If the CIA seizes my HD then I'll tell them all that encrypted data is pictures of my penis. And that I was encrypting it to protect my copyright. At this point the DMCA kicks in and they have to justify their need to look at pictures of my penis.
Because M$ knows how they work can make XP backwards compatible while at the same time changing things in the newest OS to make it better. Constant tweaking indicates constant improvement! Something you won't see in Gnulix.
How did GNOME and Eazel die in the business arena? Sun is still going to package their OS with Eazel, and Red Hat is going to continue to make GNOME their default install. I just installed Nautilus a few minutes ago and right now I'm very impressed with it. I installed KDE a few days ago and while it's nice nautilus it just miles ahead of konqueror. It's really awesome.
In honor of Natalie Portman's birthday I post the following story. The love story of osm and Natalie Portman This is version 0.1 so comments and suggestions are welcome. Help me make this better please.
Characters: osm Natalie Portman James Blana NP's publicist Kendra Dravens NP's college friend
Kendra: Hey Natalie check this out. I just installed Linux on my computer. This is really cool, Linux is so much nicer than Windows.
Natalie: Yeah Windows annoys me too. The only scripting they give you is WSH and that's only useful for writing viruses.
Kendra: Hey checkout this website they put on here. It's called Slashdot and it's got message boards. But all the comments are the same. "Linux rewls, M$ sux, give me a beowulf of those." Why would anyone want a beowulf cluster of some crappy motherboard?
Natalie: I wonder what the score means? Look at the top of this story. Let's set it to -1 highest scores first and see what it does.
They change the settings and scroll through the posts. Toward the bottom one of the posts catches Natalie's eyes.
Natalie: Look that one is about me, it's by some guy named osm, oh my, he took a bitchslapping for me. He must really be special. Look he's got a web page, I wonder what he's like.
Natalie Portman has by this time taken over the computer. She sees the Natalie Portman FAQ and decides to take a look
Natalie: This is no ordinary fan FAQ, for it was truly put together by one more devoted than any of the others.
Kendra: Natalie you're being really creepy. I hope you aren't going to try to meet him or anything.
Natalie: Let's see this is like the Unix we use in the computer labs. How do I bring up an xterm Kendra?
Kendra: Just click on the foot. Then go into the system menu.
Natalie: (typing) whois warmann.com
Oh my, he lives in Kansas City, I can take the next flight out there (calling publicist) James this is Natalie book me on the next flight to Kansas City and get me a driver to take me from the airport to osm's apartment.
James: But Natalie you don't know this man. How do you know he isn't old and dirty like that ESR fellow who dresses up like Obi-Wan Kenobi and tried to feel you up at that Star Wars convention?
Natalie: Oh James I read his Natalie Portman FAQ on the internet. He's special and I love him.
James: Alright just don't blame me when he turns out to be a dirty old man
Natalie hangs up and starts packing a bag with a few clothes and some tolietries. Just as she is done packing her taxi shows up
Kendra: Natalie I hope you don't regret this. There are some really weird people out there.
Natalie: I know I won't, see you later!
Natalie runs outside, gets in the taxi and takes off for the airport. A few hours later Natalie arrives in Kansas City, she finds her driver and begins the trip into the city to osm's apartment. Along the way she has the driver stop at a flower shop so she can pick up some flowers. A few minutes later Natalie reaches osm's apartment. She goes up to the door
Natalie: I hope osm is home and that he likes my flowers.
she rings the doorbell, osm answers the door
osm: N-n-natalie?
Natalie: Yes it is I Natalie Portman. I have read your Natalie Portman FAQ and have come to see you for I am teen of age, pouting of breast, and firm of rump. And I want to make sweet sweet love to you tonight.
osm: Ummmmm...... Let me straighten up a bit.
Natalie: Ok
osm runs back into the apartment and heads stright for his bedroom. His girlfriend is there in his bed waiting for him with a Queen Amidala mask on.
osm: Get out of here bitch, I don't like you anymore
osm's girlfriend: But Warren, I thought you loved me.
osm: Sorry, but you're really ugly why do you think I make you wear that Queen Amidala mask all the time?
osm's girlfriend quickly gathers her things and runs out the back of the apartment crying. osm runs to the front of the apartment and embraces Natalie
osm: Oh Natalie, I love you, I truly do.
Natalie: Quickly open source man, let us go to your bed and consumate our love.
That night osm has the best sex of his life. The next morning osm and Natalie are lying together in bed.
osm: Natalie Natalie Natalie, I don't think I could ever get tired of saying that name. You are more wonderful than I ever imagined.
Natalie: osm last night when I got up to get some water the Natalie Portman poster behind your computer spoke to me.
osm: Wha-what did it say?
Natalie: It told me that I had made the right decision and that everything would turn out alright.
brief pause
Natalie: I want to get out of here, let's go somewhere else.
she looks around osm's bedroom and happens to see a regional map open. She points randomly to one of the spots on the map.
Natalie: Let's go there, hmmm Wichita Kansas. I've never been there before, can we leave this morning?
osm: Ummmm I have to go to work, you know to make money.
Natalie: Oh you don't have to go to work anymore, you can live with me off my Star Wars contract. My Ferrari will be here in an hour, we can leave than.
osm: You had your Ferarri delivered to Missouri?
Natalie: No silly, I called up one of the KC dealerships and ordered one this morning while I was cooking breakfast. I don't have a driver's license so you'll have to drive us there.
osm calls his boss and tells him that he quits. Then he takes a quick shower with Natalie and gets dressed. A few minutes later they are ready to go and the car shows up. They take off for Wichita. A few hours later they arrive, osm goes downtown and finds a hotel with a view of the river. They stroll around the riverfront area for a couple of hours.
Natalie: osm I want to see a movie tonight, how about Where the heart is I'm in it.
osm: I didn't know you were so vain.
Natalie: I'm not, I just like watching myself on the big screen
They go back to their hotel and find a copy of the local paper, they turn to the entertainment section and look up the movie listings
Natalie: Hey look that one's called Warren, just like you. It's showing there tonight at nine. Want to go?
osm: Of course, I love that movie. I love every movie you've ever made
Natalie: Good, let's go then
That night osm and Natalie see Where the Heart is. They both know all the lines by heart, and that night they re-enact the love scene between Novalee and Forney.
Natalie: osm last night so much fun.
osm: uh huh
Natalie: This is such a nice little city, no one recognizes me here. We could avoid all the paparazzi by moving her.
osm: You really think so?
Natalie: Yeah I do, I really do. Hey yesterday I saw a science museum north of here along the river, I wanna go see it, I hope it's not lame.
osm: Ok let's go. I think it's called Exploration something.
That morning osm and Natalie visit the science museum and eat lunch at the cafe. (Which I have been to and is considerably better than the majority of museum food) The couple decides to walk along the river some more. As they come to a red bridge osm thinks he recognizes the man standing in the middle.
osm: Hey!! Are you Rob Malda?
In fact the man standing on the bridge is Rob Malda. He just happened to be in Wichita visiting his aunt and decided to take a walk with her near her house.
CmdrTaco: Yeah that's me. Do you read Slashdot, or did you just recognize my face from the many magazines I've been featured in?
osm: No, I read Slashdot, by the way my nickname is osm, recognize me and Natalie?
CmdrTaco: What!? YOU!!! I am going to kill you, I did everything but ban you, and yet you continue to make a mockery of my site, my Slashdot that I created, that I worked so hard for, you just treat like some, some, cheap happy meal toy, to just have your fun and throw away when you're done with it. I hate you, I hate your friends and I hate the way you try to control the site with your beady little fingers dancing away at your keyboard.
CmdrTaco lunges at osm and the two lock into a fight. osm is a bit stronger and starts to gain the advantage. Just then CmdrTaco knocks osm up against the railing of the bridge and begins to choke him. With a burst of energy osm pushes CmdrTaco off and knocks him off the bridge. CmdrTaco grabs at osm and pulls him off the bridge with him. CmdrTaco's aunt had called the police on her cell phone after they had begun to fight The police drag the two fighting men out of the river and place hand cuffs on both of them. After taking CmdrTaco's aunt's and Natalie's testimony they let osm go and book CmdrTaco on charges of assualt. The fight has worn osm out and he and Natalie go back to the hotel together.
Natalie: You are so brave Warren, that Slashdot guy is a real jerk. I'm glad they arrested him.
osm: I'm too, you know I haven't checked Slashdot for two whole days now. I've got to get on there and see what's happening.
After this osm and Natalie lived happily ever after
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I believe that what CmdrTaco has done with his bitchslapping has some good side effects. As much as it is censorship, oppression of funny but inflammatory posters it also allows men like OSM to really show their artistic sides. Without the ability to post stuff all day long without the risk of being banned for downward moderation Taco has created a new beast on/., a new man for the new millenium. He can be truly creative without fear of reprisal, for we can only mod him up. Thank You
On eBay the ratings of the msoft account would be equivalent to moderating on/.. Thus the eBay staff changing the user moderation would be like Taco bitchslapping someone who moderated Signal11 down. Anyone can still be stopped by Microsoft, it's just that now they can claim the illusion of a neutral rating when they are decidedly more evil than that.
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If the CIA seizes my HD then I'll tell them all that encrypted data is pictures of my penis. And that I was encrypting it to protect my copyright. At this point the DMCA kicks in and they have to justify their need to look at pictures of my penis.
Because M$ knows how they work can make XP backwards compatible while at the same time changing things in the newest OS to make it better. Constant tweaking indicates constant improvement! Something you won't see in Gnulix.
This first for Ida!
How did GNOME and Eazel die in the business arena? Sun is still going to package their OS with Eazel, and Red Hat is going to continue to make GNOME their default install. I just installed Nautilus a few minutes ago and right now I'm very impressed with it. I installed KDE a few days ago and while it's nice nautilus it just miles ahead of konqueror. It's really awesome.
In honor of Natalie Portman's birthday I post the following story.
The love story of osm and Natalie Portman
This is version 0.1 so comments and suggestions are welcome. Help me make this better please.
Characters:
osm
Natalie Portman
James Blana NP's publicist
Kendra Dravens NP's college friend
Kendra: Hey Natalie check this out. I just installed Linux on my computer. This is really cool, Linux is so much nicer than Windows.
Natalie: Yeah Windows annoys me too. The only scripting they give you is WSH and that's only useful for writing viruses.
Kendra: Hey checkout this website they put on here. It's called Slashdot and it's got message boards. But all the comments are the same. "Linux rewls, M$ sux, give me a beowulf of those." Why would anyone want a beowulf cluster of some crappy motherboard?
Natalie: I wonder what the score means? Look at the top of this story. Let's set it to -1 highest scores first and see what it does.
They change the settings and scroll through the posts. Toward the bottom one of the posts catches Natalie's eyes.
Natalie: Look that one is about me, it's by some guy named osm, oh my, he took a bitchslapping for me. He must really be special. Look he's got a web page, I wonder what he's like.
Natalie Portman has by this time taken over the computer. She sees the Natalie Portman FAQ and decides to take a look
Natalie: This is no ordinary fan FAQ, for it was truly put together by one more devoted than any of the others.
Kendra: Natalie you're being really creepy. I hope you aren't going to try to meet him or anything.
Natalie: Let's see this is like the Unix we use in the computer labs. How do I bring up an xterm Kendra?
Kendra: Just click on the foot. Then go into the system menu.
Natalie: (typing) whois warmann.com
Oh my, he lives in Kansas City, I can take the next flight out there
(calling publicist)
James this is Natalie book me on the next flight to Kansas City and get me a driver to take me from the airport to osm's apartment.
James: But Natalie you don't know this man. How do you know he isn't old and dirty like that ESR fellow who dresses up like Obi-Wan Kenobi and tried to feel you up at that Star Wars convention?
Natalie: Oh James I read his Natalie Portman FAQ on the internet. He's special and I love him.
James: Alright just don't blame me when he turns out to be a dirty old man
Natalie hangs up and starts packing a bag with a few clothes and some tolietries. Just as she is done packing her taxi shows up
Kendra: Natalie I hope you don't regret this. There are some really weird people out there.
Natalie: I know I won't, see you later!
Natalie runs outside, gets in the taxi and takes off for the airport. A few hours later Natalie arrives in Kansas City, she finds her driver and begins the trip into the city to osm's apartment. Along the way she has the driver stop at a flower shop so she can pick up some flowers. A few minutes later Natalie reaches osm's apartment.
She goes up to the door
Natalie: I hope osm is home and that he likes my flowers.
she rings the doorbell, osm answers the door
osm: N-n-natalie?
Natalie: Yes it is I Natalie Portman. I have read your Natalie Portman FAQ and have come to see you for I am teen of age, pouting of breast, and firm of rump. And I want to make sweet sweet love to you tonight.
osm: Ummmmm...... Let me straighten up a bit.
Natalie: Ok
osm runs back into the apartment and heads stright for his bedroom. His girlfriend is there in his bed waiting for him with a Queen Amidala mask on.
osm: Get out of here bitch, I don't like you anymore
osm's girlfriend: But Warren, I thought you loved me.
osm: Sorry, but you're really ugly why do you think I make you wear that Queen Amidala mask all the time?
osm's girlfriend: (whimpering) but, but, but..........
osm's girlfriend quickly gathers her things and runs out the back of the apartment crying. osm runs to the front of the apartment and embraces Natalie
osm: Oh Natalie, I love you, I truly do.
Natalie: Quickly open source man, let us go to your bed and consumate our love.
That night osm has the best sex of his life.
The next morning osm and Natalie are lying together in bed.
osm: Natalie Natalie Natalie, I don't think I could ever get tired of saying that name. You are more wonderful than I ever imagined.
Natalie: osm last night when I got up to get some water the Natalie Portman poster behind your computer spoke to me.
osm: Wha-what did it say?
Natalie: It told me that I had made the right decision and that everything would turn out alright.
brief pause
Natalie: I want to get out of here, let's go somewhere else.
she looks around osm's bedroom and happens to see a regional map open. She points randomly to one of the spots on the map.
Natalie: Let's go there, hmmm Wichita Kansas. I've never been there before, can we leave this morning?
osm: Ummmm I have to go to work, you know to make money.
Natalie: Oh you don't have to go to work anymore, you can live with me off my Star Wars contract. My Ferrari will be here in an hour, we can leave than.
osm: You had your Ferarri delivered to Missouri?
Natalie: No silly, I called up one of the KC dealerships and ordered one this morning while I was cooking breakfast. I don't have a driver's license so you'll have to drive us there.
osm calls his boss and tells him that he quits. Then he takes a quick shower with Natalie and gets dressed. A few minutes later they are ready to go and the car shows up. They take off for Wichita. A few hours later they arrive, osm goes downtown and finds a hotel with a view of the river. They stroll around the riverfront area for a couple of hours.
Natalie: osm I want to see a movie tonight, how about Where the heart is I'm in it.
osm: I didn't know you were so vain.
Natalie: I'm not, I just like watching myself on the big screen
They go back to their hotel and find a copy of the local paper, they turn to the entertainment section and look up the movie listings
Natalie: Hey look that one's called Warren, just like you. It's showing there tonight at nine. Want to go?
osm: Of course, I love that movie. I love every movie you've ever made
Natalie: Good, let's go then
That night osm and Natalie see Where the Heart is. They both know all the lines by heart, and that night they re-enact the love scene between Novalee and Forney.
Natalie: osm last night so much fun.
osm: uh huh
Natalie: This is such a nice little city, no one recognizes me here. We could avoid all the paparazzi by moving her.
osm: You really think so?
Natalie: Yeah I do, I really do. Hey yesterday I saw a science museum north of here along the river, I wanna go see it, I hope it's not lame.
osm: Ok let's go. I think it's called Exploration something.
That morning osm and Natalie visit the science museum and eat lunch at the cafe. (Which I have been to and is considerably better than the majority of museum food) The couple decides to walk along the river some more. As they come to a red bridge osm thinks he recognizes the man standing in the middle.
osm: Hey!! Are you Rob Malda?
In fact the man standing on the bridge is Rob Malda. He just happened to be in Wichita visiting his aunt and decided to take a walk with her near her house.
CmdrTaco: Yeah that's me. Do you read Slashdot, or did you just recognize my face from the many magazines I've been featured in?
osm: No, I read Slashdot, by the way my nickname is osm, recognize me and Natalie?
CmdrTaco: What!? YOU!!! I am going to kill you, I did everything but ban you, and yet you continue to make a mockery of my site, my Slashdot that I created, that I worked so hard for, you just treat like some, some, cheap happy meal toy, to just have your fun and throw away when you're done with it. I hate you, I hate your friends and I hate the way you try to control the site with your beady little fingers dancing away at your keyboard.
CmdrTaco lunges at osm and the two lock into a fight. osm is a bit stronger and starts to gain the advantage. Just then CmdrTaco knocks osm up against the railing of the bridge and begins to choke him. With a burst of energy osm pushes CmdrTaco off and knocks him off the bridge. CmdrTaco grabs at osm and pulls him off the bridge with him. CmdrTaco's aunt had called the police on her cell phone after they had begun to fight The police drag the two fighting men out of the river and place hand cuffs on both of them. After taking CmdrTaco's aunt's and Natalie's testimony they let osm go and book CmdrTaco on charges of assualt. The fight has worn osm out and he and Natalie go back to the hotel together.
Natalie: You are so brave Warren, that Slashdot guy is a real jerk. I'm glad they arrested him.
osm: I'm too, you know I haven't checked Slashdot for two whole days now. I've got to get on there and see what's happening.
After this osm and Natalie lived happily ever after
I believe that what CmdrTaco has done with his bitchslapping has some good side effects. As much as it is censorship, oppression of funny but inflammatory posters it also allows men like OSM to really show their artistic sides. Without the ability to post stuff all day long without the risk of being banned for downward moderation Taco has created a new beast on /., a new man for the new millenium. He can be truly creative without fear of reprisal, for we can only mod him up. Thank You
On eBay the ratings of the msoft account would be equivalent to moderating on /.. Thus the eBay staff changing the user moderation would be like Taco bitchslapping someone who moderated Signal11 down. Anyone can still be stopped by Microsoft, it's just that now they can claim the illusion of a neutral rating when they are decidedly more evil than that.