Return of the Quickies 114
Finally home long enough to compile some quickies.
option8 sent us the
MacCrate which probably isn't up to code. Course neither is this one (thanks pkr) Speaking of cases, Deega sent us a site where you can get air brushed cases.
rafa noted that Propaganda Volume 12 is out.
UM_Maverick has started YALS called Linuxtopia.com
pq wrote in with a picture that proves that a spell checker is probably a good idea.
RoLlEr_CoAsTeR found something on Brunching Shuttlecocks which lets you combine Advertising and Perl: its actually extremely clever.
Speaking of perl,
ThePixel noted Perl Toys, which I think we mentioned a year or so ago, but with Christmas coming up, it probably is worth checking out again. Especially if you want magnetic poetry.
Speaking of stuff to buy, JbirdUAH noted that
Copyleft has Slashdot frisbees!
Just in time for Winter!
jhopson sent us a
retelling of beowulf starring people you know.
Lexie (who should really ask CowboyNeal out) sent us Eunuch which I'm not gonna explain, but its definitely wierd.
motardo noted that Dalnet is for sale on eBay.
Ant noted that Google seems to have an interesting result if you search for 'More evil than satan himself'. Speaking of evil,
jsfetzik sent us Sinux the Linux for sinners.
And how about
Captain Zion's link to FsckU-FsckMe(tm) which is not for children, but is pretty amusing. Maybe you'll find auto.pron.org a little more wholesome.
Finally, jetpack pointed us to Forum2000, which I'd never seen before, but am glad I did. It was mentioned in a comment awhile ago, and then we were assimilated. Super wierd.
Dal for sale (Score:1)
What MacCrate? (Score:2)
Pretty cool, I guess.
sellling dalnet vs selling shares (Score:1)
More good too... (Score:1)
...day after day, love turns gray, like the skin on a dying man...
FuckU FuckMe (Score:1)
Wha? (Score:3)
DALnet (Score:1)
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MS More evil than Satan himself (Score:1)
WOOHOO! (Score:1)
-Tim
Re:What MacCrate? (Score:1)
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Forum 2000? (Score:2)
I don't think it is - I saw one question where the guy had made a spelling mistake (he left off a letter on the last word of his question) and the system filled it in in the replies. Could be a spell checker, but a human replying would skip a mistake like that and maybe not see it at all. I'd expect a computer to misunderstand it..
Dalnet sold (Score:1)
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
Could anyone tell us about the circumstances surrounding the sale? Will Dalnet remain the same under its new ownership?
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Re:More good too... (Score:2)
A lot of people describe MS as evil or satan on their web pages, so it isn't that surprising that MS would show up, since this would make google think that MS is an authority on evil or satan.
However, a search for just "evil satan" doesn't work.
"evil more satan" works though. This is probably because the word "more" appears frequently on MS's home page, and these 3 terms together are enough to bring MS to the top of the list.
Re:Forum 2000? (Score:2)
I think it's a hoax. Some of the threads are just too funny. If it's real, it has a better sense of humor than most real people. The site's down right now, so I can't supply a specific pointer, but the "Miss Rand, I underestimated you" thread was totally unbelievable (and hysterically funny :-). No way a computer did that. No fucking way!
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Disney is more evil than satan too! (Score:2)
or: evil more satan
Disney comes up 3rd and 2nd on those searches respectively... perhaps the web knows something everyone else doesn't....
Pizza box: GPL question. (Score:1)
This is pretty cool, but they offer the distro for download, WITH AN ACTIVATION CODE! The distro won't work without the code which can only be got by registration!
Isn't this a violation of the GPL, since they impose a condition for availability of GPL code?
Shouldn't someone (GENTLY) point this out to them before some asshole goes on a GPL-jihad and blows them out the water?
No, I can't spell!
-"Run to that wall until I tell you to stop"
(tagadum,tagadum,tagadum
-"stop...."
Re:More good too... (Score:1)
After all even
"More fish than satan"
will bring up MS as the first link!
Re:Fsck u fsck me (Score:1)
Re:More good too... (Score:1)
Re:sellling dalnet vs selling shares (Score:3)
You may be referring to the news item [slashdot.org]I had submitted yesterday.
You can safely ignore the AC's comment about "approved forums" and the SEC wanting to control everything. The reason that guy got in trouble trying to sell stock on Ebay is because he was trying to sell unregistered shares in a company that didn't exist yet; there weren't even any disclosure [disclosure-investor.com] documents. Now, if you wanted to try to sell your 100 shares of publicly traded XYZ, Inc. on Ebay (when it was allowed on Ebay), that would be different, because there would be plenty of information available about XYZ, Inc., such as 10-Ks, news releases and analyst coverage. You don't need a tightly regulated stock market to do that since the shares of the company are "legitimate." You can even sell shares to your next door neighbor by simply recording the transfer of shares with XYZ, Inc. and your neighbor giving you $$ for your shares.
It's hard to discuss the legalities of selling Dalnet since I don't know anything about its capital structure, ie is it an S corp, C corp, an LLC (limited liability company) or a limited partnership? Whatever it is, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that it's privately held, in which case you should hire a business valuation analyst [appraisers.org] to provide a disinterested opinion of value. Of course, we still have to look at the big picture and realize that we *are* just wasting our time talking about another crackpot auction on Ebay.
Ask Slashdot, Ask F2K : An A-B Comparison. (Score:2)
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It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Easter Egg (Score:1)
My favorite was in MS Word 97... in the spell checker. If you typed in "zzzz," it would mark it as a wrong spelling, and suggest "sex" as a replacement.
Re:Pizza box: GPL question. (Score:2)
Google games explained (Score:2)
A lot of pages (good and bad) link to Microsoft's home page. Therefore that page has a high rating. So if it matches enough words in your query to be a match, it will be one of the first ones.
Always.
Now if they could just get past those duplicate pages. OK, so issue foo of The Linux Gazette matched the query. OK, everyone and his dog mirrored it. OK, I looked at it. Now can I please look at what comes next..?
*sigh*
Ben
Re:More good too... (Score:1)
Re:Disney is more evil than satan too! (Score:1)
--neil
Re:Beer as a coolant... (Score:1)
Re:FuckU FuckMe (Score:1)
Re:Forum 2000? (Score:1)
You submit a question, and get an automatic response back from one of the "personalities" (this may or may not be always The Cube). This is probably just a random line from a text file. Then later, the person(s)/entity(ies) that run the site may add more coherent and funny responses later.
Funny as hell, though...
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Re:Forum 2000? (Score:2)
Here's what a quick web search on "Intercal" reveals:
"INTERCAL. The language designed to be Turing-complete but as fundamentally unlike any existing language as possible. Expressions that look like line noise. Control constracts that will make you gasp, make you laugh, and possibly make you hurl. Data structures? We don't need no steenking data structures! "
:)
You can tell it's fake (Score:3)
> I get the feeling that the less intelligent (and less humorous) posts are generated by the machines, while humans handle the others (e.g. the Slashdot posts and many done by the "Crack Baby" or whatever).
I'm inclined to agree. There was a response telling all the Slashdotters to get lost, in a context where a machine probably wouldn't have a clue that it was being slashdotted. (OTOH,
In general, what they're trying (pretending?) to do is not that far from what lots of other researchers are trying to do in NLP and text data digestion right now, so it may be for real after all. But my best guess is that it's a combination of "for real" and responses generated by slave^H^H^H^H^Hstudent labor.
Possibly they are primarily interested in collecting the questions. I've participated in research meetings where we seriously aired the idea of setting up a "for entertainment" web app for the ulterior motive of capturing subtle types of NL data. Surely we weren't the only ones to think of it.
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It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Taco Bell signs (Score:1)
Still funny, though.
...phil
PnP (Score:1)
I still remember the 1st time when I realized the difference between the female and male plugs. The implications of the term, gender changer, has obviously not been realized by some ppl.:-)
I'm not a prude, but I like subtle stuff. The male/female RS-232 plug is still the best.
I won't elaborate about the meaning of plug and play.
MacCrate - Here's the link. (Score:1)
http://www.swapspace.net/crate [swapspace.net]
I found it in the page source, it didn't go though because someone forgot to put the A in the A href= tag.
if (forum2000){ (Score:1)
I just checked with Forum2000's nameserver (unnamed here, in order to give the poor guy a break). He confirms that the Forum2000 people are indeed legit students/faculty from CMU who do Weird Things. The reply was basically "Yeah I just do nameservice for them, but they're real people down at CMU who have been working on some kind of project."
It could very well be a hoax. However, be sure to check out Andrej Bauer's site [cmu.edu] at CMU. And draw your own conclusions. It looks very thorough. If it is a hoax the hoaxers have gone to great lengths to add depth and detail. I'm still skeptical--waiting to see how the machine responds to more questions.
Re:What MacCrate? (Score:1)
cheers.
Re:FuckU FuckMe (Score:1)
more dirt (Score:1)
Yay Andrej! [geocities.com] is an Andrej Bauer fanclub.
So is this one [cmu.edu], simply entitled "Andrej Bauer Fan Club.
All of the evidence seems to fit together and support non-hoaxness of Forum2000. Or but at least, somebody bothered to set up a LOT of extra crap to make it look real. Definiately more believable than FuckU/FuckMe.
Is Andrej Bauer a mad genius? A nonperson? A pseudonym? Come on, Slashdotters, let's get to the bottom of this one!
Taco Bell sign a fake? (Score:1)
Check out the "h" and the immediate surroundings. Looks fishy to me.
Re:You can tell it's fake (Score:3)
We are pleased to report, however, that our recently acquired redundant parallel storage system [forum2000.org] has gone a long way to help buffer this crisis.
We do have a special request for Slashdot readers: we would greatly appreciate it if you would restrict your postings to original questions, rather than material cut&pasted from our home page or from other sources. Repetitive, unoriginal input text tends to cause numerical instability in our NLP algorithms (performance of the FPUs in our Kryotech Athlon 900s [kryotech.com] seems to be particularly sensitive to divides by near-zero numbers)
Thank you!
Google search (Score:1)
Just a little something in the name of poster integrity. Like the man said, 'credit your sources.'
More google games (Score:2)
'the best os' or 'the best free sex'
interesting results, click the link below
The best free sex [google.com]
The best os [google.com]
Forum 2000 was great while it lasted (Score:1)
A moment of silence.....
Re:Forum 2000 correction (Score:1)
Fingers flying faster than the brain is. Situation normal.
Is Slashdot real? (Score:1)
I don't think it is - I saw one question where the guy had made a spelling mistake (he left off a letter on the last word of his question) and the system filled it in in the replies. Could be a spell checker, but a human replying would skip a mistake like that and maybe not see it at all. I'd expect a computer to misunderstand it..
We need to change the quickie Icon.. (Score:4)
Like.. a small headshot of Jenny McCarthy or maybe Pamela Anderson...
I dunno.. Just a though
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~/ony
tubby tustard tubby tustard (Score:1)
omg,That's great.
No ;) www.forum2000.org is NOT a C64. The telnet server just pretends to be one (very funny).
www.forum2000.org responds to the following ports:
Doesn't look like a C64, eh? Whoever created this is extra cool in my book whether it's a hoax or not. Forum2000 et.al. have been enthralling me all evening.
Has anyone looked at Andrej's Become and Objectivist in Ten Easy Steps [cmu.edu]? I'm leaning towards mad genius now; although it might be a mad genius who has set up a hoax. Very curious.
Doesn't belong here (Score:1)
Re:Dalnet sold (Score:1)
it's real...as far as anyone knows... (Score:1)
I've missed the quickies! (Score:1)
The fufme was IMO very well put together ... it's hard to tell if it's a joke or not ... not like realhamster or luddite industries where *something* eventually gives it away
I think they should combine forum2000 and Askjeeves, I think that would serve them well. AJ seems to have picked up more bad habits of other search engines lately, and who knows, with a moral and philosophical basis it could all be back to normal.
I want to ask the powder puff girls complicated questions ... see how they answer. It should be an interesting nite. Thanks for the quickies!
Pizzaboxes (Score:2)
Mine says "Sun" on it, though...
Re:Forum2000 Run On a C64? (Score:1)
Forum 2000 to witty to be a hoax! (Score:1)
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distributed.net anyone? (Score:1)
Re:Forum 2000? (a link to intercal online manual) (Score:1)
Intercal disturbs me deeply.
Re:Google games explained (Score:1)
Microsoft ranks highly for as people link to them for IE, and the "Internet" part of that ranks well. Ditto for satan, is evil, monopoly, etc...
So black text on black background of "purple monkey dishwasher" in your webpages doesn't effect ranking much at all. How internal linking is effectively ranked though (does it have to be from a different server to be counted as a vote, or could another directory be safely counted without too much misuse of spaming the Google database?)... well, only you know.
How about telling me, eh?
Propaganda.. Yumm... (Score:1)
Anyways, has anyone else found it impossible to choose between any of the tiles? I know I found the need to hack together a random background utility for wmaker...
Jeff
Re: (Score:1)
Re:FuckU FuckMe (Score:1)
networking would be spiffy
Damn you, Forum 2000, in Tux's Name!! (Score:2)
Amusing.
Fake, or at least somewhat (Score:3)
Re: (Score:1)
Re:Fake, or at least somewhat (Score:2)
Anyway, I asked it an Analysis of Algorithms homework question, asking for big theta of a recursive algorithm. Specifically, I asked for big theta of:
T(n) = a if n = 0 or n = 1
T(n) = T(n-1) + T(n-2) + C*n for all other values of n
and Evil Spock responded that it grew linearly since T(2) = 2a + 2c.
If a computer did that, that is freakin' incredible.
forum 2000 banned my ip! (Score:1)
Oh, ANT noted, did he? (Score:1)
-lx
Re:FuckU FuckMe (Score:2)
Who invented a fucking machine
Concave or convex
It could fit either sex
And was incredibly easy to clean
Mosaic web browser (Score:1)
Re:Disney is more evil than satan too! (Score:1)
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Echoes from the formless void (Score:1)
I humbly request the wisdom of Charles Darwin
I am vexed by the opportunity to take a job in Maui, Hawaii. Most of the population there are native islanders.
I understand that it is a beautiful place, but I am consurned about any unusual rituals that they might have, like perhaps cannibalism. Any thoughts on if I should go or not?
Echoes from the formless void responded with:
The advice of Forum 2000 is ephemeral, like teardrops in rain.
Honestly, I expected better than that... I'll check again later.
FUFME (Score:1)
Oh, wait... maybe you shouldn't think of that.
Perhaps a hand held USB version would be better?
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Naughty, Naughty... ;) (Score:1)
Re:Taco Bell signs (Score:1)
(Ok, I'm probably massively stupid. Being Swedish, I have never been near a Taco Bell sign, much less the actual place.)
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Re:heres one i submited last month... (Score:1)
Well, it should be painfully obvious that Forum2000 is not an advanced supercomputing cluster.
The sad/humorous/lame image I have in my mind is a loosely organized group of studends and faculty who sign up to receive incoming questions and come up with witty replies. Seems like there's an automated replier (the cube?) in addition to the humans.
login CMU geeklab: ****
...blah...
passwd: *******
[GMT 23:13:21] There are 3 pending question(s) from Forum2000. Respond? (y/n)
$:_
Re:Taco Bell signs (Score:1)
Perl Advertising (Score:1)
I guess that means I'm a media whore.
--Corey
Spellchecking is useless! Usually. (Score:1)
I absolutely can't stand people who make mistakes like that (like the university newsletter reminding everyone that fire alarms are announced over "the pubic address system") and then complaining that "waaaah, but the spellchecker didn't catch it, it's not my fault." Yo, dumbass, "pubic" is spelled perfectly correctly.
Try using your $@!#?*@ brain instead of blindly clicking at a computer. The results can be amazing.
Re:What MacCrate? (Score:1)
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Me too (Score:1)
Stupid Spell Checker/Thesaurus Tricks (Score:1)
Re:Beer as a coolant... (Score:2)
Re:Echoes from the formless void (Score:1)
for example check
http://www.forum2000.org/matrix/forum_reply?coo
which obviously does not and never has existed.
Re:Forum 2000? (Score:1)
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Re:You can tell it's fake (Score:1)
Re:I do get it. fortune2000 is fake (Score:1)