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Quickies for You, Quickies for Me. 66

Posted by CmdrTaco from the insanely-lame-name-game dept.
VinceV sent us a link to a new site he's started up called Control-Escape.com which aims to be a help site for novice linux users making the migration from those less known alternative OSs from Redmond. jedgar wrote in to announce the Feb. Edition of DaemonNews and FreeBSD 'zine, and Squeezer wrote in to say that the feb. issue of Ext2 is out. (Mention one, ya gotta mention 9 more. Sheesh *grin*) Several other folks wrote in to note that The GNOME Project has released 0.99.5. Justin Clarke wrote in to show us Rioport.com which is Diamond's new site to connect Rio owners with legal MP3s. danmil noted another Slashdot reference in the mainstream- this one is in a NY times story. Now we have a few funny bits not for the Moral and Pure: the_gimp sent us a link to what is probably the most amusing patent in recent memory. Glad that's patented. Don't want that technology uncontrolled. Somewhat related, behhl sent us a site that was bound to happen- AdultLinux. You can guess what it's for. And lastly, for the strangest bit of the day, Hans sent us a link to Furniture Porn. Fear. And hide your children.
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  • peaches for you, peaches for me..


    dammit.. how's the rest of the song go?

  • Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:

    I love the cybergold patent. Talk about a load of shit. Patenting the technique of paying people to read ads? My god how lame. I am so sick of these stupid fucking patents on the obvious. Pretty soon, if I scratch my ass I'll be infriging on general plumbing's patents no. 1,867,345 and 567,976, as well as several pending ones.

  • Darn! (Score:1)

    by I-man ( 95468 )
    Wouldn't you know it? The furniture porn site is /.ed!
  • Slashdot is working faster than normal, and every last site mentioned in this article is Slashdotted.

    You know, Slashdot has a lot of clout, apparently. Perhaps we should put the Slashdot Effect to some good use. Ideas:
    • Slashdot everyone posting ads on Slashdot, using the ad banners. You know, throw a little money Rob's way...
    • Slashdot Microsoft's site. The ultimate denial-of-service attack. Watch the sysadmins cry as the NT-based servers curl up in the corner, whimpering piteously under the loads they can't handle.
    • Slashdot various online petitions dealing with important matters like encryption. Actually, Slashdot would probably have to host most of those petitions, simply because few other servers could handle that strain.

    Well, it was a thought, anyway...
  • So, where can i pick up such a device...
    It seems to have alot of potential, why type with one hand! Now you can type with both hands while enjoying yourself!

  • Yeah, no chance even if every /. reader logged in concurrently.

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/strategy/mscom/ mscom3.htm

  • I put the HTML tag for the slashdot ads on my startpage (I'm at college; bandwidth flows like milk and honey). When I see a new one, I click on it. In fact, I usually read what the sites are about (though I really don't have any use for 30 different web-hosts).
  • of course the sites were /.-ed what else would someone expect? >:)

    did anyone else get some strange timeouts from adfu.blockstackers.com ?? these kept the pages from loading because all of the images arent declared in size...thank goodness for stop button. wish i had a 'don't load images' button too.

    later...
  • Mr. Happy is NOT going into anything requiring a ground wire...(that's an earth wire, for those of you who speak real English...)

    Brian
  • moving to the country, gonna eat a lotta peaches
    i'm moving to the country, gonna eat me a lotta peaches

    peaches come from a can
    then were put there by a man
    in a factory downtown

    if i had my little way
    i'd eat peaches every day
    sun soaking bulges in the shade (??)

    moving to the country, gonna eat a lotta peaches
    i'm moving to the country, gonna eat me a lotta peaches

    i took a little nap (something something)
    squished a rotten peach in my fist
    dreamed about you, woman

    hold my finger down inside
    make a little room for an ant to hide
    nature's candy in my hand or can or pie

    millions of peaches
    peaches for free
    millions of peaches
    peaches for me

    Look out!

    All copyright violations contained herein are solely the fault of Steve Wozniak. He made me do it.
  • I think I saw this posted before, maybe not, too lazy to check the archives...


    Anyhow, I just find this highly amusing because all around here (in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area) there are these giant yellow billboards that say something like "COME STARE AT OUR NUDE MODELS". Of course, they are referring to an unfinished furniture store...

  • Acting from a purely technological interest I checked out that link and found another one to a patent for a device for bending glass. Intrigued by what could possibly be the relevance I checked it out and when I read the description there were a number of relevant euphemisms.
  • I still remember MS's Scalability Day a couple of years back. To celebrate this glorious event, Microsoft's web servers took a little nap.

    Performance of MS's web servers has improved significantly in the last year or so, but I still have immense difficulty getting useful information from their "Index Server". I can only recommend that people not, on pain of death, use "Index Server" for their own web sites.

    D

  • Why does the RMS article that appeared on slashdot suddenly vanished from the links page. Censorship on slashdot shouldn't exsist.
    The article is still available at: http://slashdot.org/articles/99 /02/01/1730200.shtml [slashdot.org]
    --
  • Can't even reload slashdot today for fear of the Intranet censors from work. Glad I checked it from home first. As a matter of fact, it's become less news for nerds, and more of everything that's print to fit. Some people actually use this site to find useful opensource articles to further the use of opensource within the corporate world. It's hard to take the slashdot.ort URL and give it out if this is the barest level of "reporting" you guys can do. When you guys grow up, don't bother to call. Matt
  • Posted by K8_Fan:

    This device was a cover story in the Chicago Reader two years ago. The inventor is a man with a mission. Tragically, the gutless wonder the Reader assigned to write the article couldn't work up the gumption to actually measure the diameter of his organ, thus never actually tried the device. (Should have given one to Howard Stern.)

    Personally, I'm not afraid to admit that I'd like to own one. I'm married, and we love each other very much, but the simple truth is that the male sex drive usually exceeds the female, and few people who have been together for nearly 20 years do it every day.

    Hell, I'd like to see a serial port of the thing and interface it to my computer! A DVD with a control track. Forget MS "Barnie" and Teddy Ruxpin, I want my TV to control a device that can really do something for me! I want the full "Sensaround Experience" with my copy of "Deep Throat". Chat channels for lovers to stimulate each other from long distances.

    Teledildonics, the technology of the future!

  • I think that whole site is a joke to make fun of "leet hax0r" punks.

    Of course, there was no point in posting it on /. in the manner he did.
  • Posted by HolyMackeralAndy:

    /.ing M$ is an excellent idea. Let's get a movement going....
  • It appears that the my adultlinux site has gone down for the time being. There is a mailing list at adultlinux@onelist.com (go to www.onelist.com to subscribe). the site was being run on
    www.fsn.net's free web space. If anyone knows of a place I can put this site that can withstand the /. effect in the future please let me know. Thanks,
    ckoontz@yahoo.com

  • I looked at the patent page and noticed "Hey I used to live in the same town as this guy!". Then I looked at the guy's name and remembered that I used to live across the street from this guy when I was a kid in grade school (he was about 13 at the time, I guess). He was the definitely the weird kid on the block.

  • Whoohoo..we've hit the big time curious :) We could really use some good programmers, game designers, graphics people, beta testers (well, okay, not yet :) ) etcetc on the project. Come on people :) sign up...yes, this is a shameless plug www.onelist.com [onelist.com] rark!
  • Posted by K8_Fan:

    It is the Venus II from the Sybian folks. Same guy, Rick Gellert of Sybian is the Reinhard Gellert in the patent.

    BTW, they mention a Venus 2000, newer model at a lower price.

  • It also helps to support slashdot if you actually follow the ads and/or buy something, but it's up to you I guess..
  • I have my threshold set to -5 and the only comments I've ever seen *deleted* were First Comment posts. I do occasionally see an article scored down to -2, -3, or even -4 so perhaps you should adjust your threshold down a bit further.

    It's not "censorship", either, since a lot of people have their thresholds set to -1 or lower by default and they still see them (as can ANYONE if they just adjust their viewing threshold). It's just scoring by the moderators.

    Moderators cannot delete comments, by the way. They can only adjust the relative score of posts. If a deletion occurs, it's one of the admins of the site that's doing it.
  • I just set up a temporary mirror for Furniture Porn [earthlink.net]. It'll be up until we move the server, but it's best to bookmark the real site [vgg.com].
  • From Opera Software [operasoftware.com]. It has an easily changed setting (one keypress!) for loading or not loading graphics. Plus it has a third setting for showing loaded graphics, but not loading new ones, which I often use.

    I usually don't need to do this at SlashDot, though.

  • Jesus. F. Christ! 350 strokes per minute for that thing?? Even with a tube of lube, you are looking at a seriously sore willy! I'll stick with my girlfriend, thanks...
    As I've said before, there are too many people with too much time on their hands (no pun intended). Time for a plague or something....

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