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Cryptographic Software in Debian's Main Archive
Cine writes: "James Troup and Sam Hartman recently sent a note to all debian mirror maintainers, to inform them about the current situation and future plans. Sometime after March 8th, crypto software like OpenSSH, SSL support, and many other enhancements will be integrated into the debian main archive. This is in accordance to legal advice the Debian project received."
Slashdot ist tot. Auf weidershen.
Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und Subskriptionen einlei
moderators, do your worst
That doesn't really widen the page for me in galeon, you should find a way to get around that. Thanks.
>>HE IS A CORPORATE THUG.
can't disagree with that. this post is the most insightful thing I have ever read!! even more insightfull than orwell and salinger combined! this post rocks! who else in the slashdot "community" thinks we need more irritating, snobby, jerky, 13 year old trolls? slashdot would be far more interesting with a "troll only" policy.
it would work like this:
get modded to troll, +50 karma
get modded flamebait, slashdot gives kenneth lay $40
get modded insightful, you get to punch a troll
now, who doesnt think that is a rewarding moderation system?
hahahahahaha
you r0x0r.
Anyone hear about Micsosofts plans with XP SP1? /. is yellow journalism for unrealistic open source hippies.
I just thought you all would like to know but what are the odd of getting Taco to post such info to the main page? What about Morpheus being down meaning it's not actually even real p2p debunking nearly their entire defence strategy? I guess it's only posted if it's good news for the open source linux hippies in the world.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
According to http://www.handyscripts.co.uk/trubador_egg.htm you can ditch your frying pan and fry an egg with your processor!
Yeah, I could talk all about how slashdot is dying,
but I'm sure you all know that anyways. So slashdot
is dying. Put your own reasons here.
Heh. Look who got the -1 troll, and who (although really trolling), got the +1 mod. Jealous? Heh. I gots l337 propaganda skillz, linux kiddie.
Oh yeah... It seems that the Debian Project is one step closer to supplanting OpenBSD.
It seems that OpenSSH is still being integrated into the main archive of Debian, Woody (aka 3.0) is still awaiting release, and there is no specific holistic proactive security project. Nevertheless, portability, correctness et al. are definitely emphasized. Now the binary emulation may seem a dubious feature in many cases, especially with Linux occasionally recieving more support than many commercial Unices, though there are some efforts at binary emulation on Suns.
Okay, I'll admit - this was a troll. OpenBSD is still very valuable and viable, and still the best choice for security minded situations. But as yet another bulwark of OpenBSD is breached by Debian, this topic will again merit reevaluation. I still feel that the distant future will find OpenBSD being outpaced by whatever system the Debian Project presents, be it still based on Linux, a more direct BSD derivative, or a more direct embodiment of the GNU System.
-castlan
Hey! Yes I'm talking to you, there in the states...
Why are you still there instead of migrating in
a really democratic country, where citizens are
free too write/use/export/pubish/reverse-engineer
any kind of software they like?
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ISSUE 1
With the announcement of Slashdot subscriptions, the question becomes "what is the most fucking effective way to fuck Slashdot out of as much fucking money as fucking possible?"
Nested mode.
Nested mode draws a monumental amount of bandwidth compared to Threaded mode, with fewer page views (for subscribers) or banner ads (for non-subscribers)
Let's say that the first page of comments on a heavily-discussed story in threaded mode is 100KB in size. A person reading that story will read some of the sub-level replies to those comments comments, but not all, so let's say he pulls perhaps 200KB of bandwidth maximum, and it will cost him many page views/banner ads. Now, someone viewing that same page in nested mode is entirely likely to pull 500-1000KB, with only a single page view or banner ad. More cost to Slashdot, less income to Slashdot, therefore less PROFIT for Slashdot.
This goes without saying, but we also need to set our thresholds to -1 (yours IS already set to -1, right?), set our "max comment size" to very high (so that gigantic garbage comments display in full), as well as setting "Limit" very high aslo. Crapflooders need to focus more on posting replies to high-rated or early-posted comments instead of (or in addition to) posting top-level comments, because many people don't bother visiting the second page of comments when there's more than one. And we all need to use Junkbuster, of course.
Let's summarize:
Threaded mode:
Less bandwidth (small cost for Slashdot)
More page views/ads (large income for Slashdot)
small cost + large income = PROFIT
Nested mode:
More bandwidth (large cost for Slashdot)
Less page views/ads (small income for Slashdot)
large cost + small income = FUCKED
Now, the question becomes, can we cost them more money by subscribing, or by not subscribing? I'd be more than happy to throw $50 at Slashdot if by creative page-loading I could cause it to cost them $100 -- I'd be out $50, but so would they, so I think it'd be worth it. It would definitely do more for the world than throwing $50 at those gay starving African children in Africa. But can we cost them more money by subscribing or by not subscribing?
Most large-scale bandwidth providers charge a few dollars or so per gigabyte. Let's be generous, and say that Slashdot pays $5 per gigabyte. With subscriptions, you pay $5 for 1000 pageviews. Unless your 1000 pageviews average 1.024MB each, Slashdot isn't meeting expenses, they're making a profit. Subscribers will not only be paying their own way, they'll be subsidizing non-subscribers. Slashdot is lying to subscribers, and it's important that potential subscribers know this.
So basically, if you subscribe to Slashdot it's harder to fuck them than if you don't subscribe. So don't subscribe. And encourage your friends not to subscribe
Although this particular message is aimed at trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / anarchists / discordianists / etc, it's important that we recruit the "normal users" to this crusade without them even knowing what our true purpose is -- just educate them that they'll get better value for their money if they use nested mode (much fewer pageviews than threaded mode, thus their subscription lasts longer), without pointing out to them that this'll also spike Slashdot's bandwidth usage.
In short, encourage subscribes to use NESTED MODE and to lower their thresholds to cut down on the pageviews they spend (actually to increase Slashdot's bandwidth usage)
Once subscribers realize that they can cut their page views down to a fraction by always using only nested mode, Slashdot's bandwidth usage will start to rise and they'll be forced to use larger and more intrusive advertisements to generate more income or make the site even crappier to drive people away to reduce expenses, or both. More intrusive ads will lead to more people joinining the FuckSlashdotNow campaign, or to quit Slashdot, or to merely Junkbuster the ads, fucking Slashdot's income stream further.
Summary:
Trolls / crapflooders / culture jammers / etc / should do this:
1. Junkbuster
2. Use Nested mode, -1 threshold
3. Set max comment size very high.
4. Not subscribe
5. Load as many pages as possible
6. Consume as much bandwidth as possible
7 Load as few advertisements as possible
8. Recruit others to the cause
9. Re-post this message to every thread
10. Rate this comment up whenever you see it posted
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1. Not subscribe, because it's not a good value for their money.
2. Use Junkbuster to block banner ads.
We should (covertly) encourage subscribing normal users to do the following:
1. Use Nested mode for the duration of their subscription, so that they'll spend fewer pageviews and get better value for their money.
2. Not resubscribe.
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