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GeekNews posted this article last Saturday!!!
Come on, this isn't news!

GeekNews posted this article last Saturday!!!
Come on, this isn't news!

God.. exact WORD FOR WORD post that was on geeknews yesterday. how LAME.

ObCredit: I got that link from GeekNews.net.

Alex Bischoff
Interested in building a roof over your cubicle?
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Someone already has built a clear computer, minus the clear drive casings though, check it out here.

You know, I wonder how many hundreds of stories got rejected so we could hear about Jon Katz this morning..

First I ignored him. That didn't work.

Then I got aggrevated by his stupidity.

Then I put up with him. That didn't work either.

Then I filtered his ass out. And even that didn't work.

Then I wrote Rob and asked him why Katz has post access in the first place.

I've been reading Slashdot since the Chips & Dips days, and in all of that time, I've seen absolutely no reason to give a soapbox and spotlight to a print author, let alone a clueless, patently irritating author with questionable talent like Jon Katz.

Now other Slashdot authors starting doing Katz' posting for him. So, in my book, that's enough.
After submitting this post, I'll be nuking my Slashdot bookmark and switch over getting my daily fodder from GeekNews.net. I'm so sick of Katz' repeated HELLMOUTH HELLMOUTH HELLMOUTH crap that I could squat and blast out a Buick.

In recent weeks, Slashdot has gone from bad to worse because of this sort of thing. Interesting things, fun things, and enjoyable things have been replaced with hidden agendas, frothing trolls, and politics. As someone pointed out not too long ago, Slashdot is now officially lame. If you step back and look at it all, nowadays its mostly news written by a number of clueless VA/Andover goons, and mostly a steaming heap of crap that nobody really cares about. Rob & Hemos only post occasionally. In their absence, we get to hear the luminary wisdom of Timothy, and other equally clueless tots who probably couldn't find the power switch on an IMac with both hands. To me, Slashdot just isn't worth reading anymore. I know what it used to be like, and from what I see of Slashdot today, its nowhere near the same.

From now on i'll get my news from somewhere more interested in actual news for nerds, and stuff that actually matters, instead of going to a place more interested in legal activism, rehashed boring stories, and promotion of book sales for a talentless author who insists on milking the Columbine cow until its udders bleed from wear & tear.

You're right. If I dont like it, I dont have to come here. Thats why I wont come here anymore unless things go back to the way they truly used to be.

Bowie J. Poag

It'd look even cooler in this case
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I did an article over at Geeknews.net over devices which allow people to control their computers with electrical pulse that are generated from thinking. What are your thoughts on such products?

I did an article over at Geeknews.net over devices which allow people to control their computers with electrical pulse that are generated from thinking. What are your thoughts on such products?

Can't give geeknews.net credit. To find out what rob is bitching about click here.
I ate my tag line.

I find that alot of people radther talk to people on the the net instead of being online for protection reasons. The "Wall of Protection" helps easy communication between people becuase the fact they are not face to face. Talking about interacting and stuff like that, Geeknews.net has a message board thread about geek dating and geek freinds, and the sort. Also we should be having a geek dating site up in about a couple days. It's not just for find a lay or date - it for finding all sorts of people. All thou that these weblogs and message boards are nice - they just aren't personal enough for some people. You can goto the match maker sites - but there isn't one for geeks. So I hope to be able to get this site up and running really soon and start to make more for the community.

I find that alot of people radther talk to people on the the net instead of being online for protection reasons. The "Wall of Protection" helps easy communication between people becuase the fact they are not face to face. Talking about interacting and stuff like that, Geeknews.net has a message board thread about geek dating and geek freinds, and the sort. Also we should be having a geek dating site up in about a couple days. It's not just for find a lay or date - it for finding all sorts of people. All thou that these weblogs and message boards are nice - they just aren't personal enough for some people. You can goto the match maker sites - but there isn't one for geeks. So I hope to be able to get this site up and running really soon and start to make more for the community.

I find that alot of people radther talk to people on the the net instead of being online for protection reasons. The "Wall of Protection" helps easy communication between people becuase the fact they are not face to face. Talking about interacting and stuff like that, Geeknews.net has a message board thread about geek dating and geek freinds, and the sort. Also we should be having a geek dating site up in about a couple days. It's not just for find a lay or date - it for finding all sorts of people. All thou that these weblogs and message boards are nice - they just aren't personal enough for some people. You can goto the match maker sites - but there isn't one for geeks. So I hope to be able to get this site up and running really soon and start to make more for the community.

Geeknews.net is the case source!!! Ok - this was a blantent plug - but we do post about cases all the time.

Here's a link to an article (that was mentioned by Slashdot a while ago) that shows how to make a clear plastic case.

Real-time report for www.yahoo.com
[204.71.200.74]
Analysis: IP packets are stopping in network "Global Village Communication" between hops 12 and 13. Connections to HTTP port 80 are being rejected.

Some one kick those fools at Global Village Communications and turn port 80 back on.. :/

I posted this yesterday as this problem was happening.. I still don't know if it was a bad router and they are claiming foul play to avoid embaressment.. Wired News does not know either, they have conflicting stories posted!

One thing is for sure, Yahoo did not struggle stock wise because of this...

-X-

I must continue the Slashdot tradition of saying that all of this has been done before.

First of all, because there is frequently more interesting stuff there than here, and these guys need promotion, is that GeekNews posted this article to their website a couple of days ago.

Second, the first married couple in space flew on the U.S. Space Shuttle a few years ago. There was talk of this back then, the official line was that it wasn't going to happen, but if you had the opportunity, would you pass it up? methinks not.

Gee, leave it to /. to regurgitate a story posted on GeekNews like two days ago. God I love /.

Ok, who's smoking the dope... This was posted about a year ago on /.
Oh well.. Back to Geek News.

One of the downsides of Windows opensourcing is that there really isn't the equivalent of a freshmeat out there for OS products. Also is the point that the average Windows user (say, my mother) doesn't really care about the virtues/etc of open source software, and is more likely to pick up a lesser quality boxed piece of $oftware merely because it's easier (to their perspective) than downloading it from the internet and installing it themselves. In contrast, the average Linux user is (for the most part) a bit more saavy about computers if not a self-proclaimed geek, and is in an environment where open source is practically the norm.

Two interesting mini-essays that are fairly relevant below, both from the same guy (over at geeknews); the first re why Windows programming is actually fun, and the second about Linux and the common user.

Just my $0.02.


Why Penguins Can't Fly On The Desktop
Who Needs a Road Map?

One of the downsides of Windows opensourcing is that there really isn't the equivalent of a freshmeat out there for OS products. Also is the point that the average Windows user (say, my mother) doesn't really care about the virtues/etc of open source software, and is more likely to pick up a lesser quality boxed piece of $oftware merely because it's easier (to their perspective) than downloading it from the internet and installing it themselves. In contrast, the average Linux user is (for the most part) a bit more saavy about computers if not a self-proclaimed geek, and is in an environment where open source is practically the norm.

Two interesting mini-essays that are fairly relevant below, both from the same guy (over at geeknews); the first re why Windows programming is actually fun, and the second about Linux and the common user.

Just my $0.02.


Why Penguins Can't Fly On The Desktop
Who Needs a Road Map?

Also, geeknews.net has been keeping up pretty well on this.

Here's a news.com article, too:

• "
• Net Messaging Standards War Brewing"

Another interesting thing is that MS released a "fixed" build, which AOL then broke again. Round and round we go.

it is ugly

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