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Posted by timothy from the ugbay-ixesfay-andyay-eakthroughsbray dept.
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  • Re:You're a fool. (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    You know, what makes April Fool jokes so funny is that people like you actually fall for them. Did you bother to verify any of the info in the article, or are you so mesmerized by information on any URL that it's taken at face value. To-wit, a quote from the article:

    Early on Friday I received the following email:
    From: Cordwainer Byrd cbyrd@bbmma.com
    To: Rusty rusty@kuro5hin.org
    Subject: Notice of Copyright and Patent Infringement

    $ whois bbmma.com
    Query: bbmma.com
    Registry: whois.networksolutions.com
    Results: Unable to find any information for your query!

    You could also go and look up U.S. Patent 45,487,338,209 in the patent database here [164.195.100.11]

    Results of Search in 1976-2000 db for:45,487,338,209
    PN/45,487,338,209: 0 patents.
    No patents have matched your query

    That's the joy of April Fool's day. That's the funny part, not the "joke" itself, but rather the stick-up-your-ass serious responses things like this get from people such as yourself.

    Joke's on you, torpor. April Fool.

  • "I dont know what is up with this, but i think i speak for all /. readers by saying CUT THIS SHIT OUT!!!!!!! This might have been funny, once, but now I am starting to regret going here. This is pure BS"

    I agree. April Fool's is not about being a git and making things difficult for people, it's about fooling them with minor pranks or jokes.

    Also, that post is NOT A TROLL!! Get a clue, moderators. I'm getting tired of seeing posts moderated as trolls that clearly are not. 99% of the posts I see when I meta-moderate that are marked as trolls clearly are not. Most of the time they are flamebait or offtopic. Learn what a troll is, and moderate correctly, or don't moderate at all.

    This place has really gone downhill in the last year to year and a half.
  • It's worth readng the Register just for BOFH, but it's got plenty of other good stuff too.
  • Another Clue, though an obscure one:

    Cordwainer Byrd is the Pen Name that Harlan Ellison uses when someone has done a hatchet job on his writing, and he doesn't want his real name connected with it.
  • whats wrong with you moderators, "moderate this up'! made me laugh
  • He timothy, goed artikel, maarre, liever de volgende keer in het Engels, ok? Bedankt! Groetjes, Fats
  • Is it just me? When I learned Pig Latin, I learned that words beginning with vowels should end in "way", not "yay". Itway ustjay eemssay atthay itway ollsray offway ethay onguetay away itbay easierway atthay ayway.

  • Holy shit, that is NOT true! "Cordwainer Bird" is a derogatory pseudonym used by Harlan Ellison, whose highest praise for Gene Roddenberry these days is that "he was a lying sack of shit!" Don't know how Roddenberry got his "nickname", but "Cordwainer Bird" has nothing to do with it.
  • I agree........... how can anyone take /. seriously when this sort of bullshit manages to make it on the front page of the site?

    Are you people trying to self destruct and purposely try to drive readers and advertisers away?

    Or just young and naive?

    /. really needs the Andover ppl to assume ownership and prevent this sort of nonsense from showing up.............. apparently we have a maturity problem with the /. kids.

    I don't give a rat's ass what type of agreement you have for editorial rights with Andover, you get more juvenile every day. I come to /. less all the time because of this nonsense.
  • It'd be interesting to put a hook into the code for slash that translates on-the-fly. Then Slashdot could really annoy all users by piping the entire site through /usr/games/pig. on a more practical note, if translation software gets better, Slash could translate on-the-fly to languages besides english.
  • I'd just like to say:
    BAAAHHAHHHAHHHAHHHH! Oh man that's too much!
    Love that crud...
  • No, the part that gave it away was when they said the words Patented Look and Feel (paraphrased). They've released Slashcode, so there's no way for them to complain :)

    --
    linuxisgood:~$ man woman
  • Not that there's anything wrong with being non-white, but "white" people do not stand out in Istanbul, or in any Turkish city for that matter, for the simple fact that Turks who live in Turkey are Caucasian.

    As for clean underwear, I have no clue, since I don't go checking people's underwear around. People with a nice smell, however, stand out in the Washington D.C. metro too, which I have to ride every morining in wee hours.
    --

    BluetoothCentral.com [bluetoothcentral.com]
    A site for everything Bluetooth. Coming soon.
  • That's because all JonKatz posts are automatically (-1 Uninformative)

  • duffbeerd writes: "There is a 1.6 version of Python in alpha [python.org]. In addition, they have a schedule for future releases and some warnings about code breakage expected with those releases. It looks like the documentation will lag the releases a bit." Apparently, it will break some code. The release notes describe them as "folklore APIs (that were never documented or endorsed but bevertheless were accepted and in common use)." The notes on 1.6 also lay out an ambitous roadmap toward Python 3000.

    --

  • The last two news posts are weird. I find it hard to imagine someone would make such foolish jokes.. They don't make any sense as April Fool pranks - who are they exactly trying to fool?!

    My best explanation for this is what if someone found a hole in the recently released Slashdot V1.0 code? I am guessing they are using the hole to the post stories. I guess its reasonable to think that, given that there is no other logical reason for the posts?
  • as I've taken to saying, duh.com [duh.com].
  • very nice...but remember:

    I ain't gettin in no plane, sucka!
  • They could of put the site up in all kanji text. For those that dont know, kanji text is Japanese writing.
  • Please bend over and remove poles from anal cavities... geesh... I think its funny =)
  • No, the part that *really* gave it away was the lawyer's name, Cordwainer Byrd. IIRC, this [with a "Bird" spelling] was a pseudonym of Gene Roddenberry, and the source of his nickname, "Great Bird of the Galaxy".

    Besides, it's a ridiculous name. Might as well have been "Mr. Throatwarbler-Mangrove".
  • Cordwainer Byrd is the Pen Name that Harlan Ellison uses when someone has done a hatchet job on his writing, and he doesn't want his real name connected with it.

    Absolutely correct. But I swear there's a connection between this name and Roddenberry.

    Ahh, well.
  • What are you talking about? That's no joke, it really works. have you TRIED it? I finally found the address to that asian chow and nudey spa i've been lookin for down in the peninsula of giancola.

    Mike Roberto (roberto@soul.apk.net [mailto]) - AOL IM: MicroBerto
  • I hope /. keeps this up all day. It's about time they and everyone just lighten up a litle.
  • The part that made it obvious to be that it was a joke was Rob's supposed reply when "Rusty" asked if he was really being sued: Every time you ask if we're suing you, I'm asking for $24 million more in damages. :-) -Karl

  • So, maybe it was a bad joke.

    But I am utterly amazed at how easily the venom gushes from so many people. Is it any wonder that slashdot tends to be more a forum for vilification rather than discussion?

    I dont blame Taco etc. for this. The problem is that so few understand the importance of basic etiquette.

  • Huh? (Score:1)

    by Swangs ( 104940 )
    common, I know it's early, but we all would like a lil' bit o' english, or at least something a lil' bit more intelligable.
  • Oh, yeah, by the way. It is a little sad that all of you other fools who are responding (so Far). Have resorted to such a FOUL use of words, it is too bad that you all can't be a lil' bit more creative. At least there was a little bit of effore (w/ the Pig Latin) going on here. I'm sure you just wanted someone to attack, for some sad/sick reason.
  • It's nice to have you back, OOG!

    I'm looking forward to more of your posts.

    Sincerely,
    BEN THE OPEN SOURCE GEEKMAN
  • thank you. Mr T rules.
  • Well hell, I think it is pretty damn amusing.. I was just about to reach for bablefish (sp?) but realized what was going on. Good one slashdot hehe
  • Python 1.6 Release Schedule
    duffbeer writes: "There is a 1.6 revison of Python in alpha. In addition, they have a schedule for releases. It looks like the documentation will lag the releases a bit." Apparently, it will break some code. The release notes describe them as "folklore APIs (that were never documented or endorsed but nevertheless were accepted in common use)." The notes on 1.6 also lay out an ambitious roadmap toward Python 3000.
  • duffbeer writes: "There is a 1.6 version of Python in alpha [python.org]. In addition, they have a schedue for future releases and some warnings about code breakage expcted with those releases. It looks like the documentation will lag the releases a bit." Apparently it will break some code. The release notes describe them as "folkore APIs (that were never documented or endorsed but nevertheless were accepted and in common use)." The notes on 1.6 also lay out an ambitious roadmap toward Python 3000

  • Why doesn't Babelfish [altavista.com] have a pig latin to english translator?!

    At any rate.. give it up already! News should be *read*, not deciphered!
  • Headline from tomorrow's edition of Tech news weekly

    ENTIRE STAFF OF SLASHDOT/ANDOVER.NET COMITTED
    early yesterday CmdrTaco and Roblimo were seen blithering on in pig latin about the latest release of, what most believe was "ythonpay." In an unrelated incident...a vendor in Istanbul sold Elvis a KitKat.

    News of this outbreak of insanity among many linux users has had a tremendous impact on the tech-community. Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, Inc. was reported as saying "who the fuck is CmdrTaco?" - no official word from Apple as of yet.


    -FluX
    -------------------------
    Your Ad Here!
    -------------------------
  • OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT STOP! MY EYES! MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!! No really though......you geeks need to get a sense of humor. Nucking Futs.......
  • Aren't we slashdoters intelligent educated people? I can't believe that you can't at least read (pig) latin.

    Really, I thought that was part of any well rounded education...



  • Please change the water!!
  • Just another overly uptight loser who needs to find a girlfriend, and realize that there are more important things than a tasteless April 1st joke.

    I know you'll probably never read this you anonymous posting tosspot, but for the record, this joke wasn't tasteless, it was crap. There's a difference. As for the girlfriend issue, I think my wife would be pissed if I tried to find a girlfriend...

  • This has to be the most intelligent story I've seen posted in weeks on here!

    April Fools Day. What a waste of freakin' time. An excuse for a bunch of Internet websites to put crap (well, most of them do that the other 364 days (or 365) a year as well) online in the interests of so called "humor". April Fools Day stopped being amusing by the time I reached my teen years.

    Hohoho, Internet spring cleaning, hahaha, gibberish posts (I'm restraining myself).

    The Internet spring cleaning is mildly amusing first time around (anyone who falls for it is a total dumbass), but what the hell is this nonsense? Gee, let me do my very own April Fools Paragraph

    asd asd adsgf asd wet jg scvb xczv vc qer wety

    HAHAHA! I'm a comedy genius... NOT!

  • I have to agree with the others, please get a life I don't see the problem. This is funny. Who says funny doesn't below on the front page. This isn't a newspaper where all the funny stuff is on the back back back page. Hoorah! for the pig latin in all of us.
  • >You might want to vary [netroedge.com] it a bit...

    Oh wow... this is the most hilarious thing I've seen all week, sucka! That foo' Timothy got nothin' on the T'inator page!

  • ...and what makes them entertaining is to read something believable at first that isn't revealed to be a prank until you're about halfway through.

    It's NOT posting articles in 'Swedish Chef' or Pig Latin or whatever, which isn't funny... especially not the second time around. (If they wanted to get a snicker, they should have done one in '3733t hax0r sp33k' if anything.)

    Although I understand it may be difficult to come up with something original on the humor level of the Onion or Segfault, it's not like the /. crew has to do this more than once a year... so far today, I'm very disappointed in the intelligence level of the /. editors. Who let 'Timothy' on the server without adult supervision?

  • elllhay eayay, othermay uckerfya- heheheheay
  • Okay, it seems someone left the doors open and some whiners got in.. We're sorry it was an inconvenience to you, but as the banner says, this site is for NERDS not WHINERS. Please pick up your belongings and head straight for the nearest exit, and please, do not let the door hit you on your way out. One day, maybe you'll have your very own whiners.org site, in the meantime, you might benefit by buying one of those 'clues' everyone is talking to you about.
  • Geez, don't give him any ideas!

    That is a finny site, tho... thanks
  • The patent that was supposedly infringed was "US5876324: Penile stimulator device using turbulent water flow and method of use"

    Is this something hemos uses while working on slashdot to keep himself occupied?
    If it is, hemos, it's not fair to stop other people from using them. Also, is it any good? Cause I am thinking about getting one!
  • Maybe its time to bring out my Pig Latin/English translator written in Vic20/Commodore 64 Basic and convert it into Java or something I can conveniently run on a PC. Then again, maybe not.
  • I hate to say however, that the repitition of a dumb joke several times (and then the increasing hostilities of the responses) is making it VERY entertaining...

    I've come to rather like it actually...
  • and people wonder why i have this nick, oog, i look up to you more everyday.
  • how the hell did that get troll get marked informative?
  • O Soldiers of Russia, Summer Has Arrived! Summer Has Arrived!

    The Summer has nearly arrived. The shades of winter are fading with the leaves on trees and the green landscape. The weather is changing. Woe to you Russians, woe to you. You must clearly remember the battles of previous summers; Shatoi, Urus Matran, Grozny and the surrounding of 10,000 Russian soldiers and their loss, and of course, the operation of the Russian Hospital in your own country.

    Last Tuesday, the Mujahideen attacked from the top of the mountains and from the hearts of the valleys. Using Mortars and machine guns, a convoy of 15 military vehicles was annihilated including all soldiers inside of them. The number of Russian fatalities is estimated to be 85-130 including an Army officer. This took place on the southern roads. Thanks to Allah, all of the Mujahideen returned safe and sound to their bases.



  • Trolln'! Trollin' Trollin'!
    Keep those negative karma comin'!
    Slashdot!

    Trolln'! Trollin' Trollin'!
    Moderate me to oblivion
    Slashdot!

    Trolln'! Trollin' Trollin'!
    Keep those flame wars coming!
    Slashdot!

    Trolln'! Trollin' Trollin'!
    Slashdot! Heee! Hah!
  • On my April Fools rating between one and ten, this gets a 3. Like stated before the whole point of April Fools is to trick someone, not make them gawk at someone's stupidity. The one with the internet down that's one you should mimick, I give that an 8. It's strange that only google is doing April Fools stuff, I checked Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Hotbot, and Direct Hit no one else is doing anything. Doesn't that seem strange. I think they might all be planning one big April Fools joke. Or maybe they can't update their servers because the internet is suppose to be down Hahahahahahaha.
  • C'mon, it was knee jerk, but right as I hit Post I realized this was a joke.

  • Heh. (Score:2)

    by torpor ( 458 )
    Okay, so it might be an April Fools joke. Then again, I didn't think April Fools happened until April 1st.

    If its just an April Fools joke, then I'm an April Fool and will wear no underwear tomorrow in honor of having been fooled. Though, it's pretty poor to have April Fools jokes played too soon ... even if it is only early by one day.
  • PS. is it australian or scottish?


    No.

  • Of course it is, but alas....Slashdot didn't think so:

    2000-04-01 06:46:13 Mind-Visualization Search Engine (articles,internet) (declined)

    Ah Well.

    -- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?

  • I am so glad someone got the joke about the name. I was wondering if anyone else was gonna pick up on that. :-)

    --
  • I posted it on advogato at around 3:00AM, April 1, EST. Apparently advogato's servers aren't *in* EST. D'oh, my bad. So, overall, I apologize for your April 2nd freeballing, but c'mon, it was pretty funny. :-)

    --
  • (If they wanted to get a snicker, they should have done one in '3733t hax0r sp33k' if anything.)
    like HNN? Check your slashboxes.
  • This AC post should've gotten modderated up.... He (or she) actually registered and is redirecting ashdotslay.org to slashdot! Right on!

  • For the most part, the only changes will be enhancements to the standard library. There are a few major changes that have been discussed on the list:

    • Strings now have methods. This brings most of the functions from the string library (split, join, istitle, upper, lower, find, index, etc.) into the core language. The old string library is still exists, this just provides a new way for accessing the same functionality.
    • An undocumented holdover from the early days of python is being cleared up. Once upon a time, if a function expected one argument and you passed it multiple arguments, the function would recieve those arguments in a tuple. For example:
      l = ['a', 'b', 'c']

      l.append('d', 'e')
      would be equivalent to
      l = ['a', 'b', 'c']

      l.append(('d', 'e'))
      (the latter is the correct form). This was changed a while ago (Python 1.4?) and the documentation has not desribed this feature for a long time. Some methods, however (such as list.append or socket.connect) still allowed the old usage, even though it was undocumented (the above example with list.append is currently allowed, even though it does not write to the documented API.

      This does break some code of people who failed to write to the documented interface. The one problem that seems to be causing the most complaints on comp.lang.python is the fact that

      import socket

      HOST, PORT = 'www.slashdot.org', 80
      s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,
      socket.SOCK_STREAM)
      s.connect(HOST, PORT)
      is, and long has been, illigal. The correct usage is
      import socket

      HOST, PORT = 'www.slashdot.org', 80
      s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,
      socket.SOCK_STREAM)
      s.connect((HOST, PORT))
  • You are wasting dollars here.

    Please consider moving your advertising efforts to a more responsible medium, linux.com, apache.org, apacheworld.com, etc. (you get the idea)

    Spending your precious advertising dollars on /. banners might have seemed prudent at some point, but /. is now being administered by 8 year olds, and they have it in their contract with Andover to maintain editorial control. (Their parents insisted upon it when the contracts hit the graphite desktops).

    I would urge all advertisers to consider a more influential and mature marketing strategy than /.

    These children have reached the height of their juvenile years, and are sure to hit puberty soon, (and we know what happens to children when they reach that stage of growth!)

    You can off course continue to advertise via banner ads or other clever means on /. but the children may just turn your company into Pig-latin (and to be fair to the /. boys? we all used it when we were 10).

    Save your dollars for the sites that people actually purchase your products from....... /. is lowering the standards every day.

    (BTW - to take a quick look at demographics? And to judge the maturity of the /. editorial staff? Watch the polls that are run.............. these guys have some serious growing up to do).

    Your business acumen will show up in where you place your next advert dollars!
  • For all you C programmers (and others who think in hex...)

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    Apologies.
  • I *think* this is a joke, since the article references "US Patent No. 45,487,338,209, 'A system for organizing user-submitted text by means of collaborative ranking' and US Patent No. 46,773,228,287." I am certain that the number of patents issues is below well below 46 billion. Another link in the article points to http://63.196.208.222/frameset.html (nominally PR Newswire, but check out the reverse DNS and dig on that IP) wherein it states that "According to intellectual property expert Rob Enderly of the Giga Information Group, the patent most likely to be asserted is 5,876,324." Apart from the rather fake sounding name, the disreprency in patent numbers makes me suspicious, as does the actual content of that patent (hint). Finally, at the bottom of that page, you have the story "Red Hat, VA Linux Systems in bidding war for "Harry Potter" series," an obviously fake April Fools Story. In conclusion, it seems to be a well-planned and well-executed joke. I commend them.
  • Does babelfish do pig latin? It's too late at night to translate that thing by hand.

  • Iay houghtay dIay evernay eesay hetay daday!
  • why is /. hiding this from everyone?
    Andover.net is suing [advogato.org]

  • Fuck. This is *HUGE* news. (Score:3)

    by torpor ( 458 ) <ibisumNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Saturday April 01, 2000 @12:20AM (#1157750) Homepage Journal
    I sincerely hope this isn't an April Fools joke, because if so it will go down in history as one of the most tasteless practical jokes on the Internet. Then again, I fucking hope this is a joke.

    IF in fact Andover are suing these sites for this so-called 'copyright' and 'patent', then that is the end of Slashdot.org. For good.

    There's not a geek out there who, having witnessed and participated in the many "Your Rights Online" articles posted to Slashdot over the last year or so, will not protest this unbelievably stupid action on the part of Andover.net.

    There could be nothing more destructive than incurring the wrath of the Free Geek, and slapping sites like Advogado and Kuro5hin with an injunction for copying the 'look and feel' of Slashdot is a *HUGE* fucking mistake. Huge.

    If this is a joke, it sucks.

    If its not a joke, then *Heads Must Roll* at Andover for this, and there must be a widely-publicized retraction. If I don't hear about this retraction on *CNN*, then I will be seriously pissed off at Andover's control of its PR staff, and I will withdraw my investment, never to invest in Andover or any company helmed by its executive staff again.

    And if this is just a bad joke, its fucked.
  • Phew. I'm the April Fool. No underwear for me tomorrow.

    But man, seriously, that's gotta be the harshest April Fools joke I've ever seen. Not only was it posted a day early (March 31st), but it *actually* seemed plausible.

    Thank god for April Fools. Phew! Nice one guys...

  • Again, Timothy? (Score:3)

    by OOG_THE_CAVEMAN ( 165540 ) on Saturday April 01, 2000 @12:16AM (#1157753)
    Dear Sir,

    I am aware of the fact that I have stated this complaint in the prior article, and I am wondering whether you even cared to read it, or it blew it off like it was nothing. However, I must say that I was dreadfully serious in regards in to this April Fool's Day practice of yours. In all gravity, this joke has been stretched well beyond the bounds of light humor, and now comes across as merely nothing more than a juvenile prank.

    For what reason do you refuse to return to the standard normal and articulate posting method of old. Even for a temporary one day departure, the joke has already grown well old beyond its lifespan, and I beg you to consider allowing it to die a dignified death.

    Moreover, I cannot help but voice my concerns about how your childish joke will reflect upon the status of slashdot. Slashdot has been viewed for a long time as a premier supplier of quality technological news, cultural news, and opinions. It is a site that myself and others treat with the highest of respect. I swear upon my soul that I have never and would never dream of tainting slashdot's wonderous content by posting something inarticulate and hard to understand. Please reconsider this, timothy. You see, other major bodies also view slashdot as a center for information gathering. Tech companies and key open source figures pay heavy attention to this site and expect the dignity that it normally has. Worse, our political activism raised by this site could be in danger. The MPAA, RIAA, and other figures that stand in the way of the promise of open source, will no doubt use your April Fool's Day article in court battles over laws to dismiss claims on slashdot as juvenile and childish. And if they are able to paint a picture of the community as puerile, I shudder when I think of the greater influence they could exert and the potential destruction of open source liberties.

    I hate to repeat myself, timothy, but I am shocked and appalled by your utter refusal to heed my serious words of warning. You are threatening slashdot's reputation, the reputation of many visitors and posters, and even the open source movement itself with your callow attempts at humor. Whats next, timothy? An article posted in all capital letters that sounds like neanderthal gibberish (TIMOTHY POST GOOD ARTICLE ON SLASHDOT!!! TIMOTHY BREAK HEAD!!!)? Please say it isn't so, timothy. For the sake of everyone involved, please cease with your activity and return slashdot to its status quo. It isn't too late to compensate for your prior mistakes. You may have put the future of this site in danger, but you can still return to normal and prevent the utter destruction of slashdot and its ilk. Heed my words, sir, or else I will be forced to come over to your place of work or residence and physically shatter your cranial region.

    Sincerely and Urgently,
    OOG THE OPEN SOURCE CAVEMAN

    OOG WISH HAPPY APRIL FOOL DAY!!!

  • Re:Babelfish (Score:4)

    by 51M02 ( 165179 ) on Saturday April 01, 2000 @01:51AM (#1157754) Homepage

    I am an expert in Latin Pig translation, Here is mine:

    There is a 1.6 version of Python in alpha. In addition, they have a schedule for future releases and some warnings about code breakage expected with those releases. It looks like the documentation will lag the releases a bit. "Apparently, it will breaks some code. The release notes describe them as "folklore APIs (that were never documented or endorsed but nevertheless were accepted and in common use)." The notes on 1.6 also lay out any ambitous roadmap toward Python 3000.

  • Python 1.6 Release Schedule (Score:5)

    by stx23 ( 14942 ) on Saturday April 01, 2000 @12:14AM (#1157755) Homepage Journal
    uffbeerday iteswray: "Erethay isyay ayay 1.6 ersionvay ofyay Ythonpay inyay alphayay...
    You're not planning on keeping this up all day are you?
    It's gonna get old soon...
    You might want to vary [netroedge.com] it a bit...

  • What really would've been cool is if... (Score:5)

    by eyeball ( 17206 ) on Saturday April 01, 2000 @12:17AM (#1157756) Journal
    What really would've been cool is if they registered ashdotslay.org and redirected slashdot to it. I wonder if anyone would've noticed...

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