Revealed: How Fedora And The Community Interact

bakwas_internet writes "Konstantin Ryabitsev sent a funny message in form of a irc chat log, revealing how Fedora and the Community Interact, to the development discussions mailing list related to Fedora Core.The story also appeared at lwn.net and OSnews."

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Fedora

[Anonymous Coward]

Brings you Linux!

Re:Fedora

[gujo-odori]

Unless you like to see shit on a girls face... don't click the link

Well, actually, this needs to be amended to "Unless you are using IE and want to see shit on a girl's face..." because if you're using some more advanced and secure browser[1] (or presumably, one of those browsers reporting itself as IE, but why would you want to do claim to be using IE?), all you'll see is:

"We're sorry, this site takes advantage of advanced technology only found in the award winning Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser for Windows."

This was fortunate for me, because I stupidly clicked it before seeing your warning. Saved by Konqueror yet again :-)

By "advanced technology," I can only wonder if they mean "This site exploits a security hole found only in IE to take control of your computer while distracting you with a disgusting image." IE not only doesn't support any advanced technology that other browsers don't support (No, ActiveX controls are not an advanced technology, they are just another way of doing what everyone else does, and doing so with less security), it has long been the only major browser to not support tabbed browsing. That makes it pretty hard to think of "Internet Explorer" and "advanced technology" in the same sentence.

[1] Defined as "Pretty much any browser other than Netscape 4.x, which has a security track record about as bad as IE versions below 6, or nearly so.

Re:Fedora

[Anonymous Coward]

Uhh ok so where can I see shit on a girl's face?

Re:Fedora

[Anonymous Coward]

please stop posting links that crash my IE or I'll kill a puppy.

Re:How is this news?

[krumms]

I agree. Slashdot's becoming more than a waste of time. It's becoming an uninformative waste of time.

Re:It's sad...

[TarlCabbot]

Mod every thing above this up +10. Filtering "news-worthy" news suks

Corrected Poll

[Anonymous Coward]

Good

Whack

STFU up racist prick

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hahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

EAT YOUR BRAAAAAANE

I DEMAND MY SEX WITH A MARE OPTION

[ThinkAboutYourBreath]

I SHALL NOT BE DEPRIVED.

Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING

Yes that's right, THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING. Why you might ask? Well it's simple!

Your brain usually takes care of breathing FOR you, but whenever you remember this, YOU MUST MANUALLY BREATH! If you don't you will DIE.

There are also MANY variations of this. For example, think about:

1. BLINKING!

1. SWALLOWING SALIVA!

1. HOW YOUR FEET FEEL IN YOUR SOCKS!

1. THAT ANNOYING SONG THAT GETS STUCK IN YOUR HEAD!

In conclusion, the THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING troll is simply unbeatable. These 4 words can be thrown randomly into article text trolls, into sigs, into anything, and once seen, WILL FORCE THE VICTIM TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BREATHING MANUALLY! This goes far beyond the simple annoying or insulting trolls of yesteryear.

In fact, by EVEN RESPONDING to this troll, you are proving that IT HAS CLAIMED ANOTHER VICTIM -- YOU!

interactions?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean that the developers have sex with one another and members of the community?

Re:How is this news?

[syousef]

Oh boo hoo. I've hurt my little Karma and I can't get up.

For goodness sake if you want to mod me down go ahead but "Troll"?

The motto is "News for nerds. Things that matter". Not pre-adolescent drug induced ramblings for the technically inclined. About 3 stories in 10 are remotely interesting and about 1 in 10 is news. For examples the fact that CD media deteriorates is not news and hasn't been for a few years now. 3 stories about it in as many months here is unimpressive.

*shakes head*

Why is this flamebait?

[penguinoid]

So I said that Slashdot has a lot of humor, so much that I get all the humor I need right here.

Wouldn't modding this flamebait mean that lot of people don't think haveing a lot of humor on Slashdot is a good thing?

Re:How is this news?

[Rick Zeman]

The motto is "News for nerds. Things that matter". Not pre-adolescent drug induced ramblings for the technically inclined.

Actually, friend, it's quite the opposite

[Anonymous Coward]

The page uses a couple simple SSI statements, so that only people who do NOT use IE get (have?) to see pornography. IE users get hit by a fairly fresh IE exploit that crashes their web browser, but no porn.

Re:Actually, friend, it's quite the opposite

[gujo-odori]

I'm running Konqueror 3.2.2 and saw only the "You don't have IE" message."

But thanks for confirming that it does indeed use IE's "advanced technology" ;-)

Re:How is this news?

[syousef]

What a busload of BS.

I think I made my point very well. I really couldn't give a hoot about the exact wording of the motto. What's the bet this post also gets modded "Flamebait" or "Troll" or "Offtopic" even though I'd argue criticising a slight misquote of slashdot's motto a hell of a lot less on the topic.

Translation of modderation: How dare you criticise slashdot!

Hello! flamebait and trolling relates to unfounded criticism for the sole purpose of upsetting people /stirring the pot. Since I'm criticising the relevance of the article I find it ironic that it get modded "off topic". Come on in all seriousness that article wasn't relevant, wasn't funny and wasn't worth the energy of the mouse click let alone the attention to reading the first few lines of that junk.

I'm not trying to "bait" anyone or "troll". I just would prefer that my time isn't wasted.

You're not suppose to moderate something under as flamebait or troll or off topic because you don't like the opinion expressed. How's that for off topic!