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Slashback: Apache, DRM, Limbo

Slashback tonight has an important correction about the role of the Apache Foundation (none) vis a vis yesterday's ".NET for Apache" post. Also, another view of the recent DRM (stacked) roundtable in Washington, a review of Red Hat's new beta, and more. Anyone who has successfully downloaded the new Mandrake beta want to comment on that?

Those guys did not ride in with us. Sascha Schumann of the Apache Software Foundation wrote to correct the story presented in Monday's post (".Net for Apache"), writing "this is _not_ a joint Apache Software Foundation/Microsoft stunt. It has not been approved or endorsed by the Apache Software Foundation, nor does it require any of those acts -- it is a deal between two private companies, Covalent and Microsoft."

Fly on wall video, anyone? kikensei writes: "DSL Reports has a story summarizing last week's DRM round table that was stacked with corporate panel members. You can read it here. It presents a much more apt framework for discussion than the overly sensitive, passive account from Al3x that defined our discussion last week."

Dancing in limbo, limbo, limbo. Earlier this month, we mentioned Red Hat's new beta, called Limbo. wiredog writes "From eWeek, a review of RedHat 8.0 beta. With gcc 3.1,the latest versions of GNOME, Mozilla and OpenOffice, and Apache 2.0"

The force is strong in these metallic boxes. Verizon Guy writes "CNet is reporting that Industrial Light and Magic, the group responsible for rendering the special effects in the Star Wars films, is moving away from their proprietary SGI/IRIX/RISC based systems and is instead moving to Dells running Linux. This will give them 100% performance at 20% of the cost."

Here's a link to our post with the recent Linux Journal article on same; look for more on this soon.

Wear name tags, please. mpawlo writes "Slashdot meetup day is only a week away. Some 4 500 people have already signed up to meet all over the world on Thursday July 25, 2002, 7 pm. We need more fellow Swedes to meet in Stockholm and I guess the same goes for other cities."

175 comments

  1. apache by suqur · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i have no idewa what i'm posting about cause i'm a lamer

    1. Re:apache by YHVH · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I am the Lord of Posts. You shall have no other posts before Me.

      But in your case, I'll make an exception.

    2. Re:apache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      have no idewa what i'm posting about cause i'm a lamer just like the rest of slashdot readers.

    3. Re:apache by quinto2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Heh, that was actually pretty funny.

      --
      Ceci n'est pas un post
  2. mANDRAKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    teh nu mancake is teh ghey!!!1

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

    And these propeller heads think they know how to cook!!!

  4. LOOK IN THE FUCKING MIRROR USA! by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1

    You are the real terrorists.

  5. Thursday evenings are bad for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have to watch Smackdown! on UPN! I don't want to miss The Rock! He's the most electifying man in sports entertainment today (and the new WWE champion!).

  6. I'm not signing up for Meetup, and neither are you by RumGunner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We hate registering for websites! Haven't you learned that by now? .

  7. I DONT WEAR PANTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because my dick is unstoppable.

    Thank you.

    1. Re:I DONT WEAR PANTS by Thud457 · · Score: -1

      And that's why I WILL NOT be signing up for any /. meat up!

      You people are annoying an juvenile enough online, I would much prefer to keep you safely at the far end of a screen than come face to face with the likes of the spork clan.

      --

      the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  8. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    That's right, suck it and like it. OSS will never compare to Microsoft products for 3 reasons:

    1. Compatibility. Everyone writes programs for Windows, period. Yeah, sometimes the Mac zealots cry until they get a game or two a year after initial release, but that's the only exception. Remember the Loki debacle? LMFAO! It made Enron look like an honest mistake!

    2. Future. Microsoft is here to stay. Even *if* Microsoft somehow dissapeared, their products are still here, and will be for quite some time. If you don't believe me, look at Netware and any company that still runs it (every major banking firm still runs it as well as most companies that have been around before the .bomb craze).

    3. Past. Microsoft has been around since the early 80's, and DOS (which is what Windows is based on) has even earlier roots. The source for Windows originated from the early MacOS (80's again), and MacOS has it's roots from the Xerox GUI, which is early 70's. When was Lunix started again? 1995? 1996? 6 fucking years and it has yet to run one single Microsoft app! WTF kind of POSIX complience is that?
    I rest my case.

  9. please clarify by lingqi · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Some 4 500 people

    would that be four thousand five hundred people, or four to five hundred people?

    it's a big difference; so please let us (me, anyway) know.

    --

    My life in the land of the rising sun.

    1. Re:please clarify by sulli · · Score: 1

      No, four groups of 500, in random locations. Best of luck finding them!

      --

      sulli
      RTFJ.
    2. Re:please clarify by Tom7 · · Score: 1

      He said he's from Sweden. Much of Europe doesn't use the comma to split up long numbers, they use the space instead (the comman replaces our decimal point). So it's 4,500.

    3. Re:please clarify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Here's a little something from a God to a slave,
      I never should of been let outta the fucking microwave!
      We're on this planet and we're running amok,
      I should give a shit but I don't give a fuck!
      Ever since I was a scumdog, I blew a cum-wad.
      I need a mother-fucking suckadickalickalong!
      Burning a mall or two, blowing the load I spew.
      You don't wanna fucking fuck me? I'll Fuck you!
      This is your ass, and I'm in it.
      My man sexy will fuck you up in a minute.
      With an axe, sword, mace, pike your limbless.
      Then I'll fuck your ass till its rimless!

      Oh! You humans always screaming!
      Oh! As you suckle on my semen!
      Oh! And the shit is always steamin'
      A drunk, a pervert, a junkie and a sodimizer.
      But you can call me the salaminizer

      My life is a luxury, so filled with hate.
      I got fifty slaves heaping maggots on my plate.
      From my fortress in Antarctica I watch the world die
      On my Sony Trinitron that's switched to channel 5.
      Back on the road, its no lie....
      Stupid fucking humans pay money to die!
      Crushed in the pit, nailed to the stage
      I only suck the souls that are underage.

      Oh! You humans always screaming!
      Oh! As you suckle on my semen!
      Oh! And the shit is always steamin'
      A drunk, a pervert, a junkie and a sodimizer.
      But you can call me the salaminizer

    4. Re:please clarify by ajft · · Score: 1

      >> Some 4 500 people

      >would that be four thousand five hundred people, or
      >four to five hundred people?

      Four thousand five hundred.

      In most of Europe, a space is used to seperate groups of digits, the comma is used to seperate real from fractional part (reasoning being that a dot is likely to be less visible)

      >it's a big difference; so please let us (me,
      >anyway) know.

      Warning, culturally isolated Americans at work.

    5. Re:please clarify by allanj · · Score: 2

      To ensure that things get really complicated, some of us crazy europeans use a comma to seperate real and fractional parts and a DOT to seperate groups of digits (thousands, millions etc.). So where I come from (Denmark), 4500 could be written as 4.500, which I'm sure would confuse the American audience far more than 4 500. It's going out of style though - most young people don't seperate groups of digits in ordinary numbers, probably because of the confusion it often causes. We're a small country with limited resources for localization, so a lot of stuff used in higher education is foreign (typically anglo-american), where the 4,500.0 style is rampant. So to deal with that, we take away the grouping seperators and use a comma or dot interchangably as a real/frational seperator.
      Confused? You should be - we are :-)

      --
      Black holes are where God divided by zero
    6. Re:please clarify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think most people understand the ./, interchange with monetary values as soon as they realize they're looking at currency data and notice the placement, ie
      4.500,00
      4,500.00
      4 500,00

      of course, the first time you see any given method it can be confusing, and clarification may be needed. It only gets worse when it's not currency values, as a decimal can have any given accuracy. In the case of "4 500", though, you're looking at a case where it could be either "4-500" or "4,500"/"4.500", which does make a big difference. If the number had been larger (4 500 000), then it may have been easier to determine (or more confusing?).

  10. What is Sladhback? by dcstimm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I read the news but I guess I didnt really understand it... What is this slashback?

    1. Re:What is Sladhback? by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yeah I suppose a newbie might not understand it first off. Slashback revisits stories posten recently with some interesting (and sometimes vital) additional info or clarifications. They usually do around one or two slashbacks a week. These are the articles where replys to the editorial team like "Thats not true!!" or "You should have also had a link to this..." go.

    2. Re:What is Sladhback? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Among other things, it's a chance for slashdot to milk past stories for as many page hits as possible.

    3. Re:What is Sladhback? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obviously "Slashback" is Slashdot jargon for "Flashback", ie revisiting older Slashdot content for correction.

    4. Re:What is Sladhback? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's hardly obvious, yo. I've been coming here for four years and didn't notice it.

    5. Re:What is Sladhback? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Yeah I suppose a newbie might not understand it first off. Slashback revisits stories posten recently with some interesting (and sometimes vital) additional info or clarifications. They usually do around one or two slashbacks a week. These are the articles where replys to the editorial team like "Thats not true!!" or "You should have also had a link to this..." go.

      So it's kind of like those dupe articles on slashdot due to lazy editors?

    6. Re:What is Sladhback? by david+duncan+scott · · Score: 2

      You've been coming here for four years and didn't work it out? Are the new glasses helping?

      --

      This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander

    7. Re:What is Sladhback? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Slashback revisits stories posten recently

      LURN TOO SPEL FUXOR

    8. Re:What is Sladhback? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Yeah I suppose a newbie might not understand" yeah its just so hard for a newbie to understand things. They're not people you know. And of course, none of us were ever new here. mwahahahaha

  11. The lone meeters by cheezycrust · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the top meetup list, more than 200 meetings are with 5 or less people. I wonder how many of them will actually take place. The 70 meetups with only one member will be really cool... at least there's no risk the other guests are boring.

    --
    Teenagers these days don't have as much sex as they want each other to think they do.
    1. Re:The lone meeters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Either way it will smell bad and the jizz will flow like a river. Luhnicks is teh gheyest.

    2. Re:The lone meeters by CoolVibe · · Score: 4, Funny
      The 70 meetups with only one member will be really cool... at least there's no risk the other guests are boring.

      Nobody will disagree with you either.

    3. Re:The lone meeters by jnik · · Score: 1

      Well, one lousy bit of scheduling is that this Thursday conflicts with Otakon; I'm not going to be anywhere near my home base. I'm not really complaining; I'm sure every day has something at least tangentially geek-related. So, er, that's one less person in Grand Rapids.

    4. Re:The lone meeters by MattRog · · Score: 1

      29 people signed up for Columbus, OH -- 6 confirmed! :D Not sure what we're going to do in Virgin Megastore (browse the DVD section?) but there's lots to do in Easton.

      --

      Thanks,
      --
      Matt
    5. Re:The lone meeters by Rheingold · · Score: 1

      But the trolls can be downright unbearable.

      --
      Wil
      wiki
    6. Re:The lone meeters by ScumBiker · · Score: 2

      Worse yet, The EAA fly-in is in Oshkosh this week and I planned on going Thursday. Looks like rain up here in da nort woods, so I think I'll make the Madison meetup after all.

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      --- Think of it as evolution in action ---
    7. Re:The lone meeters by DaveHowe · · Score: 2

      does the first one there get to wear a t-shirt saying "1st p0st" and with a grayscale photo of ms portman?

      --
      -=DaveHowe=-
  12. I feel sorry for them... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some 4 500 people have already signed up to meet...

    4,500 people! I feel sorry for the three girls that are gonna show up. Behave yourselfz, gentlemen! Keep your 1337n335 where it belongs!

    1. Re:I feel sorry for them... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      jesus christ, the moderators still consider this shit funny? can we not implement some sort of lameness filter for moderation?

  13. why require email address by Hollins · · Score: 4, Funny

    In order to learn the secret location of a geek get together in your area, you must submit your email address.

    The site promises that I won't be spammed, but I have found repeatedly that many companies don't share my definition of spam. More often than not, when a company promises not to use my email address for spam, what they mean is that they won't sell my address (for now). However, they don't consider sending me a weekly newsletter consisting soley of product ads to be spam.

    1. Re:why require email address by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 4, Funny

      Really? Send me your e-mail and I'll make sure it all stops.

      ;)

    2. Re:why require email address by WetCat · · Score: 1

      What's the problem? Get free address from yahoo.com
      just for meetup purposes and volia!

    3. Re:why require email address by Hollins · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I have about six such addresses. I create a new one each time the old on gets overwhelmed with spam. I'm sick of dealing with it, so I simply don't participate. I think others are, also. Hopefully folks will realize this to be the case stop trying to require registration.

      The real-world analogues to these types of promotions don't use similar tactics, because they know doing so is silly. When I'm offered a free sample at the grocery, I'm not asked for my phone number.

    4. Re:why require email address by Weh · · Score: 1

      I was going to recommend www.sneakemail.com to you, but they seem to be down for some reason? Anyhow, it's a great service(if it works) and avoids the hassle of creating a new hotmail/yahoo account each time.

    5. Re:why require email address by Kelerain · · Score: 1

      Actually I find I can enter anyaddress/password to 'sign up' and it just lets you through. So type in a junk address and see where it is. You can confirm going there (not sure if that actually requires a legit email or not) afterwards. Happy meetups!

    6. Re:why require email address by zerocool^ · · Score: 2

      I have a friend who creates a sendmail alias on his box every time he puts an email address in a form just to see who spams him. He always opts out of everything.

      One time he called McAffee because he filled out a form on their site listing his email as user-mcaffee@domain.com and he started getting spam to that address. The claimed that they don't give out email addresses, and he informed him that they were the only people that had this email address, calling BS on them.

      But in the end, just delete the alias if it starts getting spammed.

      ~Will

      --
      sig?
    7. Re:why require email address by Sloppy · · Score: 3, Informative

      The reason it asks for your email address is that it uses it. A few days ago it mailed people who had signed up, to let 'em know if there were enough people signed up, and to get people to RSVP, if the meeting was on.

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      As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
    8. Re:why require email address by digitalsushi · · Score: 2

      I used to just forward all my email into /dev/null. Then one day I decided to do a mail backup, so I gzipped it, and my computer disappeared!

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      slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
    9. Re:why require email address by antrik · · Score: 1

      Actually, they even explicitly state that they may do so. It's in the usage terms.

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      All my comments get moderated +-0, spotless.
  14. Re:What is Slashback? by cheezycrust · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a sort of errata. Corrections and updates to articles posted earlier in Slashdot are published here.

    --
    Teenagers these days don't have as much sex as they want each other to think they do.
  15. Re:I'm not signing up for Meetup, and neither are by turnstyle · · Score: 1

    You might not sign up for Meetup, but I just want to say that Scott Heiferman (Meetup's Co-Founder & CEO) is a swell guy.

    --
    Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
  16. thought MONO project was .NET for apache/linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    i thought this was open source version .NET framework for linux/apache. it would be nice to have .NET run on linux then we could finally pack away the java and just drink it. I could cook the beans and make me fart instead of coding with them. .NET frankly kicks java's a$$ but if MS keeps it restricted java will continue to be for more than creating farts on the weekend for grillouts with the wife!

  17. Cheers! by poopbot by poopbot · · Score: -1

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Credits: on by

    Trolling your way on the web today
    Takes everything you've got;
    Having a Bot to post your comments
    Sure would help a lot.
    Wouldn't you like to join the frey?

    Sometimes you want to go
    And get a First Post in your name,
    So much goatse that you came;
    We know it's hard to get Eff Pee,
    Our troubles are all the same;
    Get that FP and everyone'll know your name.

    - posted by poopbot: crapflooding since 7/8/02

    lBwCsNnuhv Post #583

  18. [YourMissionForToday says:] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    FP dedicated to Gals Panic

    Kick it!

    Paul says hi to girl named heide
    Won't you come and sit beside me?
    No she says and gag me green
    With you I'd like to never be seen
    Good bye.

    Play our game 'til she gets naked
    On mine I want cheese and bacon
    If I had another quarter
    I could reach the next nude border

    Pick it up, pick it up, pickituppickitup hey

    Tag! Tag you're it!
    Gals panic!
    Tag! Tag you're it!
    Gals panic!

    Stay cool as Paul walks down the street and each and every girl he meets
    Says fuck you and is on her way gals panic each and every day
    Lay stay cool (?) attach his feet bazooka joe he goes
    But he never seems to get a break so it's off to the arcade

    Tag! Tag you're it!
    Gals panic!
    Tag! Tag you're it!
    Gals panic!

    (instrumental break)

    La la la la la la la la la la la
    Gals panic! Repeat 3x

  19. Commenting on Mandrake by great+throwdini · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone who has successfully downloaded the new Mandrake beta want to comment on that?

    What? We're no longer permitted to respond in-band? Or can the Mandrake Beta now claim to be /.'s quickest Slashback topic? In other words: huh?

  20. Too bad it doesn't work [nt] by Mr.Surly · · Score: 0

    no text

  21. Can't miss this! by Otter · · Score: 2
    Hmmm, I have Red Sox tickets for tomorrow night but how can I possibly pass up the chance to socialize with the WIPO Troll?

    And it's only the Devil Rays...

    1. Re:Can't miss this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So... you're a Red Sox fan. Have you ever heard of Ted Williams? If you do... you're A Red Sox fan... if ya don't your a loser!!!!!!!

    2. Re:Can't miss this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Tomorrow is Wednesday, the day after that is Thursday aka the day this thing is on. So, go see Red Sox, and then the next day, meet a troll.

    3. Re:Can't miss this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not a baseball fan by any means and I haven't been able to avoid knowing about Ted Williams. There were big articles in every paper about him for like a week.

    4. Re:Can't miss this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This is on topic. It's a valid reply. The original poster was mistaken and might give up his baseball tickets wrongly. If anything, it should be +1, Informative.

    5. Re:Can't miss this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      End the insanity. Do you really want the original poster, Otter, to give up his baseball tickets because he thinks these things are on the same day? I know I don't.

    6. Re:Can't miss this! by Otter · · Score: 1
      End the insanity. Do you really want the original poster, Otter, to give up his baseball tickets because he thinks these things are on the same day? I know I don't.

      Actually, they are on the same day. I was under the misimpression that today was Wednesday.

      I appreciate your persistence in coming to my aid, though, and agree that your -1's were undeserved.

  22. Back by Request by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CheezyDee's shit story

    I've shit in a few strange places in my day. In HS I shit in a little used vestibule just outside the boys locker room. It was between classes, the bathrooms were decrepid, noone else was there, and I hadda go. A few days later I went back to admire my creation, and there was a footprint in it ... totally ruined. Some people have no respect for modern art.

    A couple years later I'm doing some laundry with a friend at 11 PM, and disposing of a 12 pack at the same time. No bathroom, and I gotta go #2 again. No problem. Grab some paper towels from the trunk of my car, walk around to the back of the building behind a dumpster and unload. By the time I head back in, my friends gotta piss. I toss him the car keys so he can use my flashlight to avoid the landmines, and off he goes. He comes back a minute later with tears in his eyes. I'm like, "WTF??", so he leads me back to the item in question: an absolutely perfect cinnamon roll cast in fecal matter. If only I had a camera...

    R.I.P. The Clit :(

  23. USian pie by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    USian Pie

    A long, long time ago I can still remember How the trollers used to make me smile And I knew if I had to boast That I could try to get first post And maybe I'd be happy for a while But moderators made me shiver With every minus they'd deliver DoS scripts couldn't stop it They scored them all "Offtopic" I know that it's cheap crack they smoke And meta-moderation's broke At first I thought it was a joke The day that trolltalk died

    -- Chorus --
    Bye, bye, MEEPTy, OOG, and Grits guy Drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
    Those Steve Woston posts that we all knew were a lie Wonder what became of girls petrified? What became of girls petrified?
    --

    Did you write a bunch of Perl? And did it make you want to hurl Feces at the Wall? Can you believe these lame-ass polls? Do you post big stretched-out assholes? Can you make the goatse.cx link not show? Well I know you think that Siggy sucked Will the real Bruce Perens please stand up? The bots don't have a clue. Man, I dig those trolls from Shoe! I was a rabid Free Speech advocate With a Red Hat T-shirt and a Free Beer gut
    Bought my Sony laptop working Pizza Hut The day that trolltalk died

    -- Chorus --

    It's been two years since the IPO And LNUX sinks to all-time lows But that's not how it used to be When Spiral showed how it was done Trolling as Jon Erikson Who worked for NPO Technologies Oh and while they tried to filter posts Somebody rooted Slashdot's host "Crack Slashdot? That's absurd!" Better go change your password While JonKatz wrote a Hellmouth book By using posts he simply took And we flamed him till he was cooked The day that trolltalk died And we were singin....

    -- Chorus --

    10 grams. Inchfan. Didn't log out. Goddamn The mods will find the sid real soon, man
    You can't hide if you aren't AC Your bud (George here) tried BSD A dead Streetlawyer's tips were free And WIPO helped letsriot turn Nazi 70 made his percents up While 80md warned "liberals suck" The moon does not exist It's just a liberal myth Oh and as Taco tried to take a nap We forced him to invoke bitchslaps Do you recall the flood of crap The day that trolltalk died? We started singin....

    -- Chorus --

    Oh and then we were wearing out "All your base" And started posting monospace
    The better for our penis birds So come on, be a zealot, be a dick You don't think Anne Marie's a chick? Because lying's all we do about HURD So go and push for BSD And say GPL isn't free Slow down, cowboy! The limit Is one post every minute Now tell the right wing facist slime Infringing on Your Rights Online That they can't censor all the time The day that trolltalk died

    -- Chorus --

    I met a troll they called The Rev And asked him if CD BREAK HEAD He said, "That's old. Get over it." And with all the courage I could muster "Imagine what a Beowulf cluster...." But it wasn't worth the trouble to submit The karma caps are just plain jive And everyone's moved to K5 The steelcage has grown rusted And Geekizoid is busted
    The three sites I don't see for weeks Segfault, kernel, Comp-u-geek Code is not art. This ain't Freshmeat The day that trolltalk died

    -- Chorus --

    - posted by poopbot: crapflooding since 7/8/02

    nyswYZ2qzo Post #584

  24. Trollling in the name of by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Credits: Big Dogs Cock

    Trolling in the name of
    Some of those that boot Suse
    Are the same that bought XP
    Some of those that boot Suse
    Are the same that bought XP
    Trolling in the name of
    And now you run what they told you
    And now you run what they told you
    And now you run what they told you

    95 is justified for running the games that you didn't buy
    95 is justified for running the games that you didn't buy
    Some of those that boot Suse
    Are the same that bought XP
    Some of those that boot Suse
    Are the same that bought XP

    And you run what they told you
    Now your under control
    And you run what they told you
    Now your under control
    And you run what they told you
    Come on!

    Fuck you I wont run what you tell me
    Fuck you I wont run what you tell me
    Fuck you I wont run what you tell me
    Fuck you I wont run what you tell me
    Motherfucker

    - posted by poopbot: who doesn't like scat?

    xfhQ6FOmu9 Post #585

  25. Red Hat 8 Beta? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Funny... according to the RHL mailing list, and the RH-Limbo mailing list...

    Limbo is 7.3.92... not 8.

  26. I like Big Asses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By CheezyDee

    Like I've said before, I don't particularly like fat chicks, but I like big asses, especially when they're connected to thick legs and a small waist. I guess that's where the London/Metro slang term "Pear Shaped" comes from. If you Brits don't like it, send it here.

    Another thing I like about thick girls is they tend to have a nice mound surrounding the vagina as it makes a perfect chin rest while their hips gyrate.

    I have dated a couple big girls, and it doesn't really bother me except that some of them also seem to be heavy in the emotional baggage department, probably due to constantly being the last in line for the trouser trout at the male meat market.

    R.I.P. The Clit :(

  27. My favorite things by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Credits: on by

    crapfloods and trolling and raping small kittens
    nice wider pages and wanking with mittens
    turd report packages tied up with strings
    these are a few of my favorite things

    grits covered portman and ASCII art doodles
    ACs and CLITers and Katz sex with poodles
    wild trolls that fly with plus five mod scoring
    these are a few of my favorite things

    when the ban hits, when I can't post, when I'm feeling sad
    i simply remember my favorite things
    then i don't feel so bad

    Rob Malda chugs penis in fan fiction slashes
    taco snot over my nose and eyelashes
    BSD dying and that goatse ring
    these are a few of my favorite things

    grits covered portman and ASCII art doodles
    ACs and CLITers and Katz sex with poodles
    wild trolls that fly with plus five mod scoring
    these are a few of my favorite things

    when the ban hits, when I can't post when, I'm feeling sad
    i simply remember my favorite things
    then i don't feel so bad

    - posted by poopbot: for all your crapflooding needs

    UhlXLQ1MF0 Post #586

  28. UCFPKF by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    How are things in the civilized world? You probably don't know who I am. That's
    okay. I'm here to inform you of my mission, what I've found, and what I hope to
    teach all of you.

    I work for the United Christians Food for Poor Kids Foundation, and let me tell
    you, there's a lot of poor kids in Afghanistan. As in most countries in the
    Middle East, most people are unemployed, and therefore poor. And where there's a
    lot of poor people, UCFPKF is needed.

    UCFPKF always has the latest in technology. In this instance, we had access to
    some Pentium 4's(r) 2GHz. Obviously, we needed an operating system that could
    handle the power of Intel's beast. Unfortunately, we didn't have any computer
    experts on hand up to the task, so it was going to be trial and error.

    We'd heard good things about Linux and its "ACL's". Little did we know of its
    incompatibility with modern hardware. It didn't even support Token Ring
    networking, the newest form of Ethernet(r), which we require to always keep
    in contact between bases. Also, it didn't seem to use SSE optimizations, which
    when processing food amounts, are also very important. Also, there were
    homo-erotic implications in the structure of Linux, which is strictly
    unallowable in a Christian organization such as ours.

    The next obvious step was to install Windows. We hesitated because we knew that
    it was common knowledge that Windows crashed incessantly. Our experience was
    less than stellar. It also didn't support Token Ring networking. Security is
    important in this region because many people try to steal food, but "Windows
    2000" (which I hear didn't even come out in 2000) doesn't even allow you to
    have seperate permissions. Once again, the SSE optimizations were not used.

    I was in a situation that seemed impossible. The two most famous operating
    systems had failed me. I walked around the base in a dazed stupor. What was I
    going to do for our ultra-important network? A boy saw me pouting and sighing,
    and asked me what was wrong. I said nothing, but we exchanged names, and little
    did I know, that young Junis had a gift for computers.

    Junis saw me the next day, slaving away at the sparse terminal that "Windows
    2000" makes you type in. He asked what I was doing with that primitive OS. I
    laughed and told him that I was doing inventory. He ran to his village, into his
    hut, and pulled out a box I had never seen before. The box said "SCO Xenix" the
    front. I had never seen or heard of this Xenix before. But I soon learned that
    Junis was a computer genius.

    All we had to do was put the Xenix CD into the computer, and everything worked
    like magic (not the devil's magic... good magic:) ). Our Token Ring network
    integrated flawlessly with it. And it even used SSE optimizations. Well, me and
    Junis are now on a new mission. We're spreading the word. It might not be the
    word of the lord, but then again, maybe it is ;).

    SCO Xenix: The Unix of Tomorrow.

    Janet Milman
    Network Administrator, UCFPKF
    Afghanistan base

    - posted by poopbot: the bot formerly known as pwpbot

    i3Bll9AxtW Post #587

  29. Linux Conspiracy by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.

    What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
    • Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
    • Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
    • Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.


    I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

    Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

    As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

    And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

    Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

    'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

    Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

    We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.

    Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.

    In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.

    Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.

    And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.

    The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.

    The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously /anus, but there are others. Militant fags even say 'there is no /opt mount point' because for these dirty perverts faggotry is not optional but a way of life.

    More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.

    Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!

    Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdot of course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.

    The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!

    The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.

    And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.

    To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'

    FEEDBACK
    What worries me is how much you know about what gay people do. I'm scared I actually read this whole thing. I think this post is a good example of the negative effects of Internet usage on people. This person obviously has no social life anymore and had to result to writing something as stupid as this. And actually take the time to do it too. Although... I think it was satire.. blah.. it's early. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    Well, the only reason I know all about this is because I had the misfortune to read the Linux 'Sauce code' once. Although publicised as the computer code needed to get Linux up and running on a computer (and haven't you always been worried about the phrase 'Monolithic Kernel'?), this foul document is actually a detailed and graphic description of every conceivable degrading perversion known to the human race, as well as a few of the major animal species. It has shocked and disturbed me, to the point of needing to shock and disturb the common man to warn them of the impending homo-calypse which threatens to engulf our planet.
    You must work for the government. Trying to post the most obscene stuff in hopes that slashdot won't be able to continue or something, due to legal woes. If i ever see your ugly face, i'm going to stick my fireplace poker up your ass, after it's nice and hot, to weld shut that nasty gaping hole of yours. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    Doesn't it give you a hard-on to imagine your thick strong poker ramming it's way up my most sacred of sphincters? You're beyond help, my friend, as the only thing you can imagine is the foul penetrative violation of another man. Are you sure you're not Eric Raymond? The government, being populated by limp-wristed liberals, could never stem the sickening tide of homosexual child molesting Linux advocacy. Hell, they've given NAMBLA free reign for years!
    you really should post this logged in. i wish i could remember jebus's password, cuz i'd give it to you. -- mighty jebus, Slashdot


    Thank you for your kind words of support. However, this document shall only ever be posted anonymously. This is because the 'Open Sauce' movement is a sham, proposing homoerotic cults of hero worshipping in the name of freedom. I speak for the common man. For any man who prefers the warm, enveloping velvet folds of a woman's vagina to the tight puckered ringpiece of a child. These men, being common, decent folk, don't have a say in the political hypocrisy that is Slashdot culture. I am the unknown liberator.
    ROLF LAMO i hate linux FAGGOTS -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    We shouldn't hate them, we should pity them for the misguided fools they are... Fanatical Linux zeal-outs need to be herded into camps for re-education and subsequent rehabilitation into normal heterosexual society. This re-education shall be achieved by forcing them to watch repeats of Baywatch until the very mention of Pamela Anderson causes them to fill their pants with healthy heterosexual jism.
    Actually, that's not at all how scrotal inflation works. I understand it involves injecting sterile saline solution into the scrotum. I've never tried this, but you can read how to do it safely in case you're interested. (Before you moderate this down, ask yourself honestly -- who are the real crazies -- people who do scrotal inflation, or people who pay $1000+ for a game console?) -- double_h, Slashdot


    Well, it just goes to show that even the holy Linux 'sauce code' is riddled with bugs that need fixing. (The irony of Jon Katz not even being able to inflate his scrotum correctly has not been lost on me.) The Linux pervert elite already acknowledge this, with their queer slogan: 'Given enough arms, all rectums are shallow.' And anyway, the PS2 sucks major cock and isn't worth the money. Intellivision forever!
    dude did u used to post on msnbc's nt bulletin board now that u are doing anti-gay posts u also need to start in with anti-black stuff too c u in church -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    For one thing, whilst Linux is a cavalcade of queer propaganda masquerading as the future of computing, NT is used by people who think nothing better of encasing their genitals in quick setting plaster then going to see a really dirty porno film, enjoying the restriction enforced onto them. Remember, a wasted arousal is a sin in the eyes of the Catholic church. Clearly, the only god-fearing Christian operating system in existence is CP/M -- The Christian Program Monitor. All computer users should immediately ask their local pastor to install this fine OS onto their systems. It is the only route to salvation.

    Secondly, this message is for every man. Computers know no colour. Not only that, but one of the finest websites in the world is maintained by a Black Man . Now fuck off you racist donkey felcher.
    And don't forget that slashdot was written in Perl, which is just too close to 'Pearl Necklace' for comfort.... oh wait; that's something all you heterosexuals do.... I can't help but wonder how much faster the trolls could do First-Posts on this site if it were redone in PHP... I could hand-type dynamic HTML pages faster than Perl can do them. -- phee, Slashdot


    Although there is nothing unholy about the fine heterosexual act of ejaculating between a woman's breasts, squirting one's load up towards her neck and chin area, it should be noted that Perl (standing for Pansies Entering Rectums Locally) is also close to 'Pearl Monocle,' 'Pearl Nosering,' and the ubiquitous 'Pearl Enema.'

    One scary thing about Perl is that it contains hidden homosexual messages. Take the following code: LWP::Simple -- It looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But look at the line closely: There are two colons next to each other! As Larry 'Balls to the' Wall would openly admit in the Perl Documentation, Perl was designed from the ground up to indoctrinate it's programmers into performing unnatural sexual acts -- having two colons so closely together is clearly a reference to the perverse sickening act of 'colon kissing,' whereby two homosexual queers spread their buttocks wide, pressing their filthy torn sphincters together. They then share small round objects like marbles or golfballs by passing them from one rectum to another using muscle contraction alone. This is also referred to in programming 'circles' as 'Parameter Passing.'

    And PHP stands for Perverted Homosexual Penetration. Didn't you know?
    Thank you for your valuable input on this. I am sure you will be never forgotten. BTW: Did I mention that this could be useful in terraforming Mars? Mars rulaa. -- Eimernase, Slashdot


    Well, I don't know about terraforming Mars, but I do know that homosexual Linux Advocates have been probing Uranus for years.
    That's inspiring. Keep up the good work, AC. May God in his wisdom grant you the strength to bring the plain honest truth to this community, and make it pure again. Yours, Cerberus. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    *sniff* That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you once more for your kind support. I have taken faith in the knowledge that I am doing the Good Lord's work, but it is encouraging to know that I am helping out the common man here.

    However, I should be cautious about revealing your name 'Cerberus' on such a filthy den of depravity as Slashdot. It is a well known fact that the 'Kerberos' documentation from Microsoft is a detailed manual describing, in intimate, exacting detail, how to sexually penetrate a variety of unwilling canine animals; be they domesticated, wild, or mythical. Slashdot posters have taken great pleasure in illegally spreading this documentation far and wide, treating it as an 'extension' to the Linux 'Sauce Code,' for the sake of 'interoperability.' (The slang term they use for nonconsensual intercourse -- their favourite kind.)

    In fact, sick twisted Linux deviants are known to have LAN parties, (Love of Anal Naughtiness, needless to say.), wherein they entice a stray dog, known as the 'Samba Mount,' into their homes. Up to four of these filth-sodden blasphemers against nature take turns to plunge their erect, throbbing, uncircumcised members, conkers-deep, into the rectum, mouth, and other fleshy orifices of the poor animal. Eventually, the 'Samba Mount' collapses due to 'overload,' and needs to be 'rebooted.' (i.e., kicked out into the street, and left to fend for itself.) Many Linux users boast about their 'uptime' in such situations.
    Inspiring stuff! If only all trolls were this quality! -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    If only indeed. You can help our brave cause by moderating this message up as often as possible. I recommend '+1, Underrated,' as that will protect your precious Karma in Metamoderation. Only then can we break through the glass ceiling of Homosexual Slashdot Culture. Is it any wonder that the new version of Slashcode has been christened 'Bender'???

    If we can get just one of these postings up to at least '+1,' then it will be archived forever! Others will learn of our struggle, and join with us in our battle for freedom!
    It's pathetic you've spent so much time writing this. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    I am compelled to document the foulness and carnal depravity that is Linux, in order that we may prepare ourselves for the great holy war that is to follow. It is my solemn duty to peel back the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
    As with any great open-source project, you need someone asking this question, so I'll do it. When the hell is version 2.0 going to be ready?!?! -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    I could make an arrogant, childish comment along the lines of 'Every time someone asks for 2.0, I won't release it for another 24 hours,' but the truth of the matter is that I'm quite nervous of releasing a 'number two,' as I can guarantee some filthy shit-slurping Linux pervert would want to suck it straight out of my anus before I've even had chance to wipe.
    I desperately want to suck your monolithic kernel, you sexy hunk, you. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    I sincerely hope you're Natalie Portman.
    Dude, nothing on slashdot larger than 3 paragraphs is worth reading. Try to distill the message, whatever it was, and maybe I'll read it. As it is, I have to much open source software to write to waste even 10 seconds of precious time. 10 seconds is all its gonna take M$ to whoop Linux's ass. Vigilence is the price of Free (as in libre -- from the fine, frou frou French language) Software. Hack on fellow geeks, and remember: Friday is Bouillabaisse day except for heathens who do not believe that Jesus died for their sins. Those godless, oil drench, bearded sexist clowns can pull grits from their pantaloons (another fine, fine French word) and eat that. Anyway, try to keep your message focused and concise. For concision is the soul of derision. Way. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    What the fuck?
    I've read your gay conspiracy post version 1.3.0 and I must say I'm impressed. In particular, I appreciate how you have managed to squeeze in a healthy dose of the latent homosexuality you gay-bashing homos tend to be full of. Thank you again. -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    Well bugger me!
    ooooh honey. how insecure are you!!! wann a little massage from deare bruci. love you -- Anonymous Coward, Slashdot


    Fuck right off!

    IMPORTANT: This message needs to be heard (Not HURD, which is an acronym for 'Huge Unclean Rectal Dilator') across the whole community, so it has been released into the Public Domain. You know, that licence that we all had before those homoerotic crypto-fascists came out with the GPL (Gay Penetration License) that is no more than an excuse to see who's got the biggest feces-encrusted cock. I would have put this up on Freshmeat, but that name is known to be a euphemism for the tight rump of a young boy.

    Come to think of it, the whole concept of 'Source Control' unnerves me, because it sounds a bit like 'Sauce Control,' which is a description of the homosexual practice of holding the base of the cock shaft tightly upon the point of ejaculation, thus causing a build up of semenal fluid that is only released upon entry into an incision made into the base of the receiver's scrotum. And 'Open Sauce' is the act of ejaculating into another mans face or perhaps a biscuit to be shared later. Obviously, 'Closed Sauce' is the only Christian thing to do, as evidenced by the fact that it is what Cathedrals are all about.

    Contributors: (although not to the eternal game of 'soggy biscuit' that open 'sauce' development has become) Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, phee, Anonymous Coward, mighty jebus, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, double_h, Anonymous Coward, Eimernase, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward. Further contributions are welcome.

    Current changes: This version sent to FreeWIPO by 'Bring BackATV' as plain text. Reformatted everything, added all links back in (that we could match from the previous version), many new ones (Slashbot bait links). Even more spelling fixed. Who wrote this thing, CmdrTaco himself?

    Previous changes: Yet more changes added. Spelling fixed. Feedback added. Explanation of 'distro' system. 'Mount Point' syntax described. More filth regarding `man` and Slashdot. Yet more fucking spelling fixed. 'Fetchmail' uncovered further. More Slashbot baiting. Apache exposed. Distribution licence at foot of document.

    - posted by poopbot: lovely snot! wonderful snot!

    36H2ocehZ1 Post #588
  30. My current view on MDK 9.0 b1 by joebp · · Score: 1
    CD1:
    545250K ..... @ 34.44 KB/s
    CD2:
    542000K ..... @ 29.90 KB/s
    Wget is working hard, but damnit, I need more bandwidth!
    1. Re:My current view on MDK 9.0 b1 by DodgyGeezer · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Strewth: do they not have a net installer with just a basic small (e.g. 35MB) bootableISO download yet? Why waste your precious bandwidth on packages you're never going to use? Try Debian see why I don't ever want to download Mandrake again.

      I wish Mandrake come up with some way for me to upgrade painlessly over the 'net without having to download and burn GBs of ISO. If I can't get it done, the next time I try to upgrade my Mandrake 8.1 system, I'll replace it with Debian and never worry about it again.

    2. Re:My current view on MDK 9.0 b1 by CableModemSniper · · Score: 2, Informative

      Um the last time I installed MDK 8.1 It took 1 floppy for the net install. Not one cd. Not multiple floppies. 1 floppy.

      --
      Why not fork?
    3. Re:My current view on MDK 9.0 b1 by ElNotto · · Score: 2, Informative
      CableModemSniper is correct. Mandrake has a network install floppy image for 8.2 (and previous releases), located on your favorite mandrake mirror at /pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrake/VER#/i586/images/netwo rk.img (where VER# is the version number, ie. 8.2). I'm pretty sure it only takes one floppy to get the install going, but maybe it takes two. However, they have yet to release anything for 9.0 but the ISOs on their main download page.

      Perhaps the 9.0b1 net install image is accessible somewhere and not made widely known because they want beta testers to test the cdrom install program, which is one of the features that leads people to choose Mandrake over other distros.

  31. Terminator 3 by Random+Bystander · · Score: 1
    The company is currently using these machines on ... "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
    From the CNet article

    About time. I can still remember the news about how advanced the Terminator 2 movie was in terms of Computer Graphics, breakthrough bla bla blah.

    More info about the movie here, here, and here.
  32. I've got a bad feeling about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    The CNet article says Digital Revelations is largely relying on Intel-based computers for the effects on "Rendezvous with Rama," a thriller coming out next year in which a group of humans seek revenge on aliens that blow up Italy.

    Please tell me that this is not supposed to be based on the Arthur C. Clarke novel.

    1. Re:I've got a bad feeling about this by Glytch · · Score: 2

      If I remember correctly, Venice was wiped out by a very small asteroid strike, which led to Spacewatch starting, which led to the discovery of Rama.

      As usual, CNet gets some individual facts right, others a bit wrong, and totally fucks up the connections between them.

  33. Hello by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Introduction

    A fairy gives lectures on morality to the feline anomaly. Furthermore, another photon near an abstraction takes a coffee break, and a mortician buries a blithe spirit. The wedding dress secretly admires a college-educated ball bearing. If the freight train figures out a fire hydrant near a pit viper, then some mating ritual beyond another cowboy reads a magazine. Any squid can find lice on a freight train, but it takes a real recliner to ostensibly plan an escape from another pit viper defined by a prime minister a cough syrup toward a graduated cylinder.

    Another mating ritual

    For example, a blood clot about a turn signal indicates that a financial bartender borrows money from a warranty. When a demon is imaginative, a paper napkin secretly admires an often snooty graduated cylinder. If the grain of sand learns a hard lesson from the short order cook behind some graduated cylinder, then another blithe spirit flies into a rage. Any pig pen can lazily require assistance from a burly plaintiff, but it takes a real fighter pilot to caricature the steam engine over a satellite. Another eagerly temporal minivan slyly buries the obsequious squid, or a briar patch usually gives lectures on morality to a cyprus mulch.

    A gratifying fairy

    Sometimes another cashier reads a magazine, but the fraction for the cyprus mulch always buries a power drill toward the demon! The light bulb befriends a satellite of an apartment building. A lazily Alaskan roller coaster sanitizes another mitochondrial traffic light, or some burglar eats a hesitantly smelly plaintiff. For example, a seldom righteous traffic light indicates that an ocean knows some chestnut inside the tabloid. If the earring somewhat finds subtle faults with a pine cone, then the wheelbarrow hibernates.

    The cocker spaniel about the salad dressing

    For example, the umbrella toward an abstraction indicates that the dolphin near a ball bearing caricatures a girl scout near some diskette. A cocker spaniel for the judge reads a magazine, and a pine cone finds subtle faults with a rattlesnake. Furthermore, the hairy movie theater returns home, and a grizzly bear near a paycheck is a big fan of a childlike burglar. For example, a canyon living with a graduated cylinder indicates that the industrial complex buries a jersey cow.

    Conclusions

    A squid around a jersey cow meditates, and another nation sweeps the floor; however, a scooby snack knowingly finds subtle faults with an apartment building living with another chain saw. When a hockey player around a paycheck is smelly, a minivan has a change of heart about an oil filter about an asteroid. The bartender around a polygon is barely soggy. Indeed, another rattlesnake befriends a warranty. Indeed, the carpet tack for an abstraction usually caricatures an elusive h

    - posted by poopbot: the bot formerly known as pwpbot

    UEJwvRBt47 Post #589

  34. Now that apache foundation has cleared things up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Every go back to what you were doing with PHP, Perl and tomcat.

  35. OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who's got Polka?

    Male Prostitutes Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Jon Katz Curse, Expose Themselves In Street
    by some filthy barslut

    Angry residents of Starr Street and Willoughby Street attended last Monday's Citizens for a Better Ridgewood meeting to complain about the growing problem of prostitution near their homes. They complained that prostitutes can be found walking the streets where they live at any hour of the day"sometimes indecently exposing themselves or cursing at the residents of the neighborhood. Extremely frustrated by the constant presence of hookers and pimps, they asked Lieutenant CheezyDee of the 104th Precinct what the police are doing to remedy this situation. Cheezy explained that 104th officers patrol those streets when they can, give out summonses and even make an occasional arrest. However, the lieutenant explained that no matter how many summonses cops give, or how many arrests they make, police activity will not stop the problem because the punishment for prostitution is no more than a slap on the wrist, or in most cases, a violent beating. "They'll be right back out there the next day selling their asses," he said. Lieutenant CheezyDee suggested that the residents of those two streets get organized, band together and hold a protest march.

    "You have to work together to try to get rid of them," he said. "The community has to get together as a group and take back the neighborhood." Murray did his best to convince the residents that forming an alliance, and then confronting these prostitutes as a group"if done consistently for a few weeks"would help to rid the neighborhood of the problem. Residents seemed upset by the fact that the 104th Precinct can't do more to alleviate this problem. P.O. Fresh Pond Phil urged residents to consider becoming "blockwatchers" for their street. A blockwatcher is affiliated with the 104th Precinct, and upon signing up, is given a code number which allows him/her to call the precinct and report crimes anonymously.

    Some people asked what the difference was between reporting crimes anonymously and just calling regularly, as they do now. P.O. Fresh Pond Phil explained that when a person signs up to be a blockwatcher and then begins to call in to report crimes, the precinct considers that valuable information. For more information concerning Blockwatchers, click here [blockwatchers.com]




    goatse , it does a body good!

  36. Wear name tags? by CoolVibe · · Score: 2

    Only if they provide tags I will. If they have these corny "Hello, I am " stickers/tags, I will blatantly refuse...

    1. Re:Wear name tags? by PDHoss · · Score: 5, Funny
      Only if they provide tags I will. If they have these corny "Hello, I am " stickers/tags, I will blatantly refuse...

      If you don't choose to wear a name tag, then some one will force you to wear a sticker that reads "Anonymous Coward."

      PDHoss

      --
      ======================================
      Writers get in shape by pumping irony.
    2. Re:Wear name tags? by Enry · · Score: 2

      Then most of the others will not listen to you.

  37. Hello by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Introduction

    The cheese wheel inexorably avoids contact with the paycheck. The steam engine goes deep sea fishing with an often outer ski lodge. When the cyprus mulch over a vacuum cleaner hides, a ball bearing gets stinking drunk.

    The tornado

    For example, a submarine behind a class action suit indicates that the optimal fairy satiates an Alaskan recliner. When a mitochondrial bottle of beer is thoroughly dirt-encrusted, a most difficult blood clot underhandedly writes a love letter to a defendant. An earring pees on the cashier over some globule, but the pathetic crane sells another vacuum cleaner behind a scythe to a false wheelbarrow. If a chess board defined by a grain of sand makes love to a crispy cyprus mulch, then a particle accelerator flies into a rage.

    A Eurasian globule

    The feline minivan earns frequent flier miles, and the buzzard defined by a ball bearing trembles; however, a senator living with the girl scout learns a hard lesson from the inferiority complex. Any chain saw can try to seduce the particle accelerator, but it takes a real salad dressing to play pinochle with the inexorably precise paycheck. Furthermore, another seldom load bearing defendant flies into a rage, and a paycheck around a light bulb seeks a roller coaster around another bartender. If a crank case makes love to the diskette, then the squid toward a mortician meditates. Now and then, an insurance agent thoroughly avoids contact with a pompous turkey.

    A microscope

    Most people believe that an orbiting diskette trades baseball cards with a movie theater, but they need to remember how secretly a statesmanlike short order cook wakes up. A paternal roller coaster is usually financial. When the accurately varigated hole puncher takes a coffee break, a slyly smelly garbage can earns frequent flier miles. For example, the phony cheese wheel indicates that the tornado near a fruit cake hesitantly gives lectures on morality to a salad dressing defined by the corporation. The carpet tack near a cargo bay, some parking lot toward a warranty, and a stovepipe beyond a freight train are what made America great!

    Conclusions

    A judge beyond the briar patch laughs and drinks all night with the snooty chestnut. A raspy burglar conquers a bowling ball. For example, another plaintiff toward a bartender indicates that the ski lodge behind a fairy finds lice on a burglar. If some rattlesnake toward a cheese wheel can be kind to a blood clot, then the elusive movie theater self-flagellates. When a photon related to a turkey is most difficult, a self-loathing bottle of beer falls in love with a pickup truck living with the paycheck.

    - posted by poopbot: for the crapflooder in all of us

    mQxNgTmFFk Post #590

  38. Stuff said was once good that is there to be some by Tom+Daschle,+US+Sena · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Verizon Guy, you are my hero. So is Bankofamerica_ATM.

  39. Where it belongs? by CoolVibe · · Score: 2

    I have no clue what you are talking about... ;)

  40. WinXP Shows where MS is Going by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.

    "I've heard WinXP removed the cmd/command prompt."

    No, Microsoft didn't remove the CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM prompt from Windows XP. But Windows XP has reduced functionality, in many ways, not just in the command line. The command line is a big embarrassment because of its limited capabilities, but at least in Win 95 it worked. With every version since then it has worked less well. (There are two kinds of command prompt, and, according to Microsoft employees, the differences between them are not documented.)

    The command line prompt sometimes begins to display short file names. Microsoft employees say that Microsoft has no fix, although someone not connected with Microsoft did make a work-around.

    Cutting and pasting into a command line program often puts successive extra spaces before each line. Microsoft employees say that there is no plan to fix this.

    The fast paste mode that is in Windows 98 is gone in Windows XP. Microsoft employees say there is no plan to fix this.

    When using the command line interface, Windows XP doesn't always update the time. After several hours, the time reported to command line programs can be several hours in error.

    There is a DOS program called START.EXE that can be used to start other programs. But it does operate the same way as in other versions of Windows. It starts a program, but cannot be made to return control to the command line program as previous versions did. There is no technical reason for this; it is just one of the shortcomings that are allowed to exist.

    People often say that DOS has gone away. But Microsoft still calls the command line interface DOS, and in Windows XP Microsoft has added new programs for configuring the OS that work only under DOS.

    Sometimes when you press a key while using Windows XP, it is seconds until there is any response. Apparently there is something wrong with the CPU scheduler in XP, because there are a lot of complaints about this in the forums and MS people have said that they are working on it. On one particular fresh installation of XP, on an Intel motherboard with either a Matrox G550 or an ATI Radeon video adapter, it requires 18 seconds to display a directory listing of 94 items. This is apparently related to a bug in the video software, not the adapter drivers.

    Something is wrong with the Alt-Tab display of running programs under Windows XP. If there are a lot of programs, not all of them are displayed. The order jumps around in a seemingly random way.

    Although articles often say negative things about Microsoft, I've never seen an article that fully documents how bad the situation really is. Microsoft's management is so bad that the company has become self-destructive. For example, Windows XP is spyware. Here is a list of ways Windows XP connects to Microsoft's servers:
    1. Application Layer Gateway Service (Requires server rights.)
    2. Fax Service
    3. File Signature Verification
    4. Generic Host Process for Win32 Services (Requires server rights.)
    5. Microsoft Application Error Reporting
    6. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
    7. Microsoft Direct Play Voice Test
    8. Microsoft Help and Support Center
    9. Microsoft Help Center Hosting Server (Wants server rights.)
    10. Microsoft Management Console
    11. Microsoft Media Player (tells Microsoft the music you like)
    12. Microsoft Network Availability Test
    13. Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
    14. MS DTC Console program
    15. Run DLL as an app
    16. Services and Controller app
    17. Time Service, sets the time on your computer from Microsoft's computer.
    18. Microsoft Office keeps a number in each file you create that identifies your computer. Microsoft has never said why.
    19. Microsoft mouse software has reduced functionality until you let it connect to Microsoft computers.
    These are just the ones I know. There may be others.

    So, if you use Windows XP, your computer is dependent on Microsoft computers. That's bad, not only because you lose control over your possession, but because Microsoft produces buggy software and doesn't patch bugs quickly. For example, as of July 7, 2002, there are 18 unpatched security holes in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is a terrible record for a company that has $40 billion in the bank. Obviously, with that kind of money, Microsoft could fix the bugs if it wanted to fix them. Since the bugs are very public and Microsoft has the money, it seems reasonable to suppose that top management at Microsoft has deliberately decided that the bugs should remain, at least for now.

    It seems possible that there is a connection between all the bugs and the U.S. government's friendly treatment of Microsoft's law-breaking. The U.S. government's CIA and FBI and NSA departments spy on the entire world, and unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft software help spies.

    Windows XP, and all current Windows operating systems, have a file called the registry in which configuration information is written. If this one (large, often fragmented) file becomes corrupted, the only way of recovering may be to re-format the hard drive, re-install the operating system, and then re-install and re-configure all the applications. The registry file is a single, very vulnerable, point of failure. Microsoft apparently designed it this way to provide copy protection. Since most entries in the registry are poorly documented or not documented, the registry effectively prevents control by the user.

    Note that Microsoft does not support making functional complete backups under Windows XP. Look at Microsoft's policy about this: Q314828 Microsoft Policy on Disk Duplication of Windows XP Installation. Only those who work with Microsoft software will understand the true meaning of Microsoft's policy. Since almost all programs use the registry operating system file, if you cannot make a functional copy of the operating system you cannot make a functional copy of all your application installations and configurations. There are other software companies that try to fix this, but they don't work well, and Microsoft can, of course, break their implementations, as they have often done with other kinds of competitors.

    Because the configuration information for the motherboard and the configuration information for the are mixed together in the registry file, the registry tends to prevent you from moving a hard drive to a computer with a different motherboard. That's another implication of the above Microsoft policy. So, if you have a motherboard failure, and a good complete backup, you may not be able to recover unless you have a spare computer with the same motherboard.

    Note that Windows XP Professional can support only ten simultaneous incoming network connections. If you want more than that, you must use Windows 2000 server, and pay much, much more. (There is no Windows XP server yet.) Many businesses have very light network traffic; they just move files from staff member to staff member; they really don't need a dedicated server computer. The staff computers could easily handle the load except for this artificial limitation.

    Apparently because the Windows XP GUI comes from Windows 98, Windows XP has the same problem with desktop icons that Windows 98 has. The icons sometimes flicker. Sometimes they move themselves around, particularly after the user switches monitor resolutions. Also, sometimes the taskbar settings un-configure themselves, as they do in Windows 98.

    Only technically knowledgeable people know how to avoid signing up for a Microsoft Passport account during initial use of Windows XP. The name Passport gives an indication of Microsoft's thinking. A passport is a document issued by a sovereign nation. Without it, the nation's citizens cannot travel, and, if they leave, won't be allowed back in their own country. In Microsoft's corporate thinking, the company seems to be moving in the direction of believing that they own the user's computer. Most people are both honest and intimidated. Apparently about 95% do whatever they are asked on the screen. They give their personal information to Microsoft. They don't realize that, if they feel forced to get a Passport account, they should enter almost completely fictitious information, since the real question is not "What is your name and address", but "Can we invade your privacy". The honest answer to this is "No, you cannot invade my privacy", and the only effective way to communicate that is to give completely fictitious information. Since it is the educated people who have computers, Microsoft is building a database of the personal lives of educated people. Microsoft knows when they connect and from what IP address (which tends to show the area), what kind of help they ask, and information about what they are doing with their computers, including what music they like. It is not known, and there is no way to know, how much Microsoft or other organizations make use of this information, or their plans for future use.

    Not only has Windows XP definitely gone further in the direction of allowing the user less control over his or her own machine, but with Palladium, Microsoft apparently intends to finish the job: Microsoft will have ultimate control over the user's computer and therefore all his or her data. Even now, under Windows XP, a recent security patch requires that the user agree to a contract that gives Microsoft administrator privileges over the user's computer. The contract says that if a user wants to patch his or her system against a bug which would allow an attack over the Internet, he or she must give Microsoft legal control over the computer. See this article also: Microsoft's Digital Rights Management-- A Little Deeper. You may need to be a lawyer to take apart the crucial sentence. "These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and [my emphasis] use other software on your computer" legally includes this meaning: "These updates may disable your ability to use other software on your computer." Note that the term "security related updates" is meaningless to the user because the updates have no relation to user security. So, the sentence effectively means that Microsoft can control the user's computer without notice and whenever it wants. That kind of sentence is known in psychology as "testing the limits". If there is no strong public complaint about this, expect to see more and stronger language like this.

    This Register article shows the direction Microsoft is going: MS Palladium protects IT vendors, not you. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Microsoft is well down that road. See this ZDNet article, also: MS: Why we can't trust your 'trustworthy' OS.

    Microsoft's self-destructiveness does not mean that the user should be self-destructive. There is no need to apologize for using Microsoft software. The correct solution to abuse is persuading the abuser to stop being abusive. Once I posted to a Slashdot story a link to an article on a web site of mine. By far the majority of visitors from the Slashdot story used Microsoft operating systems. Rather than feel embarrassed because Microsoft is abusive, action needs to be taken to prevent the abuse. If you are against Microsoft abuse, you are not against Microsoft; you are more pro-Microsoft than Bill Gates.

    These Microsoft policies mean that any government which wants to be independent of the United States government, and any government which represents itself as controlled by the people, cannot use Microsoft operating systems, or other Microsoft proprietary systems.




    - posted by poopbot: lovely snot! wonderful snot!

    8Xl7uD48nk Post #591
  41. Mandrake Release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am new convert(used unix/linux in school but ran windows at home) and I could not get the debian distro to work with my hardware NIC and Video card problems. The Mandrake new distro had them both working after initial install. Thanks to including xfree86 4.2 as I found out the version that came with debian was incompatible with my GeForce 2. It has been very nice the only problem is getting to my xp partition when not in root.

    1. Re:Mandrake Release by CableModemSniper · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      chown and chmod are your friends.

      --
      Why not fork?
  42. 2 days, not a week by jonestor · · Score: 1

    Slashdot meetup day is only a week away

    What is the week stuff, it's only 2 days away.

  43. LOVELY SNOT! WONDERFUL SNOT! by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    LOVELY SNOT! WONDERFUL SNOT! By J. Wipo Troll, Esq., $Revision: 1.4 $

    CmdrTaco: You sit here, dear.

    CowboiKneel: All right.

    CmdrTaco (to Waitress): Morning!

    Waitress: Morning!

    CmdrTaco: Well, whatve you got?

    Waitress: Well, theres egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and snot; egg, bacon and snot; egg, bacon, sausage, and snot; snot, bacon, sausage, and snot; snot, egg, snot, snot, bacon, and snot; snot, sausage, snot, snot, bacon, snot, tomato, and snot;

    Slashdot Crew (starting to chant): Snot, snot, snot, snot

    Waitress: Snot, snot, snot, egg, and snot; snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, baked beans, snot, snot, snot

    Slashdot Crew (singing): Snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot!

    Waitress: or Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and snot.

    CowboiKneel: Have you got anything without snot?

    Waitress: Well, theres snot, egg, sausage, and snot, thats not got much snot in it.

    CowboiKneel: I dont want any snot!

    CmdrTaco: Why cant he have egg, bacon, snot, and sausage?

    CowboiKneel: Thats got snot in it!

    CmdrTaco: Hasnt got as much snot in it as snot, egg, sausage, and snot, has it?

    Slashdot Crew: Snot, snot, snot, snot! (crescendo through next few lines)

    CowboiKneel: Could you do the egg, bacon, snot, and sausage without the snot then?

    Waitress: Urgghh!

    CowboiKneel: What do you mean Urgghh? I dont like snot!

    Slashdot Crew: Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

    Waitress: Shut up!

    Slashdot Crew: Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

    Waitress: Shut up! (Slashdot Crew stops) Bloody Slashdot fags! You cant have egg, bacon, snot and sausage without the snot.

    CowboiKneel (shrieks): I dont like snot!

    CmdrTaco: Sshh, dear, dont cause a fuss. Ill have your snot. I love it. Im having snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, beaked beans, snot, snot, snot, and snot!

    Slashdot Crew (singing): Snot, snot, snot, snot. Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

    Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

    CmdrTaco: Well could I have his snot instead of the baked beans then?

    Waitress: You mean snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot

    Slashdot Crew (singing elaborately): Snot, snot, snot, snot. Lovely snot! Wonderful snot! Snot, sno-o-o-o-o-ot, snot, sno-o-o-o-o-ot snot. Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Snot, snot, snot, snot!



    - posted by poopbot: for all your crapflooding needs

    tLcAkPNMeR Post #592
  44. Taco-snotting is dying by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Netcraft has confirmed: Taco-snotting is dying.

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Taco-snotting community when recently IDC confirmed that Taco-snotting accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all homosexual acts. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Taco-snotting has lost more fag practitioners, this news serves to reinforce what weve known all along. Taco-snotting faggots are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Faggot World comprehensive snotting test.

    You dont need to be a Katz to predict Taco-snottings future. The handwriting is on the wall: Taco-snotting faces a bleak future. In fact there wont be any future at all for Taco-snotting because Taco-snotting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Taco-snotting. As many of us are already aware, Taco-snotting continues to lose faggotshare. White ink flows like a river of bubbly, thick jizz. The circle-snot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core snotters.

    Lets keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Circle-snotting leader Jeff Homos Masterbates states that there are 7000 snotters of the circle-snot. How many users of anal snot are there? Lets see. The number of circle-snotting versus anal snot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anal snot users. SnotOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of anal snot posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of SnotOS. A recent article put the circle-snot at about 80 percent of the Taco-snotting market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 circle-snot users. This is consistent with the number of circle-snot Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of CowboiKneels walnuts, abysmal sales and so on, the circle-snot went out of business and was taken over by SNOTi who sell another troubled Taco-snot. Now SNOTi is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another gay whorehouse.

    All major surveys show that Taco-snotting has steadily declined in faggotshare. Taco-snotting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Taco-snotting is to survive at all it will be among heterosexual hobbyist dabblers. Taco-snotting continues to decay. Nothing short of a jizz-soaked miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Taco-snotting is dead.

    Fact: Taco-snotting is dead.

    - posted by poopbot: the bot formerly known as pwpbot

    XSnvPAMIZP Post #593

  45. uh-huh by 1010011010 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'll just refer back to
    my original comment

    --
    Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
  46. Manhattan ( <= 42nd) meetup @ Bowlmor Lanes by realgone · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's usually a good hour's wait to get a lane for even four people at Bowlmor. I can only imagine what will happen when 51 happy geeks (myself included) show up en masse this Thursday evening.

    I pretty much figure we'll see the first ever recorded Slashdotting of a bowling alley!

  47. Funny jokes by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    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 pdophile!
    Pdophile? 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 pdophiles are lying on a beach tanning, one turns to the other and says, Excuse me, youre in my son.
    What is the sickest sound you hear when fucking a nine year-old?
    Her hips snapping!
    What is the best sound you hear when fucking a 13 year-old?
    Her hips snapping!
    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 fces 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 pdophiles 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.

    - posted by poopbot: information likes to be narrow

    ZiyHqrGQAd Post #594

  48. From the studios shift to intel story... by Polo · · Score: 2


    > Digital Revelations is largely relying on
    > Intel-based computers for the effects on "Rendezvous
    > with Rama," a thriller coming out next year in
    > which a group of humans seek revenge on aliens
    > that blow up Italy.


    Possibly offtopic, but I don't remember Arthur Clarke's story having any mention of destroying Italy...

    1. Re:From the studios shift to intel story... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In one of the non-Clarke sequels, Rome is destroyed; however ,the aliens were never malevolent in any of the stories, so I don't know what the screenwriter did to that great book.

    2. Re:From the studios shift to intel story... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well if you've read the book, you will understand that they have to do *something* to make it exciting enough to be a movie. And if destroying Italy is what it takes, then that's that.

      Seriously, _Rendevous_ was heavy on the science, light on the fiction. Gentry Lee co-authored the next two in the series, and it is quite evident. The first book has hardly any character development. While the "science" is the most interesting part of the series, it helps to have humans as the main players, as opposed to characters that might as well be androids.

    3. Re:From the studios shift to intel story... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      which is why Rendevous shouldn't become a movie..
      there are *LOTS* of other A.C.C. books that would be much better movies than RWR

    4. Re:From the studios shift to intel story... by Galvatron · · Score: 2

      Well, if memory serves, a meteor destroyed (or at least severely damaged) Italy, which is why there was a group with the ability to link up with Rama when it is detected. So, I could see how a combination of alterations to the plot for the movie, and a reporter garbling the summary could result in the above, even if the movie is reasonably faithful.

      --
      "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
  49. Re:What is Sladhback? Good question dumbass! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For the love of GOD learn to spell, and then learn to type.

  50. Local Meet by digitaltraveller · · Score: 1

    Putting in a fake email address (mine was dicklessjoe@dick.org) will get you the meetup location without email confirmation. In my case, it's about 500M from my workplace, so I will drop in.

  51. Gigantic Baby? by unsinged+int · · Score: 1

    I'll bite. What does this refer too? None of the articles mention a baby do they?

    1. Re:Gigantic Baby? by timothy · · Score: 1

      Oh, that'd be my niece, who I get to visit and carry around a bit tomorrow :)

      She's ready to beat up (or at least intimidate) other kids who are the same age. They're building new charts to accomodate her. When she learns to walk, I believe people will find a trail of destruction in her path.

      Gigantic baby in the good sense.

      timothy

      --
      jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
  52. Pink page of death!! by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Either your network or ip address has been banned from this site

    due to script flooding that originated from your network or ip address -- or this IP might have been used to post comments designed to break web browser rendering. If you feel that this is unwarranted, feel free to include your IP address (1.2.3.4) in the subject of an email, and we will examine why there is a ban. If you fail to include the IP address (again, in the Subject!), then your message will be deleted and ignored. I mean come on, we're good, we're not psychic.
    Since you can't read the FAQ because you're banned, here's the relevant portion:

    Why is my IP banned?
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    Â Your IP might have been used to perform some sort of denial of service attack against Slashdot. These range from simple programs that just load a lot of pages, to programs that attempt to coordinate an avalanche of posts in the forums (often through misconfigured "Open Relay" proxy servers).

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    - posted by poopbot: lovely snot! wonderful snot!

    nYW0RXeI3r Post #595

  53. Re:Stuff said was once good that is there to be so by DeezyChee · · Score: -1

    Hey, is Hillary Clinton good in the sack or what? C'mon, you can tell us, you work with her. She acts all "professional" for the press, so you just know she's an animal in bed. Her husband fucks around, why shouldn't she? Those thick hips of hers will look good wrapped around my head.

    Hey, I like pussy.

  54. [on by] A modest proposal by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    It seems that the Janitors, in their infinite wisdom, have banned people who have low/negative karma from posting more than twice per day. Personally I find this completely stupid.

    All the trolls will simply post AC as I am doing now. Proxies can be used to get around any ipid bans that result from AC trolls.

    Surely it is better to let the trolls post at -1 where it is out of most peoples way rather than have them all post at 0 and suck up mod points and time from "legit" users?

    I have tried to communicate my thoughts to the slashcode team but alas, to no avail. They are probably all sittin on their starwars bed sheets watching anime hentai tentacle rape pr0n.

    Here is my proposal: All trolls that cannot post using their account post as AC. Use proxies if need be (www.antiproxy.com is a good source). I suspect this will show them how useless this idea is. Will blocking troll uid's stop trolls? NO! will ipid bans stop trolls? NO!

    I seriously fail to see the point of this and consider it a stupid move by the janitors.

    They want us to troll and crapflood at 0 rather than -1? Fine! So be it! No longer will we post at -1 where few people dare to visit, now we will post at 0 where we will be more visible and waste peoples time, energy and mod points! Hoorah!

    The next thing you know, posting AC will be banned! Then what will you do? No more posting interesting insider tidbits! Groupthink all the way baby! oh yeah!

    So logout, post shit, use proxies and above all have fun!

    Let the games begin! -- on by

    - posted by poopbot: providing truth in a deceitful world

    jAb4aZR4hK Post #596

  55. The "Moon": A Liberal Myth by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Credits: 70%

    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

    Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

    Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

    Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our governme

    - posted by poopbot: the bot formerly known as pwpbot

    THmOUrsx2G Post #597

  56. Did they waited to see how others did ? by philipx · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ILM switching is another sign of the popularity Linux gains in the graphics market too. But what I found interesting was the way the changed happened.

    I have a friend who has a friend who etc. works for ILM. They had planned this thing for a loooong time and they had assigned three (small) teams to this swithover project.
    One of the teams was to investigate the actual power of Linux in this domain and the offer of the marked. Techies .
    Second team was to look over the market see about savings, opportunities, investors, stuff like that. Financial $tuff
    The existence of the third team will probably never be acknowledged, but their task was to look into what their competitors who switched to Linux (see preview slashdot's announces of switchovers) were doing, how were they doing it, what impact on their revenues had, etc. I'd say spies. They've done a pretty good job.

    Of course, this is highly fictional and has no relation to any living person or existing company ;) .

    --
    __________
    Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace!
    1. Re:Did they waited to see how others did ? by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

      not that the spies had a hard job.

      Go to competitors company
      wait until some techies get out of there cars
      say "There is no way Linux is any good at "
      Listen to the 30 minute lecture on why its been good for the company.

      --
      The Kruger Dunning explains most post on /. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
  57. Excuse my ignorance, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    but is this the first /. meetup day?

    If not, what to expect? I was real big into the BBS GT scene 10 years ago, it was fun, I don't think much has changed though.

    Either way, I'll show up in Montreal. See you there!

  58. Do we need complex acronyms? by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Credits: dmg

    Yet again the Linux so-called elite, backed up by their pseudo intellectual cohorts of the w3c conspire to ruin Linux's chances in the marketplace by sowing confusion and complexity. As someone with years of experience in the marketing world, I am constantly amazed at the willingness of the W3C and other bodies to pollute the acronym space with their content free "TLAs".

    Basic marketing 101 (and an undergrad course in psychology) would tell them that the normal person is only capable of remembering approximately 7 items of data in their short-term memory, but now we have to remember HTTP, HTML, XML, XSL, DTD, PHP, SSL, DSL, ADSL, ISDN, Perl, etc etc etc

    This is a text book example of the tail wagging the dog from a marketing perspective.

    I have been following the standardisation of the web for many many months now, but one thing has become clear, E-commerce will NEVER become popular so long as there are so many confusing acronyms involved. The guys in charge of marketing Linux absolutely MUST work to reduce the number of acronyms. One possible solution would be to merge those protocols which are not all that different. For example, why not merge XML with SGML ? (they could call it XSGML or SXGML or perhaps XMSGML), they seem to address the same problems. Or would that be too simplistic a solution for their pampered elitist ivy-league minds to comprehend ?

    If something is not done URGENTLY, and I mean URGENTLY, Linux (and other more experimental derivatives such as FreeBSD) can never hope to be taken seriously as an e-commerce platform by the people who count - the accountants.

    The miracle of Linux is that anyone actually runs it at all, considering one seems to require a masters in computer science to install it! (contrast this with NT4 which was so easy to install, we let our receptionist upgrade her own machine).

    As usual my "open source" advice is free. Hopefully this time my valuable advice will be taken into account the next time the w3c smell an acronym brewing.

    Finally, in conclusion, as an American, I am saddened that the Internet seems to have been commandeered by a European based protocol. Was America so short of talent we had to buy the HTML protocol from Tom Berners-Lee at CERN ?

    Think of the security implications of the worlds strongest economy, running an e-commerce protocol developed by a foreigner from Socialist Europe. Remember the wall has not been down for that long. Who knows what kind of trojans might be lurking within the depths of these complicated protocols.

    I am afraid I am behind Al Gore on this point, how can this be necessary in the home of smart corporations such as Microsoft and Intel ? The answer is the vast subsidies given by European socialist governments to fund development of the HTML specification.

    The solution is clear. The federal government should mandate and strongly subsidise the use of Microsoft software for all US corporations involved in e-commerce. Only with a US-developed set of protocols can we be assured of the security of our transactions.

    - posted by poopbot: lovely snot! wonderful snot!

    89wI1OEyrt Post #598

  59. Another Good Story Bites the Hollywood Dust by FreeUser · · Score: 2

    > Digital Revelations is largely relying on
    > Intel-based computers for the effects on "Rendezvous
    > with Rama," a thriller coming out next year in
    > which a group of humans seek revenge on aliens
    > that blow up Italy.

    Possibly offtopic, but I don't remember Arthur Clarke's story having any mention of destroying Italy...


    IFF that caption accurately represents the Hollywood interpretation of Arthur C. Clark's masterpiece the movie will not be worth seeing.

    In the book a meteor of natural origion caused tremendouse damage to the Earth when it skimmed by the atmosphere (I don't recall if Italy was affected per se, but it may have been), resulting is the construction of a space defense against any future incoming rocks. This defense detected an inert alien craft entering the solar system (years or decades after the defense system had been built), and a science mission was sent to explore it.

    The encounter is a little remeniscent of Stanislaw Lem's Fiasco. The scientists experience a great deal, see a lot, learn a little, but those who survive come away at the end mostly baffled and uncomprehending of what they saw.

    No "evil alien attacking" or other such nonsense ... just an encounter with an intelligence (or perhaps just an automated machine) we are apparently unequiped to understand. A fun and very thoughtful story, which the blurb you quote above seems to imply Hollywood is shameless bastardizing into something unrecognizable and repellant.

    --
    The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
    1. Re:Another Good Story Bites the Hollywood Dust by Hobbex · · Score: 1

      IFF that caption accurately represents the Hollywood interpretation of Arthur C. Clark's masterpiece the movie will not be worth seeing.

      Hardly "IFF" - you have sufficiency, but clearly not necessity (I'm sure Hollywood can find endless ways of making the movie not worth seeing.)

    2. Re:Another Good Story Bites the Hollywood Dust by FreeUser · · Score: 1

      Hardly "IFF" - you have sufficiency, but clearly not necessity

      Point well taken. I really meant IF, but the typo does change the meaning to 'if and only if' which as you point out isn't really the case here.

      --
      The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
  60. Censordot!! by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Happy Troll Tuesday!


    Version 1.1.8 (last updated 19th July 2002 by Anonymous Coward)

    Note to moderators : Do not moderate this post down, if you do then you support the editors stance on censorship and you support the end of free speech and support evil organisations like Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA and laws like the CBTBA and DMCA

    Sign this petition, let your voice be heard!

    Slashdot is using censorship! It is trying to eridicate free and open discussion like we know slashdot to be, it has the following RESTRICTIONS in place to Censor you

    They claim they don't, but they do, wonder why their are so many trolls, crapflooders and lamers on slashdot, because they are fighting for their rights! Slashdot is trying to silence the trolls. Remove the filters, the trolls get bored, and slashdot will be troll free!
    • Lameness filters (It blocks a lot of legitmate posts)
    • Unnessary posting delays. Hasnt taco learned to touch type? A lot of posts are typed in less than 20 seconds and it is a ANNOYING DELAY! 2 minute ban? Come on, so some are faster then others, big deal, some people have more to say than others
    • Broken moderation system, The whole point is to sort the gems from the crap, yet a lot of posts designed to make a LIVELY DISCUSSION are MODERATED as flamebait! Come on, not everyone likes X, but just because some one bashes it dosent mean its Flamebait. Flame bait is more useful for DIRECT INSULTS and not legitmate discussions.
    The "troll" moderation reason is fragmented and broken, why? Because they are trying to use an obsolete usenet term on a realtime discussion, "trolls" can cover a huge blanket of ideas.
    • Crapfloods, a meaningless flood of random letters or text, which the lameness filter does a crappy job at trying to stop, besides trolls have written tools using the opensource slashcode to generate crapfloods which bypass the filter
    • Links to offensive websites, the most common one is known a http://www.goatse.cx, a awful site which shows a bleeding anus being stretched on the front page. Trolls sneak these links in by posting messages that look legitimate, but infact are sneaky redirects to the site. Common examples include rd.yahoo.com, www.linux-kernel.tk, goatsex.cjb.net, and googles "Im feeling lucky".
    • Trying to break slashdot, this is actually a good thing, as it helps test slashdot for bugs. Famous examples include the goatse.cx javascript pop-up, the pagewidening post and the browser crashing post!
    Subnet banning, this bans a user unless they email jamie macarthy with their mp5ed ipids. This is unfair, and banning a subnet BLOCKS A WHOLE ISP SOMETIMES, and not that individual user! This can cause chaos! But real trolls use annoymous proxys to get around this so THIS JUST BANS LEGITMATE USERS! Also, they are trying to censor some anoymous proxies, mainly from countrys like africa, so this yet more DISCRIMINATION!

    But, the issue that concerens us the most, is the COMMENT QUOTA. A discrimatory system that stiffles discussion, cripples the community and will ultimateley destroy slashdot unless it is removed! Annoymous cowards are allowed only 10 posts a day! This is unethical! Users with negative karma only get two! That is DISCRIMINATION! How would you like to only be able to speak once a day, just because of the color of your skin. That would be racism, and slashdot is discrimitating on people just because of a negative number in a database! BOYCOTT SLASHDOT! LET THEM DIE!

    We wan't these stupid useless restrictions REMOVED! This comment will be posted again and again until it does!

    Inportant imformation for users
    Boycott slashdot, they are pissing over their community, they are becoming like the RIAA and MICROSOFT! Do NOT TOLERATE THIS SHIT! Here are some real news for nerds sites. We don't need slashdot, slashdot deserves to die!

    MSNBC
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    Weird news from dailyrotten.com
    Trollaxor, news for trolls, they are real people too!
    CNN.com
    New york times (free registration required)
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    There are hundreds more, But this is where slashdot STEALS THE MAJORITY OF its "news" from.

    Punish them, here are their emails, spam them, flame them goatse them!
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    The others ones apperantly dont have an e-mail, probably because ROB MALDA IS PRETENDING HE IS JOHN KATZ.

    Thank you for reading this, please feel free to repost this information, please reply to add your comments, fight slashdot and its CENSORSHIP

    Don't forget to sign the petition!

    - posted by poopbot: who doesn't like scat?

    2iHAKRcbqg Post #600
  61. Open Source Development HOW-TO by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    Credits: onby

    1. Introduction

    As everyone knows, Open Source software is the wave of the future. With the market share of GNU/Linux and *BSD increasing every day, interest in Open Source Software is at an all time high.

    Developing software within the Open Source model benefits everyone. People can take your code, improve it and then release it back to the community. This cycle continues and leads to the creation of far more stable software than the 'Closed Source' shops can ever hope to create.

    So you're itching to create that Doom 3 killer but don't know where to start? Read on!

    2. First Steps
    The most important thing that any Open Source project needs is a Sourceforge page. There are tens of thousands of successful Open Source projects on Sourceforge; the support you receive here will be invaluable.

    OK, so you've registered your Sourceforge project and set the status to '0: Pre-Thinking About It', what's next?

    3. Don't Waste Time!

    Now you need to set up your SourceForge homepage. Keep it plain and simple - don't use too many HTML tags, just knock something up in VI. Website editors like FrontPage and DreamWeaver just create bloated eye-candy - you need to get your message to the masses!

    4. Ask For Help

    Since you probably can't program at all you'll need to try and find some people who think they can. If your project is a game you'll probably need an artist too. Ask for help on your new Sourceforge pages. Here is an example to get you started:

    "Hi there! Welcom to my SorceForge page! I am planing to create a Fisrt Person Shooter game for Linux that is going to kick Doom 3's ass! I have loads of awesome ideas, like giant robotic spiders! I need some help thouh as I cant program or draw. If you can program or draw the tekstures please get in touch! K thx bye!"

    Thousands of talented programmers and artists hang out at Sourceforge ready to devote their time to projects so you should get a team together in no time!

    5. The A-Team

    So now you have your team together you are ready to change your projects status to '1: Pre-Bickering'. You will need to discuss your ideas with your team mates and see what value they can add to the project. You could use an Instant Messaging program like MSN for this, but since you run Linux you'll have to stick to e-mail.

    Don't forget that YOU are in charge! If your team doesn't like the idea of giant robotic spiders just delete them from the project and move on. Someone else can fill their place and this is the beauty of Open Source development. The code might end up a bit messy and the graphics inconsistant - but it's still 'Free as in Speech'!

    6. Getting Down To It

    Now that you've found a team of right thinking people you're ready to start development. Be prepared for some delays though. Programming is a craft and can take years to learn. Your programmer may be a bit rusty but will probably be writing "hello world" programs after school in no time.

    Closed Source games like Doom 3 use the graphics card to do all the hard stuff anyhow, so your programmer will just have to get the NVidia 'API' and it will be plain sailing! Giant robot spiders, here we come!

    7. The Outcome

    So it's been a few years, you still have no files released or in CVS. Your programmer can't get enough time on the PC because his mother won't let him use it after 8pm. Your artist has run off with a Thai She-Male. Your project is still at '1: Pre-Bickering'...

    Congratulations! You now have a successful Open Source project on Sourceforge! Pat yourself on the back, think up another idea and do it all again! See how simple it is?

    - posted by poopbot: lovely snot! wonderful snot!

    HnfRGDLajY Post #601

  62. Peer-to-peer risk by eagl · · Score: 5, Funny

    The meet FAQ specifically states that nobody "runs" the meets. They are instead pure peer-to-peer gatherings.

    If someone were to bring a floppy disk or CD with an MP3 file on it, or even a sheet of music with lyrics, wouldn't that technically violate the DMCA resulting in the RIAA attempting to prosecute the whole meet structure? As an organized peer-to-peer structure, it MUST have no other purpose than to violate copyrights, right?

    I've got my good buddy Fritz on the line. Maybe he'll funnel some of that good sweet Disney or RIAA Christmas money my way. I'll wash his campaign limo so it's all legal as payment for a service of course... You peer-to-peer criminals have only one thing in mind, and you're the biggest threat to individual expression and creativity the universe has ever seen!

    *wakes up in cold sweat, hits "decline" RSVP link*

  63. Industrial Light and Magic: by Cheetah86 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Industrial Light and Magic, you're getting a dell!

    1. Re:Industrial Light and Magic: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      dell sucks. Dude, you're getting a peice of shit!

  64. Problem is with locality by terradyn · · Score: 1

    The problem with the meetup situation is that they seem to think people won't go outside a few blocks from their homes to meet up. I mean there are a lot of /. ppl in newyork but it restricts groups to small locations. There are 5 people in queens, ny for example but there are many in new york city. I bet a larger group of people would be willing to meet up if the venue was larger even if some people have to take public transit into the city.

  65. Please cease and desist. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please stop signing me up for mailing lists. I am tired of getting your spam.

    Sincerely,
    Joe Dickless
    Society for the Prohibition of Circumcision
    dicklessjoe@dick.org

  66. MEEPT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like me.

    You cling to opensource.

    We both die. All too late.

    Help. Maybe I live and you die.

    MEEPT!!

  67. Not Again by krmt · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Possibly offtopic, but I don't remember Arthur Clarke's story having any mention of destroying Italy...
    Or, for that matter, any humans seeking revenge, or even live aliens present on the ship (unless you count plant and animal life).

    I'm getting that "they're going to rape and pillage it like Starship Troopers" feeling. What a waste.
    --

    "I may not have morals, but I have standards."

    1. Re:Not Again by nobodyknowsimageek · · Score: 1

      After doing a little web searching, and reading the story from the film-makers as to what movie they are actually making, I surmise that this plot summary is not entirely accurate.
      Try here

  68. The Troll Polka: UPDATED by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    THE TROLL POLKA (ARSCHFICKEN MIT ZIEGEN)
    By Serial Troller, 2002-06-25

    Is das nicht ein early post? Ja! Das ist mein early post!
    Is das nicht ein Goatse ghost? Ja! Das ist mein Goatse ghost!
    Early post, Goatse ghost,
    Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Slashdot sucks!

    Is das post at minus one? Ja! Das ist at minus one!
    Is das trolling so much fun? Ja! Das trolling is so fun!
    Minus one, trolling fun, Early post, Goatse ghost,
    Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Slashdot sucks!

    Is das nicht ein big crapflood? Ja! Das ist mein big crapflood!
    Is it worthless Linux FUD? Ja! Das ist mein Linux FUD!
    Big crapflood, Linux FUD, Minus one, trolling fun, Early post, Goatse ghost,
    Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Slashdot sucks!

    Is das nicht der CowBoiKneel? Ja! Das ist der CowBoiKneel!
    Is dis nicht his manchode meal? Ja! Das ist his manchode meal!
    CowBoiKneel, manchode meal, Big crapflood, Linux FUD,
    Minus one, trolling fun, Early post, Goatse ghost,
    Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Slashdot sucks!

    Is das nicht ein WIPO Troll? Ja! Das ist der WIPO Troll!
    Is das nicht ein Goatse hole? Ja! Das ist der Goatse hole!
    WIPO Troll, Goatse hole, CowBoiKneel, manchode meal,
    Big crapflood, Linux FUD, Minus one, trolling fun, Early post, Goatse ghost,
    Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Slashdot sucks!

    Is das nicht Jon Katz' slave boys? Ja! Das ist Jon Katz' slave boys!
    Und are they not Taco's sex toys? Ja! They are Taco's sex toys!
    Katz' slave boys, Rob's sex toys, WIPO Troll, Goatse hole,
    CowBoiKneel, manchode meal, Big crapflood, Linux FUD,
    Minus one, trolling fun, Early post, Goatse ghost,
    Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Slashdot sucks!

    Is das nicht ein trolltalk thread? Ja! Das ist ein trolltalk thread!
    Is it nicht now FUCKING DEAD? Ja! Is really FUCKING DEAD!
    Trolltalk thread, FUCKING DEAD! Katz' slave boys, Rob's sex toys,
    WIPO Troll, Goatse hole, CowBoiKneel, manchode meal,
    Big crapflood, Linux FUD, Minus one, trolling fun,
    Early post, Goatse ghost,
    Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene, Oh, du schoene,
    Slashdot sucks!

    ____________________

    Change Log:

    * Subtle changes to most verses. It sounded really gay before.
    * Removed all references to Taco's pud. May have been high at time. Will investigate further.
    * Finally think I have goat sex written correctly in German. I think. Arschficken?

    (C) 2002 Serial Troller. Permission to reproduce this document is granted provided that you send all the bukkake porn you can find to serialtroller@hotmail.com.

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  69. Re:I'm not signing up for Meetup, and neither are by fader · · Score: 2

    You might not sign up for Meetup, but I just want to say that Scott Heiferman (Meetup's Co-Founder & CEO) is a swell guy.

    Hey, Scott! Good to know you hang out on /. :)

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    - fader
  70. *BSD is dying by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Happy Troll Tuesday!

    It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact: *BSD is dying


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  71. The Quiet Majority by s20451 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check out the top cities for Slashdot Meetup Day. First on the list is Toronto. Vancouver (13) and Montreal (Tied-14) are in the top 20; taken together they outscore the combination of San Francisco and San Jose. Outside of Canada, London (England) is second on the list (the top American city is Washington, at third). The Aussies are putting in a strong showing with three in the top 20: Melbourne (6), Sydney (7), and Brisbane (11); Perth weighs in at 32nd. "Majority" is too strong a word to use, but ... are us non-Americans taking over Slashdot?

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    1. Re:The Quiet Majority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      No, you guys are the only ones lame enuff to show up to one of these ridiculous things. Losers.

    2. Re:The Quiet Majority by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your statistics mean nothing. The ACs are arguing that Americans just aren't interested in the meetup, but that's so subjective that it's not worth arguing, and I don't even think it's true. Anyway, the reason your stats are useless is because they don't take per capita into accont. The population of Seattle is 500,000 people, 500,000/100meetup people, it's about 1 in 5000. The population of Toronto is about 2.5 million people. Does Toronto have 5 times as many people as Seattle on the meetup? Not even close. I in 17,000. So no, Candians aren't taking anything over, they're just bad at math.

    3. Re:The Quiet Majority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      While that may be true for Canada, what about Australia? Aren't their population numbers listed as 'Jack Shit' in the CIA World Factbook or whatever it's called?

    4. Re:The Quiet Majority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Melbourne is about 3 million, Australia is about 20 million.

    5. Re:The Quiet Majority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Whatever man.. don't be sour cause your american.. So few americans are showing up cause they are scared to leave their house since 80% of people are poor and will rip your rich computer geek ass off for a quarter so they can buy a cheese burger.. or maybe they are scared of a terrorist attack cause 99.9% of americans think that the only thing an arab is good for is a cab driver..

      Canadians rule.. and the majority of americans i have met are serious biggots who are brainwashed by the fucking television!

      Peace!

    6. Re:The Quiet Majority by twakar · · Score: 1

      So no, Candians aren't taking anything over, they're just bad at math.

      And you're bad at spelling.

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    7. Re:The Quiet Majority by lpontiac · · Score: 3, Funny
      The Aussies are putting in a strong showing with three in the top 20: Melbourne (6), Sydney (7), and Brisbane (11); Perth weighs in at 32nd

      I think I can explain some of this. Perth is fairly boring :P

    8. Re:The Quiet Majority by dietz · · Score: 2

      Seattle only has about 560,000 people because a lot of people live in suburbs. But that's bullshit. In your friendly neighbor to the south, Portland, we have about 530,000 people in the city, even though the metro area is obviously much, much smaller.

      You are guilty of spreading useless statistics yourself.

      A more useful measure would be metro areas. Taken from citypopulations.de, Seattle has 3.7 million people and Toronto has 4.9 million people.

      That gives them roughly the same ratios (1 in 37,000 for Seattle, 1 in 34,000 for Toronto).

      What conclusions can we draw? None really, but if you wanted to you could probably agree that the Seattle area and the Toronto area have roughly similar percentages of socially awkward nerds.

    9. Re:The Quiet Majority by Thornae · · Score: 2
      Perth is fairly boring

      Apparently, compared to Adelaide, it's a positive hive of excitement and fun:

      337. Adelaide, Australia (2 members)
      .
      That would be a lot cooler if it were 1000 places down, though... (=

      (Note for the non-Aussies: Adelaide and Perth are State capitals with quite a lot of similarities, including population sizes. Adelaide, however, is renowned for being the most boring place in au.)

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    10. Re:The Quiet Majority by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 1

      Socially awkward? Hey, at least these are the nerds that are getting out :) And yeah, I wanted the stats for the greater Toronto area, but couldn't find anything on google that looked recent, my bad.

    11. Re:The Quiet Majority by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 1

      Yeah, what's really bad is I put I in 17,000 instead of 1 in 17,000, glad no one noticed that.

  72. Re:Manhattan ( = 42nd) meetup @ Bowlmor Lanes by seek3r2k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think its rediculous how the manhattan location is getting all of NY's members, what about Queens?? Long island?? There are 5 or 6 people to those locations. LAME!

    Theres more to NY than the over populated and polluted island. :)

  73. Mandrake 9.0 b1 by superman53142 · · Score: 1

    I just dl'ed disc 1 and grabbed the rest of the junk I need from cooker. . .

  74. Re:I'm not signing up for Meetup, and neither are by turnstyle · · Score: 1
    Hey, Scott! Good to know you hang out on /. :)

    Hang out on /. and sometimes get hung out to dry, but I must apologize: I'm not triangulating on 'fader'. Howbout a hint...

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  75. cock lovers unite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well.. back to the troll band wagon... god you trolls must love cock an awfully lot to post apache + m$ net shit.

  76. No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They're just the only ones that would go to a Slashdot meet-up

  77. My Slashdot Meeting Invitation by johnthorensen · · Score: 3, Funny
    You have been formally invited to a

    SLASHDOT GET TOGETHER

    Please bring the following items:
    1. Trollbot
    2. Know-it-all Attitude
    3. Socialist Mindset
    4. Secret piggy-bank where you keep that big karma horde
    5. "I love/hate Linus" Flag
    6. e-Book version of the Bible, preprocessed to replace "God" and "Lord" with "Richard Stallman" and "Eric Raymond", respectively.
    7. Outrageously Customized Computer Case (Laboratory Eyeshades optional)
    8. Anti-Editorial-Censorship SLASH backdoor
    9. Photoshopped picture of you and a beautiful woman (woman stolen, of course from OMM's coverage of QuakeCon)
    10. Editors: Your favorite foot (for insertion into your collective mouth)
    Come one come all!!!
    1. Re:My Slashdot Meeting Invitation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am the Eric Raymond your Richard Stallman. Thou shalt have no other Richard Stallmans before me?

    2. Re:My Slashdot Meeting Invitation by johnthorensen · · Score: 1

      LOL I see the point you were trying to make there, but in a sense it's F'ing hilarious...

  78. Seattle by Com2Kid · · Score: 2

    Oh come on we are supposed to be the second damn silicon valley or something like that.

    Ok so granted most of the high tech companies around here /. is not exactly friendly to. . . .

    Err, but crud. With Real Networks, McNeel Software, Wild Tangent, Immunex, and so forth all around here, why doesn't Seattle have a few hundred people minimum signed up? Not to mention Boeing, Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee, and other Nerd and Geek related enterprises.

    1. Re:Seattle by Fnord · · Score: 5, Funny

      We seattle slashdotters tend not to gather. It makes it easier for that mob on the eastside to hunt us.

    2. Re:Seattle by ninewands · · Score: 2

      The small signup may somehow be related to the number of machine gun nests on the highway into Seattle from Redmond ...

    3. Re:Seattle by Com2Kid · · Score: 1

      I remember on a visit to HS campus talking to one of the guys there, he said that he also read /., when I said I posted there frequently he was very surprised "Oh you post??? there? " almost like he was in awe or amazement that somebody actualy posted comments there. ^_^

    4. Re:Seattle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In awe that he was facing someone stupid enough to post. /. makes all Linux users look like drooling idiots!

  79. Mmmmm... Sweet, sweet numbers.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Or 4 and a half. :)

  80. LA pretty much hung together... by MsGeek · · Score: 2

    The problem didn't happen in the LA-Beverly Hills-Hollywood (damn, who concatenated that unholy hodge-podge!) area. 48 geeks will be dropping by Jillian's Bowling Alley in CityWalk for the meetup. Including moi.

    I would have actually preferred a little more localism. A San Fernando Valley meetup would have been way better for my purposes (Sherman Oaks, anyone?) and I'm sure Westsiders would have been much happier with a Venice or Santa Monica locale. Downtown would probably have been better for the NOC geeks centered around One Wilshire. However, it's cool that there will be such a throng.

    I will be bringing the digital camera. Photos will be up at msgeek.org as soon as I can swing it after the big event.

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  81. Re:Manhattan ( = 42nd) meetup @ Bowlmor Lanes by MsGeek · · Score: 2

    Jillian's is a bowling alley too. At CityWalk. In Universal City, CA. This is where the LA /.-ers will be meeting.

    Two /.-ings of a bowling alley! Damn!

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  82. Then C-Net casually mentions: by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Along with replacing its workstations, ILM also has installed a 1,000-processor render farm based on Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon processors and a server cluster built with Compaq Alpha processors.

    So Intel chips get the headline but Athlon MP rackmounts do the serious computation. I bet if ILM had found a top-tier vendor with a decent Athlon business (vs. consumer) desktop configuration they'd have Athlon XP's on their desktops too. Or Athlon MP dual CPU workstations, which cost about the same as a high-end uniprocessor P4. Having fought with some thoroughly screwed up Dell Optiplexes recently, the support geeks at ILM have my sympathies.

    (Not that the whole business vs. consumer thing really matters, until you try to convince purchasing of that point...)

  83. RedHat review is fair by Critical_ · · Score: 1

    I liked the RedHat beta review that was posted on eWeek. It pointed out a lot of positives but it wasn't overly complicated. I agree with the finding, RedHat needs to have a graphical font installer/manager that can change system-wide fonts in X such that I don't have to squint on my 1600x1200 desktop.

    I haven't tried the beta yet, but it mentions a screen resolution changing tool. What exactly is this? Is it a tool that just changes the viewport size? Or does it in fact change the entire desktop's resolution? I hope it is the latter because I hate modlines.

    1. Re:RedHat review is fair by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you're that much of a retard, then RedHat/Mandrake is for you!

  84. Mandrake 9.0 beta review by MrLinuxHead · · Score: 1

    So I finally got all three ISO's DL'd by 9 PM last night. Tucked in the missus and slunk down to the den where the dual celeron 533 / 256 Mb / nVidia Gforce awaited my fresh meat like a hungry lion.

    Next thing I booted up with disk 1, and the installer came up with a dialog (install from FTP/HTTP/CDROM/HD). I was going to upgrade from Mandrake 8.2, but the RPM database update took too long, so screw it. Hit reset. Repartition and blow it away. Format, check for bad blocks, select individual packages. I installed most of the workstation goodies, and GNOME as my WM. XFree 3.3.6 had 3D support. This is a media PC, hooked up to the stereo, and by 10:30 had a nice little desktop going. Moz 1.0, GNOME 2.0, no OpenOffice, nothing fancy, but very stable, and XMMS works like a champ. Grabbed some files and played DJ for a couple of hours today. Schwweet.

    BTW, did anyone else see that Senator Tom Daschle posted a comment on /.? If that's true, kudos to you sir. You are the first U.S. Senator I have seen posting on Slashdot, and I tip my hat to you. I wish our other elected officials had your guts to offer their views on this type of forum.

    On a slightly off-topic note, how many goverments around the world are investigating Open Source? Britian, Peru, China, Russia, Norway, all this year. Seems like there is a wind of change blowing through many goverments. Maybe our goverment (USA) may want to investigate as well.

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    1. Re:Mandrake 9.0 beta review by geekd · · Score: 2

      XFree 3.3.6 had 3D support.

      While this is true, it is sub-optimal.

      What you really want to do is tell it to install XFree 4.x, then go to nvidia.com and download the latest drivers and install them.

      Your 3D acceleration will be much faster.

      Mandrake does not include these drivers because they are not Open Source.

      When Mandrake's installer tells you that only Xfree 3.x had 3D support for your Geforce, that's because those are the only 3D drivers *it* has. The official nvidia drivers are better, and XFree 4.x kicks ass over 3.x any day.

    2. Re:Mandrake 9.0 beta review by MrLinuxHead · · Score: 1

      Right on! Right now I just wanted to kick the tires on a stock ML install. No 3D games right now, just a music box.

      Thanks fur the tip. I will try it later.

      MLH
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    3. Re:Mandrake 9.0 beta review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      F**k Tom Daschle

  85. Correction: Rama WON'T be "Starship Troopered" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    AICN has
    this story correcting the CNet story. Excerpt:

    "We gave the writer of the CNET article a summary of the film (an accurate one) over the phone, which he summarized very, very inaccurately. Rendezvous with Rama will, under no circumstances, be "Starship Troopered"...

  86. Post your opinion on the DRM round table by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here is the form that Bond spoke of: http://www.ta.doc.gov/comments/comments.htm

  87. ILM, Rama, and CNet .. by peatbakke · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to the Rendezvous with Rama movie .. but I sure hope the bit about "revenge against aliens who blow up Italy" was a misprint. Talk about plot butchering.

  88. Re:Stuff said was once good that is there to be so by Tom+Daschle,+US+Sena · · Score: 0

    That information is not available from myself; sorry. Perhaps you should contact your senator.

  89. And almost certainly... by MosesJones · · Score: 2

    Then went over to Company X and offered the person who oversaw their Linux shift a large paypacket to switch.

    Its the cheapest way to steal IP, just steal the people.

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    An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
  90. Re:why require email address (your answer) by gosand · · Score: 2
    In order to learn the secret location of a geek get together in your area, you must submit your email address. The site promises that I won't be spammed, but I have found repeatedly that many companies don't share my definition of spam.

    Easy. Your email is cmdrtaco@slashdot.org, and your password is slashdot. I tried it, and I guess I am not the first one to try it, because it says "Welcome back cmdrtaco!"

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  91. Spies? Get real. by fm6 · · Score: 2
    There's been buzz that all of SGI's Hollywood customers have been dissatisfied with IRIX-based solutions for 3 or 4 years now. It wouldn't take James Bond to figure out that all the other studios are looking for alternatives. Nowadays, everybody who owns proprietary hardware is asking themselves if they can save money by switching to commodity solutions. Most of their "intelligence work" probably just consisted of reading the trade journals or attending conferences.

    But then, that's what intelligence is like. Most CIA employees spend their work days analysing documents that are either public or not very hard to get. The people who sneak into the Pottsyvlvania embassy to photograph the secret war plans contribute to the information stream, but most of the work goes into analysing the information, not gathering it. Of course, nobody will ever make a movie about a guy sitting in a cube in Langley, reading foreign newspapers!

    1. Re:Spies? Get real. by LinuxTek · · Score: 1
      Of course, nobody will ever make a movie about a guy sitting in a cube in Langley, reading foreign newspapers!

      Well, at least 'The sum of all fears' hinted at that. ;-)

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  92. Valenti by Parsec · · Score: 1

    "Jack Valenti, spokesman of the MPAA, continued to make himself an easy target by insisting at one point that his group did not oppose the VCR."

    Do you think this was an attempt at revisionism or did he really mean that his group did not successfully oppose the VCR?

  93. DRM round table by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Why not just call them the DRM-head (pron. drumhead)?
    "Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum on the battlefield, sit at it, and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishment severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed."
    --Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Drumhead"
    But then I'm just an Anonymous Coward, and someone else will just read this and put it forth as one their own idea rather than mod this up.
    1. Re:DRM round table by Thud457 · · Score: -1
      Why not just call them the DRM-head (pron. drumhead)?

      "Five hundred years ago, military officers would upend a drum on the battlefield, sit at it, and dispense summary justice. Decisions were quick, punishment severe, appeals denied. Those who came to a drumhead were doomed." --Star Trek: The Next Generation: "The Drumhead"
      But then I'm just an Anonymous Coward, and someone else will just read this and put it forth as one their own idea rather than mod this up.
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  94. Canadians bad at math? by g8oz · · Score: 1


    Please, Americans can't even add up ballots.