Urrrrr. The only way to slashdot them is IF they read the article. You're right, of course. A significant number of slashdotters would have to read the article for the slashdotting to occur. So. What articles draw in ALL slashdotters? The ultimate troll article so to speak? Some of the topics that should be covered by that article:
Linux (of course)
Mac
Politics/Law
Downloadable movie trailer (preferably geeky)
Microsoft anti-trust/SCO
p0rn (something for both gyus and gals)
Religion
Grammar and spelling mistakes
Not be a dupe (what's the chance?)
something along the lines of
Posted by BillBuck on 16:05 29 November 2004 from the crying-outrage dept. According to this article[ann.lu] Microsoft has hit Akamai (caching service often used by Apple) with a DMCA takedown notice. The reason is this trailer for Natalie Portman's first "adult" movie, starring alongside Jon Katz. Microsoft says it breaks their recently granted patent on doing perverted things, but the takedown may also be motivated by the incredible performance the Linux and dying BSD servers are displaying. Also, in the SCO appeal, Linux has been hit with an injuction against being connected to the internet. Get the trailer before it goes down. Thank Baelzebub I'm running MorphOS.
+1 Interesting I guess we're getting -1 Offtopic now, but here goes:
So we have many kinds of gender definers now:
Mental gender (What you think you are. This includes pretending to be something else, even for some of the time.)
Brain gender (There are areas of the brain that are different between men and women. These areas tell you what gender you are, but you could override it because of a mental condition, up-bringing or whatever.)
Sexual organ gender (What sexual organs you have.)
Hormonal gender (Your sexual hormone balance.)
Genetic gender (Are you XX or XY.)
All these indicators usually are either male or female, but sometimes one of theim are "in-between" or some might be male and others female.
I usually consider the genetic gender to be the real gender. The genes and the hormones in the womb influence all the other indicators.
I saw a documentary about the importance of the brain in defining gender. It was once thought that up-bringing (treating boys like boys and girls like girls) was the only thing that shaped the sexual identity. This case showed this belief to be wrong. John was a born a boy (genetic, brain, organs, hormones), but was given a sex-change operation. He was treated like a girl and given hormone treatment, but his genes and brain told him he was a boy.
Sexual "re-assigment" is sometimes performed on babies born with genital defects. I hope they do a DNA and hormone test to see what gender the baby "really" has before giving a genetic boy a vulva, or giving a genetic girl a penis.
I'm just glad I don't have to go thorugh something like that.
Commercial software provides only two things open source software can't provide - software that is extrememly difficult to create and has a small target audience (think very high end engineering CAD software or exteremely complex movie rendering) and someone to sue if the product doesn't work as specified.
The silly thing is that usually regular users get no warranty at all (if not national laws require them). Warranties may be available for a higher price. And indemnifications against lawsuits are almost non-existent.
They can develop and run your systems on their own dorm computers where their cyber sapien friends can do quality assurance with your confidential data.
Actually, that's a pretty good idea. If they use encryption, and the dorm network is stable, letting students develop might be better than Microsoft "security". In fact, I'm writing code for an application running on a university server with the CVS repository accessed through a team member's dorm computer. I back up the documentation to my dorm computer. It works. But we have the good sense to not test the system with real confidential data. Usernames are in the style of "Eli. T. Haksor, Apartment 3, West Deepfrier 4, 1337 Elit Ness"
Universities of Finland. And I'm sure that Finland have several universities. I'm afraid you misread that. The post says "Universities of Finland and Freiburg (Germany)", while the ABC article says "University of Finland, and Benoit Sittler of the University of Freiburg in Germany." The university in question is the University of Helsinki, Finland. (I have university access to the Science articles.)
1 Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Population Biology, Post Office Box 65, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
2 CBGP, Campus de Baillarguet, Equipe Biologie et Gestion des Pullulations (INRA-IRD), CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier/Lez Cedex, France.
3 Institut fur Landespflege, University of Freiburg, 79085 Freiburg, Germany.
Yes, you're right of course. The eyes are able to look at the sun without shying away because there is less visible light, but the "invisible" light will damage the eyes. If you're admiring a sunset, don't look at the sun but rather the landscape/sea/skyscrapers.
The Lord's peace be with you! I brother Fede Raltra working at a mission in the Decom district, Lagos, Nigeria. I am also the organizer of the annual Nigerian email conference. You are hereby cordially invited to the conference.
To register, send your address, daytime telephone numbe, name of your contact in Amsterdam, and the registration fee to me (the address on the page is out-dated): Nigerian EMail Conference c/o Fede Raltra Decom Mission 600 Penn. Av. N. W. Wa Shing Ton D. C. 20580 Lagos Nigeria
I guess if SCO wins, we fight to take back our court system from the special interests that are currently influencing it. Is it me, or am I hearing a thick Austrian accent there?:-)
In the Microsoft case. I seem to remember a judge making public statements about how sleazy Microsoft had been (evidence manufacture and prejury)? Those public statements hurt the case in the end, didn't they? Let's wait for the ruling. If this one goes to court, SCO is done for. I got interested in this case because the first statement I read from SCO sounded so utterly clueless about law. They didn't seem to have even an elementary concept of what patents, trade secrets and copyrights are.
Slashdot Mirror
You're right, of course. A significant number of slashdotters would have to read the article for the slashdotting to occur.
So. What articles draw in ALL slashdotters? The ultimate troll article so to speak?
Some of the topics that should be covered by that article:
something along the lines of
Posted by BillBuck on 16:05 29 November 2004
from the crying-outrage dept.
According to this article[ann.lu] Microsoft has hit Akamai (caching service often used by Apple) with a DMCA takedown notice. The reason is this trailer for Natalie Portman's first "adult" movie, starring alongside Jon Katz. Microsoft says it breaks their recently granted patent on doing perverted things, but the takedown may also be motivated by the incredible performance the Linux and dying BSD servers are displaying. Also, in the SCO appeal, Linux has been hit with an injuction against being connected to the internet. Get the trailer before it goes down. Thank Baelzebub I'm running MorphOS.
Not all slashdotters have balls, you insensitive clod! They have ovaries instead.
That would only gain statistics about people who actually RTFA. Could hardly include ALL slashdotters?
I haven't heard about Klinefelter syndrome before. Thanks for clearing that up. Also see the other post about the person half XX and half XY.
I really should do more research before posting.....
I guess we're getting -1 Offtopic now, but here goes:
So we have many kinds of gender definers now:
All these indicators usually are either male or female, but sometimes one of theim are "in-between" or some might be male and others female.
I usually consider the genetic gender to be the real gender. The genes and the hormones in the womb influence all the other indicators.
I saw a documentary about the importance of the brain in defining gender. It was once thought that up-bringing (treating boys like boys and girls like girls) was the only thing that shaped the sexual identity. This case showed this belief to be wrong. John was a born a boy (genetic, brain, organs, hormones), but was given a sex-change operation. He was treated like a girl and given hormone treatment, but his genes and brain told him he was a boy.
Sexual "re-assigment" is sometimes performed on babies born with genital defects. I hope they do a DNA and hormone test to see what gender the baby "really" has before giving a genetic boy a vulva, or giving a genetic girl a penis.
I'm just glad I don't have to go thorugh something like that.
You are male or female, NOT both.
Bad example. Some people really are born both
Yes, but genetically, they're one or the other. Physically and mentally is another matter though, as you correctly state.
Commercial software provides only two things open source software can't provide - software that is extrememly difficult to create and has a small target audience (think very high end engineering CAD software or exteremely complex movie rendering) and someone to sue if the product doesn't work as specified.
The silly thing is that usually regular users get no warranty at all (if not national laws require them). Warranties may be available for a higher price. And indemnifications against lawsuits are almost non-existent.
All the cluelessness rolls over and becomes true.
They can develop and run your systems on their own dorm computers where their cyber sapien friends can do quality assurance with your confidential data.
Actually, that's a pretty good idea.
If they use encryption, and the dorm network is stable, letting students develop might be better than Microsoft "security".
In fact, I'm writing code for an application running on a university server with the CVS repository accessed through a team member's dorm computer.
I back up the documentation to my dorm computer.
It works.
But we have the good sense to not test the system with real confidential data. Usernames are in the style of "Eli. T. Haksor, Apartment 3, West Deepfrier 4, 1337 Elit Ness"
I've used this feature also to send quick notes to cow-orkers at the office
Easily identified by their Gateway workstations.
And their sunlight intolerance. (You know, being orks.)
"Orker". That spelling is about as strange as "Virii" or "Microsoft".
On second thought, apparent sunlight intolerance wouldn't make anybody stand out among other nerds.
Image change in progress. Stay tuned. (Speculation on my part.)
I will have to unfriend all my friends, because "neutrals" look so cool in shades. Nice shades matth.
Universities of Finland. And I'm sure that Finland have several universities.
I'm afraid you misread that. The post says "Universities of Finland and Freiburg (Germany)", while the ABC article says "University of Finland, and Benoit Sittler of the University of Freiburg in Germany."
The university in question is the University of Helsinki, Finland. (I have university access to the Science articles.)
You're right.
From Science (My university subscribes):
Olivier Gilg,1,2* Ilkka Hanski,1 Benoit Sittler3
1 Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Population Biology, Post Office Box 65, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.
2 CBGP, Campus de Baillarguet, Equipe Biologie et Gestion des Pullulations (INRA-IRD), CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier/Lez Cedex, France.
3 Institut fur Landespflege, University of Freiburg, 79085 Freiburg, Germany.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed
Yes, you're right of course.
The eyes are able to look at the sun without shying away because there is less visible light, but the "invisible" light will damage the eyes.
If you're admiring a sunset, don't look at the sun but rather the landscape/sea/skyscrapers.
The Lord's peace be with you!
I brother Fede Raltra working at a mission in the Decom district, Lagos, Nigeria. I am also the organizer of the annual Nigerian email conference. You are hereby cordially invited to the conference.
To register, send your address, daytime telephone numbe, name of your contact in Amsterdam, and the registration fee to me (the address on the page is out-dated):
Nigerian EMail Conference
c/o Fede Raltra
Decom Mission
600 Penn. Av. N. W.
Wa Shing
Ton D. C. 20580
Lagos
Nigeria
Please don't look directly at the sun, even at sunset or trough clouds. If the smoke is so dense that it feels like nighttime, then maybe it's safe.
Well, but please don't try to unify it with the *nix evolution tree. Then you'll need three screens to make sense of it. At least.
"Urban ledgend" warning!
It was more of a paraphrase than a real quote. The journalist wouldn't identify who had said it.
And if you're pretending to be SEAL, you go around humming but refuse to sing.
I guess if SCO wins, we fight to take back our court system from the special interests that are currently influencing it. :-)
Is it me, or am I hearing a thick Austrian accent there?
In the Microsoft case. I seem to remember a judge making public statements about how sleazy Microsoft had been (evidence manufacture and prejury)? Those public statements hurt the case in the end, didn't they?
Let's wait for the ruling. If this one goes to court, SCO is done for.
I got interested in this case because the first statement I read from SCO sounded so utterly clueless about law. They didn't seem to have even an elementary concept of what patents, trade secrets and copyrights are.
I mean, hey, it's not ass-rape, but $2 million will do for starters.
Bestiality, Rape, European.
Seriously though: Jail rape is not funny.
Well, it may have been if they moved it out of the UK's territorial waters.
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