. . . as well as those very very few beings that can edit the universe:
The following message found it's way into my inbox. It obviously is not intended for me, because if I knew how to edit the universe or travel in time I'd be doing something besides posting one comment every two minutes in the Kathleen Fent and Love versus Osama and Terrorism crap flood fest -- I'd probably mass post this story straight to the top, and the get one with the task of traveling back in time to visit beautiful women in history. But I digress. Since this message is not intended for me, I can only hope that the time travelers or those very very few beings that can edit the universe will read this story with their thresholds set as low as 2.
(Headers deleted because of censorious lameness filter and to protect the extensive recipient list from even more spam) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:17:48 +0100 (CET) Subject: Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!!!!
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Frank Young (webmaster@htz.com) on Wednesday, February 20, 19102 at 05:17:48
(long line of hyphens used to be here, deleted in attempt to get this important message through the lameness filter.)
message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!! I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel back in time.
Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types.
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist. I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Please be advised that any temporal device that you may employ must account for X, Y, and Z coordinates as well as the temporal location. I have a time machine now, but it has limited abilitys and is useless without a vortex. If you can provide information on how to create vortex generator or where I can get some of the blue glowing moon crystals this would also be helpful.
I am aware of two types of time travel one in physical form and the other in energy form where a snapshot of your brain is taken using either the dimensional warp or an electronic device and then sends your consciousness back through time to part with your younger self. Please explain how safe and what your method involves.
Also if you are one of the very, very, few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
Only if you have this technology and can help me exactly as mentioned please send me a (SEPARATE) email to: IneedTimeTravel@aol.com
Please do not reply if your an evil alien! Thanks
(Another long line of -'s deleted, in more attempts to get this through the goddamn annoying but futile lameness filter. Is somebody with commit priviliges to slash listening ?)
I found the acm.org's site search to be unuseable on linux/mozilla, which is ironic -- however, a google search on "soviet site:acm.org" turned up some interesting papers available as pdf (special tribute to Russian Dmitry Sklyarov ?):
Mod parent up -- it's one of the only two informative posts so far (and no, that guy ranting about how you have to go to the library to do research is not insightful)
There is no story in common amoung the top ten most visited and the top ten most posted to.
Top ten most visited is an entirely different genra of story. It is the kind of thing people tell each other about and people who never read slashdot immediately must see.
Where as, the most-posted-to stories are the ones that get the slashdot regulars riled up or excited in some way.
Maybe. But even if this thread goes to the top of the HOF, Osama bin Laden will still have three stories on that page. If Love is to replace Terrorism on the HOF, then Cowboy Neal and the rest of the crew better get crackin' !
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Damn !
It's all because some humourless idiot modded down some of the posts I made last night when pushing this article past the Star Fraction one. (I made more than 50 "YAASFP" posts.) Who the hell is wasting mod points moderating this thread now ? What, were they worried that readers might see too much crap in this thread when browsing at 1 ?
That's the problem with moderation -- idiots moderate.
Or you can put the "Older Stories" slashbox on the front page, and only read every three days.
I'm posting random pointless posts in an effort to get this story past the "Star Faction" one in the Hall of Fame. The "Star Faction" was famously crap flooded by script spewing fortune messages, check it out.
Less than a hundred posts before we displace the next in line for HOF !
Re:Pay Pal and Ebay & Citibank and and and
on
PayPal Goes Public
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
What is "peer to peer" about c2it ? As far as I can tell, it is a system where a transaction moves money in accounts on a central computer. Isn't that what paypal is ?
Also, VISA, MasterCard, American Exprese, and the other associations you so breathlessly refer to aren't peer to peer either.
I think you are confusing the term "peer to peer" with the idea of allowing account holders who normally only deposit paychecks and then buy things to also receive other payments into the account. But letting each account be a "merchant account" is not peer to peer, it's just a shift in the way people are using money.
A peer to peer payment system would not require that you have an account with some corporation. It would associate a person with a GPG or PGP key, and whether or not to trust the IOU or payment would be up to the receiving party, using something like PGP's web of trust. In that case the account creation, decisions about trustworthyness, and all the other details of a payment system are pushed down to the user level -- each person can be his own bank, so to speak, and they are all equal in the eyes of the protocol and system (but not in the eyes of other users, perhaps). That's peer to peer.
I completely agree. If everything those cameras see is open to the public, then I will at least tolerate it. If it needs to be kept secrete for "privacy", then they should have a search warrant.
I've noticed a similar trend in the software area. About the same numbers -- 3 or 4 calls/spam last year, then 3 or 4 in December and 3 or 4 in January. The phone calls tended to be headhunters looking for someone with a specific skill for a specific job, not general resume trolling. All in the software area, which is where I work.
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. . . as well as those very very few beings that can edit the universe:
The following message found it's way into my inbox. It obviously is not intended for me, because if I knew how to edit the universe or travel in time I'd be doing something besides posting one comment every two minutes in the Kathleen Fent and Love versus Osama and Terrorism crap flood fest -- I'd probably mass post this story straight to the top, and the get one with the task of traveling back in time to visit beautiful women in history. But I digress. Since this message is not intended for me, I can only hope that the time travelers or those very very few beings that can edit the universe will read this story with their thresholds set as low as 2.
(Headers deleted because of censorious lameness filter and to protect the extensive recipient list from even more spam)
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:17:48 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!!!!
Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by Frank Young (webmaster@htz.com) on Wednesday, February 20, 19102 at 05:17:48
(long line of hyphens used to be here, deleted in attempt to get this important message through the lameness filter.)
message: If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel back in time.
Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with again after I go back.
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that humans do not do well through certain types.
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way that the universe of now will cease to exist.
I know that there are some very powerful people out there with alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Please be advised that any temporal device
that you may employ must account for X, Y, and Z coordinates as well
as the temporal location.
I have a time machine now, but it has limited abilitys and is useless without
a vortex. If you can provide information on how to create vortex generator or
where I can get some of the blue glowing moon crystals this would also
be helpful.
I am aware of two types of time travel one in physical form and the other in energy form where a snapshot of your brain is taken using either the dimensional warp or an electronic device and then sends your consciousness back through time to part with your younger self. Please explain
how safe and what your method involves.
Also if you are one of the very, very, few beings with the ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
Only if you have this technology and can help me exactly as mentioned
please send me a (SEPARATE) email to: IneedTimeTravel@aol.com
Please do not reply if your an evil alien!
Thanks
(Another long line of -'s deleted, in more attempts to get this through the goddamn annoying but futile lameness filter. Is somebody with commit priviliges to slash listening ?)
Attempts to look at the HOF page to confirm how close we are to #3 (Yeah baby ! Love and peace over Osama and terrorism !) just gave a blank page.
Comments ? Even if you have nothing to add, any comment posted here is anti-Terrorism !
Karma Schmarma. What, are we going to let Osama bin Laden trump true love ?
Not if I have any say in it.
Keeping it going !
We are getting closer, very close.
A spasm of crapflooding or a flame war could do it now.
Yes. Join the John Birch Society.
The Soviet Bloc's Unified System of Computers by N.C. Davis and S.E. Goodman -- this talks about the "Ryad" s/360 clones.
Computing in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe -- more an overview, but has a biography.
There are more, but the google search page is probably the place to go, rather than me cutting-and-pasting it here.
By the way, that guy S.E. Goodman seems to have also written an article about Red China's internet infrastructure.
Thanks for clearing that up ! I was totally confused for the first 2000 posts.
Link for the lazy:
http://rickman.com/brett/russian_computing/
There is no story in common amoung the top ten most visited and the top ten most posted to.
Top ten most visited is an entirely different genra of story. It is the kind of thing people tell each other about and people who never read slashdot immediately must see.
Where as, the most-posted-to stories are the ones that get the slashdot regulars riled up or excited in some way.
Maybe. But even if this thread goes to the top of the HOF, Osama bin Laden will still have three stories on that page. If Love is to replace Terrorism on the HOF, then Cowboy Neal and the rest of the crew better get crackin' !
Mod up the parent as insightful.
It's time for love to take over.
Thank you !
Who made you the gbd of this thread ?
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Damn !
It's all because some humourless idiot modded down some of the posts I made last night when pushing this article past the Star Fraction one. (I made more than 50 "YAASFP" posts.) Who the hell is wasting mod points moderating this thread now ? What, were they worried that readers might see too much crap in this thread when browsing at 1 ?
That's the problem with moderation -- idiots moderate.
Unless both names are different !
I believe it will be archieved and unpostable before then.
But don't let that stop you from trying !
It's not like you'll ever see a story like this on the front page of slashdot again !
The word "Pointless" has questionable usefulness in the context of posting on slashdot.
Nevertheless, I salute your dedication !
I have been searching forever for a copy of WP that will work in console mode (no X) on linux.
I've basically given up. I recently bought a used copy of WP 5.1 for DOS, and the person who wanted it for Linux will have to run it in dosemu.
Oh well. It provides me a chance to argue with him that LaTeX is worth the learning curve.
Or you can put the "Older Stories" slashbox on the front page, and only read every three days.
I'm posting random pointless posts in an effort to get this story past the "Star Faction" one in the Hall of Fame. The "Star Faction" was famously crap flooded by script spewing fortune messages, check it out.
This post is dedicated to the day when the Star Faction story disappears from the Hall of Fame.
I'll help out.
Less than a hundred posts before we displace the next in line for HOF !
What is "peer to peer" about c2it ? As far as I can tell, it is a system where a transaction moves money in accounts on a central computer. Isn't that what paypal is ?
Also, VISA, MasterCard, American Exprese, and the other associations you so breathlessly refer to aren't peer to peer either.
I think you are confusing the term "peer to peer" with the idea of allowing account holders who normally only deposit paychecks and then buy things to also receive other payments into the account. But letting each account be a "merchant account" is not peer to peer, it's just a shift in the way people are using money.
A peer to peer payment system would not require that you have an account with some corporation. It would associate a person with a GPG or PGP key, and whether or not to trust the IOU or payment would be up to the receiving party, using something like PGP's web of trust. In that case the account creation, decisions about trustworthyness, and all the other details of a payment system are pushed down to the user level -- each person can be his own bank, so to speak, and they are all equal in the eyes of the protocol and system (but not in the eyes of other users, perhaps). That's peer to peer.
Yeah I know.
At this point I'm replying just to push the story higher in the Hall of Fame listings.
Just like everybody else said . . .
I'm glad no one is working through here with the "-1,redundant" mod points.
I completely agree. If everything those cameras see is open to the public, then I will at least tolerate it. If it needs to be kept secrete for "privacy", then they should have a search warrant.
I've noticed a similar trend in the software area. About the same numbers -- 3 or 4 calls/spam last year, then 3 or 4 in December and 3 or 4 in January. The phone calls tended to be headhunters looking for someone with a specific skill for a specific job, not general resume trolling. All in the software area, which is where I work.