There! I claim it in the name of the third dupe! So we've already had a dupe and a tripe, perhaps we call this...hmm, what's a good name for a fourth dupe?

Why am I always the last to know about these things. I try and keep up to date about technology matters, but I've missed out on this. I wish that I could have seen this one coming.

qupe!

It's April 1st. I wonder if Taco's gonna do anything out of the ordinary today for April Fool's Day?

I read somewhere today that there's a new RFC out regarding IP header bits--you can set and unset a particular bit to determine the packet's overall security. I haven't seen it linked anywhere yet, and I'm considering sending it in to the editors, but I can't find their address.

This is something I think they'd be very interested in.

We need a new flag implemented into the Slashdot system that will indicate whether or not the story is a dupe. It can be preset to DUPE=1 to save everyone trouble.

Might as well take advantage of Taco's amnesia... I've now submitted the story again, and expect my version of it to be the 6th or 7th posting. Maybe I'll finally break the karma barrier this way!

Quad Damage!

This is beginning to remind me of that fat kid in school who only knew one joke, and kept repeating it ALL THE GODDAMNED TIME.

You know him. He was at your school, too.

Is that there's a bunch of duplicate stories, and people can't tell if it's April Fools, or just business as usual...

Not a 4th time!

You don't see the pattern here?

Story

Story

Dup Evil bit

Story

Story

Dup Evil bit

It'll be pretty much like this all day, today. And people were annoyed with the plethora of Apr. 1 gags last year. The Peter Jackson/King Kong is real, afaik, as it's been in the news the prior couple days. (How did that one slip through?)

In other news:

Warner Studios has anounced further sequels to it's popular film The Matrix. Sequels will be titled: The Matrix Transposed, The Matrix Inverted, The Matrix Rotated, The Matrix Scaled, The Matrix Translated, The Matrix Identity and finally The Matrix Determinant. After the full run of Matrix films an anonymous source has indicated the studio has expressed interest in a series based upon Sine, Cosine and Tangent, with options on Secant, Cosecant, Arcsine, etc. if interest persists.

Obviously you're not paying attention, he did something out of the ordinary in this one: There are no spelling errors!

So far its been the normal shitty stories and repeat posts. Does anyone know is Slashdot is gonna do any funny/fictitious postings like other sites are doing for April Fools Day?

Yes he was.

Have you learned any new ones yet?

that fat kid in school who only knew one joke, and kept repeating it

Hey, that was ME!!!!

Stop bitching about story dupes or this joke'll be around next year too.

Next Year? Ha!

I'm betting on tomorrow.

"This is the post that doesn't end,
yes it goes on and on my friends.
Ol' Taco started posting it, not knowing what it was,
And he'll continue posting it forever just because,

This is the post that doesn't end,
yes it goes on and on my friends..."

Never met that kid at my high school.

Oh, and did you hear about the new RFC [rfc-editor.org] for new security measures in IPv4?

Tripes and quadrupes are new though.

I don't know about quadrupes, but they do post tripe rather frequently.

Ride that dead horse! Ride 'im, boy!