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How much Slashdot do we need to know in order to be called a geek?

I was at Hope College this week, where it all began. What does that get me? [bracing for rude replies]

After coming home from a hard-day's work on a Friday evening, I noticed something awful on Slashdot - Beside those already awful Facebook, Twitter, and G+ icons was a flag icon.

"Mother of God," I thought, and many of you thought the same when you first saw it, instantly knowing what it meant.

First, a little background - Slashdot(then known as Chips and Dips) was initiated by pseudonym Commander Taco in 1997. It was later augmented by pseudonym Hemos and the whole thing became Slashdot. By the way, what was to become one of the foremost discussion sites for science and technology was started by a religious twig and a fat fuck*

* there's a joke there, we're gonna get to it...

Yes, not that joke, but another joke, was that the some of the perceived online proponents of science news were actually Hopeless religious lunatics! And, like CommanderTaco and Hemos, I joined and spewed the filth internalized by priest rape without mentioning the dirty little secret. Not only were the two founders deeply religious, they had a preference for PERL(which, of course, is written and directed by an evangelical lunatic). Larry Wall had raped the two himself while on a religious mission to a Michigan dildo store, and they both gobbled his wholey language (among his other things) down and asked for seconds.

There's a joke here, too - Slashdot considers itself a bastion of free speech.
It prided itself for not deleting any comment, unless the circumstances were so dire that they threatened its own existence. They rightly publicised their first monumental loss, against the church of Scientology. Now it wants to "flag posts." For what? Reporting to homeland security? Flagging is not in the FAQ.

Historically, even though the moderators acted as the Basij,(to quote another Slashdot reader from years ago) charasmatic trolls could not be silenced. Now, with the flag icon, Slashdot has gone full censorship.

If their awful flagging cannot be destroyed by asking or pleading, it must be destroyed by trolling. Citizens - please flag every high-scoring comment you can, and offer a technical explanation why that comment should be flagged. When your comments disappear because of some jackass who doesn't agree with you, attack the advertisers next. Contact their advertising or PR department and say, " I was trying to say online how great your products were, but Slashdot's censorship system prevented others from seeing my comment. " Flood their advertisers with those comments until those awful flag icons disappear entirely and Slashdot releases a statement regretting the use of flags.

Oh, that joke you were wondering about. Hemos is now skinny and Commander Taco is now fat. And the Jew Timothy and his overlords at the JIDF are still in charge of Slashdot.

After coming home from a hard-day's work on a Friday evening, I noticed something awful on Slashdot - Beside those already awful Facebook, Twitter, and G+ icons was a flag icon.

"Mother of God," I thought, and many of you thought the same when you first saw it, instantly knowing what it meant.

First, a little background - Slashdot(then known as Chips and Dips) was initiated by pseudonym Commander Taco in 1997. It was later augmented by pseudonym Hemos and the whole thing became Slashdot. By the way, what was to become one of the foremost discussion sites for science and technology was started by a religious twig and a fat fuck*

* there's a joke there, we're gonna get to it...

Yes, not that joke, but another joke, was that the some of the perceived online proponents of science news were actually Hopeless religious lunatics! And, like CommanderTaco and Hemos, I joined and spewed the filth internalized by priest rape without mentioning the dirty little secret. Not only were the two founders deeply religious, they had a preference for PERL(which, of course, is written and directed by an evangelical lunatic). Larry Wall had raped the two himself while on a religious mission to a Michigan dildo store, and they both gobbled his wholey language (among his other things) down and asked for seconds.

There's a joke here, too - Slashdot considers itself a bastion of free speech.
It prided itself for not deleting any comment, unless the circumstances were so dire that they threatened its own existence. They rightly publicised their first monumental loss, against the church of Scientology. Now it wants to "flag posts." For what? Reporting to homeland security? Flagging is not in the FAQ.

Historically, even though the moderators acted as the Basij,(to quote another Slashdot reader from years ago) charasmatic trolls could not be silenced. Now, with the flag icon, Slashdot has gone full censorship.

If their awful flagging cannot be destroyed by asking or pleading, it must be destroyed by trolling. Citizens - please flag every high-scoring comment you can, and offer a technical explanation why that comment should be flagged. When your comments disappear because of some jackass who doesn't agree with you, attack the advertisers next. Contact their advertising or PR department and say, " I was trying to say online how great your products were, but Slashdot's censorship system prevented others from seeing my comment. " Flood their advertisers with those comments until those awful flag icons disappear entirely and Slashdot releases a statement regretting the use of flags.

Oh, that joke you were wondering about. Hemos is now skinny and Commander Taco is now fat. And the Jew Timothy and his overlords at the JIDF are still in charge of Slashdot.

After coming home from a hard-day's work on a Friday evening, I noticed something awful on Slashdot - Besides those already awful Facebook, Twitter, and G+ icons was a flag icon.

"Mother of God," I thought, and many of you thought the same when you first saw it, instantly knowing what it meant.

First, a little background - Slashdot(then known as Chips and Dips) was initiated by pseudonym Commander Taco in 1997. It was later augmented by pseudonym Hemos and the whole thing became Slashdot. By the way, what was to become one of the foremore discussion sites for science and technology was started by a religious twig and a fat fuck*

* there's a joke there, we're gonna get to it... Yes, not that joke, but another joke, was that the some of the perceived online proponents of science news were actually Hopeless religious lunatics! And, like CommanderTaco and Hemos, I joined and spewed the filth internalized by priest rape without mentioning the dirty little secret. Not only were the two founders deeply religious, they had a preference for PERL(which, of course, is written and directed by an evangelical lunatic). Larry Wall had raped the two himself while on a religious mission to a Michigan dildo store, and they both gobbled his wholey language (among his other things) down and asked for seconds.

There's a joke here, too - Slashdot considers itself a bastion of free speech. It prided itself for not deleting any comment, unless the circumstances were so dire that they threatened its own existence. They rightly publicised their first monumental loss, against the church of Scientology. Now it wants to "flag posts." For what? Reporting to homeland security? Flagging is not in the FAQ.

Historically, even though the moderators acted as the Basij(to quote another Slashdot reader from years ago) that charasmatic trolls could not be silenced. Now, with the flag icon, Slashdot has gone full censor.

If their awful flagging cannot be destroyed by asking or pleading, it must be destroyed by trolling. flag every high-scoring comment you can, and offer a technical explanation why that comment should be flagged. When your comments disappear because of some jackass who doesn't agree with you, attack the advertisers next. Contact their advertising or PR department and say, " I was trying to say online how great your products were, but Slashdot's censorship system prevented others from seeing my comment. " Flood their advertisers with those comments until those awful flag icons disappear entirely and Slashdot releases a statement regretting the use of flags.

Oh, that joke you were wondering about. Hemos is now skinny and Commander Taco is now fat. And the Jew Timothy and his overlords at the JIDF are still in charge of Slashdot.

How long have accurate temperature readings been kept? When I say "accurate", I mean with 0.76C margin of error? Is that really long enough to make a trend?

Using mass spectrometry to measure the oxygen isotope ratio in ice cores allows temperature data to be collected going back 500,000 years. My source doesn't say whether the margin of error meets your particular demands, though. (I suspect it does.)

Meh; would have been funny except for the "community college" fail. (Especially since the reality of a wishfully elite church-affiliated libarts school offers much better material ;-)

Try Calvin College...yeesh. Just because Taco went to Hope (bitter rivals)...grumble grumble...

Pictures of the telescope.

Since Calvin College is far superior to Hope College in every respect (academics, sports, etc.), do you think that Slashdot would have taken off faster if run from the second floor of North Hall?

Call it what you will, go all existential and quote Ecclesiasties if you want. But there is a real sense in which wealth is created.

But the main thing is that economics is about the distribution and allocation of scarce resources. It is their scarcity that gives them value and you 'create' wealth by ensuring that these scarce resources are directed to the people that value them the most.

Thus, if I have 10 jars of jam and you have 10 jars of peanut butter, swapping one of my jars of jam for one of your jars of peanut butter will make both of us better off. (The assumptions underlying this example are so obvious that anyone who wants to try a 'but I don't like jam' argument can just go and jump.) Nothing has been created but the allocation has been improved - a win, win situation that creates value for both parties concerned.

You so nearly got it with your blood circulation analogy. Consider the value you would get from having a completely dysfunctional circulatory system - it would be significantly less than you have with your current well functioning circulation and distribution system. If all your blood went to one organ alone the value you experienced from that would be significantly less than if you actually had blood distributed to all the organs that actually needed it - you'd be dead (even if you did have the biggest hard on known to man).

And this response hasn't even begun to touch on technological innovation and production which also creates wealth but will be left as an exercise for the reader.

My first thought is, how many people who posted "Who is CmdrTaco?" actually weren't being intentionally funny? For those who don't know, CmdrTaco is the guy who wrote all the bits of Slash that don't work well.

My second thought is to congratulate both CmdrTaco and Hemos on their alma mater winning the NCAA Basketball Championship!

My third thought is that, given the advancing age of the proprietors of the site, banner ads for Metamucil and Levitra ought to be showing up here any day now.

Eventually, I got around to thinking to say "Happy Birthday!"

Actually, Slashdot started out as "Chips N Dips" at http://www.cs.hope.edu/~malda/cnd/ (no longer at that URL obviously) I pulled this up in archive.org once but I can't seem to right now as archive.org search seems to be slashdotted.

CmdrTaco went to Hope College, which is an excellent Christian based institution. He also attended Christian school all the way through high school.

What you really missed was CmdrTaco flaunting his contempt for not only the college, but his parents beliefs and one of their strongest reasons for paying to send their son to very excellent schools. That means he can realate to about much of the ./ crowd that have similar thoughts on the matter.

In this context, I would also have to consider Taco's comments to be a blantant attack.

IANAClimatologist, but this chart doesn't look like some kind of noisy trend: Atmospheric CO2... (from Antarctic Ice Cores and Environmental Change).

Do we know that increased CO2 is correlated with global temperature? I won't say either way because I haven't read a paper on the topic.

Should we be concerned that *maybe*, just *maybe* our activities might be rendering the planet unlivable? I think so. If there were a 1 in 1000 chance buying car make X would result in a fatal (for you) car accident, would you buy it? Are we at the point where there's a 1 in 1000 chance that human activity is having an impact on the weather? It seems reasonable to me that we've established all kinds of local correlations (acid rain, anyone?), and if the global system is a little too complex to predict with any certainty we can at least posit that all of this local activity is sooner or later going to add up to a global trend.

Better safe than sorry?

IANAClimatologist, but this chart doesn't look like some kind of noisy trend: Atmospheric CO2... (from Antarctic Ice Cores and Environmental Change).

Do we know that increased CO2 is correlated with global temperature? I won't say either way because I haven't read a paper on the topic.

Should we be concerned that *maybe*, just *maybe* our activities might be rendering the planet unlivable? I think so. If there were a 1 in 1000 chance buying car make X would result in a fatal (for you) car accident, would you buy it? Are we at the point where there's a 1 in 1000 chance that human activity is having an impact on the weather? It seems reasonable to me that we've established all kinds of local correlations (acid rain, anyone?), and if the global system is a little too complex to predict with any certainty we can at least posit that all of this local activity is sooner or later going to add up to a global trend.

Better safe than sorry?

Crossfire can get free and nobody will sue them. But if they re-name themselves "Crossfire Scholar", they will have a trademark problem too.

Here are a few others that use the term Scholar in their product name - will the ACS sue them too (I think the Rhodes Scholars for one would win):

1. Ron Brown Scholar Program http://www.ronbrown.org/
2. Webelements Periodic Table of the Elements - Scholar Edition http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/
3. Jenses's Scholar's Guide to Humanities and Social Science http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/
4. The Black Scholar http://www.theblackscholar.org/
5. Scholar's Bookshelf http://www.scholarsbookshelf.com/
6. Fulbright US Scholar Program http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/
7. Christian Scholar's Review http://www.hope.edu/resources/csr/
8. Scholar and Femenist Online http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/
9. ScholarSite.com http://www.scholarsearch.net/
10. Warrior-Scholar.com http://www.warrior-scholar.com/
11. Tennessee Scholar Dollars http://www.tnscholardollars.com/
12. MAA Scholar http://www.maa.mhn.de/scholar.html
13. Scholar Inc. http://www.scholarinc.com/
14. The Thirsty Scholar Restaurant and Pub http://www.thirstyscholarpub.com/
15. Twisted Scholar Inc. http://www.twistedscholar.com/
16. Midtown Scholar Bookstore http://www.midtownscholar.com/
17. Electronic Scholar http://www.electronicscholar.com/
18. War Scholar http://www.warscholar.com/
19. Rhodes Scholar http://www.rhodesscholar.org/

You are a USDA-certified Troll

If SciFinder is so great, unique, etc., why is the ACS so worried? It's not because of what Google Scholar is now, but what it will become in a few years.

Their actions in firing off a slap-suit say that they are the ones trolling - trying to lock in a market with a dumb lawsuit that has a good chance of being dismissed with prejudice.

> Corner office and a pile of stock. :[

Ecclesiastes 8:14 - "There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people who are treated according to the conduct of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are treated according to the conduct of the righteous."

So true!

Horse's mouth on the Topic

Modern versions are copyrighted, and the terms can be pretty harsh. As an example, look at the copyright terms for the New Revised Standard Version :

The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

The New Revised Standard Version Bible may be quoted and/or reprinted up to and inclusive of five hundred (500) verses without express written permission of the publisher, provided the verses quoted do not amount to a complete book of the Bible or account for fifty percent (50%) of the total work in which they are quoted.

In a way, it's sad really.

Found it on google http://www.hope.edu/academic/religion/bandstra/BIB LE/PSA/PSA37.HTM

I see your point.

Eh. My girl went to college with C.T. and she tells me that he's a bad mother fucka. He WAS the terror of Holland, MI before he became a Millionaire! Many a punk ass got a free trip to the bottom of the big lake for looking at him the wrong way. So don't be playing. Anyone who can (at one point) get rich off a web site must have some mob or gang connections!

It's 'cause all those /. geeks went to Hope College, so everything they do is done hopefully, which when you think about it is better than hopelessly.

Proving once again that there is Life after Hope.

"Recta non toleranda futuaris nisi irrisus ridebis"

"Recta non toleranda futuaris nisi irrisus ridebis"

You've come a long way from Hope College baby! A school whose basketball sked includes Hope vs. Calvin. The theological implications are chilling.

I have had some trouble with finding places to list my resume. Anyone have any experience with European firms and what job sites they look at?

In a note to firms: I graduate with a BS in CS this May. I have close family ties to the Netherlands and am ready for work in May of 2000. Check out my resume if you would like to.

I am stating that my ethics lead me to choose the GPL. The same set of my ethics opposes the ownership and/or use of firearms.

I believe that all decisions in life should be based on a set of ethics; if you disagree with me here, I think we have a fundamental breach. To me, guns and opression go hand-in-hand. Linux is the farthest thing from opression.

I am not stating that gun owners who use Linux are unethical. I am (and have been, if you care to read what I've said) asking how they can go hand in hand under the same set of ethics.

I'll simplify this for simpler minds: You need to show me one thing from this list:

1) It is OK to make a decision (like what OS you use) not based on ethics. (This is a hard route to take... saying "it is OK" seems to say "it is ethical")
2) Guns do not imply opression. (I cannot understand how this argument would work, but if you can make it, go for it!)
3) Linux/GPL does not imply freedom.
4) Every choice one makes is independant from one's other choices. (This seems to be the path you are taking. If you prove this, however, I think you de-centralize life from the individual, which seems to me a bad thing.)
5) There is no such thing as "ethics."

There might be other options. In fact, I will probably get belligerant replys to this stating "You forgot to say 6) ESR likes guns," or "6) The Gnu should be hunted to extinction."

Again, I think this debate has gotten too off-topic and too extensive for the realm of /. I would love to continue it via e-mail.

OK. I think it's gotten to the point where no one else here really wants to read our little discussion. e-mail me and explain why it's not good to have open source on the derived work... I think that is a good idea. I could be hopelessly naive here, so please correct me (via e-mail) if I am. "Sell" it to me :)

e-mail me if you have to. I want to know.