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Why is that since you hold an unpopular opinion you have to adopt a victim mentality? Do you think that whining about being some downtrodden minority, on some nerd web page, is the way to highlight the 'merits' of your views? Yes- mod points are being misused to penalize people with different opinions. No one disagrees with this, but get the fuck over it; It's not going to change anytime soon.

It's just a web page; you're not being disenfranchised. Just go somewhere else. Shoo. Fuck off. Bye.

Apparently they consulted with FARK.com's talented staff of professional photo retouchers while testing the software.

news for nerds. stuff ripped off from fark.com

Site was FARK'd before it could be slashdotted (at least the map images are).
Good luck trying to view anything now.

You forgot:

FARK Headline: [OBVIOUS] Congressman's staff corrects "sloppy writing" in his Wikipedia entry, like the part where it mentioned that he broke his promise not to serve more than four terms

Two days ago, even. Link

I get it now. If you want a sneak peek of upcoming slashdot articles, just read fark.com.

I think this may be what you're looking for.

*chuckle*chuckle*

So ya wanna be a Photoshopper, eh?

Participating in a FARK Photoshop contest can be a unique and rewarding experience. It can also be a nightmare rivaled only in scope and severity by the sudden popularity of reality TV. The experience you have will depend on how much of this page you read.

The quickest way to learn Photoshop is to participate in competitions at sites which include forums. If you like an effect in an image, you can ask how things were done. http://photoshopcontest.com/ is one with a strong forum section, while http://www.fark.com/ and http://www.worth1000.com/ have some pretty cool comps as well.

Many of the experienced people in the competitions are generous about sharing tips and techniques. Some can be real pricks though, so develop a thick skin...

My off-topic question that sort of remains on-topic is this: With all the cheap labor available online (from students, amateurs and those trying to build portfolios of work), does anyone know of good websites where I can upload my photographs and let others "compete" openly to making them look better?

Really there's only one place to enjoy serious photoshopping of images.... artistry I tell ya...

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.

I think you're looking for this website.

Although the situation in Iraq is sure to monopolize a big chunk of their time, they also want to spend time on issues like digital communication, intellectual property law, and computer security.

What's frightening is that the majority of congressmonkeys in office are either completely oblivious, or they consider orwellian DRM to be a "solution". I mean, honestly, can you expect a solid understanding of technology issues from a generation that doesn't even use direct deposit?

The Boston Globe's having a bad run lately. First that false story about Homeland Security checking up on library borrowing habits, and now this BS. If anyone should be gone, it's their editor.

• Slashdot

• FARK

• CNN

At first, I thought that Slashdot was a full 30 hours behind fark.

But then I discovered that fark is actually two and a half years behind slashdot.

One more comment about bad bugs - many users think >0% CPU usage is excessive, and >20MB memory usage is excessive. How do you think pages get rendered? The CPU does some computation. Of course the CPU usage will spike while a page is loading. If you're viewing a page with a lot of pictures, where do you think the bitmaps are stored? A single 1024x768x32-bit image takes 3MB. If you load a page with 100 large images, of course the browser will need >300MB.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1821471
"2005-12-21 04:58:41 PM Squeezer

stuff like this always happens when nigs conglomerate"

Hahaha, don't you love the internet?

Here is a better article (with more explanations at least) than the one posted on /.

And the sad thing this is the link posted on fark.com a full day before /. did. And they did it With a much better headline.

"Slashdot.org : News for non-inquisitive Nerds"

This article was Farked over a week ago. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1792019

fark you.

Case in point http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/28/044323 2&tid=159&tid=1 i love lego... but
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1777233 :: Posted on nov 25th ...makes u wonder abt the whole boost your karma with lame comments/articles thing... if you look at last 7 days of slashdot... theres almost a keyword phenomenon
-- :) poohneat

You're a fellow Farker, aren't you!

Huh, digg. kuro5hin.org did it first, and fark.com does it funnier. When will you begin cross-promoting with myspace?

I've always wondered what the internal culture is in companies that leads them to launch suits like this, as they almost always backfire even if they are won. The McDonald's lawsuit against a couple of people distributing anti-McDonald's pamphlets, for example, certainly led to much more anti-McDonald's media coverage than a couple of nutty activists could ever have managed on their own.

Well, (according to the internet), among other things it's in the local paper, and I've just seen this story linked on the front page of Yahoo! Canada. (Its in the "In the News" box on the right side at the time of this writing)

I bet.... yup just checked... it's Farked, and it'll probably hit BoingBoing tomorrow.

I wouldn't be surprised to see it get picked up nationally in a day or two.

So yeah, I think Activa's about to find out exactly how quickly news like this can spread...

Well, it just got greenlighted at That Other Site. I'm sure the kids over there will show plenty of respect for Activa.

Indeed, many er ... slightly informed opinions on the antigravity patent topic available over here at Fark. Is this a good idea to cross-link Fark and Slashdot? ... maybe not, and then again maybe through this action I have begun the ultimate demise of Slashdot. See your doom before your eyes. Muhahahahaahahha

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets:
An Empirical Study
Ali Rahimi1, Ben Recht 2, Jason Taylor 2, Noah Vawter 2
17 Feb 2005

1: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, MIT.
2: Media Laboratory, MIT.
Abstract
Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We theorize that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
Introduction
It has long been suspected that the government has been using satellites to read and control the minds of certain citizens. The use of aluminum helmets has been a common guerrilla tactic against the government's invasive tactics [1]. Surprisingly, these helmets can in fact help the government spy on citizens by amplifying certain key frequency ranges reserved for government use. In addition, none of the three helmets we analyzed provided significant attenuation to most frequency bands.

We describe our experimental setup, report our results, and conclude with a few design guidelines for constructing more effective helmets.

Experimental Setup

The three helmet types tested
The Classical The Fez
The Centurion

We evaluated the performance of three different helmet designs, commonly referred to as the Classical, the Fez, and the Centurion. These designs are portrayed in Figure 1. The helmets were made of Reynolds aluminium foil. As per best practices, all three designs were constructed with the double layering technique described elsewhere [2].

A radio-frequency test signal sweeping the ranges from 10 Khz to 3 Ghz was generated using an omnidirectional antenna attached to the Agilent 8714ET's signal generator.

The experimental apparatus, including a data recording laptop, a $250,000 network analyser, and antennae.

A network analyser (Agilent 8714ET) and a directional antenna measured and plotted the signals. See Figure 2.

Because of the cost of the equipment (about $250,000), and the limited time for which we had access to these devices, the subjects and experimenters performed a few dry runs before the actual experiment (see Figure 3).

Test subjects during a dry run.

The receiver antenna was placed at various places on the cranium of 4 different subjects: the frontal, occipital and parietal lobes. Once with the helmet off and once with the helmet on. The network analyzer plotted the attenuation betwen the signals in these two settings at different frequencies, from 10Khz to 3 Ghz. Figure 4 shows a typical plot of the attenuation at different frequencies.

A typical attenuation trace form the network analyser
Results
For all helmets, we noticed a 30 db amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz, regardless of the position of the antenna on the cranium. In addition, all helmets exhibited a marked 20 db attenuation at around 1.5 Ghz, with no significant attenuation beyond 10 db anywhere else.
Conclusion
The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These ban

NoScript has to be on the top of my list (right after Adblock and Greasemonkey)...Disabling JS globaly and only allowing it where it is necessary keeps out almost all ads...pages load faster, and you don't have to worry about information leaks...

Some others I use...BetterSearch, LinkPreview, Outfoxed, BugMeNot, del.icio.us and Farky...

And yes, that's Mozilla, not Firefox, and I probably should either upgrade to 1.7.12 or else use real Firefox, but it's convenient to have a browser install that has all the parts and most of the plugins working with it. I haven't hunted down the offending pages, or tried them in Opera yet to see if they crash it; if I'm going to bother doing that, I should upgrade the browser first.

I don't know, but it sounds like a great idea for a Fark photoshop contest to me.

P.S. You submitted this with a funnier headline

I don't know, but it sounds like a great idea for a Fark photoshop contest to me.

P.S. You submitted this with a funnier headline

I keep seeing things taken from Fark.com on Slashdot more and more often. This was posted on Fark at 1:25 PM here: Zombies. Is this site simply becomming a place where the more interesting Fark articles get a second printing?

For all those lazy geeks who don't want to go finding the thread, or have never been to fark..

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1725702

It's SO obligitory... ..that it's been said by dozens of people two days before you...

have a saucy Ramendan

tm

I confess here - I'm missing something. I don't understand why this tactic works. It's the parent's responsibility to safeguard his children. Is that a role we want to turn over to an Attorney General? Between this, Terry Schaivo, a rash of child brides making news - I've seen more intrusion by government into family affairs in recent years than in preceeding decades. It couldn't possibly be happening if some people didn't welcome, applaud, and approve of it - and they do; they turn out to support and re-elect the politicians who use this tactic. So, again, I'm at a loss, and genuinely I'm looking for someone to fill in the gaps for me - why does this work so well?

sure you do. My post was a joke. Evidently no one here reads fark (http://fark.com/).

News for nerds, Four days later.

Use of SIOX will most likely increase Fark and Worth 1000 entries. No comment on if this is a good or bad thing...

(Thank goodness for Fark!)

[OBVIOUS] Slashdot chasing Fark's tail for choice bits 'o news. Your dog wants CowboyNeal.

[OBVIOUS] Slashdot chasing Fark's tail for choice bits 'o news. Your dog wants CowboyNeal.

Links to said Mozilla/Firefox extensions:

AdBlock Plus
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
DictionarySearch
Farkit
Gmail Notifier
Nuke Anything
Plain Text Links
Switch Proxy Tool
Greasemonkey

Change your home page to a pipe-delimited list.

http://slashdot.org/|http://fark.com/|http://cnn.c om/|http://www.drudgereport.com/|http://finance.ya hoo.com/|http://blogorrhea.blog.blog/|etc.

It is official; daniil confirms it: Slashdot is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Slashdot leader CmdrTaco states that there are 914,000 users of Slashdot. How many users of Slashdot are there? Let's see. The total number of Slashdot posts is currently 13,545,370. The total number of comments posted by me (I have three Slashdot accounts) is 2421 -- averaging to 807 per account. There are about 13,545,370/807 = 16785 active user accounts on Slashdot. The number of users of Slashdot is, therefore, 16785/3 = 5595, which is, by the way, less than Fark has.

All major surveys show that Slashot has steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among news dilettante dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.

Fact: Slashdot is dying.

Farked too. It's the perfect storm!

I can tell that you don't read Fark

Headline from fark.com:

eBay reportedly in talks to buy Skype. Talks fail when at the last second some jerk bids $3,000,000,000.50

Fark linked to sa's post, and in the comments there are a surprising amount of people with bad experiences.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink =1653706

And of course there's always the venerated paypalsucks.com