Another repeat. And this one isn't a day old. Oh look, it was Taco who re-posted again.
Seriously, Taco, we all appreciate the work you and the others put into keeping slashdot going, but some sort of anti-repost mechanism would be useful. I know no method's foolproof, but this one even had the same url!
Alternatively, why doesn't someone repost every article for three weeks, then go back to normal - that way everybody'll be so impressed at the change, they'll stop complaining ^_^
"Can you imagine eating fries made by some greasy machine which has been sitting out in the open for days?"
As opposed to eating fries made by some greasy minimum-wage burger-flipper with no sense of personal cleanliness, cooked in oil that hasn't been changed in weeks?
At least in the open air, all that fat vapour has somewhere to go. My local Burger King had a fire recently, as there was so much grease in the extractor fans. This is also the place who's "flame grilling" machine has a large label declaring it as a steamer...
"Its like the vision of the world after they've had their way with us."
Is that black as in "metaphorically speaking", or black as in "some idiot linked the power plants' IIS-running servers to the internet, and they've all been 0wn3d"?
Maran
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Maybe there's an "educational" area where kids can watch fuzzy animatronic characters giving a glossed-over demonstration of how to recompile your kernel.
And there's people dressed up as all the "old favourite" distros. But they've got their networking disabled, so they just move around a lot and pose, but can't say anything.
And there's a shop selling lots of ThinkGeek gear, that's a real laugh in the park itself, but wearing it in the outside world results in people giving you strange looks.
The problem is, the coked-up producers and flashy lawyers have both money and political influence (the latter boosted by the former), so their paranoid delusions have a very good chance of breaking out into "Reality land".
"MicroSoft has $38 billion in cash tempting them."
Yes, but Microsoft also has $38 billion in cash to say "We can afford enough lawyers to sink a fleet of battleships. We can buy off anyone neccessary to make sure this case goes nowhere".
"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters."
And yet he persists.
In the great tradition of slashdot, I haven't read the article, but I assume he's making enough money to cover his costs and then some, else he wouldn't continue. Now, I'm also assuming that companies are paying him to send spam - there's no way he'd make enough of responders.
This has probably been said before, but why are we getting pissed off at spammers? It's the companies we need to "educate" as to the evils of unsolicited e-mail. That's where the money and motivation comes from. Maybe we should e-mail every company in the world and explain to them why they shouldn't spam...
Well, we've already got the senators for Disney et al, so I don't see why we can't try and bribe^H^H^H^H^H pursuade her to be the senator for Slashdot.
"Now, if these improvements could be made hereditary, that'd be cool!"
Well, develop things like the Borg nano-probes, and <ahem> inject them during sex. They end up integrated into the baby. Set them to activate when the baby's skin is exposed to sunlight, and voila - instant implants.
The other problem with this analogy is what is trademarked. If I take a plain t-shirt and put logos on, I get in trouble for using the trademark. But with music, it's the "t-shirt" that's trademarked, not the logo. The only way the analogy works is if I take NBA t-shirts, cut out the logo, replace it with one of my own and still sell it as NBA.
Yes and no. Walking around with an eyepiece on, wires trailing everywhere, and a honking great box on your hip is asking to be mugged, yes.
But if you integrate the display into a pair of glasses, make the box smaller and go wireless, no-one needs to know. As for data input, most people are now used to seeing people typing a text message on their mobile pretty much anywhere.
Besides, we shouldn't let cool technology be ignored because we'll get ridiculed for using it in public, should we?
I was going to make a gratuitous comment about how using a sex-toy in public would get you some strange looks as well, but I'm not sure that's the best comparrison to make...
Slashdot Mirror
"Slashdot is just cunt and pasting press releases"
I have to ask: An innocent typo, or a habit from conducting "research" off google?
Maran
Another repeat. And this one isn't a day old. Oh look, it was Taco who re-posted again.
Seriously, Taco, we all appreciate the work you and the others put into keeping slashdot going, but some sort of anti-repost mechanism would be useful. I know no method's foolproof, but this one even had the same url!
Alternatively, why doesn't someone repost every article for three weeks, then go back to normal - that way everybody'll be so impressed at the change, they'll stop complaining ^_^
Maran
"why the fuck Mozilla takes so long to start on my Windows ME box?"
Maybe it's protesting because you haven't got a liquid nitrogen-cooled P4 in your machine.
Maran
"Can you imagine eating fries made by some greasy machine which has been sitting out in the open for days?"
As opposed to eating fries made by some greasy minimum-wage burger-flipper with no sense of personal cleanliness, cooked in oil that hasn't been changed in weeks?
At least in the open air, all that fat vapour has somewhere to go. My local Burger King had a fire recently, as there was so much grease in the extractor fans. This is also the place who's "flame grilling" machine has a large label declaring it as a steamer...
Maran
Sounds like Bart's second-hand "Ultimate" belt.
"Help! Help! Help! Help!"
"Can't you read?! Call the police!" Thwack.
Maran
It's too early for me to be reading slashdot. For a second there, I thought you said you no longer believe in Santa Fe.
Maran
"Its like the vision of the world after they've had their way with us."
Is that black as in "metaphorically speaking", or black as in "some idiot linked the power plants' IIS-running servers to the internet, and they've all been 0wn3d"?
Maran
Maybe there's an "educational" area where kids can watch fuzzy animatronic characters giving a glossed-over demonstration of how to recompile your kernel.
And there's people dressed up as all the "old favourite" distros. But they've got their networking disabled, so they just move around a lot and pose, but can't say anything.
And there's a shop selling lots of ThinkGeek gear, that's a real laugh in the park itself, but wearing it in the outside world results in people giving you strange looks.
Maran
The problem is, the coked-up producers and flashy lawyers have both money and political influence (the latter boosted by the former), so their paranoid delusions have a very good chance of breaking out into "Reality land".
Maran
3.11 Rings to the Elves, perhaps, and DOS 7.0 to the Dwarfs (What Win95 calls it's DOS, IIRC).
And are you comparing Washington state to Mordor? And if so, can throwing a copy of WinXP into the fires of Mount St Helen's break his power?
Maran
"swear his soul to the dark lord"
Can he swear his soul to himself?
Maran
So they're calling a librarian a monkey? I think some of us know what happens when you do that. He's an ape ^_^
Maran
"we'll put them in a stabbing machine"
Wasn't there one of these in Futurama?
"Please select your prefered suicide method:
1) Quick and painless or
2) Listening to Bratney Spears and other RIAA sound-alikes."
Maran
The beach? But that's outside, in the sun. Remember, you're dealing with slashdot here.
Maran
"Pay just $20,000 for this super-size cup holder, and get this SUV free!"
Maran
So...
1) Use this method.
2) ???
3) Karma!
Sorry, couldn't resist. It is getting a bit OTT, though, isn't it... Kind of like beowulf cluster comments.
Maran
"MicroSoft has $38 billion in cash tempting them."
Yes, but Microsoft also has $38 billion in cash to say "We can afford enough lawyers to sink a fleet of battleships. We can buy off anyone neccessary to make sure this case goes nowhere".
Maran
"Ever received spam from IBM?"
Yes.
Ok, it was the internal newsletters when I worked for them, but I didn't want them...
Maran
"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters."
And yet he persists.
In the great tradition of slashdot, I haven't read the article, but I assume he's making enough money to cover his costs and then some, else he wouldn't continue. Now, I'm also assuming that companies are paying him to send spam - there's no way he'd make enough of responders.
This has probably been said before, but why are we getting pissed off at spammers? It's the companies we need to "educate" as to the evils of unsolicited e-mail. That's where the money and motivation comes from. Maybe we should e-mail every company in the world and explain to them why they shouldn't spam...
Maran
"Any chance we can get her to run for Senator?"
Well, we've already got the senators for Disney et al, so I don't see why we can't try and bribe^H^H^H^H^H pursuade her to be the senator for Slashdot.
Maran
"Now, if these improvements could be made hereditary, that'd be cool!"
Well, develop things like the Borg nano-probes, and <ahem> inject them during sex. They end up integrated into the baby. Set them to activate when the baby's skin is exposed to sunlight, and voila - instant implants.
Maran
"I'll be flying my Phoenix Hawk LAM any century now!"
Yeah, but then you'll get sued by Harmony Gold for copyright infringement.
Although a few medium lasers would sort that particular problem...
Maran
Which is more surprising: Government representative supports hackers, or Government representative uses correct meaning of "Hacker".
Maran
The other problem with this analogy is what is trademarked. If I take a plain t-shirt and put logos on, I get in trouble for using the trademark. But with music, it's the "t-shirt" that's trademarked, not the logo. The only way the analogy works is if I take NBA t-shirts, cut out the logo, replace it with one of my own and still sell it as NBA.
Fools. Complete and utter fools.
Maran
Yes and no. Walking around with an eyepiece on, wires trailing everywhere, and a honking great box on your hip is asking to be mugged, yes.
But if you integrate the display into a pair of glasses, make the box smaller and go wireless, no-one needs to know. As for data input, most people are now used to seeing people typing a text message on their mobile pretty much anywhere.
Besides, we shouldn't let cool technology be ignored because we'll get ridiculed for using it in public, should we?
I was going to make a gratuitous comment about how using a sex-toy in public would get you some strange looks as well, but I'm not sure that's the best comparrison to make...
Maran