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AndyAMPohl writes "An article from Yahoo! News mentions IBM plugging washers and dryers into the internet. This has several advantages: coins aren't needed since credit cards are accepted, the machines can be monitored through the web for maintenance purposes and to see if there are any machines available, and users can even control things like add soap!" The eSuds homepage has informations, FAQs, etc.

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  1. slashdot censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    version 1.2.1, (last updated 20th July 2002)

    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. Moderating this post will only waste mod points, and will not work!

    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!

    Pink page of Death, This censors people who use legitmate proxys or firewalls.

    The Bitchslap! An unethical punishment which is applied to moderators who fight censorship against this site! In addition the Editors use their un-limited mod points to create a communist style censored discussion on slashdot!

    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
    BBC NEWS
    News.com
    &lt ;a href="http://www.linux.org">Linux online
    Linux daily news network
    Weird news from dailyrotten.com
    Trollaxor, news for trolls, they are real people too!
    CNN.com
    New york times (free registration required)
    LINUX.com
    News forge
    K5
    Mandrake forum
    Toms hardware
    The register
    Kde dot news
    The linux kernel Archives
    Adequecy
    Xfree86.org

    T here 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!
    Rob malda
    Jamie Macarthy
    ChrisD
    Hemos
    Micheal
    Pudge

    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!
  2. Reflections of a Transgendered Cow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Big Tex was the prize bull on Mr. Tucker's ranch, having won the
    blue ribbon at many a state fairground. He was a incredibly large hunk
    of rippling muscle that would have sent even the most fearless rodeo
    cowboys running in fear. Mr. Tucker made sure that Big Tex sired many
    calves on his ranch, and kept hoping for more prize cattle. But none
    matched Big Tex's power, appearance, or assertive nature. Yes, he was
    the king of the ranch.
    Unknown to Mr. Tucker, though, Big Tex also possessed a very keen
    mind. Big Tex knew that he was something special...the stud of the
    cattle...and used his reputation to have his way with any cow he came
    across, often brutally forcing his way upon the female beasts.
    One day, while maneuvering his massive, dark brown bovine body
    across a field at the ranch, Big Tex noticed an especially alluring cow
    named Sue Bell chewing her cud seductively beside a tree.
    "I've never conquered Sue Bell," Big Tex thought to himself, as
    his pace quickened in the direction of the tree.
    Sue Bell, raising her large eyes toward the oncoming and excited
    bull, immediately turned and began to march away.
    "She can't escape me that easily," Big Tex thought, as he closed
    the distance in a steady gallop, her reddish coloring making him all the
    more aggressive.
    Big Tex finally reached Sue Bell and rared up on his hind legs onto
    her back, prepared to make the frightened cow his latest in a long line
    of conquests.

    Suddenly... all went black for an instant, and Big Tex found
    himself lying down in a pile of hay in a barn. Looking around, he did
    not recognize his surroundings.
    "What happened? This place doesn't look familiar," he thought as he
    gazed around.
    Climbing to his feet, Big Tex realized that his body felt wrong.
    He was shorter than normal, and he could see that his body was now milky
    white with at least one black spot on one of his legs.
    His legs! His legs were now much less muscular, and he felt
    generally weaker all over.
    He was shocked and involuntarily let out a loud "Moo".
    "What's wrong with my voice! It's never sounded so high pitched
    and delicate."
    All of a sudden Big Tex felt an unfamiliar movement just below his
    belly.
    "Udders!!!I have udders!!!" his mind screamed in revulsion.
    Spying an old mirror laying against a wall of the barn, Big Tex
    trotted over, noticing a strange sway in his rear parts as he walked.
    He also noticed that something seemed to be missing from between
    his hind legs.
    "It can't be missing!" he thought in horror. "What I think has
    happened, couldn't have happened!"
    Big Tex reached the mirror and almost regurgitated some cud when he
    saw the image reflected back at him. A cow! A VERY female cow was
    staring back at him.
    She/he had long lashes highlighting big delicate eyes. He could
    see the large mammary sack hanging underneath him with the very obvious
    udders poking downward. And, of course, the very heart and soul of the
    prized bull was missing, replaced by the very female part of the cow
    anatomy that he coveted so much. But he didn't covet it in this way!
    "I can't be a cow," he thought. "I'm a bull! I've got to change
    back somehow."
    Just then a large man walked into the barn carrying a bucket. He
    was obviously a farmhand. He grabbed a stool from the corner and pulled
    it up next to Big Tex in his sleak new cow body.
    "Oh no!" Big Tex thought. "I know what he has in mind, and I can't
    go through with it."
    The bull/cow started to lunge away, which angered the man, who
    proceeded to steer Big Tex into a cramped stall.
    "In my other male body I could have gotten away from him, but not
    in this weak carcass," Big Tex thought.
    The man placed the bucket under Big Tex.
    "Here it comes," the new cow tensed.
    The man grabbed the udders and began pulling on them. Big Tex was
    surprised by the sensation as his udders stiffened under the caress of
    the man's hand.
    "Hey, this feels kind of good," Big Tex thought. The sound of the
    warm milk hitting the metal bucket made the experience even more
    pleasant for Big Tex.
    "Maybe I could live like this, for awhile at least."

    Six months later, Big Tex found that he did enjoy being "one of the
    cows" as they huddled together in the fields munching grass. He also
    found that he liked the attention he received from the bulls, and
    realized that cows enjoy mating much more than bulls, something he would
    have never dreamed.
    Finally, Big Tex found himself to be the proud mother of a strong
    young calf, possibly the future stud of the ranch.
    He could not imagine ever going back to being a bull.
    Life was udderly delightful!

  3. Old Lady Taco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Here is a recent AIM log I saved. It is a conversation between myself and Taco's mother. (Please note, I have changed Old Lady Taco's screen name to protect her privacy.)

    Taco's Mom: BUTT SEX ME!!!
    TrolleyMcGook: Damn bitch, you're retarded.
    TrolleyMcGook: My English is better than yours and my name is McGook.
    Taco's Mom: I'm so horny and my fingers are so wet that I'm having trouble typing.
    TrolleyMcGook: Slippery from vagina gunk or the two dozen chicken wings you've eaten since your last snack an hour ago?
    Taco's Mom: BUTT SEX ME!! TrolleyMcGook: Man, it's just like DMX (D to the M to the X) said, "All these bitches want is my huge black cock up in their shitters."
    Taco's Mom: BUTT SEX!! BUTT SEX!! BUTSEX!!
    TrolleyMcGook: Listen bitch, enough of your nonsense. I need you to pass a message to your son for me.
    Taco's Mom: If I do it, will you butt sex me?
    TrolleyMcGook: I'll consider breaking my foot off in yo ass.
    Taco's Mom: Alright, what's the message?
    TrolleyMcGook: Linux Sucks!!! Ha Ha Ha!
    Taco's Mom: Now butt sex me??
    TrolleyMcGook: Fuck no. You've got AIDS.
    TrolleyMcGook: See you later bitch
    Taco's Mom: BUTT SEX BUTT SEX BUTTUS EXSEXEWSEX BUTUT SEX!!!!!
    Taco's Mom: I NEED AHUGE COCK IN MY SSASSHOLE!!!!X!!!!!
    Taco's Mom: COME ON BIG BOYYYY!!!!!!!!
    TrolleyMcGook signed off at 10:09:37 PM.

  4. Re:I thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It brings new meaning to an ACK FLOOD.

  5. Beowolf Cluster by joyoflinux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine a beowolf cluster of...

    *ducks and runs*

  6. Re:umm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't know bout you, but I don't want my credit
    card folded

  7. And in other news... by RichWest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IBM out-spin Microsoft!

  8. Re:Get used to it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    COMPANY = "Deep Fried Plastic Inc."
    DEVICE = "rotary fish peeler"
    FUNCTION = "fish peeling"

    "Deep Fried Plastic Inc. has connected rotary fish peeler to the Internet meaning that fish peeling can be performed remotely. This is going to revolutionise the way rotary fish peeler is used."

    Hey, this could work. Patent the business method, quickly!

  9. Re:Upcoming messages on this thread... by JPelorat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And we'll all finally be able to wash those hot grits out of our pants.

    --
    Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!