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Better yet, I just check two news sites on a daily basis: FARK and Slashdot. What more news sites does a geek really need?

According to a report by ABC News, the National Academy of Science just released a report saying he may not have actually done it.. That's after the Feds had accused a previous scientist who didn't cooperatively kill himself.

Also, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed "Curveball", admits he made up the WMD story so Bush would attack Saddam Hussein, and says he'd do that again (in spite of how well it worked out for everybody..)

Bad enough that I have to watch The Comedy Channel to get TV news, but now I have to read FARK to get the updated stories on the causes of the Iraq war.

slashdot = stagnated

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Plus it seems to assume everyone has a HD widescreen display and always have their browser windows maximized. Meaning thinks get cropped Like this

Reminds me of Fark's Infamous redesign with the classic You'll get over it line from the admins.

Because half the article are day or two old http://www.fark.com/ news.
Lately /. could just link to the Fark home page and be done with it.

Unless you have a raging hardon for GPS transmitters.
Also this is the second /. story today that was on http://www.fark.com/ yesterday. Seams lately there has been lots of day old Fark news here.

Word for word, that is.

Can timothy confirm if he's the same person that submitted this to Fark? Or is Fark stealing headlines (with the added advantage of making money from t-shirts of the headline, should anyone wish to buy one)?

The tubes were clogged because of an accident at the junction... Was Drew around at the time?

First things first. I propose that the U.S. government tap the creative forces of the 4chan, worth1000 and Fark Photoshop communities for a cost-effective and highly creative solution to replace the godawful uninspiring motivational posters being distributed by the United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive :

Check 'em out here: http://www.ncix.gov/publications/posters/index.html

"ONCIX does not provide printed copies of our posters. These materials are NOT copyrighted, and you are welcome to download, print, and disseminate our posters freely to promote greater counterintelligence awareness."

I would like yo point you towards this post on Fark by the sites founder:
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDBlog=149

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5457221&cpp=1

ROV operator commenting on fark.com and a pic of control room

According to the examining physician, I may never think again...

I know a site where you'll fit right in.

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5249894

When Colorado Springs announced that they were going to shut off 2/3rds of their street lights, they neglected to mention that the 1/3 that stayed on would all be in affluent neighborhoods

http://www.gazette.com/articles/springs-97715-police-colorado.html
El Ranchito employee gunned down in darkened parking lot

"The killing came a day before Colorado Springs City Councilman Sean Paige questioned in an e-mail why streetlights throughout the city had been turned off to save money while the affluent Old North End neighborhood had been spared and still had all its streetlights."

Why smash when it will blend?

Why would you quote Bob Saget who raped and murdered a girl in 1990?

For those who don't know, this is a joke (if you can call it that). Gilbert Godfried made that joke at the Comedy Central roast of Bob Saget in 2008. Later this meme was picked up by a user on Fark who posted that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4608536&IDComment=54042337#c54042337

Which prompted all this:

http://www.gb1990.com/

So now that this 'joke' is politicized and Godwined or whatever please stop. It wasn't that funny then and it's just plain not funny now.

The Lenovo S-Series IdeaPad.

From Here

Now, get a grip.

I know a site that charges $5/month for premium access to all of its 2,000+ feeds that it has each day. $5/week for access to the stories on one site seems to be a rip-off by comparison.

Is that a reference to a particular event?

Also maybe this:

http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-01-15/local-county-news/suspicious-object-prompts-school-evacuation
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4942164

To be fair, one of my friends got expelled for building a pipe bomb and bringing it to our magnet school (back in the pre-war-on-terrorism-panic days).

Is Eureka cancelled yet? :P

Sorry. I originally heard the story in a /. post, and that poster had a link to a news article about it. I have nothin' though.

Found it here (unsurprisingly on fark :-)

These days, I get all my news from either FARK, Slashdot, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report. So, with the New York Times going to a pay site, it just means that none of the aforementioned sites that I keep an eye on will link to them anymore, so they'll eventually die off. The same thing happened with the Wall Street Journal, too -- they're not even on my radar anymore (Thanks, Rupert!)

So... you get all your news from comedy sources and _this_ crowd? Sure, that makes sense. I'm sure you're super well-informed.

These days, I get all my news from either FARK, Slashdot, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report

I hesitate to suggest that that's not the most balanced reading/viewing list...

These days, I get all my news from either FARK, Slashdot, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, or The Colbert Report. So, with the New York Times going to a pay site, it just means that none of the aforementioned sites that I keep an eye on will link to them anymore, so they'll eventually die off. The same thing happened with the Wall Street Journal, too -- they're not even on my radar anymore (Thanks, Rupert!)

ICE? Seriously? Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, that was formed in March of 2003? Yeah, they f'd up big by not preventing 9/11 in...2001.

INS, as it was called back then, was so incompetent that it issued the dead hijackers visas after 9/11. It then promoted the people responsible for the fuckup into positions of non-responsibility.

INS was always the most dysfunctional of the Federal bureaucracies, and splitting it into ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the beating-up-Mexicans side) and CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services, who is in charge of issuing visas to dead hijackers, while simultaneously ensuring that it takes 5-10 years for a dude with a Ph.D to get a green card) is no different.

As the old Soviet/Russian joke about the GRU/KGB/FSB goes: Old bureaucracies never die, they just change their names.

("In Post-9/11 America, old bureacracies change their names, but they never die! Whatta country!")

I get all my news exclusively from reading fark comments (so I'm getting a kick out of these replies).

By the way, you have one of my all time favourite /. sigs (along with the "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" guy)

There isn't a real controversy: this one is fabricated, which is the whole point of the parody.

Essentially, Beck is known by one political side in the US for attacking his opponents and challenging them to refute his claims. Sometimes the claims are true, but oftentimes they're not quite true. Even so, they might be true, so he challenges his targets to refute the claims, just for the sake of clearing their name, regardless of the veracity of the claim.

Anyway, if you check the site, it points out the origin of the "raped and murdered a girl in 1990" as being the Bob Saget roast, where Gilbret Gottfried used it as a joke. After that, someone over at Fark used it in reference to Beck. Essentially, it's just taking what he does a step further, but doing it for satirical effect, rather than as a serious accusation against his reputation. It's turning the tables on him with something that's intentionally over-the-top, and then asking him to refute it, just to point out the danger in what he does.

So when is the FARC going to send Fark.com a C&D?

Well, you prompted me to go back and find out where I'd seen it first. It was actually "scratch monkey", and it was from RISKS Digest, Sept. 1986.

I thought about explicitly crediting the Fark poster and thread, but this isn't a refereed publication. I don't plan on copypasta-ing my own posts from there, either, although I expect I may repeat some of the material here.

Much like the famous "ballsack conundrum" thread on fark... I'm stuck to my chair. I'm so very scared. Help. (Details In thread) "Need help soonish..."

Also, I've seen this picture before. Two questions: one, is it real. Two: please tell me the steering wheel is to avoid computer crashes.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

Although the photograph displayed could represent what some people in the early 1950s contemplated a "home computer" might look like (based on the technology of the day), it isn't, as the accompanying text claims, a RAND Corporation illustration from 1954 of a prototype "home computer." The picture is actually an entry submitted to a Fark.com image modification competition, taken from an original photo of a submarine maneuvering room console found on the U.S. Navy web site, converted to grayscale, and modified to replace a modern display panel and TV screen with pictures of a decades-old teletype/printer and television (as well as to add the gray-suited man to the left-hand side of the photo)

Yep,... that's why the state has it's own Fark tag,... =)

Speaking of Fark, they covered this yesterday: http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4469699

It is hard to fathom how the story of the year (also the tech story of the year) could be tagged "nomoreiranplease". Tech has played a critical role in this event. Who ever thought that twitter could actually be useful? The diaspora of communications technologies has proved very hard to shut down, and it will be interesting to see what new communications tech adds to this in the future.

One issue this brings up is the differences between the fark free-for-all comment system (including images!) versus slashdot's moderation. The contribution of fark to reporting what has been going on in Iran has been really impressive, and fark is essentially a news aggregator just like slashdot. Does the moderation system of slashdot prevent a similar thing from happening here? I had hoped to see a much more vigorous discussion from the slashdot community, but the real action is elsewhere. Part of this is due to the moderation system, I think, which effectively forces an end to conversations when the mods run out.

I'm not trying to be trollish, but think this is an interesting thing to think about. Slashdot used to feel like the center of the tech universe, but has been badly outdone on this topic by fark and others.

Belief Circle Clash in progress.

Last year's bunch of guys in Guy Fawkes masks taking on the Cult of Scientology was just the warmup. This year, the sport of nerds is geopolitics.

This week, we had Twitter replace CNN for live coverage of breaking news, Fark replacing the talking heads for analysis, Anonymous being linked to from The Pirate^WPersian Bay for ways to distribute images of preconfigured proxy servers, and to distribute video, and, the rest of /b/ actually helping by selectively flipping the DDOS switch on and off on Iranian government websites.

It's like Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End come to life.

Anyone that writes a story about this that doesn't mention Fark specifically needs to do a bit more research on the subject. Tats(uma) obviously gets quite a bit of credit, but he wasn't the only person there keeping up with the tweets. Fark (and oddly, 4chan) became major filters for finding the real data for the first several days. I'm amazed at the people who still don't know there's effectively a civil war going on in Iran, since CNN and other mainstream media didn't really start reporting on it until yesterday.

The other bit is, because mainstream media has to hedge their bets - they have something to lose, where sites like Fark aren't even media sites, so they have nothing to lose - CNN and such has to worry about whether the dissidents will be successful. Because if they aren't, then you've pissed off the people still in power. Media blockout is one thing, but there was reliable reports of many deaths long before MSM was reporting there being only a single death.

BTW, Iranians still need proxies for their twitter updates. If you have the ability...

Also, one of the ways people have been trying to make it more difficult for the Iranian police to track down dissidents is by changing their twitter location and timezone to that of Tehran. Feel free to do that too.

But yeah, twitter is the only thing able to make it out right now, considering.

In other news... there's a revolution going on in Iran and it's turned violent.

But that's not Stuff That Matters, so yeah, let's talk about Microsoft's stupid patent applications because that's News For Nerds.

Intellectual property is a serious point of discussion. China's monopoly on tea and silk caused empires to rise and fall.

If patents go to far, they can completely destroy the incentive people have to innovate, as all their innovations will be reliant on other patented processes. If Yahoo had owned a patent on internet search, then Google would never have had a chance to monetize Pagerank. But Yahoo would never have gotten so far, because previous companies would have patented the technology Yahoo used.

The medieval guilds arrested a lot of development, by guarding their secret knowledge. The Masons were not powerful because of their political connections, they had political connections because they simply knew how to build stone buildings. Sure, they had earned that knowledge from previous Masons, but the process of knowledge transfer was so opaque that corruption and inefficiencies were bound to creep in.

The printing press destroyed the monopolies of the guilds, because their knowledge could be cheaply and efficiently disseminated. Open source, the FSF, Wikipedia and other open movements are furthering this movement.

But patents are a way for the establishment to fight back, and try to create an environment in which they can reap more profits than a free market would allow.

So yes, it is Stuff That Matters.

In other news... there's a revolution going on in Iran and it's turned violent.

But that's not Stuff That Matters, so yeah, let's talk about Microsoft's stupid patent applications because that's News For Nerds.

"DUI defendant finally gets access to breathalyzer code, ironically finds developers were probably drunk when they wrote it". http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4387892

Those who buy the trash in paper form are rapidly disappearing however, mostly because they can find the same level of garbage online, for free.

So true, so true...

Those who buy the trash in paper form are rapidly disappearing however, mostly because they can find the same level of garbage online, for free.

So true, so true...

Here's the VR headseat, too.

Her "headseat" is broken, she seems to be standing in those images.

For the record, i watched Demolition Man again less than a week ago. Sure i COULD move on with my life, and get out of my parents basement, but why would I? The fact of the matter is, some day i will be able to put on a virtual reality headset, and have sex with Sandra Bullock. P.S. anyone figure out how to use the 3 sea shells yet?

Funny you should ask.

Here's the VR headseat, too.

Hey, two outa three ain't bad.

"Fark that!"

What, you thought I was going to make a "We welcome our photoshopping overlords" comment? The overlords are dead - netcraft confirmed it. That's what you get for basing your borg on bsd.

Photoshop this mock-up of a submarine's maneuvering Room..

Oh get off the lawn already. If Slashdot coposted every article Fark did, there'd still be cool and bizarre stories missed...

I read this three days ago on Fark. We can do better than this, can't we /. ? http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4283269

Signal-To-Noise

If only there were a few million people out there willing to filter through this stuff and decide what was good and what wasn't.

Yeah, you're right, blogging will never take off.

another wacked site that posted that probably has viruses or something (redirect from fark to comcastsuprbowlporn.com):
http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?i=4183059&l=http://www.comcastsuperbowlporn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/comcast-super-bowl.mp4

Fark is on the job!

User Comments

And of course the photoshop contest. Lots of criminals now.

Fark is on the job!

User Comments

And of course the photoshop contest. Lots of criminals now.