Speakers list to be continued, chempacks on the way

Grok Headline matches for Speakers list to be continued, chempacks on the way

Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
Most-Improved CEOs' List

Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
Most-Improved CEOs' List 12/02/2003 12:37 AM
(MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu)

From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1

From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1 04/20/2004 11:26 PM
In an academic setting, a score of 90 percent earns an automatic "A". By that measure, the team shaping Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 merits a similar high passing grade. When the innovative application debuted last October, it reflected the pioneering edge of the digital note-taking category. Today, Microsoft honed that edge by announcing the preview release of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 (OneNote SP1). Ninety percent of the features included in the software update are a direct result of customer input and feedback -- with the remaining 10 percent coming from indirect customer feedback.

Re: USB risks (continued)

Re: USB risks (continued) 06/19/2004 01:49 PM
RSnake (Jun 18 2004)

USB risks (continued)

USB risks (continued) 06/18/2004 09:00 PM
Gadi Evron (Jun 18 2004)

The trip has continued

The trip has continued 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
Hi The trip is now on is 17th day. Sorry for not keeping You updated, but we have literally been...

SSC vs LinuxGazette.net Continued

SSC vs LinuxGazette.net Continued 12/07/2003 10:30 AM

Find the tag continued

Find the tag continued 07/14/2004 04:47 AM
James C. Slora, Jr. (Jul 13 2004)

War is Peace, continued

War is Peace, continued 07/20/2004 09:09 PM
"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind," -- George W. Bush, February 2004 "Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president... For a while we were marching to war. Now we're marching to peace. ... America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safe and the world will be more peaceful" -- George W. Bush, July 2004 Source: Reuters. Strangelovian or Orwellian or both?...

Kerberos, continued

Kerberos, continued 05/28/2004 05:15 PM
My ISP wrote me back (will yours?) but I'm at a loss how to proceed. "No, we don't support Kerberos," he writes. "You can use SSL on smtp-remote.rawbw.com port 465 with authentication, and ignore any self signed certificate warnings." There...

Bic as picklock, continued

Bic as picklock, continued 09/25/2004 11:48 AM
David Pescovitz: A couple of weeks ago, Mark posted about a guy who picked his Kryptonite bike lock with a ball point pen. Apparently, the story worried another man who recognized that the design of the bike lock was similar to the one on his Stack-On Products gun cabinet. He called Stack-On and was assured that his arsenal was safe from a pen pick. He proved them wrong.

"...the man went to a Staples store to buy a box of the Bic pens that were specifically cited as the break-in tool. He pulled the ink cartridge out of a pen and widened one end of the barrel slightly by scraping it with his pocket knife, just like a Web site instructed.

 “I had run home for lunch and was in a hurry,” he said. “Within 30 seconds, I was into the safe with that pen.”

Link (via Fark)

The Troll Situation, Continued

The Troll Situation, Continued 07/13/2004 10:14 AM
I've had a flood of suggestions from you good folks about my troll problem.Some are, at the moment, technically not feasible. Others are a good possibility, and I'm forwarding them along to our tech folks. Some of you have said you won't miss the comments if they disappear entirely. But I still believe the conversation is important, for all of us, when it works right, and I do want to bring it back. Incidentally, several of the people who wrote with suggestions are among my more fierce critics on this page. They still think I'm mistaken on the issues (we agree to disagree). They aren't here to cause trouble, but to truly discuss the issues, and they hope we can restore that discussion for those of us who aren't here just to play troll games. I hope so, too, and while I'm thanking everyone individually who wrote, here's my public appreciation for the ideas and, most of all, good will.

The Housing Bubble, Continued

The Housing Bubble, Continued 06/19/2004 12:14 PM

Mercury News (reg req): Economy boosts valley home prices. The median price of a home in Santa Clara County reached $590,000, up 20.2 percent from May 2003, according to DataQuick Information Systems. A total of 2,149 resale houses changed hands in the county last month, a nearly 30 percent increase from a year earlier.

It's much more than the economy at work here. It's a mindless, dangerous bubble that shows what a short attention span human beings have when they are infected with greed and/or panic. This particular news story ends witha local public defender who found a lender that offered a "zero-down" loan -- that is, loaned the full selling price with no down payment. I can understand the borrower's motive, though I think it's an incredibly risky move, but the bank making this loan is just irresponsible. So is the real-estate industry that promotes this kind thing, but that's par for the course. Of course, the lender will now push this mortgage into the national market, offloading it to some other company. This is how we have such liquid markets, and the system was a boon in the past, greased as it has been by the likes of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the giant federal home-loan operations that act as though they have the full faith and credit of the U.S. taxpayer behind them even though they do not. But it is not sustainable, yet nobody in power dares mess with this machinery. What we'll see eventually, if we don't find a way to slowly deflate this bubble, is a massive collapse of the housing market that will in turn spark a severe recession. The truly scary scenario, still not the most likely but growing in probability every day, comes when falling prices for housing lead to massive collapses in the financial industry. But if that occurs, the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs and the money-center banks with big exposure will be considered too big to fail. We taxpayers will bail them out to the tune of several trillion dollars, an amount that'll make the S&L bailout of the 1980s seem tiny. And the only way that will work will be to re-ignite inflation on an absolutely massive scale, because the only way to make it work will be to ratchet up the money supply in unprecedented fashion. This is a bubble. It will deflate. If it doesn't deflate gently, the nation is in for the worst kind of pain.

De-Certifying the Press, Continued

De-Certifying the Press, Continued 03/14/2005 04:35 PM
The whole idea of the White House press corps is that the reporters in it represent the public's common interest in seeing executive power questioned, monitored, examined, explained. The President needs an interlocutor, it was once thought. No more.

Clueless Old Media, Continued

Clueless Old Media, Continued 06/24/2004 02:30 PM

Cyberjournalist is reporting a truly weird situation, in which the CMP media sites are refusing referrals from Google News. The claim is that Google's referrals are somehow "outside the bounds of fair use" -- whatever that means. Hello?

Our Insane War on (Some) Drugs,
Continued

Our Insane War on (Some) Drugs,
Continued 04/25/2004 10:13 PM

Reason: Pill Sham. Here's a bit of legal information that may interest Rush Limbaugh: Under Florida law, illegally obtaining more than 28 grams of painkillers containing the narcotic oxycodone—a threshold exceeded by a single 60-pill Percocet prescription—automatically makes you the worst sort of drug trafficker, even if you never sold a single pill. Even if, like Richard Paey, you were using the drugs to relieve severe chronic pain.

Searching for Continued Growth

Searching for Continued Growth 09/23/2004 03:11 PM
Source: iMedia Connection - Geoff Ramsey, eMarketer's chief statsmaster, thinks that what can really drive local search is "pay per call." He says that many small mom and pop operations still don't have Web ssites, but "if you're engaged in...

Kraft's Continued Woes

Kraft's Continued Woes 01/28/2004 11:22 AM
The Oscar Mayer WienerMobile may be safe, but 6,000 jobs aren't.

Housing Bubble, Continued

Housing Bubble, Continued 04/11/2004 01:19 PM

Mercury News: As offers pour in, cutthroat market a boon for sellers. The fast-paced, competitive nature of this spring's Bay Area housing market has participants and observers alike speculating on the reasons -- particularly after three years of severe job losses.

The story goes on to offer all the usual reasons, such as a shortage of houses and low interest rates. But there's another very good explanation: rampant speculation of another kind, inducing panic buying like the kind that occurred in the stock market in the late 1990s. This is a bubble that will deflate eventually. It's happening elsewhere, as this NY Times story notes today. The mania will end here, too, and it'll be ugly.

Oil Prices Dip on Continued Mild Weather
(AP)

Oil Prices Dip on Continued Mild Weather
(AP) 01/04/2005 09:01 AM
AP - Crude prices moved downward Tuesday as traders focused on continued mild U.S. winter weather ahead of the midweek petroleum stocks report from the U.S. Energy Department.

CEOs confident in continued growth

CEOs confident in continued growth 03/29/2005 02:20 PM
Chief executive officers of the fastest-growing technology companies in the U.S. and Canada are confident that their companies will continue to expand, according to a Deloitte & Touch LLP survey.

Continued grave yard trolling

Continued grave yard trolling 06/22/2004 12:58 AM

Don Box isn't finished trolling the grave yard of dead software projects.

More on Taligent
By Don Box

Since posting my "taligent effect" entry on Saturday, I ran across this excellent online version of Mike Potel's Taligent book.

Here's my favorite quote:

After furious internal debates in the late 1980s, a new project, code-named "Pink," emerged. It was called Pink because, at a meeting in 1988, key Apple engineers and managers settled on a direction for the company by jotting down ideas on index cards and pinning the cards to the wall in two groups: blue cards, representing technologies that could be supported as extensions to the current system software for Macintosh" computers, and pink cards, representing technologies for a future dream system. The technologies listed on the blue cards eventually formed the core of System 7, Apple's current system software. The pink cards listed precursors of Taligent's object-oriented system software.

As we start to enter the end game of Indigo, perhaps we should start referring to features as "pink" features and "blue" features. The CLR team has a euphemism for pink features - they're called "post-Orcas."

Also interesting was my chance conversation with Chris Lovett, dev lead and architect of the XML editor in Whidbey. He happened to mention that he was at Taligent, and had numerous insights into why the project ended the way it did.

[gotdotnet]

All I know is that Pink (and Jaguar) swallowed up some fine talent - including Eric Neumann - one of MacroMind's founders. Many of those folks went to work at Kalieda Labs.

I alre ady told you about what Dave Kaiser did there - but did I ever tell yah about how I was the celebrity poster child for Kalieda?

They paid us to port our "UnDo Me" interactive music video (by the MediaBand) to SctiptX from Director.

DoCoMo pledges continued support of PHS

DoCoMo pledges continued support of PHS 11/03/2003 03:42 PM
Telecoms.com Nov 3 2003 1:58PM ET

Experts Fear Continued Market
Uncertainty (AP)

Experts Fear Continued Market
Uncertainty (AP) 07/24/2004 09:35 PM
AP - The equity market's inexorable slide into the summer doldrums has many wondering what the next catalyst will be. Some analysts say the sideways pattern could continue straight through the presidential race.

Orange France Expects Continued Growth

Orange France Expects Continued Growth 02/18/2004 01:17 PM
Orange France said it has built 1,031 hotspots in France and expects to have 2,500 by the end of this year: Traffic on the hotspot network is increasing by 60 percent per week, but that number isn't a great indicator of growth because the service only started to be marketed at the end of last year. Orange France expects to earn 10 million Euros in revenue on Wi-Fi this year....

XML Boulevard Lesson 18 - !DOCTYPE
statements (continued)

XML Boulevard Lesson 18 - !DOCTYPE
statements (continued) 09/12/2004 02:17 PM

Continued fun with Voice over IP
(Vonage, Lingo, Packet8)

Continued fun with Voice over IP
(Vonage, Lingo, Packet8) 03/17/2005 03:23 AM

I've had so many interesting hours waiting on hold for tech support from Vonage and Lingo that I decided to write up the experience in http://ph ilip.greenspun.com/materialism/voice-over-ip

Please comment with ideas to make this more useful.

Web-friendly rich Internet apps,
continued

Web-friendly rich Internet apps,
continued 06/05/2005 11:36 PM
Last fall I asked a question that I'll probably keep on asking in various contexts: Can rich Internet apps be web-friendly?. In response, Macromedia chief software architect Kevin Lynch created an example showing how the state of a Flash app could be exposed on the browser's URL-line, and thus made available for bookmarking, deep linking, and scripted integration. There was also some follow-up discussion on integrating this technique with the browser's navigation history. ...

Bush Planned for War as Diplomacy
Continued (washingtonpost.com)

Bush Planned for War as Diplomacy
Continued (washingtonpost.com) 04/17/2004 03:40 AM
[CIA deputy director] McLaughlin's [WMD Presentation] used communications intercepts, satellite photos, diagrams and other intelligence. "Nice try," Bush said when he was finished, according to the book. "I don't think this quite -- it's not something th

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17347-2004Apr16.html
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outlines the continued gloomy
job-creation figures

outlines the continued gloomy
job-creation figures 02/11/2004 12:01 AM
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs .. Krugman

nytimes.com/2004/02/10/opinion/10KRUG.html
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Online Exclusive: Countdown to the Big
Game, Continued

Online Exclusive: Countdown to the Big
Game, Continued 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
Termine.com - Tue Feb 1, 06:15 am GMT

Michelle Malkin: TERROR IN THE SKIES
(CONTINUED)

Michelle Malkin: TERROR IN THE SKIES
(CONTINUED) 07/16/2004 01:57 PM
"Terror in the skies (continued)." .. Michelle Malkin has confirmed .. confirmed

michellemalkin.com/archives/000207.htm
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One-click RSS subscriptions, continued:
the lesser of two evils?

One-click RSS subscriptions, continued:
the lesser of two evils? 01/22/2004 02:41 AM
There's been some ongoing discussion of one-click RSS subscriptions over at Brent's and Dare's sites. Some things I've found out: ...

Cybersquatters continued to plague
big-name brands, celebrities in 2003
(AFP)

Cybersquatters continued to plague
big-name brands, celebrities in 2003
(AFP) 01/27/2004 11:33 AM
AFP - Famous brands and celebrities continue to fall foul of cybersquatters, with the number of complaints about unfair domain names lodged last year almost unchanged from 2002, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) said.

XML Boulevard Lesson 12 - Well-formed
XML Part 5: Attributes (Continued)

XML Boulevard Lesson 12 - Well-formed
XML Part 5: Attributes (Continued) 01/22/2004 02:02 PM

New Study Indicates Continued Need for
Traditional Communications to Supplement
E-Gov't

New Study Indicates Continued Need for
Traditional Communications to Supplement
E-Gov't 05/25/2004 06:53 AM
BeSpacific May 25 2004 10:50AM GMT

Lawrie's ouster seen as sign of
continued competitive challenges

Lawrie's ouster seen as sign of
continued competitive challenges 04/13/2005 05:53 PM
The sacking of Michael Lawrie as the CEO of Siebel Systems, less than a year after he was hired, is seen by users and analysts as evidence that the CRM vendor has yet to figure out how to defuse increased competition from rivals like Salesforce.com and SAP.

Tech Brief: Motorola sees continued
strong growth

Tech Brief: Motorola sees continued
strong growth 08/17/2004 09:06 PM
IHT Aug 18 2004 0:32AM GMT

XML Boulevard Lesson 11 - Well-formed
XML Part 4: Attributes (Continued)

XML Boulevard Lesson 11 - Well-formed
XML Part 4: Attributes (Continued) 01/01/2005 04:31 AM

Dell tells analysts it expects continued
expansion

Dell tells analysts it expects continued
expansion 04/07/2005 02:34 PM
Miami Herald Apr 7 2005 6:08PM GMT
Grok Description matches for Speakers list to be continued, chempacks on the way
GrokA matches for Speakers list to be continued, chempacks on the way

Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing
politics.slashdot.org

Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing
politics.slashdot.org 09/07/2004 12:10 PM

iFire extends the reach of Apple Pro
Speakers

iFire extends the reach of Apple Pro
Speakers 10/29/2003 09:07 AM
Griffin Technology Inc. is shipping the iFire amplifier and adapter for Apple Pro Speakers. With the US$39.95 device, you can use the orb-shaped speakers "with any computer in the world with FireWire," according to Griffin Technology.

Griffin ships iFire adapter for Apple
Pro Speakers

Griffin ships iFire adapter for Apple
Pro Speakers 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
Griffin Technology said today that it is now shipping the iFire amplifier/adapter for Apple Pro Speakers...

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.2

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.2 07/21/2004 09:26 AM
An adapter that lets you read Slashdot articles on a WAP enabled mobile phone.

Slashdot caído

Slashdot caído 08/02/2004 05:18 PM

Slashdot over IPv6

Slashdot over IPv6 02/13/2003 05:05 AM
This trick works for most sites by simply appending .sixxs.org to the domain part of a url, eg http://www.google.com.sixxs.org, the gateway will the rewrite ...

Slashdot Is Worthless

Slashdot Is Worthless 01/07/2003 09:53 PM
There. I said it. Slashdot is worthless. OK, I'll admit that the headlines are useful, but the comments certainly are not. The sad thing about Slashdot is that there are still people posting useful and interesting comments, and they're utterly and completely lost among the utter crap that floods the site. Generally I make do by simply ignoring the comments section on Slashdot entirely, but after reading the comments on the Jhai PC yesterday, I realized that the comments section is not just worthless but actually a malign force. -- rafeco

I see it slightly differently. Slashdot is great as a black hole for all the stupid comments you have kept deep down inside you, a place you can let go of all your shit. Just like this weblog!

"tri" Link thanks to Archipelago.

"zeldman.honey"

Gnomoradio on Slashdot

Gnomoradio on Slashdot 09/10/2004 12:59 PM

Last October we wrote about Gnomoradio, software that helps people share CC-licensed music.

Gnomoradio has made good progress since then. Check out the new screenshots.

One Gnomoradio screenshot. Click for more.

Now Slashdot has taken notice, with ensuing discussion.

Slashdot Humour

Slashdot Humour 04/20/2004 08:43 PM

Spotted in a thread about a newly discovered TCP/IP vulnerability:

No problem (Score:5, Funny)
by niom (638987) on Tuesday April 20, @03:18PM (#8920438)

I'll just switch to UDP.

Re:No problem (Score:5, Funny)
by TheTomcat (53158) on Tuesday April 20, @03:25PM (#8920559)

more like:
UDP just I. switch ll'll to I just

Slashdot Down for Service

Slashdot Down for Service 07/16/2004 11:55 PM
Geeks of the world, relax! Slashdot, that uber-blog of open-source technology news isn't under attack. It is, however, undergoing a scheduled, but unannounced, code refresh.

The Slashdot Effect

The Slashdot Effect 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

Slashdot effect: Interesting comments and links about the Slashdot effect.

Few definitive numbers exist regarding the precise magnitude of the Slashdot effect, but estimates put the peak of the mass influx of page requests at anywhere from several hundred to several thousand hits per minute. The flood usually peaks when the article is at the top of Slashdot's front page and gradually subsides as the story is superseded by newer items. Traffic usually remains at elevated levels until the article is pushed off the front page, which can take from 12 to 18 hours after its initial posting.

Someday people will live in fear of "The Gadgetopia Effect."

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.0

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.0 02/17/2004 11:50 AM
An adapter that lets you read Slashdot articles on a WAP enabled mobile phone.

Slashdot Gets Real

Slashdot Gets Real 09/14/2004 02:27 PM
Real Networks' CEO, Rob Glaser, talks Harmony, Freedom of Choice, and support for the Mac OS in a revealing Slashdot interview.

Slashdot | Windows 2000

Slashdot | Windows 2000 02/12/2004 06:13 PM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/2114228 Neowin.net is reporting that Windows 2000 and Windows NT source code has been leaked to the internet.

Slashdot bans ETCON

Slashdot bans ETCON 02/11/2004 08:33 PM
Slashdot has a script that bans your IP address if you pull their RSS too often. I'm at ETCON, where I'm sharing a public-facing IP with hundreds of Slashdot readers who are all pulling /.'s RSS. So I have been banned, along with all of them, for 72 hours. Link

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning 05/12/2004 03:50 PM

I've had a number of people ask me about t his blog entry, whose title suggests that FeedDemon was banned from Slashdot. If you read the entire entry you'll find out that the subject is misleading - it's really about how Slashdot tries to protect itself from people who make too many requests on their feed.

Given the un necessary bandwidth consumption caused by some RSS readers, Slashdot certainly has every right to try to protect themselves from RSS abuse. The problem is that they ban based on IP address - which obviously causes problems for those behind a proxy server that shares a single IP address with dozens of other users. In all fairness, though, I'm not sure of a better solution to Slashdot's valid concerns.

Anyway...since some who read the aforementioned article thought it might be due to a problem in FeedDemon, I just wanted to make it clear that this will happen regardless of which RSS reader you use if you're behind an IP-sharing proxy. As I pointed out in an earlier post, FeedDemon employs a number of techniques to keep bandwidth consumption to a minimum - which not only keeps it 'Net-friendly, but also makes it extremely fast since it doesn't waste time performing unnecessary updates.

Slashdot Weekend Roundup

Slashdot Weekend Roundup 04/26/2004 07:40 AM
Slashdot had some good gadget news this weekend (I know! They must have changed the mix in their daily free Thinkgeek Crazy Caffeine Slurry). The first was a tongue-in-cheek homemade mod which stuffs the cooling power of case fans into a gel mousepad, dubbed the 'BreezePad.' Then there was the...

Slashdot: The Hardened-PHP Project

Slashdot: The Hardened-PHP Project 05/17/2004 02:44 AM
Stefan Esser is the author of the Hardened PHP project. Reading through the feature-list, i cannot help but feel that some of these features should have been rolled into PHP's standard safe-mode. Implementing it as a set of patches just means a lot more work for everyone, particularly the maintainer.

Some of the responses to this post were quite interesting. Among other things, PHP appears to be a great programming tool for Porn.

Slashdot Goes Dark, Briefly

Slashdot Goes Dark, Briefly 07/19/2004 02:49 AM
Extreme Tech Jul 19 2004 7:08AM GMT

Legal uses for P2P catalogued on
Slashdot

Legal uses for P2P catalogued on
Slashdot 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Supreme Court have agreed to hear the appeal on Grokster v MGM, the court case that EFF won, legalizing P2P networks. To help save the Internet's bacon, Slashdot users have clubbed together to catalog noninfringing uses for P2P networks.

Durring the beginning of the Iraq war, I used P2P to get video and pictures that were censored from the US. The instant I hear about pictures, recordings, etc. on another network they can't show in the US, I go find them on P2P. Along with that search, I also found pictures that solders had taken along the way. Then I found gunship video (de-classified and classified because it had altitude/other readings) showing people walking into a building. The order came, and they leveled the building. Then started firing on anyone leaving the scene. You could actually see the men get thrown around after getting hit with munitions. On, and this video just happened to show one man running into a mosque so he was let go. (sure it wasn't leaked on purpose)

Link (via Waxy)

Slashdot Reviews 'We the Media'

Slashdot Reviews 'We the Media' 08/04/2004 06:58 PM
On Slashdot, Ernie Miller has positive thoughts in a review of We the Media. Then the Slashdot readers chime in with their typically wide-ranging assortment of comments.

Michael Badnarik on Slashdot

Michael Badnarik on Slashdot 09/21/2004 01:07 AM
Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik an swers Slashdot's qu estions.

Firefox and Rendering Slashdot

Firefox and Rendering Slashdot 12/19/2004 03:25 PM
I've been getting this error viewing various pages at Slashdot with Firefox on and off since about version 0.8. Hitting refresh renders the page properly though. Is this an issue with Firefox or with Slashdot's ancient markup?

Slashdot Commentors on SuprNova

Slashdot Commentors on SuprNova 12/22/2004 01:03 AM

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns: Slashdot has posted a bit on Sup rNova being shutdown. What I found interesting were the comments: they are generally very anti-SuprNova, very pro-copyright. An example:

Furthermore, this is exactly what should be happening: the government attacks those who break the law, rather than those who create the tools. Bit torrent and p2p applications have legal, useful purposes; by seeking those who use them in illegal ways rather than banning them altogther is appropriate, rather than trying to ban them.

I find this odd (notice I said "odd," not "wrong") for a site like Slashdot.

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards 02/10/2004 02:35 AM
A look at the markup behind Slashdot.org that demonstrates how simple -- and cost-effective -- the switch to a standards-compliant Slashdot could be. (Part I of a two-part series.)

Slashdot Trolling Defined

Slashdot Trolling Defined 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

Slashdot trolling phenomena: Here's an example of awesomeness of Wikipedia combined with some pretty interesting reading. It's several thousand words on the trolling of Slashdot comments.

The Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular Slashdot technology website. It is a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. It is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general.

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Give the Gift of Slashdot

Give the Gift of Slashdot 12/09/2003 01:24 PM

Slashdot | Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun
Sites

Slashdot | Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun
Sites 11/04/2003 07:35 AM
Symantec's Internet Security 2004 is blocking pro-gun sites across the board .. anti-2nd Amendment .. blocking .. cluge .. :

yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/11/02/1729239.shtml?tid=103&tid=153&tid=99
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Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?

Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? Now I know that the Slashdot audience isn't all that reliable at best. Yes we all read it but we rarely trust it. Still I'd expect a little better than this: The Object Prevalence concept, developed by the Prevayler team, and implemented in Java, C#, Smalltalk, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby and Delphi, can be a great a solution to this mess. The concept is pretty simple: keep all the objects in RAM and serialize the commands that change those objects, optionally saving the whole system to disk every now and then (late at night, for example). [_Go_] Now that's a cool concept. So I did the natural thing and went and looked for the code. Since I'm a php-head, I figured that I'd look there to start. Nope! According to SourceForge, "This project has not released any files". Well I can get by in Perl so I thought "Ok, not my preference but ok". Nope. Well I think Python is neat and people I respect a lot like it. Additionally Guido has just plain guts to make the decision he did regarding mandatory indentation. Break conventions is hard so I figured I'd look at the Python version. Nope! Well once upon a midnight dreary, ... (bag the mock Poe), I did a lot of Pascal. Nope! It turns out that only the C# and Ruby versions exist. I couldn't get the Smalltalk page to come up so I don't have a clue there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything about the concept but just pointing out that this posting is essentially wrong on many of the major details. And, sadly, it doesn't really surprise me at all.

Slashdot troll speaks

Slashdot troll speaks 11/01/2003 12:57 PM
Tom Coates has been discussing technical tricks for coping with message-board trolls on his Everything in Moderation blog, and, surpisingly, an avowed Slashdot troll has shown up to explain why he undertakes extreme technical measures to disrupt Slashdot's message baords.

...i believe that the people who must be treated with the most public, forthright, and open methods of censure are those who offend us the most. i do not believe that trickery is ever as effective as open methods because trickery is, at its core, dishonest to both the person being tricked and the online community you have secretly enacted policy for.

i believe that secret punishments inevitably lead to abuse and combativeness, that they lead to an arms race against people of equal intelligence and unlimited free time.

Link (via Oblomovka)

Speakers list to be continued, chempacks on the way

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