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MIT Gnome Invasion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gnome-man's-land dept.

J. Arthur Random writes "On Wednesday, April 23, hundreds of gnomes invaded the main public computer cluster at MIT. There were big gnomes, little gnomes, even naked gnomes. A gnome army carried the GNOME banner. Fortunately, the ACME Gnome Exterminators took care of the infestation within a few days."

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  1. HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    slashdot cares about fluff like this, but not that the father of relational databases passed away.

    2003-04-26 00:59:52 Father of the Relational Database, Ted Codd, dead (articles,storage) (rejected)

    the register story here

    flood your submission queues until they get the idea that we care about the death of computer science pioneers as much as porcelain gnomes placed around campus. geez.

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    1. Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      thanks

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      intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
    2. Re:HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED by Tumbleweed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Oh yeah, I just checked my rejections list (I mean my submissions list), and forgot another one I had rejected: when Mr Rogers died. I mean _really_, that's just rude.

  2. HEY SLASHDOT, A CS PIONEER HAS DIED by circletimessquare · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    slashdot editors care about fluff like this, but not that the father of relational databases passed away.

    2003-04-26 00:59:52 Father of the Relational Database, Ted Codd, dead (articles,storage) (rejected)

    the register story here

    flood your submission queues until they get the idea that we care about the death of computer science pioneers as much as porcelain gnomes placed around campus. geez.

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  3. Who needs relational databases? by fm6 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Certainly not Slashdot, which is based on MySQL.

  4. Re:As a professor at MIT, by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    well, i don't care about my personal story ego. i have had plenty rejected just like you. no big deal.

    but when a pioneer in computer science passes away, and A story- not MY story, on the subject gets rejected by slashdot at the same time they post a story about plastic gnomes on campus, i got angry.

    i don't care about my story getting rejected. i care about the story getting rejected at all.

    compare the news of his passing to the news of plastic gnomes.

    see the source of my feeling miffed?

    i just want SOMEONE to get the story posted, it does not have to have anything to do with me at all.

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it