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If this was Fark, the submission would have a Florida tag. I can't think of a more useless item than a 7 seater bike that goes nowhere -- except perhaps to serve as a reminder of how most corporate meetings function. One guy steers and everyone pedals like mad to get where they are going. My only question (and it's not apparent from the Slashad): Does this contraption have breaks, and if so, do they work properly?

So, now that that's taken care of, AC: back on track: Please post _anything_ that (a) has not been amply proven false and (b) supports the notion that rising CO2 levels aren't a problem. If you can't, can I suggest you head to a forum that you might like better?

... when it was posted on Fark.com yesterday.

Doubt anyone can get Karma bonuses from reposting their comments here though. ;-)

Because it was on Fark

OT, i know, but DAMN, wtf?
who's in charge here, .. for the past year we've seen the quality of /. articles deteriorate and deteriorate, .. but this without a doubt tops 'm off...
a _frontpage_ thread that isjust one big rtfm flame waiting to happen
anyhoo,.. /me is packing my bags and upping. c'yall on http://www.kuro5hin.org/, http://www.arstechnica.com/ and / or http://www.theregister.co.uk/ hopefully the newsvalue of /. rises above the current http://www.fark.com/ in a year or so,...
in other words;
screw you guys, .. I'm going home

A better application of "We hold these truths to be self-evident" I have never seen. Amen.

Big Burly voice: I (insert degrading sexual act) for crack! People don't (insert degrading sexual act) for coffee! Did you ever (insert degrading sexual act) for caffeine?

/obligatory "Half-Baked" reference
//FARKer in disguise

You forgot Poland. I fear it is just the beginning.

image brougth to you by fark.com

Photoshop contest of a $50 dollar bill

I think slashdot and Fark are going for the dupe world record on this one. I think it's been a story on fark about 5 times, and here on slashdot just as many.

Sorry iPod boy, it is a scam, it's called a pyramid scheme.

Pyramid scheme (n tier). An illegal financial scheme in which: (1) participants are recruited by chain letter, by friends, or at meetings, (2) a list of n names is displayed or distributed (often sold) to new participants, and (3) the payment of an "ante" to the top name on the list by new participants is notarized or supervised. Developed from money chain letters in May 1935.

This is pyramid marketing, not a pyramid scheme. Two very different things. Note that one is illegal and the other is not.

Now, please visit a place properly suited for your silly name calling.

...Slashdot got Farked today.

I tried setting browser.tabs.opentabfor.windowopen to true, and links are still opening in a new window. For example, the links on fark to the individual new stories (which use target=_blank) are still opening new windows rather than new tabs. Any idea why? I'm running Firefox 0.9.3. Does this setting work in Firefox as well as Mozilla?

As you can see, about 25% of people viewing Fark use Firefox/Mozilla, and 33% use a non-IE browser. I can tell you that just 3 months ago the total number of non-IE browers was around 20%. The numbers might actually be low, because Fark has a high number of people who read from work, where they're often forced to use IE.

In my opinion, FireFox has a "killer" feature in that it (so far) isn't really vulnerable to many exploits or malware. I call it a "killer" feature because users, regardless of skill level, will use FireFox over IE simply because of security, and you already see it happening.

The title of this article sounds like the second sentence in a Fark.com headline.

Seriously,

If all /. is going to do is rerun posts on Fark.com, why bother.

Just put a link at the top of the page and be done with it.

Next thing you know, /. will have photoshop contests. And nude women. ...hmmm...

Ok, I changed my mind! Keep posting like fark. :p

And the post-crash thread, too.

Did I forget the Peter Gabriel, Genesis reference?

I have to say, this has all of the elements for a funny story. You've got NASA, you've got a probe named Genesis [for your Star Trek Genesis Device reference], you've got sand [for your Star Wars reference -- sand people, probe looking like Luke's home from a distance, etc]. You've got space dust [for your Andromeda Strain reference]. You've got helicopters [for a military reference]. You've got an impled "mission accomplished!" presidental reference.

I think the people at fark.com have all the angles covered.

Topheavy.com?

Fark.com?

Sluggy Freelance?

Gold Miner

Theme: Alien spacecraft are three days away from Earth. Let's clean things up a bit to make them feel welcome

You wouldn't happen to be referring to this fark.com headline would you?

Apparently I'm not the only one who read this on Fark yesterday.

However, I have sympathy for places like Fark that are trying to figure out how to cover costs, and pay a few salaries. According to the logic of many threads here and elsewhere:

1) they should not sell subscriptions

2) they should not require a logon

3) nobody clicks banner ads anyway

So what's a good guy with a good site to do? (Hint: donations and t-shirts isn't the answer)

Paul Davies reads Fark too.

and nobody even had the decency to link http://www.fark.com/ for those of us who may be typing chalenged (or lazy)

This is silly. Anyone who knows anything can tell you that there is only one source, http://fark.com/, for all the important news in the world.

Yeah, this story really belongs on Fark. But then, many Slashdot stories are on Fark a day ahead of Slashdot.

fark posted this a few hours ago so there is already a lot more comments. And something tells me 90% of the posts modded up will be +Whatever,Funny. So you may as well go to Fark.com and see it done right :)

/please don't mark this informative you brain dead mods, and you know which ones you are, if anything this is funny.

Slashdot must have been farked...

...
Read about Scandal@Gmail

Even if, we still have Stargate Atlantis and Fark, so we'll live.

Now, take my Fark and we'll have words.

Is it Fark?

The websites I frequent most are ones that constantly update content, ie, Slashdot, Fark, Boing Boing, etc...

I have multiple folders of bookmarks with these sites, and use the convienent "Open all bookmarks in tabs" option when reading them. I think, however, that it would be more convienent if the tabs were ordered by how recently content on the site had changed, or by how much, or some sort of metric that would place newly updated sites further to the left or right, so that I don't have to view a site to know that its content has not been updated since my last visit.

(yea, I know, this is /. not Fark)

I saw this first on Fark quite some time ago. They even had a photoshop contest for it. After a little research, this is no hoax at all. I can't wait to see what Lucas does with this film, a film that lead to so many others like it, yet none were quite as good. Can't wait to see the final results!

pffft, not really. This was posted on Fark with a similar headline yesterday.

No, FARK used the "Strange" tag.

Microsoft is always looking for ways to provide innovative solutions to our vic^H^H^Hcustomers:

Perrin: Proof of concept to infect JPG files.

TROJ_BMPAGENT: Infected BMP files:

"The exploit involves a specially crafted BMP file that can allow code to run with the privileges of the impacted user. In the case of TROJ_BMPAGENT a.k.a. the Agent trojan, the user receives an email carrying the specially crafted BMP image file. When received on systems with IE 5 or IE 5.5 installed, viewing the BMP drops the file sys.exe to the root of drive C:\ and executes it.

> Now if we could only get Homeland Security to start talking about OUTLOOK EXPRESS, then I would dance a jig.

No argument there, except for s/EXPRESS//g.

In the meantime, HomeSec recommends the use of Mozilla as a first line of defence against terrorists infecting your box with Islamic Militant Bukkake Kitten.

I also subscribe to MacAddict. It's lost some allure over the last year or so, but that's likely more because I haven't upgraded to Panther and they have.

Also, Vanity Fair. They've got some pretty decent articles. Nice left-wing bent.

I used to subscribe to Scientific American, but this is such a frigging rag now it's amazing. It's the barest squeek above Discover [shudder]. I'll pick up an American Scientist every now and then, but the last few issues have looked dull. I also try out Skeptic from time to time. Despite the heavy marketing, I'm not into the "lad" magazines--the good stuff is all on Fark anyway.

don't get me wrong, this is a great subject to discuss, but I can't help deny that I'm surprised to see it on Slashdot. This seems more like a story that would appear on fark.com. (except with a much shorter tag line, and a billion times the stupidity level.)

Sunny Dubey

No, what we have here is a cut and paste job from Fark?

Their heads would asplode?

I find that firefox crashes rather a lot, though.

*Ahem* its still in beta. Are you expecting anything more?

However I've been using Firefox for about 3 months now, and its crashed on me twice. Of course, I routinely open an entire days worth of Fark in tabs ('Till even the icons are barely showing). I've been using it on 6 different PC's. Both crashes happened on my labtop, but then again, lots of things crash on it cause that sucker gets mighty hot.

Mmmm I smell FUDge!

Figures, it's what you should expect from Hollywood these days.

Yup, just like every movie headline on Fark says: Hollywood is out of ideas"

Now, when Google can tell me where I put my keys, then I'll be impressed.

Didn't you see the prototype they're already working on?

(Taken from this Fark thread. Warning/Warnung/Advertencia/Avertissement: "Adult" language contained within link.)

"Heck, I just slashdot them."

That gives me an idea!

We could ask for a new Slashdot or Fark feature that would let users submit URLs. When enough people submit a URL, it's placed in a, "please visit these pages just to eat bandwidth" section on the right side. Certain known-not-spam sites could be automatically ignored, and there could be a non-automatable process to submit URLs to remain unlisted (for peoples' homepages if someone is just being vindictive and such). If people visitting Slashdot would be willing to click on a couple of links (of course being mindful of "Not Safe For Work" links) each time they visit Slashdot, they could fairly easily and quickly use up all of the bandwidth of the virtual host's account level.

It could even be possible to load the pages in a zero-size, non-resizable frame that would draw bandwidth but not actually display anything. This of course would need to be done with care, so that people don't find spyware coming down to their computers, but it could be very effective as well.

Oh yea, Fark had it yesterday...

"Man sells PowerBook on Ebay, gets fraudulent offer, sends scammer p-p-p-powerbook instead"

fark mars rover photoshop contest

I downloaded the removed video when the site was on Fark this week. You can get it off my server here (3.8 meg wmv).

But subscribers can read it early.