Slashdot Mirror

Slashdot gets a lot of mentions out there, and I'm sick of devoting whole stories to them, so I'm lumping them together. First, I mentioned Cool Site of the Year before, but I just found out that one of the prizes is a New Guitar- so Go vote for us. You can vote once a day, and this is one poll I have no problem Slashdotting *grin*. Cheekyboy wrote in to tell us that we're the #5 site at at 100 Hot's Developer Site List. hatredonalog wrote in to say that the new issue of Linux Journal has Slashdot listed as the #1 Linux Web Page, beating out linux.org. Anonymous Harrison noted that a recent Jerk City cartoon mentions Slashdot. And lastly, the RC5 Team has been doing pretty well these days. In fact, we and the Evangelista's have been swapping the #1 daily keys spot. So go run clients on anything that boots and lets dust 'em.

Chris Tweney writes "Theglobe.com stuck its foot in the proverbial cow flop on Monday when it sent messages to about 35,000 users -- saying "congratulations, you've been signed up for theglobe.com's VIP service!" the kicker: each message provided a username and password that would seem strangely familiar to those who had already registered at AdAge.com. Seems the folks at Advertising Age sold their user database -- including unhashed passwords and usernames -- to theglobe. I received one of these mails, and boy, was it scary. I've had to change my password at nearly every (unsecure) site I use. Like theglobe's TV spots say: "your first full-service online integrated virtual community". So well integrated you don't even have to worry about password privacy!" Salon Magazine has more.