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> QuickTime no longer enables the system tray icon by default and has not for a long time.

Good to see some progress. But they're not going to get in my good books so easily. After all:

> The QuickTime installer only contains QuickTime, the iTunes installer contains both iTunes and QuickTime.

Sure maybe TODAY it does. But every now and then Apple "thinks different" see:

1) http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/92938/want-quicktime-apple-forces-you-to-install-itunes-to-get-it.html

2) http://digg.com/software/Download_Quicktime_7_Without_Being_Forced_to_Install_iTunes

3) http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005533.html

So, no thanks.

Maybe I'll switch if Adobe started forcing people to install Acrobat Reader even though they only want Flash Player...

What? You don't think Fox fakes video?

Or it gripes you to admit it?

Don't worry, we've set you up a logic-free buffer zone.

http://digg.com/politics/25_years_murder_free_in_Gun_Town_USA
http://www.propeller.com/story/2007/04/17/self-defense-in-switzerland/

The parent's pet viewpoint is entirely justified.

No, he did not make it up...

Verizon forces all smartphone users to use Bing

This was confirmed in some early Droid promo pictures... (most notably in some earlier TV ads).

And then apparently changed either before release or afterwards, as Google seems to be the search provider.

it was announced that Bing was supposed to be exclusive across all of Verizon products and they paid Millions for that exclusivity.

It appears that Verizon either changed their minds, or Microsoft could not come up with a search app that was as usable (in terms of the cross content phone search) and Verizon left things with Google for the Droid. If memory serves, certain other Droid phones use various Yahoo tools over Google ones... so it's unlikely that this is a permanent thing, or an impossible one to change.

The question is... for how long? I dont know the specifics of Verizon's deal with MS... so I dont have a clue how that will impact things in the future if MS ever comes up with a search tool for Android to replace the Google one.

So, I retract that part of my statement... for now at the least, you are correct. For how long? Notta clue.

Google wins round 1

According to Digg, the first gadget in the list, is the Apple notebook with NO keyboard! They missed it from the list!

It's a parabolic reflector. Who knew? Sauces for the hungry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WokFi http://digg.com/hardware/WokFi_Wi_Fi_on_the_cheap

Yea, the Google-DoubleClick acquisition:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070915143243/http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/04/in_role_reversa.html
http://digg.com/business_finance/The_Irony_of_Google_s_acquistion_of_DoubleClick
http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/04/15/google-says-we-gots-money-lets-buy-everybody/
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-theres-no-doubleclick-ad-on.html
http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/google-buys-doubleclick---is-banner-advertising-making-a-comeback/

Especially when the one state is Nevada

It's sad when the tech crowd mock folks who don't know what a web browser is. Poor nerds have no concept that the majority of people treat computers like an appliance.

It's something to get stuff done. The amount of maintenance a computer needs is absurd (defragging, virus scanning, updates, firewalls, file management, etc, etc), yet the computer savvy are baffled when "lusers" don't do it. Maybe if maintenance was more like 6 (like a washer) people could do it. Currently though, if you try turning on a computer after 6 months you are bombarded with notifications requesting maintenance.

Apple really is ahead of the game on this one, and it's a huge reason why the iPhone is such a hit.

Anti-gambling advocates would claim that telling customers "you can win" is itself fraud.

Why?
There are always winners and losers in such games. It is just that the house edge makes sure that, over time, the total sum of player wins is somewhat less that the total sum of player losses.

So it is a fact is that you _can_ win. Another fact, which is unfortunately rarely mentioned, is that if you are playing against the house, statistically you are more likely to lose.

I don't know about the brick & mortar establishments, but the online casinos usually publish the odds for the games that they offer. For example, the slots machine games for a certain company (that I would not name here) were programmed for a return rate of between 95% and 97.5% (depending on the game) and that was advertised on the site, not to mention audited by licensing agencies as well as statistically analyzed by independent "critics".

On the other hand, you have games like poker where skill plays a much bigger role than luck and the room just takes a small rake for providing the environment to play in. In that case, not only you _can_ win, some people do it consistently.

One of the major issues in private health insurance today is Recission, the nullification of your insurance contract:

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/06/healthcare-ceos-shoot-themselves-foot
http://digg.com/health/Understanding_the_rare_practice_of_recission

With group insurance policies, you have a certain amount of protection. But for individual contracts, it really works against the whole point of having insurance in the first place.

Slashdot was scooped by Digg on this 1.5yrs ago: http://digg.com/movies/Making_of_the_Computer_Graphics_for_Star_Wars_Episode_IV

"I believe this was all detailed in a Newsweek article about a year ago."

um, you might want to find actual sources with actual studies. Newsweek, like ALL media, is horrible on reporting specifics or understanding issues. Most aren't doing it intentionally, but they are just bad.
Anecdotes are not data, and the media almost entirely moves on anecdotes.

A,C, and D are all valid reasons. I dont' understnad what you meean with B, and E is just a logical Fallacy.

A) If the teacher isn't aware of a problem, they can't correct it.

C) This does happen. You can lead a horse to water...

D) In class rooms of 30+ parental support is critical. Both parental support in class, and at home to help their child outside of class. If your child isn't doing well then you must talk to the teacher and find out what the child needs to do to improve. If it's truly a bad teacher, then odds are just having that conversation will get your child a grade bump. If they are a good teachers, then you get to find out how to help your child.

So many parent's don't do that.

n any case, it's better then a world where any complaint can get a teacher fired, or saying something thats political incorrect.

Even with Unions there have been cases of teachers getting fired for political reasons.
None of these took years or thousands of dollars.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/texas-science-c/
http://digg.com/world_news/Teacher_Fired_for_Saying_the_Bible_Should_Not_Be_Taken_Literally

You have no clue about how things really wor, and you statements that it takes years doesn't stand up to actual facts.

While the brain do has the count advantage (approx. 50 billion neurons in the cerebellum), please note the extremely slow speed of each of them.

You already said it (a few hundred times per second) - I just wanted to underline it. We are actually not that far from that computing power.

If we are to make a crude estimation 50 billion neurons with a processing speed of 200 Hz would mean 10 tera processing per second. Some may argue that they are analogous - thus able to handle infinite precision. I challenge that - there is no infinite precision - not even in the brain. So I consider a floating point operation a very equivalent way to compare.

10 Teraflops is not that much, would not even qualify as a super computer these days. We already have 1 teraflops desktops. Soon, even a personal computer will have that power.

Some examples:
4 Teraflops workstation: http://digg.com/hardware/Supermicro_GPU_Workstation_Hits_4_Teraflops
20 Petaflops Sequoia: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/03/fastest-supercomputer-ibm-sequoia

When approaching neural networks, I was never afraid of lack of computing power or storage. A much more demanding task was finding good and enough training data. Can you estimate the amount of "training data" that a human averagely receives through all his senses(sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell) during his entire life? Now THAT is some huge sob!

"If we all had our one acre of land, even if one of us screwed it up, humanity could continue. But if the King owned all the land, then, the King could screw up all the land, and frequently, will."

And if one of those people on their one acre of land makes a bioengineered plague, then everyone dies? Or, when the nuclear power plant next door melts down, we permanently evacuate Manhattan?

Here is something to consider, by Manuel de Landa:
http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm
"Indeed, one must resist the temptation to make hierarchies into villains and meshworks into heroes, not only because, as I said, they are constantly turning into one another, but because in real life we find only mixtures and hybrids, and the properties of these cannot be established through theory alone but demand concrete experimentation."

Manuel de Landa suggests we need a healthy balance between meshworks and hierarchies.

By the way, make sure you get enough Vitamin D while working inside on simulations, as I agree the public health agencies have dropped the ball on a lot of things:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/vitamin-d-and-h1n1-swine-flu.shtml
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/treatment.shtml
http://curtisduncan.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-michelle-obama-is-more-likely-to.html

Also, on "socialism":
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Socialist_Agencies_Destroying_America_Graphic
"""
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level
determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in me

I vote marketing droid.

http://digg.com/tech_news/Dell_founder_attacks_netbooks_Vista

So - which way is it? Does he love Vista or hate it? Makes no sense...

(bear in mind, I don't differentiate Vista from 7 any more than I differentiate 2000 from XP - they're the same OS at the core. Some security updates and minor changes, but the same OS)

Actually:
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Huge_Cannon_Fires_Pumpkins_at_600_MPH_VIDEO

It hit the top of digg yesterday ;-) .

"The International Space Station is still going strong, but you can only budget so many taxpayer dollars for the study of toilet-flushing, spiderweb-weaving and astronaut-humping in zero gravity. Eventually people are going to get wise. You gotta do something, so messing up the moon is an awesome idea. And don’t bring up Mars, because that’s still a sore subject. Not gonna happen. They did the math, and it turns out that it was all just made up by Bush after he accidentally mixed his Zoloft with three Tom Collinses."

http://digg.com/d316nFP

And more info that shows this is indeed their fail-safe system kicking in and has absolutely nothing to with any geographical move.

Older news confirm that they have "hosting" in Holland, Russia, Ukraine and some unnamed EU country. But it seems the words are made understable for general people and ignoring that they're not actually hosted there, but TPB's own ISP gets their upstream providers via those countries.

After PatrikWeb dropped routing their packets last night, it seems their fail-safe system kicked in and started routing most of the traffic via Ukraine. Then all these news sites picked up the story unintelligently that they've moved to Ukraine, without actually knowing how routing works at ISP level. But this is probably TPB's guys purpose - yeah lots of people just point to their ip and fail to see how it works in deeper levels. The pirate bay guys aren't stupid at all and its actually funny they're able to pull out this kind of infrastructure to support their site :)

You're still riding the wrong kind of motorcycle.

It "scored better"? You are vastly overestimating how much thought Intel Marketing put into the choice of the name. *grin* Actually, Intel Marketing is just copying Maybelline Turbo Boost mascara. Or maybe Vidal Sassoon Turbo Boost hair dryers?

Actually, in comparison, "SuperUltraMoreFaster Maker" isn't so bad. "Turbo Booster" gets 1,850,000 hits in Google. "SuperUltraMoreFaster Maker" gets exactly none. You're a creative genius!! Sorry, that means you'll never be hired by Intel Marketing.

My partly joking theory is that the staff of Intel Marketing long ago realized that Intel doesn't need marketing, since there is no one else besides AMD from whom to buy fast processors. So, it doesn't matter what they do. Mostly, they seem to do nothing. Sometimes, apparently due to boredom, they experiment with marketing. For example, buyers were offered Intel Bunny People dolls. How many buyers said, "Wow!!! A doll! I think I'll buy from Intel, rather than AMD"? The Intel web site is better now, but a few years ago, it was difficult or impossible to discover the Intel SKU of an Intel processor from the Intel web site, even after you spent 2 hours joining Intel's hardware buyer's organization. You could research processors on Intel's web site, but the Intel SKU wasn't listed. Wholesalers listed the processors by Intel SKU.

Intel's consumer division was so bad it ceased business. It would take many, many paragraphs to tell you how bad it was.

About 2 years ago, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett got bad press by announcing that Intel would go into competition with OLPC, One Laptop per Child: OLPC on 60 Minutes: Intel is evil. Typical story: Negroponte: "Intel should be ashamed of itself" for dumping its low cost PC. Look at the photo of Barrett! The photo looks like the personification of evil. *grin*

Now, Intel is trying to correct problems it has created by encouraging the sales of mobile computers with the Intel Atom processor, without communicating openly and honestly to customers that the Atom processor is very slow. For example, Intel: Some Netbook resellers saw 30% return rate.

Am I saying that, if I ran Intel Marketing, I could do better? Yes, I'm saying that. Maybe you could, also.

It's possible they may sell another $5 upgrade for N as they did when N first came out, for the macbooks that shipped juuust before N was announced on them.

Last year I had a website that was number one on digg for months and eventually got over ten thousand diggs

http://digg.com/people/He_Took_a_Polaroid_Every_Day_Until_the_Day_He_Died

My unlimited , "no data transfer quotas" account didn't last a whole hour.

Figure that each visitor accounted for 13,000 hits and 6,000+ largish photos it added up

So are you responsible for this?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/popular/~3/KbxO2BQBEDA/Two_Men_Arrested_for_Getting_Off_Someone_s_Lawn

Sorry I'm still just pissed off like fuck my 64bit VT enabled laptop with 64bit chipset has a fucking 32bit EFI firmware that apple seems to have no intention of updating!

see here (text included below, for your convenience): http://digg.com/apple/64_bit_Snow_Leopard_Defaults_to_32_bit_Kernel_A_Workaround?t=27960528#c27960528

"Please can we stop this now, most people reading these articles are getting soooo confused by everyone throwing around the words 64-bit and 32-bit.

It works like this, Snow Leopard is a 64-bit OS, and almost all of its applications are 64-bit, and almost if not all of its frameworks for developers to tap into are 64-bit. There is a part of the operating system called a kernel, it can run in either 32-bit mode or 64-bit mode. There is a lot of code that taps into the kernel for low level device functions, these bits of code are called kernel extensions or kexts, they are written both by Apple and by third parties. 32-bit kexts do not play well with a 64-bit kernel, and as almost all kexts are 32-bit because pre Snow Leopard the kernel was 32-bit, this would cause a huge amount of headache to end users to default to a 64-bit kernel. and most kexts will not see a performance improvement by running in a 64-bit mode.

What are the advantages of running a 64-bit kernel?
The way Mac OS X is designed to take advantage of more then 4GB memory pre 64-bit, causes it to swap address for memory above the 4GB barrier, which in turn makes each memory operation slightly slower. If you have more then 4GB of memory in your computer, running a 64-bit kernel will speed up memory read/write some, but will cause more compatibility issues with kexts. Thats it. If you have less then 4GB of memory a 64-bit kernel will have no advantage what so ever, and above that you will see some performance improvement when more then 4GB of memory is consistently being used. Obviously as no mac ships with more then 4GB of memory by default, and only more recent macs (excluding xserves and Mac Pros) can even accept more then 4GB of memory, and as it will take third parties some time to write 64-bit kexts, it makes absolutely 100% sense to default to a 32-bit kernel at this point.

any questions?"

ignorance and missing google capabilities are no more excused. please follow this link and never come back http://www.digg.com/

p.s. seek for the halting problem, study a bit of Godel, and move your fat ass instead of hoping for someone doing your homeworks.

Depends on who you want to believe.

A recent Digg poll showed that many people are incapable of escaping using Internet Explorer i.e. on closed systems or at work, so it's no surprise IE still has as lingering percentage of marketshare.

About two days ago now.
 
Lol, Slashdot, for getting your "news" too little and too late from a secondary or tertiary source.

According to a post on the official Digg blog about removing support for IE 6, most who use IE 6 cannot upgrade, as they are at work or don't have full control of their computer (ie no admin password). Only 23% of the people asked "Why are you still using IE 6" said that the preferred it / didn't see a need to upgrade.

No idea why I'm humoring an AC who thinks that such claims are outrageous, all of these are real, and recent examples:

• Teacher smacks student: so many of these, take your pick
• Teacher duct tapes kids mouth: here, and google for more
• Teacher duct tapes kid to desk: here, and google for more
• Teacher strip searches half a dozen prepubescent girl... the only one with a little hyperbole, a principal who strip searched a 13 yo girl because... "another student said she had motrin" (let's be clear here, motrin is an ibuprofen-based analgesic, nothing more): and google for more

Is that the kind of evidence you're looking for? Are you a teacher in self-righteous denial?

How has this thread has gone this far without a modded up mention of Chrono Trigger?? Fans have been demanding a new addition for years. Fans even tried to take things into their own hands.

The issue was reported on Reddit.com 16 hours ago. At no time, apparently, was access to img.4chan.org slow. Also, at present the IP address 207.126.64.181 connects directly to 4chan.org, as it should.

So, AT&T, is not blocking img.4chan.org, the company is only blocking some of its users. Check 4chan status. Quote: "UPDATE: Some coverage on TechCrunch, Digg, reddit, and Google News. Also, note that AT&T has yet to contact us."

Posting something in the likes of asking your audience to sabotage the network infrastructure.

Funny how some stuff gets rushed to the front page, I don't think Digg was gullible enough to get that even close to front page.

http://digg.com/tech_news/AT_T_blocks_4chan

Read here.

So people with old Windows like 98, 2000, etc. will have to other Web browsers like old Firefox v2.

When I wanna read highly likely baloney articles I visit http://digg.com/ (no offense Kevin, but it happens more often than not nowadays - unlike when digg was still new)
I come to Slashdot because I favor and believe in the system article moderation system.
So how then does nonsense like this reach the Slashdot front page?

You forgot all of Slashdot's direct concurrents, Digg included. No need for more proof that Slashdot is utterly failing at being a news source. It's a cool place to discuss the news, but it's as for a place to get news from it could be much better than it is.

I can tell when someone's smile isn't real

Wow - how do you do that? Is it some sort of psychic ability? Are you going to use your power for good or for evil? What's your superhero/villain name gonna be?

Judging from this, I'd say villain.

There is a long article in Rolling Stone magazine this month, The Great American Bubble Machine, alleging that banks control the U.S. government and that Goldman Sachs is one of the leaders of the corruption. Anyone wanting to know more about how the financial corruption of the U.S. government is operated should read the article. The article alleges that Goldman Sachs will use any manipulation whatsoever to get money.

This Slashdot comment, The Investment Banking cohorts JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are the **huge** winners, discusses some of the issues. The Slashdot comment links to the Rolling Stone article, but that copy of the article has been removed.

According to the Rolling Stone article, Goldman Sachs makes money mostly through corruption, not investment insight. Your tax money may be their profit: Goldman Sachs takes $12B Bailout, Hands out $14B Bonuses. (The article lists British pounds, the Digg article lists dollars.)

The corruption is not new. For example, see the May 13, 2002 article in Business Week, How Corrupt Is Wall Street? New revelations have investors baying for blood, and the scandal is widening Quote: "Consider Enron, which has paid $323 million to Wall Street in underwriting fees since 1986, according to Thomson. Goldman, Sachs & Co. (GS ) pocketed $69 million of that..." Enron, of course, went bankrupt when it was discovered the company was dishonest.

Beginning in 2002, Warren Buffett began very publicly calling derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction". That particular part of the corruption was caused by the removal of laws designed to prevent fraud, at the beginning of George W. Bush's first term. Nothing was done to reinstate the laws, and that's why we are suffering now. Why was nothing done? Numerous articles say the corruption was allowed to happen because Goldman Sachs people control the U.S. government's Federal Reserve Bank. To give a small indication of the level of corruption, the "Federal Reserve Bank" is not federal, there is nothing in reserve, and it is not a bank.

reddit is ---------> that way

Slashdot addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Slashdot over Digg.

The abundance of articles like this".

Ha, I posted about this 4 days ago on my blog, http://digg.com/tech_news/Opera_is_about_to_change_the_world

Some poor schmuck said "Huh. This must be the most clueless of the clueless speculations so far." and I was pretty close IM(NS)HO.

By law, everybody(!) can sign, regardless of age, nationality, place of residence, etc.

There's a step-by-step guide plus video (in English) on how to sign the petition if you don't understand German: http://www.piratenpartei-bayern.de/Signing_the_e-petition_for_Non-Germans - also some more info is on the digg article: http://digg.com/political_opinion/Official_Petition_against_German_Internet_censorship

Also, the petition system's servers suck, and the system is badly implemented. They barely sustained random link traffic, Slashdot will probably reduce it to a smouldering pile of ash. But, post away!

More information can also be found on Twitter: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=netzsperren+OR+Zensursula+-RT

The main petitioner twitters at http://twitter.com/FranziskaHeine

Petition statistics are available at http://sejmwatch.info/petition-internet-zensur.html (in German)

From http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Stolen_picture_used_on_a_huge_billboard_in_another_country "Her blog post and most of the comments here are retarded. That image was not stolen. There's no way that large format print was produced from a 500 pixel wide Facebook rip. If you read her post she says a professional photographer "friend" took the image. The friend most likely sold it to a microstock agency which is where the design agency for the Czech supermarket chain bought it and is now denying it. With tens of thousands of decent quality high resolution images taken on pro/semi-pro equipment available for a few dollars each on microstock sites, there's no way any designer would troll blogs to find a usable random photo of a family among point&shoot and low rez photos."

There's the whole rest of the Internet, if this blog doesn't suit you.

But posting comments about how much you dislike a blog, on that blog? That's above mid range on the fail-meter right there.

Did IE hide your address bar, and now you can't get out? Here, let me help.

And here I thought the following was true:

http://digg.com/tech_news/RIAA_Keeps_Settlement_Money_Artists_May_Sue

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/facts/truth

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/02/riaa_what_settlement_money.html ...and there are more on this topic. And while it's unquestionably true that these articles are talking about the settlements from fileshare software companies and not settlements from individuals, I see no cause to believe that the money collected is passed on to the labels (or the artists) at all. Do you have any indication that the RIAA actually passes the money they collect on to the labels? You are aware of the RIAA collection web site yes? (https://www.p2plawsuits.com/) People have been known to use that site when paying their settlements. A single point of transaction for all settlements ostensibly run by the RIAA.

I can't claim to have absolute knowledge of the fact, but it would appear that the RIAA does indeed pocket the money taken ostensibly to fund additional litigation and other legal activities.

It's actually a little-known form of Hypertext lensing caused by the Slashdot Anomaly.
Let me explain.

The Slashdot Anomaly is a powerful attractive force on the internet, drawing in general News-For-Nerds and Stuff-That-Matters articles towards it, constantly increasing the size of its article/comments database - which is the prime generator of it's attractive force.

If there is an article of news behind the Slashdot Anomaly (as viewed from our browsers here in front of the Anomaly) you will often see two distorted copies of the original article that's out there in the internet, set a small distance apart. Sometimes, if the angles are just right, you can see multiple distorted copies. This is the general principle of Hypertext lensing - similar to Gravitational lensing, the size of the Slashdot Anomaly's internal database actually warps the underlying structure of the internet.

Initially, when the Slashdot Anomaly was small, it's Hypertext Lensing effect was minimal, and multiple copies of articles were rare. However, over the years the database size of the Slashdot Anomaly has grown a thousandfold and the attractive force has become so powerful that it now severely warps the view of internet that we observe beyond it, leading to the problems we have today regarding "dupes".

Some posit that the attractive force will become so large that our view of the internet through the Slashdot Anomaly will eventually be so distorted as to be useless (see: digg) , however others contend that advances in the relatively new field of adaptive Hypertext filtering may yet save the day.

So you see, it's not the dupes that make Slashdot suck - it's actually the reverse.

Slashdot sucks so hard that it makes dupes appear.

It has been a while since I posted on slashdot, but I could not resist because this is WHAT I DO (but WHITEHAT)

Here are some references: (Please be careful with MODS - these are NOT links to my sites]
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/140576
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Drupal_com_domain_has_been_donated_to_Dries_Buytaert
http://xmpp.org/xsf/press/2005-12-30.shtml

Here is my simple advice:
You are screwed.

The squatters won long ago - THEY know the rules:
1) Register a domain
2) Be careful!
      a) Do not put up infringing content
      b) Put up a 'search' page to generate some profit
      c) Do not offer to sell, just wait
      d) Hide in another country with nicer rules for scammers if possible
3) Profit!

Here are my suggestions
1) Choose a different domain
      a) Choose another Top Level Domain , may I suggest .TV ? (I may be biased as I bought the first premium dot TV domain)
      b) I can offer some for FREE for Open Source communities (Notice: No link to me - just google for OpenDomain )
      c) Try different variations of the brand
2) Suck it up and pay.
  a) Lease the domain
  b) Negotiate - a lawyer may help if you DO have IP

Good luck!

Digg it for popular support! http://digg.com/general_sciences/Proof_of_evolution_Just_define_dog_breeds_as_species

Everyone responding to this thread that I have read thus far has stated that market share is 1%. If we did a little digging, we might find that in March we (linux users) actually reached 2%: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Cracks_2_of_the_market_according_to_W3Counter