Guide to Slashdot

calibanDNS pointed us to unOfficial H4X0r'$ Guide to Slashdot. This is one of the funniest bits I've read in recent memory. It's nice to get a good belly laugh on a friday afternoon, and this one will provide it.

firzt pozt!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

three in one week! muhahahahahhahahahha

Repeat!!

[pq]

Whoa, this was in yesterday's quickies! This is getting out of hand - we really need that "query-is-link-a-repeat" function going...

Script kiddies are r3tard3d

[net-fu]

Not my demographic-- been a long time since I was 14. H4Xor's.. whatever. Get a l1f3.

Let's follow this guide for once...

[Enoch Root]

I think we should all follow this guide to the letter for this particular trend. Unfortunately, it's too late for me to claim first post, and I forgot to post as an Anonymous Coward, thus being susceptible to karma moderation. I also have a spellchecker in my head which prevents me to write l3y3k +|-|33s n B 4 tru 31337!!!!!!!!

Life is tough. If only I had a gimmick like the statue or the grits guys, I could be a true h4ck3r...

Okay, now I'm frightened

[Powers]

No, not because of the article. I'm frightened because I'm starting to be able to read '1337 5p34k' without having to think about it.

Now that's scary.

Powers&8^]

if only..

[RoLlEr_CoAsTeR]

(as i'm sure many of us are thinking) people'd get the point and actually give up that kind of stuff. geez!

In the Flamebait section, they could have added "be the Devil's Advocate," "bring taboo subjects into play," and.. this could have been a whole other enumerated item in itself: "Post as much and as often as possible to every article that you have time to do." The more Anonymous Cowards in this world, the better!

Re:Repeat!!

[j a w a d]

And its long been part of Issue9mm [slashdot.org]'s (the author's) signature.


i dont display scores, and my threshhold is -1. post accordingly.

FIRST POST!!!! :)

[toast0]

the authors of this article are obviously microsoft sympathizers trying to get us to screw up slashdot for the powers of freeBSD!!!!!!

oops forgot to hit post anonymously

FIRST POST!!!

[Mendax Veritas]

Well, not really, but nobody else has claimed it yet... I could parse most of the silly words, but 1337 got past me. (My fault for being over 30, I guess.) What is it?

Possible additions to the h4x0rz guide

[pabs]

• Gotta have something about selecting all of the modular slashboxes for your user account, just so you can drag slashdot to a screaming halt and waste other lusers time.
  
  
• Don't forget the HUGE cryptic geek blocks or arbitrarily complex self-decrypting perl code that prints "Hi Mom!" when executed. Use this as your signature.
  
  
• Post everythign as html formatted, and leave an unterminated font modifier tag at the begining of the message.
  
  
• use gratuitous
  
  <BR>
  
  tags to make your
  
  document seem really long (and therefore important)
  
  
• graduly hvae the spellnign and grammar deterate by arbitrly omitng vwls nd missplng wrdz.
  
  
• use lots of cryptic abbreviateions and assume people understand what you're talking about.
  
  
• don't justify any of your arguments. if someone responds asking you to support your statements, respond by posting 200 anonymous messages making derogatory comments about the poster's mother.
  
  

-- rot13 my email address for the real thing

Heh heh heh

[c-A-d]

not much more to say than that...

Had a good chuckle, thanks guys!

Re:firzt pozt!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Guys.. This is probably the first time this person has been "on topic". And well, he does have a point..

[webslacker]

Testing, testing...

Re:First Post Fiesta!!

[Heggsy]

You know what scares me?

I'm finding it easier and easier to read 1337-5p33k. I need a long holiday somewhere where there aren't any computers.

*shudder*

They had one good point...

[Travoltus]

"but all the 1337357 know that all the REAL moderation is done within the first 5 minutes or so."

Compare this to http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml:

Post early:
If an article has over a certain number of posts on it already yours is less likely to be moderated. This is, less likely both statistically (there are more to choose from) and due to positioning (as a moderator I have to actually find your post waaay at the end of a long list.)


Sometimes the truth is best told in jest.....

(And no I am *not* advocating the stuff they say on that page....lol I read all the way to the bottom and my soul will NOT go to AOL!!)

Unofficial?

[Star Traveller]

If that is the unofficial guide, we should have an official H4X0r'$ Guide to Slashdot.

Step 1: Hack Microsoft

Fur57 Po57

[lhand]

Free Kevin!
Micro$oft 5ux5!
Use FreeBSD!
Go Red Socks!
... uh, nevermind. I can't keep this up.

somebody please help me out here?

[Stalemate]

Where is the tutorial/HOWTO for reading all numletters?

I must not be a 1337 anything because I can't even read it Well, maybe I am. You can be something without knowing how to read it. Take 'illiterate' as an obvious example (unless you are illiterate, then I don't know what to tell you and you wouldn't know what I told you anyway).

Back to the point -- I have been able to figure out what almost everything else means, but I think it's the 1 and the 7 that are throwing me off.

I need some translations please!!!

I can't read 31337 either for obvious reasons.

I was able to figure out what 5p34k was just fine.

PEACE

Score 3, Interesting

[Pike]

I liked that trick best...

--Birds take off at sunrise. On the opposite side of the world, they are landing
at sunset. This causes the earth to spin on its axis.

Re:Possible additions to the h4x0rz guide

[pabs]

use the 120 char max as a luser exploit by allowing it to partially mutilate an anchor tag. this should screw up slashdot for everyone, and make you look uber 31337.



-- rot13 my email address for the real thing

Re:WHOA Check me out!

[webslacker]

Looks like if you put a fake score in your subject, it deletes the header on the comment... Hmm...

Something's missing ...

[Pathetic Coward]

No Katz flames ...

Re:FIRST POST!!!

[Pyrofreak]

1337... as in 31337
leet and eleet

[Otto]

Really screwy...

Perhaps it's just deleting the (Score: 2) thing to keep people from mucking it about..
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Re:Okay, now I'm frightened

[The Good Reverend]

I was more frightened to learn I could type in said "1337 5p34k" without thinking about it. 3 and e are pretty close on the qwerty, ya know...

The Good Reverend

Re:FIRST POST!!!

[jetpack]

Well, not really, but nobody else has claimed it yet... I could parse most of the silly words, but 1337 got past me. (My fault for being over 30, I guess.) What is it?

elite -> eleet -> 'leet -> 1337

Get it? :)

Re:FIRST POST!!!

[mwittenstein]

1337 = leet = eleet = elite = wannabe = thought the movie "Hackers" defined their generation = people with subscriptions to 2600 who don't understand 90 percent of all the articles and send letters asking how they can get credit card numbers = kids with keyboards who need to be spanked.

[Otto]

Well, this at least exposed a bug on /.

The subject of this message was supposed to be "(Score: -80,000)" without the quotes. But as you can see /. makes it go away entirely, thus leaving nothing to click on in the list. A tad annoying I'd say.

Obviously it's looking for a (Score: xxx) type of thing at the end of the Subject line, but if there's nothing in front of that, it just leaves an empty subject.

Still, very funny.


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Dear Slashdot: what about this idea..

[Travoltus]

For obvious light hearted trollbait stories like this, which I am not against at all, can you disable moderation, or not count moderation in these areas against posters? One wouldn't want to lose their karma points because they let their hair down here and their remark came across as flamebait instead of funny. :)

I'd just flag this kind of article as "un moderateable" so while people can moderate here, it won't count in general because of the nature of the story....

Thanks!

Re:Script kiddies are r3tard3d

[rizzo]

I believe it's spelled "r3t4rd3d".

Is there an official alphabet page somewhere so I can learn their "k3wl" language?

Re:somebody please help me out here?

[TheFitz]

1 is for l
7 is for t
so 1337 is leet and 31337 is eleet. They consider themselves top hackers because they can type like that.

Re:FIRST POST!!!

[Zulfiya]

>>I could parse most of the silly words, but 1337 got past me. (My fault for being over 30, I guess.) What is it?

Don't worry. I'm under 30, and I had to think it through.

Near as I can tell 1-L, 3=E, 4=A, 5=S, 7=T, 8="ate", 0=O, and $=S. No doubt there are others.

So 1337 is LEET, which is short for "elite", you know?

*sigh* I remember when all the silly typists were still looking for \-Rad warz, d00d. All these young hipsters are just making me feel so old!

Completely unnecessary

[Pike]

Moderators know to smile a little, just as they do when moderating one of those goofy polls...

JD

blah, blah, blah

[Wah]

------ ----- ---- --- -------
| | | \ / \ |
| | | / \ |
|-- | ---- --- |
| | | \ \ |
| | | \ / |
| ----- - \ \--- -

---- --- --- ------- !!!
| \ / \ / \ | !!!
| / | | \ | !!!
|--- | | --- | !!!
| | | \ | !
| \ / / |
| --- \--- | O

(man I love Fridays!!,)

(doh, I guess slash doesn't like all my spaces :(, oh well, this was supposed to be a REAL BIG FIRST POST, screw it, it's still Friday)

TRANSLATION.

[mistalinux]

1 = L, or I
3 = E
4 = A
5 = S
6 = G
7 = T
8 = B
/ |_| = U
|) = D

Any others I am missing?

The K may not have looked right with HTML tags..

Re:N07 700 1337

[TheFitz]

I set this firewall up, and the last friggen thing I would want to do would be hack it. I just wish I hadn't shown my boss that little filtration function...grrrr...

They forgot ...

[LurkingWeasel]

Always mention how cool the subject would be on a Beowulf Cluster.

Re:Possible additions to the h4x0rz guide

[Issue9mm]

Thanks a heap pabs, I'll add that in as soon as I'm done getting slashdotted...

Look out!

[AllynKC]

Uh-oh, now you've done it, you explained it to the masses.

Now 1337-5p34k is going to feel the slashdot affect. Too many people can read it, so time to accelerate the word morphing process. And there's nothing more dangerous (?) than having the entire h4X0r community irritated at you for explaining their language.

(5cOrE: -8O,oOO)

[pb]

You're obviously not doing it right. :)
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Copyright?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anyone catch the copyright notice at the bottom of the page?

Copyright 1994-1999 Issue9mm

Damn, he's been working on that a long time! :)

Keyboard B&D?

[DragonHawk]

kids with keyboards who need to be spanked.

What good would spanking a keyboard do?

(Yah, yah, I know, I'm tired...)

Re:Script kiddies are r3tard3d

[pb]

I always use lex and other useful tools to generate my elite speak. Of course, my scripts could use some updating. Get the b1ff filter, and have fun from there. I also do simple character replacement, and random letter capitalization. I'm sure this could all be unified, redone in perl, or whatever your little heart desires as well.

Or, alternatively:

i @lwAYz u5e LEX + OtHuR kool +oolz tO GeNur8 my elI+E zPE@k, Of cOuRzE, MY zKr1P+z CouLD u5e 5uM uPdAtINg! Get tHe B1fF FILtuR, + gOt FuN fruM +hEY'RE. 1 Al5O DO 5iMpLe ch@RAc+uR RepLACument, + r@nDom lettuR CApIt@L1z@zhun. Im 5Hur th15 COuld AL B uNIF1ed, RedONE iN PurL, or wu+EVuR uR Lit+lE hERe+ DEz1Rez Az wEL


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pb Reply or e-mail rather than vaguely moderate [152.7.41.11].

Re:Script kiddies are r3tard3d

[Rheingold]

I think you mean "r474rd00d"


Wil
--
Internet Meta-Resources [nakedape.cc]:

[Anonymous Coward]

(Score; 6, Interesting)

NO CARRIER

Re:Firewall blocks link

[Anonymous Coward]

MODERATE THIS UP!

I *hate* the frickin' "Offtopic" fiends on slashdot! If you can't get to the link for the *story*, I'd say that's pretty ON TOPIC.

Read the frickin' moderator's guide again, or have your rights for it revoked permanently.

It says: "It's better to moderate *UP* the good comments, and reserve judgement on the other ones, except for the really bad grits-pouring, statue making, obviously offtopic, first-post-claiming, natalie portman is my bitch wishing, 31337 d00d posing, clueless posts, which deserve to be moderated down to -837,425."

Paraphrasing, of course. :)

Or did you read the story and think that *that* was the Moderator's guide? Now it's all starting to make sense to me...

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Posting anonymously out of moderator mistrust.

[betaray]

Hrm, this in and of itself looks like a bug. Oh well. Just a way to have a little null subject fun!

Mirror

[Issue9mm]

It appears that my humble little site is already slashdotted. If anyone else wants to view the site, I've got a mirror of that document here [dreamwater.com].

P.S. Thanks to all the people who have posted possible additions to the article. I promise to review them and include (with your permission and credit of course) them in an updated version. Thanks.

Re:Firewall blocks link

[Issue9mm]

Here is a link [dreamwater.com] for the mirror I've got up. I anticipated the slashdot effect, but not that.

Re:Firewall blocks link

[TheFitz]

Thank you VERY much.

Hunh?

[technos]

So it keeps chopping em, eh?

Re:Copyright?

[Issue9mm]

Actually, the site has been up in various forms since 1994. That document itself was written over the course of about 30 minutes. Strangely enough, most of the junk I did a long time ago isn't on that incarnation of the site, but I'm working on it.

Now watch moderators kick into overdrive...

[Rexifer]

Gee, who would have thought that posting a story like this here would have caused so many people to kick off five bagillion "first posts" and "Score 3, Insightful" posts... :)
I guess everyone's gotta be a comedian.

Re:Fake Scores & Such

[belgin]

Three Ply Reply
If you can't get the first post (there's lots of 1337 competition y'know), or come in a little too late, another way to get fairly visible to threaded viewers, is to reply, as offtopic as necessary, to the highest scoring post. Yes, there's a chance that that post could be moderated back down, or another be moderated above it, but all the 1337357 know that all the REAL moderation is done within the first 5 minutes or so.

I wish that this were not so true. I am as guilty of it as anyone else, but the moderators do not usually wait more than half an hour before the topic is "dead". If you don't read the article, make a brilliant post and generally get to the top of the view at the start, you get no karma. Even if a moderator does check the thing "later in the day", (s)he rarely seems to note anything below the top 20-30 articles, so your only prayer of really accumulating karma is to be an obsessive reloader who has on-topic, insightful and witty posts prepared for every possible article on the net.

I don't like it because I have a job that I try to do too...

Oh... Wait... Obsessive reloaders aren't supposed to be moderators...

B. Elgin

[Yosemite Sue]

I just have to test this, even if it will add those nasty karma points ... ;-)

YS

Bug Fixed

[Yosemite Sue]

Well, it is nice to see that someone fixed that little bug, and quickly!

:-)

YS

Another to be included

[layne]

Smack down those marginally worthy posts by replying anonymously with any variety of "Moderate this up" encouraging retallation against this suspect karma-pander.

Even though the second principal is no karma, some mention of "I know I'll be moderated down for this" disclaimers and qualifiers would be worthwhile.

Re:You can't find an exploit?

[TheFitz]

Take your best shot, 207.138.47.66

Re:TRANSLATION.

[pb]

Yeah. Lots. And it doesn't translate backwards properly, either.

@ = A
0 = O
+ = T
Z = S

... and many others. And once you start using DOS high ASCII, ASCII art letters, or ANSI, you're really incomprehensible. :)

________________ __
|//_\|\|\ / //\ /_
/_\_/|\|//_//_//_

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pb Reply or e-mail rather than vaguely moderate [152.7.41.11].

F1R5T P057!! Score 812, Troll

[fence]

Woo-Hoo! First post, dud3z!

FreeBSD Rules!
Micro$oft Ru13z!

[Pyrrus]

I h473 h4X0r $P34X.


dammit! now 40L owns my soul
< br? they7nbspforgot to mention broken >HTML?

crap! i forgtogh to poest anonamyuously.

Re:Fake Scores & Such {

[belgin]

Well, the (Score: 3, Interesting) got cut off, so it just looks like I am not following the thread.

I was testing to see if the Score trick would work if you had a subject.

B. Elgin

re:

[Pope]

well, it's better than that guy who constantly puts ... as his subject...

Pope

Re:[

[belgin]

Heh, the {Score: 3, Interesting} was cut off after the {. So I am doing one more test to see if it allows "[Score: }", or if we can reliably say that the string "Score: " causes everything after to be cut off.

B. Elgin

test

[DAVEO]

you can also put only an html tag in the subject, and it will be deleted, leaving a null subject

Easter Eggs?

[Tom Christiansen]

Well, maybe not an Easter egg, per se, but there's an amusingly ironic example of the spelling/grammar glitchery that the article talks about hidden right there in the article itself. Anybody else but me notice it?

I imagine that this was probably done intentionally as a crafty joke, of course. This begs the quesiton of whether there aren't other subtle, self-referential digs lurking in there for the discerning eye to pull out?

Score 19, Insightful

[Pentagram]

What about "The page has been slashdotted!"
As if we hadn't just found that out...

Oh yeah, and just replying to the real first post so everyone'll read your comment *coughs*.

Re:Repeat!!

[Issue9mm]

Actually, I read the quickies yesterday, and didn't see it. Granted, it's been part of my sig for awhile now, but I just checked yesterday's quickies, and didn't see it again. Maybe I'm missing something tho...

on a serious note...

[say-tan]

[rant] another huge problem (imho) is that some people feel they must reply to every story featured, no matter how little they know about the subject, how obvious, or redundant it is. there are so many posts that just say "haha, that was funny!" or "wow, that's interesting." i think that anyone who reads the feature and/or links can figure out for themselves whether something is funny or not. if the poster wishes to tell someone how funny or interesting the link or story is, he/she shold tell it to someone who hasn't already read it. [/rant]

Re:FIRST POST!!!! :)

[pb]

ASCII ART RULES!

To the guy who tried to do this down below:
sed s/\ \ /'\ \&'nbsp\;/g

------ ----- ---- --- -------
| | | \ / \ |
| | | / \ |
|-- | ---- --- |
| | | \ \ |
| | | \ / |
| ----- - \ \--- -

---- --- --- ------- !!!
| \ / \ / \ | !!!
| / | | \ | !!!
|--- | | --- | !!!
| | | \ | !
| \ / / |
| --- \--- | O
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Re:firzt pozt!!!

[DAVEO]

sorry, daveo had to try some things too ;0)

does anyone know how exactly /. will take out the "(score:x)" field, and maybe if there are any escape characters to thwart it?

the "score" would be a link in thread mode, anyway, so it would not appear to have the desired effect, unless an ending anchor tag would be used, which is impossible

Re:Easter Eggs?

[Rheingold]

Nope, I'm too stupid to see it. Pointers?


Wil
--
Internet Meta-Resources [nakedape.cc]:

Totally missed the Natalie Portman thing...

[Croaker]

Huh, and I thought to be real 1337, ya had to fsck Natalie Portman in every post.

Not only that, no REAL 1337 would bother posting to slashdot. He'd use his scripts to post for him. He's much too busy looking at pr0n to be bothered.

Oh, BTW, ZEROTH POST!

Disappointment...

[dillon_rinker]

{tongue in cheek}
I am SO disappointed - i expected to see some REAL hacker tips - this is a bunch of script kiddie mumbo jumbo. KIDS - download the /. source and reverse engineer what's not up to date; then you'll be a TRUE hacker.
{/tongue in cheek}

Re:FIRST POST!!!! :)

[Denor]

You know, people are going to look at your past comments and say "FIRST POST!!!! - score 4? WTF?"

Heh. If nothing else, this article gives us a chance to really confuse people looking at comments a week from now.

Re:Fake Scores & Such (Solution?)

[nebby]

Perhaps Rob could make it so moderation didn't start taking place until either x minutes or x posts (whichever comes first) after an article is posted.

I think that might be a good way to ensure at least the "Insightful" articles are actually "Insightful" not just first in line with a decent idea.

Mirror, mirror...

[Robin Hood]

Inspiration just struck, I don't know why.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
What's the largest site of all?
With articles and posts galore,
Seeking for the highest (Score: )
As moderators sift and sort,
Giving good posts just reward.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
What's the largest site of all?

Mirror, mirror, on the 'Net,
What's the geekiest site yet?
"Stuff that Matters," "News for Nerds,"
Aren't just empty slogan words.
Linux, Windows, BSD,
All discussed bellig'rently.
Mirror, mirror, on the 'Net,
What's the geekiest site yet?

Yet Slashdot's feared, or so it seems,
By webmasters of modest means.
For if there should appear a link
On Slashdot, then lo! Ere a blink
Of time should pass, thousands of geeks
Will click on it. And then, such creaks
Of servers grinding to a halt:
Those 404's are Slashdot's fault!

And so, oh mirror, duplicate
My page, lest it evaporate.
For Slashdot linked to it, you know,
And now my server's awfully slow.

Hope you enjoyed it.
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The real meaning of the GNU GPL:

Re:Keyboard B&D?

[Rheingold]

"who" refers to people, i.e., kids. "what would refer to keyboards.

ID-10T Error: Are you sure it's plugged in?


Wil
--
Internet Meta-Resources [nakedape.cc]:

Y'know...

[Issue9mm]

Y'know guys, I think somehow I'm being robbed by this. I just realized that I wrote the article, and submitted it about a week ago, and didn't get anything. Now CalibanDNS submits it, and HE'S going to get a free T-Shirt. What's the world coming to?!? I would so desperately like a free T-Shirt. It's getting cold where I live, and I don't have anything to wear, since Natalie Portman ate my hot grits.

Re:FIRST POST!!!! :)

[toast0]

some moderator (who probably didn't read the article and thought this forum was overly trollish) marked me down as a troll though


i didnt' realize about that though, bonus points for confusing the heck out of people?

Re:Jesus saves!

[jimmyCarter]

Should be:
Jesus Saves! But Gretzky scores on the rebound.

I'm assuming I'm not going get blasted by the mighty moderators for posting offtopic since this appears to be the only thread to ever show up on /. where anything goes!



That's what I love about them high-school girls. I get older, they stay the same age... yes they do.
--Wooderson 1976

Re:Fake Scores & Such

[SuperKendall]

If I have moderator access, I try and read from the bottom to move new unreconginzed stuff upward - perhaps if modereators had articles sorted by score ascending instead of descending. It would make your read a little rougher, but then it would also make you more interested in using the moderator points to get back to the standard view...

what about last posts?

[JimBobJoe]

First posts have of course overstayed their welcome, but I would be far more impressed by the more disreputable slashdotters if they went through all the archives and added last posts to already closed discussion threads. That would at least take some energy.

HTML tags on slashdot, spaces

[mcc]

||
||
|| ------ ---&nb sp;-

next time try the always-useful &nbsp; (No Break SPace) thing. /. allows that fine.
I tried using <pre> but that is apparently just one of the many useful tags /. does not allow, along with <code>.

For some odd reason whenever you try to post something on slashdot with &-based symbols, when you preview it converts all the &-based symbols in the html form you're typing into into their symbol equivilents. I keep having to copy and paste. Maybe this is just a bug in MSIE4/macintosh.
I wish they'd allow a few more HTML tags.

Re:Easter Eggs?

[Tom Christiansen]

Nope, I'm too stupid to see it. Pointers?

Why certainly:

open(STDIN, "-|")&&exec${chr 3*2**3*2>>1}=>-(-(-pe))=>$_
for(qw)y/a-z/n-za-m/ /oevorq/&&y/z//d))[root,~0&1,tchrist]; exec
reverse lc
reverse(substr("LMTH.TODHSALS/MOC.SREVRESEERF.MM9E USSI//:PTTH",1)),
UVFYE
^ "x2345" x2345 ** -(-(-x2345)), PERL
^ "<<<4"

Enjoy. :-)

Thank You

[Energy Flow]

Ah, thank you for posting that article slashdot.
I needed a good laugh today. It even inspired me
to change my sig.

SID Trick

[MacJedi]

Im surprised the page didn't list the super secret SID trick. For example, try this URL:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=w ahiscool [slashdot.org]. (Hi Wah! [slashdot.org])

/joeyo

Re:They had one good point...

[Gurlia]

On a related note... if the previous article has lots of posts and is quickly increasing, it usually means you have a slightly longer time to play around with newer articles (as most people would be sluggin' out flamewars in that popular article, and the moderators would take some time before they moved on to newer articles.) Quick, grab the chance! :-)

Re:blah, blah, blah

[dutky]

Ok, how's this:

................................................ ...............
.RRRr..EEEEE....A....L.....L.....Y...Y.......BBB b...III...gGg..
.R...R.E.......A.A...L.....L.....Y...Y.......B.. .B...I...G...G.
.R...R.E......A...A..L.....L.....Y...Y.......B.. .B...I...G.....
.RRRR..EEE....A...A..L.....L......Y.Y........BBB b....I...G..GG.
.R.R...E......AAAAA..L.....L.......Y.........B.. .B...I...G...G.
.R..R..E.....A.....A.L.....L.......Y.........B.. .B...I...G...G.
.R...R.EEEEE.A.....A.LLLLL.LLLLL...Y.........BBB B...III...GGG..
................................................ ...............
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Re:Jesus saves!

[arafel]

> You'll have a lot of time to laugh at Jesus
> when you are burning in Hell.

You mean he's there too?

What about a Beowulf cluster of these!

[Spiff T]

C'mon you know that for every post that ever gets on /. you must consider the implications of using that thing in a Beowulf cluster.

Update

[Issue9mm]

To anyone that's interested, I've updated the article with a lot of your additions. I want to thank the individuals that took the time to think of things that annoyed them, and presented them forth so that I could plagiarize them. Seriously, I want to say thanks to Thanks to Pabs, Layne, Lurking Weasel, and all the others that have helped to refine this document. If I've taken anything you said, and not given credit (or a link, if you're lurking weasel), drop me a line, and I'll get it taken care of... Thanks again.

Re:I think this incident speaks for itself...

[zantispam]

Dude, it's not a bug, it's a feature!

Rob [slashdot.org] even says so!

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Re:Y'know...OT

[Pfhreakaz0id]

Where's it say he gets a free shirt?

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[Lord Darwin]

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Re:Easter Eggs?

[Tom Christiansen]

Perl comes from $^X. And he misspelled "whoever" with a spurious "m". Diff the output, and you'll see that I correct that.

Who shall I say is calling?

[Tom Christiansen]

What's wrong with "by Microsoft or whomever"? It's "by whom", like "to whom", you know. Saying "by whoever" is wrong.

Er, not exactly. Let's just say that your understanding represents an isolated view of reality.

The following examples are all correctly inflected. Once you understand why, it all becomes easy.

1. It's really a question of whom you're trying to make happy.
2. It's really a question of who is happy.
3. It's really a question of whom you've seen.
4. It's really a question of who wants to go.
5. It's really a question of who is going.
6. It's really a question of who you think is going.
7. It's really a question of whom you told to go.
8. It's really a question of who you think I said was going.
9. It's really a question of whom you think I told to go.

English is a context-sensitive language. You can't just look at these things in isolation.

[Otto]

Test to see if they actually fixed the bug..

If this post has no subject, it's still there..

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Guess it's still there... :-)

[Otto]

Guess it's still there..

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