Slashdot Mirror

Sure, that's a reference to the page being featured on Digg.com. Not sure if it actually has been, haven't checked. But if it has, it wouldn't be the first time Slashdot and Digg post the same stories.

Click here to read the article and watch the streaming video. It was posted on Digg earlier.

Digg has got them running scared, they're scrambling for ways to get more stories out.

This ABC News video (Flash for a streaming video required) shows the behind the scenes of Google's headquarter. Of course the host is jealous by all this [grin].

Seen on Digg and posted on my AQFL Web site.

Listen, if digg is so good, why don't you stay there? Seriously, I am fed up of all the people promoting digg on slashdot recently.

Ouch. I was going for a "Funny" mod. (Not very well, I suppose, since the moderator didn't get it either.)

If you read my post again, you'll see that I didn't say digg was any good, I wasn't trying to promote digg (and I think the lack of a link lends credence to that), and I'm not an astroturfer (compare the number and quality of my comments on Slashdot and digg).

The point I was trying to make is that it's not at all uncommon to see a post on Slashdot or digg copied to the other within a matter of hours. This annoys me to a certain extent because it means space that could be devoted to additional articles is spent "duping" the other service.

Slashdot and digg cater to a different audience, and the sites (particularly the comments) reflect that. I don't really think there's a competition here - people mention digg on Slashdot (and Slashdot on digg) because they read both. No big deal.

I personally don't like digg all that much. While some of the posts are interesting, many are lame and targeted for a younger crowd, and Slashdot tends to pick up the good ones fairly quickly. Plus, the comment quality from digg, for whatever reason, is abysmal. I do think there are problems with Slashdot's mix of articles (and dupes of articles), but on the whole, I prefer it because the comments that stay above +1 tend to be knowledgable and (dare I say it) educational.

http://digg.com/technology/Wikipedia_Admin_says_on ly_Wiki_Admin_s_can_comment_on_process

"The deletion process is designed to determine the consensus of opinion of Wikipedia editors; for this reason comments from users whose histories do not show experience with or contributions to Wikipedia are traditionally given less weight and may be discounted entirely."

What's the point of having a wikipedia if only wiki editors are allowed to comment anyways. . .

It was already on Digg, that's why.

I know you have always stated that this will never happen but certain economic pressures might cause you to rethink the issue. Slashdot is still #1 but for how long? Really Slashdot is no longer a news site but like you said a community board. Before I could get all my geek news in some timely fashion from Slashdot but now your competitors do it better. You remain a popular site because of the large following you have accumulated over the years. Mainly because you were the first and the only site of this nature for some time. I think you need to realize this is why you continue to have success. There are other sites that have better features and are better designed. You can only run on your legacy for so long. So in summary when we will see new features?

here?

Yeah, and later today you will know that Fedora core 5 Test 2 to has been released.../a.

Haha, way to go Slashdot...

And the most pathetic thing is that, I knew I have seen this story before, but it was not on slashdot...

it was on Digg: Two days ago.

Now, because I do not want to have tens of comments bashing digg, I just have to say that I still prefer slashdot because of the summaries (digg articles never have decent summaries) and the comments (digg comments are never insightful).

It amazes me how dupes appear on Slashdot like this. I mean how can this happen? Please don't make me start reading all my tech/nerd news from digg.com instead.

here.

For years I worked on a viable PC-for-the-car. This is before Microsoft had their operating system (failure) for car stereos, and before the CarPC was even a thought by the designer. My biggest problem was finding a cheap, small and capable 12DC-DC power supply. Even a few years ago they were basically impossible to find.

I'm glad to see there is now a market for these power supplies (although I'm sure this isn't for car applications). I wonder how efficient it is -- and how much heat it gives off. The article was a bit...sparse.

I miss my old car PC -- 8 years ago it could do so much more than anything else I've seen. Considering how much time I wasted, I wish I kept all the software and code.

A couple more links to the picoPSU:

http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.13/it.A /id.417/.f

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/07/pico_psu/

http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=News&fi le=article&sid=718

http://www.realtechnews.com/page/2/

And, of course: http://www.digg.com/hardware/World_s_smallest_powe r_supply_-_the_picoPSU

Slashdot is primarily about the stories, not the forum. If a good story should be published, publish it. Who cares if the forum becomes a cesspool?

I disagree. Digg is all about the stories... Slashdot is much more about the community, comments and discussion. Just poke around Digg sometime when the "meta subject" of Digg vs. Slashdot comes up.. you'll see dozens of comments to the same effect: "Sure I get stories faster at Digg, but Digg's comments system sux0rs and so I go to Slashdot for comments and discussion."

And that's the truth... if all you care about are the stories, why bother with Slashdot at all? Nearly everything posted on Slashdot is posted on Digg, and usually sooner. Really, the only thing that makes Slashdot distinct is the community and the comments. You don't get well known F/OSS community personalities like Howard Lewis Shipp, Eric Raymond, Miguel de Icaza, etc. posting comments on Digg. And their comments system does suck compared to Slashdot.

God knows, Slashdot has it's problems, but I can't imagine how anybody honestly feels that Slashdot is only about the stories. You can get stories from any number of RSS feeds or blogs besides /.

*cough* http://www.digg.com/ *cough*

Maybe we could moderate entire articles.

Yeah, it sure would be cool if there was a site that let you do that.

Sites like Digg and Reddit, are burying Slashdot. Not to mention the cesspool of a forum each article creates (I am aware of the irony - no flames please), which most of the time aren't even on topic - I do my best to moderate - but 5 moderator points is meager. Here's a graph showing the traffic comparison of Digg and Slashdot. Now we have front page stories made of the kind of he-said she-said BS that I expect from a high school newspaper, and I feel things are only going to get worse.

Maybe it's time Slashdot innovated, and came up with a new format. Perhaps something like reddit or digg, but giving priority to 'classic submitters' (the Slashdot staff).

I've been here longer, and have never gotten a single mod point, thanks to having questioned authority and posted in The Thread (the first major bitchslapping that pissed off the readership).

I've watched this once-fun tech site descend into a hilarious public wank-off session (think I'm trolling? Those are Linus Torvalds' words to describe this place, from the LKML) with a completely broken moderation system that STILL isn't fixed (I've been modbombed multiple times...one time lasted over three months, day after day...I was told by others that people use bots to monitor user pages and use karma-whored accounts to automatically mod comments down).

You used to come here and get technically informed, but now the news has gotten generic and flamebaity.

BUT IT WON'T CHANGE A THING. The editors will ignore you, the sun will rise tomorrow morning, and everything will continue to be exactly the same. And all the users will continue to reload and visit the site, giving pageviews to Slashdot's advertisers. Remember that, as opposed to a community "open source" site like Digg, Slashdot is a closed-system piece of property owned by a corporation called OSTG, run by editors who choose stories that generate high viewerships so they can charge high advertising rates. It's all about ad revenues.

Don't even bother emailing Rob Malda. His responses are usually sarcastic and jerky. Just accept that this site is way past its prime, running on an ancient crufty Perl codebase, only recently making the big ol' switch to freakin' HTML4 with CSS. In 2005. God.

It's one thing if he was posted evenly amongst the other editors. Okay, fine, they're all getting scammed by him.

But, with the exception of a CmdrTaco article, every other submission from this guy is posted by ScuttleMonkey. Why is that? It's proof they just don't care anymore at this site.

This crap is why people are flocking to Digg.com. Even though the discussions there suck because of no threading (yet), it's not really different from here, and when people are scamming the front page, everyone gangs together and undiggs it to remove it!

There's really no point to posting this, true. It's not news. It is, however, making the internet rounds. It's on the front page of reddit and digg. It's probably elsewhere. The internet "news" sites tend to share quite a number of the same silly stories.

This is not new and was probably done even before the digg article post, which was made over 180 days ago. I seem to remember coverage on slashdot or somewhere else about this being done several years ago.

No more than this is a dupe.

http://digg.com/links/Online_Children_s_Safety_Gro up_Condemns_Wikipedia

No more than this is a dupe.

http://digg.com/links/Online_Children_s_Safety_Gro up_Condemns_Wikipedia

Only if this is a dupe on slashdot aswell.

Otherwise I think not.

See this video clip. Seen on Digg.

This was on digg first. Let's not leech off digg, shall we?

They've been ./'d already. Is this a crime? :-)

I dunno... ask digg or fark. They've had this story running for over 9 hours now.

Digg reported this before /.. So three DDoS events. :)

not quite. The Digg effect has been in place for some time now.

This story has been on digg TWICE already. /.'s a little slow on the uptake here.

Yes it has hasn't it? And I am going to demonstrate the reason why most of us don't give a shit for your Digg advocacy by reposting some of the intelligent and insightful comments from the discussion :

Nick says, "lets not forget, He is a sociel engineing king, he knows how to say anything and wont say it unless he knows it will stick"

Matthew says, "I posted this yesterday: http://digg.com/apple/Behind_the_magic_curtain"

Dickyducky says, "God!"

Fudgebrown says, ":-("

The rest of them are variation on Digg or No Digg. And the thing is I'm not even trying to make the users look retarded. Those were pretty much the best comments.

So yeah, Digg may well have posted this before. But how long did you spend reading the discussion? I am assuming it wasn't long because personally spending more than 5 minutes on Digg makes me want to exterminate the entire human race.

Yes

http://www.digg.com/technology/Judge_to_Lego:_Your _patent_has_expired,_get_over_it_/

That's what digg is for.

http://digg.com/ -- brilliant!

The gist of it is that there's no open specification for the Broadcom chipset that Airport Extreme uses. In order to write the software, you need to know how the hardware works. And you do that either by being given a specification, or by reverse engineering the hardware and making one.

With that in mind, I was just doing some googling and I came across this Digg.com link:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Finally,_a_linux_driver _for_the_Airport_Extreme_

Of course, standard disclaimer here: I could be totally wrong about why. I don't do much hardware hacking, and I've never had much interest in a Linux driver for Airport Extreme. Some months ago, however, I was looking into reasons why KisMAC didn't support passive scanning with Airport Extreme, and this was the reason I came across.

Read Digg and read the stories before the editor-whores of Slashdot bend over and spread goatse-like for Roland Piquepaille and * * Beatles Beatles!

An even more dangerous idea, the editors listen and pay attention to their readership. Bitchslapping a comment because it's anti-groupthink doesn't help people decide on whether or not they should subscribe to Slashdot!

Slashdot's a bitch when you don't march in lock step with their groupthink. I submitted this fucking story last night and it was rejected only to have that Volkswagen kraut's article get posted. Most certainly remarking upon the recent bitchslap led to this particular scorn

Of course Digg was there while the editors were busy sucking each others cocks.

Go ahead and mod me down, whore. I've got karma to burn.

Here it is: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Finally,_a_linux_driver _for_the_Airport_Extreme_

According to this F-Secure's Web log, it tells what is going wrong with the Windows Metafiles (WMF) vulnerability. It turns out this is not really a bug, it's just a bad design from another era. When Windows Metafiles were designed in late 1980s, a feature was included that allowed the image files to contain actual code. This code would be executed via a callback in special situations. This was not a bug; this was something which was needed at the time. The feature now in the limelight is known as the Escape() function and especially the SetAbortProc subfunction, and has been around since Windows 3.0, shipped in 1990...

Seen on Digg. This Broadband Reports' security forum thread mentioned this as well.

Copied and pasted from my AQFL Web site.

• arrr, I was not hailed, arrr!
  
• his noodlyness is most certainly pleased
  
• I, for one, welcome our Swedish-IP-free-for-all overlords!
  
• This story is going to be very big....I can just see the record industry spinning in their chairs. Don't the Swiss do the most interesting thing. The Red Cross, Swiss Bank Accounts and now this. Not that any of them are bad...it's just that I wonder what the Swiss stand for. Good? Evil? I bet it's more complicated than that.
  
• maddox should be the spokesperson
  
• Pirates on board! Aye Aye Captain! :)
  

then you should check out digg.com. like slashdot, but better. the people are the editors, and generally, it just doesn't suck.

Konfabulator?

Nah, didn't you hear the news? Konfabulator has been renamed to "Yahoo widget engine". Which means "konfabulator" is up for grabs.

(It's striking how few blogs use a moderation system, like Slashdot's. Of course, Slashdot still doesn't let you moderate the stories.)

I hear Digg does.

"A group in the middle east who previously infected PCs with a rootkit via IM, apparently installed BitTorrent without user permission on infected machines, then started piping movies to the end users."
http://digg.com/security/BitTorrent_installed_with out_permission%2C_downloads_movie_files

more links:
http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2005/12/bittorrent-re loaded-unauthorised.html
http://www.spywareguide.com/articles/the_bittorren t_auto_installs_98.html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051220/2013214_ F.shtml

I knew I had seen this story before but it wasn't here. This article was up on Digg three days ago--with only three Diggs to it's name (at the time of this writing), but it's front page news here? Interesting to say the least...

I predict that this Digg will become frontpage Slashdot news shortly. It was quite popular (914 diggs so far) and it's hit the three-day mark...

I know, this is all so OT, but it's no worse then whining about duplicate postings here...

Oh the irony here is just too much to take without laughing! My comment gets hammered with the REDUNDANT pummel when I point out that /. is being REDUNDANT in posting old Diggs? Man, it just doesn't get any better then this to make a point.

Moderators: did you catch the not-so-subtle play I made here by quoting ALL of my original message? In case you didn't, I'm beinging REDUNDANTLY sarcastic...

Enjoy!

I knew I had seen this story before but it wasn't here. This article was up on Digg three days ago--with only three Diggs to it's name (at the time of this writing), but it's front page news here? Interesting to say the least...

I predict that this Digg will become frontpage Slashdot news shortly. It was quite popular (914 diggs so far) and it's hit the three-day mark...

I know, this is all so OT, but it's no worse then whining about duplicate postings here...

Oh the irony here is just too much to take without laughing! My comment gets hammered with the REDUNDANT pummel when I point out that /. is being REDUNDANT in posting old Diggs? Man, it just doesn't get any better then this to make a point.

Moderators: did you catch the not-so-subtle play I made here by quoting ALL of my original message? In case you didn't, I'm beinging REDUNDANTLY sarcastic...

Enjoy!

I predict that this Digg will become frontpage Slashdot news shortly. It was quite popular (914 diggs so far) and it's hit the three-day mark...

I know, this is all so OT, but it's no worse then whining about duplicate postings here...

I predict that this Digg will become frontpage Slashdot news shortly. It was quite popular (914 diggs so far) and it's hit the three-day mark...

I know, this is all so OT, but it's no worse then whining about duplicate postings here...

Lamest Slashdot article ever.
Neediest Dolls == Needless
http://www.needies.com/ makes me sick.
Dude, this is the stupidest thing I ever saw!
What is going on at http://digg.com/?

This is post is a near word-for-word copy of my entry on Digg. The irony is that I originally submitted the story to Slashdot first, and they rejected it!