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Quickies for You, Quickies for Me.
VinceV sent us a link
to a new site he's started up called
Control-Escape.com
which aims to be a help site for novice linux users making the
migration from those less known alternative OSs from Redmond.
jedgar wrote in
to announce the Feb. Edition of
DaemonNews and
FreeBSD 'zine, and
Squeezer wrote in to
say that the feb. issue of Ext2
is out. (Mention one, ya gotta mention 9 more. Sheesh *grin*)
Several other folks wrote in to note that The GNOME Project
has released 0.99.5.
Justin Clarke wrote
in to show us
Rioport.com which is
Diamond's new site to connect Rio owners with legal MP3s.
danmil noted
another Slashdot reference in the mainstream- this one is in
a NY times story.
Now we have a few funny bits not for the Moral and Pure:
the_gimp sent us a link
to what is probably the most amusing patent
in recent memory. Glad that's patented. Don't want that technology
uncontrolled.
Somewhat related, behhl sent us
a site that was bound to happen-
AdultLinux.
You can guess what it's for. And lastly, for the strangest
bit of the day,
Hans sent us a link
to Furniture Porn.
Fear. And hide your children.
dammit.. how's the rest of the song go?
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
I love the cybergold patent. Talk about a load of shit. Patenting the technique of paying people to read ads? My god how lame. I am so sick of these stupid fucking patents on the obvious. Pretty soon, if I scratch my ass I'll be infriging on general plumbing's patents no. 1,867,345 and 567,976, as well as several pending ones.
Wouldn't you know it? The furniture porn site is /.ed!
You know, Slashdot has a lot of clout, apparently. Perhaps we should put the Slashdot Effect to some good use. Ideas:
Well, it was a thought, anyway...
I hardly consider a patent with the words "The male sexual stimulator must be plugged into a 115 volt alternating current wall outlet" worthy of a Slashdot posting. Even a quickie. No matter of how sexual you consider the word "quickie" to be.
This patent was already posted some time back.
So, where can i pick up such a device...
It seems to have alot of potential, why type with one hand! Now you can type with both hands while enjoying yourself!
Its spelt "L-I-N-U-X", but pronunced as "Free Beer"
Yeah, no chance even if every /. reader logged in concurrently.
/ mscom3.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/strategy/mscom
I put the HTML tag for the slashdot ads on my startpage (I'm at college; bandwidth flows like milk and honey). When I see a new one, I click on it. In fact, I usually read what the sites are about (though I really don't have any use for 30 different web-hosts).
An unfortunate patent for the examiner - an "Angela D. Sykes". Aren't they meant to check that the device works as claimed? Urrrgh... (shudder)
of course the sites were /.-ed what else would someone expect? >:)
did anyone else get some strange timeouts from adfu.blockstackers.com ?? these kept the pages from loading because all of the images arent declared in size...thank goodness for stop button. wish i had a 'don't load images' button too.
later...
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Wouldn't it just make more sense to find a girlfriend? Spend the $1100 on her. :-)
Mr. Happy is NOT going into anything requiring a ground wire...(that's an earth wire, for those of you who speak real English...)
Brian
moving to the country, gonna eat a lotta peaches
i'm moving to the country, gonna eat me a lotta peaches
peaches come from a can
then were put there by a man
in a factory downtown
if i had my little way
i'd eat peaches every day
sun soaking bulges in the shade (??)
moving to the country, gonna eat a lotta peaches
i'm moving to the country, gonna eat me a lotta peaches
i took a little nap (something something)
squished a rotten peach in my fist
dreamed about you, woman
hold my finger down inside
make a little room for an ant to hide
nature's candy in my hand or can or pie
millions of peaches
peaches for free
millions of peaches
peaches for me
Look out!
All copyright violations contained herein are solely the fault of Steve Wozniak. He made me do it.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
http://www.sybian.com/
The $1350 device ISNT patented....
Anyhow, I just find this highly amusing because all around here (in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area) there are these giant yellow billboards that say something like "COME STARE AT OUR NUDE MODELS". Of course, they are referring to an unfinished furniture store...
"Turkey for me, Turkey for you,
lets eat the turkey in my big brown shoe"
It will be understood by those skilled in the art, that this is not an improvement over traditional means.
Acting from a purely technological interest I checked out that link and found another one to a patent for a device for bending glass. Intrigued by what could possibly be the relevance I checked it out and when I read the description there were a number of relevant euphemisms.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I'm tired of the fat penguin. Where are the girlie pictures? I can't seem to connect to the adult sites listed in the article.
Are these Linux porm sites open source, I mean protected by GPL? Freedom to copy as long as you pass along the right to others to do the same?
yo iMT rules gnome, the united states patent office, porno, and whatever else you threw in there. don't step.
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we stand in life at midnight, we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.
Well I will be damned, just few more inventions like that, and the world will be a better place....or maybe just happier, with silly grin on its face.....new cigarete marketting???....It might have potential....
I still remember MS's Scalability Day a couple of years back. To celebrate this glorious event, Microsoft's web servers took a little nap.
Performance of MS's web servers has improved significantly in the last year or so, but I still have immense difficulty getting useful information from their "Index Server". I can only recommend that people not, on pain of death, use "Index Server" for their own web sites.
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www.microsoft.com is a little bigger than the Terraserver. Also, the terraserver had been announced at a few of the other big internet sites (Wired and/or Yahoo I think). Not that the Terraserver should have crippled, but look at what is behind their main site (www.microsoft.com)
56 Pentium Pro processors
7168 MB of ram
Advertizers monitor conversion rates closely (conversion rate = the ratio of people that click on an ad that actually buy their product or service), and if it drops, they won't be willing to pay as much pr. pageview, or they'll lose interest in Slashdot, while you drive the bandwidth costs for Slashdot up.
So, sure, click away when you see an ad for something you might want to buy but don't just click because you want to help Slashdot make money, because in the long run you'll only hurt them.
Why does the RMS article that appeared on slashdot suddenly vanished from the links page. Censorship on slashdot shouldn't exsist. /02/01/1730200.shtml
The article is still available at: http://slashdot.org/articles/99
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the site got yanked last time it appeared on quickies.
It's amuzing to read RMS's views that'll be the downfall for gnulix forever
Duff beer for me,
Duff beer for you,
I'll have a Duff
You have one too..
anonymous@coward.com
What links page?
Bring it back. Please!
You all know by now that slashdot is heavily censored anyway. What do you expect from a US site?
Free speech? pah!
It depends on your definition of evil.
Both RMS and billy boy gates have extreme views. RMS was total free software where bill wants MS dominant proprietry software.
Neither are evil it's just their views differ and both views are extremem at opposite ends of the scale.
The ideal is somewhere in between (probably closer to the free rather than the proprietry tho). A mix of free and proprietry software with no single company dominating.
and free the pages of ads too. I'm sure if you looked somewhere there'd be someone willing to provide all the bandwidth you need for just a small mention on your page.
These adverts are taking far too long to load up and are slowing the time to load slashdot.
I've seen a lot of articles censored on slashdot. I set my threshold to low to view ALL messages and some strill get deleted. It seay in the 'important stuff' underneath where you submit the comments that by lowerubg your threashold you can read all messages even the moderated ones. Personally I think that's total bullshit as some have been deleted.
I beleive its the moderators who have nothing better to do.
I'd like free beer!
It's Linux for god's sake LINUX!
But you're right RMSes extremist views are doing more harme the good.
RMS is right bilg is wrong.
RMS has to use a few dirty tricks to put people on the right path otherwise bill will become more powerful.
I don't care whether or not slashdot is censored but all I ask of you is to be honest and if there's even a remote chance that some articles will be permanently deleted then it should say so.
Honesty is the best policy!
So you're saying exposing children to porn, bad olanguage and violence is a good thing in effect?
It was 350 times per minute BTW. And no.. I think not. :-) A woman does have the added benefit of being able to be introduced at social gatherings. ;-)
Can't even reload slashdot today for fear of the Intranet censors from work. Glad I checked it from home first. As a matter of fact, it's become less news for nerds, and more of everything that's print to fit. Some people actually use this site to find useful opensource articles to further the use of opensource within the corporate world. It's hard to take the slashdot.ort URL and give it out if this is the barest level of "reporting" you guys can do. When you guys grow up, don't bother to call. Matt
This device was a cover story in the Chicago Reader two years ago. The inventor is a man with a mission. Tragically, the gutless wonder the Reader assigned to write the article couldn't work up the gumption to actually measure the diameter of his organ, thus never actually tried the device. (Should have given one to Howard Stern.)
Personally, I'm not afraid to admit that I'd like to own one. I'm married, and we love each other very much, but the simple truth is that the male sex drive usually exceeds the female, and few people who have been together for nearly 20 years do it every day.
Hell, I'd like to see a serial port of the thing and interface it to my computer! A DVD with a control track. Forget MS "Barnie" and Teddy Ruxpin, I want my TV to control a device that can really do something for me! I want the full "Sensaround Experience" with my copy of "Deep Throat". Chat channels for lovers to stimulate each other from long distances.
Teledildonics, the technology of the future!
Oh sure, the Microsoft home page is -never- slow, and -no one- can ever take it down. Which Microsoft executive's ass did you just climb out of?
It doesnt matter how many processors the thing has, it doesnt matter how much memory or how large the drives are. What matters is the speed and reliability of the software that controls it.
I've seen microsoft.com down a hell of a lot more often than, say, cdrom.com (while it doesnt have nearly the beefcake hardware that MS does, it's not exactly an unpopular site, and it runs some flavor of BSD..)
Dont start yappin' about how rugged MS servers are.. it's not the machine that bogs things down, it's their software. And their software is neurotic at best. It doesnt matter what you have under the hood if the kernel decides to have a nervous breakdown.
Hm. News for nerds?
stuff that matters?
Why does every slashtwat reader scream "CENSORSHIP!" when something goes wrong and an article goes away, or someone else submitted "their" article first, or whatever?
Are slashtwat readers REALLY so paranoid that they think everyone is out to get them every moment of every day of every year?
How long will it be until someone blames Microsoft for the disappearance of the article - not that Microsoft could have possibly had anything to do with it, just that slashtwat readers have to blame everything on Microsoft?
Of course now the slashtwatters will blame me, since I dared to suggest that Microsoft might not be responsible for this, and it might not be censorship - and therefore I've broken with the slashtwat party line, which is of course double plus ungood. Not that I could have edited slashtwat's HTML - not being paranoid about these things is a thoughtcrime!
Or maybe they'll just throw the letters FUD at this post, like slashtwat does with everything that suggests that maybe Linux isn't the solution to all the world's problems.
Get a grip, you fucking idiots. Technical difficulties happen all the time. Especially to slashtwat. Take your censorship/conspiracy theories and shove them up your pasty white 12 year old asses. I'm sick to death of your whining. Grow up and join the fucking real world, will you?
I think that whole site is a joke to make fun of "leet hax0r" punks.
/. in the manner he did.
Of course, there was no point in posting it on
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Posted by HolyMackeralAndy:
/.ing M$ is an excellent idea. Let's get a movement going....
how 'bout the RIAA/Harry Fox Agency. Get back at the bastards for shutting down the International Lyrics Server. And for being a general pain in the ass :-)
It appears that the my adultlinux site has gone down for the time being. There is a mailing list at adultlinux@onelist.com (go to www.onelist.com to subscribe). the site was being run on /. effect in the future please let me know. Thanks,
www.fsn.net's free web space. If anyone knows of a place I can put this site that can withstand the
ckoontz@yahoo.com
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(The AC who you flamed here)
Settle down, beavis. Are you one of those people who absolutely has to flame a certain number of people every day because you just don't feel good about yourself if you don't? Grow up a little.
The only thing I pointed out was that microsoft has a shitload of hardware behind www.microsoft.com, and according to the stats they publish about the number of hits per day that they take, a directed attack from slashdot would not be an extraordinary event, and might even be lost in the background. The slashdot statistics page shows that it took about 435000 hits yesterday. Microsoft claims to recieve ten times that amount every day. And though microsoft.com does go down, it also survives peak rates higher than the slashdot.org server, which is why I was guessing that a slash-attack would have little effect.
Nowhere did I say that microsoft.com did not go down, that their servers were "rugged", or that I would enjoy being one of the admins who sits there and waits for NT to become neurotic. And I certainly understand the fact that if the OS sucks the server will be less than impressive. A little free advice -- you look really stupid flaming someone for words you put in their mouth.
Isn't this the Swedish Suck Machine that Frank Drebin had on order in Police Squad?
ever since i went from gnome .3 to .9 ive noticed that when i click on the little gnome foot my machine takes forever to draw the menus. has anyone else noticed this?
It is the Venus II from the Sybian folks. Same guy, Rick Gellert of Sybian is the Reinhard Gellert in the patent.
BTW, they mention a Venus 2000, newer model at a lower price.
You can buy it at Sexworld in Minneapolis, MN. They are open 24/7 too. They have it in a glass case. I think it was around $1400, but came with a splitter, and several chambers so more than one person could use it at one time. So pick one up, get your buddies over, and play some network Quake with the crakhor model.
It also helps to support slashdot if you actually follow the ads and/or buy something, but it's up to you I guess..
I have my threshold set to -5 and the only comments I've ever seen *deleted* were First Comment posts. I do occasionally see an article scored down to -2, -3, or even -4 so perhaps you should adjust your threshold down a bit further.
It's not "censorship", either, since a lot of people have their thresholds set to -1 or lower by default and they still see them (as can ANYONE if they just adjust their viewing threshold). It's just scoring by the moderators.
Moderators cannot delete comments, by the way. They can only adjust the relative score of posts. If a deletion occurs, it's one of the admins of the site that's doing it.
I just set up a temporary mirror for Furniture Porn. It'll be up until we move the server, but it's best to bookmark the real site.
Actually, now that I think about it, this patent was mentioned in a comment in one of the debates regarding stupid patents.
I usually don't need to do this at SlashDot, though.
Jesus. F. Christ! 350 strokes per minute for that thing?? Even with a tube of lube, you are looking at a seriously sore willy! I'll stick with my girlfriend, thanks...
As I've said before, there are too many people with too much time on their hands (no pun intended). Time for a plague or something....
The really funny thing about this patent is that
it cites a lot more prior art than the typical
software patent...
Pretty cool patent. 350 rpm - hmmm, like a hot bitch on spinach.
Maybe someone could create a webcam type connection, so that two friends could hookup, you know, pressure sensors in one unit drive the motors in the corresponding unit, and vice versa.
But, hey, whadda ya do when the power goes out?