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April Fools Wrap Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the its-been-a-fun-day dept.

Thanks for the usual April Fools Day flame- every year people fall for it. It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke. Lastly, jfengel sent us the annual April Fools RFC: RFC3251 describes "Electricity over IP" and RFC3252 on "Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport" reformulates IP to work over XML."

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  1. CmdrTaco by killmenow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It never ceases to amaze me how pompous and self-righteous, yet utterly clueless CmdrTaco can be despite the blatant lameness of his jokes.

    1. Re:CmdrTaco by Hemos+(editor) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      amaze

      (Sun Microsystems to purchase MandrakeSoft)

  2. Sarcasta Hacked!!! by switcha · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sacrasta has been hacked.

    Who are these cats and kittens and how will they be stopped?

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  3. Re:is it really over? by Hemos+(editor) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope not. An April Fool's joke should at least be interesting.

  4. Re:first post by doofsmack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    someone mod this idiot down! what? AC isn't working? crap!

  5. Re:Hmm.... by damiam · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Tricks to getting modpoints -
    • Have decent karma (I first got modpoints with 10 karma, but I think it's possible with any positive karma)
    • Read in an "average" pattern - Slashcode tracks when you log in, and it's more likely to give modpoints to non-obsessive readers. I find that if I check /. about 4-5 times one day, and then don't touch it at all for a day or two, I often have mod points when I come back.
    • Metamod occasionally - it's not neccessary, but it helps
    • Be patient
    Also, I'm not sure if newer accounts can ever get modpoints. I know metamod is restricted to the oldest ~90% of accounts (currently users with < 512000 UID's), but moderation I'm not sure about. Anyone know?
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