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Slashback: Sorveteria, Rockets, Anger
How is this sanguine? peterb writes "Slashdot has previously reported on Eve Andersson's whitewash of Ars Digita. Her screed placed responsibility for all the problems fully on the shoulders of the Venture Capitalists, while ignoring the role of those that asked the VCs for money. Ars Digita's Michael Yoon has a somewhat more sanguine and less hysterical version of the same story."
I wonder if shoulder chips can be recycled as fuel ...
All them perls don't come cheap. dogma01 writes "It's been almost a year since I submitted this story on Slashdot about the Perl Foundation Fund Drive. With a new year there has been a new round of grants. Every dime helps improve the community and bring us one step closer to Perl6. Please donate here."
The largest model is actually the one that's currently in use. joshamania writes "I knew when I saw the first post about the 'largest scale model of the solar system' I should have piped up. The second post has driven me over the edge. I call shenanigans! The Maine model is not the largest, and Peoria, IL, my hometown, has had the largest model for many years now, the Pluto model (in Kewanee, IL) being over 60 miles away from the sun model. In fact, a bicycle tour of the model is organized every summer and reoccurs in August."
Still at maximum. Danta writes "As the QNX site seems to have received an indirect slashdotting, here is a BitTorrent link to the free version of the QNX OS."
And what's in your makefile? JediTrainer writes "Community backlash begins! The author of Nmap has decided to remove all support of the SCO operating system as of version 3.28. Quoting the changelog, 'SCO operating systems are no longer supported due to their recent (and absurd) attacks against Linux and IBM. Bug reports relating to UnixWare will be ignored, or possibly even laughed at derisively. Note that I have no reason to believe anyone has ever used Nmap on SCO systems. Unixware sucks.'"
Speaking of backlash ... Ransak writes "Speak out! Space-Rockets.com has started a letter/fax campaign to sway political opinion, but needs your help! This hobby enjoyed by thousands of future scientists and astronaunts has been put in serious jeopardy by bad legislation. Senator Herb Kohl was one of the coauthors of the Safe Explosives Act, who not surprisingly, is blocking an amendment to ease restrictions on model rocketry. Wisconson geeks, take note of your Senators actions!"
... and speaking of rockets: BuR4N writes "The x-prize foundation has decided not to accept an application from a Budapest based team called GCT (Gravity Control Technologies) due to their highly questionable proposal. GCT pitched a "propellantless propulsion technology" that quote "is capable of controlling gravity for flight". Here is the full story. It would be very interesting to hear from the scientific community if this is just silliness or something that eventually could lead anywhere.."
I hope these guys don't take up making ham sandwiches. acidblood writes "Following up on yesterday's story concerning ice cream and liquid nitrogen, it appears someone was keen to try it out, and this is the result."
I can't tell from the page when exactly this was made. Whether it was truly in response to Gray's recipe or not, this site certainly provides more amusing visual aids.
The medium is the message, or something like that. LineNoiz writes "There is an interesting article over at MSNBC outlining Metallica's attempt to take advantage of the internet as a music distribution medium. It seems their newest album 'St. Anger' has a code on it which can be used to access their "Audio Vault" where users can download MP3 recordings of live concerts. The site's motto? 'Download. Burn. Share. Kick Ass.' Is this just a flagrant attempt to recapture the interest of the thousands of fans they lost in their battle with Napster, or a genuine good idea?"
Readers may recall this interview with Metallica's Lars Ulrich.
'Download. Burn. Share. Kick Ass.'
Maybe their MP3 files contain Hatch's "special" program.
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d
Download. Burn. Share. Kick Ass.
Hmmph, for some reason I read this as meaning:
Download, Burn, Share - get YOUR ass kicked by Metallica.
Is this just a flagrant attempt to recapture the interest of the thousands of fans they lost in their battle with Napster
Yes.
-Eyston
If the Budapest team finds a way to manipulate gravity into propellantless propulsion, I doubt they'll miss that $10M x-pize too much..
Speaking of Metallica and downloadable music, I
have to recommend you check out the spoof band
Beatallica. It is insanely funny. Beatallica
is a part time parody project by two good friends
of mine. It answers the questions: What would it
sound like if Metallica did Beatles covers. You
can download their MP3s at www.beatallica.org
The Bolachek Journals
Then how am I going to use my OpenServer Boxen to crack open the computers of those pesky boys who make fun of my using SCO?
Wanker, indeed...
GCT: proof that Hungarians are crazy. I know. I live here. :) I think it was Edward Teller (??) who in a conference, when someone asked for proof of extraterrestials, jumped up and said: there is proof! They are called Hungarians.
Anyhow, their homepage is quite interesting. See the prototype plans!!:)
http://www.gctspace.com/
is so bad, you can't give it away!!
Metallica Tricks The Tricksters
When Madonna fans tried to download new tracks from her "American Life" album, they were greeting with a nasty verbal message from Madge herself. Metallica have taken a slightly different route. Those seeking new tracks from the bands "St. Anger" release on peer-to-peer networks have ended up with incomplete tracks at best, at worst - John Denver tunes. It's that kind of business savvy that helped Metallica debut at number one this week in Canada and the U.S.
Just like the world needs a set of Star Wars prequels.
Sincerely,
George "I Wipe My Ass With Your Money" Lucas
I love choice... now I can not download Metallica songs as well as not buying their CDs!
Read reviews of shopping cart software
the contributor's page is especially great...
;)
evidently they've raised $251 !!!
and if you become a level 3 sponsor for only $1000 you will get a ride to space when... ahem... they like, figure out how to get you into space for a thousand dollars... or something
And that's where you lost all credibility.
Calling someone a lame ripoff of Linkin Park is a paradox and a tautology at the same time. It creates its own black hole as you think about it and all sensible thought disappears as you consider the vacuum that exists their heads.
God, I hate Linkin Park. And don't start me on Limp Biskit.
silly. SCO would not support their platform unless they win the case - otherwise they will be broke. Since the probability of winning this case is 0.00001% - actually you do a favor to SCO users by preparing them to switch in time.
I'd be happier if they apologized for making St. Anger (the album). Have you heard that steaming pile yet? The title-track single was only the tip of the crapberg.
LOL!!! I agree. I think the band must've decided
that the best way to combat downloading of their music was to make it so awful that nobody would bother.
You bought the vinyl version? Is this some sort of new form of security through obscurity?
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I always preferred this interview
If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
Your keyboard, seems to have, a problem with, the comma key.
I was very amused by one of their pages. They have several typos throughout their pages, but this one typo painted an amusing picture:
(Note: should have been "screws"...)I pictured 90 crew members, exhausted, gripping the main body and the Upper Payload Body, trying to keep them from drifting apart. Yeah, I'm a little twisted.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
did anyone even look at that ice cream page? it's freakin' hilarious! The shit they ended up with looks nasty as hell, but the best part is the quote from one of the captions: "hohohoh, nitrogenio!"
:-)
I found my new sig today
Next he will sue Philips and Sony to remove the volume controls from cd players, or else listeners have to much control over their "IP".
Actually, I anticipate it going in these steps:
Like what I said? You might like my music