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Hump Day Quickies
Stephen Adler wrote
a follow up to his article on the Slashdot Effect on the
Meta Slashdot Effect.
Its the effect of the article about the effect. I found it funny.
Cheshire Cat sent us a link to
Allcam.com which is a
Yahoo-style page devoted solely to web cams.
James Morris sent us
a link to
Linux Australia which
has another tux logo.
Jeff Hartmann sent us a link
to a cute little
Ice Penguin
from Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival '99.
Surprised someone sobered up long enough to make it. MTU has a great campus though they
need something besides snow cows.
netweasel sent us a link
to an
Apple Ad that you will
like.
Patrik Rådman sent us a
"pootified" version of slashdot.
Adam Muntner sent us
something that we all need:
Virtual Crack
zzg sent us a link
to a bizarre page of cool stuff like
ion guns and plasma pens
(oh my)
[5:42pm] (/tmp): telnet www.allcam.com 80
Trying 128.11.47.42...
Connected to www.allcam.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
Erm, see the header. :) Yeah.
not even a half hour into the posting and already the "pootified" article is /.ed, and the Apple ad is so slooooooowwwwwww.
Looks like Mr. Taco is getting more famous...
From VA Research ad on pg. 9 of March Linux Journal:
"Damn VA Research. I used to have time to get a cup of coffee when I compiled stuff, but this new machine is too fast to allow that."
-Rob Malda
Wired, Linux Journal, huummmmm.. what's next?
The slashdot effect reminds me of Niven's "flash riots"
If you can't be bothered searching through the pages for the tux logo, it's in the
Community->T-Shirt Competition page
i would appreciate your help in stress-testing my company's next-generation server platform. would it be possible to link to our server farm in one of your stories? we are prepared to pay very well for this service.
if you're interested in this offer, you can email me at
bgates@microsoft.com
http://www.linux.org.au/projects/T-Shirt/
You guys have it so easy up there now - women, Toco Bell, a big deck on the DT...not at all like the old days ;-) Too bad they couldn't rebuild the Library to its original glory though.
Michigan Tech: Where the men are men, and the sheep run scared!
Matt (Class of '93)
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
u des/globals.asp, line 691
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Procedure get_cam_for_keyword_count expects parameter @keyword, which
was not supplied.
C:\INETPUB\WWWROOT\ALLCAM_PUBLIC\SEARCH\../incl
This has got to be a troll, but for the clueless, this is traditional Australian Aboriginal style which is many, many thousands of years old.
I seem to remember that Picasso, upon first seeing such a painting, said something to the effect of "This is what I've been looking for all my life".
Anyway, check out http://www.aboriginalart.com.au/ for more clues or do a web search or something.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
;-0
Server: Microsoft-IIS/3.0
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 03:53:03 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:12:07 GMT
Content-Length: 1425
heh
If you don't then people will just stop visiting your site. Do you really want your site blocked by parents concerned about their children?
Isn't that self-fulfilling? I mean, if you block it, you won't be here complaining about it anymore, and Rob can continue to link to whatever the hell he pleases.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, this is *not* a children's site. I'm sick and tired of the reactionists always shouting "Oh please won't SOMEONE think about the children?!" ENOUGH about the freakin children! I grew up with all these "offensive" things you complain about, and I (along with many other people) think I turned out ok.
Got something stuck up your crack?
Sorry, that was incredibly juvenile of me.
However, as a drug veteran (who doesn't really use anymore) I found the site pretty amusing and harmless.
Who's going to start smoking crack because someone emails them a picture of a piece of white marshmallow-looking stuff?
I enjoyed the pootified slashdot. I especially
liked the fact that the links brought up
pootfiied versions of the origiinal links.
The technology is excellent.
But...
A) There are better text transmogifiers.
There are lex sources for valley girl and
redneck somewhere out there. That would
be more fun.
2) What (or who) is poot. Is it poot a poot, or
meerly poot of poot when poot poot poot fans.
c) My god, it is a virus. Shoot me Fox!
-- cary
How many people sent Ralphclark virtual crack after he posted this comment?
I think that Ralphclark was just trolling for crack.
Turn off javascript. Turn off java.
These idiots are conspiring with cretin
Netscape developers to crash your browser.
The tesla coil page is particularly offensive.
Users of M$, lynx, whatever may not neet to
worry.
go to http://melbourne.citysearch.com.au/Melbourne/Weath er/Melbourne_Web_Cam/
you can view all of melbourne, 25 cameras from a 40 story building, best views all around....
Allcam.com is lame, hasnt got it and u cant add to it and it errors out a lot
damn NT
oh damn, I can see it comming a mile away, a rash of first poot's.
When the first 50 degree day comes around in the spring, we always wondered where all those lookers behind Wads came from :-) They are there...somewhere.
;-)
I'm not sure if you remember it, but the Library (yes, I meant the bar) burned down about 4 (?) years ago. When they rebuilt it, they couldn't put the second floor back in due to building code restrictions. We used to go to the upstairs bar almost every night to listen to Gary T. or the MTU jazz combo and kill a pitcher of Bells. Of course, we lived right across the street in Gazette Apts., so it was easy for us to get lots of "studying" in
Memories...
Matt
Just for clairification:
Not all MTU students are drunks.
anonymous alumni '93
Amazing1.com is *very* funny:
SCENARIO A - You pray to God to place a gun or other protective device within your reach. God does not answer. The intruder now is breaking down the only barrier between him and your family - the bedroom door. The children are screaming, your wife sobbing. You have let them down by listening to the media and the do righters. You have no defense, they now will pay the ultimate price for your ignorance and gullibility.
The funeral is unbearable. In your sadness you become angry and ask yourself WHY? Why did the Kennedy?s, the Schumers and other anti gun whackos have the right to deny your family the right to life? You soon realize that these same people live in secure protected compounds, some with armed guards and high tech security equipment. What right did they have in denying you a viable means of self defense?
Since when are 'whacko' militia folk so enterprising?
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Your honor is perfectly understandishable.
"Linking to that virtualcrack page was incredibly stupid and irresponsible. Do you really think it's funny? [...] Making jokes about it only helps to make it seem more acceptable to those who haven't wised up about hard drugs yet."
... maybe I spoke too soon.
I think slashdot's readership is just a little more mature than that. Of course, after seeing this post
Oh no.
Posted by Julian Cross:
Heh, I like this. I have been hubbified.
Posted by Assmodeus:
/. is becoming more and more prevalent... i know its not my connection, but any url i try to visit is like 30 bps... it sucks...
ARGH!!!!! the
Or maybe it's because, if it weren't for the U.S. War On Drugs that hasn't benefitted anyone except the DEA and law enforcement (thanks to the wonderful world of "asset forfeiture"), not to mention the companies that make the black helicopters that we send to Latin America, the U.S. wouldn't have a problem with crack today. The absurdity of a world where something like crack not only exists, but flourishes (in the inner cities at least), bespeaks of an absurdity one usually only sees in Camus novels, not in real life.
So chill out, take a virtual toke, and try not to get all hot and bothered when someone exercises their First Amendment rights in a relatively harmless (and humorous) way.
-Jake
--
Jake
Bad Australians! Bad bad bad!!
--
"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao
Of course, now there will have to be a paper on the meta-meta-slashdot effect, showing both requests to the original slashdot paper due to the meta-slashdot paper, and also showing the hits to the meta-slashdot paper itself.
That could get pretty tiresome after a while. Maybe he'll try to see how long it takes for the recursion to stop, and for people to lose interest in reading papers on meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-slashdotting.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
From the Meta-SlashDot Effect article:
There is a second resurgence, on a much smaller scale, two day's later which peaks at about 9:30am, with an abrupt fall off and then a re-resurgence around 6pm that day. This is seen in Figure 4. plot. The author scanned the various Linux news web pages for posting of the
I would bet that this is the explanation of the mystery spike: when a story falls off the bottom of the main page, it appears at the top of the "Older Stuff" sidebar, where it can be seen by people who had missed it previously, exposing it to a new wave of hits.
I know the first thing I do when I load
David Gould
David Gould
main(i){putchar(340056100>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<6)<< 6)&&main(++i);}
Ask Swashdot and Qwick Winks!
I can't get to the poot server. What the heck is a poot, anyways?
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
>Crack cocaine is an extremely addictive drug which destroys people's lives
so does alcohol, but drunkeness jokes are still damned funny! Besides, who has died from *virtual* crack recently?
>Do you really want your site blocked by parents concerned about their children?
Maybe, that would stop the 14-year-old AC posts
>I think you ought to offer an apology.
I think you ought to get a life, and if you don't like crack, don't smoke it. Its that fscking simple
0 1 - just my two bits
Hmmm, a nice place to shop. I particularly recommend the books on Anti-Gravity by Capt Bruce Cathie (Ret) from NZ. Very very informative stuff.
Where I grew up (SE United States) 'poot' is a euphemism for flatus, especially when expressed by a lady or child.
As the saying goes, "Men fart; ladies poot."
I can see the fnords!
let the man run his site.. sheesh. You dont like virtual crack, you don't visit virtualcrack.com
As for parents wishing to ban their kids from sites, I'd say thats a bunch of BS. Parents, Filters, nor software programs will EVER stop an intelligent teenager from visiting anything.
Admit it, CmdrTaco... you just wanted to put the word "hump" on the front page. :P
Linking to that virtualcrack page was incredibly stupid and irresponsible. Do you really think it's funny? I wouldn't have complained about a joke referring to cannabis, but Crack cocaine is an extremely addictive drug which destroys people's lives. There is _nothing_ funny about it. Making jokes about it only helps to make it seem more acceptable to those who haven't wised up about hard drugs yet.
As a publisher, you have a responsibility to draw a line between what is funny and what is just plain offensive. If you don't then people will just stop visiting your site. Do you really want your site blocked by parents concerned about their children?
I think you ought to offer an apology.
Ah...you're all just a bunch of crack heads. Maybe they should rename this site to crackdot.
LOL!!!
Anyway I thought offensive comments were supposed to be moderated. So much for that.
I'm still laughing at your reponses BTW. Fuck you too!
Hey..not every site on the Web *needs* to be child-safe. Geesh...how boring would that be. Oh and while I'm at it...not every damn restaurant needs to be child-friendly, not every TV show, not every song lyric and not every movie. Damn!
It's quite pathetic to see parents so insecure in their own ability to raise kids that they fear a 4 day crack binge by little Johnie or Sally at the mere mention of the word....."crack".
Well....
CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK and double CRACK!!! Hey kids, I'm smokin crack here! It's fun!
Ha!
No he doesn't, don't be absurd. He can choose to do so, but he's certainly not obligated to. Offensive is a subjective term.
I can personally say that not all the girls here are snow cows, there's also the ugly catagory. So when there are only 50 or so good looking women on campus to the few thousand guys that go here..not counting the ones with boyfriends from downstate or elsewhere...it doesn't give anyone a very good change of getting one. And I know I'm exaggerating a little...I'd say there's about 100 or so good looking women not 50.
-Jeff
The Ice Penguin at MTU looks a little 'wide' (not fat like he should be, heh), but then again, it's snow/ice, and from my experiences with MTU, I really doubt the person(s) making that were totally 'there' when they were doing it :) Still looks good though, kudos to them.
:)
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I got railroaded out of there after 2 write-ups
in one year. One thing that Dean of Students
Martha Y. Janners and Asst. Dean Tyrell used
against me were postings I had made more than a
year previous to mtu.flame. She was telling me
that I was an angry student and needed counseling.
Totally clueless staff.
I hate that school. Advice to prospective
transfer students and seniors in High School:
Dont go there. The Library sux hardcore, they
blow money on stupid s--- like a whole new
building for Fine Arts (at Michigan Tech! while
the CS department, Physics Dept, and Math Dept
take up 1 floor each on one of the smallest
buildings on campus). Its cold snowy and they're
transfering to semesters which will screw up
all the students currently going there.
-Moose/Zebulun
I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going.
What a warm fuzzy feeling it is to see MTU mentioned on Slashdot & to see responses too :)
As far as the ratio went, it wasn't MSU, but my friends & I all seemed to do alright. If you consider 4:1 is a population ratio, you actually have a near 1:1 ratio once you take out the social misfits. (Not to dis on them, they're part of tech's charm)
-TF (Class of '92)
Hey! I go to MTU, and I'd just like to make it known, yes, we don't have many women up here, but there's been an explosion this year, we have, I think, 1 women for every 50 guys! That's AMAZING!!! :-)
:-) Oh well, I guess I'm supposed to be here for the education anyway. :-)
Actually it's a better ratio than that, but we're still not like most universities...
--Jason
The server which hosts the article on meta slashdot effect is not responding.
Intentional humor?
Back to toking on my virual glass dick...
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
Jason Dufair
"Those who know don't have the words to tell
and the ones with the words don't know too w
In all fairness, to make things easier for people
I just added the "Australian Tux" link at the top of the page - its not usually there.
Ok. This one is just to ridiculous not to respond to. I am a female of the MTU population and am under 110 pounds! A snow cow...me? I hope that not what I'm refered to. I know that there is a higher amount of overweight beer loving women here than downstate but to generalize us ALL as snow cows is just an ignorant, naive statement. It makes me wonder just what kind of beer goggles you're wearing Jason! We have a big pond to choose from and it's that kind of egotistical outlook that excludes you from it. You better take off those beer goggles and take a better look around.
Glad you liked it! The technology is actually pretty simple - I've written a perl module (WebMunger.pm) which is subclassed from HTML::Parser, which can be used to do web transformations like that. I haven't yet uploaded it to CPAN, though. If you want a copy, let me know (dlowe@pootpoot.com) and I'll mail it to ya. That goes for anyone.
Enjoy!