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slashdot is ghey, ghey, ghey. period.

c/mon, personals for slashdot readers? that has to be the most dumb idea i have heard in such a long time, (next to the Air Zooka), of course.

dating sucks. web dating sucks even more.

what a waste of perfectly good bandwidth.

I had to post it somewhere. I just saw the slashdot personals at (hosted by match.com) on the top of the front page (here) and had to comment. That has got to be both the worst and greatest idea of all time.

Well, since it goes here: http://www.osdn.com/personals I would guess it's real.

Here

Actually an entirely separate front page section with recent software releases would be a pretty cool thing.

Keeping things on topic, anyone know how OSS friendly EMC is?

I did some research about this, and I found an article stating that Compaq, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel and Sun Join Open Source Development Network. But note that this article is dated for the year 2000. Founded by them OSDN site feels VERY good. And we can see it was a really good (bottom) initiative (OSDN even supports slashdot ;).

I tried to answer if after 4 years EMC is still supporting OSDN. Yet I was unable to confirm that.

those are the results of my research in this interestong topic. If you have manage to confirm that EMC still supports OSDN, please let us know!

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Keeping things on topic, anyone know how OSS friendly EMC is?

I did some research about this, and I found an article stating that Compaq, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel and Sun Join Open Source Development Network. But note that this article is dated for the year 2000. Founded by them OSDN site feels VERY good. And we can see it was a really good (bottom) initiative (OSDN even supports slashdot ;).

I tried to answer if after 4 years EMC is still supporting OSDN. Yet I was unable to confirm that.

those are the results of my research in this interestong topic. If you have manage to confirm that EMC still supports OSDN, please let us know!

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Funny that this banner ad was on the page when I loaded this article... It read: Making the right decision may save you millions... Making the wrong decision may cost your job

Thanks /.!

I generally don't mind looking at a few ads in exchange for good content, but I added "0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com" to my HOSTS when they started advertising this filth. Taco and Hemo might have cushy jobs, but the rest of us would like to make a living...

This is the advert in question.

[Follow up]

Well, lookie at the banner ad that just popped up on /. ~~~ Serverbeach, home of lots'o spammers.

http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=622&alloc_id=3241&site_ id=1&request_id=5711987&1068516875950

Will this comment post... or is the /. auto-censor running? ;-)

• 1 had completed just basic public education (high school)
• 15 had attended college or technical school
• 23 had an undergraduate degree (B.S., B.A., etc.)
• 19 had attended graduate school
• 15 had a graduate degree (M.S., M.A., etc.)
• 9 had done further graduate work
• 19 had a terminal degree (Ph.D., M.D., etc.)

• 4 had 1 year
• 10 had 2-4 years
• 31 had 5-9 years
• 40 had 10-20 years
• 16 had 20+ years

"Contrary to popular belief about hackers, the open source community is mostly comprised of highly skilled IT professionals who have on average over 10 years of programming experience."

• 1 had completed just basic public education (high school)
• 15 had attended college or technical school
• 23 had an undergraduate degree (B.S., B.A., etc.)
• 19 had attended graduate school
• 15 had a graduate degree (M.S., M.A., etc.)
• 9 had done further graduate work
• 19 had a terminal degree (Ph.D., M.D., etc.)

• 4 had 1 year
• 10 had 2-4 years
• 31 had 5-9 years
• 40 had 10-20 years
• 16 had 20+ years

"Contrary to popular belief about hackers, the open source community is mostly comprised of highly skilled IT professionals who have on average over 10 years of programming experience."

These skyscraper ads on the right side suck ass.

Although I just went through and refreshed a page like 100 times to pull up one of the ads and it turns out you're right - I couldn't tell based on the ad, but they're actually for a mailing list that sends out the Slashdot headlines. (The ad brings you here and I assume the ad was for this. Not what I expected based on the ad, though.)

BTW, the ad I saw says: "Missed Yesterday's News?" and then "Slashdot: News every day, whether you need it or not." I thought it was advertising Slashdot in general.

The another says "Get Your Daily Dose of Slashdot" and "Sign up for daily Slashdot headlines" - which made it a lot clearer what it was advertising.

Although I just went through and refreshed a page like 100 times to pull up one of the ads and it turns out you're right - I couldn't tell based on the ad, but they're actually for a mailing list that sends out the Slashdot headlines. (The ad brings you here and I assume the ad was for this. Not what I expected based on the ad, though.)

BTW, the ad I saw says: "Missed Yesterday's News?" and then "Slashdot: News every day, whether you need it or not." I thought it was advertising Slashdot in general.

The another says "Get Your Daily Dose of Slashdot" and "Sign up for daily Slashdot headlines" - which made it a lot clearer what it was advertising.

I too have seen these popups, and have isolated them to a particular ad (it's this annoying flash ad that looks like a blue battery charging charge icon. There may be more than just this one.)

I doubt it's due to malware or spyware...I'm running Mac OS 9. Just open this URL in a new window and keep clicking it until you get this blue battery. Then click it again, and you'll get a popup as the page unloads.

Incidentally, there may be cookies at play here too, since I had trouble getting the popunders to return until I went into my cookie settings and located (and removed) the two questionmarket cookies...one is named LP - this is the one that shows up when the popup displays. You may have to delete this cookie before the popunders display (when unloading the blue battery ad.)

"Can Linux do this?"

No, it requires a mouse.

Don't think so... try xclip

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around 's name for free. Now we no longer have to get paid under the counter from for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos who was watching streaming video from .

Industry insiders say the move was planned all along and that staff secretly conspired to generate free publicity for which is no longer struggling thanks to 's repeated mention of their name. "We think that, all along the plan was for to keep posting about until at least one in every one article mentioned because after all has become such a hot topic that we poop or just thinking about it.

staff would not elaborate more on this but stay tuned for upcoming posts regarding this groundbreaking news. And now for real news you can lose: Folks over at posted maps of the nations infrastructure free for terrorists to Download. Hooray you go Department of Homegrownland InSecurity. Folks over at have posted the guidelines for "National Information Security Systems" and it can be viewed at . A hacker snitch is in 's website after being caught doing sleazy shit. Now he wants the people at to violate his as promised. And finally, Scientists

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around 's name for free. Now we no longer have to get paid under the counter from for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos who was watching streaming video from .

Industry insiders say the move was planned all along and that staff secretly conspired to generate free publicity for which is no longer struggling thanks to 's repeated mention of their name. "We think that, all along the plan was for to keep posting about until at least one in every one article mentioned because after all has become such a hot topic that we poop or just thinking about it.

staff would not elaborate more on this but stay tuned for upcoming posts regarding this groundbreaking news. And now for real news you can lose: Folks over at posted maps of the nations infrastructure free for terrorists to Download. Hooray you go Department of Homegrownland InSecurity. Folks over at have posted the guidelines for "National Information Security Systems" and it can be viewed at . A hacker snitch is in 's website after being caught doing sleazy shit. Now he wants the people at to violate his as promised.

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around 's name for free. Now we no longer have to get paid under the counter for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos who was watching streaming video from .

Industry insiders say the move was planned all along and that Slashdot staff secretly conspired to generate free publicity for which is no longer struggling thanks to Slashdot's repeated mention of their name. "We think that, all along the plan was for Slashdot to keep posting about until at least one in every one article mentioned because after all has become such a Slashdot hot topic that we poop or just thinking about it.

staff would not elaborate more on this but stay tuned for upcoming posts regarding this groundbreaking news.

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around 's name for free. Now we get paid under the counter for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos who was watching streaming video from .

Industry insiders say the move was planned all along and that Slashdot staff secretly conspired to generate free publicity for which is no longer struggling thanks to Slashdot's repeated mention of their name. "We think that, all along the plan was for Slashdot to keep posting about until at least one in every one article mentioned because after all has become such a Slashdot hot topic that we poop or just thinking about it.

staff would not elaborate more on this but stay tuned for upcoming posts regarding this groundbreaking news.

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around .'s name for free. Now we get paid under the counter for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos who was watching streaming video from ..

Industry insiders say the move was planned all along and that Slashdot staff secretly conspired to generate free publicity for . which is no longer struggling thanks to Slashdot's repeated mention of their name. "We think that, all along the plan was for Slashdot to keep posting about . until at least one in every one article mentioned . because after all . has become such a Slashdot hot topic that we poop or . just thinking about it.

. staff would not elaborate more on this but stay tuned for upcoming posts regarding this groundbreaking news.

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around SCO's name for free. Now we get paid under the counter for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos.

Industry insiders say the move was planned all along and that Slashdot staff secretly conspired to generate free publicity for SCO which is no longer struggling thanks to Slashdot's repeated mention of their name. "We think that, all along the plan was for Slashdot to keep posting about SCO until at least one in every one article mentioned SCO because after all SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO. And for Slashdot this means SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO not to mention SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO.

Experts are analyzing the current situation to tally a number behind Slashdot's fascination with SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO. We remember some time back in the late 90's where the talk was all Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft, but as time unwinds, we are enlightened with our new favorite Slashdot past-time.

"We're excited about this unique opportunity to whore around SCO's name for free. Now we get paid under the counter for doing so. I'm really excited considering I was about to hit the unemployment line pretty soon." stated Slashdot's Hemos.

Industry insiders say the move was planned all along and that Slashdot staff secretly conspired to generate free publicity for SCO which is no longer struggling thanks to Slashdot's repeated mention of their name. "We think that, all along the plan was for Slashdot to keep posting about SCO until at least one in every one article mentioned SCO because after all SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO. And for Slashdot this means SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO not to mention SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO.

Experts are analyzing the current situation to tally a number behind Slashdot's fascination with SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO. We remember some time back in the late 90's where the talk was all Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft, but as time unwinds, we are enlightened with our new favorite Slashdot past-time which happens to be SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO SCO

What? This looks like .Net to you? :-P

If I were a telemarketer, I'd be overjoyed at the prospect of a national do-not-call list.

Not necessarily; the businesses are probably happy about the list, but the telemarketing firms themselves are very upset. I have no doubt that the "best" telemarketing firms are those that misrepresent the allure of their consumer lists and their services. For a specific example, look at OSDN's ad page. Evidently, the /. editor's uneducated jabs this week's $current_villan are "[..] the richest, most relevant editorial content [..]" around.

Boston, Massachusetts and its environs are filled with incredibly geeky things. Boston is the home of the Free Software Foundation, Ximian, and OSDN. Just across the river, Cambridge is the home of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undeniably a geek Mecca. Next door to MIT is Harvard University (as the MIT t-shirts say, "Harvard: Because not everybody can get in to MIT"). Plus we've got the Big Dig, which despite its infamy for budget overruns, corruption, and defacement of the city landscape, is also home to some incredibly geeky marvels of engineering! And of course, many other geeks of note live and work in and around Boston.

Probably no coincidence at all, the NYT probably keeps very close tabs on traffic volumes and referers, so when they start getting hits from /. they can check the context pretty quick and if they chose, use the Self Serve Ad System and put up 175,000 impressions for $1,000, in almost the blink of an eye. Or even a bet on who's refers slows who's servers by 25% first; say maybe the purchase of a banner ad?

With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as forums, comments and bug trackers ("OSDN Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such OSDN Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display content activity, such content is owned by OSDN. In each such case, the submitting user grants OSDN the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license.

Is it true that some companies are so overcome with script bias that they'd assign years of unnecessary work rather than give it to the coding untouchables?"

This would be the conventional wisdom...

There was nothing conventional about it when the work was done, and considering the lag between economic research, policy implementation, and observational results, it is quite unreasonable to ask for examples that are less than a couple of decades old. If you want examples of recent research that is important for policy then you could take a look at the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

I take it you mean "one of their observations.

No. A theoretical prediction was made that if more money was spent on R&D then the economy would grow at a faster rate. The growth was observed after the theory was put into practice.

I would like to see that evidence of which you spake, because my personal observations have lead me to believe that IP laws haven't done much for the average man, but have gone a long way towards making the rich even richer.

Different issue - increased spending on research produced more growth - whether changes in IP laws helped is another question entirely.

But my guess is they won't even post this message to the article discussion. Yet more proof to there incompetence...

There are Slashdot awards?

OSDN probably wouldn't mind. Imagine the ratings spike!

According to Nielsen//NetRatings' Winter 2003 @Plan data, OSDN is the No. 1 network for delivering people who look for technology news online and the No. 1 network for delivering visitors who have shopped for or purchased software online in the past 6 months, based on composition. OSDN is the home of several popular web sites, including the award winning news discussion site, Slashdot.org, and the world's largest collaborative software development site, SourceForge.net

In other news, A semi-popular tech news website Slashdot was sold to Cmdr Taco the website's main guy. sources say in a surprising move OSDN has become tired of maintaining the now defunct website and sold the domain name for $5.00 Canadian to Taco. Taco comments that he will probably wipe the message board completely and devote the site to the popular Goatse site. " Slashdot has become bloated with useless "news" articles and has been pushed farther from the original goal of promoting goatse and related trolls" says Taco. Slashdot's new slogan will become "Obscene, dirty, filthy, immoral, Ahh Yeah!" It is also rumored that Seth Finkelstein will stay on board to fulfill scripting duties.

Well, this isn't such an obvious answer to the title question. You could say that the slashdot 0wners 'own' science, since they are the ones who post the stuff there. However, the all work for OSDN, who also 0wns the domain, i believe.
Or, you could just say Richard Feynman 0wns J00 because of his hair.

How much is one of these frontpage /. ads?

175,000 banner impressions for $1,000.

A company should be allowed to charge whatever it want's for it's products. No one is forced to buy.

Nintendo has an effective monopoly on sub-$100 handheld video game systems (a Pocket PC currently doesn't count because it's at least three times as expensive as a GBA) in the United States, and this monopoly drove the development of the Afterburner light kit from Triton Labs.

The following doesn't exactly apply to Nintendo Co Ltd and its worldwide subsidiaries, but try owning a home in an industrialized country for three months without paying a local utility monopoly such as the electric power company. Pretty much the most prominent people to pull this off are the Amish.

How many of you have read the Slashdot EULA?

Hey, knock yourself out. While the tag line may say "Anonymous Coward," I suspect the system still remembers who actually posted it, even if you have to trace it back to an IP address (granted, that's not the most accurate way of doing things--especially with the PPP effect--but I'm just saying that some sort of imprinting is going on).

However, if you've read the OSDN terms of service, owning the copyright on your post may be moot. You've already granted them the irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to do anything they want with your material, and this is standard with any corporate-owned message board/community.

1. I can do anything I like.
2. You have no power.
3. You can't say anything bad about me.
4. Everything belongs to me.

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oops pressed enter too fast, now it is not funny any more, this site is getting slashed into pieces now.

Is is me(internet exploder) or do lot's of the lines in details not connect, or are there big white gaps everywhere? Like here

There really is a penguin at the center of the kernel!

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