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Jones can speak, just not in the public square. He has to stand in a "free speech zone" where no one can hear him.

It's really breathtaking how retarded you people are.

https://www.infowars.com/

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo...

Personally, I think the whole point is moot. We've reached the point where the powers-that-be have pretty much succeeded in disrupting The Pirate Bay off of the web. And it doesn't matter to the minority: they use Tor browser to visit the site, and once they have the magnet link, VPN to download the torrents.

I'm not sure the 245th most popular site on the Internet is "off the web". And there's a pack of other torrent sites chasing it. And then there's probably short lived mirror domains that don't get counted. And private trackers. And then there's a ton of other methods like uploading it to a file host instead. Even 4K BluRay is cracked and that's so close to the movie master they might as well give up.

Citation found:
https://www.alexa.com/topsites...

It's not only that Slashdot censors conservative comments. The modding here is so terrible these days that pretty much all intelligent comments are censored, while the dumbest comments get modded up.

I have to browse at -1 now all of the time just to see comments worth reading.

I think it's safe to say that this community is in the final stages of dying. Google Trends and Alexa both show a steep decline over time. Slashdot is quite irrelevant compared to a site like Hacker News, for example.

You aren't alone. This community is being abandoned quite quickly.

It's not only that Slashdot censors conservative comments. The modding here is so terrible these days that pretty much all intelligent comments are censored, while the dumbest comments get modded up.

I have to browse at -1 now all of the time just to see comments worth reading.

I think it's safe to say that this community is in the final stages of dying. Google Trends and Alexa both show a steep decline over time. Slashdot is quite irrelevant compared to a site like Hacker News, for example.

You aren't alone. This community is being abandoned quite quickly.

What Alphabet/Google/YouTube has learned in the past few years is that you can't please everyone at the same time and please anyone in the process.

Boy, they're failing hard. Alexa lists 21 sites in the category "Video Sharing". On the global list YouTube is #2 worldwide, next is Vimeo and DailyMotion at #132 and #133, both trending down from a year ago. The fourth place is held by vidmax.com, a site I've never heard of ranked #38,260. Is this another /.-ism where Microsoft and Intel are failing because Linux/ARM netbooks? I'm sure that at any time there are many creators, users and advertisers leaving YouTube because they got their panties in a bunch about something. But like so many other services it's converging on a small handful of winners, not a broad selection of niche sites. See Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Instagram etc. if the top 50 sites fell off the net it'd be an Internet apocalypse for most people.

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From what I can find, yes, /. is losing popularity, but it's still more popular than e.g. Techdirt and Dark Reading according to Alexa (sources: Slashdot@Alexa vs Techdirt@Alexa or Dark Reading@Alexa).

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From what I can find, yes, /. is losing popularity, but it's still more popular than e.g. Techdirt and Dark Reading according to Alexa (sources: Slashdot@Alexa vs Techdirt@Alexa or Dark Reading@Alexa).

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From what I can find, yes, /. is losing popularity, but it's still more popular than e.g. Techdirt and Dark Reading according to Alexa (sources: Slashdot@Alexa vs Techdirt@Alexa or Dark Reading@Alexa).

DNS for slashdot points to California, but looks to be registered in Arizona. Their IP address resolved with geolocation in Missouri. Do you know which state their bank account is setup in? How about their legal entity?

These types of things impact a business, because the laws of where they have a physical presence can then be enforced on them. Two examples of this are many states attitudes towards marijuana, and the tendency of large corporations to register in Delaware.

For "freedom of speech" I haven't seen too many differences across the United States, but who is going to enforce this? Who's going to be the internet police? Probably whichever branch of the Federal government is responsible for regulating trade where site owners pull their money out.

Americans can live in different places and still read slashdot, and other people can read slashdot too. According to this (highly valid, scientific, single) report, 45% of slashdot's traffic comes from outside the United States. So, I think specifying which freedom of speech you mean is a reasonable thing, when 45% of the traffic might have a different viewpoints on this.

"Popularity"?! "Increased traffic"?! Whatever Slashdot you're thinking of surely isn't this Slashdot!

Both Alexa and Google Trends suggest that the public's interest in Slashdot and the traffic here are both dropping.

I think the situation here is more comparable to what's happening to Firefox. A once great product has driven away its best users through unwanted changes. In Slashdot's case, these unwanted changes include the disastrous Slashdot Beta, as well as an increase in the number of left-leaning, purely political stories.

From what I can see, Slashdot is dying much like Firefox is. It's a slow, painful, drawn out affair.

Sure it makes sense, if they're writing the story to advance an agenda and don't understand databases.

We will see when the database is searched in detail.

Also: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

It peaked at a rank of about 200k, /. has been running at about 6k. disruptj20 _never_ had anything close to 1.3 million unique visitors.

Somebody with an Alexa account should be able to get more information.

Does someone at Slashdot want to be the Next Huffington Post?

There might be some truth to this.

Both Alexa and Google Trends show very discouraging downward trends.

Those just quantitatively reinforce the widely held belief that Slashdot of today is much worse off than the Slashdot of a decade ago, which itself was just a small shadow of its former glory. The disastrous Slashdot Beta episode really didn't help the situation.

So I wouldn't be surprised if we're seeing the Slashdot editors trying to jump onto the leftist bandwagon, trying to imitate the success that other leftist media venues have had.

Of course, the saddest thing about this is that the pendulum has already started swinging back to the right! People are utterly fed up with leftism. That's why the Republicans are seeing so much support in the US, not just at the federal level, but at all levels of government. That's why Brexit is going ahead.

The majority of people don't want to be subjected to more leftist nonsense about affirmative action, about transsexuals, about -isms and -phobias, and about so-called "social justice" in general. They don't want to be subjected to virtue signalling. They don't want to read comment after comment full of pathetic insults like "Drumpf" and "orange skin" and "small hands" and "bad hair".

So if there is some concerted effort to push leftism here, it will likely backfire, and just reinforce the downward trends this site is already apparently experiencing. It looks like Slashdot may be jumping onto the same leftist bandwagon that all sane people are currently jumping off of, if they were dumb enough to have ended up on it in the first place!

If Slashdot is heading to the left, then it is just looking for more of the same decline it has been experiencing for so long. If Slashdot wants success, it will need to reorient itself to head to the right. That is where the future is.

The whole story is actually a troll in this case. The implication is that the site failed because of censorship, but actually Voat, the hard core free speech Reddit rip-off isn't doing so great either.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

Since you are using alexa to make the point, note that voat.co is #5823 while the site that failed due to censorship is #184839. If your point is that both are doing equally poor then you point is wrong. The non-censored one is doing 2 orders of magnitude better than the SJW/safespace one.

Must be fun working in marketing and trying to explain to advertisers why "watchpeopledie", "fatpeoplehate" and "pizzagate" at the top three search terms that bring people to your site.

Your point of view is, as I keep pointing out, not as widespread or as popular as you appear to believe it is. Most people tend towards egalitarianism and reject fascism.

The whole story is actually a troll in this case. The implication is that the site failed because of censorship, but actually Voat, the hard core free speech Reddit rip-off isn't doing so great either.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

Must be fun working in marketing and trying to explain to advertisers why "watchpeopledie", "fatpeoplehate" and "pizzagate" at the top three search terms that bring people to your site.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

No surprise what's been happening with the traffic stats.
This level of crazy is a very small market.

Another way to look at it: deviantArt is a top-100 site in the USA and top-200 globally. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

The Gateway Pundit graphs are Alexa Page rank. My understanding is that the rank is derived from a browser plugin. The page that gets the most clicks over whatever time period is ranked 1, then the second most, etc. Higher on the graph means more traffic, which means lower rank.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

I'm not sure why they aren't linear. They don't look like log scale, but it is hard to tell when looking at a small slice like this. Another possibility (and I really shouldn't speculate, since I suspect that Alexa explains this somewhere) is that the amount of traffic needed to achieve each line could be linear.

You're asking HERE?

I'll second that.

It might be because nice people tend to lose patience and go away, so that the forums have nothing but griefers left.

Lots of forums are completely toxic in this regard, and Slashdot has fallen prey to this as well. Post a non-insulting position about something that doesn't jibe with the group-think and you'll get nothing but insults. No thought put into it, almost a boiler-plate "you're really stupid" or "you're a racist".

Try to contribute to Slashdot by submitting articles, and the toxic users will mod them as spam and get your account locked.

They seem to think that any tactic in support of their end goals is OK, and they don't see the value of well-formed alternate opinions, and reasoned discourse. All they see is that opposition seems to be less over time.

They view it as "winning" when reasonable people lose patience with the griefers and leave.

What's left is the toxic residue.

Slashdot seems to be pretty shallow recently, but at least they've stopped posting political troll-bait headlines. Those things caused a *lot* of toxic fights in the commentary. Slashdot popularity has gone way down because of this. Contrast with Hackaday, which had an editorial mandate to avoid political articles altogether and has largely weathered that storm fairly well.

It's unfortunate, because Slashdot has the capability to get user feedback on its product strategy, but doesn't. When you're running a company, negative feedback is like gold because it tells you where you can improve your product. Most companies struggle to get this sort of information, but slashdot could get it trivially by a) implementing a like/dislike feature that readers could use to inform story submissions, b) asking opinions in the polls (instead of the tongue-in-cheek polls that we seem to get), and c) actively soliciting feedback comments from people.

It's trivial to make a struggling business great if you can get negative feedback.

Hasbro seems to have this figured out. I was all set to be outraged about using emoticons for the new game pieces, but that page is actually pretty 'damn good from a usability perspective. It's simple, easy to use, pleasant to navigate... even the jazzy music is 'kinda pleasant. Color scheme is good, with high contrast. The interface is intuitive and explanatory, the scenery isn't too bad either.

While the pieces might be based on emoticons, it seems like they are simply looking at modern popular memes and not being driven by political correctness.

The Hasbro voting site is actually a clever, inviting way to take an online survey.

Much nicer than a table of radio buttons.

Slashdot seems to be pretty shallow recently, but at least they've stopped posting political troll-bait headlines. Those things caused a *lot* of toxic fights in the commentary. Slashdot popularity has gone way down because of this. Contrast with Hackaday, which had an editorial mandate to avoid political articles altogether and has largely weathered that storm fairly well.

It's unfortunate, because Slashdot has the capability to get user feedback on its product strategy, but doesn't. When you're running a company, negative feedback is like gold because it tells you where you can improve your product. Most companies struggle to get this sort of information, but slashdot could get it trivially by a) implementing a like/dislike feature that readers could use to inform story submissions, b) asking opinions in the polls (instead of the tongue-in-cheek polls that we seem to get), and c) actively soliciting feedback comments from people.

It's trivial to make a struggling business great if you can get negative feedback.

Hasbro seems to have this figured out. I was all set to be outraged about using emoticons for the new game pieces, but that page is actually pretty 'damn good from a usability perspective. It's simple, easy to use, pleasant to navigate... even the jazzy music is 'kinda pleasant. Color scheme is good, with high contrast. The interface is intuitive and explanatory, the scenery isn't too bad either.

While the pieces might be based on emoticons, it seems like they are simply looking at modern popular memes and not being driven by political correctness.

The Hasbro voting site is actually a clever, inviting way to take an online survey.

Much nicer than a table of radio buttons.

Better hurry before it's all gone,.

Anybody have any ideas?. Bueller?

Gab.ai is a twitter replacement that has started up recently and is collecting a lot of interest

From the alt-right, ordinary people aren't going to join.

Twitter seems to be taking sides with half of it's userbase, and driving the other half away.

Gab.ai's logo is an obvious reference to Pepe the frog who has been claimed by the alt-right as is associated with white nationalism. They are very clearly taking sides.

I've always felt that taking sides in customer arguments (against other customers) was a bad thing, but they're vigorously doing that so I'm sure there's some corporate benefit that I'm missing.

It's called protecting their users, not to mention their image since they don't want to become associated with the alt-right and racism.

Gab allows each user to filter out anything they don't want to see, either other users or specific words. This seems like it's the right solution, because it allows people to use the system without seeing things they find distasteful, while not infringing on other peoples' free speech. I can only imagine that people will put together recommended word lists in topics such as pornography, or vulgarity, or meanness, that others can download and install.

Twitter has filtering tools as well, the problem with harassment is that the harassees really want to harass, and it's really hard to effectively filter people who are dedicated to circumvent the anti-harassment tools.

So if you're concerned about twitter shutting down, check out Gab.ai as an alternate system.

Can Gab.ai find a sustainable model with an alt-right userbase? Sure.

But they're not going to be the next Twitter, they're not going to get mainstream celebrities and brands joining a service that's associated with the alt-right and was built around people who got kicked off Twitter.

Regardless of your opinions of Trump, it seems pretty ignorant to suggest that Twitter shutting down would completely de-fang him.

It is almost like you're implying that the shutdown of Twitter equates to the shutdown of social media as a concept.

Gab.ai is a twitter replacement that has started up recently and is collecting a lot of interest.

Their product advantage - the thing that differentiates them from the rest of the market - is that they enforce free speech. So long as the speech isn't something that's patently illegal in the US, it's allowed on their site. (Disallowed: illegal pornography, threats and terrorism, doxing/publishing private information.)

Twitter seems to be taking sides with half of it's userbase, and driving the other half away. I've always felt that taking sides in customer arguments (against other customers) was a bad thing, but they're vigorously doing that so I'm sure there's some corporate benefit that I'm missing.

Gab allows each user to filter out anything they don't want to see, either other users or specific words. This seems like it's the right solution, because it allows people to use the system without seeing things they find distasteful, while not infringing on other peoples' free speech. I can only imagine that people will put together recommended word lists in topics such as pornography, or vulgarity, or meanness, that others can download and install.

So if you're concerned about twitter shutting down, check out Gab.ai as an alternate system.

And once again, Facebook is a private organization, and has the right to remove any content they want to. Don't like it, go use some other social networking platform.

Of course, that does mean the fake news purveyors are likely to start losing the large audience they had relied on, but is that such a bad thing? There's always Breitbart and Stormfront!

On that note, a Twitter replacement called Gab.ai has sprung up that claims to enforce free speech.

It's currently in beta so signups are put on a waiting list, but I managed to get in pretty quick (the wait was less than a week). It's not as sophisticated as Twitter is *currently*, but I really like the free speech aspect of it.

Speech they don't tolerate are things that are patently illegal in the US, plus doxing: Illegal pornography, threats and terrorism, and private information.

If you're bothered by someone, you can set a personal filter to remove their posts from your feed. If you're bothered by certain words, you can set another filter to remove posts with those words.

Beyond that, they claim that they will make no restrictions on free speech.

In the 2 months since it started it's become reasonably popular. According to Alexa rankings, it's currently about the same as Slashdot (after 2 months!).

ATM gab seems to be under-represented by the left. People are mostly civil, and...

wonder of wonders... the humour channel is actually funny.

Looking at the Alexa ranking of Slashdot over the past couple of months shows that readership has dropped precipitously. It started to slide around March, levelled out at a low pace throughout the summer, and took a nosedive right around the election.

During those months, many long-term readers took the trouble to post messages complaining about the political nature of the posts, and many of those also said "that's it - I'm leaving!".

It was clear during those months that many of the articles were partisan - mostly in favour of Clinton, but there were some that were pro Trump as well. The forum became nothing more than an anchor point for digs against Trump or Clinton.

This article is another example of this: it's a forum for people to wail about how awful Trump will be, because they can see the future with perfect clarity.

It's clear from context and evidence that people simply don't like this partisan bullshit, and are leaving the site in droves to avoid it. Whichever side you happen to be on, when you trash talk or support Trump you're alienating fully half the readership.

I would *think* that the editors should have a fiducial responsibility to see slashdot succeed, and looking at the Alexa history I would *think* that whiplash would step in and enforce a leadership vision that better navigates the shoals of politics.

I guess not.

The NYT showed a 96% drop in quarterly profits over the election season, very probably because of continuous partisan trash talking.

That's a huge drop in the profitability of a company, and should be a cloister bell for media in general: people simply don't like all this partisan bickering.

At the very least you're driving away half your readership.

Slashdot should focus on the technical and avoid emotionalism for the time being, at least until the election soreness has had a chance to calm down.

If Slashdot wants to succeed, that would seem to be the prudent move.

Yahoo is still the 5th most visited site in the world....

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

Global Rank: 7,xxx,xxx

I'll pass.

Not only Sci-hub, libgen (Library genesis) - Iran, China, India, Russia and USA also are the top visitors. But, there is some differences in details (as, I know):

China: While there are hundreds sites in China for sharing stuffs, but they are not really "free". They are either required real money (of course, less than amount of money you buy "legal" books) or you must earn points to download. So, that is why Chinese prefer sci-hub/libgen.

Russia: It seems that Russians now more and more like to read English papers/books than before. As I remember, India was in rank #2 before, because Russians have many free sources for Russian stuffs, not just libgen.

Iran: Always on the top, no matter it's once-famous library.nu (ebooksclub) or libgen.

Baidu is the Chinese "Google", the biggest Chinese search engine provider. According to Alexa, it's one of the five most visited web sites in the world. Would you like fries with your ignorance?

Who cares about the Alexa rank of site? Yahoo.com is also one of the five most visited websites in the world and people here keep saying it's not relevant anymore.

Videos on Slashdot are gone.

It's a start.

I imagine it on a 1000 point scale.

A score of 1000 is perfection, Slashdot gets 5.5 million viewers per month, it's one of the top rated sites on the net, we lead by example and the rest of the world comes here for intelligent insightful analysis (as we were in 2006).

A score of 0 is rock bottom, Slashdot gets 1800 viewers per month, no one cares about us any more, a handful of stalwart holdouts remain from the glory days (as we are today).

Clearly, some past decisions have hurt the site and undoing those will bring up our score, but no individual change is worth all that much. A complex tapestry of decisions need to be undone before the new system shines through the noise of statistical variance.

You're on the right path, it was the right decision, I wish you the best of luck and all that.

But you've got a loooong way to go, and each decision you make could add or deduct points.

Time will tell.

Netcraft confirms it! Er... wait... Alexa confirms it!

1) In Order to watch bild.de you have to turn of the adblocker and turn on javascript, regardless if you paid or not. (Yes I know, there are ways around that) 2) http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/... - I just see a huge traffic drop 3) The content on bild.de is neither exklusive nor premium - mostly FUD, so why bother ;)

Those are huge numbers for a space mission. You're calling 1600 people / 250 reporters covering a NASA press conference small? That's freaking insane. By contrast, people generally have more interest in human endeavours in space than robotic, but when NASA held their press conference to interview members of the Colombia crew live from space (which turned out to be the last chance before they died), only four reporters showed up. The "Martian microfossil" press conference had about two hundred.

Seriously, you think one in every 2000 people on Earth, from newborn Vietnamese infants to elderly Masai tribesman, logging onto NASA.gov to read about a relatively low budget mission to be a poor showing? How often does anyone go to NASA.gov? Look at how much the page views for their entire website spiked from NH. Tiny percentage of their budget, cut their distance to the top of the net rankings in half.

783000 people streamed bloody NASA press conferences. When does anything like that ever happen?

450 major papers had it on their *front page*. We're not talking blogspot.com, we're talking NYT, LA Times, etc. When was the last time you ever saw anything like that? Maybe the Columbia disaster?

This should have been "moon landing"-ish, are you out of your gourd? The Apollo Program as a whole consumed about 5% of a year's worth of the US GDP. New Horizons consumed 0,005%.

Maybe I'm reading you wrong. Maybe you're joking. I sure hope so...

I found myself asking the same thing, so I checked Alexa (I'm certain there are better sites to check these days). It was rated #8546 worldwide (#9215 in US) in a fairly steady decline since its peak around #4250 in November of last year. Those are "okay" but unimpressive numbers, and it's pretty much been steadily dying. By comparison, a specialty news site like torrentfreak.com is #3808 globally (#3012 US) and reaches the top 2000 when stuff is hitting the fan.

Sharebeast's user base (by IP) was 25.7% US, but 21.4% Indonesian. UK (5.3%), India (4.7%), and Saudi Arabia (4%) also had "significant" shares. The most popular search terms leading to it are not English terms.

Source: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

As I said, I'm sure that there are better sites for domain metrics these days, and I can't even see most data Alexa lists because I don't have an Alexa Pro acct. I'd welcome better data from anyone who monitors domain metrics regularly/professionally.

But it really doesn't look like the Feds took down any sort of powerhouse, more like a dying target of convenience (unless they were really worried about Indonesian piracy)

(Incidentally, I was surprised to see Alexa report that slashdot.org (#1672 globally, #1272 in US) gets 40.6% of its visitos from India (where it ranks #302) but only 29.4% from the US)

Even 240p is much bigger than Flash for a lot of videos that I've encountered.

I don't think that's a valid concern given that YouTube is the third most visited site on the web. But, if you are concerned, you can always use one of the many HTML5 animation tools that are available.

Whether the browser allows developers to implement the most aggressive ad blockers possible. I want everything blocked, images removed, content rerendered, flash rewritten, etc. -- whatever it takes to remove ad, remove ad blocker warnings, skip screens, and so on. Everywhere.

So who pays for content and distribution?

Slashdot content is plain text and user-generated. You cannot get much cheaper than that. But it is on the auction block again because it is showing piss-poor returns given the traffic it generates.

40% of visitors here are based in India, where Slashdot is a top 300 site. slashdot.org

Amazon. Netflix, and others are growing in presence and power because they have a secure revenue stream. They also have multiple digital distribution channels outside the web browser and the add blocker.

Business as usual until we find a buyer (and hopefully after).

Slashdot opened for business in 1997 --- and it remains, despite cosmetic changes good and bad, very much a reflection of the us vs them geek mind-set of the nineties.

It's been awhile since a new idea has made it past the gates.

Compared to the Internet population as a whole, far, far, more people who stop by here are still in school --- and they aren't hanging around as long as they used to.

"The cow goes moo."

The Slashdot gender gap is real, though much narrower than the Great Divide you see at Ars Technica. "Who visits Slashdot?", "Who Visits Ars Technica?"

You can't hope to talk sensibly about tech unless you can place it in a larger social context --- and if at least 40% of your audience is female, you can't put gender issues in tech on the back burner and expect to survive.

Business as usual until we find a buyer (and hopefully after).

Slashdot opened for business in 1997 --- and it remains, despite cosmetic changes good and bad, very much a reflection of the us vs them geek mind-set of the nineties.

It's been awhile since a new idea has made it past the gates.

Compared to the Internet population as a whole, far, far, more people who stop by here are still in school --- and they aren't hanging around as long as they used to.

"The cow goes moo."

The Slashdot gender gap is real, though much narrower than the Great Divide you see at Ars Technica. "Who visits Slashdot?", "Who Visits Ars Technica?"

You can't hope to talk sensibly about tech unless you can place it in a larger social context --- and if at least 40% of your audience is female, you can't put gender issues in tech on the back burner and expect to survive.

On 16 July 2012 Marissa Mayer was appointed President and CEO of Yahoo.

Flickr was in decline before her take over. The issue with flickr was that their team was forced to integerate into the Yahoo! system rather than remain an isolated satellite of Yahoo! See the write up http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how....

According to Alexa, the site is ranked 118th, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/... so there's still life left in it yet.

The fact that the "Wake-up" command is Alexa which happens to be the name of one of the original web data mining firms seems like an unfortunate confluence. We may have crossed the privacy Rubicon with the mass acceptance of smartphones, but placing a cloud-connected device inside our homes to monitor all conversations is much too creepy for me.

Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.

The geek's own sense of upper middle class entitlement, his being part a privileged class, is the first thing you discover when reading Slashdot. It doesn't matter whether he is really making that kind of money or would know how to manage it properly if he did.

Alms for the Upper Middle Class: Subsidized Apartments Aim at $200K Earners

Alexa offers a reminder that the Slashdot reader is most likely still in school. Who visits slashdot.org? The prospect of facing long-term unemployment, crushing debt, aging and ill health are not quite real to him yet.

I don't need their gratitude --- and I don't give a damn whether the poor learn to code or have any desire to contribute to Open Source. What I do give a damn about is breaking through the social and physical isolation which has been the lot of the poor in every generation.

The definition of harassment, at least where I live, is "unwanted sexual advances", meaning the distinction between flirting and harassment is purely based on subjective experience.

It was in the late eighties when someone pinned a single life sized autographed strip club poster in the packing barn of my father's farm.
It wasn't long before every inch of open wall was papered over --- and a low-key arms race ongoing to see who could come closest to the X-rated line, without crossing over.
There had always been kids about the place, we began hiring women who didn't know our family well and weren't in on the joke, which had long since stopped being funny, and for our wholesale customers and suppliers this was our place of business.

It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person's sex. Harassment can include ''sexual harassment'' or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.

Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a personâ(TM)s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by making offensive comments about women in general.

Both victim and the harasser can be either a woman or a man, and the victim and harasser can be the same sex.

Although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).

The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.

Sexual Harassment

Good luck trying to find a girlfriend without "harassing" anyone!

Like I said, "Loser."

Who visits slashdot.org?

If you had the possibility of making Candy Crush money, you'd hire armies of Indonesian "reviewers" to "moderate" your apps to the top,

Are Indonesian reviewers cheaper than the Indians and Pakistanis who've been hired to moderate in Slashdot?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

DS-Lite from what I've read is no better than CGN in the sense that something still has to translate the IPv6 ip of the customer to a IPv4 address from the pool of available addresses all the while keeping a tunnel open to the IPv6 endpoint (CPE). This may be a better solution than whatever else is available, due to the lack of movement on switching to IPv6 any ISP has the choice between llama-goat-crap and wow-holy-bovine-crap. DS-lite pretty much also assumes that the customer only wants to make connections out via IPv4, with no inbound connections allowed. There is almost no way to have a 1-to-1 mapping between IPv4 to IPv6 (any ISP with enough address space available to have a DS-lite IPv4 pool that big will just run dual-stack).

Also based on http://www.networkworld.com/co...

If a simple mapping between inside IPv4 source address / port to outside IPv4 source address / port was performed on outgoing packets, as is done with regular NAT44, the LSN would have no way to differentiate between overlapping RFC1918 IPv4 addresses in different customer networks.

In other words the LSN has to somehow be able to differentiate between 192.168.1.5 on your network (which might be your PS4 but for the guy down the street its his wife's laptop). This is normally handled by VRF (separate routing / arp / NAT table) per customer, Thankfully they have dealt with this by just tacking on the customer's unique IPv6 address to the record it just makes what I expect to be huge NAT tables even larger. The diagrams from that article also show that the real benefits of DS-lite won't start showing up until the end user's devices are running IPv6 natively (only then can they take advantage of the direct paths, instead of the translated paths).

So if I'm understanding you (and DS-Lite) correctly, how does this remove the need for at least some part of the service provider to understand both IPv6 and IPv4? To me it concentrates the load on the translator devices in exchange for removing the need for the entire network to understand IPv4. In the short term this will be an extremely high load for these devices to maintain, I guess the hope is only token effort has to be put into them so it forces users to switch to IPv6 when available. Given that only 3 of the top 10 sites on http://www.alexa.com/topsites lack IPv6 records (twitter, amazon and baidu) that may not be an unreasonable expectation (the heavy streaming sites like, youtube & netflix are IPv6 so load may actually be lower than expected).

Technically knowledgeable people often give very poor names to their efforts.

I thought "Stack Overflow" was great branding for a website aimed at helping programmers solve technical problems. It's a distinctive, cheeky in-reference understood by its intended audience. (And honestly, it didn't hurt that most developers enjoy being made to feel clever about themselves.) That's what a brand is suppose to do, and it partially* explains their overwhelming success. And hey, much better branding choice than ExpertSexChange.com!

*Of course, branding is just one of many things they did right. They also filled a unique niche, understood their community (because it was started by programmers, for programmers), and made the site super-easy to use by (here comes the important part...) NOT crapping over the UI with a fake paywall that sought rent for years' worth good-faith user contributions. However, they are sort of starting to be dicks about subjective questions (such as help with API choices, etc.). That may provide a niche for a new competitor to fill...

Less than 30% of Slashdot's community is from the USA (27.3%). If you want all us "furriners" to leave, you'll be doing an even better job of depopulating Slashdot than Beta has.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

Visitors by Country
Country Percent of Visitors
India 36.3%
United States 27.3%
United Kingdom 3.6%
Pakistan 3.1%
Canada 2.6%

In other news, Rich NRI asked to pay Rs 50L to ex-wife who earns 65k per month.

An English language website, hosted in the US, owned by a US company, administered and run by US employees is US focused? It's shocking, I tell you.

Less than 30% of Slashdot's community is from the USA (27.3%). If you want all us "furriners" to leave, you'll be doing an even better job of depopulating Slashdot than Beta has.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/...

We can use the blackholes generated by the super sized collider to wipe out beta once and for all.

No need. It's already approaching implosion... site traffic has been cut by a third.

Really? Slashdot users have alexa malware?

Their demographic chart shows nearly everyone visiting from School. Maybe the better answer is that schools have alexa malware.