Slashdot Mirror

It would be like Slashdot trying to dictate the terms of Firefox development and distribution because Firefox is able to connect to and use Slashdot.

If Firefox were a Slashdot-only client and the Firefox developers agreed to adhere to Slashdot's terms and conditions when connecting to Slashdot, what's the problem? You may find such an arrangement offends whatever philosophy you subscribe to, but the conditions under which a company offers its services are entirely up to the company offering them.

I'm guessing you're also pissed off that Slashdot has a terms of service that precludes you from using the site if you don't agree to them?

"Use of Geeknet Sites constitutes full acceptance of and agreement to the Terms; if a user does not accept Geeknet's Terms, he or she is not granted rights to use Geeknet Sites as defined herein, and should refrain from accessing Geeknet Sites."

This is a contract of adhesion as well -- take it or leave it.

You do realize you're on a Geeknet site? If you don't like it here, you could always fuck off to proprietaryland.
HTH

If so, maybe we ought to look into having editors that actually know something about the area they cover and approve articles based on content rather than side effects.

What do you mean by "we" in this context? Who exactly are going to "look into having editors that..." and how are they (you?) going to accomplish that? Are you proposing to take over slashdot.org, or perhaps develop your own alternative site? Or are a silent partner in the Geeknet management, finally getting ready to take some action?

Do you actually have any idea of where you are posting. Do you know anything at all about slashdot, obviously not. Down at the bottom of the page you will find a link to http://geek.net/, now at this web site you will find some more links, specifically too http://sourceforge.net/, just one more link to go http://sourceforge.net/about, thats right 230,000 open source software projects. Now I don't know if you have done any coding but I can assure that the simplest project at source forge is far most complex, time consuming and takes far greater effort than the most difficult and complex lesson plan, in fact no comparison at all. See, it can be done, by people who want to do it.

There are open text books currently being produced, I'll let you do some research and find the sites, I think you need the practice, hint, they have been mentioned on slashdot several times so you can start you search right here.

check this url: http://www.geek.net/~chris/pix/rack/ ..old photos, but a good example

chris

Bandwidth enabled folks - PLEASE PUT UP MIRRORS!
I've logged over 400 downloads today from my puny 1040kbps sdsl line of the acoustic version.
Feel free to use these mirrors:
Acoustic Version Mirror A or Mirror B
Electrified Version Mirror A or Mirror B chris 'is that Code rock? turn it up man!'

Bandwidth enabled folks - PLEASE PUT UP MIRRORS!
I've logged over 400 downloads today from my puny 1040kbps sdsl line of the acoustic version.
Feel free to use these mirrors:
Acoustic Version Mirror A or Mirror B
Electrified Version Mirror A or Mirror B chris 'is that Code rock? turn it up man!'

Joe is having some problems with his upstream provider, so with his permission I have mirrored copies of the song here and here.