Fairy Penguins Send First Email 68
An anonymous reader writes "Australian researchers have successfully connected a Tasmanian colony of fairy penguins to the internet. The research effort was part of the Interspecies Internet initiative, promoted by Google's chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf and former Genesis lead singer Peter Gabriel in a TED talk earlier this year."
at last (Score:5, Funny)
At least fairy penguins can make up for the lack of ponies.
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^ This is probably one of the first AC comments I would mod up.
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why is slashdot in a different language now? what the fuck. the site is in english and all the articles are in some other language ...
(0) infidel /home/keeling_ echo 'Nhfgenyvna erfrnepuref unir fhpprffshyyl pbaarpgrq n Gnfznavna pbybal bs snvel crathvaf gb gur vagrearg. Gur erfrnepu rssbeg jnf cneg bs gur Vagrefcrpvrf Vagrearg vavgvngvir, cebzbgrq ol Tbbtyr'f puvrs vagrearg rinatryvfg Ivag Pres naq sbezre Trarfvf yrnq fvatre Crgre Tnoevry va n GRQ gnyx rneyvre guvf lrne.'' | caesar
Australian researchers have successfully connected a Tasmanian colony of fairy penguins to the internet. The research effort was part of the Interspecies Inte
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At least fairy penguins can make up for the lack of ponies.
Because they are married?
Racists! (Score:2)
They're called "little penguins", you insensitive clod.
Other sites (Score:5, Insightful)
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threres's m.slashdot.org. That *like* slashdot.
Or try http://slashdot.jp/ [slashdot.jp]
Re:Other sites (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Other sites (Score:5, Insightful)
What are some other sites similar to Slashdot that I can use today (and maybe longer)?
If you want to read the stories a week before they show up on Slashdot, try Arstechnica.com
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Some sub-sections of Reddit (like /science/) are awesome and WAY above the Slashdot story quality.
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Bummer (Score:5, Funny)
Too bad Linus is probably too busy at Microsoft to respond.
Penguins sexuality (Score:1)
It's "Gay" not "Fairy".
We need to stop this bigotry. Like when the media reported on the failed lesbians who caused the flooding in New Orleans a few years ago. They called them "dykes" - please - stop it!
Ng ynfg, n frpher zrgubq sbe Cbfgvat! (Score:1, Informative)
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Lbh vafrafvgvir pybq, lbh fgbyr zl yvar!
ROT13: Lamest 4/1 Joke in Slashdot History (Score:3, Insightful)
Which is saying something.
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WTF is Rot13?
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https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Arot13&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a [google.com]
a helpful hint most of the time you can search google for |define:%term%| and the first hit will be a definition for %term%
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The Real April Fool's Joke (Score:5, Funny)
"News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"
Ha! Fooled you!
We get it, it's april first. (Score:2)
Fb vg'f pbzr gb guvf (Score:1, Flamebait)
Usually a fan of the April 1 jokes (Score:5, Insightful)
I actually enjoy Slashdot taking a day of the year out to just be silly. In past years some of the jokes have been hysterical. I enjoyed the "achievements" thing. The rot13 though is just irritating. So much fun having to paste all the summaries into my terminal so I can read them; I just love obvious repetitive tasks.
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Oh, come on [mozilla.org].
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NoScript (Score:2)
Are you getting the link "Click for a FREE PREVIEW of the decrypted version of this story!", which should show you the summary below it after clicking?
Compared to the general web population, Slashdot has a lot more people who are paranoid enough about browser security to run something like NoScript.
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Thanks for that. I do have some filters that were making the button not work. I expected the prank was just not fully fleshed out; but yes it does work.
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I find leaving the submissions encrypted is the best way to get through yet another year of ham-handed, unfunny Slashdot April fools posts.
Continue this next year. And you might consider expanding this to other days of the year.
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Something about it being a monday is pissing of people about april fools. Instead of shaking their head and moving on they're spewing forth crap... it's happening all over the place today.
complainer:
"Be a serious news organization"
I hear:
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
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That goes on every year. Some people lack a sense of humor, and think it is a horrible waste of time.
Every effort should be made to annoy the crap out of those people.
It's not an April's fool joke (Score:4)
It's not an April's fool joke if you can tell by looking at it for 2 microseconds.
April 1st is just the day when Slashdot is utterly useless. Every Single One of the news stories is a ridiculously badly camouflaged "joke".
Too bad, 'cause I'm in bed with a flu. Oh well...
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Just one day out of the year can't you relax and read some jokes?
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Just one day out of the year can't you relax and read some jokes?
If you think these are "jokes", your IQ is the same as Slashdot editors' - about 65.
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So they've raised their standards? Maybe Dice is something right.
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You do realize that getting a rise out of you,
IS the joke, right? It's funny to the people doing it, and yes does reveal the contempt that just about anyone has for most other people.
While I agree that the "stories" are lame and unfunny, there are several levels of joke here.
While your reply may contain a kernel of truth, let me qualify my statement: the only person I've ever seen "joking" like this - repeating essentially the same unfunny joke over and over and over - was one with IQ of about 65. And yes, he was laughing his retarded ass off, for sure.
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Sure, and where are the jokes, exactly?
Google Reader (Score:1)
Today would have been the perfect day to kill Google Reader. I mean, I've already closed it because all my feeds are full of lame jokes on the wrong date
P.S. April's Fool is on Dec. 28th where I'm at (Día de los Santos Inocentes)
Obligatory... (Score:1)
I, for one, welcome our internet connected, email sending, fairly penguin overlords.
mouseover event turning it into french 'd be cool (Score:1)
"Congratulations. You have reached the end .... (Score:1)
...of the Internet. Shut off your computer and go outside in the sun."