Hey Slashboteers! Are you finishing university? *STILL* unemployed after the dot com layoffs? Desperately trying to get a LAMP cluster to perform better than an IBM Model 55 running Vista? Well, have we got the answer for you! Chief Executive Officer Rob Malda and SS Officer Michael Sims invite you to join them at the Black River Public School in Holland, Michigan from the 1st November 2007 for the "/. 10th Anniversary Slashbot Camp." Three full days of pony rides, Linux coding and male bonding. Special Appearances by NAMBLA Grand Wizard Katz with his partner Wai Tu Yung.
Activities include:
Bouncy 'CowboyNeal' Castle - Pick a cheek and jump, bitch!
Salami Slam - Jon Katz's unusual variation of naked leapfrog.
Creative Writing - Roland Piquepaille's short course on CTRL-C and CTRL-V.
Anime Association - Sit around with CmdrTaco and watch Anime with no subtitles or dubbing and pretend to know what's going on. Free Juice.
Advanced Kernel Hacking - Workshop on changing kprintf() messages and then re-compiling to make it look like you're l337. Hosted by Alan Cox.
Stealing Code for the Lulz - Presented by Jiri Slaby and the SFLC.
Masters of Perl - Jamie shows you how NOT to code by demonstrating the latest version of CSS Slashcode.
Delusional Paranoia 101 - How to quote 1984 and Franklin for your YRO posts.
The Great Penguin Push - Instructional piece on cramming penguin plush toys into tight spaces.
DivX for the C64 - Featuring our guest speaker "Junis".
Tickets are US$125 each, and the event lasts for three days. For more information, or to book a place, contact CmdrTaco
Terms & Conditions:
Spaces are limited to how many people we can lock in a basement. Camp is open to males aged between 12 and 19. No soap is allowed on the premises. CmdrTaco's Jubei cabinet is not to be used as a simulated coffin for sex games without his involvement. KDawson's 5w Creative speakers must not be turned up to eleven.
"I missed the partying in the 70's and so was not exposed to the full groovy experience that was available. You could say that I was a late developer (pun intended). Thankfully, I am now able to make up for lost time by learning the Groovy scripting language."
"In Sweden at least, the PC is still the number one platform, though if you take all the different consoles and handhelds games taken together that is a bigger market. "
Writing as a Brit who lived in Stockholm for several years, I think the the popularity of the PC might be down to how damn expensive consoles and games were (or maybe stil are?) in Sweden. Apart from queuing at Systembolaget, beautiful winters, punschrulle, amazingly sexy blonde girls and the Stockholm Water Festival, one of my most enduring memories is buying the boxed 3.5" disk demo of the very first DooM from Tradition in Sturegallerian for 49SEK then getting it home to find it wouldn't work on my 486SX/25. I was extremely pissed off.
(From the article) 50 Cent: "I never got into it for the music. I got into it for the business."
Ahhh, so now you're admitting to being a fucking hypocritical douchebag? God damn it I hate gangsta rappers. Putting out hideously mangled "remixes" of old favourites, layered with angry words about their hard life growing up in the ghetto, whores/bitches, drugs, brutal white cops and bling-bling. Then when these convicted former drug dealers are famous and have made a fortune from blinkered and angst-ridden teens, we find out that not a penny they've earnt has gone back into helping the impoverished communities from which they claim to have originated, giving rise to yet another generation of ignored and downtrodden youth with little hope of climbing out of the gutter. "Fiddy" can shove his Bentley Continental, 24 carat back scratcher and poolside table of money right up his arse. With any luck the tenth bullet will do the job.
"She had me install an alternate man page for cat that a previous boyfriend had written..."
Ladies and gentlemen, if you would kindly gather your personal belongings and leave by the nearest exit, Slashdot has finished scraping the bottom of the barrel and this site is now closed.
FFS, Bono is the biggest hypocrite currently walking on the face of the earth. He bangs on about the evils of capitalism, globalism, lack of aid blah blah woof woof and then jumps into bed with Apple to get his own U2 branded iPod, which are all manufactured in a Taiwanese factory using the cheapest possible labour. When he isn't doing that he's flying his forgotten lucky hat to his gig to him in a first class seat at a massive cost in dollars and more importantly to the environment. The bloke is a total douche.
... Aside from the fact that my SSH usage doesn't use the "company-purchased-and-installed" VPN solution, how is the creation/use of an SSH-encrypted tunnel over the Internet between two identically hardened, identically firewalled UNIX systems a "bad security practice"?
But the point is, this is from your personal box at home. What if that system gets compromised and an attacker comes in to your corporate network through your box and your ADSL connection's IP? Seriously, if it was me, I would never open myself up to such liability. Yes, users might get their officially assigned work laptops compromised and an attacker piggybacks on the approved VPN into your corporate network from their homes, but they will not be personally liable - any attempt to take civil/criminal action against an employee using the approved & sanctioned equipment would be thrown straight out of court (unless they have been grossly negligent or deliberately malicious).
The VPN users ride the same public Internet that I do. They have to use the same passwords to authenticate that I do. And most of our VPN user connections originate from unsecured, unfirewalled Windows systems (think laptops/road warriors). What is the magic of a VPN that miraculously makes it perfect and infallible, while SSH is simultaneously security swiss cheese and 100% unacceptable? Is the sole objection to tunnelling the fact that is isn't sanctioned, or is there a genuine, TECHNICAL fallacy here that I'm overlooking?
I do not know of any TECHNICAL reasons for not using OpenSSH in the way you describe at this time of writing. I use OpenBSD on most machines and nearly everything gets passed over OpenSSH at some point - I configure it with public key auth & protocol 2 only, no root logins, privsep & maxauthtries enabled and appropriate legal warning banners. My main concern is that you are burrowing through your corporate firewall (and bypassing the management approved remote access solution, regardless of how crap it might be) without permission to your home meachine leaving a backdoor into the corp net which you can use whenever you want.
I admit my solution isn't sanctioned. That's a political battle for me to deal with when and if it becomes an issue.
I've got no idea quite how senior you are, but I think it would more a battle for keeping your job rather than some internal pissing match.
Just bear in mind that it can be professionally embarassing and career hindering if one of your personal systems gets compromised, especially if you are the InfoSec officer in your company. And don't forget, you should lead by example - If you flout the rules then your staff will too and all those months spent writing policies, standards and procedures will have been for naught. You really should conduct a risk analysis so that you fully understand what your exposure is.
I am the OP for this and this (couldn't be arsed to login before) to put my reply into context.
I don't find cats "cute" but some can be very graceful & colourful. Anyways, I prefer dogs - A burglar doesn't think twice when he sees Tiddles the tabby sitting in the bay window, but when he sees my 4 yr old Dobermann (male, black & tan, looks a bit like this) snarling at him through the letter box, fudge gets made.
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The University you go to. Regardless of where you actually study, saying that you're at MIT automagically gains you +2. Slashdot, like the glorified student notice board that it is, has a special place in its heart for anything from MIT - whether it be a teddy bear stuffed with a switch, or some wankers wrapping a yellow banner with elvish text around the main dome. Even if you didn't go to university, qualify every comment with a "My professor told me" to bask in the warm fuzzy glow of +2, Insightful.
Linux. The basis of the "Slashdot Experience". Claiming you run Linux also gets you +1, Interesting. It doesn't really matter if you've never actually installed it, or your Red Hat box still doesn't have PPP running after 2 years of reading FAQs. The important bit is - You're part of the community. You can bathe in the refelected glory of years of shoddy, buggy code. You are exempt from the Microsoft penalty (see below) as, of course, your Win 98 install is only used for playing games. And reading Slashdot. And using MS Word. And Photoshop. And....
Microsoft. Slashbots and the editors hate Microsoft. Period. Use of a $ symbol in every iteration of their trademarks gets you a +4, Funny. Even though it is far from original, it still manages to raise a grin in those people reading Slashdot between episodes of Cowboy Bebop. You will get a -1, Flamebait or Troll for any post even hinting that Microsoft products are any good / useful / intuitive / user friendly. You will also quickly be shot down with replies about how good GNOME and KDE are, which will then in turn erupt into a flame war.
Freedom / Privacy / YRO. The bread and butter of Slashdot. It fits in sublimely with the whole "Linux" thing. You'll get a +3, Informative for any post containing the Ben Franklin quote about sacrificing essential liberty. It makes no difference that the quote is totally irrelevant in the modern world - Hey, you've got karma! Mis-credting the quote will not end up in a karma penalty, as has been demonstrated countless times. You will gain extra karma if you make reference to your experiences of being wire-tapped by the NSA, and throwing in a vague link to Echelon, black helicopters or Tin Foil Hat Linux. Include a link to the First Amendment for a +1, Interesting mod. Give yourself a pat on the back if you manage to include some extra raging paranoia with no evidence to back it up. Nice!
BSD. If you use it, don't mention it on Slashdot. Most of the Linux-using friendless wonders that inhabit Slashdot wouldn't know quality and stability if it strolled up and kicked them in the throat with a size 13 HiTec Magnum boot. Any mention of how a Firewall running OpenBSD with pf is far superior to Linux's pathetic offering will soon see you as -1, Troll. Much like the post you're reading now.
Yearning for yester-year. Although most comments are written by first year "wannabe-CS-guru" students or links to goatse.cx, there is still the fallout dregs of the dot com boom lurking around slashdot. You can get +5, Insightful for telling how you were so badly treated after the bubble burst. Whining about the lack of jobs where you get paid to fire foam darts at colleagues is a good start. Don't forget to mention how you've now been out of work for months - It starts a "I'm about to graduate and there's nothing going" fuckfest which can spill over into hundreds of comments. Although all the staff who were any good simply got hired into another company, it makes "Good Karma Sense"® to hide the fact that your passing familiarity with Perl and C simply can't get you a job. This is also a prime opportunity to show your egregious personality, as Slashdot rewards arrogance and elitism.
DON'T FORGET TO MOD ME DOWN! GO ON! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
Hey Slashboteers! Are you finishing university? *STILL* unemployed after the dot com layoffs? Well, have we got the answer for you! Chief Executive Officer Rob Madla and SS Officer Michael Sims invite you to join them at the Black River Public School in Holland, Michigan from the 10th August 2006 for the SLASHDOT SUMMER CAMP. Three full days of pony rides, Linux coding and male bonding. Special Appearances by NAMBLA Grand Wizard Katz with his partner Wai Tu Yung.
Activities include:
Bouncy 'CowboyNeal' Castle - Pick a cheek and jump, bitch!
Salami Slam - Jon Katz's unusual variation of naked leapfrog.
Anime Association - Sit around with CmdrTaco and watch Anime with no subtitles or dubbing and pretend to know what's going on. Free Juice.
Advanced Kernel Hacking - Workshop on changing kprintf() messages and then re-compiling to make it look like you're l337. Hosted by Alan Cox.
Masters of Perl - Jamie shows you how NOT to code by demonstrating the latest version of CSS Slashcode.
Delusional Paranoia 101 - How to quote 1984 and Franklin for your YRO posts.
The Great Penguin Push - Instructional piece on cramming penguin plush toys into tight spaces.
DivX for the C64 - Featuring our guest speaker "Junis".
Tickets are US$125 each, and the event lasts for three days. For more information, or to book a place, contact CmdrTaco
Terms & Conditions:
Spaces are limited to how many people we can lock in a basement. Camp is open to males aged between 12 and 19. No soap is allowed on the premises. CmdrTaco's Jubei cabinet is not to be used as a simulated coffin for sex games without his involvement.
Hey Slashboteers! Are you finishing university? *STILL* unemployed after the dot com layoffs? Well, have we got the answer for you! Chief Executive Officer Rob Madla and SS Officer Michael Sims invite you to join them at the Black River Public School in Holland, Michigan from the 10th of August for the SLASHDOT SUMMER CAMP. Three full days of pony rides, coding and male bonding. Special Appearances by NAMBLA Grand Wizard Katz with his partner Wai Tu Yung.
Activities include:
Bouncy 'CowboyNeal' Castle - Pick a cheek and jump, bitch!
Salami Slam - Jon Katz's unusual variation of naked leapfrog.
Anime Association - Sit around with CmdrTaco and watch Anime with no subtitles or dubbing and pretend to know what's going on. Free Juice.
Advanced Kernel Hacking - Workshop on changing printf() statements and then re-compiling to make it look like you're 3ll37. Hosted by Alan Cox.
Masters of Perl - Jamie shows you how NOT to code by demonstrating the latest version of Slash.
Delusional Paranoia 101 - How to quote 1984 and Franklin for your YRO posts.
The Great Penguin Push - Instructional piece on cramming penguin plush toys into tight spaces.
DivX for the C64 - Featuring our guest speaker "Junis".
Tickets are US$90 each, and the event lasts for three days. For more information, or to book a place, contact CmdrTaco [mailto]
Terms & Conditions:
Spaces are limited to how many people we can lock in a basement. Camp is open to males aged between 12 and 19. No soap is allowed on the premises. CmdrTaco's Jubei cabinet is not to be used as a simulated coffin for sex games without his involvement.
"There's a sourceforge project creating just what you're looking
for..."
"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the
idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project
has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"That's the beauty of UNIX - Lots of little tools which can be used
together. Far more flexible!"
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fucks knows what any of
this flags stuff is about"
"Linux is far more secure than Windows. My box has never been
hacked."
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a
network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"You might want to try going to college and learning about this
stuff!"
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in
an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"Microsoft products are soooo insecure!"
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot
propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my
life depended on it."
"We should file an antitrust lawsuit against Sony"
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"Have you considered using Linux?"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Don't you find that parsing this bitset through the compliation alogirithm that is piped out through GCC on a command line echo really works well for logarithmically sound sine wave matcher?"
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"If they join all the state drivers licence databases together, they'll be able to track me! How do I change my identity?"
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
It is 10pm. Do you know where your karma is?
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The University you go to. Regardless of where you actually study, saying that you're at MIT automagically gains you +2. Slashdot, like the glorified student notice board that it is, has a special place in its heart for anything from MIT - whether it be a teddy bear stuffed with a switch, or some wankers wrapping a yellow banner with elvish text around the main dome. Even if you didn't go to university, qualify every comment with a "My professor told me" to bask in the warm fuzzy glow of +2, Insightful.
Linux. The basis of the "Slashdot Experience". Claiming you run Linux also gets you +1, Interesting. It doesn't really matter if you've never actually installed it, or your Red Hat box still doesn't have PPP running after 2 years of reading FAQs. The important bit is - You're part of the community. You can bathe in the refelected glory of years of shoddy, buggy code. You are exempt from the Microsoft penalty (see below) as, of course, your Win 98 install is only used for playing games. And reading Slashdot. And using MS Word. And Photoshop. And....
Microsoft. Slashbots and the editors hate Microsoft. Period. Use of a $ symbol in every iteration of their trademarks gets you a +4, Funny. Even though it is far from original, it still manages to raise a grin in those people reading Slashdot between episodes of Cowboy Bebop. You will get a -1, Flamebait or Troll for any post even hinting that Microsoft products are any good / useful / intuitive / user friendly. You will also quickly be shot down with replies about how good GNOME and KDE are, which will then in turn erupt into a flame war.
Freedom / Privacy / YRO. The bread and butter of Slashdot. It fits in sublimely with the whole "Linux" thing. You'll get a +3, Informative for any post containing the Ben Franklin quote about sacrificing essential liberty. It makes no difference that the quote is totally irrelevant in the modern world - Hey, you've got karma! Mis-credting the quote will not end up in a karma penalty, as has been demonstrated countless times. You will gain extra karma if you make reference to your experiences of being wire-tapped by the NSA, and throwing in a vague link to Echelon, black helicopters or Tin Foil Hat Linux. Include a link to the First Amendment for a +1, Interesting mod. Give yourself a pat on the back if you manage to include some extra raging paranoia with no evidence to back it up. Nice!
BSD. If you use it, don't mention it on Slashdot. Most of the Linux-using friendless wonders that inhabit Slashdot wouldn't know quality and stability if it strolled up and kicked them in the throat with a size 13 HiTec Magnum boot. Any mention of how a Firewall running OpenBSD with pf is far superior to Linux's pathetic offering will soon see you as -1, Troll. Much like the post you're reading now.
Yearning for yester-year. Although most comments are written by first year "wannabe-CS-guru" students or links to goatse.cx, there is still the fallout dregs of the dot com boom lurking around slashdot. You can get +5, Insightful for telling how you were so badly treated after the bubble burst. Whining about the lack of jobs where you get paid to fire foam darts at colleagues is a good start. Don't forget to mention how you've now been out of work for months - It starts a "I'm about to graduate and there's nothing going" fuckfest which can spill over into hundreds of comments. Although all the staff who were any good simply got hired into another company, it makes "Good Karma Sense"® to hide the fact that your passing familiarity with Perl and C simply can't get you a job. This is also a prime opportunity to show your egregious personality, as Slashdot rewards arrogance and elitism.
DON'T FORGET TO MOD ME DOWN! GO ON! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
Person who wears roll-neck sweaters, listens to iPods, was the first to buy a mini push scooter, writes the name "Patrick" with a 'q' (thanks, el reg), quaffs over-priced lattes while sitting in a designer leather sofa, has pre-ripped jeans and bleached blonde hair, wears glasses even though they don't need to, leaves poetry books around their house to convey intellectualism, spouts pathetic rants on their website in the hope that a visitor will support them by buying something through their amazon affiliate link, prefers gluten-free bread and has a "fish-only diet week" once per month.
"I have a right to my viewpoint as to which hemisphere I live in!"
Yes, you're absolutely right! North, East, South, West or wherever it is that you think you're from, could you please fuck off back there as no one here gives a shit about your hurt feelings.
"...I would look around places like/. to try and net some technical wizards to do my bidding."
First mistake... Last mistake. Most people here couldn't restore their Dell back to factory configuration even with the original media. However, If you're after a first year student computer science guru-wannabe who'll churn out a few badly coded lines of Perl and then rape your cat, you've come to the right place. HTH.
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SLASHDOT CAMP 2007 - BOOK NOW!!!
Hey Slashboteers! Are you finishing university? *STILL* unemployed after the dot com layoffs? Desperately trying to get a LAMP cluster to perform better than an IBM Model 55 running Vista? Well, have we got the answer for you! Chief Executive Officer Rob Malda and SS Officer Michael Sims invite you to join them at the Black River Public School in Holland, Michigan from the 1st November 2007 for the "/. 10th Anniversary Slashbot Camp." Three full days of pony rides, Linux coding and male bonding. Special Appearances by NAMBLA Grand Wizard Katz with his partner Wai Tu Yung.
Activities include:
Tickets are US$125 each, and the event lasts for three days. For more information, or to book a place, contact CmdrTaco
Terms & Conditions:
Spaces are limited to how many people we can lock in a basement. Camp is open to males aged between 12 and 19. No soap is allowed on the premises. CmdrTaco's Jubei cabinet is not to be used as a simulated coffin for sex games without his involvement. KDawson's 5w Creative speakers must not be turned up to eleven.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. You have truly and utterly FAILED.
Errr, no, that would be the CISO's responsibility.
Ahhh, so now you're admitting to being a fucking hypocritical douchebag? God damn it I hate gangsta rappers. Putting out hideously mangled "remixes" of old favourites, layered with angry words about their hard life growing up in the ghetto, whores/bitches, drugs, brutal white cops and bling-bling. Then when these convicted former drug dealers are famous and have made a fortune from blinkered and angst-ridden teens, we find out that not a penny they've earnt has gone back into helping the impoverished communities from which they claim to have originated, giving rise to yet another generation of ignored and downtrodden youth with little hope of climbing out of the gutter. "Fiddy" can shove his Bentley Continental, 24 carat back scratcher and poolside table of money right up his arse. With any luck the tenth bullet will do the job.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you would kindly gather your personal belongings and leave by the nearest exit, Slashdot has finished scraping the bottom of the barrel and this site is now closed.
Don't worry, you're not alone.
FFS, Bono is the biggest hypocrite currently walking on the face of the earth. He bangs on about the evils of capitalism, globalism, lack of aid blah blah woof woof and then jumps into bed with Apple to get his own U2 branded iPod, which are all manufactured in a Taiwanese factory using the cheapest possible labour. When he isn't doing that he's flying his forgotten lucky hat to his gig to him in a first class seat at a massive cost in dollars and more importantly to the environment. The bloke is a total douche.
But the point is, this is from your personal box at home. What if that system gets compromised and an attacker comes in to your corporate network through your box and your ADSL connection's IP? Seriously, if it was me, I would never open myself up to such liability. Yes, users might get their officially assigned work laptops compromised and an attacker piggybacks on the approved VPN into your corporate network from their homes, but they will not be personally liable - any attempt to take civil/criminal action against an employee using the approved & sanctioned equipment would be thrown straight out of court (unless they have been grossly negligent or deliberately malicious).
I do not know of any TECHNICAL reasons for not using OpenSSH in the way you describe at this time of writing. I use OpenBSD on most machines and nearly everything gets passed over OpenSSH at some point - I configure it with public key auth & protocol 2 only, no root logins, privsep & maxauthtries enabled and appropriate legal warning banners. My main concern is that you are burrowing through your corporate firewall (and bypassing the management approved remote access solution, regardless of how crap it might be) without permission to your home meachine leaving a backdoor into the corp net which you can use whenever you want.
I've got no idea quite how senior you are, but I think it would more a battle for keeping your job rather than some internal pissing match.
Just bear in mind that it can be professionally embarassing and career hindering if one of your personal systems gets compromised, especially if you are the InfoSec officer in your company. And don't forget, you should lead by example - If you flout the rules then your staff will too and all those months spent writing policies, standards and procedures will have been for naught. You really should conduct a risk analysis so that you fully understand what your exposure is.
I am the OP for this and this (couldn't be arsed to login before) to put my reply into context.
I don't find cats "cute" but some can be very graceful & colourful. Anyways, I prefer dogs - A burglar doesn't think twice when he sees Tiddles the tabby sitting in the bay window, but when he sees my 4 yr old Dobermann (male, black & tan, looks a bit like this) snarling at him through the letter box, fudge gets made.
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I have the "Very Busy Man" bag (probably EOL by now) and it comfortably holds:
"If they're not there....viola'!"
Oh for the love of God... it's * Voilà *, you ignorant fuckwit!
SLASHDOT SUMMER CAMP 2006 - BOOK NOW!!!
Hey Slashboteers! Are you finishing university? *STILL* unemployed after the dot com layoffs? Well, have we got the answer for you! Chief Executive Officer Rob Madla and SS Officer Michael Sims invite you to join them at the Black River Public School in Holland, Michigan from the 10th August 2006 for the SLASHDOT SUMMER CAMP. Three full days of pony rides, Linux coding and male bonding. Special Appearances by NAMBLA Grand Wizard Katz with his partner Wai Tu Yung.
Activities include:
Tickets are US$125 each, and the event lasts for three days. For more information, or to book a place, contact CmdrTaco
Terms & Conditions:
Spaces are limited to how many people we can lock in a basement. Camp is open to males aged between 12 and 19. No soap is allowed on the premises. CmdrTaco's Jubei cabinet is not to be used as a simulated coffin for sex games without his involvement.
Slashbot: "Awesom-o, are you by any chance a.... pleasure model?"
Japanese Robo Woman: "Rame!"
'tis now a rarity when I laugh at a Slashdot post (how one yearns for the older days of "The Turd Report" and "ringbarer").
Seeing an arrogant slashbot shot down is always comedy gold. Bravo.
"Granted, your team is not as stilled as the crack techs at /. central, but the specs on that page will get you pointed in the right direction."
You left out the word "smoking" in that sentence. I'll let you figure out where.
SLASHDOT SUMMER CAMP
Hey Slashboteers! Are you finishing university? *STILL* unemployed after the dot com layoffs? Well, have we got the answer for you! Chief Executive Officer Rob Madla and SS Officer Michael Sims invite you to join them at the Black River Public School in Holland, Michigan from the 10th of August for the SLASHDOT SUMMER CAMP. Three full days of pony rides, coding and male bonding. Special Appearances by NAMBLA Grand Wizard Katz with his partner Wai Tu Yung.
Activities include:
Tickets are US$90 each, and the event lasts for three days. For more information, or to book a place, contact CmdrTaco [mailto]
Terms & Conditions:
Spaces are limited to how many people we can lock in a basement. Camp is open to males aged between 12 and 19. No soap is allowed on the premises. CmdrTaco's Jubei cabinet is not to be used as a simulated coffin for sex games without his involvement.
1st Official Slashdot to English Translator-matic
"Me and a bunch of people got drunk, thought we could code, submitted the idea and produced a fancy web page. It's now two years later and the project has no files to download and is STILL on Stage 1, Planning."
"I've been reading UNIX in a Nutshell for SVR4 and fucks knows what any of this flags stuff is about"
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
"My folks are rich enough to send me off for further education. I am now in an uber-elite crowd of know-it-alls and I am here to belittle you. Fear me."
"I've spent the last two years being subjected to biased slashdot propaganda. I couldn't hack into a properly configured windows system if my life depended on it."
"I've spent far too much time absorbing bullshit ideals from anarchists. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want to pay for anything whatsoever. Britney CDs should be free because I think that somehow the constitution protects my illegal copying and distribution under some freedom of speech law or fair use act. Even though I don't have to go out and buy luxury items, I'm gonna whinge and bitch anyway"
"I've only been using it for a week, and now my hardcore wannabe techno friends think I'm a guru. I now recommend it to everybody based upon what I've read at slashdot."
"Somebody please shoot me several times in the head. I am fucking clueless."
"I'm too fucking dense to realise that this has been going on for over 15 years already, and I've just finished reading 1984. Go figure."
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Blogger;
Person who wears roll-neck sweaters, listens to iPods, was the first to buy a mini push scooter, writes the name "Patrick" with a 'q' (thanks, el reg), quaffs over-priced lattes while sitting in a designer leather sofa, has pre-ripped jeans and bleached blonde hair, wears glasses even though they don't need to, leaves poetry books around their house to convey intellectualism, spouts pathetic rants on their website in the hope that a visitor will support them by buying something through their amazon affiliate link, prefers gluten-free bread and has a "fish-only diet week" once per month.
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"I have a right to my viewpoint as to which hemisphere I live in!"
Yes, you're absolutely right! North, East, South, West or wherever it is that you think you're from, could you please fuck off back there as no one here gives a shit about your hurt feelings.
"...I would look around places like
First mistake... Last mistake. Most people here couldn't restore their Dell back to factory configuration even with the original media. However, If you're after a first year student computer science guru-wannabe who'll churn out a few badly coded lines of Perl and then rape your cat, you've come to the right place. HTH.
And you only ever see a lacrosse stick in the hands of some gorgeous piece of crumpet over here in Blighty.