I thought it was spelled Ohyouboreus. Compelling "story".
Re:Wow
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Wikipedia claims it's ok to spell it this way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros "tail-devouring snake", also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus
Listen people! There is a very good reason this is on the/. main page, since this is a tech website, it is meant to spark conversation and be meaningful in a technology kind of way. Don't you see the reference to cold fusion?! That's why the 10 word story is such a short story, the picture alone has left us with many insights into the ability to create infinite energy.
-- Disclaimer: I am not god.
We may not be created equal
But we can be treated equal.
Wikipedia has an entry even for "Nucular". Right now it says that "some recognize it because of its increased usage", give it a little and it will say it is a fine spelling. The fact is that the greek "omicron upsilon" is translated as either "ou" or "u", so while Uroboros is fine, "Oroborus" is an obvious misspelling that probably originated from the fact that the "us" is a common latin suffix, while this particular word seems to have been originated directly from Greek and not gone through the not uncommon Greek->Latin->English route. In any case we should not be promoting misspellings and getting them to be accepted in the end. Now that said, most/. geeks do not care about linguistic analysis. So it is enough to say that "Ouroboros" is the official spelling of the Red Dwarf episode and that's it. Any other spelling is obviously rubbish.
Listen people! There is a very good reason this is on the/. main page, since this is a tech website, it is meant to spark conversation and be meaningful in a technology kind of way.
I swear to Superman, I actually thought about the symbolic meaning of the ouroboros as it relates to the theory of the ultimate universal collapse (as opposed to infinite expansion or a cyclical growth and contraction) while this thread was loading.
Little did I know that I'd already moved beyond the scope of the article before I even had a chance not to read it.
I don't really get the idleispants thing. I mean, I think I understand the sentiment, but it is a very . . . non-US way of expressing it.
It just seems that nearly all the posts I see on Slashdot are in some approximation of US English. Are there a bunch of Britons hanging around Slashdot just tagging stories? If so, are they the assholes who insist on tagging every story, "story"?
We like to think if as birth-barfing. The really nasty part is when it gets near the end... Ever drag your own anus down the length of your tongue? It's not pleasant.
Yours truly, Self-Birthing Snake
-- "Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
You aren't Digg. Stop trying to be. You are better than that. Slashdot does not need colour-coded, user-rated stories that you 'digg up' and 'bury' and, above all, does not need single image 'stories' for people to LOL over. Have some dignity.
You are apparently not from America. Everyone knows that shows with dignity are for old people and get no buzz or advertising. It's shock and wow, people! Now lets get half-naked celebrities eating their feet!
Most likely it would regurgitate itself before it has digested enough to mortally wound itself.
-- Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
fire samzepus now
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Lord+Byron+II
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my subject says all - this is simply unacceptable
Hogwash McFly
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Stop taking yourself and the site so fucking seriously. Slashdot has repeatedly proved it should not be taken seriously with the inane and immature posts that regularly flood threads. Like the death of Majel Roddenberry for instance, where there was a flood of inappropriare posts. This is the respectable, serious, dignified Website you were talking about?
Lighten up. This section is called "Idle" and not on the main page for a reason.
Typical nerd, no personality, no sense of humor, thinks he is oh so important. Go play with Linux or something, Mr. Important.
Amen brother. Go tell it on the mountain, and to all the basement dwelling "got root?" wearing blow up dating people out there who can't take a non-technical story as a joke.
IT WAS FUNNY PEOPLE. Mission accomplished. Holy hell.
samzenpus, you're on notice.
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Another "story" that's as lame as this and you're going on my ignore list. I haven't put an author on my/. ignore list since Jon Katz (although Zonk has come close a few times).
The only reason I haven't done it already is that your shotgun approach to posting random stories means that sometimes you post interesting ones, too, but that will be an acceptable loss if that's what I have to do to avoid crap like this.
-- Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
You haven't seen one realize it isn't big enough to eat a whole baby zebra yet. Comes out all slimy.
The more interesting version is two (or more) snakes eating each other. When do they decide to give up, or do they? Will the one who doesn't die first stop before he engulfs the first's head?
-- Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Slashdot Mirror
Not only is this handily the worst Slashdot "story" I've ever seen, but it's spelled "Ouroboros".
-Peter
Perhaps now Idle should be renamed Weird, or Strange. :P
Julie Moult is an idiot.
nom nom nom oh noes nom nom hai i haz a flavorz
Talk about leaving a shitty taste in your mouth...
our rob o ros. //read from a box found under a grav-pool table.
do you perhaps mean:
ouroboros?
oroboros is a window manager.
This is who we are.
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
I'm intrigued. How will this concept scale?
My coworker points out that this idea doesn't have any legs to stand on.
Oh - my boss said that this bites.
Just because I doubt myself does not mean I find your position compelling.
Amazing. I never knew that a snake could come into existence by crawling out of its own mouth.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
You aren't Digg. Stop trying to be. You are better than that. Slashdot does not need colour-coded, user-rated stories that you 'digg up' and 'bury' and, above all, does not need single image 'stories' for people to LOL over. Have some dignity.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
How long can it keep on devouring itself?
Most likely it would regurgitate itself before it has digested enough to mortally wound itself.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
my subject says all - this is simply unacceptable
Stop taking yourself and the site so fucking seriously. Slashdot has repeatedly proved it should not be taken seriously with the inane and immature posts that regularly flood threads. Like the death of Majel Roddenberry for instance, where there was a flood of inappropriare posts. This is the respectable, serious, dignified Website you were talking about?
Lighten up. This section is called "Idle" and not on the main page for a reason.
Typical nerd, no personality, no sense of humor, thinks he is oh so important. Go play with Linux or something, Mr. Important.
Another "story" that's as lame as this and you're going on my ignore list. I haven't put an author on my /. ignore list since Jon Katz (although Zonk has come close a few times).
The only reason I haven't done it already is that your shotgun approach to posting random stories means that sometimes you post interesting ones, too, but that will be an acceptable loss if that's what I have to do to avoid crap like this.
Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
This happens in a Tintin book, and result in the same image.
I see this as a metaphor for technological man.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
Look its a Democrat!
---- Booth was a patriot ----
snakes don't have an asshole to begin with, so they poop through their mouth.
Wrong. And that's what taking acid during your biology classes leads to...
Non-Linux Penguins ?
He has some valid points.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
What, somebody already thought of that? Damn.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Ugly chemistry class flashback I guess.
You haven't seen one realize it isn't big enough to eat a whole baby zebra yet. Comes out all slimy.
The more interesting version is two (or more) snakes eating each other. When do they decide to give up, or do they? Will the one who doesn't die first stop before he engulfs the first's head?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?