Yet Unuzeer Internet Treckeeng Ixplueet

Um de hur de hur de hur. Ununymuoos in Indy vreetes: "Su yuoo'fe-a shoot ooffff yuoor cuukeees, blucked thuse-a bunner-ed seetes, und instelled Joonkbooster. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Feeleeng secoore-a in yuoor ununymeety? Vell, Merteen Puul et Leenooxcere-a Oostreleea knoos a vey zeey cun steell treck yuoo vhee yuoo soorff: By useeng zee HTTP ceche-a-cuntrul heeder. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! It's fer mure-a defeeuoos thun cuukeees, und mure-a deefffficoolt tu bluck, tuu. Hees erteecle-a Zee Meunteeme-a Ixplueet veell geefe-a yuoo a descreepshun und a demunstreshun." Es a bunoos, Merteen's vreeting is foonny und cleer. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Velcume-a tu Stunderd Perunueea Teeme-a.

Andover.net seeks injunction against Advogato

I know this is offtopic, but Slashdot readers have a right to know, and they're sure as hell not going to post it on the front page.

Maybe some of you have heard about the legal battle brewing between Andover.net (slashdot's corporate parent) and Advogato [advogato.org]. Well, today the shit hit the fan - Andover filed an injunction to shut the site down. The full story is on PRNewswire [63.196.208.222]. I'm pissed and I'm going to fight this, but I don't have the resources for a protracted legal battle.

Thanks to everybody who's sent me letters of support.

Last year = good, this = dubioous

The User Friendly/Segfault scam was amusing, this year's /. jokes are terrible. I'm officially "complaining about lack of options," just in case there's ever a poll.
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Violation

Slashdot is a news portal for geeks. Slashdot's mission is to post links to relevant news around the net. Slashdot's primary mission is to spread information.

Posts such as this, masking news in some twisted, somewhat racially slurred (it can be read into it), is violating a primary rule of communication: Communicate, damnit, or shutup. (Specifically it violates Paul Grice's {philosopher} Rule of Manner:)



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Thoughts from OOG

Timothy, while I understand that this the initial day of April, also regarded as the prank day April Fool's, I still must question the intentions of your article.

You see, we at slashdot try to respect this forum as a posting area where the intelligent, wise, and technologically saavy can exchange valuable information and even discuss ponderous philosophical issues. Indeed, in my own posts, I work exceptionally hard to present my arguments in clear, crisp, and coherent manner such that others my understand and benefit from what I have to share intellectually. I expect and recieve the same treatment from the other fine members of the slashdot community.

While, I again would like to reinforce that the aforementioned post does have its moments in jest, the crude and garbled presentation only takes away from slashdot and its respectability. I expected more high brow, intellectual humor from people like you and this site. And to be honest, any relevance contained in the actual article is lamentably lost because of the coarse summary of it that you display. I implore you, sir, to consider the levity of such a practical joke and to present your humorous intentions in other ways so that we readers may enjoy and comprehend your humor instead of simply staring a the screen with a baffled haze on our faces.

I realize that many of my slashdot peers, including the moderators who evaluate and critique the posts of slashdot, may consider this plea a troll or offtopic or such, but I must butress my current argument by saying that timothy's presentation of the article fully justifies my heated response. Humor is humor, and a joke is a joke, but I really cringe at the thought of deciphering such babbling, nonsensical language. I, for one, never have and never will speak in such confusing tongues, and I feel it benefits the quality of my posts and allows others to glean from it. And I respect my aquaintances at slashdot for doing so as well.

In conclusion, I would like to ask that you, timothy, would reconsider the obvious impulses to perform such a chilidish joke before the deed is done. Indeed, I have managed to see some humor in your joke, but the cost is at the quality and respectability of this fine web site. I trust your good judgement and am fully assured that you will make the correct decision should the thought present itself in the future. And if you do not, I am afraid that I, OOG THE CAVEMAN, may find myself compelled to approach you and rupture your cranium.

Cheers and Happy April Fool's Day,
OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN

OOG SAY YOU APRIL FOOL!!!

Re:Andover.net seeks injunction against Advogato

The patent that was supposedly infringed was "US5876324: Penile stimulator device using turbulent water flow and method of use". Uhh, I didn't want to see pictures...

Anyhow, nice one guys. I considered removing Slashdot and Freshmeat links from my home page before I realized which day it was!

Yet another tracking exploit

Here goes trying to make the discussion slightly useful...

The original BUGTRAQ [securityfocus.com] post is here. Taken from the post, the summary reads:

HTTP cache-control headers such as If-Modified-Since allow servers to track individual users in a manner similar to cookies, but with less constraints. This is a problem for user privacy against which browsers currently provide little protection.

Essentially, instead of giving you a cookie (which many people refuse/block) they give you a unique "cache freshness" timestamp, which your broswer nominally sends back with the conditional-GET request [see the HTTP RFC [ietf.org] esp. sections 9.3 and 13.3.3 for description].

Note that the site would have to use the same thing linked from every page to track you, e.g. a 1x1 transparent gif. Also note that this becomes pretty useless for them if you block the REFERER header, which you should be doing any.

If this kind of thing bothers you, you should be using the Internet Junkbuster [junkbuster.bom] anyway.

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I'm Sorry....

That post should have ended in 'Bork Bork Bork!'

-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?