Understand it's Microsoft that pays the bills around here. Without stories like these, there is no ad revenue, and therefore CmdrTaco can't bring home the bacon.
In the Microsoft bashing universe, Slashdot is the brightest star.
Alas, it was eaten by a domain squatter that blocked access to Archive.org like so many other free software sites. That seems to be the M$ way of talking.
twitter, I read this three times trying to make sense of what you're trying to say, but I gave up.
The empty semantic gyrations you seem to enjoy so much completely give you away whenever you try to pretend you're someone else.
After reading through your attempt at humour and obvious large shoulder chip attachment, the only reasonable thing left to do is to quote the quote on the article submission:
There are several examples like that, that we have to address without worrying about the fundamentalism in some of the open-source community. One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist.
One can even quote the quote you pasted in as (I assume) some sort of reverse-psychology statement:
Because of public attention, anything we say will be quoted out of context.
People like you have become so blind that you can't see the forest for the trees most of the time.
If you were engaged in a discussion with a person and suddenly six others showed up to shill and agree with the original one, how would you like that? More importantly, he knows very well what that kind of activity looks like to moderators - seven people carrying on a "conversation" with each other in opposition to you is usually a recipe for being modded down (and get him karma in the process).
I don't know about you, but I have a single Slashdot account and I'd like to think I'm responsible for my own opinion being modded up or down. twitter went to karma hell because the Slashdot community got tired of his bullshit. He can't have that, so instead he blames it on a vast conspiracy by Microsoft and creates seven different accounts, as opposed to actually correcting the problems that got him in the hole to begin with.
twitter, you are reaching new heights of bullshit and dishonesty. This entire thread is basically you agreeing with yourself. And two new sockpuppets? Wow. Just wow.
Having multiple accounts that shilleach other will normally result in that, though the twitter account itself fell out of grace of the mods a long time ago. For the same toxic bullshit he thinks is promoting free software somehow.
I'm not sure that's correct. If you are only talking self-replicating viruses that spread to continue replication, you may be correct. However,the appearance of rootkit anchored malware "in the wild" closely followed that release which made the information widely available outside limited academic and security research circles.
I'd say this is a dangerous line of thought, considering it plays to the popularity "argument" most people around here dislike.
The release of the Windows 2000 source code certainly removed the need for extensive reverse engineering.
The source leaked was almost entirely user space stuff. Rootkits use little-known (but documented) aspects of things like NTFS that were not leaked.
Judging from the usual comments and borrowing from the article submission editorial line, apparently a lot more than "open source" proponents would like.
Now, I've given you the benefit of doubt and responded politely in this post, but frankly I'd be much happier if you stopped stalking me. I'm finding your attention a bit creepy. Thanks.
Interesting. I looked through your meager comment history and I have to admit you're the first blog-style spammer I've seen on Slashdot. And I've been here for a relatively long time.
I doubt you retards have actually defeated all the posting restrictions/. has, so it's obvious that this is actual manual labor. I always thought it was some sort of automated system.
That's drawing down their cash reserve rapidly without generating much growth.
That's an interesting soundbyte. Can you explain how stock options paid to executives (which executives?) are actually eating into a $30 billion dollar cash reserve? Those must be some pretty large stock grants.
Add to that the failure of their flagship OS on the market
Looks like someone is connecting all those Vista machines that are not being sold to the internet. I'd like to have me a few of those failures every decade or so.
I will bow to your superior grasp of logic as soon as you tell me where I implied that, beyond pointing out that the anectode presented by the OP is good empirical evidence of my point.
Haha, so twitter, you never did take the time to address Bruce Byfield's reply to your hateful little litany, did you? What's wrong, he wasn't extreme enough for your tastes? Just like Linus Torvalds isn't, either?
The last time any of my machines had anything resembling a virus, malware or trojans it came in a floppy boot sector and it was called "Natas" or something like that.
Bill Clinton was president, the Nasdaq was at 5,000 or something like that and I was smoking pot. Maybe we'll go back to the old days in more ways than one!
Any minute now twitter, gnutoo, Mactrope and Erris are going to show up on this thread to correct you, and then inTheLoo will complain about their moderation, and so on. Well, you get the idea.
Correct, twitter thought he was being clever by using a variation of that account. One of these days he's going to create one called "dedaz0" or something like that, and I'm going to have a beer in celebration.
If you think about it, twitter is no better than the Bruce Perens and Miguel De Icaza account mispelling trolls. He even posts at -1 like all of them. Poetic, if I may say so.
Unless of course you are trying to have a discussion about something with a group of people who turn out to be the same person.
But remember, arguing with people (instead of ideas) tends mostly to add to their power to do bad things. (Give them attention and they think you're rewarding them.)
That's a good point, but in this case I disagree. It's important that the people who moderate his posts understand that he is actively gaming a community-driven discussion system that we all use. If he can't rent a clue as to why two of his accounts are already in karma purgatory and instead creates a little army of sockpuppets that reply to each other (as in this thread, complaining about negative moderation pretending it's someone else), then maybe all his new accounts should also be sent to karma purgatory. Then he can go back to posting twice a day at -1. There is a reason these controls exist here.
I'm trying really hard to figure out why you think I give a fuck what you call it, and where I expressed concern about twitter's (and obviously yours) grade-school "neener neener" creative spelling. I really don't care. Read my post again slowly and maybe you'll understand what I'm saying.
Slashdot Mirror
In the Microsoft bashing universe, Slashdot is the brightest star.
twitter, I read this three times trying to make sense of what you're trying to say, but I gave up.
The empty semantic gyrations you seem to enjoy so much completely give you away whenever you try to pretend you're someone else.
One can even quote the quote you pasted in as (I assume) some sort of reverse-psychology statement:
People like you have become so blind that you can't see the forest for the trees most of the time.
Sourceforge also has 175K projects, but must of them are in the -3, Thinking about it stage.
You can't seriously be using that number to prop up your arguments. I mean, what is the purpose of trying to exaggerate this?
(with apologies to xkcd)
If you were engaged in a discussion with a person and suddenly six others showed up to shill and agree with the original one, how would you like that? More importantly, he knows very well what that kind of activity looks like to moderators - seven people carrying on a "conversation" with each other in opposition to you is usually a recipe for being modded down (and get him karma in the process).
I don't know about you, but I have a single Slashdot account and I'd like to think I'm responsible for my own opinion being modded up or down. twitter went to karma hell because the Slashdot community got tired of his bullshit. He can't have that, so instead he blames it on a vast conspiracy by Microsoft and creates seven different accounts, as opposed to actually correcting the problems that got him in the hole to begin with.
twitter, you are reaching new heights of bullshit and dishonesty. This entire thread is basically you agreeing with yourself. And two new sockpuppets? Wow. Just wow.
Having multiple accounts that shill each other will normally result in that, though the twitter account itself fell out of grace of the mods a long time ago. For the same toxic bullshit he thinks is promoting free software somehow.
You haven't been reading The Daily WTF, I see.
The FSF has announced Richard Stallman will be engaging in a speaking tour of comic conventions to demand they be called free ideological terrorists.
I'd say this is a dangerous line of thought, considering it plays to the popularity "argument" most people around here dislike.
The source leaked was almost entirely user space stuff. Rootkits use little-known (but documented) aspects of things like NTFS that were not leaked.
Judging from the usual comments and borrowing from the article submission editorial line, apparently a lot more than "open source" proponents would like.
What?
I doubt you retards have actually defeated all the posting restrictions /. has, so it's obvious that this is actual manual labor. I always thought it was some sort of automated system.
Weird.
That's an interesting soundbyte. Can you explain how stock options paid to executives (which executives?) are actually eating into a $30 billion dollar cash reserve? Those must be some pretty large stock grants.
Looks like someone is connecting all those Vista machines that are not being sold to the internet. I'd like to have me a few of those failures every decade or so.
I will bow to your superior grasp of logic as soon as you tell me where I implied that, beyond pointing out that the anectode presented by the OP is good empirical evidence of my point.
I seriously love Google, omg.
ROFLMAO, twitter is so predictable. He obviously got it from the register, where he has an account as well.
Bill Clinton was president, the Nasdaq was at 5,000 or something like that and I was smoking pot. Maybe we'll go back to the old days in more ways than one!
Interesting how it's supposedly Microsoft that creates "bloated" and "inefficient" software, isn't it?
Any minute now twitter, gnutoo, Mactrope and Erris are going to show up on this thread to correct you, and then inTheLoo will complain about their moderation, and so on. Well, you get the idea.
If you think about it, twitter is no better than the Bruce Perens and Miguel De Icaza account mispelling trolls. He even posts at -1 like all of them. Poetic, if I may say so.
Mactrope == inTheLoo == gnutoo == Erris == twitter
Unless of course you are trying to have a discussion about something with a group of people who turn out to be the same person.
That's a good point, but in this case I disagree. It's important that the people who moderate his posts understand that he is actively gaming a community-driven discussion system that we all use. If he can't rent a clue as to why two of his accounts are already in karma purgatory and instead creates a little army of sockpuppets that reply to each other (as in this thread, complaining about negative moderation pretending it's someone else), then maybe all his new accounts should also be sent to karma purgatory. Then he can go back to posting twice a day at -1. There is a reason these controls exist here.
I'm trying really hard to figure out why you think I give a fuck what you call it, and where I expressed concern about twitter's (and obviously yours) grade-school "neener neener" creative spelling. I really don't care. Read my post again slowly and maybe you'll understand what I'm saying.