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Remote-Controlled Robots Explore 'Lost City'
Roland Piquepaille writes "A large team of oceanographers is again exploring 'Lost City,' an hydrothermal vent field located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, which was discovered in 2000 and named like this because of the myth of Atlantis. But this time, the oceanographers are not on a ship. Most of them are in a room at the University of Washington in Seattle. And according to this article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, they're using high-speed Internet connections to control robotic vehicles exploring the deep Atlantic Ocean thousands of miles away. Thanks to satellites, the remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) Argus and Hercules can transmit videos back to Seattle in real time. After analysis, the scientists can move the ROVs to specific areas of interest without having their feet wet. Read more for other details, references and pictures about this project."
A few hours ago, I learned that I am now (at least in theory) absurdly gay.
I was at my machine, my 386 with 4 megs of RAM running Linux, masturbating to pictures of RMS, when I got an email congratulating me on the success of Slashdot. I was working on my latest small project-- a clever little text parser that takes input from the user and puts it in a little cartoon-style word balloon coming out of-- get this!-- a giant, erect ASCII penis's bulging head! Hahaha! It's called COCKSAY. You can download it here.
"Congratulations? That's interesting," said I to myself. "I didn't think Slashdot was coming out until tomorrow." And I oughtta know; I'm on VA's Board of Directors, recruited by Larry Augustin himself, to be VA Linux's "corporate conscience," and it's public record that I hold a substantial share in the company's semen pool. I tooled on over to Linux Today, chased a link like it was a naked hippy's ass-- and discovered that Rob Malda had taken the fast action we had discussed at the last board meeting. Slashdot had come out first thing that morning with a headline on its own site-- and I had become the figurehead of the Gay Faggot Slashdot Empire while I wasn't looking.
Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, 369 VA employees also disclosed that they had AIDS, leaving me with a bit of the proverbial semen on my face.
You may wonder why I am talking about this in public. The first piece of advice your friends will give you, if it looks like you're about to come out of the closet, is: keep quiet! It's really nobody else's business-- you don't want to look like you're lusting for cock, though you may want to be deluged by an endless succession of men dressed up as Navy sailors demanding blowjobs from you; fat, hairy men (the bears) wanting to fuck you in the ass; and sweet, young, hairless boys offering you the beauty of their youth.
Trouble with the "keep it quiet" theory is that I've always solicited gay male faggot sex in a very public way. When you're already a media figure, like myself, and your name is on the Faggot Manifesto your whole organization chose to use to come out, and email from friends and journalists starts coming in like crazy as the gayness of your empire breaks records even on the first day, playing it coy swiftly ceases to look like a viable option.
But it wouldn't be fair to dissemble. I serve the gay community. I'm wealthy today because my efforts to spread faggotry and venereal diseases on behalf of that community helped infiltrate the business world and earned the trust of a lot of young, naive boys. Fairness to the twinks who made me HIV+ demands that I publicly acknowledge this disease -- and publicly face the question of how it's going to affect my life and what I'll do with the my time being bedridden.
This is a question that a lot of us will be facing as open sores sweep the technology landscape. AIDS follows where HIV leads, and the mainstream gay dance-club world is seeing increasing value in our tribe of scruffy hackers. Red Hat and VA have created a precedent now, with their homosexual recruitment programs designed to reward as many individual faggots as they can identify; future gays aiming for community "backing" and a seat at the high table will have to follow suit. In this and other ways (including, for example, gay porn shops) the cum is going to be shared.
So while there aren't likely to be a lot more multimillion-person orgies like mine, lots of hackers are going to have to evolve assholes to this question for smaller dicks that will nevertheless make a big difference to them; tens or hundreds of thousands of gallons of semen, enough to change your life -- or wreck it.
(Gee. Remember when the big question was "How do we deep-throat this?")
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Hey guys, I'm a 16 yr old caucasian with a solid build and im hot and horny! When im at home im usually completely naked, because i feel that i dont have to wear anything when im at home. its true, my mom will let me! i live on a main rd and ull usually see me washing the car at the front of the house with no clothes on! i get up on the roof of the car and start washing with my anus exposed to the traffic, and sometimes wee on the roof while washing! and one other thing there's a store on the other side of the road, and i quite often go there when we run out of something. the man who runs it is about 19 and we're good friends and he doesn't mind that i go into his store naked. I can remember about a year ago when i had diarrhoea i went over there and i had a bit of an accident in front of him while paying for something. he did clean it up, but more diarrhoea came through my alimentary canal and out my anus as i ran across the road! so all these cars were driving straight through my diarrhoea. And another thing, a couple of months ago i was out at this lookout in front of los angeles. i did have a long white shirt on which went down to my knees, but i took that off and just stood there completely naked, then i did a great big sloppy poo over the railing, so LA could see my poo!
Posted anonymously to preserve my precious karma!
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers".
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money. Visit BlogAds to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at Network Solutions ). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced ( link ) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is roughly, at the time of this writing, $130 USD. Assuming Roland Piquepaille pays for the Clarahost Advanced hosting service, he is out $130 leaving him with a maximum net profit of $650 each month. Keeping your website registered with Network Solutions cost $34.99 per year, or about $3 per month. This leaves Roland Piquepaille with $647 each month. He may pay for additional services related to his online jou
I just ate some fried chicken...
The breasts were juicy, and the buns were soft and warm.
Afterwards, the division manager of Popeyes came up to my table and asked me how the meal was.I said I was satisfied, but the meal lacked a certain je ne sais quoi. He apologized profusely, and said he had something to show me that would make up for it.
He lead me to the back of the popeyes, to a room soaked from floor to ceiling in blood. In the center of it was a live horse, chained by all four legs to the structural supports of the warehouse like room. As I watched, employees of the popeyes cut large sections from the horse, which was whinneying and screaming in horror, the remaining sections of its body covered with festering sores and a froth of sweat.
The popeyes employees took the chunks of horseflesh and sliced them into pieces, then they rooted around through the bags of trash strewn around the room to find discarded chicken bones. They quickly tenderized the meat with sledgehammers and fed it into a machine which formed the horsemeat around the bones, then they breaded and deepfried it.
I asked the division manager why he had led me back to this place, and he pointed at the steed's rump, the diseased asshole puckering rythmically with terror, squirting pus with each convulsion. "We're just about to use that section, would you like a crack at it first?"
I quickly unzipped my pants and wasted no time jamming my erect penis into the stallion's defenseless asshole. With each thrust, I donkey punched the horse in the back of the head, making it clench its ass even tighter. I came just as the horse died. I was delighted. Popeyes definitely went the extra mile to make me a satisfied customer..
There is truth in humor.
Those of you with some mod points left could really help us out by moderating this post either up or down (doesn't matter).
With everyone's cooperation, hopefully we'll have this fixed soon.
Clearly this is a troll. Please mod down.
How do you know it's broke? I guess slasdhot is becoming just a bit too much of a nuisance to the powers that be.
they found homosexual linux penguins by these vents... [ http://www.collegesexadvice.com/gay-sex.shtml ]
READ IT, good laugh... although pretty much unrelated =)
I usually get mod points every second day. I haven't had any for weeks. That would fit with no moderations being done - no one has any points left.
..and the shields are down! Trolls Slash and Burn Entire Topics to the ground!
The sea is a lovely shade of red too, not having the mod system up is like having the structual integrity fields down to 7%
"Cause only the good posts die young, that's what I said.. "
Come to think of it, me neither. I used to get points too, all I can do is metamoderate these days, and the items seem just a bit too 'hand picked', damned if you do, damned if you don't, it's neither right, nor wrong, but both true insightful sentences and completey wrong sentences in a blender, where I simply have to leave it unmodded. If there was a way to highlight portions of a post, mod it up, into a different color, then highlight other portions and mod it down. But then to those reading it would read like nothing coherent, and someone's words could be taken way out of context. There are still people with mod points, However I saw 'spicy' stories that had no moderation at all, then stupid ones full of mods, so something is up. I wonder who dishes out the mod points, and who comes up with the metamod stuff. To just let it randomly generate instead of using it to test somebody, well, there is too much temptation. Market surveys where you pay someone on the phone to dial up someone else, and harass them into expressing an honest opinion, those don't come anywhere close in honesty thus value, compared to what you can do on slashdot, by simply submitting a person something to metamoderate for you. Too much money or marketing survey effort at stake not to abuse such stuff.
While we are at it, I suggest that one can't mod unless he has *all* comments visible - otherwise it's impossible to recover from bad karma... because one's comments are not visible.
I would buy karma from ebay but I'm not sure I can trust the seller.
I'd like to send a probe into her hydrothermal vent.
And if you don't know who Signal 11 is (was), you won't understand why it'd be hilarious if Slashdot were catering to him so much now.
In brief, Signal 11 figured out how to milk Slashdot for karma -- to an extreme extent. As a direct result of his efforts, karma caps were introduced.
Now I think he's back, only this time he's figured out he can go for more than just karma.