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V'Ger Source Code Released
One of the biggest hurdles to interstellar domination has always been the prohibitive cost of proprietary software for ships or super-weapons. That is all about to change thanks to a surprise move by a mysterious alien race of living machines who have released V'ger's source code. While you'll still need a way to generate a "twelfth-power energy field," this opens the door to many would-be conquerors and ultimate weapon enthusiasts. The release has been praised in terms of increased security and reduced costs by most, but some worry that cheaper, more secure super weapons aren't what the universe needs at this time. Federation spokesperson Lieutenant Ilia disagrees saying: "This is in the carbon units best interest. Many worlds have been infested, You will listen to me."
It almost felt like they skipped it in the beginning.
Stop already. In the UK the joke doesn't count if it's after mid-day anyway.
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "we have a protractor"
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Table-ized A.I.
stupid me, i clicked on the /. bookmark.. bad habit, i should quit that and pick up smoking, drinking, snorting coke, and having loads of unprotected sex instead....
i cannot wait until tomorrow.
...if there's an actual tech new story on April 1? Does /. just refuse to cover it?
I dropped Slashdot from my feed. A few headlines are fine but this is ridiculous. Slashdot is worthless ...
I'll take this crap all day every day over one more SJW/feminist public service announcement.
and it only took 20 red shirts
I speak for VGER. I AM HAWT.
They know better than to mess with Earth because we have the solaranite bomb.
Some kid in Iowa was able to get a complete dump of it by sending it some binary string via radio. It wasn't even encrypted. What a joke.
Since the party poopers are so loud today, I for one am enjoying the break from the norm.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
Yeah, the pink ponies would have been better. I'll be SO glad when it's over.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Slashdot becomes unreadable on the 1st of April.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you V'Ger fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a V'ger (a 8600/300 w/64 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Vorlon Pro 200 running MinbariOS 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this V'ger, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various V'Gers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a V'Ger that has run faster than its Vorlon counterpart, despite the V'Ger's faster chip architecture. My Narn G'Lan/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the V'Ger is a superior machine.
V'Ger addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a V'Ger over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Yeah these April Fool's headlines on Slashdot aren't fooling anyone: "V'Ger Source Code released," "Coup in Arakkis," "Pastor Mocked for Biblical Money Code.." Nonsense.
V-GINY is superior!
Get free satoshi (Bitcoin) and Dogecoins
Jesus Fucking Christ make it stop!
I'll do my penance. I'll convert every PC in my household to Linux. I'll only spell it "Micro$oft". I'll grow a Stallman-esque beard.
None of the others come close.
And now we'll hear all the complaints about how people can't use V'ger code for commercial use because it's GPLed.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
All you peole who don't like the April Fools Day articles.. Why don't you just take a break from Slashdot for the day? Those of us who think they're funny and are enjoying them think you're all a bunch of complainers.... Take a days vacation for heavens sake.. The less funny Slashdot that you seem to prefer will be here for you tommorrow...
Geez..
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Technically, V'Ger was just a wrapper around NASA's Voyager Spacecraft. While not particularly useful for galactic domination, on any other day of the year it would actually be interesting if NASA Open-Sourced the original Voyager Spacecraft Flight Software. As the first spacecraft to leave our solar system, the source code would be an interesting set of historical documents worth preserving (and perhaps for illustrating to new students what code optimization really looks like).
but the First Rule is harm no carbon-based life forms.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
a 5th grade creative writing class? This isn't even bush league satire / sarcasm.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Laugh while you can monkey boy!
-- john bigbooty
And I know I could probably run a simulator on a raspberry pi, but looking at V'Ger's availability as Freed open source software, I feel it's appropriate to say:
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.