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but is this gonna change how anyone votes? Donald Trump just said the quiet part out loud. He walked it back because it made him look weak, not because it was a morally reprehensible thing.

This keeps happening too. Paul Ryan has repeatedly called to privatize Medicare for anyone under 55 (being careful not to risk votes of current seniors). Net Neutrality is dead. There's a serious challenge to the Affordable Care Acts protection of pre-existing conditions which I know many /.ers depend on (we're an aging demographic, so we got pre-existing issues alright). So far none of this has budged polls. There might be a bit of a shake up in the mid terms, but only because voters traditionally hand the other side the house just to balance things out. And even then those voters are voting for the more conservative candidates out of the other side, so it's all much the muchness.

So is anyone going to drastically change who their vote for, or start voting consistently when they didn't bother in the past? Is this or anything else above enough to change voting behavior?

16 years old is certainly a child.

Is it very common to dispatch a military helicopter circling the area when FBI are looking at a computer inside?

It's like usual, make accusations involving child porn and nobody dares say anything, ask any questions.

Yeah people think child porn is like a Ebola level biohazard.

Google mistakenly accused a site of hosting child porn. Check out the story and the actual picture.

https://m.fark.com/comments/10... For your reading pleasure. You don't seem interested in saving lives or helping. You want to set arbitrary rules and make sure "sluts" both male and female suffer. You have no regard for the children.

Describe to me the new tech they're using to enrich uranium. Or encryption methods used to communicate between countries. Or laws and embargo that are going to affect tech and equipment. Or at least something interesting.

Otherwise skuttle away to breitbart or huffpost or somewhere else that suits your fancy.

Just because Obama did it doesn't automatically make it right; just because Trump is doing it doesn't automatically make it right either. Go away and do something useful -- like come up with ideas, not just complain, to your mayor or state representatives. Otherwise, like talk radio, we're just wasting each other's time. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going to convince me, and neither one of us knows what's really going on.

BTW, in the '70s, the world was all "going to soon come to an end" as well. I just wish that this time they'd hurry up and do it before next Christmas so I won't have to shop.

Hey now, fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go round.

Perhaps they should apologise to Drew Curtis (www.fark.com) and send him the advertising revenue they withheld for "inappropriate content".

http://www.fark.com/comments/b...

right here.

Call me a troll all you want, but my God, if this is the worst we can dig up on Hillary after 20 years of non-stop character assassination then she's practically Christ (Obama gets to be God, since we haven't found jack on him).

I think you are looking for fark.

http://arstechnica.com/ is pretty good from a tech news coverage perspective. http://theregister.co.uk/ has the nice snarky British humor angle as well.
http://fark.com/ tends to have pretty great and balanced political discussion and humor.

For more irreverent/technical discussion threads, though, I'd guess there might be some corner of reddit that could match what we had here on Slashdot... but I haven't redditted much, so someone else will have to guide us.

Is there a good reddit area for slashdot refugees to have tech discussions?

The only other alternatives I see are http://arstechnica.com/ (though the discussion engine is pretty limited and somewhat heavily moderated), http://theregister.co.uk/ (doesn't seem to spawn many useful conversations somehow), and maybe http://fark.com/ (good discussions, but but pretty light on tech coverage in a pretty basic discussion engine)

Yes, the Photoshop contests have always been of the vein "first submission=99% chance to win". With rare exception you can take the votes per post only and reasonably guess the order in which they were posted. I think TotalFark was even advertised as a way to get a leg-up on Photoshop contests (one of which I won primarily because I was the first to post an entry thanks to my TotalFark membership at the time, and my entry didn't completely suck.)

There are ways to make them work much, much better if they would accept submissions, then open voting. But that would require improvements to the commenting system...

http://fark.com/ is as close to a bipartisan "internet tavern" as I've ever seen. They used to have a "political balance meter" to try to link to a roughly equal number of stories / threads with a "leftist" and "rightist" spin. Anyway, it's useful to (occasionally) see well-articulated thoughts and opinions from "the other side", or even just discussion of news events from different perspectives... stuff that more often devolves into flamewars or gets stuck or pigeonholed on other social media.

That said, yeah, I know next to nothing about Drew, but it sounds like he might be a good moderator of useful discussion. Over beer.

Spot on.

Only seven stories later on the main page, Fark announced a partnership with several university and private media research centers. Lots of farkers believe it's related:

http://www.fark.com/comments/8...

Of course, given that it's named DERP institute, even more people believe it's a joke.

When I was on Fark, you could make all sorts of rape, incest, murder and violence jokes, but I just mocked the delusions of 3D printer nutters and it got me banned.

From what I can tell, Fark and its users have always exhibited a contradictory- if not downright hypocritical- attitude. On one hand they'll happily use a story about some random person who's died- often some unfortunate person who hasn't even done anything stupid to deserve mocking, merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time- and use it as an excuse to make weak and distasteful jokes with little hint of empathy beyond a crocodile-tears "sad" tag. On other occasions they'll descend into downright vicious hatefulness (e.g. the death of Anna Nicole Smith- maybe not a saint, but not remotely deserving of some of the comments posted).

On the other hand, they'll run a "sappy" story with some offhand reference to "dust in their eyes" (i.e. by jokingly denying that a sentimental story brought tears to their eyes, they're saying it's okay- i.e. expected- for Fark users to be moved by something about someone who arranged a special treat for children in hospital or a dog that saved someone's hamster from drowning) or cutesy cat lovers' "Caturday" stories where anything less than deferential towards their beloved moggies would probably get you hanged.

Ineffective. King also has a summer home in Sarasota, Florida, and there's an entire FARK category devoted to Floridian Internet shenanigans.

Wil is a nerd? Since when? He's just a poseur Apple user.

I haven't frequented it in awhile but back when WilW was a regular at http://www.fark.com/ between that and being mentioned on /. e's a nerd.

And I wish him good luck in this venture.

This just in: the whole world is crazy. And it just happened. Just now. Nothing crazy has ever happened before. Anywhere. Ever.

What a worthless, piece of shit clickbait article.

Dice, if you want to do something to actually make Slashdot better, let us moderate articles, and let me browse them at +5.

And then add a rich text editor for comments. Doesn't need to be fancy, just support the tags you already allow. (Oh, and then fix how lists display.)

What I would like to know is: Is this a pressed laserdisc or an LD-R? (Laserdisc version of DVD-R, and, yes, there were such things; I have a few.)

It looks pressed, here, with other images of recordable laserdics media for comparison.

(Mods: Yes, there were recordable laserdiscs. They weren't digital like DVD-R, but they did exist. They were an absurdly-high-end industrial/professional-use technology only, never intended for consumers.)

You needn't have stopped. A broken record is a broken record but repeating yourself in different ways often means that you include new information each time and each revelation will be more informative and this information will help to better understand you. I don't have a lot of time at the moment so that means I'll not author another novella.

If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion? There is a site, it is http://www.fark.com/ where there are an inordinately high number of transgendered folk. I'd recommend creating some unique username and generating an account there. For their privacy sake I won't list their names but they'll likely reveal themselves and, as a whole, there's a pretty good community there. I'd recommend joining them and taking part in the conversations.

In a way the site is a bit like Slashdot, it even has a "Geek" section. It's a news aggregation site and people find the news, link it (often with a funny headline), and then some of those are posted to the front page where there is a comments section. It is a very good site and the comments are what brings me back to it. Some of the people there, the vast majority, are very good people. There are, of course, the usual trolls but they're harmless and the majority of them seem inclined to do so simply for the "art" of trolling. Some are actually pretty good at it.

Additionally the site has an ignore feature which is pretty good and beneficial. I think you may find the site interesting and I believe you'll find the site's community to be welcoming and understanding if you do out yourself. You don't even need to do that... Instead you can simply watch and you'll see that other people are managing it and that may inspire you to do so or may just give you some hope that it can be done in the future.

Either way, you have made me think about it so I felt (and feel) compelled to offer it to you as a site that you may wish to frequent. Even if it is of no benefit there's a chance to laugh, enjoy the community, and read a bunch of links to amusing stories from around the globe. They've been around for quite a while and they're a pretty decent group of people. Feel free to stop by. If you do decide to stop over let me know via email and I'll share my username over there.

Ha ha, April 1 is really Slashdot appreciation day. There's no real news for nerds here the entire day, so maybe you end up going to http://arstechnica.com/ or http://theregister.co.uk/ or even http://fark.com/ . But inevitably you find that professional reporting is to dry and constrained or too british and sarcastic or the comments are just too much snark, and tomorrow you will inevitably return here, to your usual comfort zone for nerd-upism and troll abuse.

Of course we've known about the state's emotional and mental instability forever. Still the only state with its own Fark tag!

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

http://www.fark.com/topic/florida/

http://fark.com/ ... it's all the not-news that doesn't matter.

Unfortunately, slashdot has had a pretty awful record with mobile sites. Though I guess the "classic" mobile site sorta works all right, and even looks like the "full" site. http://slashdot.org/palm isn't terribly useful either. The "new / beta" site is unfortunately one of the worst mobile sites I've tried to use. Some gripes I'd like to see addressed (using Dolphin on Android):

* Please allow long-clicks to work. I use them to open new links in a new tab in the background. I don't want to sit there waiting for pages to load every time I'm forced to going back and forth. The facebook mobile site is also atrocious in this respect, not only do they not let you open links in a new tab, when you go "back", they dump you at the top of your feed, and you have to scroll way down and do the crappy incremental reload just to get back where you were.

* There is no immediate feedback when I click a story. Then I always end up going back too far.

* Clipped story summaries? I'd rather just read the twitter feed. Show the whole thing! Or at least have a button to expand to the entire summary without loading the entire story page. I know the screen is small, but I can scroll down to the next headline if I'm not interested.

* mbeta site ought to work in a "real" desktop browser as well.

http://m.fark.com/ is probably the best mobile version of a site I've seen. I even like it better than the desktop site.

How about officially picking up maintenance for AvantSlash? Back in the day, it was an awesome way to reformat Slashdot for mobile / offline browsing on Avantgo / Plucker.

Someone on Fark pointed out that the WBC aren't really haters, or even Christians, just a bunch of lawyers trying to make extortion money from the threat of (very carefully and legally) exercising their 1st Amendment rights:
http://www.fark.com/comments/7488418/81313473#c81313473

The appropriate response is actually to just organize counter-protests that block or drown out their feeble message, until hopefully they run out of money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/04/AR2011030406330.html

But anytime someone actually blocks them illegally, they get to sue and collect some settlement and they get their payday.

I suppose the DDoS helps them bleed money as well, But probably not enough, esp. if they manage to catch and sue the perpetrators.

I thought turkey's could fry

(oblig)

...this was already done before:
http://m.fark.com/comments/7412776/British-get-coded-message-by-carrier-pigeon-from-agent-in-Nazi-Germany-This-is-not-a-repeat-from-1940
And some more newsitems (not video): http://swns.com/news/wwii-carrier-pigeon-secret-code-defeating-nazis-70-years-later-chimney-26984/

Yeah whatever, any Republican can give you a similar list complaining about things Obama got away with. All it goes to show is the creator of the list is a bit clueless about politics. If you think this movie would lose Romney the election, even if every citizen saw it, then you're naive.

Who really cares if one particular video stream goes down temporarily ...

Scripps Howard does.

is that he just said he doesn't think the troops are important and somehow he's still in the running. That's the kinda gaff that should've broke him. It's amazing what unlimited funds can do. Thanks Citizens United.

"Has Slashdot sunk so low that their submission queue has run dry?"

Slashdot will never run dry. Here's the submission queue:

http://www.fark.com/

but how much time was taken away by the early termination of the petition?

I'm too lazy to dig up wherever I read it, maybe it was a comment on hacker news, but it sounded like it had about another week to go before expiration.

It expired on the 9th. See, e.g. Bruce Schneier's post a week ago, or the Fark thread from the 8th saying 'it expires tomorrow'.

Also, curiously, the style reminds me a little of the text of OT III.

Not surprising given the mental history of that author. :)

As mentioned by another AC up there, the troll in question is actually a pretty well-executed mashup of APK's style with the word salad of Gene Ray's Time Cube.

(APK doesn't appear to be schizophrenic, merely obsessed with HOSTS files. Kinda sad; I like HOSTS files, I use 'em for the same purpose he does, the differences is I know it's an inelegant and imperfect solution. He's done more to discredit the use of HOSTS files than anyone in the "do it right and set up a firewall" crowd ever could. Gene Ray, on the other hand... :)

Long as we're going down the rabbit hole, for an unrelated example of word salad consistent with schizophrenia, check out Gabrielle Chana, who made Fark yesterday. Some sort of reincarnation of Catherine the Great, telepathic wife of Vladimir Putin and Brent Spiner (yes, "Data" from Star Trek), and yes, something even weirder about the Jesuits. Mental illness isn't pretty, but it can be pretty amusing.

The original posting of the TED talk and subsequent discussion is at http://www.fark.com/comments/7055377/Drews-TED-talk-is-up-How-I-Beat-a-Patent-Troll.

No, this is. I'm not posting a link to 4chan, so this will have to do.

He's Mexican, you ass. Oh and this, lots of this.

http://www.fark.com/comments/6722426/If-Fark-went-public-it-would-need-to-publish-an-annual-report-to-shareholders-Photoshop-cover

Substitute Microsoft for Fark.

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BMO

Seriously, It's a Streetlight

I Want To Believe

Fire up 10-12 tabs and chances are you have multiple instances of Flash bogging down your computer

Nope.

NoScript is good. I prefer PrefBar. Single-click browser-wide (and in some cases, per-tab) activation/deactivation of images, cookies, Java, Javashit and Flash. Idiot webmaster does browser-sniffing based on User-Agent? Forge it with a single dropdown. Don't like some asshat web designer's choice of red text on a blue background? Heck, you can even turn off "colors".

I don't even blame Flash for the problems of CPU consumption. Flash gets a lot of hate but its really a victim of its own success. Any piece of code which had so many instances running would hog CPU.

True - but Flash probably is the memory hog here. I have an instance where I don't even have it installed (really!), and Firefox 3.6.20 has never taken more than 700MB even after weeks (!) of use with hundreds of tabs open.

The current session is about three days old, and currently uses 200MB, with 28 tabs open in four windows. Adding two image-heavy Fark photoshop threads and an 800-post hurricane thread added only 30MB to the total. Adding this extremely image-heavy 700-post Caturday thread temporarily bumped it to 400MB while rendering, but it stabilized at 300MB, and gave the RAM back when the thread was closed. Hardware is a core i7 with 6GB RAM, barely even hiccuped while rendering it. Only cheat I have is an ad-blocking proxy, and most of the time Javascript is disabled. PROTIP: If the site loads with Javascript disabled, enabling Javascript does not run the scripts on the site without a subsequent reload. That's not a bug, it's a feature: you can have dozens of tabs open to your favorite sites, and they will burn no CPU even when Javascript is temporarily enabled when you want to use something like Google Maps. Great for laptops!)

Hey, we should be so lucky! Over on Fark, Drew Curtis still can't find his way from the pub to the launch complex!

Fark.com uses it's favorite squirrel for it's 404 error page.

Replacement for cable sports: sports bar, which also has a nice beer tap along with it,. . .

Occasionally, sports bars may host a Fark party, satisfying both of those options in one! =)

or at least part of Kentucky does

Mr. "Make Me Live Longer, Not Explore Space"'s initials are QA? You know this guy?

Sort of. He's a well-known troll on Fark space threads, and occasionaly swings by here to see who's biting. (If you really want to get his goat, suggest that life extension is a great idea. After all, the day we invent clinical immortality, generation ships become not merely viable, but essential :)

http://www.fark.com/geek_ext/

both of those sites will have every story slashdot aggregates days before hand, and much more insightful conversation.

this site is a joke.

slashdot = stagnated.

Heh, I have a hard time believing the Drudge Report generates any more traffic than http://fark.com/

At least I can tell what Fark is by looking at it... and I'm much more likely to click on the link just to try to figure out the punchline. Plus, Fark includes helpful analysis in the comments... with just about equal representation by loons from both the left and right... humorous (and actually quite civil) discourse I find lacking on most other sites.

If you keep up with Fark you can pretty much ace "Wait, wait don't tell me" at the end of the week.

Bin Laden's mansion only worth 25 percent of what he paid for it, meaning he'll be underwater for a long time.

Once in a while Fark.com is a beautiful thing.

Cheers mate. I've been reviewing threads like fark's (link) that brings it home. I can't believe how long ago it was, and how recent it seems. God Bless America.

"If Obama preempts the end of The Apprentice to announce they've killed Bin Laden that is going to be the most epic ownage ever." - Comment on Fark.

I'm studying for finals right now (after taking a 4 year break between MS and BS). I was a freshmen in college when 9/11 hit. Every single other person in this was building was 8-10. Most don't even remember the 1st attack on the WTC. My college had 4xT1s providing 6Mb. My cable connection is faster. ALL of my news came from Slashdot and Fark. Both were barely struggling to survive. Yahoo, MSNBC, CNN all went down. Fark had to roll over to new threads every 300 or so posts (300 posts is considered low these days).

There was no reddit, digg, facebook or twitter. SMS was just a very expensive feature that no one used.

Fark's #1 Thread.

Slashdot's Thread/a

I know it's not really over, but it's still kind of surreal.

It looks like China is heading for an enormous debt crisis. Add the creation of ghost cities as covered earlier this month and it looks pretty scary! It'll make US's debt crunch look like a drop in a bucket.