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Return of the Quickies
Finally home long enough to compile some quickies.
option8 sent us the
MacCrate which probably isn't up to code. Course neither is this one (thanks pkr) Speaking of cases, Deega sent us a site where you can get air brushed cases.
rafa noted that Propaganda Volume 12 is out.
UM_Maverick has started YALS called Linuxtopia.com
pq wrote in with a picture that proves that a spell checker is probably a good idea.
RoLlEr_CoAsTeR found something on Brunching Shuttlecocks which lets you combine Advertising and Perl: its actually extremely clever.
Speaking of perl,
ThePixel noted Perl Toys, which I think we mentioned a year or so ago, but with Christmas coming up, it probably is worth checking out again. Especially if you want magnetic poetry.
Speaking of stuff to buy, JbirdUAH noted that
Copyleft has Slashdot frisbees!
Just in time for Winter!
jhopson sent us a
retelling of beowulf starring people you know.
Lexie (who should really ask CowboyNeal out) sent us Eunuch which I'm not gonna explain, but its definitely wierd.
motardo noted that Dalnet is for sale on eBay.
Ant noted that Google seems to have an interesting result if you search for 'More evil than satan himself'. Speaking of evil,
jsfetzik sent us Sinux the Linux for sinners.
And how about
Captain Zion's link to FsckU-FsckMe(tm) which is not for children, but is pretty amusing. Maybe you'll find auto.pron.org a little more wholesome.
Finally, jetpack pointed us to Forum2000, which I'd never seen before, but am glad I did. It was mentioned in a comment awhile ago, and then we were assimilated. Super wierd.
*perk* all 0 shares of it?
A server in a pizza box? I think I still have a pizza box under the seat in my car...an MP3 stereo maybe?
There is no link. I assume it's like the Crate guitar amplifier that literally is (was?) a wooden crate.
Pretty cool, I guess.
Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und Subskriptionen einlei
whats regulatory issues of selling shares on ebay if i can just sell a company regardles???
-- your knees hurt, don't they?
"good" works equally well as "evil", but bad does not, and you can't leave out the word .
...day after day, love turns gray, like the skin on a dying man...
"good" works equally well as "evil", but bad does not, and you can't leave out the word <evil,good>.
It's got to be one of the better hoaxes I've seen, if they'd had a spot for a credit card number wouldn't have been sure.
That "fuck you, fuck-me" device has an eject button? Don't even wanna know ;-)
Blessed are the pessimists, for they have made backups.
Yeah, the real shocker is that somebody would actually buy it. . . *rimshot*
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I think it's because of the way that Google finds winning sites. I'm sure someone can explain it better but, it's based on the theory that if enought sites link to another site it becomes an authority. If enough people a link to MS's page with the More Evil than Satan Himself near by MS becomes the authority on being more evil than Satan himself.
I ordered one of these a few weeks ago. My partner and I absolutely love it. But what we would really like to see is a support for 3 or more users simulataneously, so that we can virtually recreate those awesome threesomes.
FUFME, are you listening?
Wonderful! the quickies are back! To satisfy my quickie needs, i would go back to the previous quickies, and look at those. (Yes, i have no life). Thankyou Cmdr Taco, this is just what I needed. (Now keep 'em comming)
-Tim
Is fufme real or not?!? I wouldn't think so, but is seems so serious! To the sites creators: If it's real: you guys are wacked. If it's fake: you guys rock.
Is Forum2000 real?
I don't think it is - I saw one question where the guy had made a spelling mistake (he left off a letter on the last word of his question) and the system filled it in in the replies. Could be a spell checker, but a human replying would skip a mistake like that and maybe not see it at all. I'd expect a computer to misunderstand it..
Not only is Dalnet for sale on EBay, it's been sold, for the price of $10,000,000. Youch!
e m&item=171769565
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Could anyone tell us about the circumstances surrounding the sale? Will Dalnet remain the same under its new ownership?
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Try: more evil than satan
or: evil more satan
Disney comes up 3rd and 2nd on those searches respectively... perhaps the web knows something everyone else doesn't....
CmdrTaco, I am convinced that you are deliberately trying to make spelling-sensitive guys like me blow a gasket and die.
I noticed that the Pizza box people are offering a simplified distro which works sort of like those click-on auto-setup file servers. They also offer it on a compact-flash ROM.
.... *CRUNCH*)
This is pretty cool, but they offer the distro for download, WITH AN ACTIVATION CODE! The distro won't work without the code which can only be got by registration!
Isn't this a violation of the GPL, since they impose a condition for availability of GPL code?
Shouldn't someone (GENTLY) point this out to them before some asshole goes on a GPL-jihad and blows them out the water?
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
i'm pretty sure i can say just about anything here without being offtopic now.... so, how bout thta local sports team... eh?
F2K wants "full" questions with lots of circumstantial detail, rather than simple one-liners. Not feeling very prosy tonight, I just quoted the most recent Ask Slashdot query over. In a day or two we can see how their panel of philosophers' answers measure up to our own panel of experts.
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It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Like an easter egg?
My favorite was in MS Word 97... in the spell checker. If you typed in "zzzz," it would mark it as a wrong spelling, and suggest "sex" as a replacement.
All executive duties have been subsumed by a Chicago-area 7-year old.
Google has a ranking system which is based on the way that the net is linked. It brings up matches, and sorts them according to its ranking.
A lot of pages (good and bad) link to Microsoft's home page. Therefore that page has a high rating. So if it matches enough words in your query to be a match, it will be one of the first ones.
Always.
Now if they could just get past those duplicate pages. OK, so issue foo of The Linux Gazette matched the query. OK, everyone and his dog mirrored it. OK, I looked at it. Now can I please look at what comes next..?
*sigh*
Ben
My usual seat in the cluetrain is at A HREF="http://pub4.ezboard.com/biwethey.ht
I've been wondering about this for a long time. As beer has a somewhat hi gas content, wouldn't it aid in heat dispersion? You could use a similer design as many of the water systems out there and perhaps see improved performance. Of course i'd hate to waste my precious beer on a failed project ;)
FYI, here's something interesting:
% nslookup forum2000.org
Server: xxxxxxx
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: forum2000.org
Address: 128.2.189.30
% nslookup 128.2.189.30
Server: xxxxxxx
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Name: FRONT-END.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU
Address: 128.2.189.30
% finger @front-end.pdl.cs.cmu.edu
[front-end.pdl.cs.cmu.edu]
Login Name Tty Idle Login Where
kosak Corey Kosak p3 13 Oct 22 21:58 ADONIS.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU
kosak Corey Kosak p6 14 Oct 22 22:17 ADONIS.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU
So looks like Kosak was monitoring the threads -- he wasn't idle when the posts disappeared.
I get the feeling that the less intelligent (and less humorous) posts are generated by the machines, while humans handle the others (e.g. the Slashdot posts and many done by the "Crack Baby" or whatever).
...because none of the philosophers ever come back with "First Post!"
/. had been mentioned in another query, so it's just possibly genuine if, for example, the machines stay "activated" for all the recent threads, rather than just the current one.)
> I get the feeling that the less intelligent (and less humorous) posts are generated by the machines, while humans handle the others (e.g. the Slashdot posts and many done by the "Crack Baby" or whatever).
I'm inclined to agree. There was a response telling all the Slashdotters to get lost, in a context where a machine probably wouldn't have a clue that it was being slashdotted. (OTOH,
In general, what they're trying (pretending?) to do is not that far from what lots of other researchers are trying to do in NLP and text data digestion right now, so it may be for real after all. But my best guess is that it's a combination of "for real" and responses generated by slave^H^H^H^H^Hstudent labor.
Possibly they are primarily interested in collecting the questions. I've participated in research meetings where we seriously aired the idea of setting up a "for entertainment" web app for the ulterior motive of capturing subtle types of NL data. Surely we weren't the only ones to think of it.
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It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Still funny, though.
...phil
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
I still remember the 1st time when I realized the difference between the female and male plugs. The implications of the term, gender changer, has obviously not been realized by some ppl.:-)
I'm not a prude, but I like subtle stuff. The male/female RS-232 plug is still the best.
I won't elaborate about the meaning of plug and play.
Here's the link to the MacCrate:
http://www.swapspace.net/crate
I found it in the page source, it didn't go though because someone forgot to put the A in the A href= tag.
I just checked with Forum2000's nameserver (unnamed here, in order to give the poor guy a break). He confirms that the Forum2000 people are indeed legit students/faculty from CMU who do Weird Things. The reply was basically "Yeah I just do nameservice for them, but they're real people down at CMU who have been working on some kind of project."
It could very well be a hoax. However, be sure to check out Andrej Bauer's site at CMU. And draw your own conclusions. It looks very thorough. If it is a hoax the hoaxers have gone to great lengths to add depth and detail. I'm still skeptical--waiting to see how the machine responds to more questions.
Yay Andrej! is an Andrej Bauer fanclub.
So is this one, simply entitled "Andrej Bauer Fan Club.
All of the evidence seems to fit together and support non-hoaxness of Forum2000. Or but at least, somebody bothered to set up a LOT of extra crap to make it look real. Definiately more believable than FuckU/FuckMe.
Is Andrej Bauer a mad genius? A nonperson? A pseudonym? Come on, Slashdotters, let's get to the bottom of this one!
Is it just me or does the Taco Bell sign look like it was digitally altered?
Check out the "h" and the immediate surroundings. Looks fishy to me.
Free Mac Mini. Yes, I'm
Not to crap on the guy who submitted that 'more evil than satan' Google search but that was part of an article I just read about Google finally coming online. I don't know whether the guy credited the original source in his post and CmdrTaco just left that out but the poster wasn't the smart-ass who thought of that.
Just a little something in the name of poster integrity. Like the man said, 'credit your sources.'
'the best os' or 'the best free sex'
interesting results, click the link below
The best free sex
The best os
Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
I tried telnet www.forum2000.org, and it came up as a Commdore 64! Surely they are not running this web server on such old hardware. Is this possible?
That is a great site, however once the ./ Tactical Linkage(TM) was engaged, the server errors started flying like gibs in a drunken deathmatch.
A moment of silence.....
Your password has expired, please login to change it.
Oops. I mean /. not ./
Fingers flying faster than the brain is. Situation normal.
Your password has expired, please login to change it.
I don't think it is - I saw one question where the guy had made a spelling mistake (he left off a letter on the last word of his question) and the system filled it in in the replies. Could be a spell checker, but a human replying would skip a mistake like that and maybe not see it at all. I'd expect a computer to misunderstand it..
Your password has expired, please login to change it.
I vote that we change the quckie icon to something more appropriate...
Like.. a small headshot of Jenny McCarthy or maybe Pamela Anderson...
I dunno.. Just a though
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~/ony
omg,That's great.
No ;) www.forum2000.org is NOT a C64. The telnet server just pretends to be one (very funny).
www.forum2000.org responds to the following ports:
Doesn't look like a C64, eh? Whoever created this is extra cool in my book whether it's a hoax or not. Forum2000 et.al. have been enthralling me all evening.
Has anyone looked at Andrej's Become and Objectivist in Ten Easy Steps? I'm leaning towards mad genius now; although it might be a mad genius who has set up a hoax. Very curious.
The F*ck You F*ck Me link doesn't belong on Slashdot. I mean, this isn't Freshmeat....
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.
The taco bell incidentally is located right on the edge of the campus of Ohio State, here in Columbus, in fact, you can see one of the dorms in the background. While I have seen this pic quite a lot on the net, I have seen an attribute for the picture only once (and naturally, now I can't find it.)
The fufme was IMO very well put together ... it's hard to tell if it's a joke or not ... not like realhamster or luddite industries where *something* eventually gives it away
I think they should combine forum2000 and Askjeeves, I think that would serve them well. AJ seems to have picked up more bad habits of other search engines lately, and who knows, with a moral and philosophical basis it could all be back to normal.
I want to ask the powder puff girls complicated questions ... see how they answer. It should be an interesting nite. Thanks for the quickies!
I have a pizzabox computer.
Mine says "Sun" on it, though...
This one is really great!
Zorak
First I thought forum2000 was real. Then I decided that it was too good to be real. I decided that only "the cube" was AI controlled, and the others were some team making up witty responses. After reading some more, I decided that no individual or team could be that witty that consistantly. Humans burn out after so many questions. A machine, however, can keep chugging along indefinately (until it crashes)!
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Who the heck needs really, really big prime numbers when you can Forum 2000 running on your box? =)
Intercal disturbs me deeply.
[ simulated persona = "The Cube", node #162, max search depth 26%, neural variance 8.938 ] [ simulated persona = "Ayn Rand", node #206, max search depth 25%, neural variance 23.578 ]
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This was submited around 3 in the morning and I gave Forum about 3 minutes to come up with an answer. I found Ayn Rand's response particularly enlightening.
Anyways, has anyone else found it impossible to choose between any of the tiles? I know I found the need to hack together a random background utility for wmaker...
Jeff
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Forum 2000 and Bill have destroyed Linux, apparently: http://www.forum2000.org/matrix/forum_reply?cookie =people&lm=940641941
Amusing.
Fortune2000 is fake, beyond a doubt. Too many of the responses are human like. I said to it "you are a fake and a fraud, and its only a matter of time till you're found out", and it locked me out from that IP address. FAKE
Being a CMU student, I can say that most of what is on the main Forum 2000 page is complete bullshit. If there were a project with that kind of hardware devoted to it here at CMU, it certainly would be more than a side project. Also, while these grad students might really be trying very hard to avoid working on their thesises, writing a 11 million lines of C++ and intercal in their spare time is rather unlikely. Finally if that doesn't convince you, their master control room screenshot was lifted from an article about Linux being used for rendering in Titanic.
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A friend of mine and I were driving along, and noticed this one place where you could play billiards for cheap. Someone had altered the sign (I assume) to say "unlimited poo". We couldn't stop laughing.
What software was used for rendering the people in the "examples of use" section ??
I posted tough questions and they won't let me post anymore.
The 'More evil than satan himself' query was originally reported in this BeDope story.
-lx
If you type in "mosaic web browser" you also get the notorious evil page.
My question was:
;)
I humbly request the wisdom of Charles Darwin
I am vexed by the opportunity to take a job in Maui, Hawaii. Most of the population there are native islanders.
I understand that it is a beautiful place, but I am consurned about any unusual rituals that they might have, like perhaps cannibalism. Any thoughts on if I should go or not?
Echoes from the formless void responded with:
The advice of Forum 2000 is ephemeral, like teardrops in rain.
Honestly, I expected better than that... I'll check again later.
To all of you that wonder if fufme is a hoax or not, ask yourself this: How many people do you think there are in the world that would pay $500 to be able to fuck their computers?
Oh, wait... maybe you shouldn't think of that.
Perhaps a hand held USB version would be better?
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Do you even know anything about perl? -- AC Replying to Tom Christiansen post.
Oh well. They do kick-ass (I now have a collection of 16 that pop up at random whenever I start X. It's great...)
Man, that was a good one. I eventually puzzled out all the ad slogans.
I guess that means I'm a media whore.
--Corey
Not only will they not deserve liberty or safety, Mr. Franklin, they will be DENIED both!
I would point out that running a spellchecker on the Taco Bell sign would have done /absolutely no good/.
I absolutely can't stand people who make mistakes like that (like the university newsletter reminding everyone that fire alarms are announced over "the pubic address system") and then complaining that "waaaah, but the spellchecker didn't catch it, it's not my fault." Yo, dumbass, "pubic" is spelled perfectly correctly.
Try using your $@!#?*@ brain instead of blindly clicking at a computer. The results can be amazing.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Mine says Mac LC III
I was wondering when folks would get around to this...folks, oddball responses you get from the Word spelling checker and thesaurus are NOT EASTER EGGS! For more information please see an explanatory page on www.eeggs.com for an explanation for this odd, but understandable, behavior.
Last post, I win!!!