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Ye Olde World Charm
The Solitaire brings us a link to Datamancer, where Richard R. Nagy shows off his Steampunk Laptop. The attention to detail and the creative style, which includes a copper-plated keyboard and speakers shaped like violin f-holes, make this an impressive case mod. From Datamancer: "This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts."
Although the HP laptop does bring new meaning to the phrase "turnkey system".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Me doth thinkest yonder website has been Slashdotted...eth
Anyone got a light for my sig?
the md5s in the link are slashdot, and goatse.ca respectively. In future, I can provide alternative MD5s to assert myself as the troller. I AM THE TROLL. Ph33r me, because once I get myself a first result on google again, back comes the last measure! I can use snipurls, btnI and even domain redirects. I consistently bookmark my trolling posts, and check back later to review the comments, which are always appreciated, as they help me improve the trolling process.
I have experimented with hex encoding certain terms within the link, but Slashcode seems to correct that. The exploit reaches further than just slashdot, or even google. I have to ensure that the terms I use correspond to content I wish to deliver to the user in the first result of Google. Now we move onto some more advanced Google Gaming.
Stay tuned for more troll posts. To ensure that I am not connected to any of the much lamer trolls on Slashdot, I will include an md5 hash as further obfuscation in the url, but I hold the original string. If you ever need to know if the google link you were looking at is a genuine troll (I Haven't thought up a cool name for myself yet, any ideas?) then you can always check the md5 which I will supply the uncrypted md5.
Happy holidays!
Dear Mr. Troll.
At least you have given a high class description of your eyeball wrenching escapades.
However, Goatse is no longer the cutting edge of Troll Theory. You're much too good for that.
Instead, make yourself a valuable memeber of the community by supplying links related to the story titles. In this case, it would be a "hard hack laptop", which would be a photoshopped image of the Dell Gaming Machine with a Mining Excavator parked on top of it.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
"I read it for the Articles, I swear"
GIGO indeed.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.