In your dreams, masturbation boy. You would have shit your pants, like all nerds do.
Form a circle? Resist the police? Been playing too much WoW, haven't we?
By all means, try it next time. See how many students you can persuade to give up their future (interfering with the police happens to be illegal, say goodbye to your clean slate, say goodbye to any good job).
Ah, yes. You could not. You're still in 6th grade. Right.
Hide behind your keyboard where it's safe, loserboy.
My, how bitter we are. Did they beat you up so hard in school? Do they still beat you up now? Are you one of those loserboys who believe in "the power of the Net" of some made-up nonsense?
Or are you afraid of guns? Shit your pants when you look at a knife? Do you tremble with fear at the sight of an armed cop? Any other inferiority complex?
Hate religion too? Typical. Some Church choir boys chased you down the corridor and stuck your head into a toilet then flushed it? Is that the reason?
Pick what you like, you're still a loserboy. Deluding yourself into thinking the rest of the world is as weak as you may help you feel better but it's untrue, deal with it.
But of course, what would us nearsighted geeks be able to figure out anyhow? All we did was build a communications network that spans the globe and allows even the most insignificant person to have access to information
ROTFL.
News for you, loserboy: the internet was not built by some bespectacled, basement dwelling, zitfaced world-of-warcraft addicted homo nerdo, but by Real People: technicians, researchers, planners, well beyond their teens and twenties. People with families and real jobs, not geeks. And all of it backed by big money.
Now big money calls and is buying the internet back, and not from you. You don't own it. You own nothing at all, period. You can scream and holler and flap your arms crying "gimme gimme gimme unfair unfair!" until you spit out your tonsils, but nobody listens to losers.
Ah, and crappy website designer != IT folks. Suck it up.
Of course you would go: being a nerd, you don't have anything to lose. You don't have a life, or a meaningful reason to exist.
Too bad you'll never get on that mission. You would fail physical exams. Shock, horror! You need to be FIT to go in space - which dooms you geeks to spend your lives in a basement on Earth.
By all means, keep making outrageously bold statements you will naver have to back up, while we Real People laugh our asses off.
Are you so deluded? Do you really believe some loserboys running a loserboy OS quitting will ever make a dent into Blizzard's profits?
News for you, nerdtards: whether you like it or not, you're a minority. Not an elite, a minority. A small, irrelevant, obnoxious minority. There's no money in you. Nobody cares about you.
Want to play WoW? Get Windows. Get a Mac. That's what Blizzard supports, not some two-bit toy cobbled together by a bunch of amateurs without a life.
This world, out here, speaks Windows. It speaks money. Deal with it or suicide.
Anyone who has ever been serious about photography knows the facts about TTL SLR machines back from the film era. Digital only changes the storage medium, not the underlying principles. There's nothing new about it.
But then, nerds aren't too bright and need to be reminded each now and then that their precious "technology" doesn't actually change anything at heart. It certainly won't turn loserboy amateur into pro photographer because what sets them apart are the skills, which the geek will never be able to acquire.
Real People make do with the tools they have thanks to superior skills, nerds still believe technology and their irrelevant superficial computer knowledge can make up for their lack of capabilities, which can never happen.
That's why we have to remind them every now and then just how inferior they are, with a good beating.
Not for long. Trusted Computing initiatives, hardware lock-on and pervasive DRM beside worldwide spreading legislation will soon put an end to that. The internet is being commercialized, bought and sold even as we're writing.
Gramps, you are of a dying generation. you are passing away.
Typical "I'm young and smarter than you" losing attitude. While the CEOs may be well over their 60s, many music industry executives are quite young.
leave your chairs to younger ones, who are actually able to understand the contemporary times and participate in it.
When this will finally happen, your "rights online" will be dead. The younger execs understand the contemporary times but their bottom line is to make money and with their better understanding of tech, they'll be able to address the issues at hand in a far more aggressive way.
Your "freedom" on the internet will soon be gone. Deal with it, because there's nothing you can do.
"Your entire life"? At 17 what you have is not "an entire life" unless you go six feet under tomorrow. You're just a clueless kid, period. Call back when you have some college under your belt, by then you'll have learned that all that "computer" stuff is a one-way ticket into no-life.
"Your" field? It's not "your" field anymore. Computers and programming now firmly belong to Mr Iamanindian from Bumfuckay, Lawhore. He can do the job just as well as you can and for a lower wage. Have you noticed how many "computer scientists", "software engineers" and assorted nerds have taken a new career path as janitors?
And you think you're too good to sell iPods to kids at Best Buy? You'll regret passing that over when the best you'll be offered will be cleaning toilets at Best Buy.
Get real, and go back to school. Study law. Lawyers get rich, and money buys you everything. And if you suck at law, there's sports. Get the most out of your life because in 20 years time you won't get a second chance. If you won't have made it big by 35-38, you might as well suicide because it will be too late.
Nerds, again on a quest for self-aggrandizement. News for you, loserboys: whatever you do on your beloved internet is nugatory, unimportant, doomed to disappear forever faster than you can believe.
"Arbitrary lenghts"? Tell me, smarturds, can you still read the data on some garage-stored 8" floppy disk? Cassette tape? How many floptical drives will be around in 20 years to read data stored in 1990? Good luck reading a CD or DVD in 2090.
The internet? The internet is the fucking PITS. It's the shithole you dump everything in, and everything mingles. How many websites exist today that were around in 1996? How much of the original information existing on the internet then exists today in its original form?
And you're thinking a century and more into the future, into a time you won't even exist in. Your precious internet may well not exist 50 years from now. It won't be around 500 years from now. One or two thousand years? Our technology is so damn fragile it can't even survive properly and unattended for a couple of years, and once your digital data is gone, it's gone. Our civilization will leave very little behind because even our buildings won't last very long.
Everything you are, everything you do, dream and think will be gone. No archaeologist will lose sleep over what was that "Linux" thing. No one will browse through your digital photo collection, long vanished into nothingness. Nobody will read your stupid blogs, destroyed forever by digital obsolescence.
Your self-aggrandizing fantasies are doomed to become nothing, little geeks. Keep on wasting your lives in your parents' basement, while I run over your puppy in my SUV.
Slashdotters are nerds. Nerds talk much and do nothing. Everytime they start this "I'm leaving!" thing the Real People's reaction ranges from "so what" to "good riddance", and guess what those obnoxious, irrelevant geeks are still here.
Why? Because despite their tough talk they're too scared to move. If they can at all, which is not the case in many instances since they live in their parents' cellars where they live off their old folks' retirement money. Too little to move, sorry.
When they're not living as parasites, their plans to move are dashed by the knowledge that they will never, ever be able to find a job in the country of their choice, because they have no marketable skills whatsoever.
"But I know computers! I know Linux!" they scream. To no avail, because computers are for chumps, and Linux is child's play. Any moron can learn all that there is to know in no time.
Geeks are not needed. They are not wanted. They are pathetic loserboy wannabes who can only holler and scream because they believe their shrill voices can make up for their complete uselessness.
They won't go anywhere. They can't. They're too afraid to, and nobody would take them. So we're saddled with those crybabies.
Any geek trying to take on a jock ends up utterly humiliated, with his face punched in and his nose bleeding, and his scrawny neck painfully bent. And be glad if he doesn't end up with jock shit all over him, too.
Which I suppose will make them incredibly attractive in the current economic situation.
"(2) it will make them more fun for geeks to shop for and buy"
This is a non-reason. This stuff is meant for families, and geeks do not have families. Either they jerk off in solitude or they live in their parents' basement and their parents are not interested in useless networked appliances.
"(3) it will create a whole new level of complexity, annoyance, and expense when they malfunction."
Which I suppose any marketing genius will recognize are good selling points.
But who are you to make that decision for me? I'd prefer to be free and endangered.
The perception of danger is bad for business, where the perception of safety is good. "Freedom" on the other side offers no visible gain financially-wise. Since money talks and shit walks, say goodbye to your freedom.
He's a loserboy geek: he won't last enough to do anything in prison. The other inmates will have him for lunch and when they will have tired of pounding him in the ass, they'll bash his head against a wall until his brain leaks out of his ears.
Reiser is fucking FINISHED, and so is his loserboy filesystem no real person needs. The market has plenty of alternative coded by real people with real lives.
Combined with the demoralizing turnout for Star Trek: Nemesis, this makes me wonder whether the ratio of influence to noise by the Slashdot crowd is not overrated by some scary multiplier.
It is. Welcome to the Real World, where the opinions of a bunch of loserboy nerds are worth dried dog shit. You're the laughingstock of all the Real People, deal with it and suicide.
Teenagers are repellent unto themselves. Especially teenage nerds. You don't want to repel them, you want to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire, then watch them flail and scream as they burn to death.
And good riddance.
But since it's unfortunately illegal to torch geeks, we'll have to settle with beating them up and forcing them to eat dog feces.
Respect? A journalist is already someone who is universally recognized as a good-for-nothing sorry excuse for a human being who can't actually do anything of his own so he only gets to write nonsense about what Real People actually do. And yet he wields some measure of power and influence internet geeks can only dream of.
An internet journalist is even lower than that and qualifies as a pathetic loserboy who failed even at being a real journalist. Seriously, are you even listening to yourselves?
The term is "willing slave", not "citizen" when applied to Europe . Now get the fuck out and go slit your throat in the toilet room, euro child molester.
Sure, maybe for the moment, but I think you'd be surprised as to how rapidly their subscription fees are dwindling. Who needs a newspaper when you can get all of your news faster and cheaper with Google?
This is Europe we're talking about: they don't have computers in their cafés, where they spend all their days drinking wine, smoking, pretending to read the news and molesting the kids who pass by.
And watching soccer, of course. Euros love soccer. So much that they happily knife each other to death over soccer matches, and then they spout nonsense about the violence in American society.
Slashdot Mirror
No, she just stuck two fingers up her pussy.
In your dreams, masturbation boy. You would have shit your pants, like all nerds do.
Form a circle? Resist the police? Been playing too much WoW, haven't we?
By all means, try it next time. See how many students you can persuade to give up their future (interfering with the police happens to be illegal, say goodbye to your clean slate, say goodbye to any good job).
Ah, yes. You could not. You're still in 6th grade. Right.
Hide behind your keyboard where it's safe, loserboy.
My, how bitter we are. Did they beat you up so hard in school? Do they still beat you up now? Are you one of those loserboys who believe in "the power of the Net" of some made-up nonsense?
Or are you afraid of guns? Shit your pants when you look at a knife? Do you tremble with fear at the sight of an armed cop? Any other inferiority complex?
Hate religion too? Typical. Some Church choir boys chased you down the corridor and stuck your head into a toilet then flushed it? Is that the reason?
Pick what you like, you're still a loserboy. Deluding yourself into thinking the rest of the world is as weak as you may help you feel better but it's untrue, deal with it.
But of course, what would us nearsighted geeks be able to figure out anyhow? All we did was build a communications network that spans the globe and allows even the most insignificant person to have access to information
ROTFL.
News for you, loserboy: the internet was not built by some bespectacled, basement dwelling, zitfaced world-of-warcraft addicted homo nerdo, but by Real People: technicians, researchers, planners, well beyond their teens and twenties. People with families and real jobs, not geeks. And all of it backed by big money.
Now big money calls and is buying the internet back, and not from you. You don't own it. You own nothing at all, period. You can scream and holler and flap your arms crying "gimme gimme gimme unfair unfair!" until you spit out your tonsils, but nobody listens to losers.
Ah, and crappy website designer != IT folks. Suck it up.
Of course you would go: being a nerd, you don't have anything to lose. You don't have a life, or a meaningful reason to exist.
Too bad you'll never get on that mission. You would fail physical exams. Shock, horror! You need to be FIT to go in space - which dooms you geeks to spend your lives in a basement on Earth.
By all means, keep making outrageously bold statements you will naver have to back up, while we Real People laugh our asses off.
Are you so deluded? Do you really believe some loserboys running a loserboy OS quitting will ever make a dent into Blizzard's profits?
News for you, nerdtards: whether you like it or not, you're a minority. Not an elite, a minority. A small, irrelevant, obnoxious minority. There's no money in you. Nobody cares about you.
Want to play WoW? Get Windows. Get a Mac. That's what Blizzard supports, not some two-bit toy cobbled together by a bunch of amateurs without a life.
This world, out here, speaks Windows. It speaks money. Deal with it or suicide.
What's more creepy? A star trek geek or an admin of a shitty porn site?
A star trek pedophile geek who happens to be the admin of a kiddie scat-porn site.
Anyone who has ever been serious about photography knows the facts about TTL SLR machines back from the film era. Digital only changes the storage medium, not the underlying principles. There's nothing new about it.
But then, nerds aren't too bright and need to be reminded each now and then that their precious "technology" doesn't actually change anything at heart. It certainly won't turn loserboy amateur into pro photographer because what sets them apart are the skills, which the geek will never be able to acquire.
Real People make do with the tools they have thanks to superior skills, nerds still believe technology and their irrelevant superficial computer knowledge can make up for their lack of capabilities, which can never happen.
That's why we have to remind them every now and then just how inferior they are, with a good beating.
Please go out and vote
I'd gladly go and vote Rep only to take a good shitting on your face, loserboy.
internet is a free medium. freedom is its nature
Not for long. Trusted Computing initiatives, hardware lock-on and pervasive DRM beside worldwide spreading legislation will soon put an end to that. The internet is being commercialized, bought and sold even as we're writing.
Gramps, you are of a dying generation. you are passing away.
Typical "I'm young and smarter than you" losing attitude. While the CEOs may be well over their 60s, many music industry executives are quite young.
leave your chairs to younger ones, who are actually able to understand the contemporary times and participate in it.
When this will finally happen, your "rights online" will be dead. The younger execs understand the contemporary times but their bottom line is to make money and with their better understanding of tech, they'll be able to address the issues at hand in a far more aggressive way.
Your "freedom" on the internet will soon be gone. Deal with it, because there's nothing you can do.
"Your entire life"? At 17 what you have is not "an entire life" unless you go six feet under tomorrow. You're just a clueless kid, period. Call back when you have some college under your belt, by then you'll have learned that all that "computer" stuff is a one-way ticket into no-life.
"Your" field? It's not "your" field anymore. Computers and programming now firmly belong to Mr Iamanindian from Bumfuckay, Lawhore. He can do the job just as well as you can and for a lower wage. Have you noticed how many "computer scientists", "software engineers" and assorted nerds have taken a new career path as janitors?
And you think you're too good to sell iPods to kids at Best Buy? You'll regret passing that over when the best you'll be offered will be cleaning toilets at Best Buy.
Get real, and go back to school. Study law. Lawyers get rich, and money buys you everything. And if you suck at law, there's sports. Get the most out of your life because in 20 years time you won't get a second chance. If you won't have made it big by 35-38, you might as well suicide because it will be too late.
Computers are for chumps. Leave them to chumps.
Nerds, again on a quest for self-aggrandizement. News for you, loserboys: whatever you do on your beloved internet is nugatory, unimportant, doomed to disappear forever faster than you can believe.
"Arbitrary lenghts"? Tell me, smarturds, can you still read the data on some garage-stored 8" floppy disk? Cassette tape? How many floptical drives will be around in 20 years to read data stored in 1990? Good luck reading a CD or DVD in 2090.
The internet? The internet is the fucking PITS. It's the shithole you dump everything in, and everything mingles. How many websites exist today that were around in 1996? How much of the original information existing on the internet then exists today in its original form?
And you're thinking a century and more into the future, into a time you won't even exist in. Your precious internet may well not exist 50 years from now. It won't be around 500 years from now. One or two thousand years? Our technology is so damn fragile it can't even survive properly and unattended for a couple of years, and once your digital data is gone, it's gone. Our civilization will leave very little behind because even our buildings won't last very long.
Everything you are, everything you do, dream and think will be gone. No archaeologist will lose sleep over what was that "Linux" thing. No one will browse through your digital photo collection, long vanished into nothingness. Nobody will read your stupid blogs, destroyed forever by digital obsolescence.
Your self-aggrandizing fantasies are doomed to become nothing, little geeks. Keep on wasting your lives in your parents' basement, while I run over your puppy in my SUV.
also, I never found Sid Ceaser to be funny.
Neither have I. Sid Vicious on the other hand...
Slashdotters are nerds. Nerds talk much and do nothing. Everytime they start this "I'm leaving!" thing the Real People's reaction ranges from "so what" to "good riddance", and guess what those obnoxious, irrelevant geeks are still here.
Why? Because despite their tough talk they're too scared to move. If they can at all, which is not the case in many instances since they live in their parents' cellars where they live off their old folks' retirement money. Too little to move, sorry.
When they're not living as parasites, their plans to move are dashed by the knowledge that they will never, ever be able to find a job in the country of their choice, because they have no marketable skills whatsoever.
"But I know computers! I know Linux!" they scream. To no avail, because computers are for chumps, and Linux is child's play. Any moron can learn all that there is to know in no time.
Geeks are not needed. They are not wanted. They are pathetic loserboy wannabes who can only holler and scream because they believe their shrill voices can make up for their complete uselessness.
They won't go anywhere. They can't. They're too afraid to, and nobody would take them. So we're saddled with those crybabies.
Might as well give them a good beating.
Any geek trying to take on a jock ends up utterly humiliated, with his face punched in and his nose bleeding, and his scrawny neck painfully bent. And be glad if he doesn't end up with jock shit all over him, too.
Bullshit done in the Swiss doesn't make the same bullshit now done in Germany look any better.
But it's being done and there's nothing you can do about it. Suck it up and pay. Or sell your computer.
"(1) it will make them more expensive"
Which I suppose will make them incredibly attractive in the current economic situation.
"(2) it will make them more fun for geeks to shop for and buy"
This is a non-reason. This stuff is meant for families, and geeks do not have families. Either they jerk off in solitude or they live in their parents' basement and their parents are not interested in useless networked appliances.
"(3) it will create a whole new level of complexity, annoyance, and expense when they malfunction."
Which I suppose any marketing genius will recognize are good selling points.
I hope you've got the "Pink Velvet" trilogy and "Searching for Silvia".
But who are you to make that decision for me? I'd prefer to be free and endangered.
The perception of danger is bad for business, where the perception of safety is good. "Freedom" on the other side offers no visible gain financially-wise. Since money talks and shit walks, say goodbye to your freedom.
He's a loserboy geek: he won't last enough to do anything in prison. The other inmates will have him for lunch and when they will have tired of pounding him in the ass, they'll bash his head against a wall until his brain leaks out of his ears.
Reiser is fucking FINISHED, and so is his loserboy filesystem no real person needs. The market has plenty of alternative coded by real people with real lives.
Combined with the demoralizing turnout for Star Trek: Nemesis, this makes me wonder whether the ratio of influence to noise by the Slashdot crowd is not overrated by some scary multiplier.
It is. Welcome to the Real World, where the opinions of a bunch of loserboy nerds are worth dried dog shit. You're the laughingstock of all the Real People, deal with it and suicide.
Teenagers are repellent unto themselves. Especially teenage nerds. You don't want to repel them, you want to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire, then watch them flail and scream as they burn to death.
And good riddance.
But since it's unfortunately illegal to torch geeks, we'll have to settle with beating them up and forcing them to eat dog feces.
Respect? A journalist is already someone who is universally recognized as a good-for-nothing sorry excuse for a human being who can't actually do anything of his own so he only gets to write nonsense about what Real People actually do. And yet he wields some measure of power and influence internet geeks can only dream of.
An internet journalist is even lower than that and qualifies as a pathetic loserboy who failed even at being a real journalist. Seriously, are you even listening to yourselves?
as a fellow European citizen
The term is "willing slave", not "citizen" when applied to Europe . Now get the fuck out and go slit your throat in the toilet room, euro child molester.
Sure, maybe for the moment, but I think you'd be surprised as to how rapidly their subscription fees are dwindling. Who needs a newspaper when you can get all of your news faster and cheaper with Google?
This is Europe we're talking about: they don't have computers in their cafés, where they spend all their days drinking wine, smoking, pretending to read the news and molesting the kids who pass by.
And watching soccer, of course. Euros love soccer. So much that they happily knife each other to death over soccer matches, and then they spout nonsense about the violence in American society.