The Ouroborus

If I could do this I'd never leave the house.

Wow

[pete-classic]

Not only is this handily the worst Slashdot "story" I've ever seen, but it's spelled "Ouroboros".

-Peter

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[Tryle]

I thought it was spelled Ohyouboreus. Compelling "story".

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[TheSovereign]

precisely what I was thinking, since when did Slashdot become a poor mans digg or reddit?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Wikipedia claims it's ok to spell it this way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros [wikipedia.org] "tail-devouring snake", also spelled Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus

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[Ecuador]

Wikipedia has an entry even for "Nucular". Right now it says that "some recognize it because of its increased usage", give it a little and it will say it is a fine spelling. The fact is that the greek "omicron upsilon" is translated as either "ou" or "u", so while Uroboros is fine, "Oroborus" is an obvious misspelling that probably originated from the fact that the "us" is a common latin suffix, while this particular word seems to have been originated directly from Greek and not gone through the not uncommo

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[pete-classic]

Very nicely done.

-Peter

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[Merls the Sneaky]

1000 internets to you good sir. The first thing I thought of apon seeing this "Article" was of that particular Red Dwarf episode.

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[Tubal-Cain]

Also spelled "idleispants"

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[pete-classic]

I don't really get the idleispants thing. I mean, I think I understand the sentiment, but it is a very . . . non-US way of expressing it.

It just seems that nearly all the posts I see on Slashdot are in some approximation of US English. Are there a bunch of Britons hanging around Slashdot just tagging stories? If so, are they the assholes who insist on tagging every story, "story"?

-Peter

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[morgan_greywolf]

Maybe, just maybe, this isn't actually a Slashdot story, but is the sick joke of a really, really good DNS hacker....

Nah. That's just wishful thinking.

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[sgt scrub]

It is a logo submission for oroborus you insensitive clod!

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[VeNoM0619]

Listen people! There is a very good reason this is on the /. main page, since this is a tech website, it is meant to spark conversation and be meaningful in a technology kind of way. Don't you see the reference to cold fusion?! That's why the 10 word story is such a short story, the picture alone has left us with many insights into the ability to create infinite energy.

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[Scrameustache]

Listen people! There is a very good reason this is on the /. main page, since this is a tech website, it is meant to spark conversation and be meaningful in a technology kind of way.

I swear to Superman, I actually thought about the symbolic meaning of the ouroboros as it relates to the theory of the ultimate universal collapse (as opposed to infinite expansion or a cyclical growth and contraction) while this thread was loading.

Little did I know that I'd already moved beyond the scope of the article before I even had a chance not to read it.

WTF?

[pdboddy]

Perhaps now Idle should be renamed Weird, or Strange. :P

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[eta526]

Why can't we mod entire "stories" -1 offtopic? This is quite possibly the lamest thing I have seen on Slashdot in years.

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[tepples]

"Why can't we mod entire "stories" -1 offtopic?"

Because you didn't check the firehose.

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[eta526]

Stories like this are why I don't check the firehose.

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[Hordeking]

Perhaps now Idle should be renamed Weird, or Strange. :P

Just name the section: Off-topic.

nom nom nom

[revlayle]

nom nom nom oh noes nom nom hai i haz a flavorz

Re:nom nom nom

[BarryJacobsen]

nom nom nom oh noes nom nom hai i haz a flavorz

The tragic thing is that this is the most on topic post in this thread...

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[jd]

The even more tragic thing is that most people probably got the ICHC reference. Hoomins!

Ewww

[Anonymous Coward]

Talk about leaving a shitty taste in your mouth...

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[dargaud]

snakes don't have an asshole to begin with, so they poop through their mouth.

Wrong [wikipedia.org]. And that's what taking acid during your biology classes leads to...

they didn't even know what name to give him

[Anonymous Coward]

our rob o ros. //read from a box found under a grav-pool table.

ouroboros

[sl0ppy]

do you perhaps mean:

ouroboros?

oroboros is a window manager.

Millennium

[sesshomaru]

This is who we are. [millennium...oweare.net]

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[sesshomaru]

Hmm, I guess whoever modded the above offtopic doesn't know what the logo for Millenium was for it's 3 season run:

http://www.millennium-thisiswhoweare.net/cmeacg/img/millennium_logo.jpg [millennium...oweare.net]

Interesting tail.

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

I'm intrigued. How will this concept scale?
 
My coworker points out that this idea doesn't have any legs to stand on.
 
Oh - my boss said that this bites.

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[Hognoxious]

Your boss is almost serpently right.

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[HTH NE1]

How long can it keep on devouring itself?

Most likely it would regurgitate itself before it has digested enough to mortally wound itself.

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[HTH NE1]

You haven't seen one realize it isn't big enough to eat a whole baby zebra yet. Comes out all slimy.

The more interesting version is two (or more) snakes eating each other. When do they decide to give up, or do they? Will the one who doesn't die first stop before he engulfs the first's head?

Amazing Creature!

[camperdave]

Amazing. I never knew that a snake could come into existence by crawling out of its own mouth.

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[Skevin]

We like to think if as birth-barfing. The really nasty part is when it gets near the end... Ever drag your own anus down the length of your tongue? It's not pleasant.

Yours truly,
Self-Birthing Snake

Slashdot

[Hogwash McFly]

You aren't Digg. Stop trying to be. You are better than that. Slashdot does not need colour-coded, user-rated stories that you 'digg up' and 'bury' and, above all, does not need single image 'stories' for people to LOL over. Have some dignity.

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[FenrirIII]

You are apparently not from America. Everyone knows that shows with dignity are for old people and get no buzz or advertising. It's shock and wow, people! Now lets get half-naked celebrities eating their feet!

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[tachin1]

Does anyone know how to get the pid for the idle process? i need to kill it.

Hogwash McFly

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop taking yourself and the site so fucking seriously. Slashdot has repeatedly proved it should not be taken seriously with the inane and immature posts that regularly flood threads. Like the death of Majel Roddenberry [slashdot.org] for instance, where there was a flood of inappropriare posts. This is the respectable, serious, dignified Website you were talking about?

Lighten up. This section is called "Idle" and not on the main page for a reason.

Typical nerd, no personality, no sense of humor, thinks he is oh so

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[MrPinstripeCom]

Amen brother. Go tell it on the mountain, and to all the basement dwelling "got root?" wearing blow up dating people out there who can't take a non-technical story as a joke. IT WAS FUNNY PEOPLE. Mission accomplished. Holy hell.

Mod Parent Up

[Hogwash McFly]

He has some valid points.

fire samzepus now

[Lord Byron II]

my subject says all - this is simply unacceptable

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[account_deleted]

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Reminds me of Tintin

[mr_da3m0n]

This happens in a Tintin book, and result in the same image.

Ecosystem

[conureman]

I see this as a metaphor for technological man.

Cool

[nurb432]

Look its a Democrat!

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[Aphoxema]

Which one? The head or the tail?

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[Rogerborg]

<Democrat>Well, I can see merits in both alternatives.</Democrat>

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[Aphoxema]

<Republican>Your view is incorrect, the truth is clearly whichever alternative might piss you off the least is the one we shouldn't even consider.</Republican>

Benzene!

[bill_mcgonigle]

What, somebody already thought of that? Damn.

I saw this and though benzene ring

[Dan667]

Ugly chemistry class flashback I guess.