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Linus Torvalds To Head Windows 9 Project
An anonymous reader writes "Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and a champion of free and open source software has finally called it a day and has agreed to join Microsoft as the project head of the upcoming Windows 9 project. According to Bloomberg, Linus will be working on a new Kernel design for Microsoft that will make, usually vulnerable, Windows OS virtually impossible to be infected by viruses and malware."
They want their MS criticism and jokes back.
Saw this on the announce newslist the other day. As always, editors get it wrong. Linus is only working on the Windows 9 Mobile division, not the head of the whole project.
UTF-8: There and Back Again
Finally someone at Microsoft made a good desicion
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written BC, Before Coffee
Not using an Ad Blocker? Slashdotter, I expected better from you.
And the fools days is upon us again. Well done slashdot, and happy Birthday to the Royal Canadian Air Force
Ya, but the thing is, I'd actually expect something like this from Linus. He really doesn't give much of a wet snap about software freedom - the GPL was a choice he made based on convenience (there's a pre-made license over there, and ooooh.... look how shiny and legal it looks). To make something like this actually funny, it should have been someone like Bruce Perens or Richard Stallman.
it's not 13 as in the number, it's part of leet speek. You should read it as rotie
rewriting history since 2109
/. doesn't get more page views... The link only toggles the visibility of the decoded version.
This is so fucking lame that I'm not even going to bother refreshing the home page or even posting anything more today. Seriously! /. today, and perhaps even tomorrow. Sheesh.
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I just reloaded the home page and saw the fucking ROT-13 gibberish and I don't even feel like clicking on the link to see what the lame-o April Fool's joke is going to be. If I feel that way as an avid registered slashdotter (who even got mod points for the first time last week, yay?), then how does the average joe/jill feel when they open the home page? This is a moronic april fool's day gag that makes me less interested in reading
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This is tiresome. This is not fun. This is not funny. This is lame. Do you understand this yet, editors? Anyone listening, or are you editors skipping the rest of the day too?
A user getting self-righteous butthurt over stupid April Fool's joke... Slashdot, I expected exactly this.
Thank you for keeping it free for me :D
I'll keep using adblock as I despise advertisements. Another reason I haven't watched TV since the mid-90s. I PAY for cable and I STILL get commercials? WTF MATE^^ IF your product is THAT good, I'll hear about it!
And to borrow from the late BIll Hicks:
IF you are in advertising...KILL YOURSELF! buy a rope, suck a tail pipe, borrow a gun from an NRA buddy and kill yourself.
"That's right...I said it."
Slashdot, for so many years, has done such a SHITTY job of April Fool's day, I like having a big giant indicator that a story is not even worth looking at. When I visit again tomorrow (seriously -- I'm done for the day) I can just scroll and read all the stories down to the point where they're encrypted. Thanks guys!
Seriously, you guys suck balls at 4/1. I'd complain, but what I have to say has been said a million times before, and you're obviously not listening, so why bother. I check in each year to see if you did anything clever* like "OMG PONIES!", then I'm gone until 4/2.
* and yes, "OMG PONIES!" counts as clever around here. Low, low standards.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Because it can get in the way of being genuinely informative, which I've actually found stories on slashdot have been known to do from time to time. And this story notwistanding, which has an outlandish enough title to be suspect of a joke before you even start to read the summary, wasting time reading bogus news when you might not initially realize was an april fool's joke, is... well, just that: a waste of time.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
I have to give kudos to /. for the most original and hilarious April fools prank. Well done! The ROT13 is genious :)
The OMG Ponies' fools day was by far the best 04/01 in /. history. This is not too horrible though.
This post was generated by a Cadre of Uber Monkeys for Monkey-Man2000 (603495).
Yeah. I got that over the weekend. I'm getting fifteen points at a time and on sunday I just found out that posting on a topic unmoderated my mods on that topic article. So then it's a toss-up, do I want to post on an article, or do I want to use my mod points. I've been getting mod points daily (except for one day) for a week, and fifteen points at a time, and I am getting tired of it. It freaks me out having to decide whether to go back to mod older comments so I don't. I've been just modding new stuff for that day as I read it. And since saturday, I've been worrying about modding in topics I'd rather post in. It's annoying having to hold myself back. The example page for mods says "5 points" and using up 15 mods is annoying. I've been modding things up that are interesting. And I've stopped browsing at (-1) even though it's recommended for moderating because of those lame long APK posts. (+ i was lurking for a couple of years before registering) -- self-avowed avid /.er
Wait -- how much of your Internet bill goes to the content providers?
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
I'm boycotting Slashdot for the entire month because of their lame joke. I'm just really sick of how much this place is a joke under regular circumstances but having to endure this crap is too much.
And I'm girlcotting Slashdot for a month. That about covers it.
However, kudos, ChrisMaple, for making me laugh and enjoy some more of today! ;>)