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Re:frist post
As far as I can tell, the first post was over on Fark.
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Re:Someone's gotta do it...Would someone please grab a generic image of Tux, and outfit him with a space suit and pogo stick, please? Preferably against a lunar backdrop?
I think you're looking for Fark. Go down the Internet Superhighway and take the Asshat exit. Turn right onto Domo Kum Lane and then an immediate left onto Adm. Akbar Highway (watch out for the speedtrap). After you pass by Killing-Kittens Field it will be right there on Squirrel Nuts Rd.
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Re:Where else besides SlashDot?
Yes, I also have a problem with a lack of alternatives. There is no lack of other sites that post news for nerds, but there is no site with anywhere near the readership that Slashdot has - Slashdot is a real institution, everbody knows it. Not that the Slashdot readership is all good, hell no; it's just really really large and this quantity entails the existance of a certain degree of quality, if you're willing to look for it or if moderation works as advertised.
That said, one of the sites that always gets mentioned when people ask for alternatives to Slashdot - and rightly so, I guess - is kuro5hin (also known simply as k5). It's really, really different though, different readership (maybe smarter, but only on average), different topics, different moderation system. K5 and Slashdot readers have an odd sort of relationship, you can see remarks about each other regularly on both sides. Maybe somebody else can say more, I always think it's fairly strange. Personally, I've tried to get into K5 a couple of times, never worked out.
Apart from K5, what's left? Recently I bookmarked digg, but I haven't gotten into it, and I doubt I will for reasons outlined in the first paragraph. There have been attempts of explicitly creating an alternative "better" Slashdot, most notably Technocrat by none other than Bruce Perens, which was pretty much a failure, although I am surprised to see there still are lots of news items and between 1 and 5 comments on each (hah!). Oh and of course there's Fark which to me is pretty much like a reverse-K5 from Slashdot's point of view - take from that what you will.
Heh, this has gotten a bit out of hand considering I only wanted to drop a few links to K5 and digg.
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Re:What a ridiculous beatupHang on.....let me check something....
No this is definitely slashdot. If you didn't want immature rants then what are you doing here? I think you want somting with content that's a bit more adult and considered. Try somewhere like FarkMeanwhile, I have to agree...measles makes me sick too.
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Re:MOD PARENT UP> I don't know if this is real or not, but I'd like to see some more opinions on it and maybe the other side of the story, if it exists. You think something this serious would get on the news. Or well, with what I read in the link, maybe it's the kind of stuff that gets hidden.
It made Fark yesterday, a relatively neutral source for analysis.
Looks like a very strong (possibly excessive) show of force, but the actual force used (as opposed to merely shown) was in line. Looks like the tear gas wasn't unleashed until later - not as a pre-emptive tactic. Most of the smoke in the video appears to have been dust kicked up by the choppers. In short, looks like a routine fuckup on the part of the cops.
(I, too, thought that when they rounding people up for the death camps, they'll start with ravers in Utah, because... well, I couldn't figure out why, other than that maybe glowsticks make the baby Joseph Smith cry. I mean, ravers in Utah being the first folks to get disappeared. Damn mind control rays again. Even I'm not crazy enough to believe that. So I adjusted my tinfoil hat, and felt much better.
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Slashdot....
Yesterday's Fark Headlines, Stuff that doesn't really matter?
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and those of us who don't wanna get that involved
will still fark around with your picture for fun...
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USA flag Slashdot's "Florida" tag?
When looking at the headline and seeing my native USA flag, I couldn't help but think that before long it might be analogous to Fark's "Florida" tag.
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Re:Can Firefox be marketed?
Is Firefox modular enough to break out valuable, reusable parts and implement something new out of them?
Quite simply, I think this depends on the developer community. For the most part, Firefox plugins tend to be "niche" in nature; that is, they appeal to a core group of users instead of a broad audience. Two examples that I can think of quickly are:
User Agent Switcher (Only applies to geeks who want to misrepresent their User-Agent, like me)
Farkit (Only applies to Fark users, like me)
Certainly there are more mainstream plugins - Bugmenot has its own plugin now and it's likely more popular than either of my two examples above - but I think it's going to take a critical mass plugin to really make a splash. Greasemonkey might be that plugin, eventually; "the recent security issue may have temporarily impeded its penetration into the user base," say analysts everywhere. I for one have not installed Greasemonkey, although I find its potential quite interesting.
The cool thing is, Firefox provides the ability for anyone to create a plugin, register and host it "officially" through the Mozilla/Firefox update site, etc. And Firefox tracks each plugin individually, giving you the option to visit its web page, update it automatically, uninstall it easily and without the BS that accompanies IE plugin variants such as the dreaded (and often persistent) BHOs.
In short, Firefox has supplied a sandbox large enough for all of the neighborhood kids to play in, and they've even hired a referee to make sure that everyone plays nice. It's just a matter of time until someone brings the killer-app toy to the sandbox. -
Surprisingly...
Fark didn't lead their write of this with Proving Hollywood has run out of ideas...
Pity. Because it's true.
So what's the next crappy 80's cartoon that must be re-created with crappy CGI? God forbid we could have an original idea for a movie when it's easier to license something as a pre-sold commodity.
-Chris (realinvalidname)
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Re:MSNBC Commentator is a jackass
Do you always post the same comment on Slashdot and Fark ?
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Re:dupe...
I was sure it was a dupe too (actually searched this page for the word "dupe" to confirm my suspicions). Turns out I read about it via Fark on Tue 19. So it's not a dupe, nor is it particularly old news. Why is it on Slashdot?
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HA! HA!
forget this dupe...There's a more interesting phenomenon-in-the-making here.
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Re:small time story
I know.. I just wanted to use "HA! HA!" on slashdot. There's a cliche ballooning to gargantuan proportions on fark right now revolving around a picture of a guy that says "HA! HA!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HA!_HA!_guy
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Re:a few starting ideasHeh, look at the tagline up above: "Stuff that matters" would YOU be interested if it said "Stuff that's irrelevant"?
Y'know, fark seems to be doing pretty well...
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Re:US Banks
Dear SlackBastardNetworks,
in Our bank [citibank.com] - "Citibank" - we pride ourselves on the fact that we only hire people with a SlashDot [slashdot.org] UserID less than 100000.
We meticulously screen our employees from time to time, to make sure we do not have employees that are a liability.
In fact, I feel so strongly about our bank that I'll give you a 8% monthly interest on your savings account, if you just Sign up [citibank.com] for a new account.
Kind regards,
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Sort of, the digital version is already out
Turns out somebody beat everybody to the punch. over here
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News from Fark, Stuff We Already Know
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLin
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Slashfarked!> I guess it's going to be a long weekend of explaing WTF is up with the pinapples slices in my hefeweizen.
Scientists discover new substances that offer progress in the fight against cancer and HIV.
Still no cure for bartenders who put fruit in beer.
Zonk submitted these stories to Fark many hours ago, with less-funny headlines?
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Slashfarked!> I guess it's going to be a long weekend of explaing WTF is up with the pinapples slices in my hefeweizen.
Scientists discover new substances that offer progress in the fight against cancer and HIV.
Still no cure for bartenders who put fruit in beer.
Zonk submitted these stories to Fark many hours ago, with less-funny headlines?
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Re:priorities
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Re:This story would be so different
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Q: Wife's take on N Portman?
I know this is just the Answer part of the Q&A and that we're not supposed to kepp asking, but:
I only remember the following because of the close proximity in time between original interview thread and a comment you made on Fark.
Question: Anything happen because of this: clicky clicky
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And in his spare time...
He's a fark photoshopper. A good one, too!
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These guys were data retarded,
when they're hardware RAID controller failed, and they weren't able to get an exact replacement.
The Adaptec 2110S RAID card in Fark's database server is dying.
I'd suggest you reconsider who you are calling a retard, because us "Software RAID array retards" will never, ever have those sorts of problems, as long as an ATA interface is available for our RAID'ed drives on a box that can run Linux.
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Tolkien...
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLin
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FARK.com: (1328489) "Lord of the Rings" filmmakers partied after winning 11 Oscars, but chose a fan club to party in. Shows how effective a Tolkien ring network can be -
Re:Newsflash: Onion Still Only Skin Deep
_The Onion_ continues the tradition pioneered by websites like Slashdot of intriguing headlines, backed by worthless articles no one reads anyway.
The Ironic Times beats that by reducing the articles to one line of snark. Soon it will be just headlines, and then one day there will be a news source that doesn't offer any news at all. -
Re:Nah,"Slashdot has a tech-savvy audience that, to be kind, is mischievous and to be not so kind, is malicious"
It could have been much worse... it could have been posted on Fark instead.
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Re:I was sure I'd read this somewhere before
Dude http://www.fark.com/ quick!
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Re:Coming soon: GBay?
From the same story on fark.com:
Bahamut: GBay sounds like bj, which is slang for oral sex. -
As seen on Fark
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Re:Luv those nuts
You must have seen this image--
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Oh Fark
I can't begin to imagine the DNAShop contests that will happen on Fark or Something Awful...
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Re:Email? Try Slashdot!I may check my email 5 times a day, but I check Slashdot 20 or 30 times a day.
You know what's even worse? Fark. Once you pop. you can't stop.
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Whats wrong with 5x a day?
How many people would be checking their email five times a day if we had something (in our house for example) that notified us (by, oh, say a ringing sound) when we had a new message? Or maybe a blinking light? Sound familiar?
People only check their email that often because they don't have any other way of knowing whether or not they've got new mail. Tie email notification in with a distinct telephone ring sound, and you'll see the # of times people check their email drop considerably. Crack down on spammers and then the number of emails an individual gets will drop, also reducing "false" notifications.
Or we could just use this time and money on research that's actually useful. As http://www.fark.com/ sometimes says 'Still no cure for cancer.' -
Re:I particularly like this bit
FTFA: US diplomatic sources stated later that Washington did not wish to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries.
At the risk of being modded flamebait, when has that ever stopped the US before?
The words "bold faced lie" come to mind.
It's like when you're shopping for something expensive and the salesman keeps repeating "I'm an honest man"... if you repeat something often enough, people start to believe it. -
Pfft! Information overload indeed!I don't have a problem with information overload. Here's how I know:
- I have several e-mail accounts to deal with
- I chat on IRC daily
- I follow several USENET news groups
- I routinely post on a variety of message boards
- I subscribe to Mental Floss, SysAdmin Magazine and Columbus Monthly
- I read
- I use Stumble Upon to find random, new and interesting web sites
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Predicted on Fark
2005-05-19 11:01:56 AM vroxx
Reported on Digg yesterday... WITH a BT link.
http://digg.com/movies/longasstitle...
Reported on Slashdot Tomorrow.
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Re:WowEver heard of a respectable news site?
Dude...don't you know what site you're visiting? But I have to say, it's refreshing to see a bias AGAINST cruelty on here for a change. Check out the majority of responses to this story for the typical Slashdot reader response: Beef is yummy. Let's eat meat. Screw PeTA. Etc.
But this time, here's a clear-cut case of something grotesquely cruel. I mean, how could a decent person say that it's OK to artificially stock animals in small fenced areas, and then have a remotely fired gun so people can blast these creatures through the Internet? Sorry, that's just flat-out wrong, and even most hunters would say so.
I thought I'd pass along a couple hunting-related links, taken from just the past couple of days. First, be sure to read Matthew Scully's superb article "Fear Factories," in this week's American Conservative. Animal rights is often incorrectly thought of as some fringe cause, only embraced by people on the left. Here, Scully writes brilliantly about why conservatives should hold animal agriculture in disdain. And he starts his article by mentioning this Internet hunting issue.
I publish Vegan.com, and I have some commentary on Scully's article on my podcast from yesterday. You might want to listen to that as well.
And, what the heck, here's another article taken just today from Fark. One hunter was in the woods making a turkey call. Another hunter came along, thought he was hearing a real bird, and shot the hunter. Because, after all, when you're packing a hunting rifle there's no reason to actually look to see if it's actually a turkey you're shooting.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming: Meat tastes good. Animal rights people are losers. I'm going to go out and have a thick bloody juicy steak -- yum! Because, after all, if PeTA sometimes pisses people off and chooses stupid battles, that clearly means that everytime they oppose cruelty a sensible person should side against them.
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Re:Alienware and Star Wars
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Re:Old news, baby
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Re:please do :)Yea, we'll have to come up with some way for me to "prove" it to 'ya if I do it for real - recall it was actually a challenge to prove to the Wall Street Journal that the fake was a fake!
Don't know if Special Agent Cody would work as the live hostage - he was good enough for the Associated Press! Some things that I didn't even try to fake because they would be difficult is day/twilight and/or the moon with clouds - might those would be convincing enough for 'ya if they showed up?!?
The Slashdot Editors haven't approved any of my submissions since the hoax broke (I used to bat about 20%), so my guess is they're still upset at me for the dupe - so maybe no more Slashdot Effect Analysis for me - but I still like you guys.
alek
P.S. I'll add that one major hurdle has already been crossed - my two neighbors across the street have said it's OK to really (this time!) have blinking lights and have said they'll let me mount a wireless webcam on their roofs.
PPS. X10 is pretty doggy and unreliable (I really do use this to control the lights - without the web interface) so I'd like to replace it with either something like UPB or maybe a wireless powerline control technology - should I Ask Slashdot?!?
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You silly, unobservant fools...
Am I the only one who actually moused over the links?
ThinkGeek writes "ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkgEEk ThinkGeek! ThinkGeek ThinkGeek THINK geek think GeEk thinkgEek.
(If you don't have the linky-checky-in-brackets thing on, the links are actually to cmdrtaco.net, fark.com, randomdialogue.net, penny-arcade.com, deansplanet.com, mccarthy.vg, cowboyneal.org, homestarrunner.com, and sarcasta.net) -
Re:Whoa.The sad thing is, today I think Fark handled the whole joke news thing a LOT better. I find something funny about Slashdot needing to take cues on integrity from Fark.
You see, not only have Farks homepage antics today been funny, or mildy amusing, you can click right through to go back to the REAL fark where REAL news is still submitted. That way you get to give people at your site a laugh, and then they get to continue what it is they wanted to do at your site. Way to go Slashdot editors, you just killed
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fark anybody?
Pushing the reality border one inch further,
k =1426478
Slashdot becomes more like Fark but whitout boobies and photoshop contests. Which is bad -
"Full" List of April Fools Jokes on the Web
Isn't April Fools Day just the best? =] For a 'full' list of sites pulling pranks today check out this list here
Here is a sample:
dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
waferbaby.com - amusing php error
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft -
April Fools Day is Great isn't it?
For a full list of sites that pulled April Fools Day Pranks this year check out this list here -
Here is a sampling:
dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars -
April Fools Day is Great isn't it?
For a full list of sites that pulled April Fools Day Pranks this year check out this list here Here is a sampling: dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
waferbaby.com - amusing php error
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars -
Re:Yes but, can it find my keys?
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