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NewsThis may be a little of topic, but please bear with me. I have been trying to get any news about the crash on all the major news websites. Thank goodness for Slashdot. All the other "news" organizations are swamped. One would think, in this age of the internet and the relatively cheap hardware out there, that the major news sites would be able to handle the traffic of a serious disaster. Remember 9/11? Did they learn nothing from the sudden influx of traffic? People want to know what is going on. These sites claim to be news leaders. Yet anytime there is a serious need or desire for news, the site goes down.
We've got your news coverage right here.
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Slant-Six Coverage
We've got some reliable linkage online here. Check comments there for further updates.
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Astronomers are just guessing
The results further strengthen the case for the Big Bang theory and for the nature of the universe as astronomers understand it today.
Astronomers *don't* understand the nature of the universe -- they're just guessing and in most cases are the first to admit it. That's why the Big Bang theory is just that -- a theory. It's not as if astronomers know with 100% certainty that the Big Bang occured and they're just ironing out the details, contrary to what you may have been told in high school. There are a *lot* of theories about the creation of the universe out there (including the "it's always been here, it'll always be here" theory) -- the Big Bang theory is just the most popular (despite the obvious glaring holes -- such as "why did it happen in the first place?")
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And here is the proof...It's a hoax (damnit, I wanted Cesium to replace my BeOS RC5.0.3 installation) and here is the tacit admission of such.
Now, who wants to work on this OS for real? I suck at OS coding (as I haven't done ANY coding in 5 years), but I'll gladly be a beta-test space-monkey for you!
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Re:haox, so he says in a replay
actually that was a different (second?) account
r vey vs. http://www.slant-six.org/display.asp?type=u&id=Dun kirkH -
Re:haox, so he says in a replay
actually that was a different (second?) account
r vey vs. http://www.slant-six.org/display.asp?type=u&id=Dun kirkH -
Re:Never heard of any such Cesium project...Check back to the slant-six website. You'll notice that the author has blantantly admitted the article was a complete hoax, trying to see how many sucker, er, I mean hits he could get. Disappointing... Remember people, always check your sources. Personally, I got suspicious when the only photo on the page was of a (presumably) MIT building.
To the issue of the database-file system, the guys over at Be talked about the database as a file-system technique and said their were issues with the performance versus a typical file system. In the end, the opted to comprimise by creating a database-like file system that still outperforms every other file system I've seen out there. What's incredible is without techniques like Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP's indexing, you get instantaneous results to any sort of file-system query.
So, of the THOUSANDS of OS projects out there, anyone interested in getting started on some of the concepts? -
Very efficient hoax.
This was also a very efficient hoax. "Harvey M. Dunkirk" has been a member of Slant-Six since "10/29/2001 3:09:40 PM." See: Slant-Six Information for Harvey M. Dunkirk. The Slashdot story was posted by Timothy on October 29, @06:58PM. Four hours from start to successful completion.
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It's almost assuredely a hoax...
The 'editor' of S6 questions the validity.
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Trick or Treat: Slashdot and the Cesium OS hoax!
Well, looks like Timothy from Slashdot's own "call-the-next-one-nitrogen dept." was easily fooled into posting an article on Slant-six about MIT's soon to be released "Cesium OS!" The only problem is there is no such thing! And over 2 hours later the Slashdot story hasn't been updated. Considering that the Cesium OS "treat" is vaperware, I guess Slashdot took the "trick" instead.
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Re:Never heard of any such Cesium project...
heh, pretty creative way to troll slashdot. Use a little-known website that allows story submissions and trick them into posting it. After they do that, turn around and submit a 'story' to slashdot and use the story that got submitted on slantsix to get the slashdot editors to put your submission on the main page.
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More WilA much more revealing interview with Wil Weaton can be found here, courtesy of Adequacy.org.
It was supposed to be on Slant-Six as well, but never quite made it there.
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Re:Letter from the Salon's editor
Uh. I would say to Salon's editors: you sold out.
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Re:Funny where the news comes fromI have to agree. When the big news sources (CNN et al.) got smashed with traffic, an amazing amount of responsibility came down to the amateur journalists of the world, who did a wonderful job of reporting what they saw on their own websites.
Hats off to the webloggers and other people whose generally mundane daily updates suddenly became a source for an information-starved world.
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Re:What can be done about terrorism?I have to commend the US Government for having shown a lot of restraint. I know everyone's itching to figure out what country we can bomb, but they really are taking their time and trying to make sure they've got the right person.
They've already dropped hints that war is probably imminent, but it is possible that they're just bluffing in an attempt to get political leaders to turn over the terrorists. The Taliban are peeing their pants right now.
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Re:WallStreetItalia webcam
I've opened the submission queue at Slant-Six so people who don't have their own websites and whose comments would otherwise be lost among the millions being generated in discussion forums like this will have a place where they can tell their story, post pictures, etc.
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Amateur Journalism
There's an article about this on my site called Amateur Journalism Feeds a Confused World . Yes, I'm spamming my own site, but I think it's at least partially relevant here.
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Hints of War
Slant-Six is running some interesting articles about the situation, including a summary of the hints the government has been giving us that war is nearly inevitable.
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Re:CNN newsfeed closed down.
Some information about the amateur journalism taking place during all this can be found here. (Yes, that's the same website that's in my profile.)
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Mirror
A mirror of this site should be online in a few minutes soon here (pardon the current mess).
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Re:Comparisons?If someone ends up 4 years behind because they spent that much of their life playing Quake, wouldn't you count that as damage?
Four years? I'd call that Quad Damage.
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Re:Donations...How exactly do we know that this paypal account is valid, eh? I could make a killing by taking 5 minutes to set up an account and then posting on Slashdot (because, of course, such noble activism certain warrants enough +1s to bring it to the top of the comments). Brilliant scheme, no?
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Re:Deja Vu all over again
You, as a webmaster, have no right to steal Yahoo!'s news content and claim it as your own for your web site. If you can't cope with the fact that you cannot write any original content, then you shouldn't have a web page at all. Even Slashdot credits their sources and includes their own opinion.
If you want to use My Yahoo!, then do. If you don't want to, then don't use it. Stop stealing content. Yahoo! will be notified. -
Interesting TacticCompetition: "Oh, there is? Really? How does it...? Oh, geez that's really bad. It does that too!? You're joking? Wow, we'll get on that right away." (Hangs up phone and calls police.)
PHB: "Good work, Johnson! That'll show 'em!"
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Re:Deja Vu all over againAin't capitalism a bitch?
People here seem to be forgetting the rock-solid principle that makes capitalism work in the first place: If you don't like something, don't buy it.
This discussion has been full of comments about Microsoft "not having the right" to bundle the products, or that users are being "forced" to buy things they don't want. That's nonsense. If you don't like the price of the XBox you see in stores, buy it somewhere else, or don't buy it at all.
You, as a user, have no intrinsic God-given right to own an XBox. If you have money and think it's a good deal, get one. If not, don't. It's just that simple.
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Re:..... and Thank You For Killing The Opera Brows/. works fine on Opera for me. Maybe you shouldn't be using a Pressario or whatever POS your computer is....
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Re:Sigh...Just another reason to go with a PS2 or a Gamecube, I guess. Don't retailers understand that forcing people to pay a hundred extra bucks for games that not everyone wants, instead of letting the customer choose these things is bad?
How is it bad? Customers get some games to start off their systems, and Microsoft gets lots of money from the game developers. Some people might not care for the fact that "the evil company" is "forcing" them to buy these games, but it's just common business sense. That's how companies make money, which is what companies are supposed to do. We don't complain when the free version of Opera "forces" us to look at banners, for example. If enough stores go along with this nonsense, the $299 sticker price for Xbox means nothing, and will end up being a huge boost to the competition. When you buy a car, you don't have to add an extra $1000 for the included yacht.
That's an absurd comparison. A more appropriate comparision might be paying some extra money with your car to get a moon roof, or better sound system, or some other thing. Just because the company involved is Microsoft doesn't mean that their actions must necessarily be evil.
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Re:But it's not OK when it's Microsoft!Exactly! Nobody complained about getting Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt with their Nintendo, even though the Microsoft games will probably be a buttload more fun.
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Re:Did you expect any differently?This is a prime example of 'tying', the number one issue the states and DOJ have with Microsoft. It's just another anti-competitive tactic. I'm not surprised at all. This is very typical behavior.
What exactly, though, is the difference between this and any other company that tries to grow and take over its market? The company I work for makes acquisitions on a monthly basis, but they're "growing" instead of "squashing competition."
Where do you draw the line between capitalism and socialism? When does the free market stop, and the government have to come in to make protect us all by preventing the company from growing?
I guess it just depends if we like the company's products or not.
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