V'Ger Source Code Released 53
One of the biggest hurdles to interstellar domination has always been the prohibitive cost of proprietary software for ships or super-weapons. That is all about to change thanks to a surprise move by a mysterious alien race of living machines who have released V'ger's source code. While you'll still need a way to generate a "twelfth-power energy field," this opens the door to many would-be conquerors and ultimate weapon enthusiasts. The release has been praised in terms of increased security and reduced costs by most, but some worry that cheaper, more secure super weapons aren't what the universe needs at this time. Federation spokesperson Lieutenant Ilia disagrees saying: "This is in the carbon units best interest. Many worlds have been infested, You will listen to me."
I was wondering when they'd get around to Trek (Score:3)
It almost felt like they skipped it in the beginning.
Re:I was wondering when they'd get around to Trek (Score:4, Insightful)
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Well sure. Pretty much anything would be better than this drek. But they're committed to continuing it despite the numerous protests. Not much we can do about it. I think I'll go read some stereo instructions for fun instead.
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http://www.urbandictionary.com... [urbandictionary.com]
yeah, yeah, send more Chuck Berry (Score:2)
but the First Rule is harm no carbon-based life forms.
FFS (Score:3)
Re:FFS (Score:5, Funny)
In the UK the joke doesn't count if it's after mid-day anyway.
Yes, but since the sun never sets on the British Empire, somewhere in the world, it's before mid-day . . .
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Stop already. In the UK the joke doesn't count if it's after mid-day anyway.
Well it's already 2 April in Australia.
/. at the moment are people having a big cry that someone is trying to have a sense of humour.
But seriously, the only thing ruining
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The problem is that someone is trying to have a sense of humor, and failing miserably, and yet trying over and over and over without changing anything.
People probably wouldn't be having such a cry if they figured out that none of this is even remotely amusing, and tried something different, or just gave up and circled back for next year. It's like two addle-brained people were sitting in a room and came up with this scheme, where one suggested it, the other said "Oh, that'd be AWESOME" and then they spewed
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Yeah these April Fool's headlines on Slashdot aren't fooling anyone: "V'Ger Source Code released," "Coup in Arakkis," "Pastor Mocked for Biblical Money Code.." Nonsense.
It's written in BASIC (Score:5, Funny)
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http://i.imgur.com/6IGDHJo.gif [imgur.com]
Re: this is gettin old... (Score:1)
Looks like I picked a bad day to quit cocaine.
So what happens... (Score:3)
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it'll get covered on or around october 12th, just like always.
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it'll get covered on or around october 12th, just like always.
And October 14th, and 15th, and 18th.
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They don't cover many actual tech news stories on any other day, why should today be any different?
April Fools (Score:1)
I dropped Slashdot from my feed. A few headlines are fine but this is ridiculous. Slashdot is worthless ...
you know what (Score:5, Insightful)
I'll take this crap all day every day over one more SJW/feminist public service announcement.
Re: you know what (Score:2)
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Be careful, one year they did this: http://www.thewehners.net/joshua/grfx/slashdot_omg_ponies.gif [thewehners.net]
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OMG Ponies was the best /. prank ever! I kinda wish they made it a selectable option!
Hard to believe that shit was 9 years ago.. x.x
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I kinda wish they made it a selectable option!
Yes
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I'll take this crap all day every day over one more SJW/feminist public service announcement.
You only have to write "SJW" or "feminazi" on slashdot these days and you get modded insightful.
There are an awful lot of ultra right wing misogynist teenagers around, is it something to do with school holidays in the US?
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I have to wonder how people such as yourself manage to paddle coherent sentences past the idot-drool as you hunch over your keyboard.
Women are a gender. Feminism is an ideology. Remember the difference.
One can be completely opposed to the warped ideology of feminism while loving and supporting women, indeed the only way to love and support women is to oppose feminism as it seeks to turn them into perpetual victims and undermines their personal growth.
As for right wing, marxist zealots identify anyone that d
Everyone knows why aliens are afraid of Earthlings (Score:2)
They know better than to mess with Earth because we have the solaranite bomb.
Already hacked (Score:1)
Some kid in Iowa was able to get a complete dump of it by sending it some binary string via radio. It wasn't even encrypted. What a joke.
Enjoying the break (Score:2)
V'Ger sucks (Score:4, Funny)
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various V'Gers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a V'Ger that has run faster than its Vorlon counterpart, despite the V'Ger's faster chip architecture. My Narn G'Lan/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 Ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the V'Ger is a superior machine.
V'Ger addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a V'Ger over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Re:V'Ger sucks (Score:4, Funny)
first things first: have you tried uninstalling systemd?
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You're running it with less than two petabytes of RAM? No wonder it's slow.
V'Ger sucks (Score:3)
V-GINY [wikia.com] is superior!
the best trek film is motion picture (Score:1)
None of the others come close.
GPLv365 (Score:3)
And now we'll hear all the complaints about how people can't use V'ger code for commercial use because it's GPLed.
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No, they said its open sourced, not infected by the Stallman virus.
HEY! (Score:2)
All you peole who don't like the April Fools Day articles.. Why don't you just take a break from Slashdot for the day? Those of us who think they're funny and are enjoying them think you're all a bunch of complainers.... Take a days vacation for heavens sake.. The less funny Slashdot that you seem to prefer will be here for you tommorrow...
Geez..
NASA Has the Source (Score:2)
Technically, V'Ger was just a wrapper around NASA's Voyager Spacecraft. While not particularly useful for galactic domination, on any other day of the year it would actually be interesting if NASA Open-Sourced the original Voyager Spacecraft Flight Software. As the first spacecraft to leave our solar system, the source code would be an interesting set of historical documents worth preserving (and perhaps for illustrating to new students what code optimization really looks like).
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I'd be surprised if Voyager's source code was much more then reading sensors and transmitting that data. Considering how little computing power the Voyager and similar era probes have, it likely had to be simple. The specs on the instruments that gather that data might be more interesting.
Has /. been taken over by (Score:2)
Look it's been a long time (Score:2)
And I know I could probably run a simulator on a raspberry pi, but looking at V'Ger's availability as Freed open source software, I feel it's appropriate to say:
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.