Who appear to be a small outfit doing full digitization and restoration of old prints, as well as lifetime digital archiving. Depending on pricing it's that last point that would matter to me. I'm not going to endorse a vendor or anything but getting a service which does lifetime offsite digital backup of an entire photo collection sounds like a damn fine idea to me. If the house burns down, you can still get prints, you know? I guess the digital revolution also means you can get re-albumization, restoration, and all the rest out of slides and prints, but I kind of like the show-your-great-great-great-grandkids how (not)cool you were aspect too.
"I did not actually break into any troll boxes, although I did imply that in a misguided attempts to use some of their trolling rhetorical devices against them."
Hey, Fyodor, is nmap a rhetorical device? Seriously, I saw that hack archive you posted to insecure.org, that was funny stuff. I just wanted to say that I admire your skills and I think you taught that guy a lesson (-:
Well, first of all, I actually saw Fyodor's page when he had those screenshots of the hacked guy's page posted to his web site. But I'm not sure you can call him a Blackhat. Greyhat is more like it.
I mean, he hacked into a troll's computer. Aren't trolls already breaking the law? If you're a vigilante, and you're making the web a better place by fighting the trolls, I'm not sure that breaking into computers and deleting stuff is as big a deal. It's like hacking a spammer - who cares?
I alerted Slashteam to the existence of CMU's Captcha project six months before they began development on their own system, and even outlined a manner in which it could be used to stop all scripted posting to Slashdot. I will do so again here, for reference:
Logged-in posters don't need CAPTCHA, because their account is their authentication. Accounts are already rate-limited per day. So the problem is with AC posting. If AC comments posted logged-in do not already count towards an account's comment total, that should be corrected.
When an AC poster wants to post to Slashdot, Slashdot should request a cookie (we'll call this cookie "A"). If the client does not have "A", then he is presented with a CAPTCHA dialog. If he passes the dialog, "A" is set to a random hash. The value of cookie "A" represents a "license to post", and the server will allow it to be presented by an AC a certain number of times (admin variable "X") to post comments. After the cookie value (license) has been used X times, that hash value (license) is expired, and is no longer valid to post, and the client must pass CAPTCHA again.
The storage structure required would be a perl hash keyed by the license, with the data value being equal to the number of posts remaining per license. A process to "age" this table would have to run on an interrupt. No DB interaction is required, and the entire system could be managed in resident memory. Not rocket science by a long shot.
X could be set initially to 5, and tweaked per system. This isn't hard to implement (it's no harder than formkeys) and it was given to Slashteam along with a reference to CMU's CAPTCHA project long before they ever started writing their own CAPTCHA code.
Sadly, the automated posting problem on Slashdot is still alive and well as I write this comment, despite the fact that I have documented the solution.
So, based on that information, you might be able to take your evaluation further.
This paper, while extensively researched, falls into the classic "Correlation vs. Causality" trap. Like the RIAA linking a drop in CD sales to the incidence of Napster use (a conclusion which you vehemently decried), this study has proven a general correlation between gun ownership and crime rates but has failed to provide a causal relation between these factors.
The Correlation vs. Causality flaw is a classic trap, of which I will give one example: "Men who use electric razors are four times as likely to develop facial melanoma." So electric razors cause cancer? Well, no.
Electric razors are used in greater numbers by men in urban environments who have higher overall cancer rates in every category, because they are exposed to more carcinogens. But appropriately spun, the correlation sounds downright dreadful.
Instead of flawed studies like the one linked in the parent, I recommend fact sites such as GunCite.
Thanks to Antioffline.com for hosting us, and Gentoo's Portage system for catching the trojaned files via checksums.
Gentoo had the OLD checksums, which is the reason it was caught. Everyone who checked the new checksums got owned. The Gentoo suspicions were confirmed by checking the Google cache.
Gentoo basically caught this because they were so far behind the curve that they still had the old distribution. While it's a great argument not to use Gentoo, this kind of security-through-being-behind accident is not a security process, nor is it repeatable, nor should it be considered a success of the checksum system.
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Sure something else might come along that can, but as you point out, if you're running a server that's been up a year, changing things is never comfortable, and if you know slapper isn't going to infect you, there's much less motivation.
That's exactly what the Blackhats of the world wanted to hear. Of course, they can use the exploit on you, log in, download their BINARY rootkits that don't need a compiler, and use your bandwidth to rape innocent sites like Slashdot with DoS attacks. After deleting your logs, they'll install a sniffer to see what other systems they can compromise using your NIC's visibility, and finally they'll deface your web site and pipe/dev/urandom onto your hard drive's raw interface.
Have fun!
It's really a damned shame you don't have a way of getting a securely signed OpenSSL update. While Debian has signature and key checking, it's all on a single point of failure server. You really need a trusted key that comes with the install media, but so far the only O/S which supports this is Windows. People who use Free software don't get install media and are pretty much up the creek...
Did anyone actually read FinalDecree.pdf? Kotar-Kotelly has ordered that Microsoft has to open it's API's to competitors for five years. This is the equivalent of a death sentence for Microsoft. All successfuly software companies close their source code and API's to protect themselves from theft by their competition. Now that Microsoft's designs and components are out in the open, they are ripe for picking by the Japanese competitors that have been scoping out the American software market for years.
This is the death of American dominance in the software industry. The Japanese are going to use this crippling disadvantage to reverse engineer Windows with cheap, foreign labor (Indian coding sweatshops and the like) just like they've done with other industries.
Mark my words, in ten years you'll all be using NEC/OS.
Here is a question I would like you to ask. I believe that it is a good question because it is simple and hard to evade:
Palladium technology allows for the signing authority, in this case Microsoft, to create a blacklist of forbidden computer documents on all Palladium enabled machines. Will Microsoft maintain sole control of their ability to blacklist documents, or will they grant this ability to government as well?
As I recall, right in the middle of the dot-com boom Microsoft started an online, collaborative center for Medical education by buying out a bunch of sites. It was called the "MSN Healing Zone" and didn't last for very long...
Will these phones only be able to send video that you've recorded with the phone? Or will you be able to upload images to them? For instance, I'd love to be able to beam nude images of the Brazilian women's soccer team to people from my computer using this phone. I can't seem to find a data sheet which talks about the upload capability.
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PGP-the-suite is primarily a morass of fairly unrelated products, bundled together merely for markettng reasons, which you have obviously fallen for...
Yes, an IDS, a firewall, an encrypted email client, and an encrypted filesystem. What could the relationship possibly be? These products have no business being in the same box, they're from separate industries! It's all a marketing trick, FUD FUD FUD!
Basically, he's embarrassed that the original poster was right - if PGP is ported to linux, the software will have to be compatible with all desktop environments and window managers or some subset thereof. A query as to the nature of the subset is Interesting - or, to some, it's an invitation to miss the point and nitpick over details. Seeing as how not all window managers work in all desktop environments, the original poster has some measure of a point, though it might not have been what he intended.
Hi there, someone I care about has a genetic disorder known as Hypertriglyceridemia . This disorder is somewhat complicated but basically involves highly elevated trigylceride levels that can become toxic. She is required to maintain her tri levels through medication and diet, and to get monthly blood tests. For six years, my friend was a vegetarian. She took fish oil pills as supplements (despite the fact that they are extracted from slaughtered fish) in order to regulate her triglyceride levels. She was failing; her blood tests were coming back "too high" - and she was on the way to early death. After six years, she gave up and started eating fish. One month later her triglyceride levels were tested as "average"... for a normal person. In short, there are oils in fish which, consumed in the appropriate quantities, will keep her alive.
You don't have to eat meat. But if you do, you stand to live a much longer, healthier life. Ask any high-output athelete how they would build muscle without animal protein and they will laugh you out of the room.
Personally I believe that all vegetarians should have the option of discussing choice with a hungry tiger, but that's just my opinion. I'm sharing my friends' story in the hopes that you will choose to lead a healthier life.
Why is it that the recipes from Good Eats belong to the Food Network, and they post so few of them? How much editorial control do you have over your Web Content and would you do things differently if you had the option?
If you look at the parent author's posting history, you'll see that he is nothing more than a troll who fools people into thinking that he is Theo. (Incidentally, the name is "Theo de Raadt", not "Theo DeRaadt".)
Look, this whole FreeBSD/OpenBSD flamewar has gotten out of hand. It's bad enough that you people are blocking each other's email, but let's not go accusing Theo of stealing his own account. Yes, a FreeBSD box was responsible for this security breakdown. Deal with it. There's no reason to go spreading wild accusations like this.
That's Theo's Slashdot account. Quit being a jerk.
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Down 1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___. 2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE. 3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux. 4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe. 5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal. 6. Russian Geeks in Space. 7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem. 8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party. 9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will. 0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth. 0B. The market leader in megahertz lies. 0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic. 0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers. 10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down). 13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it. 16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks. 18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____. 19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth? 1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever! 20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies. 21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)). 22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device. 23. (43 Down)'s employer. 24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across). 26. ESR's birthday present to RMS. 27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users. 29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble. 2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants! 2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points. 2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb! 33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot. 34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site. 35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project [sethf.com] [sethf.com] wasn't just a game. 36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state. 37. A geek's computer is always __. 39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction. 3A. The XP makes it go faster! 3E. The world's worst operating system! 40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'. 41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore. 43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot. 45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process. 47. VA Software has the world's worst ___. 48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again. 4A. Legalized child pornography. 4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for. 51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here. 53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All. 5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass! 5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot. 5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products. 5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system. 5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips. 5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis. 60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across). 63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group. 64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*... 65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot. 67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers. 6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
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Across 1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot! 5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian. 7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting. 0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop. 0E. Ew! Between the eyes! 0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries. 11. Living proof that you get what you pay for. 12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web. 14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD. 15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile. 17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill. 18. A very Snotty troll. 1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64. 1D. The best text editor EVER! 1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death! 1F. These guys gave Linux mono. 25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway. 28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter. 2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows. 2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines. 2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums. 2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __. 30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive. 31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!! 32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed. 33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass! 35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since. 38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists. 3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number. 3C. It's not Unix, and it shows. 3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads. 3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system. 41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma. 42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot. 44. Head bitch of the RIAA. 46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger. 49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco. 4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag. 4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor. 4D. To B or not __ _. 4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass. 50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum. 52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble. 53. The world's best operating system! 54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll. 55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future. 56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day. 57. This open-source man was Natalie's first. 58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground. 59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix. 5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem. 5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter. 5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth. 61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these. 62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net. 64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime. 65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA. 66. The only Adequacy [adequacy.org] [adequacy.org] editor with a real PhD. 67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong. 68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid. 69. Two-letter country code for Oman. 6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom. 6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files. 6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings". 6D. QueenTaco's maiden name. 6E. The best text editor EVER! 6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down 1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___. 2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE. 3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux. 4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe. 5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal. 6. Russian Geeks in Space. 7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem. 8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party. 9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will. 0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth. 0B. The market leader in megahertz lies. 0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic. 0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers. 10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down). 13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it. 16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks. 18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____. 19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth? 1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever! 20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies. 21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)). 22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device. 23. (43 Down)'s employer. 24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across). 26. ESR's birthday present to RMS. 27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users. 29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble. 2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants! 2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points. 2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb! 33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot. 34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site. 35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project [sethf.com] [sethf.com] wasn't just a game. 36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state. 37. A geek's computer is always __. 39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction. 3A. The XP makes it go faster! 3E. The world's worst operating system! 40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'. 41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore. 43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot. 45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process. 47. VA Software has the world's worst ___. 48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again. 4A. Legalized child pornography. 4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for. 51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here. 53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All. 5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass! 5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot. 5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products. 5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system. 5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips. 5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis. 60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across). 63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group. 64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*... 65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot. 67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers. 6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
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Now's your chance to see just how well you've been paying attention during the
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Source, and geekiness in general for not only posterity but GREAT
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Fill in the crossword completely. No incomplete (or incorrect)
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solutions in early!
The winners will be announced on 2002/04/28, to be praised in -1
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there are of course some variations from the standard crossword form to make
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different answers. Many of the answers are acronyms or initialisms; if the
answer that comes to mind doesn't fit, try thinking of common abbreviations for
it. And, of course, the crossword indices are all in hexadecimal
(this is Slashdot, after all!)
So, without further ado, here comes the crossword! Plain HTML is admittedly
ugly and unpleasant to look at, so you may download and print a nice PDF version
here [geocities.com]. Good luck!
Across 1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot! 5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian. 7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting. 0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop. 0E. Ew! Between the eyes! 0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries. 11. Living proof that you get what you pay for. 12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web. 14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD. 15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile. 17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill. 18. A very Snotty troll. 1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64. 1D. The best text editor EVER! 1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death! 1F. These guys gave Linux mono. 25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway. 28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter. 2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows. 2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines. 2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums. 2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __. 30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive. 31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!! 32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed. 33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass! 35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since. 38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists. 3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number. 3C. It's not Unix, and it shows. 3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads. 3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system. 41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma. 42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot. 44. Head bitch of the RIAA. 46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger. 49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco. 4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag. 4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor. 4D. To B or not __ _. 4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass. 50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum. 52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble. 53. The world's best operating system! 54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll. 55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future. 56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day. 57. This open-source man was Natalie's first. 58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground. 59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix. 5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem. 5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter. 5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth. 61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these. 62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net. 64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime. 65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA. 66. The only Adequacy [adequacy.org] editor with a real PhD. 67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong. 68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid. 69. Two-letter country code for Oman. 6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom. 6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files. 6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings". 6D. QueenTaco's maiden name. 6E. The best text editor EVER! 6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down 1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___. 2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE. 3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux. 4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe. 5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal. 6. Russian Geeks in Space. 7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem. 8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party. 9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will. 0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth. 0B. The market leader in megahertz lies. 0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic. 0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers. 10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down). 13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it. 16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks. 18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____. 19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth? 1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever! 20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies. 21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)). 22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device. 23. (43 Down)'s employer. 24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across). 26. ESR's birthday present to RMS. 27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users. 29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble. 2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants! 2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points. 2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb! 33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot. 34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site. 35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project [sethf.com] wasn't just a game. 36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state. 37. A geek's computer is always __. 39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction. 3A. The XP makes it go faster! 3E. The world's worst operating system! 40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'. 41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore. 43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot. 45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process. 47. VA Software has the world's worst ___. 48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again. 4A. Legalized child pornography. 4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for. 51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here. 53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All. 5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass! 5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot. 5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products. 5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system. 5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips. 5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis. 60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across). 63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group. 64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*... 65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot. 67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers. 6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
Why does Monster.com have a boilerplate policy which clearly states that their statements are not to be interpreted as legal advice? They're just a techie-oriented career site... why would they be worried?
Michael's statements are the exact sort of damning legal advice Monster is trying to protect itself from. Your statement was designed to inflame reasonable people who have a clue. Yes I call you a Troll, and you can giggle at me for replying all you want, ma'am.
I'm no fan of Michael either, nor am I a fan of known Trolls like "Reality Master".
The parent-parent post has a good point. The reason that major news organizations such as CNN, Newsweek, etc., all preface "Osama Bin Laden" with the phrase "alleged terrorist" instead of "terrorist" is that if you publish something you cannot prove, as a news organization, you can be held liable for the result.
When Slashdot publishes as fact the point that Celine Dion's CD is cause for a no-lose lawsuit against Sony, that could be a potentially bad situation. What's the source? Is it opinion? It's stated as fact!
The clever trolls are always the worst; nice one RM101.
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If/. changes it's subscribtion pay pal account instead to be a funding house to purchase PGP, each user could donate 25 dollars
That's a great idea. However, the economics don't hold up in the face of current customer research. Right now the max "penetration rate" for subsciptions is hovering at about 20%, best case. In short, 80% of the people who read Slashdot are freeloaders who won't even pay to read their favorite web site. Couple that with the unavailability of a flat rate subsciption (despite overwhelming market preference for flat rate) and you've got a virtually nil chance of success. What makes you think Slashdot readers are going to pay for software of all things?
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No kidding. A trivial web search turns up these guys:
http://www.familyreserve.com/
Who appear to be a small outfit doing full digitization and restoration of old prints, as well as lifetime digital archiving. Depending on pricing it's that last point that would matter to me. I'm not going to endorse a vendor or anything but getting a service which does lifetime offsite digital backup of an entire photo collection sounds like a damn fine idea to me. If the house burns down, you can still get prints, you know? I guess the digital revolution also means you can get re-albumization, restoration, and all the rest out of slides and prints, but I kind of like the show-your-great-great-great-grandkids how (not)cool you were aspect too.
Hey, Fyodor, is nmap a rhetorical device? Seriously, I saw that hack archive you posted to insecure.org, that was funny stuff. I just wanted to say that I admire your skills and I think you taught that guy a lesson (-:
Well, first of all, I actually saw Fyodor's page when he had those screenshots of the hacked guy's page posted to his web site. But I'm not sure you can call him a Blackhat. Greyhat is more like it.
I mean, he hacked into a troll's computer. Aren't trolls already breaking the law? If you're a vigilante, and you're making the web a better place by fighting the trolls, I'm not sure that breaking into computers and deleting stuff is as big a deal. It's like hacking a spammer - who cares?
I alerted Slashteam to the existence of CMU's Captcha project six months before they began development on their own system, and even outlined a manner in which it could be used to stop all scripted posting to Slashdot. I will do so again here, for reference:
Logged-in posters don't need CAPTCHA, because their account is their authentication. Accounts are already rate-limited per day. So the problem is with AC posting. If AC comments posted logged-in do not already count towards an account's comment total, that should be corrected.
When an AC poster wants to post to Slashdot, Slashdot should request a cookie (we'll call this cookie "A"). If the client does not have "A", then he is presented with a CAPTCHA dialog. If he passes the dialog, "A" is set to a random hash. The value of cookie "A" represents a "license to post", and the server will allow it to be presented by an AC a certain number of times (admin variable "X") to post comments. After the cookie value (license) has been used X times, that hash value (license) is expired, and is no longer valid to post, and the client must pass CAPTCHA again.
The storage structure required would be a perl hash keyed by the license, with the data value being equal to the number of posts remaining per license. A process to "age" this table would have to run on an interrupt. No DB interaction is required, and the entire system could be managed in resident memory. Not rocket science by a long shot.
X could be set initially to 5, and tweaked per system. This isn't hard to implement (it's no harder than formkeys) and it was given to Slashteam along with a reference to CMU's CAPTCHA project long before they ever started writing their own CAPTCHA code.
Sadly, the automated posting problem on Slashdot is still alive and well as I write this comment, despite the fact that I have documented the solution.
So, based on that information, you might be able to take your evaluation further.
This paper, while extensively researched, falls into the classic "Correlation vs. Causality" trap. Like the RIAA linking a drop in CD sales to the incidence of Napster use (a conclusion which you vehemently decried), this study has proven a general correlation between gun ownership and crime rates but has failed to provide a causal relation between these factors.
The Correlation vs. Causality flaw is a classic trap, of which I will give one example:
"Men who use electric razors are four times as likely to develop facial melanoma."
So electric razors cause cancer? Well, no.
Electric razors are used in greater numbers by men in urban environments who have higher overall cancer rates in every category, because they are exposed to more carcinogens. But appropriately spun, the correlation sounds downright dreadful.
Instead of flawed studies like the one linked in the parent, I recommend fact sites such as GunCite.
Gentoo had the OLD checksums, which is the reason it was caught. Everyone who checked the new checksums got owned. The Gentoo suspicions were confirmed by checking the Google cache.
Gentoo basically caught this because they were so far behind the curve that they still had the old distribution. While it's a great argument not to use Gentoo, this kind of security-through-being-behind accident is not a security process, nor is it repeatable, nor should it be considered a success of the checksum system.
Sure something else might come along that can, but as you point out, if you're running a server that's been up a year, changing things is never comfortable, and if you know slapper isn't going to infect you, there's much less motivation.
/dev/urandom onto your hard drive's raw interface.
That's exactly what the Blackhats of the world wanted to hear. Of course, they can use the exploit on you, log in, download their BINARY rootkits that don't need a compiler, and use your bandwidth to rape innocent sites like Slashdot with DoS attacks. After deleting your logs, they'll install a sniffer to see what other systems they can compromise using your NIC's visibility, and finally they'll deface your web site and pipe
Have fun!
It's really a damned shame you don't have a way of getting a securely signed OpenSSL update. While Debian has signature and key checking, it's all on a single point of failure server. You really need a trusted key that comes with the install media, but so far the only O/S which supports this is Windows. People who use Free software don't get install media and are pretty much up the creek...
Did anyone actually read FinalDecree.pdf? Kotar-Kotelly has ordered that Microsoft has to open it's API's to competitors for five years . This is the equivalent of a death sentence for Microsoft. All successfuly software companies close their source code and API's to protect themselves from theft by their competition. Now that Microsoft's designs and components are out in the open, they are ripe for picking by the Japanese competitors that have been scoping out the American software market for years.
This is the death of American dominance in the software industry. The Japanese are going to use this crippling disadvantage to reverse engineer Windows with cheap, foreign labor (Indian coding sweatshops and the like) just like they've done with other industries.
Mark my words, in ten years you'll all be using NEC/OS.
Here is a question I would like you to ask. I believe that it is a good question because it is simple and hard to evade:
Palladium technology allows for the signing authority, in this case Microsoft, to create a blacklist of forbidden computer documents on all Palladium enabled machines. Will Microsoft maintain sole control of their ability to blacklist documents, or will they grant this ability to government as well?
As I recall, right in the middle of the dot-com boom Microsoft started an online, collaborative center for Medical education by buying out a bunch of sites. It was called the "MSN Healing Zone" and didn't last for very long...
Will these phones only be able to send video that you've recorded with the phone? Or will you be able to upload images to them? For instance, I'd love to be able to beam nude images of the Brazilian women's soccer team to people from my computer using this phone. I can't seem to find a data sheet which talks about the upload capability.
PGP-the-suite is primarily a morass of fairly unrelated products, bundled together merely for markettng reasons, which you have obviously fallen for...
Yes, an IDS, a firewall, an encrypted email client, and an encrypted filesystem. What could the relationship possibly be? These products have no business being in the same box, they're from separate industries! It's all a marketing trick, FUD FUD FUD!
Let's burn down NAI headquarters at once.
Basically, he's embarrassed that the original poster was right - if PGP is ported to linux, the software will have to be compatible with all desktop environments and window managers or some subset thereof. A query as to the nature of the subset is Interesting - or, to some, it's an invitation to miss the point and nitpick over details. Seeing as how not all window managers work in all desktop environments, the original poster has some measure of a point, though it might not have been what he intended.
The real answer appears to be : nobody knows.
Hi there, someone I care about has a genetic disorder known as Hypertriglyceridemia . This disorder is somewhat complicated but basically involves highly elevated trigylceride levels that can become toxic. She is required to maintain her tri levels through medication and diet, and to get monthly blood tests. For six years, my friend was a vegetarian. She took fish oil pills as supplements (despite the fact that they are extracted from slaughtered fish) in order to regulate her triglyceride levels. She was failing; her blood tests were coming back "too high" - and she was on the way to early death. After six years, she gave up and started eating fish. One month later her triglyceride levels were tested as "average"... for a normal person. In short, there are oils in fish which, consumed in the appropriate quantities, will keep her alive.
You don't have to eat meat. But if you do, you stand to live a much longer, healthier life. Ask any high-output athelete how they would build muscle without animal protein and they will laugh you out of the room.
Personally I believe that all vegetarians should have the option of discussing choice with a hungry tiger, but that's just my opinion. I'm sharing my friends' story in the hopes that you will choose to lead a healthier life.
Why is it that the recipes from Good Eats belong to the Food Network, and they post so few of them? How much editorial control do you have over your Web Content and would you do things differently if you had the option?
Why is it that everytime I want to watch your show, Emeril is on instead?
If you look at the parent author's posting history, you'll see that he is nothing more than a troll who fools people into thinking that he is Theo. (Incidentally, the name is "Theo de Raadt", not "Theo DeRaadt".)
Look, this whole FreeBSD/OpenBSD flamewar has gotten out of hand. It's bad enough that you people are blocking each other's email, but let's not go accusing Theo of stealing his own account. Yes, a FreeBSD box was responsible for this security breakdown. Deal with it. There's no reason to go spreading wild accusations like this.
That's Theo's Slashdot account. Quit being a jerk.
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Across
1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot!
5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian.
7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting.
0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop.
0E. Ew! Between the eyes!
0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries.
11. Living proof that you get what you pay for.
12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web.
14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD.
15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile.
17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill.
18. A very Snotty troll.
1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64.
1D. The best text editor EVER!
1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death!
1F. These guys gave Linux mono.
25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway.
28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter.
2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows.
2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines.
2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums.
2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __.
30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive.
31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed.
33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass!
35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since.
38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists.
3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number.
3C. It's not Unix, and it shows.
3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads.
3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system.
41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma.
42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot.
44. Head bitch of the RIAA.
46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger.
49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco.
4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag.
4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor.
4D. To B or not __ _.
4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass.
50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum.
52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble.
53. The world's best operating system!
54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll.
55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future.
56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day.
57. This open-source man was Natalie's first.
58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground.
59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix.
5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem.
5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter.
5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth.
61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these.
62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net.
64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime.
65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA.
66. The only Adequacy editor with a real PhD.
67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong.
68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid.
69. Two-letter country code for Oman.
6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom.
6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files.
6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings".
6D. QueenTaco's maiden name.
6E. The best text editor EVER!
6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
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1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___.
2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE.
3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux.
4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe.
5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal.
6. Russian Geeks in Space.
7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem.
8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party.
9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will.
0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth.
0B. The market leader in megahertz lies.
0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic.
0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers.
10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down).
13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it.
16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks.
18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____.
19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth?
1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever!
20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies.
21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)).
22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device.
23. (43 Down)'s employer.
24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across).
26. ESR's birthday present to RMS.
27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users.
29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble.
2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants!
2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points.
2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb!
33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot.
34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site.
35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project wasn't just a game.
36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state.
37. A geek's computer is always __.
39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
3A. The XP makes it go faster!
3E. The world's worst operating system!
40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'.
41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore.
43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot.
45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process.
47. VA Software has the world's worst ___.
48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again.
4A. Legalized child pornography.
4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for.
51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here.
53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All.
5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass!
5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot.
5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products.
5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system.
5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips.
5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis.
60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across).
63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group.
64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot.
67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers.
6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
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THE CLUES:
Across
1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot!
5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian.
7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting.
0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop.
0E. Ew! Between the eyes!
0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries.
11. Living proof that you get what you pay for.
12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web.
14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD.
15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile.
17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill.
18. A very Snotty troll.
1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64.
1D. The best text editor EVER!
1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death!
1F. These guys gave Linux mono.
25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway.
28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter.
2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows.
2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines.
2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums.
2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __.
30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive.
31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed.
33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass!
35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since.
38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists.
3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number.
3C. It's not Unix, and it shows.
3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads.
3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system.
41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma.
42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot.
44. Head bitch of the RIAA.
46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger.
49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco.
4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag.
4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor.
4D. To B or not __ _.
4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass.
50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum.
52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble.
53. The world's best operating system!
54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll.
55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future.
56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day.
57. This open-source man was Natalie's first.
58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground.
59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix.
5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem.
5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter.
5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth.
61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these.
62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net.
64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime.
65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA.
66. The only Adequacy [adequacy.org] [adequacy.org] editor with a real PhD.
67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong.
68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid.
69. Two-letter country code for Oman.
6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom.
6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files.
6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings".
6D. QueenTaco's maiden name.
6E. The best text editor EVER!
6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down ...
1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___.
2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE.
3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux.
4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe.
5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal.
6. Russian Geeks in Space.
7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem.
8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party.
9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will.
0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth.
0B. The market leader in megahertz lies.
0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic.
0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers.
10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down).
13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it.
16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks.
18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____.
19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth?
1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever!
20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies.
21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)).
22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device.
23. (43 Down)'s employer.
24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across).
26. ESR's birthday present to RMS.
27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users.
29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble.
2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants!
2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points.
2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb!
33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot.
34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site.
35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project [sethf.com] [sethf.com] wasn't just a game.
36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state.
37. A geek's computer is always __.
39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
3A. The XP makes it go faster!
3E. The world's worst operating system!
40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'.
41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore.
43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot.
45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process.
47. VA Software has the world's worst ___.
48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again.
4A. Legalized child pornography.
4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for.
51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here.
53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All.
5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass!
5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot.
5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products.
5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system.
5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips.
5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis.
60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across).
63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group.
64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot.
67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers.
6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
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THE (HOPEFULLY) GREAT SLASHDOT CROSSWORD PUZZLE!
Note: Now that the Great Slashdot Blackout has started, many of you are probably wondering what you can do instead of post relevant comments (remember, no comments from April 21-27!). Well, the answer is to solve this puzzle! Feel free to repost this puzzle as many times as possible so everyone gets a fair chance to play, and if you have moderator points, mod it up so that (again) everyone gets a fair chance to play. The puzzle contest is over when the Slashdot Blackout is over! After the Blackout is over, please, return to your regularly scheduled activities and don't repost the puzzle anymore. Thanks!
Now's your chance to see just how well you've been paying attention during the past four years of chips, dips, Micro$loth, Napster, IPOs, BSD, rights online, editor censorship, and of course Linux, Linux, Linux! Complete the following professional-quality crossword puzzle chock full of trivia on Slashdot, Open Source, and geekiness in general for not only posterity but GREAT PRIZES!! Prizes include the following:
A fresh box of QUAKER GRITS [quakergrits.com] [quakergrits.com]!
Your very own SLASHDOT CRUISER [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org]!
A hot date [ea.com] [ea.com] with NATALIE PORTMAN [natalieportman.com] [natalieportman.com]!
A genuine VA Lin^H^H^HSOFTWARE STOCK CERTIFICATE [vasoftware.com] [vasoftware.com]!
It doesn't get much better than this, folks! Here's how to play:
Fill in the crossword completely. No incomplete (or incorrect) solutions will be considered.
Once you're sure you have the crossword completely figured out, submit it to slashdot_crossword at engineer.com [mailto] [mailto]. If you indeed have the solution, one of the above four prizes are yours! The prizes are in limited supply (well, except for the VA stock certificates), so get those solutions in early!
The winners will be announced on 2002/04/28, to be praised in -1 crapfloods for all eternity (or at least until the crapflooders get bored and go back to posting gay Slashdot editor fanfics).
While we fully assert that this crossword is professional quality, there are of course some variations from the standard crossword form to make things more interesting for the Slashdot crowd. Some answers are used more than once. Digits (0-9) exist in some answers. Some clues are repeated with different answers. Many of the answers are acronyms or initialisms; if the answer that comes to mind doesn't fit, try thinking of common abbreviations for it. And, of course, the crossword indices are all in hexadecimal (this is Slashdot, after all!)
So, without further ado, here comes the crossword! Plain HTML is admittedly ugly and unpleasant to look at, so you may download and print a nice PDF version here [geocities.com] [geocities.com]. Good luck!
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THE CLUES:
Across
1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot!
5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian.
7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting.
0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop.
0E. Ew! Between the eyes!
0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries.
11. Living proof that you get what you pay for.
12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web.
14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD.
15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile.
17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill.
18. A very Snotty troll.
1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64.
1D. The best text editor EVER!
1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death!
1F. These guys gave Linux mono.
25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway.
28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter.
2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows.
2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines.
2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums.
2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __.
30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive.
31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed.
33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass!
35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since.
38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists.
3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number.
3C. It's not Unix, and it shows.
3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads.
3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system.
41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma.
42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot.
44. Head bitch of the RIAA.
46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger.
49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco.
4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag.
4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor.
4D. To B or not __ _.
4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass.
50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum.
52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble.
53. The world's best operating system!
54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll.
55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future.
56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day.
57. This open-source man was Natalie's first.
58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground.
59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix.
5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem.
5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter.
5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth.
61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these.
62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net.
64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime.
65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA.
66. The only Adequacy [adequacy.org] [adequacy.org] editor with a real PhD.
67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong.
68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid.
69. Two-letter country code for Oman.
6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom.
6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files.
6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings".
6D. QueenTaco's maiden name.
6E. The best text editor EVER!
6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down ...
1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___.
2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE.
3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux.
4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe.
5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal.
6. Russian Geeks in Space.
7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem.
8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party.
9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will.
0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth.
0B. The market leader in megahertz lies.
0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic.
0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers.
10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down).
13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it.
16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks.
18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____.
19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth?
1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever!
20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies.
21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)).
22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device.
23. (43 Down)'s employer.
24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across).
26. ESR's birthday present to RMS.
27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users.
29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble.
2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants!
2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points.
2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb!
33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot.
34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site.
35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project [sethf.com] [sethf.com] wasn't just a game.
36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state.
37. A geek's computer is always __.
39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
3A. The XP makes it go faster!
3E. The world's worst operating system!
40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'.
41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore.
43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot.
45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process.
47. VA Software has the world's worst ___.
48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again.
4A. Legalized child pornography.
4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for.
51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here.
53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All.
5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass!
5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot.
5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products.
5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system.
5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips.
5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis.
60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across).
63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group.
64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot.
67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers.
6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
fin
THE (HOPEFULLY) GREAT SLASHDOT CROSSWORD PUZZLE!
Note: Now that the Great Slashdot Blackout has started, many of you are probably wondering what you can do instead of post relevant comments (remember, no comments from April 21-27!). Well, the answer is to solve this puzzle! Feel free to repost this puzzle as many times as possible so everyone gets a fair chance to play, and if you have moderator points, mod it up so that (again) everyone gets a fair chance to play. The puzzle contest is over when the Slashdot Blackout is over! After the Blackout is over, please, return to your regularly scheduled activities and don't repost the puzzle anymore. Thanks!
Now's your chance to see just how well you've been paying attention during the past four years of chips, dips, Micro$loth, Napster, IPOs, BSD, rights online, editor censorship, and of course Linux, Linux, Linux! Complete the following professional-quality crossword puzzle chock full of trivia on Slashdot, Open Source, and geekiness in general for not only posterity but GREAT PRIZES!! Prizes include the following:
A fresh box of QUAKER GRITS [quakergrits.com] [quakergrits.com]!
Your very own SLASHDOT CRUISER [slashdot.org] [slashdot.org]!
A hot date [ea.com] [ea.com] with NATALIE PORTMAN [natalieportman.com] [natalieportman.com]!
A genuine VA Lin^H^H^HSOFTWARE STOCK CERTIFICATE [vasoftware.com] [vasoftware.com]!
It doesn't get much better than this, folks! Here's how to play:
Fill in the crossword completely. No incomplete (or incorrect) solutions will be considered.
Once you're sure you have the crossword completely figured out, submit it to slashdot_crossword at engineer.com [mailto] [mailto]. If you indeed have the solution, one of the above four prizes are yours! The prizes are in limited supply (well, except for the VA stock certificates), so get those solutions in early!
The winners will be announced on 2002/04/28, to be praised in -1 crapfloods for all eternity (or at least until the crapflooders get bored and go back to posting gay Slashdot editor fanfics).
While we fully assert that this crossword is professional quality, there are of course some variations from the standard crossword form to make things more interesting for the Slashdot crowd. Some answers are used more than once. Digits (0-9) exist in some answers. Some clues are repeated with different answers. Many of the answers are acronyms or initialisms; if the answer that comes to mind doesn't fit, try thinking of common abbreviations for it. And, of course, the crossword indices are all in hexadecimal (this is Slashdot, after all!)
So, without further ado, here comes the crossword! Plain HTML is admittedly ugly and unpleasant to look at, so you may download and print a nice PDF version here [geocities.com] [geocities.com]. Good luck!
+-+- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +-+- +
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+-+- +- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+-+- +- +- +- +-+- +- +-+- +
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+- +- +-+- +- +- +- +-+- +- +- +- +- + +- +- +- +- + +- +
|56| |##|##|##|57| | |##|##|##| |##|##| |##|##|##|58| |
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+- +- +- + +- +- +- +- +- - +- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +- +
|##|64| | |##| |##|65| | | |##|##| |##|66| | |##|##|
+- +-+- +- +- +- - +- +- +- +- +-+-+- +- +- +- + +- +- +
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THE CLUES:
Across
1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot!
5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian.
7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting.
0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop.
0E. Ew! Between the eyes!
0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries.
11. Living proof that you get what you pay for.
12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web.
14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD.
15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile.
17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill.
18. A very Snotty troll.
1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64.
1D. The best text editor EVER!
1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death!
1F. These guys gave Linux mono.
25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway.
28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter.
2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows.
2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines.
2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums.
2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __.
30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive.
31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed.
33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass!
35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since.
38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists.
3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number.
3C. It's not Unix, and it shows.
3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads.
3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system.
41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma.
42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot.
44. Head bitch of the RIAA.
46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger.
49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco.
4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag.
4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor.
4D. To B or not __ _.
4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass.
50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum.
52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble.
53. The world's best operating system!
54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll.
55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future.
56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day.
57. This open-source man was Natalie's first.
58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground.
59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix.
5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem.
5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter.
5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth.
61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these.
62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net.
64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime.
65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA.
66. The only Adequacy [adequacy.org] [adequacy.org] editor with a real PhD.
67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong.
68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid.
69. Two-letter country code for Oman.
6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom.
6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files.
6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings".
6D. QueenTaco's maiden name.
6E. The best text editor EVER!
6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down ...
1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___.
2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE.
3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux.
4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe.
5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal.
6. Russian Geeks in Space.
7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem.
8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party.
9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will.
0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth.
0B. The market leader in megahertz lies.
0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic.
0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers.
10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down).
13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it.
16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks.
18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____.
19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth?
1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever!
20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies.
21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)).
22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device.
23. (43 Down)'s employer.
24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across).
26. ESR's birthday present to RMS.
27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users.
29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble.
2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants!
2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points.
2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb!
33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot.
34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site.
35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project [sethf.com] [sethf.com] wasn't just a game.
36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state.
37. A geek's computer is always __.
39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
3A. The XP makes it go faster!
3E. The world's worst operating system!
40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'.
41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore.
43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot.
45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process.
47. VA Software has the world's worst ___.
48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again.
4A. Legalized child pornography.
4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for.
51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here.
53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All.
5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass!
5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot.
5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products.
5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system.
5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips.
5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis.
60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across).
63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group.
64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot.
67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers.
6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
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THE (HOPEFULLY) GREAT SLASHDOT CROSSWORD PUZZLE!
Now's your chance to see just how well you've been paying attention during the past four years of chips, dips, Micro$loth, Napster, IPOs, BSD, rights online, editor censorship, and of course Linux, Linux, Linux! Complete the following professional-quality crossword puzzle chock full of trivia on Slashdot, Open Source, and geekiness in general for not only posterity but GREAT PRIZES!! Prizes include the following:
A fresh box of QUAKER GRITS [quakergrits.com]!
Your very own SLASHDOT CRUISER [slashdot.org]!
A hot date [ea.com] with NATALIE PORTMAN [natalieportman.com]!
A genuine VA Lin^H^H^HSOFTWARE STOCK CERTIFICATE [vasoftware.com]!
It doesn't get much better than this, folks! Here's how to play:
Fill in the crossword completely. No incomplete (or incorrect) solutions will be considered.
Once you're sure you have the crossword completely figured out, submit it to slashdot_crossword at engineer.com [mailto]. If you indeed have the solution, one of the above four prizes are yours! The prizes are in limited supply (well, except for the VA stock certificates), so get those solutions in early!
The winners will be announced on 2002/04/28, to be praised in -1 crapfloods for all eternity (or at least until the crapflooders get bored and go back to posting gay Slashdot editor fanfics).
While we fully assert that this crossword is professional quality, there are of course some variations from the standard crossword form to make things more interesting for the Slashdot crowd. Some answers are used more than once. Digits (0-9) exist in some answers. Some clues are repeated with different answers. Many of the answers are acronyms or initialisms; if the answer that comes to mind doesn't fit, try thinking of common abbreviations for it. And, of course, the crossword indices are all in hexadecimal (this is Slashdot, after all!)
So, without further ado, here comes the crossword! Plain HTML is admittedly ugly and unpleasant to look at, so you may download and print a nice PDF version here [geocities.com]. Good luck!
+-+- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +-+- +
|1 |2 |3 |4 |##|5 |6 |##|7 | |8 |##|9 |##|0a| |0b|0c|##|0d|
+-+- +- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+-+- +- +- +- +-+- +- +-+- +
|0e| | | |##|0f| |10| |##| |##|11| | |##|12| |13| |
+-+- +- +- +- + +- +- +- +- +-+-+- +- +- + +- +- +-+- +
| |##|##| |##|14| | | |##|15|16| |##| |##|17| | | |
+- +- - +- +- +-+-+- +- +- +- - +- +- +- +- +-+- +- +- +
|##|18| | |19|##|##|1a| |1b| | |##|##|##|1c|####|##| |
+- +- +-+- +- +- +- - +- +- +- +-+-+- +- +- +- +- +-+- +
|1d| |##|##| |##|1e| | | |##|1f|20|21|22| |23|##|24|##|
+ +- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +- +- - +- +- +-+- +- +-+- +
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+- +- +- +- +- +-+- +- +- +- +-+- +- +- +- - +- +- +-+- +
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+- +- +- + +- +- +- +- +- - +- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +- +
|##|64| | |##| |##|65| | | |##|##| |##|66| | |##|##|
+- +-+- +- +- +- - +- +- +- +- +-+-+- +- +- +- + +- +- +
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+- +- +-+- +- +- +- + +- +- +- +-+- +- +- +- +- +- +-+- +
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+-+- +- +- +- +- +-+ +- +- +- +- +- +- +-+- +- +- +- +-+
THE CLUES:
Across
1. This band must've been desperate for publicity to give an interview to Slashdot!
5. Crapflooder impersonated well by Silicon Simian.
7. A special treat you earn for Bad Posting.
0A. Sean Kelly's ex-lover and former SlashNET IRCop.
0E. Ew! Between the eyes!
0F. This dog won't mess your carpet, shed fur all over the place, or do much else besides consume batteries.
11. Living proof that you get what you pay for.
12. The soundtrack for the World Wide Web.
14. Disney makes money to destroy free speech on the Internet every time you buy ____ on DVD.
15. Slashcode's overglorified killfile.
17. You were writing FOX about "The Tick" when you should've been writing your congressman about this bill.
18. A very Snotty troll.
1A. This young Afghan loves watching movies and JonKatz on his C64.
1D. The best text editor EVER!
1E. What you say!! If you say it one more time, I'll bludgeon you to death!
1F. These guys gave Linux mono.
25. These shiny discs feed money into a bloated media cartel and stifle fair use rights, but you buy them by the millions anyway.
28. Slashdot's top comment poster and story submitter.
2A. These networks "disrupt" artists' cash flows.
2B. Open Source codeword for amphetamines.
2D. RAM type optimized for Extended Data Output on old Pentiums.
2E. Hillary Rosen knows you're just itching to steal Charley Pride's __.
30. A hack to get a kernel designed only to boot off floppy disks to boot off a hard drive.
31. ___ BREAK HEAD WITH OPEN-SOURCE CD!!!
32. Marketers who resort to this tactic are worse than Hitler and should be tortured and killed.
33. This desktop environment kicks GNOME's ass!
35. Microsoft sold off this Unix, and it's gone downhill ever since.
38. An essential e-mail utility for child pornographers and terrorists.
3B. (0A Down)'s lucky number.
3C. It's not Unix, and it shows.
3D. Preface for 90% of Slashdot comments, and 100% of CmdrTaco's personal ads.
3F. Where non-free software goes on your file system.
41. You better mark all the comments as ____ in metamod unless you want to lose karma.
42. This international standards body, no matter what you may think, does NOT read Slashdot.
44. Head bitch of the RIAA.
46. A primitive chat program superseded by AOL Instant Messenger.
49. An online webzine which demonstrated that online subscriptions don't work to everybody except CmdrTaco.
4B. If you moderate in a way CmdrTaco doesn't like, you earn this special database flag.
4C. vi does a poor job of emulating this standard Unix text editor.
4D. To B or not __ _.
4E. You won't get much use out of this text-recognition technology if all you use your scanner for is scanning your ass.
50. The sound Michael's head makes when he's stuffing it up his rectum.
52. Unique index for a whole LIST of babble.
53. The world's best operating system!
54. Father of Methuselah, or old-school Slashdot troll.
55. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict this operating system's future.
56. Most geeks sleep through this half of the day.
57. This open-source man was Natalie's first.
58. Carly's mission is to steer this company into the ground.
59. mimbleton's favorite subject prefix.
5A. Chewing this might help your babbling problem.
5C. Programming language named after Lord Byron's daughter.
5F. Dead drummer for CmdrTaco's favorite band, or ridiculous Liberal myth.
61. Every Slashdotter's dream is to get one of these.
62. The Firm that is spelling Armageddon for free speech on The Net.
64. These networks are the beginning of Disorganized Crime.
65. Shitty "bitch band" whose leader likes to bitch about the RIAA.
66. The only Adequacy [adequacy.org] editor with a real PhD.
67. I think 7 over 22 is both backwards AND wrong.
68. Mentioning this droid (and others) is what is keeping you from getting laid.
69. Two-letter country code for Oman.
6A. Giving a ____ Necklace involves "coming" on Heidi Wall's bosom.
6B. What people who can't afford Visual Studio use to search text files.
6C. This hacker tool is often used to replace "characters" in "strings".
6D. QueenTaco's maiden name.
6E. The best text editor EVER!
6F. The PDP-11 assembler that thinks it's a programming language.
Down ...
1. Taco thinks that a purchase of his publicly traded company's services is a ___.
2. The self-centered Windows 9x release after 98SE.
3. 3D Tamagotchi game designed by Peter Molyneux.
4. A crippled Photoshop wannabe.
5. Lock your penis bird in a cage to protect it from this text-outputting animal.
6. Russian Geeks in Space.
7. If your karma surpasses 25, you have this and a problem.
8. Luckily, michael was born too late to join THIS party.
9. If this Slashdot section's color scheme doesn't drive you away, Michael's snotty editorial remarks will.
0A. Suffering cerebral palsy didn't stop him from becoming Surprised by Wealth.
0B. The market leader in megahertz lies.
0C. Statement used to declare variables in Visual Basic.
0D. Media cartel dedicated to protecting Britney Spears from dirty hackers.
10. Once the greatest Karma Whore ever, now a suicidal loser seen only on (33 Down).
13. Game console that bankrupted its parent company because of hackers making free games for it.
16. The only Unix understandable by non-geeks.
18. (40 Down) likes his pages ____.
19. Do many eyes make all bugs shallow, or do too many cooks spoil the broth?
1C. Research? Linux? Software? Whatever!
20. The first step towards failure for Linux companies.
21. Every Slashdotter's duty (except those marked with (4B Across)).
22. Apple's stylish new IP theft device.
23. (43 Down)'s employer.
24. A flaky Open-Source knockoff of (38 Across).
26. ESR's birthday present to RMS.
27. This primitive operating system denies any service to its users.
29. Unique index for a particular piece of babble.
2C. A tasty breakfast treat -- down your pants!
2E. You hit this once you get 50 karma points.
2F. This marketing guy troll sure is dumb!
33. This site is decidedly not Slashdot.
34. An easy way to lose all your karma is to offer your account for sale on this popular auction site.
35. Unfortunately, this famous online Nazi's treatment of the Censorware Project [sethf.com] wasn't just a game.
36. Two-letter country code for the 51st state.
37. A geek's computer is always __.
39. ____, Lover, Aesthete, Programmer. There is no contradiction.
3A. The XP makes it go faster!
3E. The world's worst operating system!
40. The only troll with a freaks list longer than JonKatz'.
41. The OS all the cool people use now that Linux isn't trendy anymore.
43. A top-flight IT consultant who somehow manages to find time in his busy schedule to post to Slashdot.
45. What comes after as(1) and before strip(1) in the C build process.
47. VA Software has the world's worst ___.
48. This Senate bill comes closer to passing every time you go to see Lord of the Rings again.
4A. Legalized child pornography.
4F. What the Greeks went to Delphi for, Geeks go to this state for.
51. The Hellmouth should've eaten you here.
53. This rocker's battle against file-sharing networks won't end until he can Kill 'Em All.
5A. This desktop environment kicks KDE's ass!
5B. This modest and self-effacing troll was one of the first on Slashdot.
5C. You'd have to think different to justify spending money on this company's overpriced products.
5D. A game console which thought it was a full-featured computer system.
5E. Cofounder of Chips 'n' Dips.
5F. It may not have the best sound quality, but at least it's better than Ogg Vorbis.
60. Preface for the 10% of Slashdot comments not prefaced with (3D Across).
63. Apple stole all their ideas from this research group.
64. Bye bye, miss USian ___, drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
65. A dynamically updated list of the biggest losers on Slashdot.
67. Standard programming language implemented by most high-end printers.
6F. This language's lack of bounds checking is responsible for 90% of software security holes out there.
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Why does Monster.com have a boilerplate policy which clearly states that their statements are not to be interpreted as legal advice? They're just a techie-oriented career site... why would they be worried?
Michael's statements are the exact sort of damning legal advice Monster is trying to protect itself from. Your statement was designed to inflame reasonable people who have a clue. Yes I call you a Troll, and you can giggle at me for replying all you want, ma'am.
I'm no fan of Michael either, nor am I a fan of known Trolls like "Reality Master".
The parent-parent post has a good point. The reason that major news organizations such as CNN, Newsweek, etc., all preface "Osama Bin Laden" with the phrase "alleged terrorist" instead of "terrorist" is that if you publish something you cannot prove, as a news organization, you can be held liable for the result.
When Slashdot publishes as fact the point that Celine Dion's CD is cause for a no-lose lawsuit against Sony, that could be a potentially bad situation. What's the source? Is it opinion? It's stated as fact!
The clever trolls are always the worst; nice one RM101.
If /. changes it's subscribtion pay pal account instead to be a funding house to purchase PGP, each user could donate 25 dollars
That's a great idea. However, the economics don't hold up in the face of current customer research. Right now the max "penetration rate" for subsciptions is hovering at about 20%, best case. In short, 80% of the people who read Slashdot are freeloaders who won't even pay to read their favorite web site. Couple that with the unavailability of a flat rate subsciption (despite overwhelming market preference for flat rate) and you've got a virtually nil chance of success. What makes you think Slashdot readers are going to pay for software of all things?