Slashdot's gone cold I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all And even if I could it'll all be gray but your picture on my wall It reminds me, that it's not so bad -- it's not so bad
Dear Rob, I wrote but you still ain't callin I left my email, my ICQ, and my yahoo chat at the bottom I sent two emails back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em There probably was a problem with your sendmail or somethin Sometimes I scribble email addees too sloppy when I jot 'em but anyways; fsck it, what's been up? Man how's your boxes? My boxes is linux too, I'm bout to be a compiler once I learn gcc, I'ma go on and compile for hours I read about your Palm Pilot too I'm sorry I had a friend lose his Palm over at the airport in Maradonna I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan I even read all your bullshit Linux news and Microsoft's man I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man I like the way you sold your ass out too, that shit was fat Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back, just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan This is Stan
Dear Rob, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance I ain't mad - I just think it's FSCKED UP you don't answer fans If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your Linux World you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew That's my Senior sys admin he's only 26 years old We waited on a 9600 baud for you, four hours and you just said, "No." That's pretty shitty man - you're like his fsckin idol He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein lied to Remember when we met in Boston - you said if I'd write you you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way I never had a clue about shit either I gcc'd shit with my wife then beat her I can relate to what you're saying in your page so when I feel like rmusering I read Slashdot to begin the rage cause I don't really got shit else so that shit helps when I'm depressed I even got a tattoo of slashdot across the chest Sometimes I even packet myself to see how much it floods It's like adrenaline, the DDoS is such a sudden rush of blood See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7 But she don't know you like I know you Rob, no one does She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S. We should be together too
Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Waste-A-Packet-On-My-Fans, this'll be the last packet I ever send your ass It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it? I know you got my last two emails I wrote the @ signs on 'em perfect So this is my payload I'm sending you, I hope you hear it I'm on my modem now, I'm doing 9600 baud so fear it Hey Rob, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to code? You know the song by Deep Purple or Slayer its irrelevant by playing on my linux player while I write some php scripts and play some Dragonslayer That's kinda how shit is, you coulda rescued me from drowning Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downloads now, I'm drowsy and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call I hope you know I ripped +ALL+ of your pictures off the wall I love you Rob, we coulda been together, think about it You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me See Rob {*screaming*} Shut up bitch! I'm tryin to code Hey Rob, that's my senior admin screamin from the comode but I didn't cut the power off, I just rebooted, see I ain't like you cause if rm -rf'd we'd suffer more, and then the boxes
You obviously made up the developer's name "Guido Van WHAT???" and your claims about leakage are complete crap. We've had up to a dozen coders working on a single project at my organization, and we've hit 20KLOC without a single memory leaking problem: that tends to be reserved for our C apps. I think you're just a copy-'n'-paste troll who's trying to spread FUD about Python. Yeah, yeah, IHBT, whatever.
I don't know a great deal about wireless networking, so maybe I'm totally off base, but is it possible in certain situations for this to cause interference between different RF channel users? Or if a new user came onto a channel being multiplexed?
Living in London, isn't there some way I can participate? Surely this is being organised as some sort of Europe-wide demonstration in several key cities? How else can I join a protest if I don't have the time, money or inclination to fly over to Belgium?
Gay Nigger Association of America -- April 10, 2004, 16:30PM GMT
By GNAA-UK Legal Consultant, rolloffle
London, United Kingdom
The GNAA is devoted to claiming, maintaining and vehemently guarding any and all freedoms for open source gay niggers. As such, we find the constant infringement of our rights by invasive software patents and risible copyright policies to be a great affront.
Consequently, the GNAA is going to collect some of the approximately $150 million floating around in stock options and shareholders' certificates in buckets and offer it to solicitors in order for them to march proudly to Brussels and argue our case on behalf of Slashdot and the Free community. Numerous gay niggers will also be sent to beat the shit out of any coppers who fuck with the patent protesters.
"We hope that this will be a great step forward," announced lysol, a second-level GNAA member running for US president in 2004 on a pro-nigger platform. "A prerequisite for new events in computer tech in the next decade is going to be a massive relaxation of the currently piss-poor 'copywrong' system. Until pirating music and downloading software for nothing is legal, we cannot rest, and nor will Slashdot, I'm sure."
Slashdot users were themselves found to be incredibly stoked about the plan. "The GNAA used to be funny, but now I just ignore them," stated one anonymous hero.
Obviously, this is going to be a hot issue.
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Gay Nigger Association of America -- April 10, 2004, 16:30PM GMT
By GNAA Open Source Marketing Director, rolloffle
London, United Kingdom
Recognising the importance of the open source community in advancing technological progress of the Western World, the GNAA has announced a plan to pledge 60% of all profits into development of the Mozilla Firefox browser. "We hope that the introduction of this new and superior form of funding will increase the speed of new releases greatly," opined GNAA founder timecop. "Their dependence on us for monetary resources will also help our standing in the community."
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...most widely-used asymmetric cryptosystems these days are based on the hardness of factorising large numbers as opposed to finding the factors of elliptic curves. So...what purpose does this serve? Or does it just act as a useful benchmark?
...is because watching people die in front of your eyes scares you shitless and gives you nightmares and occupies your thoughts. No bad thing, the same is probably true of me. (But luckily I've never seen anybody actually dying close-up in full graphic colour in real time.)
But what does that actually mean, beyond the fact that 2003 CD sales have fallen by eight percent? Can one reasonably draw any kind of further conclusions, or is everyone just going to jump on this result to further their agendas?
I mean, we've used computers to prove much of boolean and linear algebra. The most famed result in the field is that of the Robbins Conjecture, proven entirely by computer. The computer produced a very "inhuman" proof...
Don't they realise that it seems moronic to declare a War on Porn all of a sudden? Why didn't they start back in the 70s when it started on Usenet and elsewhere? They're just hypocritical. I bet there's some lobbyist pulling the strings behind the scenes. The whole thing just reeks through-and-through of bullshit.
"activated remotely simply by rendering a specially crafted html document"
Wouldn't that only make it a problem for those people who actually use the Winamp minibrowser? (I.E., very few people?)
Do you honestly think that the quality from an orbiting satellite several hundred miles away is going to be particularly great? It's already been said that the picture displays the entire neighbourhood and surrounding area of the person's house, so I'm not exactly concerned by this technology. Its application, maybe, but it's just not high-resolution enough to be particularly important.
And yet when I suggested in a Slashdot story that the cosying-up might affect the direction of Java, I got three responses saying that it would most likely not have any effect at all and that I was foolish for saying so. I thought it would be fairly obvious that Micro$oft is going to start applying pressure to those affiliated with Java to step off.
I read with interest about the open source software powering this tiny web server, but at the risk of veering away from the main topic (the web server) I wonder about the wisdom of taking an open-source approach.
Sure, it may look good on paper, but I wonder if these guys have thought about the opinion of the general public of Open Source/GNU/Linux etc.
I have been involved in the marketing (dirty word I know!) of software and hardware to non-technical people for a number of years. The consultancy group I work for numbers many of America's top blue-chip electronics and software corporations among its clients, I have over 11 years experience of marketing, and 4 years experience of software development (VB) and systems administration (NT 3.51), in addition to a marketing science qualification from one of America's top business schools - so it's safe to say that I know what I am talking about when it comes to computers and marketing.
I have been keeping an eye this forum for quite some time now, as part of my daily intelligence gathering, I find the robust exchange of views, and technical arguments make an interesting diversion from some of the other corporate bullshit I have to deal with in my working day. I also read corporate intelligence reports from the Gartner group, Forrester, the Meta group, and Olsen Online Business Intelligence Services. Slashdot has often proved to be far more accurate when it comes to the technical details,and I am often amazed at the incredible levels of intelligence and insight shown by its readership, some of whom demonstrate a knowledge of Linux and Operating systems far in advance of anyone I have ever met, even in the IS department of major corporations. For this reason, I feel I should contribute my 2c to the debate about the future direction of Linux and the whole Open Source movement in general.
I feel I can do my bit for the Open Source community by offering (free of charge) some of my hard-earned knowledge straight from the bloody trenches at the front-line of tech-Marketing. Normally I would be paid over $4000/day for my perspective, but Slashdot - this one's on me. You people can think of it as my small and unworthy attempt to "give something back" to the Community.
Why Linux/Open Source has an image problem in major US Corporations and what the community can do about it. Like any movment, political or religious, Open Source/Linux has its Leaders, High priests and Gurus. These high profile individuals represent the public face of the organization. Like it or not, these people are associated with the product in the eyes of the buying public. One of the first things the Linux movement must do in order to gain acceptence by middle-America and Joe-and-Jean Sixpack and their 2.4 kids, is to develop what we in the Marketing profession call a "Happy Face".
When Joe Sixpack drives past a McDonald's, he associates it with the smiling face of Ronald McDonald the clown,and quality food served quickly. When he is choosing a collect-call company, the smiling face of Al Bundy (of TV's Married with Children) springs to mind, and when he thinks of fried chicken in large capacity bucket-like containers, it is the image of the happy-go-lucky avuncular Colonel with his associations of good old Southern hospitality that sticks in his memory. (In marketing terms this is known as a "positive association". Because the image puts the consumer into a "buying-receptive" mental state).
Linux/Open Source lacks any kind of "Happy Face". Now this in itself is not a problem, were it not for the fact that Linux has several extremely high-profile advocates who are the exact opposite of "Happy Faces" in that they invite negative associations into the consumers head and put him/her into a state known by Marketers as "passive-aggressive sales-message rejection" (In layman's terms they don't want to buy the product).
Maybe these people should stop throwing out random two-letter abbreviations (look! we're hardcore 'cuz we have a numeral like 3G!) and actually producing some useful telecommunications shit. Why not make 3G work properly before fucking around with jacking random electronics into our senses????? Can these people get any more foolhardy? As if the tech we didn't have wasn't as embryonic as it is and now they're upping sticks and jumping the gun by poking POTS into our nerves. Dammit.
...if it actually offered a potential recourse to this employee abuse. I think most of us already know that many employers will do almost anything to keep you from punching in long enough to be classified as "full time" - but what can we do about it?
...they're going to carry on making buzzword-laden empty talk with vague references to current security holes? Sounds like business as usual at Micro$oft. Maybe when they actually produce a secure operating system I'll be less incredulous. The record of Windows' consumer and enterprise operating systems has been little better than abysmal, to be frank.
There's a big difference between demonstrating shame and feeling shame. It's a pretty paltry feature compared to the ability to automate its motions so well. I wonder how well it'll do in the RoboCup?
I hope Microsoft doesn't apply any pressure on Sun to get rid of Java or screw it up. They're probably acutely aware that this money will make it easier for them to destroy the highly portable and competitive language. It's a veritable C# killer!
It's gratifying to see a company which is aware of the "geek" segment of the market and is willing to produce intentionally hackable and extensible media players for us to play with. This can only be a good development and I hope they do well.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot's gone cold I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'll all be gray but your picture on my wall
It reminds me, that it's not so bad -- it's not so bad
Dear Rob, I wrote but you still ain't callin
I left my email, my ICQ, and my yahoo chat at the bottom
I sent two emails back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em
There probably was a problem with your sendmail or somethin
Sometimes I scribble email addees too sloppy when I jot 'em
but anyways; fsck it, what's been up? Man how's your boxes?
My boxes is linux too, I'm bout to be a compiler
once I learn gcc,
I'ma go on and compile for hours
I read about your Palm Pilot too I'm sorry
I had a friend lose his Palm over at the airport in Maradonna
I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
I even read all your bullshit Linux news and Microsoft's man
I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man
I like the way you sold your ass out too, that shit was fat
Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back,
just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
This is Stan
Dear Rob, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
I ain't mad - I just think it's FSCKED UP you don't answer fans
If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your Linux World
you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
That's my Senior sys admin he's only 26 years old
We waited on a 9600 baud for you,
four hours and you just said, "No."
That's pretty shitty man - you're like his fsckin idol
He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein lied to
Remember when we met in Boston - you said if I'd write you
you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way
I never had a clue about shit either
I gcc'd shit with my wife then beat her
I can relate to what you're saying in your page
so when I feel like rmusering I read Slashdot to begin the rage
cause I don't really got shit else so that shit helps when I'm depressed
I even got a tattoo of slashdot across the chest
Sometimes I even packet myself to see how much it floods
It's like adrenaline, the DDoS is such a sudden rush of blood
See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it
My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7
But she don't know you like I know you Rob, no one does
She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up
You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S.
We should be together too
Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Waste-A-Packet-On-My-Fans,
this'll be the last packet I ever send your ass
It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it?
I know you got my last two emails
I wrote the @ signs on 'em perfect
So this is my payload I'm sending you, I hope you hear it
I'm on my modem now, I'm doing 9600 baud so fear it
Hey Rob, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to code?
You know the song by Deep Purple or Slayer
its irrelevant by playing on my linux player
while I write some php scripts and play some Dragonslayer
That's kinda how shit is, you coulda rescued me from drowning
Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downloads now, I'm drowsy
and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call
I hope you know I ripped +ALL+ of your pictures off the wall
I love you Rob, we coulda been together, think about it
You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me
See Rob {*screaming*} Shut up bitch! I'm tryin to code
Hey Rob, that's my senior admin screamin from the comode
but I didn't cut the power off, I just rebooted, see I ain't like you
cause if rm -rf'd we'd suffer more, and then the boxes
You obviously made up the developer's name "Guido Van WHAT???" and your claims about leakage are complete crap. We've had up to a dozen coders working on a single project at my organization, and we've hit 20KLOC without a single memory leaking problem: that tends to be reserved for our C apps. I think you're just a copy-'n'-paste troll who's trying to spread FUD about Python. Yeah, yeah, IHBT, whatever.
I don't know a great deal about wireless networking, so maybe I'm totally off base, but is it possible in certain situations for this to cause interference between different RF channel users? Or if a new user came onto a channel being multiplexed?
Living in London, isn't there some way I can participate? Surely this is being organised as some sort of Europe-wide demonstration in several key cities? How else can I join a protest if I don't have the time, money or inclination to fly over to Belgium?
Gay Nigger Association of America -- April 10, 2004, 16:30PM GMT
By GNAA-UK Legal Consultant, rolloffle
London, United Kingdom
The GNAA is devoted to claiming, maintaining and vehemently guarding any and all freedoms for open source gay niggers. As such, we find the constant infringement of our rights by invasive software patents and risible copyright policies to be a great affront.
Consequently, the GNAA is going to collect some of the approximately $150 million floating around in stock options and shareholders' certificates in buckets and offer it to solicitors in order for them to march proudly to Brussels and argue our case on behalf of Slashdot and the Free community. Numerous gay niggers will also be sent to beat the shit out of any coppers who fuck with the patent protesters.
"We hope that this will be a great step forward," announced lysol, a second-level GNAA member running for US president in 2004 on a pro-nigger platform. "A prerequisite for new events in computer tech in the next decade is going to be a massive relaxation of the currently piss-poor 'copywrong' system. Until pirating music and downloading software for nothing is legal, we cannot rest, and nor will Slashdot, I'm sure."
Slashdot users were themselves found to be incredibly stoked about the plan. "The GNAA used to be funny, but now I just ignore them," stated one anonymous hero.
Obviously, this is going to be a hot issue.
About GNAA
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By GNAA Open Source Marketing Director, rolloffle
London, United Kingdom
Recognising the importance of the open source community in advancing technological progress of the Western World, the GNAA has announced a plan to pledge 60% of all profits into development of the Mozilla Firefox browser. "We hope that the introduction of this new and superior form of funding will increase the speed of new releases greatly," opined GNAA founder timecop. "Their dependence on us for monetary resources will also help our standing in the community."
We at the GNAA feel that Firefox is the primary tool for enhancing the public's conception of OSS and that it must be promoted at all costs. As such, we are willing to sacrifice an estimated $400 per year (projected) to go towards the following ambitious programs:
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...most widely-used asymmetric cryptosystems these days are based on the hardness of factorising large numbers as opposed to finding the factors of elliptic curves. So...what purpose does this serve? Or does it just act as a useful benchmark?
I shouldn't even have to explain why it's more than just a little disturbing that three moderators saw fit to publically mark this comment as "Funny".
...is because watching people die in front of your eyes scares you shitless and gives you nightmares and occupies your thoughts. No bad thing, the same is probably true of me. (But luckily I've never seen anybody actually dying close-up in full graphic colour in real time.)
But what does that actually mean, beyond the fact that 2003 CD sales have fallen by eight percent? Can one reasonably draw any kind of further conclusions, or is everyone just going to jump on this result to further their agendas?
I mean, we've used computers to prove much of boolean and linear algebra. The most famed result in the field is that of the Robbins Conjecture, proven entirely by computer. The computer produced a very "inhuman" proof...
...but will they listen?
Get it RIGHT next time.
Don't they realise that it seems moronic to declare a War on Porn all of a sudden? Why didn't they start back in the 70s when it started on Usenet and elsewhere? They're just hypocritical. I bet there's some lobbyist pulling the strings behind the scenes. The whole thing just reeks through-and-through of bullshit.
"activated remotely simply by rendering a specially crafted html document" Wouldn't that only make it a problem for those people who actually use the Winamp minibrowser? (I.E., very few people?)
Do you honestly think that the quality from an orbiting satellite several hundred miles away is going to be particularly great? It's already been said that the picture displays the entire neighbourhood and surrounding area of the person's house, so I'm not exactly concerned by this technology. Its application, maybe, but it's just not high-resolution enough to be particularly important.
And yet when I suggested in a Slashdot story that the cosying-up might affect the direction of Java, I got three responses saying that it would most likely not have any effect at all and that I was foolish for saying so. I thought it would be fairly obvious that Micro$oft is going to start applying pressure to those affiliated with Java to step off.
I read with interest about the open source software powering this tiny web
server, but at the risk of veering away from the main topic (the web server)
I wonder about the wisdom of taking an open-source approach.
Sure, it may look good on paper, but I wonder if these guys have thought
about the opinion of the general public of Open Source/GNU/Linux etc.
I have been involved in the marketing (dirty word I know!) of software and
hardware to non-technical people for a number of years. The consultancy
group I work for numbers many of America's top blue-chip electronics and
software corporations among its clients, I have over 11 years experience of
marketing, and 4 years experience of software development (VB) and systems
administration (NT 3.51), in addition to a marketing science qualification
from one of America's top business schools - so it's safe to say that I know
what I am talking about when it comes to computers and marketing.
I have been keeping an eye this forum for quite some time now, as part of my
daily intelligence gathering, I find the robust exchange of views, and
technical arguments make an interesting diversion from some of the other
corporate bullshit I have to deal with in my working day. I also read
corporate intelligence reports from the Gartner group, Forrester, the Meta
group, and Olsen Online Business Intelligence Services. Slashdot has often
proved to be far more accurate when it comes to the technical details,and I
am often amazed at the incredible levels of intelligence and insight shown
by its readership, some of whom demonstrate a knowledge of Linux and
Operating systems far in advance of anyone I have ever met, even in the IS
department of major corporations. For this reason, I feel I should
contribute my 2c to the debate about the future direction of Linux and the
whole Open Source movement in general.
I feel I can do my bit for the Open Source community by offering (free of
charge) some of my hard-earned knowledge straight from the bloody trenches
at the front-line of tech-Marketing. Normally I would be paid over $4000/day
for my perspective, but Slashdot - this one's on me. You people can think of
it as my small and unworthy attempt to "give something back" to the
Community.
Why Linux/Open Source has an image problem in major US Corporations and what
the community can do about it. Like any movment, political or religious,
Open Source/Linux has its Leaders, High priests and Gurus. These high
profile individuals represent the public face of the organization. Like it
or not, these people are associated with the product in the eyes of the
buying public. One of the first things the Linux movement must do in order
to gain acceptence by middle-America and Joe-and-Jean Sixpack and their 2.4
kids, is to develop what we in the Marketing profession call a "Happy Face".
When Joe Sixpack drives past a McDonald's, he associates it with the smiling
face of Ronald McDonald the clown,and quality food served quickly. When he
is choosing a collect-call company, the smiling face of Al Bundy (of TV's
Married with Children) springs to mind, and when he thinks of fried chicken
in large capacity bucket-like containers, it is the image of the
happy-go-lucky avuncular Colonel with his associations of good old Southern
hospitality that sticks in his memory. (In marketing terms this is known as
a "positive association". Because the image puts the consumer into a
"buying-receptive" mental state).
Linux/Open Source lacks any kind of "Happy Face". Now this in itself is not
a problem, were it not for the fact that Linux has several extremely
high-profile advocates who are the exact opposite of "Happy Faces" in that
they invite negative associations into the consumers head and put him/her
into a state known by Marketers as "passive-aggressive sales-message
rejection" (In layman's terms they don't want to buy the product).
Maybe these people should stop throwing out random two-letter abbreviations (look! we're hardcore 'cuz we have a numeral like 3G!) and actually producing some useful telecommunications shit. Why not make 3G work properly before fucking around with jacking random electronics into our senses????? Can these people get any more foolhardy? As if the tech we didn't have wasn't as embryonic as it is and now they're upping sticks and jumping the gun by poking POTS into our nerves. Dammit.
...if it actually offered a potential recourse to this employee abuse. I think most of us already know that many employers will do almost anything to keep you from punching in long enough to be classified as "full time" - but what can we do about it?
...they're going to carry on making buzzword-laden empty talk with vague references to current security holes? Sounds like business as usual at Micro$oft. Maybe when they actually produce a secure operating system I'll be less incredulous. The record of Windows' consumer and enterprise operating systems has been little better than abysmal, to be frank.
"even demonstrate shame"
There's a big difference between demonstrating shame and feeling shame. It's a pretty paltry feature compared to the ability to automate its motions so well. I wonder how well it'll do in the RoboCup?
I hope Microsoft doesn't apply any pressure on Sun to get rid of Java or screw it up. They're probably acutely aware that this money will make it easier for them to destroy the highly portable and competitive language. It's a veritable C# killer!
And to think everyone was worrying about the terrorists, fer chrissakes.
It's gratifying to see a company which is aware of the "geek" segment of the market and is willing to produce intentionally hackable and extensible media players for us to play with. This can only be a good development and I hope they do well.