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Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov

Free as in "There's No Profit" News :-)

An average Slashdot reader loves Linux and runs Windows
- From a Slashdot post of a person who,
 probably, has access to the Slashdot webservers logs
 with their 90% of Windows hits
 

[Dec 5, 2005] Slashdot Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat

Bruce Perens posts in his blog about an amusing encounter between Richard Stallman and United Nations security at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. It seems that RFID technology, which Stallman opposes for privacy reasons, was used in the identification badges for the conference. From the blog: 'You can't give Richard a visible RF ID strip without expecting him to protest. Richard acquired an entire roll of aluminum foil and wore his foil-shielded pass prominently.' During a keynote speech, Stallman also passed around the tinfoil for other to use as well. It seems that UN security was not amused...

Paranoia isn't cheap(Score:5, Funny)
by CosmeticLobotamy (155360) on Saturday November 19, @11:09AM (#14070685)

You deserve what you get if you use aluminum foil. Any conspiracy theorist worth his salary won't accept anything less than genuine tin.

[Nov 15, 2005] Fighting bugs in Microsoft . Really cool :-)

• Watch a specific chapter:
• Introduction
• Micro-Stun option
• Micro-Impact option
• Micro-Jab option

[Nov 7, 2005] Practice safe image viewing folks!

(Score:5, Funny)

by nizo (81281) * on Tuesday November 08, @06:15PM (#13983543)
(Last Journal: Monday November 07, @06:24PM)

Or your computer could get an STD (Screenally Transmitted Disease) from viewing pornographic images.

Novell Soup Opera

Slashdot Three Snort Books Reviewed

Three Cheers for Slashdot

(Score:1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13, @02:16PM (#6688152)

Slashdot strikes out
reported by Anonymous Cannibal

In developing news, Slashdot.org [slashdot.org] has released a non-SCO related article. Slashdotters are ecstatic at the incoming news "Oh man I really thought it was the end of the road there for a minute, I mean last week was bad, but as of Sunday, I don't know how many SCO based articles they posted. I think it's somewhere in the low hundreds though" stated a user who wished to remain anonymous.

"It's exciting for the moment, but I know these morons will just post some other sickening story about a company that's about to go under any god damned moment". stated fx0rspy.

... ... ...

(c) 2003 Disgruntled Slashdotter

Web Intrustion Detection

(Score:3, Informative)

by ivan.ristic (631774) on Wednesday August 13, @03:22PM (#6688651)
(http://www.webkreator.com/)

If you are interested in detecting and preventing web attacks specifically then you should have a look at mod_security [modsecurity.org]. It is an Apache module (both branches are supported) that allows for some very interesting HTTP-specific filtering. It even supports POST method analysis, and can reject an offending request. Since it works as part of the web server it makes it much easier to detect attacks carried out through an SSL channel.

The dotCommunist Manifesto by Eben Moglen

Slashdot ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected

*not minimal* (Score:3, Funny)
by plarsen (579155) on Thursday August 18, @12:08PM (#13348208 )

It is not a minimal risk for a Windows XP system to get infected. Not after Microsoft have changed their Windows Update program. I have alot of friends struggling with properly secureing their pirated version of XP.

     *Re:not minimal* (Score:5, Funny)
     by op12 (830015)  on Thursday August 18,  @12:12PM (#13348252)
   
     Dear plarsen,

     Send me a list of your friends names and addresses, and I will get
     the problem resolved immediately.

     -Bill G.

Nice quotes

• There is no such thing as a free lunch; unless you're the lunch. Heckel's Principle of Dealing with Big Companies:
• Free as in there's no profit

[Aug 17, 2005] [Softpanorama] Stallman Cloned to Finish his Job on Hurd

Unidentified fan cut off a piece of  RMS beard while he was sleeping after free software feather section at Usenix and cloned the man several times. "I want many more Stallman's clones" he explained in his phone conversation with New York times -- "I want them to write Hurd OS, the work unfinished by the original human prototype. Also both GCC and emacs now are showing its age and need fresh workforce to prevent stagnation. ". "That's the most effective way to support the idea of free software" the man stated.

There were rumors that he already has at least three RMS clones and expect to raise the number to nine in the near future.  I have enough generic material for a battalion of RMS clones boasted the man. He also mentioned that  Linus Torvalds clones are also in his plans.

Asked about question whether human cloning is legal the perpetrator of this mass RMS cloning replied to NYT correspondent Judith Miller that he does not care. "I think genes are essentially a form of software that wants to be free and realize themselves in as many copies as possible"   he  stated.
 

Slashdot The Cathedral In The Bazaar An interesting remark about Slashdot objectivity:

Shift Key FAQ by by Alan Meiss

Unleash the Power of Shift!

Q. My shift keys have little arrows on them. Does that mean the *real* shift keys are located above them, and these keys are just little signs to point them out?

A. Nope, they're the Real McCoy. The little arrows mean "up", as in "look up at the screen". Your keyboard is telling you to learn to touch type and quit staring at your fingers.

From: Mark Taylor [mtaylor@PureAtria.COM]
Subject: world standards day

No comment necessary:

"(T)he International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) designated Oct. 14 as World Standards Day to recognize those volunteers who have worked hard to define international standards ... The United States celebrated World Standards Day on Oct. 11; Finland celebrated on Oct. 13; and Italy celebrated on Oct. 18."

- Open Systems Today, 10/31/94

Humorix The Hottest New Distribution LinuXXX

LAS VEGAS -- Described as the world's first "pornographic operating system," a new Linux distribution called LinuXXX was unveiled earlier today at a press conference in the lobby of a Las Vegas hotel. Sales of the distro have been... well, hot. read more

RFTP MAN PAGE

rtfm(l)             UNIX Programmer's Manual              rtfm(l)

Humorix/Slashdot Editors Promise To Actually Edit Stories Fake News written by James Baughn on April 1, 2005

HOLLAND, MICHIGAN -- The end is near. After defending wave after wave of criticism from the omnipresent Anonymous Coward, Taco Boy today announced that he and the rest of his staff will actually live up to their titles as "editors."

"I've always believed that 'editor' is simply another name for he-who-knows-the-root-password," Taco Boy wrote in his 6:32 AM CST Slashdot post. "Not anymore. I promise that things will start to change around here."

Read more...

In an international gesture of goodwill, the Russian government announced last week that it will help fight the worsening SAS (Severe Acronym Shortage) by donating several Cyrillic characters, with more on the way.

"The acronym shortage could devastate the world economy if action is not taken soon," said a Russian government official. "The only solution is to increase the size of the alphabet available for acronyms."

The Blartner Group has been warning about the impending ASC (Acronym Shortage Crisis) since 2002. "Most acronyms are written by English speakers limited to a paltry 26-letter alphabet," Blort Blartner explained. "It's no surprise that ANCs (Acronym Namespace Collisions) are occuring at a rapidly increasing rate. This will place a huge burden on the IT industry by hindering communication, potentially leading to a rupture of the very fabric of the entire GE (Global Econony, not General Electric)."

In a recent survey by the American Association Against Acronym Abuse (AAAAA), 73% of people in computer-related fields admitted that they "had created an acronym within the last year that wasn't really necessary." Shockingly, 5% of participants acknowledged that they "might suffer an addiction to stringing new acronyms together as a form of entertainment."

Said the AAAAA chairwoman, "Russia's bold move will help to disambiguate some acronyms, but it doesn't solve the root problem: the AN (Acronym Namespace) is simply too polluted by UACs (Unnecessary Acronym Creators). IMHO, this situation will require drastic measures, such as the creation of an AEPB (Acronym Environmental Protection Bureau)."

However, the founder of the rival CNP (Coalition for Namespace Purity) argued, "Adding another bureaucracy never works. The new office will simply create a whole new regime of acronyms, such as requiring companies to submit an ACRF (Acronym Creation Request Form) and an EISFAC (Environment Impact Study For Acronym Creation) in the hopes of receiving an AACP (Approved Acronym Creation Permit)."

Last month, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally adopted RFC 10523, which will require all future RFCs to limit new acronyms to one per document. "If a namespace collision in unavoidable," the RFC states, "then an attempt must be made to recycle obsolete acronyms first. If that fails, then the new acronym must undergo NSD (Numeric Suffix Disambiguation). For instance, Xtreme Programming should be called 'XP-1' in order to avoid confusion with Microsoft's Xceptionally Pathetic operating system (Windows XP)."

"The IETF needs to take full responsibility for the entire zoo of questionable acronyms that have been created by RFCs over the last decades," said one IETF participant. "It is imperative that we reuse archaic acronyms like 'UUCP' and 'ARCHIE' and assign them more productive meanings."

It isn't just the computer industry that faces a threat from the acronym shortage. The USAF (United States Air Force) has probably created more new acronyms than another other institution in history.

"This is no laughing matter," said a USAF PAO (Public Affairs Officer). "Last year we nearly suffered an SSS (Significant Security Situation) when an MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) was mistaken for an MRE (Massive Radioactive Explosive). This kind of problem could prove catastrophic in a combat situation."

The PAO added, "The Pentagon has already launched an ARC (Acronym Review Committee) to weed out ORAs (Obsolete or Redundant Acronyms). In addition, the entire US military will now encourage of the use of abbreviations instead of acronyms for CritOps (Critical Operations) and StratInts (Strategic Initiatives). While we appreciate the help offered by the Russian government, we believe we can solve this problem without the need to outsource our language."

[Jul 13, 2005] Grandma adopts Linux

"Hello my dear Linux friend,

"Thank you for developing this amazing desktop. I'll be the first to admit that I don't get out much out of Linux that my grandson installed for me.  Because of my rheumatism and bursitis, I cannot use neither keyboard not mouse. 

But still I'm very proud of my grandson and all of those brilliant computer people. Now I watch Linux more then TV. . I think people who write screen savers for Linux are absolutely amazing...!"

Slashdot Best Linux Security Books

Dude, get with the times (Score:1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08, @09:12PM (#13018242)

The current slashbot cheer is "use Ubuntu!" Example usage: Your mom: "When are you going to move out of our basement so your dad and I can build a sex dungeon down there?" You: "Use Ubuntu!" You're on the right track, though. This article had absolutely nothing to do with distribution selection and yet you felt compelled to get out your pom-poms and cheer for the flavor of the month. The only thing you did wrong was select last month's flavor. Kudos to you, slashbot. Keep reaching for that rainbow!

Slashdot Debian Struggling With Security "News for herds" sometimes publish a pretty revealing comments. "Unfortunately Slashdot has an unending supply of new posters straight out of kindergarten who have no problems at all firmly believing in the rightness of double standards and the logic of conflicting axioms.  ;-)

OSS graphoman.

It is a bit of a surprise that this useful expression of Greek origin has not entered the English language. A graphoman is someone who suffers from the disease of graphomania, an extreme obsession with writing without the commensurate and required talent that should accompany it.

Computer Quotes gathered on the Net

• "Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."
• "RAM /abr./: Rarely Adequate Memory."
• "The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila."    — Mitch Ratcliffe.
• "Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."    — Lord Kelvin.
• "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens ?"    — Seymore Cray, about clusters.
• "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."    — Seymore Cray, on virtual memory.
• Programming /n./ A pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.
• "Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31 == Dec25  !"
• "Vampireware /n/, a project, capable of sucking the lifeblood out of anyone unfortunate enough to be assigned to it, which never actually sees the light of day, but nonetheless refuses to die."
• "All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal.
  Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the result is indisputable: 'This time it will surely run' or 'I just found the last bug'."    — Fred Brooks.
• "If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight."    — Attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory.
• "Programming is an art form that fights back."
• "Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer."    — Fred Brooks.
• "Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."    — Dave Platt.
• "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."    — Rich Cook.
• "UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus."    — Peter H. Coffin .
• "Sendmail is the sort of tool that gave UNIX its bad reputation."    — System Performance Tuning.
   

Slashdot Taking on an Online Extortionist

Groklaw-style reporting parody:

Slashdot Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL

Re:Spaceballs? (Score:5, Funny) by Tackhead (54550) on Wednesday April 06, @12:11PM (#12155064)

MCNEALY: Yes. I am the keeper of a greater magic. A power known throughout the universe, known as.... ESR: Open Source? MCNEALY: No. The Schwartz. RMS: The Schwartz? MCNEALY: Yes. The Schwartz. [He holds his Schwartz ring. His is different than the ring BILL GATES has.] ESR: But, McNealy, what is this place? What is that you do here? MCNEALY: Licensing. ESR: Licensing? What's that? (Keep out of this, RMS!) MCNEALY: Licensing. Come. I'll show. Walk this way. Take a look. We put the company's copyright on everything. Licensing. Licensing. Where the real money from the software is made. Sun-the-Server, Solaris-the Operating System, UltraSPARC-the Pizza box, Sun-the-dot-in-dot-com. (The analysts loved that one.) Last, but not least, Sun-the-Doll. Me! [pulls on the string] DOLL: "May the Schwartz be with you!" MCNEALY: It ain't the Steve Ballmer Monkeyboy Dancebot, but it sells. May the Schwartz be with you!

Re:Poor baby. (Score:5, Funny) by Shadow Wrought (586631) on Wednesday April 06, @11:56AM (#12154875) (http://slashdot.org/~Shadow%20Wrought/journal | Last Journal: Tuesday April 05, @06:46PM)

Does anyone see some light at the end of the tunnel for Sun? Netcraft just confirmed it. It's a train.

Where is Transmeta Heading

OPEN LETTER TO SLASHDOT POSTERS  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 02, @12:02PM (#12120215)

Why oh Why did everyone bitch because the admins posted a bunch of arguably lame april fools day articles? Can't you people lightin up for one day? Who cares if they post 100 stupid lame fake articles in a row, it's not going to affect the integrity of slashdot. Is this your only legitimate place for finding technology news? I hope not ! Does your hole life revolve around getting accurate technology news on one specific day of the year that happens to be a day where people play practical jokes? I hope not ! Slashdot does not publish their own content, they give links to other places. So don't take a few april fools jokes too seriously. If you really care that much goto a different website. Lightin up, have fun, stop complaining so much, and if you think someones taking a joke too far, let em! Just don't associate with them anymore, simple as that.

[Apr 1, 2005] Slashdot/Transmeta is suing Intel, IBM and AMD for violation of it's patents.

Commenting on the lawsuits Linus Torvalds noted :

"Why is everybody so concerned with Transmute suing some manufacturers? It is not suing every chip manufacturer in sight, just three of them. It did not become a patent whore!  IP companies are not bad by definition. Just the contrary. And SCO is an exception! Even Rambus, is not the public enemy some open source enthusiasts are trying to turn it into. Maybe not all of their products are as good or as cheap as many would like them to be (including Rambus themselves), but at least the company is not in the business with groundless lawsuits. Ask yourselves should Transmeta benefit if CPU manufacturers (ie Intel, AMD, IBM) adopted the very good technologies, part of Crusoe and Efficeon processors (stuff like LongRun  and LongRun2, you know).

Also please stop bitching that transmeta is reducing its workforce (mostly marketing people. It got a contract with Sony who will pay for the help of 100 of the about 200 engineers from Transmeta. This will reduce quarterly costs to $5 million and might increase Transmeta life expectancy"

Some Slashdot users disagreed:

A purely IP company, huh? (Score:5, Insightful) by geminidomino (614729) * on Saturday April 02, @12:00PM (#12120208) (http://www.mangaschool.com/ | Last Journal: Monday November 15, @11:06AM)

<MODE=cynical> That would mean that it would be in their best interests to support stupid laws like copyright-until-the-heat-death-of-the-universe laws and software patents. Kind of a delicious irony there... employing Linus and striving to hamstring Linux...

Re:Willies (Score:1) by afd8856 (700296) on Saturday April 02, @12:34PM (#12120361)

Wouldn't it be cool if SCO buys (with MSFT money) Transmeta, and then they claim that Linus wrote, while at Transmeta, the linux kernel, so it's rightfully theirs? :-))

To Evil! March '05 Edition Open Source, Linux News & Software - OSDir.com Linux & Open Source News from Across the Community

Looking through the notes for Evilitude in the Year of Our Lord 2005, February Division, there's just one place where the dark clouds gather; one place that is gathering to its breast its orcish bot hoardes, and whose all seeing "Oooooooooooo"s span across our enshadowed domain.

Google. Google, O most cherished of those children of the Net currently incorporated in Delaware for tax purposes! How hast though fallen?

Ministry of Truth in Slashdot:  disappearing critical posts: variant from Google cache contains two posts of the user Zocalo; variant from real site taken on Mon 21, 2005 contains just one (the second) post ;-)

Variant 1: Original Slashdot Open Source License Comparison (variant from Google cache contains two posts of the user Zocalo)

Re:Please help make it better -- don't just flame. (Score:1) by Zocalo (252965) on Thursday August 16, @09:28AM (#2137042) (http://www.zocalo.uk.com/)

The License Quick Ref is definitely a work in progress. It's a bit brief too. There are a lot more licenses out there, most of which are described on the following three pages. (I've emailed this too). http://www.softpanorama.org/Copyright/catalog_of_s oftware_licenses.shtml http://www.eroj.org/linux/theory.htm http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html Good idea, BTW.

Wait for the GPL vs BSD flame fest... (Score:1) by Zocalo (252965) on Thursday August 16, @08:48AM (#2157886) (http://www.zocalo.uk.com/)

I'll give it an hour. Max. USian's will all be in work soon... I like the idea behind the chart though. Choosing a license is a personal thing, and after all, it's the developer's right to do what (s)he will with their own code isn't it? A simple chart like this should help people make a more informed choice. It would be nice if it included a few more licenses though; there are what? Maybe 30 or more? Anyone have a list to send this guy?

Variant 2: with history rewritten Slashdot Open Source License Comparison (variant from real site Mon 21, 2005 contains just one (the second) post ;-)

Wait for the GPL vs BSD flame fest... (Score:1) by Zocalo (252965) on Thursday August 16, @08:48AM (#2157886) (http://www.zocalo.uk.com/)

I'll give it an hour. Max. USian's will all be in work soon... I like the idea behind the chart though. Choosing a license is a personal thing, and after all, it's the developer's right to do what (s)he will with their own code isn't it? A simple chart like this should help people make a more informed choice. It would be nice if it included a few more licenses though; there are what? Maybe 30 or more? Anyone have a list to send this guy?

Hello and welcome to (programmers) mental health hotline......

• If you suffer from low self esteem, please hang up, all the operators are too busy to talk to you.
• If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly.
• If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
• If you have multiple personalities, press 3 and 6.
• If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want. Stay on the line so we can trace your call.
• If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship.
• If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and your inner voice will tell you which number to press.
• If you are manic-depressive press 8 and state your name, address , telephone number, date of birth, social security number, and your mother's maiden name.
• If you are dyslexic, press 969696969696969.
• If you have bi-polar disorder, press 0 and leave a message after the beep. Then wait 10 minutes call again and leave another message. 
• If you have any other nervous disorder, please fidget with the pound key until someone comes on the line.

Slashdot RMS Blasts Sun's Open Source Patent Licensing

uh-oh (Score:5, Funny) by revery (456516) <charles AT cac2 DOT net> on Monday January 31, @04:33PM (#11532696) (http://www.livejournal.com/users/gymbrall/)

RMS takes Sun to task... Later on, he gave IBM a stern talking to, and then towards the end of the article, he gave Microsoft a vigorous tongue lashing. Also, mosquitos, as a species, were maligned. Seriously guys, the trash talk is getting embarrassing...

The world of Richard Stallman (Score:3, Interesting) by wheelbarrow (811145) on Monday January 31, @04:34PM (#11532725)

I have no problem with the world according to Richard Stallman as long as compliance is voluntary.

So RMS, (Score:0) by wramsdel (463149) on Monday January 31, @04:49PM (#11532972)

How many teeth in that gift horse's mouth?

Another dirty Sun trick. (Score:1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 31, @05:07PM (#11533280)

There it goes...I have been saying it all along. Sun has always been untrustworthy. Take NFS for example. Didn't they do that dirty trick of releasing the NFS specs only to sue everybody else that implemented the protocol? Or what about Star Division? They bought out that poor company only to distribute its product under the dubious OpenOffice guise. And what about the dirty money they have dumped into Gnome and X.Org? Yet another trick to infiltrate the opensource community with patent ridden software! But with this disgusting CDDL (which was approved by that evil OSI -- obviously they got kickbacks) the cup has runeth over. It is clear that Sun is trying to infiltrate the open source community with their evil patents as they have done dozens of times before. So, I propose: 1)Everybody stop using NFS. If it comes from Sun, it can't be good. 2)Dump OpenOffice now! It is just another Trojan horse of theirs. 3)Dump GNOME! Besides, when there is KDE, who needs it? 4)Dump X.Org. It has been touched by evil. Can't be too careful with these matters. 5)Do not write applications using Java. Java is evil. There are god knows how many of these no-good Sun patents in there. Sun can pull the carpet under your feet at any time. 6)Burn every machine that has this despicable Sun logo on it. It may infect your trustworthy Intel and IBM servers which have served you so well in the past.

Slashdot Which Linux for Professional Admins A nice template of typical Linux enthusiast distribution comparison is reproduced below (some typical religious style arguments were probably omitted for brevity, or the author was an atheist ;-)

Re:To put it short (Score:5, Funny) by eln (21727) on Monday January 31, @05:12PM (#11533388)

Wrong! My distribution of choice is superior in every way to your pathetic distribution of choice. You are the lowest form of loser to think that your worthless distribution could hold a candle to the God-like superiority of my distribution. My distribution's superiority is clearly demonstrated by it's magnificent out-of-the box handling of my obscure feature of choice. Your pathetic distribution doesn't even support my obscure feature of choice without a course of action so complex that it's madness to even contemplate it. Clearly, my distribution of choice will utterly destroy your distribution of choice. This is so certain it is pointless for you to resist it.

Please, flame away (Score:5, Funny) by Raunch (191457) on Monday January 31, @05:05PM (#11533240) (http://www.honnecke.us/)

Read no further. Without having to read the reast of these posts; you can get a sense of what is to come here, and hopefully avoid some painful reading: "I like A". "I like B". "A sucks and so does your mom". PS. Apt-get rules.

Unix  Recovery

UNIX RECOVERY (Score:1) by Overdrive Trucking (171212) on Tuesday April 04, @11:37AM (#1152193)

Help is available! Desperate? Lonely? Confused? You can recover from UNIX, and you don't have to do it alone. Humberto Molena Rodriguez, Press Officer

Slashdot/Linux Getting Harder To Crack

Work hard for the Linus Force! (Score:-1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18, @12:19AM (#11392413)

Join the Linus Force to better the Linux Dream!!! Work free, get lots of kudos, and be with the mighty spirit. Don't worry others will benefit financially from your efforts, even if you do. Don't let the Dream down!!!

Re:Owned? (Score:4, Funny) by Master of Transhuman (597628) on Tuesday January 18, @12:07AM (#11392355)

How about "pawned"? Since none of the /. nerd-boys can afford to actually BUY a computer since they're spending too much time on /. instead of working for a living... (I can't wait for the "What's YOUR excuse?" responses...)

In other news... (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 04, @09:28PM (#11260399)

85% of Slashdot users use windows, and 60% still use internet explorer.

Re:Be honest (Score:5, Funny) by BorgCopyeditor (590345) on Sunday January 02, @12:13PM (#11238614)

And only on Slashdot would the old saw "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" be described as a "Star Trek ideal." Just sayin'.

Java Forums - OT java.sun.com not accessible for hours

Eric S. Raymond.

A rather vocal proponent of Linux and related open source systems, with the basic message that "open source = good, anything else = evil". To "support" his views, uses rhetoric (and sports a personality) that is a bit incompatible with, and causes much eye-rolling in, a number of other members of H.Sapiens. Also lends his name to the term [url=http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/Bla_faq/raymondism.shtml] Raymondism[/url].

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