I have an idea for a project: the Slashdot Story Categorization Project (SSCP). We take a stock slashdot experience (no slashboxes), and we categorize all the stories that appear. For example:
00: Things are getting teh f4$ter (benchmarks) 01: Macintosh is getting better 02: Microsoft is bad 03: Microsoft is good? (It's Thursday) 04: IBM is good 05: IBM is bad (Flip a coin) 06: Someone uttered the word Linux outside of the community 07: Someone is using linux 08: Someone hacked something 09: Something can be hacked 0A: Someone is being an asshat (I.E. SCO/Lars Urich/etc.) 0B: Someone is being pretentious and postulating. 0C: Jon Katz is being pretentious and postulating. (Deserves another category) 0D: IPv6 Needs to be brought out 0E: IPv6 isn't being brought out 0F: We don't have enough article to make quota (Slashback) 10: Movies are showing good tech 11: Movies are showing bad tech 12: Movies are showing boobies 13: Something we ripped off of Fark (The Humor section)
First of all, that is the SHORTEST slashdot blurb I have ever seen. Secondly, I think that this can be boiled down to very simple phrase: "Life is imitating art".
Does anyone really think that the early phones would have flipped open had Captain Kirk not done the same thing with his communicator in Star Trek? Just a thought.
JoeLinux
"They have us surrounded? Well, that simplifies things. Now we can shoot in ANY direction and hit them! Those bastards won't get away this time!" -- Chesty Puller, USMC
This has been used by the military since World War II. The only thing they could have done that would be more stupid is if they had tried to patent the phrase "walkie-talkie" (incidently, a walkie-talkie was strapped to the GI's back. The hand-held unit was referred to as a "handset". Take that, Civvie!)
That there should be email addresses that the big companies "float" out onto spamming lists. When a mass email comes back with these email addresses, it's a flag that its spam, and block the whole message from going into the system. Of course, security on what those email addresses are would have to be pretty tight...
If they knocked their price down, and brought back FSV, I'd buy one...Problem is, they never used FSV...coulda been one of the best File Managers ever. The one for Linux is lame, and hasn't been updated in a while.
As my best friend put it: Solaris would be Microsoft if they could. They have certainly pulled monopolistic wannabe stuff in the past, but have had to back off of it because of their lack of market share.
I have always had the mind that if I had to choose between the two, I'd rather have a monopoly that was Unix-based.
First they invade Userfriendly, now even Slashdot has advertisements for them, now they are going to spam us directly. I wonder if you use that stupid MSN spam filter to filter them out, if it would do it. Maybe it "accidently" lets them through. Hmm...anyone try it?
JoeLinux
Arguing on the internet is like winning the special olympics: even if you win, you're still retarded.
Seriously though, hope this is the beginning of something really big. Would LOVE to be able to walk up to a BofA and Buffer overflow sendmail...er....make a withdrawal quickly.
If *I* were MS, I'd take almost a total loss on the consoles...make those things appear everywhere. Then, after like 3 years, I'd start charging for the consoles. Kinda like the IE approach.
talk about specialize. More power to them. But I wonder if they can sell many of these. I mean, except for a few data recovery people, I don't see any real use for this. You need SCSI for your system, you get SCSI...you need IDE, you do IDE...change filesystems, stick it on a distant server tar-red up, then transfer it back down.
Forgot to add: If you are going to send the big bad Republican Guard after us, please be sure to equip them with white flags and THEIR own hand restraints. It was quite annoying last time to have to resort to plastic ties.
Oh, oh, and please pass out white flags. We'd hate to accidently kill one of the many thousands trying to surrender.
And once again, use bio weapons on us, and we'll do something truly evil back: Feed your people. Including the Kurds.
We have food Are you afraid? Down with Iraq Down with Iraq
Hmm...this would make for a good fark contest: Make a email that might be in Saddam's inbox.
To: Madmn@aol.com From: GWBush@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Hahahahaha
Prepare your Camels, 'cause we're about to get medeviel on your scud-launching ass. And if you use Bio weapons, you won't stop glowing for a LONG time. And don't think you can bankrupt us. We use weapons on you, we order more, our side gets more jobs. So let us in, or we'll come down on you like the hand of god.
McAfee has a windows virus checker that works in linux. Genius idea. So you can run linux, protect Mickeysoft asshats from stupid virii, and even run their programs...and shut it off and scan for viruii when needed.
I did read the article. They had the technologies listed, but they didn't tell whether or not people were openly mocking the poor saps who were supposed to man the booths.
Why would you sign up for something like this?
"Ok..we need two people to go to a linux convention"
"You're kidding, right?"
"Nope"
"We better get combat pay"
"Damn straight"
"Ok, let's go"
Just another peak into my perverse mind.
JoeLinux
How do you make a cat go "woof" ? Soak it in gasoline and throw a match at it.
M$ has always been brash...I think it's this type of charging at the US government that has always kept them off-kilter. That, and their large portion of the US economy has made the Government skittish about confronting their obviously Monopolistic tactics.
All it's going to take is a young Attorney with the lack of political awareness to tell the Emperor that he has no clothes.
So let's toast to the young an Naive. Personally, in a world where M$ can do this, I think drunk is a preferred state.
Going Boldy where I surely don't belong,
JoeLinux
Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet plane engines.
I've always thought that Macross Plus would make a kick-ass live action movie, or even re-released for American audiences in the movies, would make for something that they could follow.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a term borrowed from fark.com meaning someone who is acting stupid/idiotic/moronic/ass-holish.
....I guess that means he'll have to accept his AssHat Award by proxy.
I have an idea for a project: the Slashdot Story Categorization Project (SSCP). We take a stock slashdot experience (no slashboxes), and we categorize all the stories that appear. For example:
00: Things are getting teh f4$ter (benchmarks)
01: Macintosh is getting better
02: Microsoft is bad
03: Microsoft is good? (It's Thursday)
04: IBM is good
05: IBM is bad (Flip a coin)
06: Someone uttered the word Linux outside of the community
07: Someone is using linux
08: Someone hacked something
09: Something can be hacked
0A: Someone is being an asshat (I.E. SCO/Lars Urich/etc.)
0B: Someone is being pretentious and postulating.
0C: Jon Katz is being pretentious and postulating. (Deserves another category)
0D: IPv6 Needs to be brought out
0E: IPv6 isn't being brought out
0F: We don't have enough article to make quota (Slashback)
10: Movies are showing good tech
11: Movies are showing bad tech
12: Movies are showing boobies
13: Something we ripped off of Fark (The Humor section)
Feel free to add on. I hereby GPL this thread.
JoeLinux
First of all, that is the SHORTEST slashdot blurb I have ever seen. Secondly, I think that this can be boiled down to very simple phrase: "Life is imitating art".
Does anyone really think that the early phones would have flipped open had Captain Kirk not done the same thing with his communicator in Star Trek? Just a thought.
JoeLinux
"They have us surrounded? Well, that simplifies things. Now we can shoot in ANY direction and hit them! Those bastards won't get away this time!" -- Chesty Puller, USMC
I always used 0001235467.
Yours is SO much simpler.
Wow...even on piracy of unwanted/unused Operating systems, the linux community has found a more efficient method. I'm impressed.
This has been used by the military since World War II. The only thing they could have done that would be more stupid is if they had tried to patent the phrase "walkie-talkie" (incidently, a walkie-talkie was strapped to the GI's back. The hand-held unit was referred to as a "handset". Take that, Civvie!)
That there should be email addresses that the big companies "float" out onto spamming lists. When a mass email comes back with these email addresses, it's a flag that its spam, and block the whole message from going into the system. Of course, security on what those email addresses are would have to be pretty tight...
I say the FSF should team up with Redhat and SUSE, and make a hostile buyout of the company, then sue the CEOs.
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
It was developed for IRIX, and they did not promote the hell out of it or port it like they should have. It coulda' been a contenda
If they knocked their price down, and brought back FSV, I'd buy one...Problem is, they never used FSV...coulda been one of the best File Managers ever. The one for Linux is lame, and hasn't been updated in a while.
...I meant to say that Solaris wants to be Windows.
Ok, ok, I give, I screwed up. Please be gentle.
As my best friend put it: Solaris would be Microsoft if they could. They have certainly pulled monopolistic wannabe stuff in the past, but have had to back off of it because of their lack of market share.
I have always had the mind that if I had to choose between the two, I'd rather have a monopoly that was Unix-based.
First they invade Userfriendly, now even Slashdot has advertisements for them, now they are going to spam us directly. I wonder if you use that stupid MSN spam filter to filter them out, if it would do it. Maybe it "accidently" lets them through. Hmm...anyone try it?
JoeLinux
Arguing on the internet is like winning the special olympics: even if you win, you're still retarded.
The official Operating system of the third world.
(sniff) I'm so proud.
Seriously though, hope this is the beginning of something really big. Would LOVE to be able to walk up to a BofA and Buffer overflow sendmail...er....make a withdrawal quickly.
JoeLinux
If *I* were MS, I'd take almost a total loss on the consoles...make those things appear everywhere. Then, after like 3 years, I'd start charging for the consoles. Kinda like the IE approach.
It'd certainly make sure that everyone has them.
JoeLinux
talk about specialize. More power to them. But I wonder if they can sell many of these. I mean, except for a few data recovery people, I don't see any real use for this. You need SCSI for your system, you get SCSI...you need IDE, you do IDE...change filesystems, stick it on a distant server tar-red up, then transfer it back down.
Just my $.02
JoeLinux
To: Madmn@aol.com
From: GWBush@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Re: Hahahahaha
Forgot to add: If you are going to send the big bad Republican Guard after us, please be sure to equip them with white flags and THEIR own hand restraints. It was quite annoying last time to have to resort to plastic ties.
Oh, oh, and please pass out white flags. We'd hate to accidently kill one of the many thousands trying to surrender.
And once again, use bio weapons on us, and we'll do something truly evil back: Feed your people. Including the Kurds.
We have food
Are you afraid?
Down with Iraq
Down with Iraq
GWB.
Hmm...this would make for a good fark contest: Make a email that might be in Saddam's inbox.
To: Madmn@aol.com
From: GWBush@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Hahahahaha
Prepare your Camels, 'cause we're about to get medeviel on your scud-launching ass. And if you use Bio weapons, you won't stop glowing for a LONG time. And don't think you can bankrupt us. We use weapons on you, we order more, our side gets more jobs. So let us in, or we'll come down on you like the hand of god.
Party on,
GWB
McAfee has a windows virus checker that works in linux. Genius idea. So you can run linux, protect Mickeysoft asshats from stupid virii, and even run their programs...and shut it off and scan for viruii when needed.
JoeLinux
Nice thing about WINE is: it can be shut OFF, then there is no environment to flourish in. ("/usr/local? Hell, I'm trying to find C:\windows\system")
JoeLinux
another? did he have an earlier Hollywood-ization?
JoeLinux
I did read the article. They had the technologies listed, but they didn't tell whether or not people were openly mocking the poor saps who were supposed to man the booths.
Why would you sign up for something like this?
"Ok..we need two people to go to a linux convention"
"You're kidding, right?"
"Nope"
"We better get combat pay"
"Damn straight"
"Ok, let's go"
Just another peak into my perverse mind.
JoeLinux
How do you make a cat go "woof" ? Soak it in gasoline and throw a match at it.
Is this the convention that MS got a booth in? If so, how is THAT going? Any bomb threats or anything?
Joe
M$ has always been brash...I think it's this type of charging at the US government that has always kept them off-kilter. That, and their large portion of the US economy has made the Government skittish about confronting their obviously Monopolistic tactics.
All it's going to take is a young Attorney with the lack of political awareness to tell the Emperor that he has no clothes.
So let's toast to the young an Naive. Personally, in a world where M$ can do this, I think drunk is a preferred state.
Going Boldy where I surely don't belong,
JoeLinux
Eagles may soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet plane engines.
I've always thought that Macross Plus would make a kick-ass live action movie, or even re-released for American audiences in the movies, would make for something that they could follow.
JoeLinux
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