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Postcard From Linuxbierwanderung 2000
Martin Ling writes: "The Linuxbierwanderung 2000 , at Coniston in the UK's Lake District, is currently in full swing. There is an ongoing live site with pictures and a diary, including details of our Beowulf projects. And of course, there's a webcam. Events have included talks on SETI & radio astronomy, wearable computing, and a trip to the Sellafield nuclear plant. Oh, and that whole lot in the village hall is running through one 33.6kbps modem .... Emails to this address should get through, and I will print them on the notice board."
lets try it again, on text posting
:), but the comment system has to be rebuilt to just stop the fucked up trolls from bothering us. Rob, sorry dude but its time to dump AC, it'll hopefully kick some life back into this otherwise quickly dying site.
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ive just been wondering..are there ANY worthy posts on slashdot anymore? 3/4th's of the comments are just plain crap..i dont even see why people even bother coming here anymore.
trolls: do you honestly think that its funny? i mean seriously, what point is there to posting totally STUPID messages.
users: is this really what OUR slashdot should be like? look at a new linux user taking his first look at slashdot and seeing the CRAP posts here, think he'll get a good impression of the linux community. I like the articles, they are great (most of them
~DJ-Pyro (pirodude)
~DJ-Pyro (pirodude)
And then the trolls will just create false accounts and troll from them...
What the site needs is a full time team of moderators that scan the comments of every 'live' article and remove definite trolls.
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Rob, sorry dude but its time to dump AC, it'll hopefully kick some life back into this otherwise quickly dying site
I don't think that would help. All it would do is make the people posting noise (it isn't really intelligent enough to be called trolling after all) create accounts. And if they have to, they will create a new account for every post.
Short of requiring a credit card and charging it $1 for every point of negative karma the user obtains, I don't think there is any solution.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
credit card to make an account..perfect :)
~DJ-Pyro (pirodude)
~DJ-Pyro (pirodude)
Am I the only one who gets a little jealous when we see all these stories about people going to all these Linux conferences? I never hear about them until after or just before they happen. Is there a site that has information on when where and what the focus of each of the Linux conferences are?
Better yet is there a way we geeks who don't live in cities that don't have these conferences can band together and go in hoards (is that the right term for a group of geeks?) of geeks? Perhaps if we were organized in groups we could save a few $ on airplane and hotel rooms. Someone could probably even make a few $ of they organized these trips and sold them and found some customers.
This is offtopic and deserves to me moderated down. I just felt that it needed to be said.
I am deeply saddened by the increasingly low quality of the trolls and offtopic posts on Slashdot. It seems like an eternity since the golden age of Slashdot trolls. That was the time before Trollmastah had retired and before the lameness filter had been implemented, which pretty much killed off Oog. People try to raise Oog from the dead, but it just ain't happening. I remember when osm was still posting about "Open-sourced copyrighted undistributable Natalie Portman and Drew Barrymore naked and petrified" or some such nonsense, which were actually really funny at the time. I remember the days before osm's fake legal trouble, which pretty much marked the end of his posting on Slashdot, when he would post new, hillarious Natalie Portman fantasies on what seemed like a pretty regular basis. There were others, of course, but my mind is getting weak in my old age.
These days, though, it seems like we've entered a dark age for those of us who set our thresholds to -1. If one ventures into the nether regions of Slashdot now, what do they see? Shit like the parent post, and "30 Ways To Be Offensive At A Funeral," and (God help us) the Beer Guy, whose idiotic spamming alone provides a good reason to browse at 0 or 1. Where have all the great ones gone?
There is some hope for the future of trolls on Slashdot, though. People like Anti Porn and osg have recently shown me that trolling is not an entirely lost art. But they alone cannot save Slashdot. Already, the spamming is so bad that it actually requires effort to find the diamonds in the rough. Clearly, a solution must be found soon, or the -1 region of Slashdot will be lost to us forever.
Dear Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda,
As a loyal reader of Slashdot, I am growing more and more irritated with the constant spam that has deluded the site in the past month or so. I like to read at a threshold of -1 to see all the posts with low moderations -- some of them simply went against Slashdot popular opinion, or are humorous, intelligent trolls that are worth
Most of the spam posts simply regurgitate the same text over and over... for example, the "Napster and Google Sued" and "The Facts" [ZikZak conspiracy] posts show up several times on every story. Given that several "lameness filters" are in any place, it would be easy to institute a filter that simply blocks posts with those message bodies. Alternately, if all of these posts are originally from a certain IP, that IP could simply be banned from Slashdot. Please consider both of these alternatives.
I realize that censoring users may go against the ideals of Slashdot. However, the intelligent posters and "true" trolls are already being censored -- their voices are being drowned out by the idiot(s) who post the same offtopic posts on every single story. And no one will miss the MDMA guy and his idiot friends.
A few attention-starved morons should not be allowed to hijack a popular website and drive out all the other readers. Please don't let the spam epidemic overrun Slashdot -- a few simple filters or bans would solve the problem, and it's high time they were instituted.
Sincerely,
The loyal /. readership
Maybe it's the people at this conference waking up with hangovers and blaming it on linux, and deciding en masse to spam /. , the totem of the Linux community :)
Doesn't this sound like a slashdotted site waiting to happen?
Why do you do this? Don't you realise that nobody is fooled by your ridiculous goatsecx link? You make me sick. Moderate this down please (mine as well, if you want, for being stupid enough to reply and give the lonely bastard the reaction he was looking for).
How about setting it up so that if you recieve too many troll or offtopic points in a specified period of time, you get your ability to post yanked for a period of time. And say maybe that for every comment that gets 2 points, it erases a troll point, if it gets 4 points, it erases 2 troll points.. etc. this would help keep the ratio somewhat in check, allowing the people that have the most interesting comments more leeway on OT and funny stuff. maybe even ban the IP.. that would make it more tricky for them to post as AC too!
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If God Droppd Acid, Would he see People???
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
I live in Manchester, which is only a short distance from the Lakes. Several of my friends from uni have gone to the fest and from what I'm hearing, the're having a great time with the tech stuff and the beer and not bothering about the hiking.
However, a far greater quantity of my friends (and myself) have been unable to attend simply due to timing. Being the poor penniless students that we are, we all have summer jobs. Had it been arranged such that the Linuxbierwanderung was at the start of July, or the end of August, we would have had more luck getting there as we wouldn't have been in the middle of our working period. I suspect others up and down the EU are in a similar position.
Sad, really. It could have been so much bigger.
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Said it couldn't last, said it wouldn't last... This is the last stand against tomorrow's world.
Your post are is meaningless AC. If you had any conviction behind your own toughts, you would post with a real account
/etc on thesync) does not mean it is not good for your body.
I don't know where you come from, but in my precious Republjka Hrvatska I use to make wine from grapes and drink it. The generations before me did this, even before Muslims & Christians religions were even created for that matter.
You should know that alchool is actually good for the body. You can read numerous studies on that. You should know that everything can be consumed in moderation. The fact that some people compulsively abuse of almost everything (Cake, McDonalds, Ice Cream, Liquid Nitrogen->See
You need to grow up (mentaly) read philosophy or something, like: Platon, Aristote, Epicure DesCartes, Leibniz, Hegel, Freud, Nietzsche, Marx, Sarte, Foucault, Heidegger or Kieregaard to educate yourself about human behaviour and give yourself a better chance of beign able to reason like the very intelligent people you will find on this forum.
You blast junk post with your own retoric which is even more pathetic. get a life or start posting at http://www.failiure.com, because that whre you belong.
Your mindless kind brainwashed by religion make me wanna puke.
wiZd0m
Dump AC? no, but this guys as a real solution
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/26/1155
wiZd0m
That's Free as in *speech*, dammit. Quit bringing free beer into it.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Heh... you must be kidding. This is a joke. Or maybe...
Beer is good. Drinking beer (or other alcoholic beverages) does not meen you automatically become an alcoholic. Just as little as smoking some pot now and then makes you a heroin addict.
Although I respect other people's views on drug/alcohol matters, I cannot stand such ignorance towards other opinions and facts.
do beer and penguins mix? do you really want a drunk penguin running your computer? # ls ERROR - glug glug glug *burrrrrp* huh? oh sorry... # %&$%^&@#$(& Warning - Do not swear at the drunk penguin
...Liquid Nitrogen...
;)
I thin you mean nitrous oxide. Anyone who abuses liquid nitrogen is going to end up missing a few appendages
Although osm has been quiet recently, but it's not because we've given up. It's just that thanks to morons spamming every story in sight we've all got user accounts how, with which we whore for the +1 bonus and then troll with.
On this story I can spot two troll accounts, you just need to look a bit harder...
But yeah, all of these spamming pricks need to be shot.
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Jon E. Erikson
Jon Erikson, IT guru
Actually, it was the result of spamming and DoS.
Piss off. No-one wants to hear your crap, it's not funny. Why don't you put it on your own web-site and see how many people read it because they want to. I'd be suprised if it was more than 1.
So, release your s/w with whatever licence you like, dipshit. I'm sure everyone else will do the same. Oh sorry, I forgot, you don't do anything else apart from post the same damn message to Slashdot continuously. Knob-rot.
Piss Off you idiot. Have you nothing better to do?
I fully agree with you. Why doesn't the slashdot crew do this? The social experiment is over. It didn't work.
You been thinking that one up for hours? And that's the best you could come up with? You are truely lame.
What if I don't have a credit card? or am joe newbie that doesn't want to use a credit card on the internet (esp. if I'm not buying anything)
Will people get fined for bad posts instead of just losing karma?
I guess that would be a way of up-ing the IQ level :)
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And I live about an hour or two away! Guess I wouldn't be worthy to go anyway (I sometimes use Windows as well as Linux so I'd probably be lynched on sight)
Flame me if you must for this, but I disagree.
Some of the trolls aren't all bad, like the ones that, while off topic at times, still add some humor to the site. For example, OOG. And whatever happend to TrollMastah? He did some funny stuff.
The Penis birds, and people reposting the same off topic comment to every thread are annoying, as are the first posts. But the Hiakus, redone theme songs in honor of slashdot, etc. Those can be funny.
My mom's vacationing there right now. Not that this is of interest to anyone. I just thought it to be an interesting coincidence.
Episode 3: Fun with Liquid Nitrogen
http://www.thesync.com/etc/archivesframe.html
Yes, I know that, but this guy makes himself Ice cream with alchool and Liquid Nitrogen
wiZD0m
There's still a bunch of us planning on an April Linux bike trip from Versailles to Chinon to Bordeaux, with Wine, Women, CyberCafes, and Linux. Pricing folding bikes and checking with friends who have contacts in France so we can do the CyberCafe tour.
Will in Seattle
No, I was talking about Open Source Girl, who I recently saw post an osm-like story about that girl who played Rogue in the X-Men movie.