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Fark. You will have more fun here. Not so much tech news, but then again neither is slashdot. They have photshop contests too! Plus AudioEdit contests! Throw in the Boobies posts, funny news, some tech ( just enough ) posts and a crowd with a great overall sense of humour and the only reason you will find yourself here is because your fingers are just trained to type in the url when a browser opens. Old habits die hard, but slashdot has entered both the pointless and funless zone simultaneously recently.

Woah, someone who hasn't heard of Fark?!? It's not news... It's FARK!

Uh...I think you want Fark.com and their personals. It's personals for geeks. You'll fit in nicely.

This was also on Fark.com today in the category "interesting".

In my opinion, that ought to have been "Hero".

If this was a different website, I think it would be labeled as "dumbass".

fark linked in monday.

Did any other Fark readers read this as "NSFW" as in "Sun Gets Open Source Into Not Safe For Work Government" ?????

Just me, perhaps?

Should stay AWAY from them boobies links....

When a game feels more like a job than a game, it's time to quit.

Dude must've had a microphone in my apartment in college. My roomates and I would always ditch games when they "started to feel like work." Work is the antithesis of gaming, if the game drags and there's no reward, you've paid X amount of money to waste time. I can waste time for free, I have Slashdot, Fark, The Onion, & PA!

Right now, I couldn't spare even a buck for a tune. That's how low my income is at the moment. Soon, things will be available as far as good paying jobs, but for right now, I suffer from the effects of Bush economics, "Free Trade" agreements and other such wonderful economic hoo-haa.

I have good software as it is, don't need it unless I want to buy music. Once I'm ready to buy, though, this seems to be the best route. Apple is a well-respected company, I'm sure they'll have tunes I like since I like quite a variety of genres, and best of all, it's not M$.

And while I'm thinking about it, This Entry from This Thread on Fark might amuse you all...

Right now, I couldn't spare even a buck for a tune. That's how low my income is at the moment. Soon, things will be available as far as good paying jobs, but for right now, I suffer from the effects of Bush economics, "Free Trade" agreements and other such wonderful economic hoo-haa.

I have good software as it is, don't need it unless I want to buy music. Once I'm ready to buy, though, this seems to be the best route. Apple is a well-respected company, I'm sure they'll have tunes I like since I like quite a variety of genres, and best of all, it's not M$.

And while I'm thinking about it, This Entry from This Thread on Fark might amuse you all...

Yet another link that Fark ran first, and Slashdot copied...

Ironic

Unfortunately, we can't mod it sad, you have to go to fark to do that.

and then send myself the email from there.

I raise all hell when I find a comunity based site that does this...

Like mailing lists?

Like Kuro5hin ?

Like Fark ?

Like Freshmeat ?

/. doesn't seem to allow you to send a private message or email to a user at all based on a comment, but if they get a story submitted, it almost always gives their email address right there. It's often spam-proofed, but not in any difficult to decipher manner.

Looks like you've got a lot of `all hell' to raise. And I wasn't even looking hard -- I was just going down my bookmarks.

In fact, I can only think of one site that does what you've suggested -- Ebay. They used to give email addresses, but now let you email through their system instead. They may say it was done to cut down on spam, but I'm pretty sure the real reason is to keep track of the emails sent, so they can make sure that people aren't offering to buy stuff outside of the system (depriving Ebay of their commission), `interfering' with auctions (like telling the top bidder that the seller is a crook), stuff like that.

This is not some sort of contest. The immaturaity level on fark.com is stunning and by far worse than what is seen on slashdot.

Look at the comments on this page relating to this story to see how bad it is on fark.com

Sunny Dubey

Imagine a beowulf cluster of THESE. Worth checking ama^H^H^Hbn.

images.google.com

A search for Dilbert Images

A search for Linux Images

A search for Hot Grits

A search for Natalie Portman

Hell, fark.com uses GIS to refer to the results of a Google Image Search.

Seems MS is once again playing catch up and pretending it's a new idea.

God help 'em if people started creating pages that genereted a few hundred thousand bad links...

Side note: I have a friend inside VeriSign who reports that people in the the non-NSI part of the company don't think very highly of the NSI part. (If this were Fark, I'd put an [OBVIOUS] tag on that.)

Fark to Slashdot osmosis time: 12 hours, 13 minutes

They are a moron from fark, where a lot of them were very happy in their thinking that Joe Jared was SPEWS and that SPEWS was dead. Same site that had a title implying that SomethingAwful(whos retarded followers got them blacklisted when they flooded an anti-spam newsgroup) was responsible the death.

I wouldn't suggest going there unless you want to lose some IQ points. After what I have seen and read there, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are spammers. They tend to fit the spammer profile and mentality.

Go back to whining, jerking-off, and arguing with your fellow retards!

That place is a good for a laugh... at the stupidity that thrives and breeds there. The most recent being the dumbasses that kept claiming that SPEWS was dead(it isn't) and that the fat-assed teenage moron fanboys at somethingretarded that thought they were responsible for it dying(SPEWS was being DDoS long before their inept script kiddies came along). I doubt in terms of effects they contributed as much as a slap on the wrist.

You do know that DDoSing is illegal right? Given where you come from, I am not surprised you encurage and support illegal actions.

That's from a Fark Photoshop contest. It includes several common fark themes. Domo-kun, the cliche kitty, and masterbation/sex.

YoU'RE OnLY HElPiNG ThEM

BIG DRINKS

Oh, and you may want to see today's fart thread on fark.

Perhaps it's Something Awful that's doing it?

Fark seems to think so.

(Ever feel like you're writing for memepool or Everything2? I sure do!)

Perhaps it's Something Awful that's doing it?

Fark seems to think so.

(Ever feel like you're writing for memepool or Everything2? I sure do!)

...or in more to watch TV. I've seen this type of thing on various television shows for years. And Taco thinks it's "Neet!" cuz he just found out about it.

No wonder I've been spending most of my "drool over the 'net" time on FARK lately...

Go to Apple.com and click on Hot News Headlines. First link there.

dumbass

Is Drew Curtis posting stories on Slashdot?

There's a revolution going on in China, and it's only going to be for the better of Chinese society, and at the current rate, a detriment for the Western World.

I'm not overly concerned about that. China has never been particularly smart when it comes to revolutions dedicated to "the better of chinese society". Remember the iron revolution of the late 19th, early 20th century? So many farmers rushed to work in the steel foundrys that they farking forgot to grow food, and a crapload of them wound up starving to death.

Actually it was the Amish laughing... don't you read fark? see this article

Any hopes Slashdot ever had of being a reputable news source... wait, they never had those hopes. News for fanatics, stuff that gets you riled up until you read the article and realize it's not what you thought but hey, buy our T-shirts anyways!

Huzzah!

Why waste time with Slashdot when I can get compoletely fair and unbiased news from far more credible sources.

The first thing that strikes me is that the choice in web services was depicted as a choice between Linux and .Net. Of course its really J2EE/Linux vrs. .Net (Mono excluded, but at this stage in its development I really doubt they're looking to use Mono).

Nitpicking from a java advocate aside, I see some tremendous complexity in the IT system and they can't do it with current technology. If they succeed they'll be doing something new and exciting.

The problem is with change management of data formats. If you've got all of these different formats of data (the article mentioned: Web services, EDI, email, and fax!). It's extremely difficult to even build a model thats going to allow communication between systems talking in such different ways. The real problem, though, is when you do design that extremely complex system, because of the way the proposed company is being set up, is that you have no way to maintain the consistency of all of the involved data formats.

Here is an example. Supplier A sends its information to the company with a flat file. Its product number is in a five digit field. Supplier A changes it to a six digit field. Hilarity ensues. (fark)

No control of the suppliers systems = a very complex system. The standard responses to managing this complexity (usually amounting to stick the data in a self referential data format like xml) does not work here because they can't demand that their suppliers adhere to any particular format (according to the article).

Anyway sounds like a cool idea, I'd like to see how they're going to pull off the system to make it a reality.

Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of Perl..

Yeah, 'cause you're an asshat!

I always scan through the new articles here on /. and Fark.com before starting the day. It sort of gets me thinking a little, and starts the day off interesting.

It's farked!

Featuring starving artists in the movie industry

had to reload my browser to check I wasn't reading Fark.com.

Folks, this was posted days ago on Fark!

Maybe not stuff that matters, but certainly news for nerds. Come on people! Fight back!

I want Gimp contests on Slashdot and I want 'em NOW!

A troll got moderated -10000, flamebait for sending the slackware a goatse birthday card/a.

If this story was on fark, it would of been tagged "obvious"

It seems almost obligatory that a review of a book called The Big Kerplop would have to reference Fark?

I always find it ironic when people post on Slashdot that they never read weblogs. Slashdot is a weblog! Weblogs can be collective, personal and filled with bad poetry, or just recent news stories. They can have original writing or boobies. Weblogs are lots of things, and Sturgeon's Law applies.

it's not a bug, it's a feature. duh.

Fark has been discusing this since yesterday.

Where do you think you are? FARK?

You don't read FARK, do you?

Killing kittens is MUCH more fun that killing puppies.

Here, you can see the creature

The simple truth of the matter, is that Linux is all but uninstallable on anything but a computer. Anyone who claims that they installed Linux on a computer is quite simply lying. This is due to a number of facts, including the legacy support of i386 processors. Newer chipsets, such as the SCO and Macintosh video cards, have workarounds and can achieve a subtle increase in gaydar rankings, but you'll never see Linux running on anything with a reasonable amount of RAM.

To its credit, however, Linux is quite capable of running a watch, or similar sub-complex hardware. This is because it does its job very well, that is, keeping time. In fact, it will waste cycles maintaining its own clock, discarding the perfectly useful CMOS clock found in most post-1975 computers.

As a response to the smelly teenager who insists on wearing his favourite t-shirt 5 days a week to your workplace, simply ask him (when he next shouts at you blathering on about freedom of choice) about which VM you should use... the one that crashes all the time, or the really slow one?

If you really, really want to reload a page, you have to hold down the shift key while clicking on the reload button.