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  1. Salon by mutende · · Score: 2 · on Crack A "Numbers" Station

    Salon had an article last year about the number stations.
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  2. More good critical sites about Scientology by double_h · · Score: 1 · on Anti-Scientology Site Shut Down

    Here is some more good reading for folks to explore while waiting for the xenu.net matter to get straightened out:

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/

    http://www.rickross.com/groups/scientolo gy.html

    http://wpxx02.toxi.un i-wuerzburg.de/~cowen/essays/essays.html

    http://www.xenutv.com

    (I'll bet that this story will probably get Slashdot placed on the ScienoScitter block list, if it isn't already...)

  3. An underemphasized moment in MS history by Otter · · Score: 3 · on How The Web Was Almost Won

    That crippling of NT-Workstation never created as much outrage as I thought it should. Beyond the usual anti-competive bundling, they got caught repeatedly and blatantly lying about the "added features" of NT-Server.

    Speaking of not getting attention, I was amazed that Salon's recent "How Slashdot Will Destroy Society" article didn't rate a mention here. I wrote up a comment as soon as I saw the story, and was surprised that it wasn't linked here.

  4. more insights on Visual vs. Knuth-like programming by lqd · · Score: 2 · on The Art of Don E. Knuth

    There's a link on the salon page to an article closely related to this, IMO a quite decent piece (and actually a quite good summary of the reasons why I personally stick to vi, makefiles and all that good stuff).
    Check it out at http://www.salon1 999.com/21st/feature/1998/05/cov_12feature2.html.

  5. The Hotmail thing doesn't help... by Otter · · Score: 1 · on Cringely on StarOffice, W2k, Alpha & more

    On an unrelated front, the Hotmail fiasco is turning out to be a black eye for them, as well. Mistakes happen, but they clearly left the servers running well after everyone and his dog was raiding other peoples' accounts. (There's an article in Salon by someone who read about it in CNN, found the URL on /. and read the mail of a woman who took her boyfriend. How many other incidents like that were there? Hundreds? Thousands?)

    And then their PR campaign erred too far on the side of understatement. Reading stories in the mainstream press, it sounds like that business about "required an advanced knowledge of web development language" came across as condescending and blatantly untrue.

  6. Salon's Story by digitaldaniel · · Score: 1 · on The Practical Manager's Guide to Linux

    For another summery on the Linux-MS results Salon has a small article describing Linun's feelings towards the test performes, and the next set of tests with linux community input. It also has a few harsh words from RedHat's Ceo (Bob Young I Think).

    And I Did enjoy this report very much, it is definately a good tool for persuading management to use Linux (not much new for the linux believers though). I will have to print this out and save it for refrence.

  7. Salon's Story by digitaldaniel · · Score: 1 · on The Practical Manager's Guide to Linux

    For another summery on the Linux-MS results Salon has a small article describing Linun's feelings towards the test performes, and the next set of tests with linux community input. It also has a few harsh words from RedHat's Ceo (Bob Young I Think).

    And I Did enjoy this report very much, it is definately a good tool for persuading management to use Linux (not much new for the linux believers though). I will have to print this out and save it for refrence.

  8. if(site="slate") { site="salon"; } by grossdog · · Score: 1 · on Slate Takes on Linux

    I was incredulous after reading the techie article (can't run dos under linux? dosemu...) and just angry after reading the English major one. Then, I stopped for a moment and thought to myself:
    "Slate articles have always been misleading or just wrong when it comes to technology. They may be owned by a 'hi-tek' company, but the fact that they even manage to publish their magazine on the web is a surprise given their tech knowledge. It is obvious that the tech people and the writers/editors are on different continents."

    As an Enlish/CS kinda guy, Slate just sucks. They try, but the site just doesn't interest me. Much of their commentary just seems dated or irrelevant. Forget the Microsoft connection, I jsut don't like slate!

    If you're looking for a good general-interest web-magazine that's also tech-savvy, try salon. If you're looking for more human-interest stories, try word. Charged is good for those of us who have short attention spans and like nice, flashy grafx. The point is, there are a good number of worthwhile general interest web magazines. Slate just isn't one of them.

    --Andrew Grossman
    grossdog@dartmouth.edu

  9. Add Tom Tomorrow for comics section by Enry · · Score: 1 · on Announcing Customizable Slashdot

    It's weekly only, and political in nature, but at least he picks on everyone.

    http://www.salon1999.com/comics/comics 1.html