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Erik Sliman writes "Why are all the IT companies suddenly interested in open standards with web services? An OpenStandards.net article explores the issues surrounding the somewhat vague term."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    life sucks, i hate canada, and i hate school and decisions.

  2. About the Troll Library by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    In my development of the Troll Library and the Troll Library Technology, I have received many questions and concerns in reference to the Troll Library and its use on $lashdot. The intention of this post is to "clear the air" of the misunderstandings and incorrect assumptions which have been posited about the Troll Library.

    What is the Troll Library?

    The Troll Library is a database of the best and brightest trolls of $lashdot history. The database is SQL 2000 and is managed by Microsoft C# using .NET technology.

    How can the Troll Library be accessed?

    The Troll Library is not yet available online, but it will eventually be made publicly available in the form of a .NET web service-- That means that you will be able to browse the library and submit your additions with your web browser (yes, even an inferior piece of shit like Mozilla, since Microsoft for some reason chose to include "down-level" compatibility with their web services in .NET).

    What's the ultimate goal of the Troll Library?

    To crapflood $lashdot into oblivion using Microsoft technologies.

    What does the $lashdot community think about this?

    Using Microsoft .NET to annihilate $lashdot really pisses off the $lashdot community, which is hilarous.

    Do you sit around and read $lashdot all day?

    Of course not. The client troll poster bot automatically detects a new story on $lashdot, selects a post from the Troll Library database, and submits it to $lashdot. The client is written purely in C# using Windows Forms in .NET. It would be impossible for $lashdot server to detect the presence of the bot, except for the "Dirty Linux Users:Are Hippies" header.

    What if they crack down?

    If the 'editors' (I use the term loosely) were to ban the RoboTroll or Troll Library posts, the posting client would have to become open source and avialable to everyone. The irony and humor is very rich indeed.

    How can I help?

    The single biggest need is a .NET server with the bandwidth capable of being $lashdotted. Please make your plans and prepare accordingly; when the time comes, we want you to be ready. What you will receive is nothing more than a .ZIP file to unzip to your inetpub\wwwroot folder.

    If you are running Apache or some other open source derivative piece of shit, I can only laugh at your sad ability to serve up plain ol' HTML. You sad and pathetic, and I fear for your future career-- or lack thereof. HAHAH!!!

    Thanks!!

    No - Thank you, the honorable and noble Trolls of $lashdot, we all know that WE are the lifeblood of $lashdot itself, and it would wither and die without US .

    Do not attempt to email me (email is bullshit of course) or otherwise, just reply to this post; replies are automatically indexed and delivered to me.

  3. imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    imagine a beowulf cluster of these

  4. Burt Bacharach Tells It Like It Is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    L.A. is a great big freeway,
    Put a hundred down and buy a car.
    In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star.
    Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass.
    And all the stars that never were,
    Are parking cars and pumping gas.

    DUM, DUM, DUM...

  5. Re:Hate school? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fantastic. Instead of helping the guy, who is obviously depressed, you rag on him.

  6. Big Al by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Al Gore invented web services

  7. Re:Last post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't bother reading past this point. I assure you, it's all shit.

    you are confused... this was not the first post...

    We all know everything after the First Post is $hit...

  8. Re:Becuase of Stupidity of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't have time to open ports, I am too busy reading slashdot. :-)

  9. Deep Throat dead at 53 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    DENVER (AP) -- Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat" and later became an anti-porn advocate, died Monday from injuries she suffered in a car crash. She was 53.

    Boreman was taken to Denver Health Medical Center with massive trauma and internal injuries after the April 3 accident, hospital spokeswoman Sara Spaulding said. She was taken off life support Monday, Spaulding said.

    Boreman's ex-husband, Larry Marchiano, said he and their two adult children were at the hospital when she died.

    "Everyone might know her as something else, but we knew her as mom and as Linda," Marchiano said. "We divorced five years ago, but she was still my best friend."

    The family moved to Colorado in 1990 and the two divorced in 1996 after 22 years of marriage.

    Boreman claimed her first husband forced her into pornography at gunpoint. They divorced in 1973.

    Their relationship disintegrated into a life of violence, rape, prostitution and pornography, according to her 1980 autobiography, Ordeal and her testimony before congressional committees investigating pornography.

    Boreman said she was never paid a penny for Deep Throat and her husband was only paid $1,250 (U.S.), though the film grossed a reported $600 million.

    After leaving the industry, she traveled the lecture circuit on a crusade against pornography, speaking at colleges and with prominent feminists.

    "I look in the mirror and I look the happiest I've ever looked in my entire life," she said in a 1997 interview. "I'm not ashamed of my past or sad about it. And what people might think of me, well, that's not real. I look in the mirror and I know that I've survived."

    Boreman was born Jan. 10, 1949, in the Bronx borough of New York.