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Jamie handed us Satan's Data Connection. You see, sane and rational human being, the
USB logo is actually in the shape of a trident, and the obvious action to Evangelical Christians in Brazil is to ban its use. Hopefully they don't mispronounce SCSI and find themselves lusting after their PCs.
A guy lying down carrying a briefcase and a pizza and... wait, never mind...
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
It doesn't matter, unless the cult has members who are also on the board of the USB-IF.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
He is supposed to be an angel, yet in order to demonize pagans, they pretended that the devil looked like a cross between Pan and Zeus. Let's admit what USB really is, an instrument of paganism. All hail Zeus!
It always looked like the top half of a SciFi skeleton to me. I guess it's time to up my meds again.
But not because of any tridents. Because of too many variants of connectors.
And it can be a pita to implement for some things, teeny embedded ones for example. Not horrible, but just to set up serial port emulation can be fairly non-trivial. Although luckily people have written nice libs for a lot of things by now.
Sent from my PDP-11
The rest of us always called it "scuzzy", and thought Apple Marketing's attempt to rebrand it as "sexy" was just lame.
Bill Stewart
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A trident tested measure of faith.
...that the peace symbol was the Christian cross upside down with the arms broken off! OMG, Satanic message!
I thought that was firewire;
1. it has fire right in the name
2. apple loves it, and the apple was the fobidden fruit in the garden of evil.
3. Who am I kidding, your invisible friend is not real and religious folks really are just practicing magical thinking. In a sane society we would offer them mental help not let religious leaders steal their money and abuse their children.
Really? Jesus was born in the middle east and had blue eyes?
Either way, though, Bluetooth was of course named for a Danish King. While he himself converted to Christianity he certainly ruled over a nontrivial number of non-Christian followers.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
This was going to be a story from the Onion?
Unfortunately, nowhere in the Bible does Satan ever have a trident. But this is Slashdot... sigh let the Christian bashing begin if it must! :(
iLink 1394 Blasphemers!
1394 - 728 = 666
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
They have no problem with runic alphabets?
Make sure you don't install any SATAn drives either!
I wonder what they'd have to say about FireWire
Forks have no place the cathedral, they belong to the bazaar.
The article even says it is unconfirmed "if this turns up on Snopes don't blame me." Even with my sucky karma I expect better of /.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.”
- Abul Ala Al-Maarri
So I only need to whip out a laptop or USB stick to keep the bible thumpers away?
It is news like this that gives evangelical Christians a bad rep. I suppose that these Brazilian Christians were thinking about the "mark of the beast" in the book of Revelation, in which it states that in the Great Tribulation, only those with the mark of the beast can participate in commerce and those who refuse to have the mark of the beast (newly converted Jewish believers) will be persecuted by the society because they can't buy or sell anything. There is nothing in the Scriptures about Satan having a trident thingy or that he is red or anything like that. In fact, it says that he can appear as an angel of light that appears righteous, etc. But nothing about the stereotypical evil look.
Some were yelling one thing, some another. Most of them had no idea what was going on or why they were there. Acts19:32
I seriously doubt they'll behead anyone.......
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
!news
It happens all the time, its what happens people are fanatical, not really sure why this is news, even on slashdot. Giving them attention just furthers their behavior.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
That will give them a shock big enough that they might do us a favour and don't use anything electrical until doomsday.
This is good news!
Just think, if scientology somehow found the keyboard to be a derivative of the devil / whatever-their-evil-avatar-is, the internet would be a much more comforting place also...
But on another note, do these people know that most computers come with the USB symbol next to the port intended for their devil-plugs? I guess there is nothing preventing them from banning most computers!
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Users over there really shouldn't despair, there are usb-to-firewire adapters out there...that way they can send the devilish signal back into the fire-filled hell where it belongs!
We should start a new Slashdot and return control to the geeks. It actually wouldn't be that hard to get some users to
The evangelical cult "Peace Beloved of the Lord" in the interior of Brazil forbids its followers to use any USB technology by contending that it uses a symbol that makes apology to the devil.
According to its founder, the Apostle "Welder Saldanha says that this is just a symbol of Satan, is always present in all Christian homes.
"The symbol of that name (he even likes to pronounce) is a trident, which is used to torture souls go to hell. Use only a symbol of those shows that all users of this technology pífia are actually worshipers of Satan "- explains the " Apostle. "
Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ" .
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Serial ATA, Networked. Put that all together, you have something worse than USB :P
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Because it's symmetrical. Who but the most evil cabal of engineers on earth would design such a connector to be a perfect rectangle? Without looking closely you have a 50/50 chance of getting the correct orientation.
Everything in computing from an RJ45 to IEEE 1397 have a obvious shape you can identify the correct orientation from.
Yes, yes. I know the trident is supposed to go "up" in relation to the trident logo by port on the port. But this varies randomly from one manurfacturer to another, from device to device, and thats those that have the trident logo next to the port at all.
Mini-B USB, popular for small gadgets, thank god, has an identfiable orientation.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
I stabbed a guy in the heart...with a (USB) trident!
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
n/t
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
the number of the beast is 616. The next(or may the recent one?) printing of KJB will have the correct translation.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
This EU symbol is a circle of 12 yellow stars surrounding the country designation, they are adamant this is part of a Roman Catholic conspiracy to take back the world for Satan (the Bishop of Rome, also known as The Pope).
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Only the devils tool could explain the harm IE has caused the world..
you can spell Satan with a keyboards, maybe they should stay the hell off the internet?
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Foreign humor blogs are always a rock solid news source!
http://bobolhando.com.br/bomba-em-sp-culto-evangelico-proibe-uso-de-tecnologias-usb/
It's a joke! For f*** sake!
Here they are talking about the satanist psychologists.
http://bobolhando.com.br/bomba-em-sp-culto-evangelico-ataca-agora-a-psicologia/
I hear it has a lot of daemons.
Firewire is how we will burn USB at the stake?
SOH = 001
STX = 002
U = 125
S = 123
B = 102
BS = 010
U = 125
SUB = 032
US = 037
B = 102
ETX = 003
EOT = 004
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666
I see the connection here!
How evil can you get?
so when it connects is there a devil's handshake involved?
Also, OS X and BSD promote evolution, the devil, as covered by Objective Ministries.
Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ"
Bluetooth is the one using a pagan blind rune as its symbol and they are all excited about using it. Come on, next thing you know you'll see christens celebrating pagan holidays.
It's obviously a double amputee woman carrying a purse.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
From .:
The letter PSI can also be a symbol for:
psychology, psychiatry, and sometimes parapsychology (involving paranormal or relating with the supernatural subjects, especially research into extrasensory perception).
In mathematics, the reciprocal Fibonacci constant.
Water potential in movement of water between plant cells.
In biochemistry, it denotes the rare nucleotide pseudouridilic acid.
Stream function in fluid mechanics defining the curve to which the flow velocity is always tangent.
One of the dihedral angles in the backbones of proteins
The planet Neptune
The Schrödinger equation and throughout quantum mechanics, PSI(x) stands for the wave function
Indiana University (as a superimposed I and U)
Gangster Disciples
A Sai, the name of which is pronounced the same way.
Pharmacology, general pharmacy
In virology the PSI site is a viral packaging signal.
The PSI meson, in particle physics.
In the Computability Theory, PSIP(x)\,\! represents the return value Y\,\! of a program P\,\!.
In the comic Monochrome, Psi is a mentally disturbed character, though her name is usually spelled out.
In the television show Babylon 5, PSI is the symbol of the Psi Corps.
Hey, that's a lot of uses for a trident!
The translation of Saldanha's quote is quite lousy, so here goes a slightly better one, free of charge: "The symbol of you-know-what (he doesn't even like to pronounce its name) is a trident, which is used to torture hell-bound souls. Using such a symbol merely shows that all users of this lame technology are actually satan worshippers". Anyway, this great piece of news apparently came from a Brazilian comedy blog, http://bobolhando.com.br/ (the site's name is itself a joke, combining the words "bobo olhando", which could be translated as "fool looking at"). Regards from the Banana Republik!
"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds" -Feynman
A few years ago was the 50th anniversary of the symbol, and the guy who designed it was being interviewed on BBC radio. He said that the John Birch Society tried to portray it as an anti-Christian symbol, but that was nonsense.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Let's see: the symbol of Christianity is an ancient device of execution and torture.
Seems to me it's pretty clear who is using "the devil's" symbology.
More student projects have been wrecked because the students couldn't get the RS232 interface to work ...
Satan stole his Trident!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
USB is obnoxious. It's like US power plugs. "oh, I'm going to plug this in, crap doesn't fit, gotta turn it around." How hard would it have been to make USB not rectangular so I don't have a 50/50 chance (and what really seems like a 10% chance) of getting it plugged in right the first time?
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Just ask anyone whose systems were infected with Stuxnet - these Brazilian evangelicals are right.
Oh gosh... does a 'lol' satisfy as a response? Perhaps that will be thought to be a devilish symbol too...
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That's it--we have now reached the critical mass of human stupidity. There's just no hope for us any more.
A clever person solves a problem, A wise person avoids it. -Einstein
Dude, you made my day. I've been laughing for 10 minutes! Thanks a bunch!
I smell a tale of utter bullshit. This just sends my bullshit-detector ringing.. cant quite point out why.. Other then the fact.. Nowhere does Satan have a trident.. Polearm perhaps, scythe maybe.. not trident..
Also.. the last comment about bluetooth? naah sounds like the article is a bit of a hoax put out there by someone in the Brazilian media. For reasons unknown.
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CelticKnight
From the cross, to the pentagram, to whatever - there should be no symbol, or anything you worship. This group is a cult and not a mainstream group in anyway shape or form!!! But the only bad guys these days are Christians, attack any other group and your seen as a bigot... Attack or mock Christians and your seen edgy, and hip. Easy to attack a group that is suppose to forgive you!!
Brazil? The same government that allowed mass executions of prisoners..most of which were still awaiting trial. If you are wondering what Im getting at Look up Pavilhão Nove. People who are that superstitious are simple minded and don't deserve the time of day. Good luck keeping up with technology, oh yea, that's right, you are too busy murdering people to pull your head out and see the world for what it is.
Slashdot posts a story with a reference to an article derived from a news article on a Brazilian web site about a Brazilian protestant evangelical cult (notice: each word is deepening the specialization).
In related news: A slashdot user clicks this article so he can read a funny generalization and thus laugh at all religious people because of it.
Append “NCQ” to “SATA” for “SATANCQ.”
Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ".
I was also wondering about the above quote. I don't recall anything in the Bible about Jesus having blue eyes. I kind of always assumed he had brown eyes, since most, though not all, people of Jewish heritage have brown eyes. Is a blue-eyed-Jesus supported Biblically?
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
The article states they are a cult, not Christians. But either way carry on.
Isn't Brazil the country where they have a giant statue of Jesus looking down on a beach full of topless women wearing butt-floss bikini bottoms??
"Slow down, Cowboy! It has been 3 years, 7 months and 26 days since you last successfully posted a comment."
its only one letter away...
Trident = wielded by Neptune (or Poseidon),
Pitchfork (most often with 4 or more tines) = only sometimes wielded by Satan in humorous caricatures
Have gnu, will travel.
I don't care! My data are protected from evil in my cross usb drive!
I meant "I've always called it 'scuzzy'..." of course...
Wait until they get a load of this:
http://i.imgur.com/OYVtq.png
These are the same people that see Jesus and Mary in wood panels, food, or dirt on the ground and consider it a miracle. Now they think the USB symbol is satanic.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad that you have a large group of ignorant, uneducated people with religious beliefs so deep that common sense is overridden. Don't forget that they do exorcisms and routinely kill adults and children because of possessions or other such nonsense.
Ignorance and religious fervor make a dangerous combination.
I'm brazillian. For those who did not read TFA - well... The original site linked by TFA only publish made up funny news.
From the site:
Um site chamado "Bobolhando", não deve ser levado à sério!
Se copiar, credite, ok?
subjective translation:
A site named "Idiotting" should not be taken seriously!
Because he was at the end of the SCSI chain, he self-terminated.
(don't hurt me)
That's right, the country famous for having a huge statue of Jesus and a lot of Christians. The evangelicals thought they could set up a franchise or two and milk them for a bit of cash with Christianity Lite.
...I can kinda understand their sentiment. After all, the computer I just built has me committing idolatry. :3
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
the reason is that some religious people are trying to undermine logic and science in the vain hope that this will bolster both their arguments and their followers. For simplicity, let's say there are two positions here. One relies on evidence and experiment to draw conclusions about the world. The other, in the absence of evidence, relies on faith to believe in an invisible being while simultaneously trying to undermine the ideas of reason, logic and experimentation _in_general_. Who deserves our support? While I agree that religion doesn't make people evil, I do think that the conviction that one has the support of a deity, that one's friends are _good_ and one's enemies _evil_ is a very good way to get people to do terrible things. This is (in my opinion, incontrovertibly) one of the consequences of religious belief in some people, and the reason why I think the world would be better off without religion. In summary, religion encourages one more "them and us" style of thinking. One of my favourite quotes is by Charlotte Bronte: "conventionality is not morality".
So if the Son of God pronounced it "Scuzzy" to Larry, then that mean Larry through it through the marketing department and some "perfume" to make it sexy, like how John the Baptist threw a bunch of dirty hippies into the Jordan River and only one (The Christ Jesus) sprung out of the water into the air smelling sweet in a pair of Pumps that gave him Airtime none-the-likes the gods have ever seen!
Might be the Ol'Spice given him by one of them dark wanderers 31 years before his Quickening.
Like when I had to boil my Mouthguard to wear when I joined flag football. I hear if you boild the Hell out of a keyboard, then it outcasts the evil like a car License Plate from the DMV shields and averts Automobile Collisions into "accidents not done on purpose." That would be cool if any illegal downloading executed from my personal Keyboard could be re-construed as an "accident" rather than offense, but I think I'm sending money to the legislature too often rather than the RIAA/MPAA task forces of NSA's DMCA BATFE(ces).
Reminds me a story of an IT company that installed FreeBSD on a church's server. The priest went mad!
See, the way I see it, is the way it's written in the Christian's bible: "The devil may also quote scripture." So these evangelical fucks are just grandstanding. Give them no attention.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
As I have pointed out elsewhere, IBM's PS/2 mouse port and protocol is obviously the invention of the Devil.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair" fits within the 120 character limit and properly credits the originator.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Poking fun at religion is a good reason in its own right. Mockery is the best response to silliness.
I would agree if religion were just silliness. It isn't. It is horribly damaging. The key teaching of religions is that believing in things that are provably false is a virtue. They call it faith. What's worse is that the more absurd a thing that you can believe in the more virtuous you are. A person who believes that the earth is literally about 7,000 years old has much stronger faith than a person who equivocates and says that Genesis is metaphorical. Faith is the one basic teaching that is at the root of so much suffering. It leads directly to fundamentalism. Fundamentalist Islam is the Taliban, and the intensely repressive regimes in Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. Fundamentalist Judaism believes that despite being largely absent for a thousand or so years they have a right given them by some sky guy to possess to the exclusion of all others a bit of real estate at the East end of the Mediterranean Sea. Christian fundamentalists lead America into unwinnable wars that sap our spirits and drain our treasury. Fundamentalist personality cult is the twisted crap that has lead to decades of starvation and tyranny in North Korea.
Please teach your children this: if you have seen it proven then believe it until you see it dis-proven. Be skeptical about everything else.
-- QED
Did anybody try to inform them how the "devout" Catholics are quite often also anti-EU?
One that hath name thou can not otter
Poking fun at religion is a good reason in its own right. Mockery is the best response to silliness.
I would agree if religion were just silliness. It isn't. It is horribly damaging. The key teaching of religions is that believing in things that are provably false is a virtue. They call it faith. What's worse is that the more absurd a thing that you can believe in the more virtuous you are. A person who believes that the earth is literally about 7,000 years old has much stronger faith than a person who equivocates and says that Genesis is metaphorical. Faith is the one basic teaching that is at the root of so much suffering. It leads directly to fundamentalism. Fundamentalist Islam is the Taliban, and the intensely repressive regimes in Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. Fundamentalist Judaism believes that despite being largely absent for a thousand or so years they have a right given them by some sky guy to possess to the exclusion of all others a bit of real estate at the East end of the Mediterranean Sea. Christian fundamentalists lead America into unwinnable wars that sap our spirits and drain our treasury. Fundamentalist personality cult is the twisted crap that has lead to decades of starvation and tyranny in North Korea. Please teach your children this: if you have seen it proven then believe it until you see it dis-proven. Be skeptical about everything else.
I agree completely. But you treat my offhand comment as if it is the only response we should make. The silliness of religion should be mocked in many situations while at the same time more serious attacks are leveled in more appropriate venues. Sometimes a jeer is a more effective tool than an essay.
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.
that this pitch fork thing was true
Bill Gates was the devil
jesus was an architect previous to his career as an open source developer
all of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
so there was only one thing that I could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
"Religious" and "nuts" are two words that fit perfectly together.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
No Forks Allowed ?
Well to use a cliche, some of my best friends are Christians. But...
As of 2008, 76% of the US population self-identifies as Christian, with about 4% as "other" religions. About 15% self-identifies with None/No religion. The final 5% responded "don't know/refuse" so we'll ignore them.
So what's the make up of the US Congress? Well, it's 86.6% Christian, 12.4% "other" and 0.9% unknown. Pete Sark may be an agnostic, or some such, but had to back peddle and say he is a Unitarian. In short, Christians and Jews are overrepresented in elected government while (openly) non-believers can not get elected.
Many of these representatives belong to powerful Christian organizations which influence not only US law, but also the laws of other nations (see Senator James Inhofe and the draconian anti-gay legislation of Uganda, or the abortion gag rule that every Republican president uses to limit funding of NGOs, etc.). And then there is the ongoing folly about sex education, evolution, and the age of the universe that is a constant (and seemingly losing) battle in US school systems. Plus the uses of leviticus to argue against gay marriage (but not to enforce other "laws", oddly). The adding of "In God We Trust" to coins in the 1860s, making that the national motto in 1956, and changing the pledge to include "one country under God" in 1956. Now used by some as evidence that we were founded as a Christian nation. All in a country with a supposed separation of church and state. And yet many Christians feel persecuted...
As an agnostic, I get really tired of hearing about people "doing God's work" or how "God is their moral compass" and other implications that people with different (or significantly reduced) magical thinking can not be moral or trust worthy. I also get really tired of huge social battles and the restricting of personal freedoms based on taking the Bible "partially literally." I say partially, because if we took it literally we would not be much different from several Middle Eastern countries. Depending on whether one wants to focus on the vengeance or the forgiveness bits (but there is a lot of vengeance...) So while it may not be the most mature response, some people feel inclined to verbally poke back at the apparent insanity of our society.
Some privacy policy Slashdot.
Because if you look carefully you'll notice that the four colored squares leave a greek cross in the middle.
And I'm not pulling the abvious FreeBSD in.
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
But how else would I annoy people like you?
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
USB 3, or USB SuperSpeed or SS for short.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS
The evangelic cult "Paz do Senhor Amado" does not exist. Search Google for it, you'll find nothing but phrases from other religions. It's just a hoax from a website called bobolhando (stupid staring), never intended to be a serious post..
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I know life isn't fair, but why can't it ever be un-fair in MY favor!?
This article points to another article, that is based on a humorous brazilian site, that states in the end of the page "Um site chamado "Bobolhando", não deve ser levado à sério!" that translate directly to: "A site named "A fool looking" shouldnt be taken seriously.
SCSI was _meant_ to be pronounced like "sexy".
hahahahaha!!
Worst than that...
Someone ones, speak about "MAYONNAISE" from a brand called "HELLMANS" mean from "HELL" and im not kidding.
Last night watching one of SEVERAL ROMAN CHURCH SUPPORTED by GOVERNMENT, watcIh a guy called Aquino, speaking " IT's not the BLACK ones do not have soul, like everyone and "THEY" ( they mean any kind of protestant) spread in "LYE" ( Yes, in this channel they say the slavery was not how we know, was more soft). It's they and NATIVE PEOPLES do have an "INNOCENT" SOUL! And give tons of examples.
Other day I was looking another kind of PENTA HIPER MEGA PENTECOSTAL GUY, Speaking the "CREDIT CARD" Are the "BEAST MARK"..
Religion and all kind of RELIGIOUS and RELIGIOSITY: are the cancer of WORLD!
In North America and other places. Some of CRAZY MUSLIMS that have a crazy interpretation of a book kill lot os peoples with attacks.
But ROMAN Christians and modern derivations are worst. What they do in SO CALLED "OCCIDENTAL" world are the most pure EVIL in any meaning we can have.
HEre in Brazil. Watch one hour of ROMAN SUPPORTED but government channels and the derivations ones called from protestantism to hipper ultra pentecostals is EVIL AND MORE EVIL.
They just want money, to build temples and put gold, and more powerful.
Who watch this know why countries Like Brazil and ones under this dominance will never be powerful in globe. Just do BABY's their gods. Same north america. Already start to suffer from this.
So why did they not put the USB connector in the middle, so you don't have to guess all the time to the direction of insertion required and some form of retention mechanism to stop the damn things falling out all the time. Would you believe there is "enterprise-grade" equipment getting around with USB connectors and cabling?
The USB connector is a prime example of stupidity and cost-cutting, winning out over engineering.
It's funny, and although quite possible, it's not true. I't just a brazilian blog hoax.
The author is now celebrating his successful trolling of the guardian on his twitter @Thiago__Caetano.
it is hard to say where this myth originated.
Indeed there seems to be no way to confirm or deny this story which has gone around the world... for a few months now. I'm in the state of Sao Paulo. I did several Google searches to find anything at all about the origin of this story. The city or town is not mentioned, only the name of the pastor. Couldn't find his name anywhere other than news stories - which are everywhere, seems like it makes for good scary shock-content news snippets. Didn't find that name in phone books. Of course it's common for people here to have no website, internet commenters or mentions, or listed phone in their name. And to say off-the-wall, insane things to fools in evangelical churches too. But the name or town for this temple/church/whatever seems to be mentioned nowhere. There is just a somewhat uncommon pastor's name, somewhere in the most populous state in Brazil. I could start searching credit records for the name, but that'll cost me money.
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I suspect, how shall I put this, a group somewhat far afield from mainstream evangelicalism.
and I guess eSATA(n) is out too... wonder what the safe way to attach external storage devices is.
I remember when the same sort of crazies were going around proclaiming UNIX was evil because it was full of daemons and used the secret code "chmod 666" on your files...
Poseiden is dissed once more in favor of a Christian-based mythological creature. Brazil, beware of the Kraken!
Truly- Just say you are an ex-Jehovah Witness, and they'll have to follow their training: which is to shun you!
Shunning someone, means 'to keep away from' that person.
http://www.exjehovahswitness.net/tag/shunning
(David Bowman, EVA near HUGE Monolithic Win-PC in orbit around Jupiter) "My God - its full of Malware!"
you treat my offhand comment as if it is the only response we should make.
Didn't mean it that way, it just seemed like a nice springboard quote to give me a chance to say my fill.
-- QED
boboolhando.com ("Fool Staring") -> Guardian -> Slashdot Doesn't anyone investigate? One of the most important teachings of the Bible is to investigate what one says before believing. Like the people from the church in Bereah. Anyone who believes something without verifying it first isn't being very smart. Christian or not.
Brazilian here.
Except that the whole thing appears to be some guy trolling. Let's get to the facts:
- The site (http://bobolhando.com.br) where the original article in portuguese in published is but a small blog, apparently run by a single individual. I've never heard about it also.
- The "source" cited at the end of the article is a Twitter account
- The Guardian seems to have picked on the story (don't ask me why)
- The owner of that twitter account posted the following, soon after the Guardian article: "Amigos, trollar o Guardian, quem já conseguiu? http://bit.ly/aiVTeW Texto do @Thiago__Caetano no @bobolhando sim." which translates to "Friends, trolling the Guardian, who accomplished that? Text by @Thiago__Caetano at @bobolhando got it." http://twitter.com/#!/ThiagoTG/status/4740146524061696
So it seems that he got to not only troll The Guardian, but Slashdot also.
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Didn't mean it that way, it just seemed like a nice springboard quote to give me a chance to say my fill.
Ah, cool! :)
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.
Have Christians seen the Dodge logo? Or are cars too simple to admit diabolical contamination? Or too sacred?
The original post comes from a humor blog and some news outlets, specially abroad, picked up as real.
Scientia est Potentia
Hmm, I wondered which bastards vandalised my Maserati. I thought it must have been the local chavs, but it seems it was Evangelical Christians all along.
People told me that vanity plate wasn't a good idea.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Was this just a hoax? I feel like it was done as a joke....
Here I was hoping to see some kind of acknowledgement by the USB steering committee that the form factor is broken and a resolution to fix it in future revisions.
Of course I mean this:
If you're going to design a connector that has to all intents and purposes 180 degree rotational symmetry externally, then for Bilbo's sake give it 180 degree rotational symmetry internally too!
Or, more simply:
Since the connector looks like a rectangle from the outside, make it so you can plug it in right-way-up or upside-down and still work. Or key the actual shape of the connector so it's not ambiguous.
For an example of the former take the Mac Book power connectors. Since the pins are arranged palendromically you can plug it in, pull it out, flip it, plug it in again and it still works. An extreme example is round power connectors as found in most PC laptops. These can be rotated at any angle.
An example of the latter - Firewire or IEC connectors, that have clear right and wrong orientations.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife