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No, I refuse to think that is a digg title, the Digg story title reads something like:

OMG_HOW_GOOGLE_KICKZ_AT_T_LABS_AZZ_!!!1

http://digg.com/tech_news/AT_T_Labs_vs_Google_Labs

It's happened before -- http://digg.com/tech_news/Comcast_Users:_Download_ 600GB,_Get_Booted

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?threshold=0&mode=t hread&commentsort=3&sid=192008&op=Reply

Yahoo! had problems too on Saturday, 7/22/2006 according to this Digg story.

I found the Tunebuckle to be an interesting gimmick though it wasn't for sale where they claimed it was and a shop I *did* find selling the item offered the belt for $60. Not really an impulse buy. The gloves were not a bad idea, but with this week's temperatures Winter seems like a forgotten dream. Overall, though, the list seemed like it was simply trying to get linked to digg and slashdot, which it did.

Maybe I should talk my daughter into knitting a goofy hat to hold an iPod. I can see it now. The click wheel would be smack dab suspended over the forehead like a third eye. Post the plans on my blog, submit it to digg and slashdot and bam! My Google adsense might pull in more than 3 that day. It's so Web 2.0! Add pegasus wings on the side and I could even get cuteoverload to link to it.

I wonder if my daughter would do it for me if I promised her a new pony, I mean, iPod...

try http://digg.com/

Hmm I knew I read this post somewhere before...

http://digg.com/software/eWEEK_Labs_Bakeoff_Linux_ Versus_.Net_Stacks#c2266320

Gotcha! :-P

Y

PS: I need a life...

Holy jumping Jehosephat. When on earth is this ridiculous google spoogefest going to end? He was addressing CIOs? Yeah? Well, that explains why I now hear on an alomst daily basis 'just make it like Google', whether it be search, infrastructure, or personnel. Let's see what it would actually mean to 'make it like Google'.

1. Isn't PageRank based on a voting system? OK, in an intranet full of PDFs and Word docs, who votes? Yup, that's right, PageRank doesn't work in an enterprise context.
2. Infrastructure. Thousands of cheap servers. Great, right? Until you have to actually synchronize written data, rather than the read-only nature of 99+% of Google's data. Come to think of it, why do they need that many? Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, and everyone else index the web with far fewer I'll bet. Oh, and no in an enterprise it's not cool to give different results to different users at the same time, something Google does with alacrity.
3. Personnel. Don't get me started. 5,000 PhDs and their efforts to combat Click Fraud amount to -erm- not a whole hill o'beans.

You wouldn't happen to be author20 from digg would you?

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Plot_To_Hijack_Your_ Computer

Moron

In no article I've seen has any writer actually suggested or "alleged" that SUSE Enterprise 10 is going to be a "Vista killer," as the story submitter (and transitively, /. editor) purported. Gotta love the FUD.

You certainly wouldn't hear Novell utter those words. I believe that a company that's been around as long as they have has more sense than that and knows that the best they could ever hope for is "Vista competitor." It would be interesting to know just how much of a margin Novell would have to take of Microsoft's sales in order for them to consider the maneuver to be a success.

On a side note, this "killer" stuff is getting way out of hand, with iPod killers and Flash killers, and /. killers, and YouTube killers and now apprently Vista killers...

Please folks; enough with the killing.

Can't we all just get along?

Zonk: Just because everyone else dugg it, that doesn't mean you have to.

I want to be the first to predict Google sues eBay for monopolistic practices or some other restriction on open and fair trade!

Debunked.

It seems like there were three people on the project, and two of them wanted to take it non-free, one didn't

Quote from one of the freedb authors:

freedb2 is the development project that played a big role in the demise of freedb. That the developer is advertising it here now, apparently trying to profit from what he caused is immoral in my opinion.

Additionally, using the name freedb2.org is stealing freedb's name. Furthermore horar has not yet released source code or a database dump, so as of this moment, freedb2 is a closed source project, which violates the GPL under which the database archives are released. Even if the GPL may not be enforceable in this case, not releasing a database dump is certainly morally wrong.

As far as I can see, freedb2 is not distributing the database dump, which was licensed under the GPL. I do not like to see comments on Slashdot promoting a project that violates the GPL. freedb2 has used the data provided under the GPL by freedb and is not giving anything back (yet?).

To be clear about why freedb2 violates the GPL, I will point out that the GPL requires every distributor to make the source code (plain text database dump) available "from the same place" as the binaries (the database used by freedb2). So simply adding references to the original freedb mirros would not be sufficient in this case, especially because these CD databases evolve over time so it is likely that freedb and freedb2 could contain different data. For reference, see this section of the GPL FAQ.

I have contributed a large number of CDs to the freedb database (including corrections to existing entries). I have done it because I knew that the database was licensed under the GPL and could not be taken away from the users (note that I am talking about the database, not the programs used for accessing it). I was using the old XMCD before the database was taken over by what became Gracenote. I was very happy to see freedb emerging, promoting freedom as one of its core values. That's why I contributed my CDs to this free database.

Unless the freedb2 developer (who seems to be responsible for the problems with freedb) complies with the GPL and offers a complete dump of the database, I will discourage anybody from using freedb2.

someone mod parent up. horar/freedb2's motives are not in full disclosure. hopefully not bad etiquette to post links to digg, but the comments are worth reading.

source of parent post: http://digg.com/software/freedb_s_future_uncertain
more comments on freedb: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/freedb_is_closing_d own

at any rate, there seems to be more to horar's involvement than originally stated.

someone mod parent up. horar/freedb2's motives are not in full disclosure. hopefully not bad etiquette to post links to digg, but the comments are worth reading.

source of parent post: http://digg.com/software/freedb_s_future_uncertain
more comments on freedb: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/freedb_is_closing_d own

at any rate, there seems to be more to horar's involvement than originally stated.

Where has everyone gone?

Some have probably migrated to other sites, and others are probably just too tired of the endless dupage to post any more. This is what? About the 3rd story about WGA in the last day or two?

It was on Digg last week.

http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Visit_to_GooglePlex_Ir vine_and_an_inside_look_at_AdSense_Audio_with_pics !

It has gotten to the point where they release new products so often that I can't even keep track. I think they also spend way too much time on ideas that are aimed to hurt Microsoft (Such as the online spreadsheet idea) - these things are cool, but will anyone really pay for them? I think google executives know that the money train will stop someday soon, since they are selling their shares like crazy.
USB Drive disabler - works remotely

Has anybody compared the responses here to that on Digg!!!

http://www.digg.com/security/Blue_Pill_Prototype_C reates_100_Undetectable_Malware

Kids abound on that channel. Back to Slash for me.

Looks like the solution is to fold up a piece of paper, and put it under the actual mouse button. This might work for a little while, but it is a laptop. I can see this paper falling in some other part of the laptop, like say a fan or a hot battery - and you will have a more interesting problem of fire, or CPU death.

Disable USB Drives - Remotely

... that nobody really cares about anymore. Not only is this story not interesting, but its OLD. Nobody gives a crap about how many Futurama references you can pack into an article about a wearable chip that happens to run Linux or about the complete lack of enthusiasm or industry adoption of Novell's vaporware. This is really sad. Slashdot was never that spectacular, but its reached a point now where there might be one article a week that I am actually interested in enough to click on and read. It's not that there just aren't interesting things to read anymore, its quite simply shit editing by the editors.

Ok, I'm done with my /. bashing rant. Be my guest and destroy my karma b/c I likely won't be needing it anymore. Insert obligatory 'I'm moving to digg because slashdot blows and is poorly maintained' comment.

Slashdot has made itself irrelevant. Digg is just a consequence. The reasons Slashdot doesn't matter very much:

1.) Broken mod system that hasn't change since the late 90s. See me posting at -1? Piss off a moron with a script, and your +2 account is doomed.

2.) Endless dupes. Dupes now and then are understandable, but they happen a lot on Slashdot. The reason they're so irritating is that any monkey following the front page day in and day out like we do recognizes a dupe post, so it signals to readers that editors don't read their own front page. The second irritating thing is that subscribers were supposed to alleviate this, but editors don't listen to them.

3.) Crap, misleading stories and headlines. From stories dated five years ago to outright falsehoods to flamebait submission text (the recent VOIP submission snidely claiming most VOIP users use Firefox...huh?) to Roland articles.

Frankly, the editors don't act like editors. It's not that hard to post good stories, edit them for clarity, fix typos, and actually visit the links to make sure they're valid submissions. I'm a 5-digit user who's been around since the 90s, and it's sad how far this site has fallen. Pay me money and I'll do a fantastic job of a story editor. I'm sure plenty of other users here would as well. Hell, why not have an open story queue and let us all do the job of deciding what gets posted? Oh, wait, I just described Digg...

Article by national award winning teacher... the more you know... http://www.wesjones.com/gatto1.htm http://digg.com/programming/How_Public_Education_C ripples_Our_Kids,_And_Why

http://www.digg.com/ :D

"Why should I have to sign up?"
Don't sign up then.

Make a difference and Digg the story. When enough Diggers see this too, there will be Voice Mail hell to pay for the RIAA.
I tried finding a Digg story with more diggs, but that was all that came up in a search for Defective By Design.

Digg mentioned a story about a dead woman and AOL refuses to cancel!

Here's the digg article with links to mp3s.

"I just port scanned him and, like, his firewall *waaaaay* overreacted..."

How can this be insightful? This must be the biggest collection of web design misconceptions I've ever read.

• You're supposed to separate semantics and style, because it makes the pages more flexible, accessible, and terse. Everything on a web page has some semantics (if marked up properly) and a style which completely depends on the capabilities of the client. If you believe these are inseparable, I bet you've never used a textual or audio browser. Input elements are no different from other markup in this respect.
• An HTML page cannot be XML. At least, it cannot be valid HTML and valid XML, except for trivial cases. XHTML is valid XML, but it wasn't created because of CSS. It was created because of stricter syntax rules (leading to easier parsing). CSS works fine with any XML, but millions of pages use it successfully with old-style HTML. And I'd love to know what kind of positioning can only be handled by attributes - I've never seen a case of this.
• Only uninformed zealots will tell you that tables are always bad. Tables have a well-known semantic meaning, but that does not include layout. DIVs also have a well-defined meaning: Division. DIVs separate the markup into parts, which can then be styled (and positioned) at the whim of the developer. But, being completely flexible with regard to visual representation, they can be difficult to handle for novices - Been there, done that. Positioning is IMO the only really difficult part of CSS, mostly because of client bugs. Oh, and DIVs are block elements, even though you can override this.
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are not the same thing! HTML defines contents, and can be used for web pages, help files, presentations (S5), and books. CSS defines style, and can be used for any HTML or XML markup. JavaScript defines functionality, and is a full-fledged programming language. It's a pipe dream that any number of languages with vastly different capabilities and goals can be merged into a consistent whole without adding oodles of complexity.

To answer your question: CSS is not an "elite thing". It's really quite simple, if you run through a tutorial or two. I recommend W3Schools' tutorial to start with and for reference, Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards to learn practical CSS, and searching Digg, Reddit, and especially del.icio.us to learn lots more.

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. What can make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer." Jean Jacques Rousseau. A lot of charged language has been flying around over the past four days or so with regards to Flickr and what rights their users ought or ought not to have with regards to their content. It started off with a thread in Flickr Central when Google launched their new Picasa photo sharing app and has escalated from there to Digg, TechCrunch and now Slashdot. As I've been involved in the recent debate since it started I wanted to offer up my thoughts on the matter at hand. It's important to note that yesterday I joined Zooomr, a direct competitor to Flickr. I've kept quiet on the posts over the weekend because I wanted to announce that before offering up anything more on the subject than I already have. As one of Flickr's heaviest users I feel that I have a decent understanding of the situation and problem at present. A number of months back Anil Dash wrote a post called "The Interesting Economy." In this post Anil posed the most basic question of all from a Flickr user's perspective, "what's in it for me?" From Anil: "But interestingness in Flickr doesn't pay. At least not yet. Non-pro users are seeing ads around my photos, but Yahoo's not sharing the wealth with me, even though I've created a draw. Flickr's plenty open, they're doing the right thing by any measure of the web as we saw it a year ago, or two years ago. Today, though, openness around value exchange is as important as openness around data exchange." Caterina Fake responded to Anil with the following: "Everyone needs to get paid, businesses need to thrive. I don't begrudge blogs like Anil's their AdSense links, or Flickr displaying ads on free accounts (I may have a bias there). But monetization strategy or no, the culture of generosity is the very backbone of the internet. It is why I have always loved it." At the time, and still today, I agree with Caterina Fake. I have always felt that I've gotten much more out of Flickr than money could ever provide and thus I've felt it more than a fair deal. I don't need to be paid by Flickr. I enjoy the generosity that Caterina speaks of and love the share and share alike spirt of Flickr. And over the past year I've spent hours and hours and hours working away at my flickrstream. Uploading new photos every day, meticulously documenting my images with detailed tags, building friends and making contacts, enjoying and sharing with everyone I meet, and participating actively in many different groups and conversations on the site. But lately I've been having some second thoughts. The central issue around the recent debate is not whether or not you can get your photographs out of Flickr. Slashdot got this really wrong when they wrote, "yet Flickr's API only allows uploading, not exporting." There are several tools that have already been developed to allow exporting out of Flickr. Downloadr and Slickr come to mind immediately. You absolutely can get your photographs out of Flickr your photos are not locked up. Flickr is not the roach motel that others have been making it out to be. What is at issue is not your photos, but the metadata associated with your photos. At present Flickr does

Help make The Corruptibles a big story on Digg as well.

Here, this should help: http://digg.com/

I wouldn't call this a Digg killer, at all. This isn't a zero-sum situation where Digg must fail for Netscape News to succeed, or vice versa. If you're in ad sales, of it you have some personal vendetta against one company or the other, I guess you could view it that way, but from a user standpoint, what's the big deal?

Complaining about the interface is a little silly, too. Clearly, Digg is doing something right, if another site wants to use a similar design, because that makes it _easier_for_the_users_. How is that a bad thing?

Ultimately, the users will go where they're happiest, and where they feel their time is best invested. For some, that will be Digg; for others, it will be Netscape News. I suspect that, for most, it will be a combination of them both.

Disclosure: I write for CardSquad.com, which is a WIN blog.

Now listen kids, heres the idea... Just because Digg came up with a great idea, that people love, does not mean that other sites cannot use the concept. The idea of voting for what is hot and what is not has been around for a very long time and just because I turned it into a news based format does not mean that I had the idea first. So, just back right off all the Digg clones and accept the fact that people are able to use and visit more than one website on the internet at a time. I love you guys... You are my best fanboys!"

Dude, ninja comments belong here, you insensitive clod!

Digg.com is down for an upgrade! Could this be the all inclusive version 3?

I've been an apple fan for a long time.

15 years to be exact. and YEAH they are losing touch with the OS community. Not only the OS community, the computing community as a whole. I'm a meager software developer and I spent my hard earned cash on an apple product that buzzes, whines, burns myself, gets poor wifi reception, has a underclocked video card and so on.

This isn't PLAYSKOOL play time computers apple, get it together. You have lost THIS mac fan.

Not to mention their ridiculous phone support, i could get even more worked up over that.

http://digg.com/apple/USERS_Strike_BACK_against_Ap ple_s_product_quality

I just saw this little site pop up on the apple forums. Its a little extreme but at least someone is trying to keep track of all this ridiculous behavior out of the apple camp.

good luck.

good bye

good night apple

Submitter forgot to include link to article http://www.digg.com/movies/The_Pornographers_vs._T he_Pirates

After a couple of months of using Digg, I've noticed I use Slashdot less and less... until, I'm through.
This is it. This article was the proverbial last straw. At least on Digg (if you click the link on the
bottom of the "Instructions" post, that says "digg me!".. you'll see the article in question),
you'll see how the article stayed where it should. With 3 diggs, and buried for all eternity...
never to see the likes of a front page. And I got to report it as "lame", and if enough people do,
it'll be deleted... oh joy.

http://www.digg.com/

Join the fun.

this is a sorry excuse for a website.
I'm sure this has been suggested before but articles should be modded just like comments.

No-one (to my knowledge) has ever suggested that a hammer should have a sensor to recognise if it is hitting a nail or a thumb and refuse to obey the "command" of its operator if it is targetting the latter.

I use both sites too (same sn), and I fear you may be mistaken.

Look at digg right now: story #1 has 112 diggs, story #10 has 486 diggs. It must be using something else to rank. I have heard other diggers claim it was based on time, but I haven't actually seen anything to confirm this anywhere.

Re: submission. Don't let it bite yer ass. I'm 0 for 2 myself, and both stories have ended up on here anyway (just with a *ahem* better *idontthinkso* summary).

Ok, ok...no more "grousing". ;-)

Dvorak is nothing other than the worlds most successful troll. As much as everyone here complains about him, we eat it up and come back for more. We used to be able to pretend it was the editors foisting him upon us... but lo' and behold, democratic Digg comes along, and he still makes the front page!

Think of it this way.

Google, eBay and Yahoo's most talented employees are engineers.

Comcast, Cox and SBC's most talented employees are lobbyists.

Which organization do you think is more likely to improve the internet for the most users?

Not the likes of Cox.

few hours behind........ http://digg.com/apple/Is_Nintendo_the_apple_of_App le_s_eye_

There you have it -- invest in fancy firewalls, make people change their passwords every 90 days, filter email from spam, phish, virii, and trojans, and then sit back and watch as your employees bypass all those lovely defenses and lay your system vulnerable.

I thought it was digg.com that did it...

http://www.digg.com/technology/How_NOT_to_steal_a_ Sidekick

The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but diggers can beat the rush and see it early!