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A Distorted Mirror: Automatic, Real-Time Web Parodies | Login/Create an Account | Top | 75 comments | Search Discussion
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I have attained (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by SumDeusExMachina on Sunday November 18, @12:24PM (#2581273)
(User #318037 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
The post that comes after 0.
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Big deal... (Score:0, Flamebait)
by seldolivaw (me@se[ ]com ['ldo.' in gap]) on Sunday November 18, @12:26PM (#2581280)
(User #179178 Info | http://www.seldo.com/)
The Onion [theonion.com] has been using obviously machine-generated "parody" for years now. Nothing else can explain the lack of originality...
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Re:Big deal... (Score:0, Offtopic)
by Petrol on Sunday November 18, @12:30PM (#2581289)
(User #18446 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
No, The Onion has a staff of very clever writers.
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Re:Big deal... (Score:-1, Offtopic)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:58PM (#2581356)
You must be British to know what parody really is.
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Re:Big deal... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:59PM (#2581357)
Um, read your parent post again.
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Re:Big deal... (Score:1)
by garcia on Sunday November 18, @12:46PM (#2581332)
(User #6573 Info | http://supplication.lazylightning.org/)
umm, this isn't "machine" in the sense that a program actually does it. The people @ the Onion are just a group of really fucking funny people.

I honestly don't think that what this program does is all that funny, nor do I care about what happens as a result of this...

It's one thing to do a parody of a site on your own as a joke or whatever but to make a fucking program so that other people can have the almost exact same thing so that they can be annoying and put up stupid, unoriginal, web-sites? Goto any mom-pop ISP and load up someone's web page. There are plenty of sites out there that are almost identical w/a few changes that are almost funny...

"Welcome to my HOMEPAGE! -- This site is under construction"
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On a serious note, though, (Score:4, Interesting)
by SumDeusExMachina on Sunday November 18, @12:27PM (#2581282)
(User #318037 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
Won't this just encourage corporations to sue over copyright infringement even more? I mean, Apple was able to sue over "look and feel", so what would bar these people from doing the same? Also, how in the world is software going to be able to tell copyrighted material from non-copyrighted material? This all seems to be rather ill-planned to me.
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Re:On a serious note, though, (Score:1)
by imrdkl on Sunday November 18, @01:15PM (#2581381)
(User #302224 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
This all seems to be rather ill-planned to me

Since when has the net been anything more (or less)?

Fighting fire with fire makes the whole world warm. (and cozy)

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Only (Score:1, Funny)
by modraken (modraken@v1DOTshacknetDOTnu) on Sunday November 18, @01:17PM (#2581384)
(User #162541 Info)
Apple was able to sue over "look and feel",


Only a whore charges for a look and a feel.

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Re:On a serious note, though, (Score:1)
by ChuyMatt (klatch123.spamsux.1_i5_1337@hotmail.com) on Sunday November 18, @01:27PM (#2581408)
(User #318775 Info | http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=28960)
Well, apple seemed to have reason too. It did look the same and the target market was exactly the same. This is just stupid. Throwing their weight arround, bully crap. Now they are in an interesting spot...
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Re:On a serious note, though, (Score:1)
by DotComVictim on Sunday November 18, @02:06PM (#2581492)
(User #454236 Info)
It may very well encourage companies to sue - this is usually the default knee jerk reaction management will take. The designers of this software were very clever to make it parody - there is legal precedent protecting parodies of a work, as it constitutes free speech. This means they can justifiably have siginificant non-infringing use of trademarks and copyrighted material.
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Re:On a serious note, though, (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @02:34PM (#2581553)
Parody and impersonation is not forbidden by trademark and copyright law! Just check out those little peeing Calvin stickers! Do you actually think that Waterson approved that? No, of course not, but he can't sue either because its not actually Calvin, it just LOOKS LIKE Calvin. Most of these 'look and feel' suits will likely be overturned upon appeal.
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Re:On a serious note, though, (Score:2)
by haruharaharu on Sunday November 18, @04:40PM (#2581879)
(User #443975 Info | http://slashdot.org/)

Parody and impersonation is not forbidden by trademark and copyright law! Just check out those little peeing Calvin stickers!

Actually, those are probably illegal, or at least infringing. It's just that they're damn near impossible to get rid of.

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Re:On a serious note, though, (Score:1)
by Digitalia on Sunday November 18, @02:41PM (#2581574)
(User #127982 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
Little known fact: Anyone can sue for anything. So asking what would bar someone from suing for this is a rather moot question as there is nothing barring anyone from suing for anything. The real question is, what would bar these people from winning such a lawsuit? The answer: jurisprudence. We're safe for a little while, but I hear the Supreme Court is going IPO...
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Re:On a serious note, though, (Score:1)
by aka-ed (aka-ed.att@net) on Sunday November 18, @04:42PM (#2581883)
(User #459608 Info | http://www.aka-ed.com/)

No, the real question is, does any IP holder have enough time to sue everybody who creates a parody site using this sort of automation, assuming a few people cared enough to put a concerted effort behind creating parody-clones?.

The message sent by the creation of this software is that, if IP holders choose to engage in legal harassment, there are ways that the few people who care can make an even bigger nuisance, without recourse to lawyers.

Even if the product of the software is not funny, the concept is both funny (in its ironic justice of web harassment traded for legal harassment) and relevant to the politics of the web.

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IF I EVER... (Score:-1, Flamebait)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:28PM (#2581284)
IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS



Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
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H2S (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:31PM (#2581290)
Gatt and yes men? Sounds like How to succeed in business without really trying. Except the guy's name was gatch.
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Support the DDA! (Score:4, Informative)
by Styx on Sunday November 18, @12:32PM (#2581296)
(User #15057 Info | http://logout.sh/)
The Domain Defense Advocate [ajax.org] is a grass-roots organisation trying to combat unwarranted domain confiscations. IMHO, a very worthwhile thing to support.
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Re:Support the DDA! (Score:1, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @02:00PM (#2581473)
How is this unwarranted? You have a group that's
using a well-known term in a deliberate attempt
to confuse people. Free speech and parody are
one thing, fraud is something else. When you're
trying hard and succeeding in fooling people
about your identity and motives, that crosses
the line into fraud.
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Links don't work (Score:0, Offtopic)
by Man of E (i.have@no.email.com) on Sunday November 18, @12:35PM (#2581303)
(User #531031 Info | http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~Man%20of%20E/journal/)
Hmm, the links aren't working anymore. Is it /.ed already?

Does anyone have a link to a (non-distorted) mirror?

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What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:1, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @12:36PM (#2581307)
So a corporation wants someone to take down trademarked material. What does this have to do with anything else? It looks like it's just a dispute between 2 parties.

I know slashdot editors think everything done by corporations somehow tramples on my rights, but I just don't see the connection here.

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Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:3, Informative)
by hearingaid (loki@citadel.twwol.dyndns.org) on Sunday November 18, @12:46PM (#2581331)
(User #216439 Info | http://www.twwol.dyndns.org/)

The World Trade Organization is not an ordinary corporation; it's an international UN organization.

Imagine if the Red Cross wanted people to take down websites complaining about people who were infected by HIV via blood transfusions. Get it?

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Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:1, Troll)
by Zeinfeld on Sunday November 18, @02:12PM (#2581507)
(User #263942 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
The World Trade Organization is not an ordinary corporation; it's an international UN organization.

That does not significantly change the remedies available to the WTO. It appears to me that the WTO would have a good case to make.

The gatt.org site is not a 'parody' site, it is deliberately passing itself off as the official WTO site. It is intentionally deceiving the readers. As a result the WTO would appear to have many remedies available, the copyright on its logos, 'passing off' and libel.

These guys deserve everything that is comming to them. Deceit and lies are not legitimate means of protest. I don't see why we should be leaping to protect these idiots. Its like getting excited when people who go to demonstrations to get arrested get arrested and go to jail. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Amongst the statements on the site are:

  • Much has been made lately of IBM's participation in the Holocaust. Indeed, IBM proactively and creatively helped the Nazis identify all of Germany's Jews, which in turn made possible the biggest slaughter of all time.

    Freedom of speech is not the freedom to impersonate others. The gatt.org site is a censorship site, not a freedom of speech site, its explicit intention is to deny the WTO the right to speak for themselves by putting words into their mouth.

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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:1)
    by deaddrunk on Sunday November 18, @02:40PM (#2581572)
    (User #443038 Info)

    Deceit and lies are not legitimate means of protest.


    And I suppose the people that founded the USA never told a lie (the cherry tree legend not withstanding). Why is lying not a legitimate form of protest? It seems to be a legitimate form of political organisations like the WTO.

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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:1, Offtopic)
    by Zeinfeld on Sunday November 18, @03:43PM (#2581741)
    (User #263942 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
    And I suppose the people that founded the USA never told a lie (the cherry tree legend not withstanding). Why is lying not a legitimate form of protest? It seems to be a legitimate form of political organisations like the WTO.

    Why should anyone believe someone who is obviously telling lies? How do you know the truth from the lies?

    One of the reasons I have no time for the anti-WTO protestors is that they appear to have no idea what they are protesting about. They completely fail to set out a coherent set of political goals or a strategy to achieve them.

    For example amongst the protestors are people complaining that the third world is paid too little for the goods they export to the US and others who are complaining about the loss of US jobs. Denying access to the US markets is not going to help the developing world.

    I don't see many of the anti-WTO protestors at the conferences trying to do something positive for the third world. Equally it is a bit odd being lectured on the evils of global capitalism by some teenager wearing a $150 pair of Nike trainers.

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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:2)
    by Kupek (scschnei@vt.edu) on Sunday November 18, @04:46PM (#2581901)
    (User #75469 Info | http://www.filebox.vt.edu/users/scschnei)
    What's also not going to help the developing world is allowing U.S. corporations to exploit third world workers for cheap labor that is prevented by their own poverty and lack of political influence in their own country from unionizing.
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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:5, Insightful)
    by Alan Cox (Guess 8)) on Sunday November 18, @12:56PM (#2581352)
    (User #27532 Info | http://www.linux.org.uk/diary)
    Well let me see
    1. Its not trademarked
    2. Its satire which has a special place in copyright law
    3. Its political speech. The WTO are trying to censor legitimate protest at their attempts to screw the planet.
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    The offence is NOT about freedom of expression (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:26PM (#2581404)
    See that weird red, blue and green globe symbol [gatt.org]?
     
    That's trademarked. You can see it on the WTO website [wto.org], and they have a nice (specific) notice [wto.org] clearly indicating it is theirs.
     
    I'm all for parody. But there is no need for parody to make use of actual trademark symbols, or even trademarked phrases. It is much more funny, and more clever besides. Here's one example [suck.com], in case you don't already know what I mean.
     
    It's quite clear to me that the Yes Men are more interested in pissing off the WTO than in parody itself. This is not itself a crime, but replicating trademarks like that tends to fool people [nytimes.com] rather than to get the point across. The WTO has a legitimate complaint here.Trademark law is meant to protect consumers, not businesses, and (for once) the WTO seems to be using it completely legitimately. If the Yes Men aren't deliberately trying to fool the very people they are self-righteously trying to protect from the corporations, they should have no problem with getting off their duffs and altering the trademarked symbols on their website.
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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:40PM (#2581427)
    Well let me see

    1. Its not trademarked

     
    WRONG.
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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:53PM (#2581449)
    IT's funny that you're saying this. Parody is an accepted part of the "fair use" defense in the US but not in England. Sure, we may have the DMCA now but in England this kind of parody would never have been legal.
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    Parody from Alan Cox (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @03:53PM (#2581775)
    The WTO are trying to censor legitimate protest at their attempts to screw the planet.


    That statement itself is a silly parody of the WTO that has nothing to do with its real aims.

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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:3, Insightful)
    by Mike Schiraldi (mgs21@columbia.edu) on Sunday November 18, @04:11PM (#2581823)
    (User #18296 Info | http://sf.net/projects/hilite)
    That's ridiculous. First, as others have pointed out, they are using the WTO's trademarked logo. Second, it's not clearly satire. Look at the site -- it looks just like the real thing.

    If i post a bunch of messages, claiming to be you, and then say, "Well, it's satire -- people should have been able to understand that the real Alan Cox wouldn't have said such crazy stuff," that's no defense, and it's fraud.

    If the site was obviously a parody, i'd support them. But it's not, and i don't.
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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:1)
    by _xeno_ on Sunday November 18, @04:20PM (#2581840)
    (User #155264 Info | http://slashdot.org/~_xeno_/ | Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~_xeno_/journal/)
    Three posts in one day from Alan Cox?  Are you really that bored or has someone hijacked your account?  Or maybe you're moving to karma whoring?  :P

    (Actually, it would seem that Alan is starting to take an active position on Internet / Digital rights - and that he's becoming more of an obsessive /. reader than I am!)

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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:0, Insightful)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:12PM (#2581377)
    "First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me." - Martin Niemoeler
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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @04:02PM (#2581802)
    +1 in The Unfounded Accusations of Evil Game [voicesofunreason.com]!
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    Re:What does this have to do with My Rights?? (Score:2, Funny)
    by Mojojojo Monkey Inc. on Sunday November 18, @01:38PM (#2581423)
    (User #174471 Info)
    If a corporation wants to take down trademarked material, they simply submit the site to slashdot, and it's gone 5 minutes later.
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    /.ed (Score:1)
    by affenmann on Sunday November 18, @12:37PM (#2581310)
    (User #195152 Info | http://www.affenmann.de/)
    > The site appears intact for now

    Great, now it's /.ed.
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    Re:/.ed (Score:1)
    by meatplow on Sunday November 18, @01:58PM (#2581465)
    (User #184288 Info | http://www.meatplow.com/)
    Grab the files from here.

    yesiwill-1.0.tar.gz [meatplow.com]

    yesiwill-1.0.zip [meatplow.com]

    Long Live Sarcasm

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    MIRROR (Score:2, Informative)
    by JediTrainer on Sunday November 18, @12:37PM (#2581311)
    (User #314273 Info)
    I've managed to grab copies of the software just as their site got /.d.

    Please be nice, because I'm only on cable. Grab the files here [websoup.net].
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    Here are mirrors: (Score:3, Informative)
    by Saint Aardvark on Sunday November 18, @12:38PM (#2581313)
    (User #159009 Info | http://www.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/)
    http://yesiwill.plagiarist.org/ [plagiarist.org]

    http://detritus.net/projects/yesiwill [detritus.net]

    Let's see how well they survive a slashdotting.

    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Re:Here are mirrors: (Score:2)
    by Saint Aardvark on Sunday November 18, @12:45PM (#2581328)
    (User #159009 Info | http://www.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/)
    And you can download the files here, too:

    http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/yesiwill/index.html [saintaardv...rpeted.com]

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    Google whoring (Score:2)
    by hearingaid (loki@citadel.twwol.dyndns.org) on Sunday November 18, @12:52PM (#2581343)
    (User #216439 Info | http://www.twwol.dyndns.org/)
    Go here. [google.com]

    I can feel not-guilty about posting this, karmacap boy that I am. :)

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    Slashdot is (Score:4, Funny)
    by lavaforge on Sunday November 18, @12:40PM (#2581317)
    (User #245529 Info)
    The WTO's greatest defense. No one will ever see the offending pages at this rate...
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    Distorted mirrors (Score:1)
    by Man of E (i.have@no.email.com) on Sunday November 18, @12:44PM (#2581327)
    (User #531031 Info | http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~Man%20of%20E/journal/)
    Learn more about funhouse mirrors and how they work right here: The Science of Light [learner.org].

    Think before you mod: is it really offtopic..?

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    beyond the golden parachute (Score:3, Funny)
    by apwingo (apwingo arroba eos.ncsu.edu) on Sunday November 18, @12:57PM (#2581354)
    (User #233369 Info | http://ambient.2y.net/wingo/)
    these guys and gals, the yes men, do some seriously, seriously cool stuff. in the november issue of harper's [harpers.org], they print a transcript of a talk that these folks were invited to give at a textiles conference in Tampere, Finland, from folks that thought that they really were the WTO. A few snippets:
    ... How do we at the WTO fit in? Well, that's easy: We want to help you acieve those dollar results. We want to help make sure that nothing - protectionism, worry, even violence against physical property - stands in the way of your dollar results.
    and some more:
    ... CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR: PROTECTIONISM
    [Slide: Freedom]
    Why did people fight and die and lose money? It comes down to one word: FREEDOM.
    [Slide: Southern Happiness]
    By the 1860s, the South was utterly flush with cash. It had recently benefited from the cotton gin, an invention that took the seeds out of cotton and the South out of its preindustrial past. Hundreds of thousands of workers, previously unemployed in their countries of origin, were given useful jobs in textiles. Into this rosy picture of freedom and boom stepped ... you guessed it: the NORTH.
    it goes on, about how the market would have stopped slavery ("Involuntarily Imported Workforce") given time, moving production to the third world where things are cheaper, then it gets wack:
    Now, we all known that not even the best workplace design can help even the most astute manage keep track odf hstaff. But our solution inables a lot more rapport with remote workers.
    Mike, would you please?
    [Unruh steps out from behind the podium to a drum roll. An assistant grabs him by the tie and belt and rips off his suit to reveal a golden spandex unitard underneath.]
    Ah! That's better! This is the Management Leisure suit. This is the WTO's answer to the problems of maintaining rapport with distant workers and maintaining one's own mental health as a manager with the proper amount of leisure. How does the MLS work, besides being comfortable? Allow me to describe the suit's core features.
    [Unruh unzips the from of the suit, then pulls on a rip cord that inflates a three-foot-long golden phallus. The audience claps.]
    And it goes on.

    The presentation, which Harper's describes as "well-received", was subsequently praised by the MC on three seperate occasions that day.

    (I want to be a yes man :)

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    Lack of primary source (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:03PM (#2581363)
    I would be more interested if the Yes Men provided the text of Verio's complaint. I would find the story more credible if Slashdot bothered to verify that Verio did actually complain.

    As far as I can tell from this article, we have been offered absolutely no evidence that the WTO has in fact complained, using the DMCA or any other tool.
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    Reminds me of the Dialectizer... (Score:3, Informative)
    by Zergwyn on Sunday November 18, @01:06PM (#2581367)
    (User #514693 Info)
    It seems sort of like a bigger versioin of the Dialectizer [rinkworks.com], a site that allows you to insert a url and then have all the text on the page translated into a number of amusing "languages," such as redneck, jive, elmer fudd, etc. /. readers may especially appreciate the hacker dialect. ^_^ Try this version of slashdot! [rinkworks.com](hit the dialectize button). CmdrTaco's gone l33+!
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    Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer... (Score:1, Funny)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:48PM (#2581440)
    Try this version of slashdot! [rinkworks.com]

    And this is different from normal SlashDot HOW???

    woof.

    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer... (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @02:08PM (#2581498)
    > Try this version of slashdot! [rinkworks.com]
    > And this is different from normal SlashDot HOW???

    It actually makes more sense.

    ;-)
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer... (Score:1)
    by reo_kingu (s[ ]dotted@axe.org ['lash' in gap]) on Sunday November 18, @01:48PM (#2581441)
    (User #536791 Info | http://www.axe.org/)
    Wahahaha, good stuff. Gotta love the good old dialectizer.
    UR RIGHTS ONLNE: BMG BAX0RS DOWN OVER CPOY-PROETCTED CD

    hehehe, couldn't have done it better myself.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer... (Score:2)
    by trilucid (philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on Sunday November 18, @01:57PM (#2581462)
    (User #515316 Info | http://www.trilucid.com/)

    Wow :), maybe we should re-write our site to say everything is 31337 H4x0r-5p34kz... I actually like the effect.

    Back to my k-r4d perl h4x1ng...

    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Re:Reminds me of the Dialectizer... (Score:1)
    by rsborg on Sunday November 18, @04:38PM (#2581872)
    (User #111459 Info)
    I like how it translated "Gamecube" to "waR3Zcube"... LOL

    Now, that's an idea! :-)
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    Jesus Jermaine Christ! I Killed Whitey! (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:11PM (#2581373)
    Jesus was not white. He was a big, bad Negro.

      Praise be to the negro Jesus.

    KILL W H I T E Y

    I'm a mothafuckin' negro.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    DOWN WIF THE WHITE DEVIL (Score:-1, Troll)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @01:15PM (#2581380)

     
    If you aint the solution, you's the MOTHAFUCKIN' PROBLEM.

    Bown Down.

      Praise be to the negro Jesus.

    KILL W H I T E Y

    I'm a mothafuckin' negro.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    He he he (Score:2)
    by trilucid (philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on Sunday November 18, @01:28PM (#2581412)
    (User #515316 Info | http://www.trilucid.com/)

    "The site appears intact for now, but read on to learn about the interesting software the complaint has spawned -- perhaps this isn't what the WTO had in mind."

    The WTO has nothing to fear... the /. effect will take care of that in short order. ;)

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    Roll-your-own "Parody" site here... (Score:3, Funny)
    by Robber Baron on Sunday November 18, @01:32PM (#2581416)
    (User #112304 Info)
    I like this one [pornolize.com] better!
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    Re:Roll-your-own "Parody" site here... (Score:2)
    by trilucid (philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on Sunday November 18, @03:44PM (#2581743)
    (User #515316 Info | http://www.trilucid.com/)

    From the Pornolized version of Slashdot:

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    the_code_poet asks: "I'm a lead developer for a software development company, and one of my responsibilities has been writing an installer for our product (of which Linux is one of the titty fucking enters). In keeping with UNIX tradition, the cuntlapping installer is written in shell (thrusts /bin/sh), but as many of you know there is no Bourne shell for Linux - only bash. This has caused inconsistencies (mostly barfs in bash) when writing a generic UNIX sh script that works fine on commerical *NIX's." For a semi-complete list of gamahuches between bash and sh, you will want to check out section C1 of the fingerfucking Bourne "Cock Sucker" Again Shell FAQ. To be honest, I have yet to run into much trouble with a muff sniffing script cuntlapping with #!/bin/sh with /bin/bash, and I've been using the latter for fingerfucks. If any of you have had problems ballbusted to this, please tell us what the cocksucking problem was and how you solved it. Also: would anyone out there be interested in writing a real Bourne "Plugin" Shell for Linux?
    --------------

    That is freaking beautiful :). This has got to be one of the funniest "tools" I've seen in a LONG time, and executed supremely well. My hat is off to those guys/gals that did this...

    Now, how long until the trolls start posting nasty versions of stuff in jest?

    There's always the Pornolized Christian Coalition site [pornolize.com] for extra giggles. ;)

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    Re:Roll-your-own "Parody" site here... (Score:1)
    by Smoking on Sunday November 18, @04:09PM (#2581820)
    (User #24594 Info | http://www.home.ch/~spaw1653/quentin)
    You really gotta try "pornolizing" the microsoft site... [pornolize.com]

    The Windows XP product page made me spew my coffee!!
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    Re:Roll-your-own "Parody" site here... (Score:1)
    by trilucid (philip@paradis.trilucid@com) on Sunday November 18, @04:53PM (#2581928)
    (User #515316 Info | http://www.trilucid.com/)

    Ohmigosh, you've gotta see the Lab Report page: Here It Be [pornolize.com].

    Long live parody site generation engines! :)

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    Microsoft (Score:0, Troll)
    by t_allardyce on Sunday November 18, @01:41PM (#2581430)
    (User #48447 Info)
    Now Microsoft can now move in to start closing-up web pages into encrypted executables so no-one can edit them (without re-starting from scratch), or 'steal ideas'. Also, so no-one can use the internet without running windows
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    Re:Microsoft (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @02:27PM (#2581537)
    excellent post. someone please mod it up '+5, Funny'
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    Re:Microsoft (Score:1)
    by t_allardyce on Sunday November 18, @03:56PM (#2581783)
    (User #48447 Info)
    what? they can't do that? how?

    with most users* running their software, and some anon. donations to judges/politicians... thats the reason why windows is closed - because the code to do this and change the underlaying protocals are all dorment, hidden in every version of windows that regularly net-updates. When they decide, overnight the internet will change - servers will refuse connections from non-windows machines. entire websites will automatically be 'updated' to use the new executable package technology, MSN will become the defualt dial-up connection and all other dun profiles will be deleted. Linus Torvalds will be turned to for a press conference for his views.. but wait, where is Torvalds????!! he has gone, been taken care of. (outstanding favour from the government to billy g for anon. donations). People turn to demonstrations but wait! slashdot is not working, no one can communicate: email??? gone irc??? gone. Be afraid... be very afraid

    This conspiracy theory is purely fiction and in no way factual. Any resemblence to real life situations is purely coincidence. Microsoft(tm) is a registered trade mark of Capitalist Pigs corp. Any spelling mistakes in this post are the result of not giving a shit
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    ... (Score:1)
    by Popocatepetl (dkm_holdings@hNoOtSmPaAiMl.com) on Sunday November 18, @02:22PM (#2581520)
    (User #267000 Info)
    Time to get web stripper out and download the whole thing before it goes poof.
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    SlashPorn! (Score:1)
    by dimer0 on Sunday November 18, @02:22PM (#2581524)
    (User #461593 Info)
    Slashporn [pornolize.com]. 'nuff said.
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    Sample of installation; mirror (Score:2)
    by gbnewby (gbnewby@despammed.com) on Sunday November 18, @03:27PM (#2581701)
    (User #74175 Info | http://petascale.org/)
    I went ahead and installed this to show my systems administration class on Monday (INLS183 [unc.edu]). If you're trying to install the software, I included steps in the sample directory at this location [unc.edu]. The installation steps I used are in parody-steps.txt.

    I made a parody, visit here [unc.edu] to see (it probably won't be up too long...). Finally, you can also get the code in the directory mentioned above, if you are having trouble finding a mirror. Retrieve yesiwill-1.0.tar.gz

    • Greg
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    Two-Timed by Slashdot (Score:1)
    by box2321 on Sunday November 18, @03:33PM (#2581722)
    (User #210574 Info)
    When I submitted this story, I got this...

    "2001-11-15 16:39:40 WTO Tells ISP: Remove Satire Web Site (articles,news) (rejected)"

    ... but now it appears under another's name. All the good lovin' I gave you, Slashdot, and how you are in another's arms!

    For the satire impared, let me say it's not such a big deal. A tiny deal, not a big deal.
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    Re:Two-Timed by Slashdot (Score:1)
    by Jailbrekr (cha, right.) on Sunday November 18, @03:40PM (#2581736)
    (User #73837 Info | http://www.digitaladdiction.net/)
    And this is why I stopped submitting stories. I rather enjoyed researching and authoring a nice paragraph for submission, but after being rejected a number of times, and seeing similar stories pop up by other submittors, I can no longer be bothered. This place is a sellout :(
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    haven't you ever thought? (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @04:51PM (#2581920)
    that great minds think alike. you have to be first, or you have to have said it a lot better than the first.
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    this is very scary.... (Score:3, Insightful)
    by tcc (teeceecee@nospam.hotmail.com) on Sunday November 18, @03:48PM (#2581764)
    (User #140386 Info)
    I am on gatt.org....

    I'm reading the website... and now I am wondering is it defaced or it's the real thing? I mean I never really bothered with all that WTO stuff but when I read (on the front page):

    >Brazilian AIDS drugs a sure path to economic sickness

    >Today, however, another Holocaust is taking place: it goes by the name of "distrust of big business," and it is every bit as terrible as the last.

    >Qatar saves the day Responding to the selfish and dangerous actions of special-interest forces at recent free-trade summits, the kingdom of Qatar has generously offered to host the next WTO Ministerial. In Qatar, the sort of lobbying seen in Seattle, Quebec, Davos, Prague, Barcelona, and elsewhere is strictly illegal and heavily punished, ...

    I mean... what the hell?? is that all real? I mean I'm used to lying politician, backstabbing authority figures, and all that stuff, but I mean, putting such things on a front page has really shocked me, I can't beleive people can be that openly materialistic and use historic stuff and lie without raising a LOT of opposition...

    Especially the last part "we don't value your opinion, saying you dislike what we are working on is illegal so we will host our "democratic" process in a place you'll get shot in the head if you disagree"... wow... now I see why people are so upset...while I don't think people fighting police to disrupt the meeting is a viable option (policemen are people like you and me, just doing what they are told to, hitting them won't make things better), I do think it's bad to not let people express their opposition, afterall, these are the people these leaders are supposed to work for, they should give numbers and sensibilization if having a world-class economy system is such a good thing, not shutting the door off and smashing opponents, this shows only that these opponents might be right somewhere...

    I can't beleive it, everyone should go take a look at that site, that gatt.org thing, anyone with a minimal sense of humanity and a bit of education will probably feel like I am right now, there's some stuff that is still true there, BUT it's stuff usually classified as "silent truth", you know it's right but you don't say it openly because it could backfire heavily (like the AIDS thing for example, of course if you copy a patented thing that took years and billion in research, it's stealing, but then again, selling it to make 100 of billions in profits (I did mention PROFITS not only recovering the cost of R&D and salaries) so that rich people can afford it and poor people can't, is it a more noble goal?

    Anyways, I leave you with that quote:

    --
    Protesters rich, study shows
    A new study shows that the special-interest lobbyists attending the Seattle, Prague, Nice, Davos, and other demonstrations come from population sectors that have freedom and money to travel, putting them in a different class from those sectors of the developing world they pretend to defend.
    --

    Well if that system we all know is to make rich people richer, if people that are opposing it are already rich, I read this and I think "maybe there's really something wrong in there" and with everything else I just read on their website, I'm really beginning to think that there is.

    Funny thing is when this happened in Quebec (where I live) I thought that these protestors were just a bunch of kids with too much hormones needing to hit at something just like a big heavy metal concert... like a big party... I'm scared now because while this might still apply to a bunch of the people that were there, now I realize that 10,000s of people can't all be wrong... scary...
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    Re:this is very scary.... (Score:2)
    by m0nkyman (thom@idar.com) on Sunday November 18, @04:06PM (#2581811)
    (User #7101 Info | http://www.aptenobytes.net/ | Last Journal: http://slashdot.org/~m0nkyman/journal/)
    Your post gave me hope. Thank You.
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    Re:this is very scary.... (Score:2)
    by haruharaharu on Sunday November 18, @04:50PM (#2581914)
    (User #443975 Info | http://slashdot.org/)

    if people that are opposing it are already rich

    It isn't that the people who oppose this are rich. It's just that only those who are rich can afford to protest regularly all over the world. I'm sure alot of the people who oppose this would love to make hemselves heard, but they have to work at a job most of the time so they can eat.

    I especially like the part you quoted where someone on gatt said that, basically, you can't defend people in third world nations because you're richer than they are.

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    This could lead to more violence (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @04:00PM (#2581796)
    We've already had lies from Ralph Nader and others on the lunatic left opposed to expanded freedom inciting orgies of anti-free-trade violence at Seattle and Genoa. Now we have something that looks like it is official GATT spewing more lies similar to those already put together by these Stalinist rabble rousers.


    It's really not much different from similar sites by indymedia and others; all are nothing but lies.


    Just what we need; more violent thugs fired up by misinformation beating up people, destroying businesses, and trying to "shut down" meetings that they do not like (so much for rights of free speech and assembly: if you don't like someone's meeting; organize a protest to "shut it down".)

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    Michael Moore is one busy guy (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @04:04PM (#2581807)
    This site does shed some light on Michael Moore, who is quite busy directing GATT, and also has time to stick it to Roger Smith of GM and put out those hilarious "TV Nation" shows.
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    TROLL!!! (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18, @04:51PM (#2581919)
    That message above was a TROLL. Nader won the last election with 88% of the vote. The IWW has had control of the US Congress for the last 75 years. The US tax rate has topped 93% and there are mass demonistrations to increase taxes. Every time the WTO meets, there are tens of millions of protesters on the site and all commerce shuts down worldwide. It just isn't possible that anyone at all could object to the well reasoned progressive views of the anti-GATT protesters, which are held by the vast majority of all people.
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    Of course the easy out is: (Score:1)
    by GISboy on Sunday November 18, @04:35PM (#2581871)
    (User #533907 Info | http://slashdot.org/)
    the parody is produced by code, in code.

    Seeing as code is free speech (for the time being) it is as simple as saying the program "produces html code which is free speech, and is a parody...which is protected as free speech as well".

    Yeah, that is kind of a weasle-y way of thinking, but "eagles my fly, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines", seems to apply.

    Or, as one poster pointed out "Fight fire with fire".

    stray thought for the day:
    DMCA: Digital Masturbating Conusmers of America. ( if you ran it thru the pornalize would it accomplish anything?)
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