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...to Japanese.
Some /.-jper also complains about Google privacy policy.
and got answered with US thinking about picture at public place.

#An Annoymous Cowered wondered what happened if the most well-known American sentient mouse is photographed at public place.but it's entirely another matter.

Osaka Poice arrests two guys,because they show URLs of pedophilistic websites at their own website.

Though I have no love for pedophiles,and strongly oppose child abuse...I doubt this arrest is "correct".
We discussed about this case recently

This link says otherwise.

I wasn't aware that there is a significant portion of the American Slashdot reading public that could understand Dutch.

I can't read Dutch, but I can read Japanese*, and can tell you that Slashdot Japan not only rotate their polls more reguarly, but they're also more interesting.

*This is a complete lie. I have no idea what's going on, something about spam and something that's probably funny on some level...

It's actually SURASSYUDOTTO sareta , but close ;-)

Which I find pretty odd, considering there is even a Japanese Slashdot

If Japanese need to be updated on all the latest, there's a Japanese version of Slashdot just for that purpose. http://www.slashdot.jp/

Although some Japanese cannot accept foreigners properly, we already accept Slashdot in Japan.

please they don't read OUR AMERICAN slashdot, they went and started their own! http://slashdot.jp/

My guess would be the reason is because 1) "Ø" is a member of the standard Western character set on most computers and that 2) Japanese and Korean characters are not. The chance of a browser suddenly interpreting everything as garbage characters due to the inclusion of "Ø" would be rather small, whereas my Japanese OS sometimes refuses to accurately represent Japanese characters unless I manually tell it which of the three standards (Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP) it should use. While I can't speak for Korean, Japanese characters also use a two-bit encoding which often cause problems when attempting to use without the relevent language packs installed.

Besides, if you want to use Japanese characters, just go to slashdot.jp

Oh, bullshit. It sounds even stupider to non-gamers or very casual gamers(which I consider myself to be).

Unlike Playstation, Dreamcast, Famicom, Genesis, or Xbox, which I've heard people say are also "bad names", "Wii" is a horrible name on a purely viceral level as well as having bad puns. At least every other console has more than one syllable, sounds like an acutal product name instead of a squeal, and has some 'character' to it. "Wii" doesn't even sound like a name, it sounds like part of a name that got chopped off.

How would you even say it in normal sentences? "Have you gotten a wii yet?", "Is this game coming out for the wii?", "Hey check out the graphics on the wii", "Wanna play some wii games?", "Wii rocks!", "Do you have any wiis in stock?", "I think my kid wants a wii for christmas", "Wii is way cooler than the PS3". It just feels wrong, somehow - maybe because it sounds like "we", and "The we", "we's", "wes", and "a we" are ungrammatical in English. I suspect most people will just end up calling it "the Nintendo".

I was looking around for the Japanese reaction to it, and at least on Slashdot Japan, there seems to be about as much bewilderment at the name as there is over here. The name doesn't have any bad meaning in Japan, but it still sounds wierd.

Check them out making fun of it on slashdot.jp:
http://slashdot.jp/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/224255

Nobody knows quite what to make of it...
http://slashdot.jp/comments.pl?sid=313508&cid=9299 08

But it can be katakanaized..."uxi~"

Shouldn't there be some kind of IQ test for marketing people too?

Check them out making fun of it on slashdot.jp:
http://slashdot.jp/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/224255

Nobody knows quite what to make of it...
http://slashdot.jp/comments.pl?sid=313508&cid=9299 08

But it can be katakanaized..."uxi~"

Shouldn't there be some kind of IQ test for marketing people too?

In fact, that's almost exactly how they spell it in the Japanese Slashdot article about the new name. (Their spelling differs from yours only in that the 'i' is in "lower-case" form, sugessting that "Wii" has a duration of two Japanese syllables instead of three, which is what we would have if the 'i' was in upper-case form. But that's getting real nit-picky. ;-)

United Sates. I try to remember to mention country of origin, which sounds like a lame excuse, but a search for previous posts should bear me out.

If a country isn't mentioned, it might be reasonable to assume a US origin.

This isn't http://slashdot.jp./ From the FAQ:
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
It is worth noting that there is a Japanese Slashdot run by VA Japan. While we helped them a little in their early days, they essentially run their own content without any real involvement from us... none of us can read Kanji! There are currently no plans to do other language or nation specific Slashdot sites.
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The Slashdot Japanese discussion is full of people saying wtf, too. Check here -- well, OK, if you read Japanese. My personal favorite is the folks who are saying "why are they naming it something that sounds like a little child peeing?"

Slashdot's iso-8859-01 based and doesn't like doing html entities. If you want kana/kanji, stick to /.JP

It's a way of organizing sites by name in a useful way. Slashdot.jp is the best example I can come up with on the spot.

When Xbox360 got into the news in slashdot.jp(in Japanese language), everyone said, "There is little attractive software".

I have iBook and iPod nano. I do not hate U.S.-made goods.
However, I do not buy Xbox360 because there is no software that wants to play.

Why, just read Slashdot in Japanese!

actually, I read it using an interesting web service that shows the definition of each word when you mouse over them. Try it!

Probably because, strictly speaking, "AE" and "EA" are pronounced the same in English - a "hard E". So her name should be pronounced "EAR-is" or "EAR-ith" depending on which transliteration you take as canonical. The "AE" spelling is frequently used in fantasy works to make a word appear "more fantasy-ish".

The common "AIR-is" or "AIR-ith" pronounciation is just flat-out wrong, based on the English spelling given. And, if I understand what you're telling me, it's also not the pronounciation the original Japanese katakana used.

I tried to post the katakana, but /. won't take it.

I guess Slashdot is back in a "damned foreigners!" mood. Slashcode can easily handle Katakana - Slashdot Japan kinda needs to. It seems Slashdot randomly goes through periods when they'll only accept comments written in 7-bit ASCII and then through periods when they'll happily take any valid UNICODE character. (More noticed when Brits attempt to post using the Pound symbol, or when a European tries to spell their name correctly but instead has to strip accents or, in some cases, choose letters that just look similar.)

Evidently we're back to a "damned foreigners, 7-bit ASCII only!" period.

http://slashdot.jp/security/article.pl?sid=06/03/3 1/0518253
Guess what two of the posts say. April fool. No. I don't read Japanese. The only words in English on that website is April fool.

slashdot.jp, you mean...

CLICK HERE FOR SCARINESS!

For those with Japanese language skill.
See Slashdot Japan article

Japanese and nearly all asian languages sans Thai are read right to left.

Um, no. Actually right-to-left writing is incredibly rare: it's basically restricted to Hebrew and languages using Arabic-derived scripts (Arabic itself, Urdu, Farsi, and so forth). Most Asian scripts are read left-to-right, including all Indic scripts (not just Thai), and also including Chinese and Japanese when written horizontally.

Pretty much any Japanese website you visit, such as this one, will be written in exactly the same left-to-right order as English.

Now, in the specific case of printed literature, manga, and newspapers, Chinese-derived scripts like Japanese will still usually be written vertically, in columns progressing right-to-left. And horizontal right-to-left writing is occasionally seen on old signposts. But that's very much a traditional special case. Left-to-right is the rule in computing.

"Tell me this is a joke. As part of a community I should accept assimilation and never ask questions, or try to change things I see as wrong? Or according to you, being non-american I am a second-class member of this "community"? WTF?"

You are not required to be a part of it. This site isn't a fundamental part of your life, there would be no economic hardship on you if you were to stop coming here, if nothing else this is entirely a pull medium; nothing happens until you type in the URL and try to access it.

"For the sake of your argument I'll try slashdot.ca "

If you want a slashdot.ca, host it yourself. To my knowledge the folks who designed this site do not object to the use of the "Slashdot" name in sites hosted by other people in other national TLDs (e. g. slashdot.jp).

"Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson - doesn't sound Canadian to me. So americans are allowed infiltrate the .ca domain and spew their SHIT all over us but I'm not allowed to participate in fucking slashdot? YOU ARE A FASCIST."

Probably, but that doesn't change the fact that I am not requiring you to view any of that content. In a web browser, you are not required to view material you find objectionable, and if you insist on visiting URLs you find offensive, then the onus is on you, not the hosts (unless they install spyware that resets your home page or something similar).

"Seeking an international audience doesn't preclude it's existance. This IS an international audience whether you like it or not."

And yet this international audience developed with no apparent effort by the editors to pander to one. Why suddenly change now? Is there some "critical density" of international readers that, upon being reached, demand change in the content provided for (voluntary) download?

"Mod me however you want, since apparently I'm not allowed to participate in /. it doesn't matter."

What about my "right" to participate without having to cater to your tastes? Why must yours take priority simply because of your country of origin? Are you a hypocrite as well as being egocentric?

Is Slashdot only for English speaking people?

Yes, apart from the existence of a Japanese Slashdot.

Also, see http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850

You know what, most people who got different opinion don't speak English! Damn /.

Then learn English. Or Japanese. And quit your whingeing. I don't see anyone dropping in on sites hosted, owned, and operated by the Chinese and bitching that they accept posts only in Chinese.

"There are plenty more stories in the sea, but there's just one Slashdot."

That's what you think.

The fact that this story only has 25 comments while the "FCC vacates the airways" has 83 just shows that the political geeks have taken over. Back in the day at least there would be more comments, and the majority would be insightful. Now at least everyone has both proof that slashdot is declining, and that the reasons moderation doesn't work is now clear. Maybe slashdot japan is better?

I found this site linked from 2001 Slashdot.jp artile

I rather like how someone translated "xbox" as the kanji (kyou), which is basically an "X" in a box, meaning bad luck, as traditionally used in omikuji (slips of paper for fortune telling), and then "xbox 360" as bad luck coming around again. That was much slicker than the obvious "batsu-bako" (literally "penalty box").

All they need now is to work a triangle in there and they've caught up with the PS2 controller! (and no bonus for the guy who tried to use convoluted numerology with roman numerials to come up with "triple X")

MOD PARENT SPLENDID DISCERNMENT!

slashdot.jp

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(:2, ) > (Score: 2, splendid discernment)

Here's the link to comments of LAME developer tt at Slashdot Japan.

When Interware violation incident occurs,I feel like as if my own son/doughter were raped by them.But I soon realized I can't have enough power to change the situation.I prefer coding,listening music,cooking to legal action.

Similar comment was written on Journal entry.
tt also comments on tables,as more hint for searching copyleft infringement seeking;t16_5l[]@table.c & enwindow[]@newmdct.c

Here's the link to comments of LAME developer tt at Slashdot Japan.

When Interware violation incident occurs,I feel like as if my own son/doughter were raped by them.But I soon realized I can't have enough power to change the situation.I prefer coding,listening music,cooking to legal action.

Similar comment was written on Journal entry.
tt also comments on tables,as more hint for searching copyleft infringement seeking;t16_5l[]@table.c & enwindow[]@newmdct.c

Here's the link to comments of LAME developer tt at Slashdot Japan.

When Interware violation incident occurs,I feel like as if my own son/doughter were raped by them.But I soon realized I can't have enough power to change the situation.I prefer coding,listening music,cooking to legal action.

Similar comment was written on Journal entry.
tt also comments on tables,as more hint for searching copyleft infringement seeking;t16_5l[]@table.c & enwindow[]@newmdct.c

Here's the link to comments of LAME developer tt at Slashdot Japan.

When Interware violation incident occurs,I feel like as if my own son/doughter were raped by them.But I soon realized I can't have enough power to change the situation.I prefer coding,listening music,cooking to legal action.

Similar comment was written on Journal entry.
tt also comments on tables,as more hint for searching copyleft infringement seeking;t16_5l[]@table.c & enwindow[]@newmdct.c

Which translates to something like 374 million japanese emails... so if this article ever is put on http://slashdot.jp/ get ready to see that number!

We all know that like, only eight people on /. actually click the links and read the articles. All this is going to do is give Creative some bad PR.

And yes, it's true this isn't a GOOD thing, and that there's no GOOD PR to come of this, and Creative should have been more careful, and blah blah blah blah blah. But it was an isolated issue in a foreign country (who just so happens to have their very own slashdot site for this type of news, http://slashdot.jp/ ) and I'm certain it wouldn't have killed someone to include a few more facts in that posting.

I guess I'll post my little disclaimer here, too: This was typed on my PowerBook and submitted over a wireless AirPort Extreme connection, while listening to my 40 gig iPod with my Apple In-Ear headphones and syncing my Shuffle with my new iTunes songs that I just bought from the iTMS. (I'm trying to think if I can cram some more Apple devices into that, like my Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse, or iMac or big Studio Display monitor, or maybe my Performa 637CD, but I don't think I can. :)

I submitted this back at the slashdot.jp announcement, but it was rejected here, and now I hate slashdot.

NEC is working on a 180g NetBSD-based server. The Univerge WNX is targeted at low noise, space economy, wereable computing, and on-the-fly multimedia processing. They claim a single person can use it with a mini-camera to brocadcast real-time video and audio (through wireless LAN/FOMA) and record the data at the same time, with two CF slots. Cool gadget. Japanese press release (with pictures).

Looks like somebody mistakenly posted a story from http://slashdot.jp/ onto Slashdot.com!

I wish people would just try and come up with something original for once.
we do! in Japan.

and not only that, but does he think nobody in Japan reads slashdot?

I guess you've never heard of http://slashdot.jp/ ;)

Hey! Thanks for the search. Without that I never would've known about this version of slashdot. Taking a quick look at it, it doesn't seem to suffer from the barrage of GNAA and FP trolls. Then again, it's not like I can read anything there either. But still pretty fun to look at.

I think an easy way to get a Japanese perspective would be to ask this same question on Slashdot Japan. Then at least you can compare expectations.

You can understand 90% of a Japanese newspaper after 3 years, but can't get through the first page of a novel? I call bull.

Anyways, you're forgetting the obvious link: Slashdot Japan

First of all, it's not like the record companies need to be saved.

Look at the numbers, they aren't losing any profit due to file downloads.

Naah, it didn't work for Japan, did it?

Wait a minute ... wasn't Slashdot Japan started in 2000 sometime? Wonder how Japan's been doing since ...

*gasp* oh my ... don't think we've ever slashdotted an entire nation before ...

(this would all be so much funnier if Slashdot Japan hadn't been founded in 2001 :|)

But Netcraft confirms it, mail.fbi.gov is dead!

So are Paul McCartney, God, and BSD(Yay Slashdot!).

Over 2100 videogame commercials

Nice, but as it says right on the site, 90% of them are Japanese. Which is cool, but doesn't really satisfy the nostalgia factor that most of us westerners have (I realize there are probably some Japanese here too, but most Japanese residents probably just read their own Slashdot).

Would be great to have a site like this that really focused on western stuff, as a counterpart, not instead of this site (since Japan has a long and storied game history as well, just not one most of us personally experienced).