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Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound

An anonymous reader submits: "In an interview with CRN, Linus Torvalds says he's confident there won't be any IP problems discovered in Linux. In fact, Torvalds, says he was extra careful with issues like the IBM Read Copy Update code."

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

    Mad crazy shoutouts to the various crews of #norwalk, and the burning PC.

  2. Someone told me something disturbing today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A coworker to me today that /. is a gay community. If thats true, then it needs to be in a FAQ or something. I've been frequenting /. for about a month now and I had no idea.

    I feel like a straight guy in a gay bar now.

  3. Re:The circle is complete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ROFL...that's some funny shit. I'd give you mod points if I had 'em...

  4. Re:What i find most amusing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCO is the sound that Darl McBride's asshole is going to be making after he finishes his hot manlove session with his butch in prison. Darl is going to go to prison for the shady dealings he's involved in. Mark my words. His butthole will be going:

    as the Santorum pours out of his anus...

  5. BREAKING NEWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Mozilla is dying

    Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there may be no future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Camino is perhaps the most endangered. Let's look at the numbers.

    Mozilla leader Asa states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Firebird are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Firebird entries in Bugzilla is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Firebird users. Camino entries in Bugzilla are about half of the volume of Firebird entries. Therefore there are about 700 users of Camino. A recent article put the Mozilla browser at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Camino users. This is consistent with the number of Camino bugs.

    Due to the troubles of Netscape, abysmal sales and so on, Netscape went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sell another troubled service.

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

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

    I think YOU misinterpreted YOUR parent post! It was ALSO a joke!

  7. Re:GNAA Says Linux is gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Una comedia misógina de ciencia ficción: extraterrestres de una civilización de otra galaxia llegan a la Tierra y descubren que nuestro planeta está infestado de mujeres, por lo cuál proceden al exterminio de las mismas.

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    This short black and white comedy begins over a peaceful starfield as a narrator who sounds strung out on Qualudes babbles on about a universe where men can "express" themselves, all possible because someone loves us and watches over us "as we play" (?). Of course, it's implied that the ones watching over the galaxy are "the gay niggers from outer space" (the narrator's voice quivers as he lingers on every syllable of this title). The scene shifts to the deck of the Ring Musculatoris #2, where brave leader Captain B. Dick investigates this new "Earth," a world infested with icky females. The narrator informs us that the Gay Niggers come from the planet Anus where they have been able to create a male-only way of living, " a perfect society" he eerily intones. For some reason, being a black homosexual alien also involves dressing up like a member of Parliament Funkadelic but this small detail is never fully explained. The crew beams the young gay Cadet Arminaus down to the planet, and after a brief exchange with a woman the frightened alien vaporizes her with his death ray. This elite group of interstellar gays make quick work of Earth, moving from continent to continent and exterminating anything with a menstrual cycle. In Asia they blast a bunch of horrible young women torturing a poor little geek, who joyfully embraces the black alien after being freed from his bondage. Sensing that victory is in their grasp, the entire crew fists a mystical brown ring to find out which one of them will be left on earth as the new gay ambassador, who will be transformed into a white dorky-looking fellow (?????) to lead the planet into it's new gay future. The short ends with a brief colorized pool scene where the transformed inhabitants of Earth take a stand "for a gay universe!" The offensive title combined with strange imagery and wacky alternative lifestyle humor makes Gay Niggers... an instant underground classic that's definitely superior to most of the dreck that passes for American short cinema. The guys who made this (Danish filmmaker and comedian Morton Lindberg) were obviously going for the jugular and they succeded, right to the anti-social extremes of comedy. Definitely a must for that boring sweet sixteen party or hospital visits for hernia surgery.

  8. Re:WTF by Bio-Hazzard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linus Torvalds is the founder of the linux, either you are extremely ignorant or you tried to be funny and failed miserably.

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    Give a man a fire, he is warm for a day.
    Set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.

  9. Wheres the lameness filter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How did this junk get around the lameness filter? or does lameness only apply to comments posted by Apple uses who are mostly Gay and not necessarily of African descent. Linus is just happy not gay anyway.

  10. Re:Please [gG]od by kasperd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do they dare trying to steal an abbreviation that for years has meant Internet Protocol. They talk about rights, but who is it, that go out and steal abbreviations. And BTW please God make ignorants stop using the term TCP/IP when they really don't know what they are talking about.

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    Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
  11. Whenever I pee... by jvollmer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    it makes a sound.

    If it's not Consolidated Lint, it's just fuzz.