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It reminds me of this story that needs to be dugg.

I'm not sure how true this is but apparently the reason they are deleting the stories is because Digg gets paid by the group behind hd-dvd?

I already have it as my tag-line (signature-like) in MSN messenger. And I'm considering getting the t-shirt to wear when I go back to work (out of state, programming) this summer.

Here's another link for this number, but disguised. I'm curious how long it will stay :)
http://digg.com/health/Train_your_memory

I've been watching this happening on digg today (first time I've even really read digg in a long time, coincidentally :p)

I saw one story with the key go from 200 to over 800 "diggs" in something like 20 minutes, then it got deleted.

In about the same time, this story, which links to this blog got up to 2-300 "diggs", then was removed from the front page.

My favourite submission so far was this, which linked to this image: http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3967/gitshddvdkb7 .png ... and the digg story got deleted while I was typing this post. Fun fun.

I think I'll stick with Slashdot ;)

I've been watching this happening on digg today (first time I've even really read digg in a long time, coincidentally :p)

I saw one story with the key go from 200 to over 800 "diggs" in something like 20 minutes, then it got deleted.

In about the same time, this story, which links to this blog got up to 2-300 "diggs", then was removed from the front page.

My favourite submission so far was this, which linked to this image: http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3967/gitshddvdkb7 .png ... and the digg story got deleted while I was typing this post. Fun fun.

I think I'll stick with Slashdot ;)

Weird how those numbers get pulled from Digg ...

There's a very interesting story in the Health section of Digg. It's about improving your memory by memorizing a certain sequence of alphanumeric characters...

I wonder how long that one will last.

Digg censored this number. Then it was re-posted and hit #3 in top list with more than 15000 Diggs. Digg removed it again. See it yourself http://digg.com/linux_unix/Spread_This_Number_Agai n

• PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts
  Photographic evidence of AlexaW and RoughlyDrafted gaming Digg just to get moron Daniel Eran's articles to the front page. (Where they promptly get buried for being inaccurate.) Several users who ONLY digg AlexaW's submissions, all of whom signed up in the last 3 weeks. Coincidence? Not a chance. This needs to be stopped immediately.
• RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
• RDMBusted2
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

Better still, use this version of digg The news is a bit older, but all the crap is filtered out. Atleast most if it. The irritating beryl videos and photoship tips still make it to the top, which make me wonder about the quality of the digg crowd.

That Publius Enigma stuff is really cool- I wonder if Year Zero was inspired that or in part?

Enjoy the album. I've even started listening to the old ones thinking about possible intertextual references... start with Pretty Hate Machine and go on up and try to make up a story about how they relate.

Can't wait to see the live shows-- did you see this?

On April 18, 2007, Open Source Resistance hosted a gathering in LA. Musicians, artists, and ordinary people gathered in support of a simple message: speak up to defend the things that matter to you. The concert planned to end the evening was broken up by police. -- that link contains a video of the gathering and the concert that followed.. DIGG's coverage of the event is also worth noting.

That website, open source restance, is part of the ARG as was the event I think- if this is an indication of what the live shows might be like then holy crap, sign me up! :P

Digg it (and reddit it and all that other junk) to get people aware of this travesty!

Also, it has already been discussed elsewhere that third parties will be able to write apps for the phone, though for some reason a lot of people keep pretending that isnt the case... why?

First 3rd-party app for iPhone appears on Apple's site

And other links elsewhere...

Also, even if major apps written for it require Apple's endorsement/approval to run, that isnt a bad thing (assuming the price to do so is reasonable). It will help ensure quality control.

> You got modded up to "funny" so I guess I should have assumed you were trolling.
Does "joking" not enter your vocaubulary ?

> I don't expect anyone else to know what a scheduler is or what it does.
This isn't quite http://digg.com/ yet, there are other people on the site that understand computers other than you!

Read the comments here. There's more of us than you seem to think.

Steam is handling this situation extremely poorly in my books. I emailed Steam Support about 18 hours ago, again 6 hours ago, and have received no reply. I've spent about $200 over Steam and until now have received excellent service. Now I'm royally pissed off.

Here is my first email to Steam:

I read a distressing article today claiming that Steam's databases were broken into and credit card information was stolen:
http://emp.damage-web.net/viewtopic.php?p=62590

Is this true? Do I need to cancel my credit card? Please advise ASAP!

And here is my second one, posted this morning:

Do I really need to tell you that this urgent question is time-sensitive?

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Valve_Hacked_Your_Info _may_be_at_risk

As you can see this issue, rumour or otherwise, is public knowledge and widespread. Valve's lack of a statement on this is very conspicuous. Please confirm or deny this story so that I can rest at ease.

I'm not panicking and I'm not about to cancel my credit card, but I'm furious that Valve will not at least advise me whether or not I should do so. If they don't contact me by midnight I'll never buy through their service again. Furthermore, I'll probably join in on any class action lawsuit.

Is this the same gcnaddict that posts stories to digg like this, this (notice the comments she makes) and several others? Her ./ comments are way less pro-MS, though enough to make me wonder whether she's getting paid for it.

Is this the same gcnaddict that posts stories to digg like this, this (notice the comments she makes) and several others? Her ./ comments are way less pro-MS, though enough to make me wonder whether she's getting paid for it.

http://digg.com/hardware/AMD_embraces_DRM

Blizzard is probably real worried that someone will do something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EQEmu

Terrible is those $ub$cription$ were to dry up, eh? I'm not sure if this is real though:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050323031230/http://w owressources.free.fr/tutorial_wad_en.php
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Create_your_own_privat e_World_of_Warcraft_server_

This is Slashdot.

People don't read links or articles here.

You must be too good for this here place. Why don't you run down to some fancy website where you'd feel more welcome.

Damn kids. Come here and start reading links and articles. No respect for tradition. No honor. All he had to do was post a pithy comment and get his +5 insightful, but noooo... he had to read the article.

Why can't you just be like the rest of us, and argue past each other without doing any research while stubbornly holding your own ground, peppering your posts with links you know the other side won't read? Geez...

Yup, from digg: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/UNIX_processes

And someone even duped it:

http://www.digg.com/programming/Learn_how_UNIX_mul titasks

To the bat cave!

Yup, from digg: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/UNIX_processes

And someone even duped it:

http://www.digg.com/programming/Learn_how_UNIX_mul titasks

To the bat cave!

The mod system is designed to prevent that -- moderators don't go nuts so much when mod points are limited. And I'm very glad of this; if the comments in /. articles ever start looking like this, I'll be taking a break from /. for a few months.

The airlines also benefit in general from passengers remaining ignorant about what's happening on the ground during flights, including personal problems, terrorist attacks, plane crashes and other information that might upset passengers.

What's to stop terrorists from testing various gadgets, finding the ones with the highest levels of interferences, then turning on dozens of them at some crucial phase of flight, such as during a landing in bad weather?

The airlines also benefit in general from passengers remaining ignorant about what's happening on the ground during flights, including personal problems, terrorist attacks, plane crashes and other information that might upset passengers.

What's to stop terrorists from testing various gadgets, finding the ones with the highest levels of interferences, then turning on dozens of them at some crucial phase of flight, such as during a landing in bad weather?

First Surf of The Day

Slashdot The Milwaukee Journal Gnews Fark Digg Mac OS X Hints Google Calendar Upper Room Google Personalized Home Page My Stumbleupon Page BuzzFeed Brookfield Now Facebook Three Random Stumbles

After the first run it is /., jsonline, Gnews, Fark, and Digg.

YouTube.

Informed

• BBC news
• Slashdot
• Distrowatch
• Linux.com
• Newsforge
• El Tiempo

Entertained

• SA
• Digg
• Degenerate Cesspool
• CTRL+ALT+DEL
• questionablecontent.net
• halturnershow.com

Contrary to current trends, the only site out of all of those in which I participate regularly is Slashdot. I don't even have accounts on any of the other forums. Some I only really visit because it's an old habit, notably the two webcomics and eltiempo.com. And yes, Digg is firmly in the 'entertainment' column, for its AWESOME PICTURES! and INCREDIBLY ADDICTIVE NEW FLASH GAMES OH EM GEE!

Slashdot sets its wayback machine to six months ago to unearth lost news from the past.

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Verizon_Unlimited_ba ndwidth_means_5GBs_or_less_or_we_cancel_your_accou nt

I would consider Facebook's level of security pretty high.

There are times when I wish I had a /. account rather than just being a lurker. This is one of them. Appologies for the blatent comment abuse and 'off-topicness' (and I'm sure members with mod points will punish me enough for this) but...


Slashdot: usually don't bother to read the articles
Digg: usually don't bother to read the comments


If you have any sympathy with that statement, and have a Digg account, there is an opportunity to let spread the love that is Slashdot to more Digg users...
See screenshot here:http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2028/untit ledrj9.jpg
and, if possible, digg here: http://digg.com/tech_news/How_to_combine_two_of_th e_greatest_blogs_to_get_the_best_of_tech_news
(yes, I know spamming is wrong, but a)its for a valient cause, and (b)I'm not making any money off this).

That is all very well, but we all KNOW apps slow down when we run them in a VM. What difference does it make to the average n00b who wants to watch funny videos and check their email? Anyone using computers for serious numbercrunching obviously won't virtualize anyway. No big deal

Can you digg it?
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Water_that_does_n ot_get_things_wet.

Here's a few links for everyone:

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/03/24/news /local/news04.txt

http://www.grupthink.com/topic/5605

http://digg.com/politics/Voters_Appalled_Over_Forc ed_Amendment_to_Marijuana_Law_Passed_by_the_People #c5840343?cedit=58403435840343

I found it here: http://digg.com/politics/Voters_Appalled_Over_Forc ed_Amendment_to_Marijuana_Law_Passed_by_the_People

Well there is Firehose now.

Also are you sure you want Slashdigg.com with some tiny weeny gangs, fanatics, fanboys and PR companies all over the place?

I am personally hoping Slashdot editors says "OK- Firehose is good, enough, lets keep our own qualities instead of racing with some wannabe sites".

I have noticed massive score abuse recently on Slashdot after that "cool dynamic" scoring started. Flamebait is used as "digg down" which means complete abuse of this system.

Look why I am afraid of _that_ dynamic site http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/According_to_Novell _ads_Linux_is_a_cute_girl_who_needs_a_haircut

Here are the next topics if you can't wait for them ...

• 1 - Digg RIAA

• 2 - ???

• 3 - Profit

The story is absolute crap and I've already emailed The Recorder's Editor-in-Chief Mark Rowan a week ago when the story appeared on digg

From the article: "The new tests which affect all 2008 models give a much more realistic rating with highway speeds of 80mph and acceleration of 8mph per second. This has dropped the Prius's EPA down by 25 percent to an average of 45mpg. This now puts the Toyota within spitting distance of cars like the Chevy Aveo, which costs less then half what the Prius costs."

Here's the 2008 mpg Aveo getting 23/31 according to the EPA's 2008 website http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/calculatorCompareSi deBySide.jsp?column=1&id=23173

and the 2008 mpg for the Prius getting 48/45: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/calculatorSelectEng ine.jsp?year=2007&make=Toyota&model=Prius

HOW THE HELL DO YOU Call 23 city compared to 48 city "spitting distance". Even 45mpg highway and 31mpg highway isn't "spitting distance".

The guy is a complete liar and should never write another article. If the reader has to look up every claim the guy makes and prove which ones are true and which ones are false what good is the article?

Wisconsinite

http://digg.com/tech_news/University_of_Wisconsin_ Madison_to_RIAA_No_way

This link was submitted on Digg almost a year ago! That's a new definition of "oldnews", I guess.

• PROOF that Roughly Drafted is SPAMMING/Gaming Digg with multiple accounts (97 diggs)

• RoughlyDraftedBUSTED
• RDMBusted2
• Greenpeace response to Roughlydrafted

GNUstep has a lot of different projects to offer - from entry level improvements for the beginner (like compiling the missing classes in GNUstep compared to current Cocoa and creating the header files) to advanced tasks like porting Apple's WebKit over to GNUstep (here you would need proper ObjC++ and C++ skills) or improving GNUsteps integration into the MS Windows Platform (tighter integration into the Windows look and feel, Windows programming skills are welcome). So there is something for everybody.

newspieces:

http://digg.com/programming/GNUstep_participates_i n_Google_Summer_of_Code_2007
http://gnustep.blogspot.com/2007/03/summer-of-code -2007.html

ideas:

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Summer_Of_Code_2 007 (the wiki requires a registration here: webmasters@gnustep.org since we got a lot of wikispam before)

regards, Lars

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Red_Hat_Launches_Youtub e_Campaign

I read the 30 days with ubuntu article, but hadn't come across the response, so I went looking for it; this is the closest I found: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_Reps_Respond_to_ 30_days_with_Ubuntu_Article it's pasted in the comments a few comments down. Thought that might be useful for anyone else who hadn't seen this yet but was interested.

LAST time we had a 'revolution' in personal music electronics, ie CD players, car radios started having aux inputs commonly available so you didn't have to buy a CD player radio. Then when everyone finally had CD players, they stopped providing aux inputs.

THE TIME BEFORE THAT when we had a 'revolution' in personal music electronics, ie portable cassette players, car radios started having aux inputs commonly available so you didn't have to buy a cassette player radio. Then when everyone finally had cassette players, they stopped providing aux inputs.

I don't know if anyone ever had portable 8-track players commonly available enough to make an aux input useful. I *do* know that Motorola was started as a company making record players for cars, hence the name: Motor Victrola. I don't think those record players were particularly portable, however.

The point being, aux inputs come into vogue every time the price differential between portable electronics and car stereos exhibiting the same functionality rise above the price that it takes to reengineer them to put an input jack in the case somewhere.

Google offers Google Apps for free. Google Apps are all gmail, and calendar services for any domain name. So you can propose to your university to change to google apps. It offers POP3 and a open web API with you can use the gmail as IMAP with some application http://digg.com/software/An_IMAPv4_gateway_to_Gmai l

See http://www.google.com/a/

In all fairness, the 360 has had a full year head start over the Wii. Which means that the Live! service is well developed to meet the needs of the (rather massive) casual gaming market. However, I do expect that to change in the near future. For one, Nintendo has already stated that they'll be hosting "Wii Ware" downloadable games that can be purchased from the Wii Store. Rumors are already circulating that Super Paper Mario could be the first.

For another, tons of gaming sites have popped up to fill the "casual" needs through the Opera Web Browser. In fact, the most popular of these sites just announced a new API that lets game programmers make use of *all* of the Wiimote's buttons. If they get multiplayer gaming up and going (e.g. poker, battleship, hearts, etc.), they could end up being an impressive force for casual gaming on the Wii.