my mp3 player. same... in fact the only things that dont wirk under linux are the low grade crap products that only idiots buy anyways.

Your stuff dont work? Need I say more.

Re:2002, The year linux...

[kobaz]

Actually I just recently purchased a fairly expensive >$500 digital camera that I could not get to work in linux. The usb-storage driver sees the camera but there is aparent supported filesystem on the card. Oh well, I have my windows boxes that I looked it up to, which work fine. And with my long experience of linux, I have found many many low grade and not so low grade hardware that will just not work on linux for lack of support. Just because you happened to buy 3 digital cameras that work under linux, dosnt mean that all digital camers work in linux. If you want your hardware to work in linux, you must go though the net, and make sure there is full support for the device you buy.

Ask Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, I masturbated to this picture with vegetable oil. Does that make me a bad, bad man? TIA.

-- The_Messenger

Re:Ask Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

is is just me, or is that picture slightly disturbing? She laying around topless in front of her little brother!

maybe i'm just gay? i don't know.

Re:Ask Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

there's nothing weird about that. After all, women take off the top when they're face down on the beach, even mothers sometimes. And what's wrong with a naked body, anyway? Nothing, unless you believe and teach your kids that it's something to be ashamed of. We'd all be a lot happier if we didn't have so many hangups about naked or partially naked bodies.

Re:Ask Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

LooK!!!!! It is CmdrTaco as a young child!!!!!

CLICK HERE!!!!!

Your Answer

[Anonymous Coward]

Dont feal bad, I masterbated to this won! ;)

-rob

Re:Your Answer

[Anonymous Coward]

It's JonKatz disguised as an AC!

2002 will be a great year for Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

The worst of the recession is over. It has been a tough year, but an even tougher one on our competitors, many of whom have gone bye-bye forever. The Linux companies are now leaner, meaner. They are more focused with realistic business plans, and still full of that famous Linux "can do" grit.

The server market continues to improve for Linux with marketshare increasing every quarter, with only MS barely keeping up, and others falling behind. Desktop is harder to judge, but it continues to show progress. Desktops are maturing and stabilizing, as are fantastic development tools like Borland's Kylix rapid application development environment. More apps will follow.

It is going to be a great year for Linux fans!

Re:2002 will be a great year for Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

That's what they said about 2001... (remember Linus' "we will crush Microsoft" statement?)

Re:2002 will be a great year for Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

No, I don't remember but I'll take your word for it. To be fair, perhaps Linus was being hyperbolic. Can't imagine how that quote applies to the coming year, though. I don't see what Linux showing progress and improvement has to do with "crushing Microsoft". It's going to be very good year for Linux according to measurable indicators.

Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[drsquare]

You all go out and enjoy new year. I'll be stuck inside, by myself. Friendless, relativeless, sober, miserable, whilst everyone else in the world is having a great time. God I hate new year.

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[J.D. Hogg]

It's not so bad, if you have a TiVo, you'll be able to enjoy non fake-New-Year-happiness programs on TV, and there's always the bottle of Bourbon in the minibar.

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[Anonymous Coward]

So do what everyone else does, go out get some drugs and beer and pick up some slutty chick and ...

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[drsquare]

I wouldn't no where to get any drugs or beer from, and I wouldn't know how to pick up even a slutty chick.

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[drsquare]

No, I don't have a TiVo. To be honest, I don't even know what one is. I've heard them discussed, but all this technology stuff just confuses me.

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[rsklnkv]

If you happen upon the Portland Oregon area I could help you out with a few of those anyway:) Is this the same drsquare who posts to advocacy??? Cheers! rsklnkv http://www.houseofthedead.org

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[Anonymous Coward]

you sounded exactly like me a year ago, but I bet you dont even have your licence yet. once you get that your life will change. tonight I took my beautiful girlfriend out to dinner at a fancey resturaunt, went back to my house, went to my neighbors, went to her house for the countdown (got some new years kisses, hehe) then came back to my house, watched a movie untill 3:00AM, brought her home and now I am typing this message. wohoo. and I have been only going out with her for a week and a half.

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[dev0n]

could be worse.. you could be stuck working a graveyard shift on new year's eve.. just like me! :)

Re:Oh great. Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[drsquare]

I'm the same drsquare who posts to comp.os.linux.advocacy, if that's what you're wondering.

Well, good riddance 2001

[squiggleslash]

I don't know about everyone else, but whether it's the WTC attack or, on the other end of the scale, the arrest of Sklyarov, 2001 truly sucked.

Goodbye 2001, you will not be missed. Let's hope 2002 will be the start of the rebound.

Re:Well, good riddance 2001

[Waffle Iron]

Hmm..

Niether of things affected me at all.

Now, you know that's not true. I'm sure at least one broadcast of WWF Smackdown was preempted by 9-11 news coverage.

Re:Well, good riddance 2001

[bill66inma]

On a personal level, 2001 didn't completely suck.

On a global level, it was something else entirely.

May we all be better off a year from now. May peace and good things find you in 2002.

Bill

Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[lalleglad]

As the first line states:

"As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time."

and I have noticed it for a long time, I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms? :-)

A good explanation can be found here:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_ gc i213612,00.html

Even MS has the following [slightly related] page from 1997 (and we wouldn't wanna be defetaed by MS, would we ;-)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=k b; EN-US;q158588

Ergo, skip the GMT and start using UTC.

Oh, and I hope all will have a Happy New Year!

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[foxtrot]

Yeah, but my buddy from Mars says they don't use UTC there. If it's not even coordinated throughout the solar system ,where do we get off thinking it's coordinated throughout the universe?

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[trayl]

"Ergo, skip the GMT and start using UTC."

Idiot. UTC is GMT.

Read this.

mod parent down

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Anonymous Coward]

GMT is the date line, if you used anything else
we would have a new date even though it actually
wasnt a new date.

Typical american.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Anonymous Coward]

"typical american"

Didn't judging someone by their national origin/religion/sexual preference/age/whatever other silly yardstick you want to use/ go out awhile ago? Oh, wait - that was just with those of us who aren't insignificant capons. Typical of a moron, you posted garbage.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Waffle Iron]

I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms?

Maybe it's because the stupid committe that picked the UTC acronym wasn't man enough to duke it out to the end. By all rights, it should be UCT (English) or TUC (French). But in some feel-good mishmash compromise, they agreed on an acronym that doesn't make sense in any language.

I say until they finish the fight, we use the old school terminology.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Anonymous Coward]

BZZZT - Wrong answer! GMT is equivilent to UTC. It is not identical to it. UTC is a time base that is generated in a particular way. There is only one UTC generator. Other Time Bases are synct to it. GMT is another independent and obsolete Time Base. With all the talk on /. regarding Standards, one would think everyone would know what a Standard is. I knew this even befor I started working for the largest Test and Measurment Company in the world, and the producer of the equipment used for generating the UTC.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[PsychoSpunk]

Sorry, but you're wrong. The link is wrong too.

UTC is GMT with the following exception: leap seconds. Leap seconds are added to and subtracted from (when necessary) UTC. GMT does not reflect leap seconds, hence the term Mean in the title. UTC is calibrated for scientific purposes.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Erasmus Darwin]

"I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms? :-)
[...]
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gc i213612,00.html"

Why don't you try catching up with the late 20th century by using an anchor tag for your link?

Unlike your pointless pedantry over GMT vs. UTC, the lack of an anchor tag poses a significant inconvenience to people actually interested in following the link in your post.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Teun]

So what's wrong with Universal Time Coordinate ??

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Teun]

Actually, GMT is measured from noon whereas UTC is measured from midnight. However, few use the noon measurement and refer to GMT as if it were actually UTC.

And then there are the leap seconds as well.
+ One is Universal and the other British = in another era. :-)

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[MikeBabcock]

Actually, using Mozilla on Linux lets one just highlight the URL then press the middle mouse button on the browser to load that URL in the current window.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[DGolden]

Nothing, but: hush... don't tell the French, they'll notice and demand it be changed...

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[Anonymous Coward]

So when will I be able to tell my linux kernel that my RTC is in UTC not GMT ? :-)

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[yesthatguy]

Which of course doesn't work too well in this case, especially since there's a space in the link.

Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?

[ChristTrekker]

What about following standards rather than relying on the behavior of one particular browser? Your solution is just as bad as MS forcing "their version" of HTML on everyone.

This is the *wimper* *wimper* last post!

[Anonymous Coward]

CmdrTaco's "Gaping Anus" 1.01

You can be just like me!

It has recently come to my attention that the entire Slashdot crew engage in homosexual activities. CmdrTaco is one such person, and has dedicated his life to this disgusting habit and many others. For further information on Taco-Snotting please refer to George WIPO Bush's Taco-Snotting FAQ which can be easily found by searching for the Slashdot journal of George WIPO Bush or by looking in the comments of Slashdot articles (Usually modded -1).

It has also come to my attention that CmdrTaco has other interests besides homosexuality (Believe it or not). One such interest includes a budding music career with a song titled "Gaping Anus". The details are sketchy on this topic but I do know that besides the lead vocals of CmdrTaco, it includes Timothy and CowboyNeal (Also members of the Slashdot crew). There has been no release date set for this album or which record label it will be produced under. I believe CmdrTaco is planning to set up his own label, Taco-Snotting Records, with the intention of releasing the song on a cd-single with various remixes as soon as possible (To catch the current popularity of the Taco-Snotting fad). On a side note, I would not believe this fad will ever wear out (like a Snotted-out-geek); I am sorry to say Taco-Snotting is here to stay :-(. Various remixes of Gaping Anus will include: "Extra Jizz", ;"Snot Me Baby One More Time", "www.Goatse.cx", and "Once You Taco-Snot, You Can't Stop". I am sure many, many, more are sure to come. I predict this album will be a very hot seller this holiday season, especially with in or out of closet homosexuals, and with those who have no self-respect (Readers of Slashdot).

Through a good, non-homosexual friend of mine, I have recieved a copy of the lyrics to the Gaping Anus musical composition. Included after the lyrics is a very speical tribute written by yours truely. Perhaps CmdrTaco will ask me to provide the vocals. Please feel free to read the lyrics and post your comments and disgust.

BTW, please do not reply with the intention of flaming me because the lyrics are a rip-off of Insane Clown Posse's "Slim Anus". For more information on ICP and Slim Anus refer here and here. CmdrTaco is the author of this fine musical work and not me. So, it is obviously he who has ripped off ICP and not me. Thank you.

Hi, my name is what?
My name is who?
My name is Gaping Anus
Hi, my name is huh?
My name is what?
My name is the fudgepacker
Hi, my name is what?
My name is who? (Excuse me)
My name is the nutlicker
Hi, my name is what? (Can I have the attention of your ass?)
My name is who?
My name is the buttsniffer

Hi, kids do you like Anus?
I let Linus Torvalds fill up my butt for a chance to be famous (Uh huh)
Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? (Yeah)
Try Taco-Snotting and get your butt pumped out like I did?
My brains dead weight
I'm tryin to get my head straight
But I can't figure out
Which Slashdot editor I wanna impregnate
Timothy said, "CmdrTaco you a cutie" (Uh huh)
"I'll give you a deal, let me up in that booty" (OK!)
Well since age 12 I felt like I'm someone else
Cause I choked my original self Taco-Snotting him (Yup)
Got pissed off and ripped CowboyNeal's tits off
He don't know how to do Chris D
I'd suck his dick off

Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus it gets tapped dawg
Hi, my anus (Excuse me)
My anus
My anus every now and then gets plugged up
Hi, my anus (Can I have the attention of your ass?)
My anus
My anus is occasionally reamed out
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus really needs to be filled up

My boss tried to fire me yesterday
I told him to take his pants off, hooked him up, he let me slide
I pinched his ass
He winked at me
He chased me around the desk
I told him "Come and get me!"
Walked in the strip club
Had my jacket zipped up
Flashed the bartender
And I tried to feel his dick up
Homosexuals Circle-Snotting pedestrians
Near a gay bar while they screamin at me
Let's just be friends!
99% of my life I was lied to
I just found out my Mom screws more guys than I do (Damn)
I told her I'd grow up to be a famous Taco-Snotter
She met Michael, I couldn't believe it when he slapped her
You know you blew up when the women rush the stands
And try to touch your hands
But I need me a man
This guy at Gay Al's strip club asked for my autograph (Dude can I get your
autograph?)
So I signed it Dear Alan CoxHemos' butt boy)

Stop the tape this gaylord needs to be locked away (Get him)
Cliff, don't just stand there operate
Or feel up my balls and buttcheeks
Anal lube got my ass greasy for weeks
Stick your manhood between my cheeks (Yup)
Am I coming or going
I can barely decide
I just drank a gallon of semen
Dare me to drive? (Go ahead)
All my life I was very deprived
CowboyNeal's butt is too sexy to hide
Take your pants off Neal I don't mind
Clothes rip like the incredible Hulk
I Taco-Snot when I talk
I do any guy that walks
When I was little I used to get so hungry I would throw fits
Sometimes I sit and wish Hemos had a set of tits
CowboyNeal: "Get behind me CmdrTaco and grab me by my hips"
If I do that then I can't kiss you on your lips
By the way if you see my Dad
Ask him if he seen my spread in Gay House Porno Mag

Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus gets tapped up
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus it's always getting plugged up
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus occasionally reamed out
My anus it needs to be filled up

Your anus
Your anus
Your anus is always getting plugged
Your anus
Your anus
Your anus is always getting stuffed
You wanna diss us?
We don't even know you you little bitch
You wanna sit there and diss us?
You little bitch I'll slap your face off
That's what happens when you go up against the Slashdot Trolls trick
You little bitch (Laughs)
Gaping Anus!

The History of Day Lights Savings time in 2001

[Anonymous Coward]

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

+MONDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+MONDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

+TUESDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+TUESDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

+WEDNESDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+WEDNESDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

+THURSDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+THURSDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

+FRIDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+FRIDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

+SATURDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: I will not suck any more dick ever again.
+SATURDAY EVENING+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

+SUNDAY MORNING+
Cmdr Taco: Today is the Lord's day.
+SUNDAY AFTERNOON+
Cmdr Taco: *slurp* *slurp* *slurp*

Re:The History of Day Lights Savings time in 2001

[Anonymous Coward]

I love this post! Keep up the good work friend!

Whee!

[Splat]

Happy GNU Year!

This salutation is a free greeting; you can restate it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This greeting is distributed in the hope that you will have a happy new year, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of HAPPINESS or FITNESS FOR YOUR ROUND GEEK FIGURE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

ah come on....

[Beowulf_Boy]

We all know what 2001 will be remembered for.
One hint, it happened 3 months ago.

Re:ah come on....

[Anonymous Coward]

Barry Bonds's home run record?

Good resolution...

[tcc]

Your wife/girlfriend/mistress/mom bugs you with finding at least ONE good resolution for 2002? here's one that will make you happy to follow and shut them off for next year :)

in 2002, my resolution will be 1600x1200x32x75+hz... on a 21+" LCD, playing DOOM III.

Hey, they've asked for it so stop feeling guilty and go buy one with your next (or maybe 10 next) paychecks :)

Re:Good resolution...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm running 2048x1536 on a 21" CRT. LCD would be nicer if it supported higher resolutions ..

Re:Good resolution...

[Anonymous Coward]

LCDs suck ass. Stick with the CRT unless you're really hurting for space. I have no problems at all finding a nice home for my 21" CRT monitor on my desk.

Re:Good resolution...

[Imperator]

Ah, nothing like 1600x1200x32x85 on a 15" LCD... now that's a New Year's resolution I don't mind keeping.

BMW 2002

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that retro cool or what?

Love to have a Beamer 2002 in 2002.

Re:BMW 2002

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd take a Datsun 510 over one of those.

You know, for the cuteness factor.

What I'd like to see next year

[redcliffe]

An affordable "webpad" like computer running Linux, with a nice bright clear full colour screen, similiar to those things on Star Trek Enterprise. That would be an excellent type of computer, and would likely replace my desktop computer for a lot of stuff.

Re:What I'd like to see next year

[talonyx]

3com audrey is a linux webpad, isnt it? dont know if it's still available however

you might be able to pick one up on ebay or something

maybe use the lcd screen for something else if the unit itself isn't up to snuff

Re:What I'd like to see next year

[serial frame]

QNX, actually. And it's still available for sale, AFAIK.

This binary stuff excites me.

[alecto]

I'm hoping to make it to the rollover to the year 100000000000 in 101010 years.

Party..

[Anonymous Coward]

Like its the DotCom stock market in 1999!

Y2K2 Bug to Strike at Midnight

[Valen0]

WASHINGTON, D.C.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

People are fearing for their lives as they brace for the Y2K2 Bug to strike. Many people are lining up outside of shops like Billy Bob's Survival Bargain Bin in order to buy survival supplies for the new year. When we asked the owner why there there is a sudden boom in sales this year, he said, "Well, this is the Big One. I personally know that on Janurary 1st, 2002 at 12:00 AM, the power grids will do down, computers will blow up, there will be riots, and a new world order of kittens will take over the world. This is survival of the fittest here!!" The US Government refused to comment on the new world order of kittens.

Re:Y2K2 Bug to Strike at Midnight

[Anonymous Coward]

In the grim future of Hello Kitty, there is only war!

Re:Y2K2 Bug to Strike at Midnight

[Anonymous Coward]

You are... not the one.

base 7 is cooler

[Anonymous Coward]

2001 in base 7 is 5556.

Fucking new year. What a fucking joke

[underwhelm]

Uhhh.. I'm working until 11pm--and there's a party AT MY HOUSE. Happy new year.

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Get Involved - Donate!

[Anonymous Coward]

As the year that brought us the DeCSS, Sklyrov and so many other scary cases draws to a close, I would encourage those who care to follow Mr. Lessig's advice and get involved. I just donated $100 to the EFF in time to claim the deduction for my 2001 taxes.

How about the rest of you Slashdotters? Let's end the year by doing something productive!

Final story of 2001

[Anonymous Coward]

As my first official act of the new year, I want invite all of you idiotic self absorbed slashdot freaks, and all other assorted garbage humans who read this pathetic "news" site, to please imagine a beowulf cluster of these.

Oh yeah, and this:

DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

user 0??

[class_A]

from http://slashdot.org/~cmdrtaco:
User Info for CmdrTaco (1)

Dating your cheques

[Jonavin]

I hope everybody remembers to dates their checks properly. It's seems every January some of us tend to make the mistake of writing last year's date. Remember to write "Year of the Horse" instead of "Year of the Snake". ;)

Re:Dating your cheques

[Anonymous Coward]

cheques? Have you gone mad?!?

I havn't used them in years. Too much hassel writeing in pen!!!
Switch / Visa Cards are soo much easier :)

Quiz Time!

[Tom7]

> Friendless, relativeless, sober, miserable...

One of these things can be fixed with just a little bit of money! Which one is it??

Re:Quiz Time!

[Anonymous Coward]

I would say number 2. There's a few nice pages where you can buy a russian wife.

I'm guessing the liquor part can be fixed that way too. bit nothing get's me horny than a russian chick that will say "Let's go make big trouble for moose and squerrel"

Now if I can find a readheaded one.... Ohhhh yeah!

Re:Quiz Time!

[Anonymous Coward]

heh heh heh....

Re:Quiz Time!

[Anonymous Coward]

With enough money you can get laid, throw a party with lots of booze and get lots of people to show up and as a result not be miserable anymore. Contrary to the lame ass popular opinion, money can most definitely buy happiness. Rich people just say it can't to keep the poor people from rioting and taking all their money so they can be happy too.

Re:Quiz Time!

[screwtheNSA]

Gotta love Boris and Natashia!

Happy new years

[xtord]

Happy new years eve or somting (being drunk as hell)

singular..

[Anonymous Coward]

alone with a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, slashdot and some ambient trance!! new years suck!!
hny /.'ers

We who have no life..

[Anonymous Coward]

Salutes you!

The sad part is...

[Anonymous Coward]

...he didn't really have an ex-girlfriend. That's just a picture of Drew Barrymore (from the back so that we can't really tell =)

whats a year?

[willum448]

Not to flame, but I alwyays thought most geeks relized that time is abstract, and isn't relavent past, say, setting an appointment.

2001: The year God proved he has it in for America

[tenzig_112]

It's a link to another parody/satire year-in-review thingy:

http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?displ ay=20011231&id=480

Enjoy.

Good Riddance to the Worse Year of my Life

[Phantasmagoria]

The year 2001 had to be the worst year of my entire life. What with dropping out of school for a while, falling greatly in debt, losing a job, and missing several important opportunities, I'm surprised I'm still alive. And to top the whole damn thing off, just near the end of the year, when things are starting to look up again, my girlfriend of 3 years and I break up so badly I went insane for a couple of days. *Sigh* What doesn't kill me can only make me stronger .....

Re:Good Riddance to the Worse Year of my Life

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh booo-fricking hooo for you.

Try, you wife losing her gord and taking off, never to be seen again. Even her friends called asking if I knew where she was and if she was instutionalized.. they thought she was going nuts too.

Oh and losing your house, and everything else you own, and the only car she left her 18 year old son blew the engine in for you one weekend when he borrowed it from keys "mom" gave him.

Shove your whines.... My year sucks big rocks... (Espically being the second marriage.... first wife likes women and decided to go bull-dyke.

My life cince 1985 has sucked royally... oh any my dating life isnt much better.... wiccan, alcaholic, and a nice girl in new york that likes to snff white powder....

so WAAHHH WAAHH BOO HOO... I lived. I have my house and learned to put EVERYTHING in your own name and have a secret bank account that she will never know about.... women are not trustworthy.

Re:Good Riddance to the Worse Year of my Life

[Anonymous Coward]

NOTE: I just bought a new house after paying throught the nose to get my credit cleaned afte rthe first 2 wives destroyed it.... (did you know they'll give them a credit card in your name with their signature?)

and I will get a boat again, and get my sports car back (not the same one, but that same model/year dammit) and the next woman will have to sign away any claim to anything that is MINE MINE MINE.

me bitter? nahhhh..... why would I have a reason to be bitter?

--

Re:Good Riddance to the Worse Year of my Life

[Escoutaire]

>What doesn't kill me can only make me stronger.....

And incredibly pissed off.

Escoutaire

Re:Good Riddance to the Worse Year of my Life

[tjb]

Whoa dude, my regrets.

I went through the same thing a year earlier and in a better economy. I decide to drop out of college, my fiance (at the time) calls me all sorts of nasty words for loser, we break up, I get an incredible job and drive over to her apartment in my new Beemer :)

Anyway, in this economy, the likelihood of that last part is somewhat in doubt, but just keep pushing and trying, and you'll make it. I had to pretty much bully my way into interviews, puching an 80x86 assembly version of space invaders over my resume, but I eventually got hired by a great, profitable company. And once I was there, I managed to prove myself by being the the most hardworking mofo around.

Now, I get to settle down a bit (though the stress does occassionally build up, like now), and no one really cares whether I've got a Masters in EE studying signal processing, or that I can do the work just as well as someone who does have the paper.

Tim

Re:Good Riddance to the Worse Year of my Life

[Anonymous Coward]

fuck man. same thing happened to me. girlfriend (3 years too), apartment, foreign visa, dropped out of school.... and started smoking. great year!

fuck you, moderators

[Anonymous Coward]

You guys have made so many bad calls on this page. Two posts I've made that have clearly been on-topic and related to the parent post have been modded down to -1. A few more of those and my IP is banned for a while, just because of a couple of fucking moronic moderators. Hint: you don't just mod down cause you disagree or because there is a thread going on a topic that you don't care for. fucking idiots

My Manhood and your Little Sister

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello WIPO Troll. Is this your sister here? I am asking cause I am the large dicked fellow. Yes I am black and it seems she has a few problems handling my manhood. But this would never happen between you two now would it? Of course not.

Re:My Manhood and your Little Sister

[The WIPO Troll]

Yeah, that's her. Tasty little slut, isn't she?

goodbye 2001

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is the last memory of the year 2001, after this 2001 will be forever gone and never return back.

find all positive integers a,n such that
a^(n+1)-(a+1)^n=2001

note 1: positive integer is a number in 1,2,3,4,5,6,...,infinity

note 2: a^b means axax...xa (b times), 2^3=2x2x2=8, 2^4=2x2x2x2=16

RIP my mother's father (grandfather-in-law) who dies in 11 September 2001. He fell down from the chair 1 week before 11 September and after 1 week of struggling, he finally goes away. He is a great guy and is nice to me. I like to go to his house during school holidays. I will never see him again. RIP.

Re:goodbye 2001

[jnana]

13^(2+1) - (2+1)^13 = 2001 That's all I found for a and n = 2000.

Re:goodbye 2001

[jnana]

oops, forgot to escape the <, that's a and n <=2000.

Masturbate to this Grade A porn

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not a troll so it is okay to click the links.

Click right here to get great porn and remember this is not a troll. On the porn page just click the numbers in the middle of the page.

you are all wrong.

[Anonymous Coward]

too bad it is no longer called GMT. it's UTC. Get it right you friggin morons.

Re:Dating your cheques -- chinese new year

[jnana]

chinese_calender != gregorian_calender;

The first day of the chinese new year this year will be February 12, 2002, which will be the first year of the year of the Horse (or year 4699).

Goodbye -47?

[newbob]

I don't get it!

Why are we saying goodbye to -47? What was so special about it?

Re:Goodbye -47?

[jnana]

I think you mean -49, no? 32+16+1!=47 ;-)

Re:Goodbye -47?

[newbob]

No, that's not how Two's complement works!

To convert a twos complement negative number into a positive number, COMPLEMENT THE BITS and ADD ONE!

That's why FFFFFFFF is -1. Complement (00000000) and add one (00000001).

I pray that someone like you isn't being hired for serious Computer Science work! Someday a missle will crash because of you.

That's the price we all pay--in poor quality software--for undegreed "programmers" or H-1B "ploglammels".

PocketPC the only OS?

[MikeD83]

Why did they put Microsoft's PocketPC 2002 in Sepetember and not include Windows XP in October or the Linux 2.4 kernel in February?

Insult more canadians....

[rerunn]

Call them Americans

...

[xtype]

Happy Newyear everyone!
-xtype

/. y2k2 bug...

[AcidDan]

-- Top post on the page atm: --
UK Government Solicits Advice On Open Source
Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 01, @01:39AM
from the you-have-til-march dept.
--

... And we thought the y2k bug would get us and there in the wings was the eeevil of y2k2! =)

I'm betting it's a one-line fix ;)

-- Dan (who spent new years nursing his sick gf back to health - not unlike a lot of others I'm sure...)

It's now 12:12 Pacific Std. Time

[spike hay]

2001 is over. 2002 has begun. Lets hope its a lot better than last year

Why would he want to come back?

[renoX]

>[] Dmitry Sklyarov has returned home to Russia, and has already raised a toast with his wife and children.
> I hope Dmitry's treated a little differently on his next visit to the U.S.

Frankly if I were him, I would be totally disgusted by the US and would never ever want to go again to the US?

Think of it, as if you were going to a foreign country and has been treated the way he was..
Would you want to go again to this foreign country?
I doubt it, and first you would have to convince your wife to let you go there :-).

Re:Why would he want to come back?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck him.
We are not going to be apologetic for trying to adhere to our laws and prosecuting assholes who don't give a shit about it.

Oh, I do so love fisticuffs!

[The_Messenger]

I, The_Messenger, shall perform duties as ringmaster for the bout of WIPO Troll v. AC. Gentlemen, begin!

1. WIPO Troll hits AC with Fecal Fist. AC takes 10HP damage.
2. AC casts spell "Goatse Redirect". WIPO Troll is blinded.
3. WIPO Troll uses item "ThinkGeek beverage". WIPO Troll is no longer blind.
4. AC casts spell "JonKatz article". WIPO Troll falls asleep.
5. WIPO Troll sleeps.
6. AC casts spell "Goatse Redirect". The URL was malformed! WIPO Troll takes no damage. WIPO Troll wakes up.
7. WIPO Troll summons Scientology Rush. AC takes 54HP damage. AC is mute and cannot cast spells!
8. WIPO Troll casts spell "Comp-u-geek Popups". AC is confused.
9. AC dons armor, "Lame DeCSS T-shirt". Physical damage is reduced by 14%. WIPO Troll masturbates and restores 5HP.
11. AC summons "Moderators on $2 crack". WIPO Troll is hit for 14HP damage. WIPO Troll is hit for 7P damage. WIPO Troll is hit for 11HP damage. Side effect: AC is no longer mute!
12. WIPO Troll casts spell, "Microsoft flame". Environmental effect: +3 positive moderation. Magic damage reduced by 25%.
13. AC is still confused. AC takes off pants.
14. WIPO Troll uses item "Yopy". WIPO Troll gains new spell "Impress Lamers". AC is still confused. AC puts pants back on.
15. AC is still confused. AC takes off pants and burns them.
16. WIPO Troll hits AC with "Furious Masturbation" attack. AC is contaminated with "AIDS jizz". AC is sick! AC takes 63HP damage!
17. WIPO Troll casts spell "FecalJapan hyperlink"! AC is blinded! AC takes 134HP damage from "AIDS jizz"!
18. WIPO Troll hits AC with "mocking laughter"! AC loses self-esteem! AC takes 2HP damage from "AIDS jizz"!
19. AC uses item "AIDS medication". AC is still blind, and cannot properly administer medical treatment. AC takes 43HP damage from "AIDS jizz"!
20. WIPO Troll slips in puddle of jizz. WIPO Troll takes 78HP damage from "floor". AC takes 69HP damage from "AIDS jizz".
21. AC dies from sickness "AIDS jizz".

So there you have it! The WIPO Troll emerges victorious from a vicious street brawl with challenger AC. Congratulations, WIPO Troll! Your prize is a shiny hyperlink. Enjoy!

Re:Oh, I do so love fisticuffs!

[Anonymous Coward]

I, The_Messenger, shall perform duties as ringmaster for the bout of WIPO Troll v. AC. Gentlemen, begin!

You've got the job. However, I think that WIPO is all talk and no action. If he wants to kick someone's ass, he has the opportunity to try. I've accepted his offer, but he refuses to leave his mama's side and make good on his threat.

Re:Oh, I do so love fisticuffs!

[The Turd Report]

Hahahahahahaha!!!1!!1! Oh God, I just pissed myself. Hahahahahaha!

Re:Oh, I do so love fisticuffs!

[The WIPO Troll]

Bwahahahahahahahaha!! But you know I would've used my secret "Taco-snot" weapon at least once, right?

Re:Oh, I do so love fisticuffs!

[The_Messenger]

True, but you wouldn't have needed to resort to such measures unless the AC cast the fearsome "Goatse Hyperlink Accusation" spell. Luckily, the AC in question was pretty much a newb.

Re:Oh, I do so love fisticuffs!

[Anonymous Coward]

True, but you wouldn't have needed to resort to such measures unless the AC cast the fearsome "Goatse Hyperlink Accusation" spell. Luckily, the AC in question was pretty much a newb.

Wrong. And I don't believe childish spells. Spells are just words (which seems to be WIPO's big thing).

And my offer stands. If he names the time and place, I will be there, so he can kick my ass as he puts it (twice even).

But he's been exposed for the pussy he is.

No GMT. It's UTC. And still no ISO 8601

[stesch]

You mean UTC, not GMT.

And by the way: I'd like to select ISO 8601 for displaying the date. Which was possible in the old version of slashcode.

-1 offtopic

[elite lamer]

happy fucking new year.

WKRP/. in Cincinati

[Oshuma.Shiroki]

...Lots of cool gadgets in there. Samsung 3G prototypes, a car designed by Bella and Nokia, soft hardware by IDEO, Siemens wristphone, Compaq's project Mercury, the Agende VR3 Linux based PDA, the Pogo, Psion's über gadgets, Handspring's Treo, Fathammer's X-Forge, Samsungs YOPY (Linux PDA), Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 including screenshots. Lots and lots of cool stuff to read."

Why does this sound like a radio commercial? ;)

Last Story In 2001

[Peale]

As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time. That means that you're reading the last story posted in 2001, in which we've gathered some more year-end submissions.

Uh-uh! THIS was the last story posted in 2001. Posted by timothy on 21:19 Monday 31 December 2001, to be precise, as opposed to 18:59 Monday 31 December 2001 for this story.

Year in date field

[Anonymous Coward]

It would be very nice to have the year
in the date field of the article. If
you search the archive there is no
way you can know whether the piece
of information you get is current
or outdated.

rh

Re:Year in date field

[Van Halen]

Login, go to preferences, change the date format to something that includes a year field. Viola. Personally, I'm not terribly thrilled about any of the options that include the year, but whatever. I'd rather see them properly handle daylight savings in the timezone (very easy to do) without me having to switch twice a year.

Anyway, here's to a better year in 2002!

Unga unga

[BigJimSlade]

Base 2 math and hangover do not mix well... "Does that actually equal 2001? Let me use my feeble brain to... ARHGHGGH!"

Yea Right

[SomeOtherGuy]

>> Lots of cool gadgets in there. Samsung 3G prototypes, a car designed by Bella and Nokia, soft hardware by IDEO, Siemens wristphone, Compaq's project Mercury, the Agende VR3 Linux based PDA, the Pogo, Psion's über gadgets, Handspring's Treo, Fathammer's X-Forge, Samsungs YOPY (Linux PDA), Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 including screenshots.

Or in other words -- a tribute to vaporware 2001.

Re:Wrong. I actually don't think so...

[steelhawk]

I'm not so sure about that.... I've read that the ancient romans were fairly strict about this particular rule...
(This had some relation with how their abacus [tm] worked IIRC)

But yes, they did use some constructions that look wrong to most people these days.... Generally not using the subtraction rule much for instance.
(eg. Gate 29 on the Colloseum read XXVIIII)

Farewell, 11111010001

[lnxguy]

For your information, it is no longer Greenwich mean time (GMT). It has been called Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) for about eight years now...

Re:Dating your cheques -- chinese new year

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually if you want to be completely accurate, technically, the first day of the Lunar new year is on "First Spring" (La Chun?) which happens to be Feb 3 or 4th.

Well, at least according to serveral sources including this one posted earlier.

Blah, typeos

[kobaz]

Forgive me for not doing a preview first :(