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New Linux Set-Top Project

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-see dept.

An anonymous reader says "Linux4.TV is the official open-source website for interactive set-top box technologies based on the National Semiconductor Geode? SC1200 integrated processor and SP1SC10 development platform." Looks to be an interesting project, although since they require registration to download stuff, I'll never know.

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  1. WTF's going on here? by clontzman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Strangely, every comment in the "The Truth About CmdrTaco, VA, and Microsoft" thread got modded down to 0 or -1 simultaneously... plus the parent post disappeared. I'm not typically a conspiracy nut, but this is starting to stink.

    1. Re:WTF's going on here? by graveyhead · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Agreed. If this was a troll, it was a damned good one :-) Perhaps it had something to do with this?

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    2. Re:WTF's going on here? by www.ILoveJesus.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      I can testify to it. I saw the original post when I first browsed this article at about 11:00am EST. My initial impression was that it was just like the usual *BSD is dying type trolls... some seemingly factual content strung together with rhetoric and such. Lots of numbers, amounts of money changing hands, etc.

      Can't remember a word of it since I wrote it off as a troll immediately, but now that it's gone I'm not so sure there wasn't an element of truth in it. I already checked my cahce, but it looks like the most recent cached copy is from after 11:30 or so, when people started noticing the comment was missing.

      I certainly hope this is a troll and that CmdrTaco hasn't taken to deleting comments to cover up some hidden agenda, or even just to eliminate noise from the signal. That's what moderation is for. The editors' stance on unconditional free speech is one of the things I actually like about /., and if they are not practicing what they preach, I'd be the first one taking my readership elsewhere.

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  2. The Truth About CmdrTaco, VA, and Microsoft? by jawad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, do you have the original cached? Even crusing at Threshhold:-5 didn't fix the problem that the original is gone. (For those youngin's amongst you, back in the day, the censors preferred method was to mod something down to -2 or below, so even those at default -1 couldn't see.)

    THEORIES :

    (1) Reading the title, "The Truth About CmdrTaco, VA, and Microsoft" makes me think that this was another lame "BSD is dying!" post, but now that it's been deleted, I've got to wonder. Has Taco gone mad? Has Michael screwed up yet again? Is there really a story behind Rob allegedly getting paychecks from Microsoft? Maybe this is why Slashdot has been sucking recently.

    (2) It was a helluva troll. No posts were deleted, a bunch of people (or maybe the same person with multiple accounts) replied to the top level with the Re: The Truth subjects, and maybe even bothered to moderate themselves down.

    If this WAS a troll, I give it high ratings. This is one of the top three multiple post trolls, right up with there with the AC who had an extensive flame war with himself (based on alleged facts!) and more recently, the Anne Tomlinson incident.

    If it wasn't a troll, I suspect this will be modded down, so then if it is, I ask moderators to push me up. Not because I give a crap about my karma (If you think I do, check my posting history. AND I'll be posting with my +1 bonus), but because I think this should be addressed.

    Plus,
    - I have a relatively low UID,
    - It's a long post.

    Prove another conspiracy theory correct by modding me up!

    1. Re:The Truth About CmdrTaco, VA, and Microsoft? by jawad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Whoops. Forgot the obvious.

      (3) Slashcode 2.2's been eating posts! Or has it? It's been kinda screwy, with the database crash of yesterday, and all these other broken features (notably, the [domain] links.)

      But anyway, my post didn't automatically drop to a -1, which takes steam away from the first theory.