he he, I gave Dogz to one of my kids. They worked on it and trained the pet to do little tricks and stuff, cute, but a little lame.
Then, my oldest son started hacking the variables and he was able to alter the behavior, looks etc. Came up with several mutations that weren't too far off from your description, big buggy eyes, huge teeth etc.
Come on Moderators, Move this one up a little more. Hot grits posts are as much a part of this site as anything else, give him that +5 Funny, he's earned it, after all he's posted on just about every one of the 10,000. That's/. Commitment, even if it's a little misguided.
Does this count the total number of stories? or just the stories that remain on the page for more than an hour. If you count the ones that appear and disappear, were looking at more like 10,753. *Grin*
After 2 and a half years I'm happy to announce that this is the 10,000th troll posted on Slashdot. Uncountable Firsts, Off-Topic mods, repeats, Flames meltdowns, lost nights of Karma, Songs, Natalie Portman Threads, hot grits, flame mails, broken links, 'Score:-1', karma whores, rants, submissions: its been a great ride... along the way we've posted a lot of sweet trolls and had some great discussions. We promise to make the next 10,000 suck less! Congrats to NPG (2153 Trolls) Gnarflanger (700) Trollmastah (693) and AC (9664). Course Hot Grits Guy rule all over them with 4478 (He's posted on all 10,000;)
Seriously guys, Congratulations, It's been a fun ride so far.
I did mean LinuxOne, not Red Hat. The PR stuff that Lineo has on their site,, and the related press releases that are also there, seem to point to the same type of business practices and ethics (or lack there of) of Linux One.
This seemed a little odd to me. Seeing the advantages of using Linux as a base for PDA's and Set top boxes, I think this is a good move for Lineo overall. However the following paragraph made me re-think and wonder about the longer term.
While Linux itself can be downloaded for free, Lineo hopes to make money by licensing proprietary software as well, in particular, programming tools that will make it easier to create software for their computing devices. The company ultimately plans an initial public offering. Embedix is based on a version of Linux from Lineo's sister company, Caldera Systems.
What I'm wondering is, is this going to turn out to be another "exploit the GPL, violate GPL, IPO it for all they can squeeze, then get out" scenario. A certain Linux distributor comes to mind. . .
Yeah, but in the big picture, it has little or no effect on overloading their systems. Reminds me of the old radio gag of having everyone flush their toilets at the same time to protest high water prices. Not even a measurable impact.
Competetive advantage. . . Hmmm, too bad none of the game companies have come up with the "Wife" character set. These would be a winner every time. Every guy who has been married for over two weeks knows that in every way/shape and form, he will lose. sulking the ever familiar "Yes Dear" as his closing remark.
I think the key word here is "little". I estimate the chances of governments of the world giving up spying on their own citizens and everybody else to be precisely zero. I don't know. A year ago, they denied its very existence, seems like the walls are coming down somewhat. Spying is one thing, the subset being interception of traffic is quite a bit smaller, and easier to exploit. I think that with the "New Age" of e-business in whatever flavor brings big dollar corporations into the mix now. They will have a huge impact on Echelon. Business is building and supporting the net now and they want their say. Enough pressure in the right places will make a difference in how they operate.
The cypherpunks way is more to my liking. Encrypt. Encrypt all messages. Tell your friends to encrypt all messages. Laugh at the very expensive hardware collecting a lot of apparently random noise (but keep yourself up to date on the latest crypto techniques). Depends on what battle your fighting. Encrypting everything will generate much noise, but at what expense, for what purpose. If you really have something to say/write whatever and didn't want to take the chance of anyone else possibly seeing/hearing it, would you really send it over the net, or over some unsecured copper pair? I wouldn't.
Whining and bitching about big brother will achieve nothing. I you are interested in having more of their mission etc. made public, curbed completely or audited, the way to make a little noise and get heard is to write your representative. On the Echelon Watch site, they have an e-mail, letter, and fax engine that all you do is add your name, address etc. and something like this will get mailed.
As your constituent, I'm writing to ask for your support for a congressional inquiry into a threat to the privacy and civil liberties of all residents of the United States. I've read several credible reports that suggest that the global electronic communications surveillance system -- frequently known by the code name ECHELON -- presents an extreme threat to my privacy and that of other people around the world.
If you want to free hand your correspondence, get your senator or representatives name, address etc, from their wed site, and send the letter. Complaining on forums such as Slashdot, Attrition or HNN will not accomplish anything in bringing this stuff into the light. Whining on Slashdot only increases your Karma.
Now that was refreshing. With all the hooplala about/. this and/. that, VA's goin' ruin it, yadda, yadda, yadda. To have someone of the stature of Friedel say
you should definitely pay the site regular visits if you are interested in science, technology, computers, programming and weird stuff in general.
Sort of makes you step back and realize the site never really lost the wide ranging appeal wich brought most of us here in the first place. Of note " Weird stuff in general. sort of sums it all up.
Great article, Although I never even came close to finding the correct solution.
I saw it also. I think they did it on purpose. If they claim the parody aspect. they more than likely will get away with it. Too bad they;re being so flamboyant, betcha it'll come back to haunt them.
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If they were thinking ahead, they would have trolled for some banner sales to be on thier site when it came back up. When I went to the site earlier there were none. Too bad, they could have re-couped some of those legal expenses just from the/. hits alone.
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I agree, I clicked the link to see the site and get a feel for what they really did prior to all the legal noise, but the site was just a "We Beat City Hall" flag. Granted they did, to an extend, but I left rather than dig down into the site because of the rah rah stuff..
As generally understood, propaganda is opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing actions of individuals or groups... Propaganda thus differs fundamentally from scientific analysis. The propagandist tries to "put something across," good or bad. The scientist does not try to put anything across; he devotes his life to the discovery of new facts and principles. The propagandist seldom wants careful scrutiny and criticism; his object is to bring about a specific action. The scientist, on the other hand, is always prepared for and wants the most careful scrutiny and criticism of his facts and ideas.
Actually I thought the rebirth series wasn't all that great, but didn't want to just post a flame. So Thanks to the first thing that came up under propaganda from Google, Yeah, I know, Lame -1,
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Didn't mean it as a flame, more as a question. I should have checked the link, I didn't realize it was your own site. Thanks.
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Generally they don't have to take everyone on at once just a few high profile people who have a great deal to loose.
Err, you mean people or sites such as this one? . . .
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Did anyone at VA look into the legal ramifications of Mirroring this SW? Seems like your asking us to eat a lot of risk, if you guys haven't checked this out. Can VA or/. provide some assurances?
He he, what a great idea, I bet the legal ramifications of this will be huge. Goin' to make it tought to find the real warez though. The best part of the article is:
[And a brief note for said Web flunkey: d00d, what are you DOING? How can you possibly be doing this job of searching around the Web and pointing fingers at people for trying to distribute free software? What is the matter with you? Have you no respect for the many hackers that have come before you, who built up this Web that is making you a living? How can you participate in this ugly, ugly action? If you feel you need to do it to keep your job, think again. Send me email, and I'll personally help you to find a better job, with better pay, and WAY better karma.
The point, then, (maybe?) Maybe not, Missing your CD player is not a strong example of cultureshock-ish impacts. The movie may have had a few references to "Things they missed" or "Things that were different without X", but that IMO is only to give the movie that stranded flavor. The real story I think they were going for was the (Not to give it away) Plot that they/he stumbles in to trouble with the locals/cultleaders while involved in a treasure hunt. Lame, Lame, Lame,. Reminds me of the old Sunday night Wonderful World of Disney movies, watching Swiss Family Robinson or 20,00 Leagues Undeer the Sea. Except of course, the Beach gets more points just because it has the nudity.:)
Oh, I don't know./. seems pretty much the same to me. The corporate changes haven't made much of impact as far as I see, lots of flames posted though, I don't see the connection./. has allways had banner days and not so good days, and banner articles and articles like this which don't quite fit in. Good days and bad, just like us, good posts and not so good.
This thread I can almost see the possibility of socio-impact comments on what happens to culture in isolation etc. Could be interesting, However I think there are much better vehicles that Leo's latest movie.
Boyle is also clearly -- and very subtly -- trying to raise some issues about escape from a hi-tech, continuously communicative and invasive world.
How in the world did he come up with that? So out of place, is almost seems made up, just so it had a little technology aspect to it. This movie is nothing more than "Lord of the Flies" with a little more mature crowd and a little nudity thrown it to keep the "R" rating. Escaping from technology is quite a leap.
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OK, for the Fantasy Brainball League (FBL), Would Uri Gellar be a good pic or a bad pic?
While the Digital Transmission Content Protection approach provides encryption for digital content as it moves over a 1394 interface, the HDCP is complementary.
I wonder if the motivation behind this was for the Government market. The military has been looking for a better Tempest style system for a couple of years now. The effort to design and implement this only for HDTV and Flat panels doesn't seem to have a big enough payoff, does it? I don't see the value in the commercial market, especially when the vendors will have to port the standards to accept HDCP.
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Then, my oldest son started hacking the variables and he was able to alter the behavior, looks etc. Came up with several mutations that weren't too far off from your description, big buggy eyes, huge teeth etc.
Come on Moderators, Move this one up a little more. Hot grits posts are as much a part of this site as anything else, give him that +5 Funny, he's earned it, after all he's posted on just about every one of the 10,000. That's /. Commitment, even if it's a little misguided.
Does this count the total number of stories? or just the stories that remain on the page for more than an hour. If you count the ones that appear and disappear, were looking at more like 10,753. *Grin*
Seriously guys, Congratulations, It's been a fun ride so far.
I did mean LinuxOne, not Red Hat. The PR stuff that Lineo has on their site,, and the related press releases that are also there, seem to point to the same type of business practices and ethics (or lack there of) of Linux One.
While Linux itself can be downloaded for free, Lineo hopes to make money by licensing proprietary software as well, in particular, programming tools that will make it easier to create software for their computing devices. The company ultimately plans an initial public offering. Embedix is based on a version of Linux from Lineo's sister company, Caldera Systems.
What I'm wondering is, is this going to turn out to be another "exploit the GPL, violate GPL, IPO it for all they can squeeze, then get out" scenario. A certain Linux distributor comes to mind. . .
Yeah, but in the big picture, it has little or no effect on overloading their systems. Reminds me of the old radio gag of having everyone flush their toilets at the same time to protest high water prices. Not even a measurable impact.
Competetive advantage. . . Hmmm, too bad none of the game companies have come up with the "Wife" character set. These would be a winner every time. Every guy who has been married for over two weeks knows that in every way/shape and form, he will lose. sulking the ever familiar "Yes Dear" as his closing remark.
I don't know. A year ago, they denied its very existence, seems like the walls are coming down somewhat. Spying is one thing, the subset being interception of traffic is quite a bit smaller, and easier to exploit. I think that with the "New Age" of e-business in whatever flavor brings big dollar corporations into the mix now. They will have a huge impact on Echelon. Business is building and supporting the net now and they want their say. Enough pressure in the right places will make a difference in how they operate.
The cypherpunks way is more to my liking. Encrypt. Encrypt all messages. Tell your friends to encrypt all messages. Laugh at the very expensive hardware collecting a lot of apparently random noise (but keep yourself up to date on the latest crypto techniques).
Depends on what battle your fighting. Encrypting everything will generate much noise, but at what expense, for what purpose. If you really have something to say/write whatever and didn't want to take the chance of anyone else possibly seeing/hearing it, would you really send it over the net, or over some unsecured copper pair? I wouldn't.
As your constituent, I'm writing to ask for your support for a congressional inquiry into a threat to the privacy and civil liberties of all residents of the United States. I've read several credible reports that suggest that the global electronic communications surveillance system -- frequently known by the code name ECHELON -- presents an extreme threat to my privacy and that of other people around the world.
If you want to free hand your correspondence, get your senator or representatives name, address etc, from their wed site, and send the letter. Complaining on forums such as Slashdot, Attrition or HNN will not accomplish anything in bringing this stuff into the light. Whining on Slashdot only increases your Karma.
you should definitely pay the site regular visits if you are interested in science, technology, computers, programming and weird stuff in general.
Sort of makes you step back and realize the site never really lost the wide ranging appeal wich brought most of us here in the first place. Of note " Weird stuff in general. sort of sums it all up.
Great article, Although I never even came close to finding the correct solution.
I saw it also. I think they did it on purpose. If they claim the parody aspect. they more than likely will get away with it. Too bad they;re being so flamboyant, betcha it'll come back to haunt them.
If they were thinking ahead, they would have trolled for some banner sales to be on thier site when it came back up. When I went to the site earlier there were none. Too bad, they could have re-couped some of those legal expenses just from the /. hits alone.
I agree, I clicked the link to see the site and get a feel for what they really did prior to all the legal noise, but the site was just a "We Beat City Hall" flag. Granted they did, to an extend, but I left rather than dig down into the site because of the rah rah stuff..
Actually I thought the rebirth series wasn't all that great, but didn't want to just post a flame. So Thanks to the first thing that came up under propaganda from Google, Yeah, I know, Lame -1,
Didn't mean it as a flame, more as a question. I should have checked the link, I didn't realize it was your own site. Thanks.
Err, you mean people or sites such as this one? . . .
Did anyone at VA look into the legal ramifications of Mirroring this SW? Seems like your asking us to eat a lot of risk, if you guys haven't checked this out. Can VA or /. provide some assurances?
[And a brief note for said Web flunkey: d00d, what are you DOING? How can you possibly be doing this job of searching around the Web and pointing fingers at people for trying to distribute free software? What is the matter with you? Have you no respect for the many hackers that have come before you, who built up this Web that is making you a living? How can you participate in this ugly, ugly action? If you feel you need to do it to keep your job, think again. Send me email, and I'll personally help you to find a better job, with better pay, and WAY better karma.
The point, then, (maybe?) Maybe not, Missing your CD player is not a strong example of cultureshock-ish impacts. The movie may have had a few references to "Things they missed" or "Things that were different without X", but that IMO is only to give the movie that stranded flavor. The real story I think they were going for was the (Not to give it away) Plot that they/he stumbles in to trouble with the locals/cultleaders while involved in a treasure hunt. Lame, Lame, Lame,. Reminds me of the old Sunday night Wonderful World of Disney movies, watching Swiss Family Robinson or 20,00 Leagues Undeer the Sea. Except of course, the Beach gets more points just because it has the nudity. :)
The rest of KOA sucks ass, except for the Sports zoo, those guys are a riot.
This thread I can almost see the possibility of socio-impact comments on what happens to culture in isolation etc. Could be interesting, However I think there are much better vehicles that Leo's latest movie.
How in the world did he come up with that? So out of place, is almost seems made up, just so it had a little technology aspect to it. This movie is nothing more than "Lord of the Flies" with a little more mature crowd and a little nudity thrown it to keep the "R" rating. Escaping from technology is quite a leap.
OK, for the Fantasy Brainball League (FBL), Would Uri Gellar be a good pic or a bad pic?
I wonder if the motivation behind this was for the Government market. The military has been looking for a better Tempest style system for a couple of years now. The effort to design and implement this only for HDTV and Flat panels doesn't seem to have a big enough payoff, does it? I don't see the value in the commercial market, especially when the vendors will have to port the standards to accept HDCP.