User: Captain Pedantic

In The Country of Last Things

On: Dystopic Novels?

In The Country of Last Things By Paul Auster.

The Simpsons?

On: Inkwell No Longer From the Newton?

Wasn't it Doonsebury which effectively killed off any hope for the newton>

Must.... release.... faster.....

On: A Debriefing On Debian's Woody Release

The same thing they said two years ago after Potato was released. Ho hum.

Still, nothing beats it, and I'm running a standard release for the first time in, um, two years.

Looks simple

On: Boeing Joins In Anti-Gravity Search

The scientist says he found that objects above a superconducting ceramic disc rotating over powerful electromagnets lost weight.

The reduction in gravity was small, about 2%, but the implications - for example, in terms of cutting the energy needed for a plane to fly - were immense.

All Boeing have to do is strap a superconducting ceramic disc rotating over powerful electromagnets upside down into one of their planes!

Open Source vs Free Software

On: Internet Security Standards

The scanner code isn't open source, but it's perl so you can at least look at it

It is a shame that even here on Slashdot people don't understand the differences between Open Source and Free Software

If it is perl it is Open Source. But, just because it is Open Source, it isn't necessarily Free.

So please don't say Open Source when you mean Free Software.

Nor....

On: SCC Statement on SELinux Patent Issues

can they guaranty that they won't be bought out by someone who wants to exploit the patent (eg Forgent).

Software Patents: Don't do them kids.

What this might mean.....

On: MPAA Requests Immunity to Commit Cyber-Crimes

The Register is actually looking forward to this becoming law!

1...2...3...4......

On: NASA 'Hyper-X' Series Scramjets

Can I get a first post more?

But....

On: Linux Beer Hike Goes to Ireland

Will the beer be free?

So

On: HP: Rival Printers Mean No More HPs Through Dell

what?

Will the real Bruce Perens please stand up?

On: Bruce Perens Plans On-Stage DMCA Violation

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so won't the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

Sig 11 don't got to cuss in his posts to get Karma
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
you think I give a damn about my Karma
half of you trolls can't even stomach me, let alone stand me
"but bruce, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird"
why? so you guys can just lie to get me here
so you can sit me here next to Natalie here
shit,Enoch Root's momma better switch me chairs
so I can sit next to trollmastah and Post First
and hear em argue over who modded it down first
little troll, flamed me back on IRC
"yeah, he's fast, but I think he types one-handed, hee hee"
I should download some audio on MP3
and show the world how you released it BSD (aaaaaah)
I'm sick of you little troll and l33t groups
all you do is annoy me
so I have been sent here to destroy you
and there's a million of us just like me
who post like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
who code like me, walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing, but not quite me......

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so won't the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

I'm like a head trip to listen to
cause I'm only givin you things
you troll about with your friends inside you rabbit hole
the only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of ya'll and I aint gotta be false or sugar coated at all
I just get on the web and spit it
and whether you like to admit it (riiip)
I just shit it better than 90% you trollers out can
then you wonder how can
kids eat up these posts like gospel verse
it's funny,cause at the rate I'm going when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the chat rooms flirting
cyberin with nurses when I'm jackin off to porno's
and I'm jerkin' but this whole bag of viagra isn't working
in every single person there's a bruce perens lurkin
he could be workin at Micron Inc., spittin on your SDRAM
or in the printer queue, flooding, writin I dont give a fuck
with his windows down and his system up
so will the real perens please stand up
and click 1 of those fingers till you drag up
and be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
and 1 more time, loud as you can, how does it go? ...........

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Bruce Perens, yes, I'm the real Perens
all you other Bruce Perens' are just imitating
so wont the real Bruce Perens please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

haha guess it's a bruce perens in all of us........
fuck it let's all stand up

Re:Big boost for space tech if it is on course...

On: A Rock Moves In Space

War on speling.

Re:Compiled with gcc-3.1

On: Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta 1

I wonder how many self proclaimed geeks here know what the hell you are talking about?

Digital camera backs

On: Digital Photography for Standard Cameras?

I believe that what the poster is looking for is called a "digital camera back". Knowing that he should be able to find one that is suitable for him.

Re:Didn't they promise to speed up release cycle?

On: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Released

If you had used "kernel-package" to compile the kernel, you would have updated Lilo (or whatever) the moment you had installed the new kernel.

It is little touches like that which makes Debian the best distro for lazy people.

Re:What do you say...

On: Traffic Shaping on DSL?

Is "Offtopic" a synonym for "I don't get it"?

I'm not saying that joke was funny (because it wasn't) but what idiot moderator marked as offtopic?

Well.

On: New Supersonic Jet Test Less Than Successful

If it crashed seconds after takeoff, it does sound like a worthy successor to Concorde.

Re:Cached here

On: AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google

Personally, the only thing I find funny about that is that you forgot the link here

Well.....

On: Repercussions of KPNQwest's Bankruptcy?

A speedtest from myself to somewhere else in Europe has gone from 450/599Kbps down/up to 454/636Kbps, plus my favourite UT servers are pinging the same as usual, so it obviously isn't very serious.

Re:Doesn't make sense

On: Weather Channel Sponsors OSS ATI Radeon Drivers

Because Nvidia cards have got crap 2d output. Still, they should probably have waited for the new Matrox card, unless as you say they bought a job lot of Radeons.

It is better than...

On: How Good is Commercial BIOS Code?

..... what all than about five people reading this could do.

Re:ONE NIL!

On: First Benchmarks of AMD Hammer Prototype

Tactics? Tactics?

First half, pray!
Second half, defend!

But anyway, ONE NIL! ONE NIL!

How not to do it....

On: KBuild Issues on the LKML

Make Linus do what you want by impugning his technical judgment, calling
him a liar, and asking people to flood his mailbox with complaints. Sure, THAT
will work.

Re:My thoughts:

On: Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You

I suppose it depends how you word the link...

this will be clicked more than most.

Re:How do you think?

On: Core IT Interview Questions?

1. How do you make a Nazi Cross with five matches?

Set fire to him?