National "Take Your Computer To Work" Day 40
An anonymous reader writes "Today marks the inaugural 'Take Your Computer to Work Day'. First conceived by security researchers Michael Gough and Ian Robertson (the Thoughtful Hackers), this day has exploded in popularity and has now become a world-wide phenomenon. Says Mr. Robertson of its introduction, 'We always hear stories of how much productivity people gain by using their own mobile phones and tablets at work – by some studies, as much as 110%. We thought, wow, that is so smart and has absolutely no downsides. The next logical extension of that is to offer all our workers to bring in any of their computers, so we did.' 'The results were absolutely astonishing', said Mr. Gough. 'We were seeing user productivity up at least 0.5 times with Commodore 64's alone. Our database searches got faster with home-built white-box servers, and our janitorial staff was able to clean the restrooms twice as fast thanks to their TRS-80's.'"
I Love April 1 (Score:4, Insightful)
It's the time of year when editors purposely drive readers away from their own site with drivel.
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Eat a dick Slashdot, April 1st sucks.
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Agreed. Eat many D's, /.
One post like this would have been, at best, mildly amusing. All day long? Annoying and totally un-funny. Asking the same people why the chicken crossed the road 25 times is asking for a punch in the face, not generating laughs.
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I disagree, and so (to a certain extent, when done right) does tvtropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag [tvtropes.org]
See also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiHumor [tvtropes.org]
On the other hand, telling 25 *different* jokes, none of which are very funny, is way worse.
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1st one was funny. Now it is annoying. Come on. Your joke loses something when you don't know how to stop.
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I love April First. I don't even read slashdot anymore, but I have to come back here because I love watching everybody crying.
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Schadenfreude day!
Re:I Love April 1 (Score:5, Funny)
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No kidding, An April Fools joke should happen once and be done with (otherwise, the joke just becomes an annoying pain in the ass such as Slashdot today). The ROT13? Do it once, have a "ha ha" and be done with it.
The other option, if you'd like to have something all day, is don't make it shoved into the users face. Do like google with the Doodle or map option, or like Proctor-Gamble with the Bacon Flavored Scope.. it's not their whole damn page.
Then again, I guess that's asking for a bit too much from the g
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I have never understood why some people dislike jokes. Just because they're not necessarily works of genius, or even outright bad, that is no reason for all this hatred. If you don't like the joke you can just move on. One day a year, I'm sure you can bear it.
Lighten up Francis!
Oblig: /. sucks today (Score:3)
OMG! Ponies!
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OMG! Ponies!
Compared to this ROT13 thing, "OMG! Ponies!" was pretty damn funny. Doing all stories in ROT13 is just annoying as hell and makes it harder to read the summaries.
^^^ Somebody missed the 'free preview' offer :-) (Score:2)
Dangerous (Score:2)
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This is just stupid, effectively slashdot is down for me today.
I think the best part of the joke is seeing people like you whine "It's NOT FUNNY!!!111" ALL. DAY. LONG.
It's sort of like when Ubuntu showed up. It went a long way in separating the true Debianistas from the rest of the flotsam and jetsam. Hopefully, a lot of the whiners here will leave and never come back, and /. will experience a golden age of tech relevant news and discussions.
I can dream.
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Other than not acceding to your implication that Debian is the One True Distro*, I'm with ya, good buddy. Good riddance to the riff-raff.
(*Don't worry, the OTD sure as hell ain't Ubuntu, either.)
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Other than not acceding to your implication that Debian is the One True Distro*, I'm with ya, good buddy.
I didn't mean to imply that. I used Slackware for years and from time to time, still do. I've always been attracted to OpenBSD as well. Debian is pretty slick though (once you wrap your head around its oddities).
Seriously? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is your worst April Fools joke ever. Not only isn't it funny, it has made Slashdot entirely unusable. In the past at least once you saw the joke there was a way to "turn it off" and get the normal site. I hope you enjoy all the reduced ad revenue and lost page views today. Was it worth it? This is almost enough to make me consider not returning.
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hey, at least in future years you can say that you were there for the great /. implosion of 2013.
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hey, at least in future years you can say that you were there for the great /. implosion of 2013.
It would be like saying you'd been at the filming of the Happy Days episode with the Fonz and the shark.
I am logged in (Score:2)
and it's all gibberish. Stupid fucking april fools assholery
That explains it (Score:2)
What is this 'office' of which you speak...? (Score:2)
Dunno about you, but for me, the word office is defined as that place where my computer happens to be located when I boot the 'work' image.
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Dunno about you, but for me, the word office is defined as that place where my computer happens to be located when I boot the 'work' image.
That's cool and everything, but in the real world people do indeed mainly work in offices. We don't commute just for something to do.