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Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux
lamasquerade writes "Paris Hilton has been named by the Open Source Development Legue as their next recruit in a bid to gain maximum exposure for FOSS. The new Legue's CEO, Jeremy Bleats, noted that the length of Ms Hilton's legs were a great factor in the decision and was sure to deny any links to The Red-Headed Legue. Richard Stallman was quick to label the activity a 'cheap stunt'."
All distributions adopt new characteristic *BOIINNGGG!* bootup sound.
Speaking of which. On Wednesday, we were at LinuxFest in Indy and one of the freebies that the university was giving out where these little penguin squishy things. Two girls who looked like they just came off of the latest reality TV show came up to our booth and asked in a very gingery voice "Like, can we have one of these penguins?". I doubt they knew anything about Linux. After they left I then turned to Marina and said, you know there needs to be a new distribution of Linux called Pink Linux or something "like" that. It could have a pink gtk theme with cornflower blue icons.
What month is this again? ;)
Tux with tits!
The joke is in the title.
'I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds'
While this was in the Mysterious Future, I thought of an awesome reply. But I seem to have forgotten it.
the date...
Where are the real stories today?
I'm all for it if she shows some boobies while holding a tux plush!
I for one welcome our new bimbo overlords.
I also heard that the next Debian installs will include Paris' latest video and her hacked TMobile phonebook by default. No more searching around the net for your favorite downloads!
I for one would definitely not hit it. I mean look at those sharp knees! She's way below my standards.
That's Hot
Maybe you should educate the morons of tomorrow so they'll stop believing the leaders of tomorrow. - Dogbert
Could we just sell her for $30k? We could fund a bunch of projects with that!
(lay off. i know it's a joke)
IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
So will we end up with a leaked sex tape of her and Tux now?
I am sure that underground sex tapes of Paris and a Penguin will bring exactly the publicity FOSS ineeds.
These April fools jokes are getting old fast. I bet that if they put a free copy in each of her porn video there would be alot more linux users.
I for one welcome Paris into our community with open arms and hope that..... hold on.....
I don't very often agree with Richard Stallman on a lot of things but this time he's spot on IMO. I mean come on, Paris Hilton?
What a waste of effort... Why even bother making a joke article? Just say "Paris Hilton", and it's already a joke.
"The amount of intelligence on this planet is a constant. The population is growing." -Cole's Axiom
check here.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
Are there going to be any serious posts today?
My lame blog.
If only the story had some naked pictures of that slut, this joke might be worthwhile.
I can't tell is this for real or this just a joke... maybee after she got her sidekicked hacked she became a computer secuity nut and switched to linux...
I'd agree, Stallman has better legs.
better face, too, without the make-up
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
...consistent and disastrous mispelling of the word "League" part of the joke, or what?
You guys aren't even trying. Paris Hilton endorsing Linux? At least try somebody that we might be able to believe, just for a second.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
No way. I mean, that would be totally hot, wouldn't it? You're kidding. Or maybe you aren't. Wait, it's not first of April everywhere right now. It's probably true. Who's April anyway?
Well, you don't get more maximum than her!
Now can we stop with the 01-04's? It's way past mid-day where I am.
As long as the publicity shots aren't done with a night vision camera ;-)
--- #@$DF@#2%@^%3^&*$%FRHG%%[NO CARRIER]
This is certainly a turning point in the history of FOSS! In years to come, we will look back on April 1st, 2005 as the day... err... wait... nevermind.
coming up next: ....
- Google Gulp
- Nasa reports: Water on Mars
- GMail inbox size to infinity+1
- Gentoo to drop x86 live cds
- gnome requiring subscription in the future
Isn't April Fools Day just the best? =] For a 'full' list of sites pulling pranks today check out this list here
.GET into next version of Windows
Here is a sample:
dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
waferbaby.com - amusing php error
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
Belive in Technology and AMAZE yourself. -- RIP ZDTV/TechTV
I guess I can switch back to using Linux from Mac .... All Mac has is Steve Jobs and he does'nt even where mini-skirts....
be a joke on April 1st, Every Stinking Year!!!? -Matt
Stallman was quick to label the activity a 'cheap stunt'.
...
Emphasis in this case on "cheap"
"What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
I heard there is plenty of ball-room inside the Paris Hilton too.
TGIAF*
*Thank Gorf It's April Fools:)
*** Sigs are a stupid waste of bandwidth.
Here she is doing what she does best at a linux convention:
http://phil.askluke.com/chicks/parislol.jpg
I think she just read the camel book and was inspired.
Will code a sig generator for food
Or Cunning Stunt?
to volunteer for the next episodes of her promotional video's...
Ugh
Sidekicks pda/phones run on linux ?
going on 5 jokes in a row... time for a real news article already?
/. right now.
There is such a thing as "killing a joke"... ya know, that guy who gets a good laugh at a joke, then keeps adding on to the same thing over, and over, and over... the laughter dies down and then people just start nervously chuckling so they don't make the guy feel bad.
"That guy" is
Cheap stunt?
More of a cunning stunt.
Sure gives a whole new meaning to "open source", doesn't it?
The back door is too open, and any distribution she endorses would have the nic running in promiscuius mode all the time!
SCO has sent out a press release stating that apparently "residue from SCO's intellectual property" have been found in and on Linux's new spokesperson, Paris Hilton. As proof, SCO showed clips from a one hour tape alleging to show unknown developers deposting what SCO claims to be "the life fluids of SCO" directly onto various parts of Ms Hilton.
Ms Hilton was quoted as saying "they promised me they wouldn't show that tape to anyone, if you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?".
Proof:
On her appearance on Saturday Night Live, she did a fake commercial for a geek-oriented phone sex line. She dressed up in a hat & huge scarf and made various Doctor Who references.
After that, i have now officially seen everything on TV. Nothing could ever top such an obscure reference than that. Closest was the cast of AbFab showing up on an episode of Roseanne.
I knew right away when I got to the last sentence. Richard Stallman never takes less than three full paragraphs to dismiss something.
What day is today? Oh, yeah. I almost forgot.
(This sig has been removed at the request of the patent holder for Sigs.)
Does that mean that all distributions now come with the full Paris Hilton porno?!
Can anyone else connect to google or gmail? I'm unable to connect at all, all day, this is nuts.
Just waiting for Linus's take on "One night with Paris"
Come on, Slashdot.
We want fun!
We do not want only Apple I news. Can you pass something else along?
From what I know about Paris Hilton she is a good selection. She needs some security since her address book was hacked recently and she is uh... very open.
First all the numbers from her sidekick... what next? Her /etc/passwd file?
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free cursors
that was cheap as in trashy, not cheap as in low cost beer
Tux in Paris!
-- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
I hear they promised her perls and rubys for her services. Either that, or she's been sniffing PHP again...
...and open legs -- a great combination.
...to you, too. ;-)
I am thinking of a word that rhymes with stunt, but I don't know which. Punt? Hunt? Bunt? Funt?
I give up, there's no joke there...
warning: This post is likely to contain gobs of dripping sarcasm. Consume at your own risk.
One week from now:
"Microsoft Corporation has recruited Las Vegas Hooker 'Sparkle Ruby' as the mascot for their new Longhorn Operating System...
Furthermore, the Windows Logo will be replaced with a pair of tits..."
Truly, Linux promotion has hit an all time low (and just as they were getting attention too).
GNU Paris Hilton or Paris GNU Hilton?
emerge slut
-Lod
maybee after she got her sidekicked hacked...
She got Nicole hacked? That's hot.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
What's up with the LinuxFund.org - the site is dead.
(This is not a joke)
Anybody know?
at least from the videos ive seen
Hmm.. I think I like this idea. Stallman was always a little to scruffy for me, not to metion a guy..
Bel, the mostly sane.. "Of course I can't see anything! I'm standing on the shoulders of idiots." -- Me
I agree it makes sense on paper-- the synergy of superstar Paris Hilton brings an "excitement" that OSS is lacking, and will surely bring the Us and Glamour magazine covers so sorely needed to bring Linux to the masses.
However, this will set the perception of the OS as a secure alternative to malware-ridden Windows back decades. Ms. Hilton is well known for high profile hacks: her infamous video, her Sidekick, etc. And it's a well-known fact that she is "easy", i.e. it's easier to get between her legs than to possess a firewall-free pre-SP2 XP machine.
The Internet
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday April 01, $TIME
from the wtf-were-you-smoking dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Stupidity has completed a passive takeover of Slashdot. Slashdot administrators, members of the Slashdot Board of Trustees, Roland Piquepaille and several other people recently sold their souls to Stupidity, Inc. completely by giving up their 2% share in holdings."
"In what has become increasingly obvious to many, Slashdot has been completely infiltrated by spies from Stupidity Inc. Many readers suspected that Stupidity, Inc. was trying to takeover Slashdot. Today, rumours were finally confirmed and Slashdot was officialy and completely bought out by stupidity"
"A Slashdot editor was quoted as saying 'WTF LOL THIS IS TEH FUNNEH!!!1', in response to a question from a reporter about the need for certain news posts that were described as PATENTLY OBVIOUS and HUMOUR FOR THE BRAIN-DAMAGED by readers. More details soon."
StrayByte.Net
Haqs anyone tried the P. Hilton Plug & Play interface?
In other news, a new distro will come out with barebones functionality, and it's gonna suck.
I thought it was a joke when i recieved mod points on April Fools.... Then came the Paris Hilton article.
Take that windows ease of use. You just lost the porn star market.
Paris Hilton blows off guys while staring into the camera. In other news, Linus Torvalds gets nookie.
ShortFormBlog: Writing a little. Saying a lot.
Paris and tux?
Who'd have thunk that Linux would be promoted by rich filthy whores, instead of filthy rich nerds? Nice one /.
-Runz
startrek.com probably has the most humorous of the AF's gags.
Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
Microsoft was thinking the same thing when they named Ballmer as the CEO? Both girls....love the camera....dumber than a dialtone.... hmmmm
Gimme that booze you little pumpkin pie hair cutted freak!
I briefly misread the phrase 'cheap stunt' and thought it was highly inappropriate for the main page. Accurate, but still inappropriate.
"My pr0n videos don't get filtered so easily to the internet!"
Not that'd be a great cathphrase
with a better headlight.
maybe you should but a NSFW in that post
since it shows pussy and all...
Does this mean the penguin gets a diamond studded SideKick?
This is not here.
Welcome to April 1 on Slashdot, when productivity in IT departments around the country shoots up 500%.
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$tar -xvf
RMS Finally completes GNU HURD. :P
-Cnik
nt
NetCraft confirms, Linux is now dead.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'd hit it.................
with a stick!!!!
Fuck, wrong forum.
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...does Linux really want a person who has been plagued by technology security and privacy issues as an advocate?
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Don't do it!
Her aura of cluelessness +7 will crush our minds into soggy oatmeal.
I have 3 mod points. I should be able to mod the whole day "Redundant".
Do you see what I did there?
Does Paris even know what "Open" means? I don't think that it's what she thinks it means...
Ok, All joking aside, couldn't they have chosen a better looking girl than Paris Hilton for the joke? The girl is ugly!!!! why are people still talk about her so much.
[alk]
... if they use the right advertising method.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
Taco, you should at least correct the spelling mistakes instead of Copy/Pasting the first commentary from the last news.
Ok Next News(now do it yourself):
"GMail turns 1 and aims for Infinity plus 1 mail storage"
Go to gmail.com and see yourself.
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oops, DP
Yes a cheap stunt...and dirty too....she deserves a spanking...*rowr* ;)
Richard Stallman was quick to label the activity a 'cheap stunt'.
I agree with Stinky for once.
I heard RMS committed seppuku after he heard of this. Anybody got a word on that?
I mean jesus, who would have thought slashdot did april fools jokes! You sir, have opened my eyes!
I'm sure having her image attached to Linux would [b]really[/b] improve the image of Linux /sarcasm
Which will display her features on both an animated splashscreen and a virtual pet for your desktop pleasure.
With an special keylogger that transmits directly to the National Enquirer or the tabloid of your choice and is Bluetooth-enabled to do the same for your cellphone or PDA.
Which is reportedly going into beta with the name "Skank" distribution.
Oh, the humanity!!
We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo (Walt Kelly)
"Paris, what do you think of the OSS movement?"
"That's hot."
"Hot...Alright, what about the pengiun mascot, do you think it fits Linux or what are your feelings on that?"
"That's hot."
"Also....hot. OK, let me ask you this, what would you think of dinner with me tonight?"
"That's hot."
"Are you listening at all?"
"That's hot."
I Want To Believe
of course the article is shens, but is it really a bad idea?
RMS called it a cheap stunt!
Not that he wouldn't really say that cause he has to certainly be jealous of all the good looking people in the world.
April fools on slashdot. I feel like I shouldn't even read it today.
Speak for yourself.
If they are going to play an April fools joke on us, they might as well throw in a hot pic of the woman while they are at it. I mean, what's the point of reading a nonsense article if there is no picture to accompany it? :)
I'm the only one who remembers what the day is, and what seems to happen on this wonderful day?
Linux Sex Positions - The Open Source Kama Sutra.
The owls are not what they seem
if Paris Hilton had to be mentioned, then I would have rather done it this way
Or maybe made Mr. Slave the spokesperson instead...
But that's just me.
She's plasticy, she's not pretty, she's dumb as a rock...
Can we choose someone else? There *are* hawt geeky chicks, you know...
do() || do_not();
Here is a top secret beta of the new linux business icon for Slashdot.
SD
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
Linux is hot.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
..but it would be a damn smart move, IMO.
Paris Hilton is, like it or not, a household name. Even her fans know how dumb she is. If they can associate someone that stupid with FOSS, then the stigma of "Linux is only for geeks" would get blown out of the water.
Plus, she WAS the victim of a hacker, and rather publicly so. If they worked the "Linux protects my address book" angle (whether it's factual or not) they'd have a slam dunk.
...when I read the words "Paris Hilton" and "maximum exposure" in the same sentence.
What RMS actually said was "That's a cunning stunt", but he is having therapy for his Spoonerism.
Good choice in music.
The World is Yours.
Does that mean that there will be videos of her having sex shot with a nightvision camera as easter eggs in every distribution going forward?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
So much for giving Linux some added credibility. That girl isnt even pretty. I don't get the attraction.
MadOgre.com
Microsoft make a linux version of office....
:)
At least try a little harder
In other news, 13 days after its feeding tube was removed, BSD died quietly today.
Seriously, I'd complain about all these obviously fake news stories on ./ for April Fool's Day, except it doesn't look much different from any other day.
Long live the Speaker Bracelet
Rolo D. Monkey
For a nano sec I thought: Ohh noooooooo, how to kill linux as quickly as possible....
guess I am a fool indeed...grrrrr
And yet, just like every year, here you are again, publicly announcing your lack of a sense of humor and blathering on about how rediculous and offensive it is for an ultra-conservative, serious news site like Slashdot to take a break one day out of the year and have a little fun with itself and exclaiming your outrage at the blatent insensitivity demonstrated here and how they don't have April Fools in New Guinea and MY GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!
Laugh at yourself a little today. The rest of the world is.
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
Somehow I doubt $$$ Ms Hilton $$ will work for free, this stunt would be anything but cheap.
Using Ms Hilton will be a cunning stunt.
...talk about an april fool.
"Linux? That's hot."
Have a Happy.
I am just waiting for tomorrow, when they post a dup of a phony story.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Which it's good that I remembered. Because if it wasn't and this was real, I would have just started switching to BSD or, god forbid, any other OS.
"'Ms Hilton can definitely advance that objective,' he said. 'She can expose things like nobody else can.'"
All I can say is, "Well put."
Cheap (Linux) and Slutty (Paris) really do go together.. :P
..about the level of respect given the OSDL when I can see people believing this one.
That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn! -NJ CoolBreeze
Hell, Paris ought to rep Windows - they will both go down instantly with almost no provocation or reason at all!
No one is going to fall for that.
Best Slashdot Co
"WHY she is a celebrity is beyond me"
... because everybody uses it.
She's a celebrity because she's a celebrity. It's the same reason everybody uses Windows. Everybody uses it
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
In a bid to corner the ever growing market of OSS desktops, Microsoft has thrown its hat into the market. Today, Steve Ballmer announced "We have come to realize the power of open source. With our desire to provide the Microsoft Experience (tm) to everyone, Microsoft is proud to announce MINIX(tm), the Microsoft Linux." When told the name, Andrew Tanenbaum responded with a loud scream, followed by weeping and mumbling of "No way, it's mine!" Ballmer responded quickly to the accusation that their trademark isn't valid, insisting they own all rights to MINIX. "Hey, just look at SCO. Clearly, we own MINX," he said. MINIX is slated for release in April 2006.
My only question...what the hell is a legue?
Maybe replace the penguin with a camel-toe?
Linux then lose it's big market share because people will afraid it will be insecure or, Linux will become the teenybopper system. Linus Torvalds will commit suicide and the FSF buliding in Cambridge will implode and GNU Hurd becomes the new system of the open source movement.
Either that, or she'll think it's underwear.
In America, you spam computers In Soviet Russia, computers spam you!
uh, Paris Hilton??? What does she have to do with linux? DO they wanna get teeni-boppers on L:inux? Linux is for smart people like us. This is a really dumb move on the part of linus. I can't believe he'd be so stupid!!
You guys slay me, every year. You're as reliable as the swallows coming back home every spring. On April 1 all the nerds speak out, crying that they need their serious articles. Dopes.
You fool April!
boooring..
Nice joke... here's another either really funny, or really scary one...
Seriously though i'd bang Paris Hilton. At the Marriott.
Well I thought Linux was cool but since she is endorsing it, it must not be. Well there's always BSD or OS/2 or even DOS.
Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
So she is going to help us spread.... uhh..the "word" about Linux... hmmm
Why do her knees look so bad? They've got a LOT of milage!
What do the Bermuda Triangle and Paris Hilton have in common?
They've both swallowed a lot of semen
I bet after her next video is over she'll look like a bulldog eating mayonnaise!
Hey, only females and my local city would put a playground right next to the sewer!
Why does Paris find it hard to urinate first thing in the morning?
Have you ever tried spreading a crusty toasted day old grilled cheese sandwich with dried up mayo?
Libertas in infinitum
Thank god this will never happen. Name one thing, beyond Eating Disorder Clinics, that need a spokesperson who looks like the posterchild for a Prisoner of War Camp.
She's already got a Sidekick, dude, which is all a girl needs as far as computers are concerned.
Now everyone will try and hack Linux to get hold of her naughty pictures.
My other sig is crap too
why she was outside waving 'Hi' at the new Google satellite. Must be a promo for Linux. It's all coming together now.
Precisely that.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
On the way to work today, I listened to Uncle Tupelo's cover of "I Wanna Destroy You". Coincidence?
--- The American Way of Life is not a birthright. Hell, it's not even sustainable.
I'm really suprised to learn that you, a miserable unpopular nerd, are unable to comprehend the appeal of a rich, famous and pretty girl! When I need a talent-spotter, I always go first to someone like you, someone with a lot of time spent in cubicles staring at computers.
What marketing genius thought the best spokesperson for Linux would be an idiot?
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
So, when do we get to see a bunch of naked penguins parading around?
I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing a couple of penguins boink, video it, and then _accidentally_ leak it to the internet for publicity. Overall, I think this is a good move. Well, as long as Ms. Hilton's password habits aren't followed.
Let the penguin copulation commence!
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Outdoor gear, MREs, and more!
What a great idea. A woman with open legs for open source.
Okay, I'll get them all out at once:
Gives new meaning to open source!
OSS = Open Source Slut
Of course she's for OSS, I've seen her revealing her soruce on the internet.
Happy April Fools day!
hack a day
Nothing hidden there, the ideal spoksmodel for open source. ;^)
"Can there be a Klein bottle that is an efficient and effective beer pitcher?"
".. the involvement of Paris Hilton as a 'cunning stunt'".
you mean.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
It's the 1st of April. I read the article and it had the characteristic April Fool feel to it. Guess not too many bright sparks on /. these days.
Heh. Here's what she'd say to Bill Gates:
:)
"No, YOU like the cock."
or
"Ewwwwww"
I love this day
I support the Center for Consumer Freedom
Firefox + BugMeNot extension == never having to register
The major criteria was : somebody who has to be really "open" :-D
about Paris:
"New Rule - You can't be famous for NOTHING."
She and her show can go back to wherever she came from.
Hmm... getting a spoiled rich girl who has everything she wants sounds like a better Microsoft spokesperson.
Perhaps she and Bill can do a photo spread in Teen Beat (or Teen People or whatever the kids read now a days)?
but more of a cunning stunt, or something like that
Now we can all be Stupid Spoiled Whores!! :P
Seriously though [vernacular pun not intended], this had better be an April Fools Joke. I gotta go back and RTFA when I'm off this critical problem, but I can't understand why on earth they would pull this stunt.
Unless of course, Ms. Hilton is really as brilliant as no one gives her credit for.
Sorry man... the Internet pooped on me.
... anybody got the video of Paris typing "man mount"?
"Derp de derp."
... to say this but it was my first utterance while reading the headline.
"shit"
wasn't she the one that couldn't figure out how to change the password on her phone?
I have a feeling this is a joke.
Paris always poses with hats and a man's shirt ... and nothing else ... in issues of Vanity Fair.
It's official, Linux is so Hot it's Not.
I'm looking forward to the Victoria's Secret preview of their new Red Hat Lingerie.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
" But working hard at acting stupid in pursuit of a cleverly crafted strategy whose whole purpose is to make oneself a world-famous icon of spoiled stupidity strikes me as pretty clear evidence one is actually stupid in reality."
Anna Nichole Smith.
Ubuntu Horny on her laptop.
Power off before disconnecting connecting connector. Seen on a cash register
Does this mean the new Linux distros will cum with the Paris Hilton video pre-installed?
"No. It's April 1st. It's Slashdot. This has been a regular occurence since the beginning of Slashdot."
Obviously not intelligent commentary.
Who needs dumb blond jokes, when dumb geek jokes will work just as well.
subject says it all.
This is the Slashdot editor's joke on us, not for us. You have a low enough ID to have been here some years, you should have figured this out by now.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
How about a [REGISTRATION REQUIERD] disclaimer???
Can I be a mod, daddy?
Linux, mmm that's hot..
open sores software?
Linux is like,,,hot.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Yeah, there's no way Brendan Fraser could be *nearly* as smart as George or Dudley!
hawk
This is an awesome April Fools Joke.. lol :)
a slut and a whore.
Who in their right mind would recruit a filthy piece of trash such as this woman to promote their product?
I would not ever buy any product that is represented by gabage like this woman..
BAD MOVE.....
He said "maximum exposure". Huh, huh. Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh.
That's league, wid an AY. The airhead is supposed to be Paris Hilton, remember?
"Paris Hilton Linux - Just try and root this box"
"Paris Hilton Linux - Now easier to use!"
This will probably kill linux adoption in my company.
There would be nothing sexier then a naked paris hax0ring on a BitchX terminal... ok well maybe natalie portman covered in hot grits going down on Paris Hilton on BitchX... but one can only dream or finance the project... i got $10 to contribute who's with me?
Plus Side:
Minus side:
the open source community doesn't have the resources to get a celebrity like Paris Hilton to publicize their product. If you work for free, you are not going to have any money for marketing. I guess the open source zealots like being shit on by the higher ups. Linux has real potential if they just ditched the GPL and adopted one of the licenses that allow you to close the source and profit from your work. If you can make money doing something you love it is not a job but more like a hobby. I wish more people understood this. The GPL is good in theory but horrible in practice.
Tick tock, tick tock. I think she's about at 13 to 14 minutes at this point.
Uhm this is a april fools joke you morons
what kind of exposure?
My new blog
You always click off-site from Slashdot at your own peril. Chances are that any given target will probably be work-safe, but there's no guarantee and noone's ever attempted to create such a policy, AFAIK.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
we Just play along with the joke.
My new blog
:)
Had to go there! People say what they want to say about Paris but there are some facts that no one can dispute.
1) Good looking or not, she is fashionable!
2) If you look at her outrageous outfits you will notice that they are being worn by others now.
3) That dog! How many chicks do you see now with teeny dog?
Paris rocks in my book. Not only does she march to her own drum beat, she damn well built her own drum and others want it too!
Q: I am short, useless and provide no value. What am I? A: a sig
And that includes her legs, her mouth and her cellphone address book...
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Paris Hilton? You mean, the girl who is famous for being a celebrity, and vice-versus?
I wouldn't want to have anything to do with Linux even if she showed up dressed (or barely) as a penguin! That girl is the paradigm of uselessness, she's more anti-Linux than Bill-Gates (although she does better videos).
"I don't mind God, it's his fan club I can't stand!" E8
After her cellphone directory got published (perhaps due to a bluejacking, perhaps via cracking her home computer and uploading a sync backup), she might just be a bit more security conscious with respect to information appliances.
She could put together a testimonial about how, after consulting with experts, she's replacing her security flakey cellphone and home computer with something more robust. Then segway into being surprised at how this wonderful new Linux so easy to use that even she can even use it all by herself, though there are all these nice computer geeks that are happy to help her out whenever she has any questions. And how sexy it is that they're so smart...
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
the release of "It's hot ! (TM) Linux" ?
Should we really be surprised after her promotion of Cisco's CCIE certification in storage networking? http://www.routergod.com/parishilton/
Heeyyyyyy! I keeed, I keeed.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Looks like another lame April Fools joke to me!
I'm sorry, I like my black windowmaker setup so much better. I might throw up if someone made my desktop "pink".
Fuck the stereotypes, guys.
...you insensitive clods!
"Paris Hilton has been maimed by the Open Source Development Legue" It almost made sense for a second...
That's actually a great marketing strategy. If Paris Hilton can use Linux - anyone can!
...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed.
... was Paris Hilton's exposure really what they had in mind?
I'm not a nerd. I'm a geek. Nerds make more money.
That's hot...
Please.
Sure beats the BSD Devil Girls.
...that dumb broad doesn't even know what linux is, let alone a computer. (Besides, do we really want a stupid spoiled whore to promote "the Movement"?) I mean if they want to get more people to use Linux, Paris Hilton is not the one to do it.
Who cares about the ozone layer?...thanks to CFC's I can write my name......IN CHEESE!!!
Are you allowed to call Paris a "cheap stunt" on TV?
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The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?
I find it odd that the hotel heirest will publicize Linux. I cannot find anything on linux.org or any other website like Cnet.com about Paris Hilton's new role. I have not seen a press release on Linux.org either.
What are the chances that Paris Hilton will fund a distro? Kind of like what Mark Shuttleworth did with Ubuntu.
The default GUI could be fill with pink and cute stuff that girls like. A distro that focuses on teenage girls.
Mr. Obvious. I never made the connection.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Paris has recently been seen promoting GNOMEs.
It was even on the today show.