Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person
Thread writes "This group is getting together slashdot readers all over the world. Check out slashdot.meetup.com to meet up with Slashdot readers in your town." The meetup.com site is pretty much brand new, and it's a fun idea. We thought this was kind of a cool idea and something a bunch of people have asked for in email and in past stories so we thought "let's see what happens."
But do I REALLY want to meet some of the people here...I think not :)
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Stay on your side of the net and I'll stay on mine
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
Why not just join up with one of them? They are well organized and have been going on for years. /. probably shares much of the same crowd anyway (with perhaps a few less Mitnick fans).
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Representative of what? What do Slashdot posters agree on? Nothing that I can think of.
Imagine a 'million geek march' with many banners, many with opposing viewpoints.
Well, now... that would depend on what you dream about, wouldn't it? If you fancy a single woman who always wished she could run strace on life's problems and has a geek code, then I'd wager you'd probably find someone to your liking. If your tastes run more towards the bottle blond, lipstick lizard, clothes horse types, then I'd think a mall would be a better bet.
But while I've got you, how about a little piece of free, metaphorical advice from a old fogey: finding women is like fishing. That'sa ll you have to remember. Sounds silly, but it's very true if you examine it for a minute. You don't go fishing with a pole if you want shrimp, and a net won't get you many marlin. And while there are a lot of fish in the sea, they're pretty much concentrated in certain areas. Identifying and then placing yourself in those areas is a primary goal. You'll do better on the coast near the mouth of a river than 800 miles out over deep water maybe. And you need bait to match the fish in your area. You most certainly aren't going to catch cod with balls-o-fire.
Even still, just being where the most fish are is only half the battle. You have to remember that the volume of water to fish is enourmous. So you have to improve your your odds of hauling in the fish you want by catching lots of fish and only keeping the one(s) you want. Catch-and-release is alive in love as in fishing, trust me. This means you have better chances of hooking that lunker if you are the only boat on the water or if you can fool the fish by thinking you're only boat on the water, say by putting more/flashier/smellier bait in the water. Chum sometimes works, but it also attracts fish you don't want; too much smelt and barracuda and not enough calico bass makes for bad fishing. You also have to be careful because other boats can run off the fish, or into you even. The minute you tangle your lines with those from another guy's boat is the minute you look real long and hard at the fish on the hook. You probably don't want it.
Anyway, I could go on and on but you get the idea:
- Figure out what kind of fish you want
- Get the right kind of bait
- Get out there where the fish are
- Get there early so your alone
- Hook as many as you can while only keeping the good ones
That's what I did. Good luck to you.-B
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You have exactly the same problem on slashdot! Even if your password is not being printed in plaintext in the URL, it's being printed in plaintext in the body of the POST HTTP request when you log in. The only way around that is SSL (https) websites.
I'm much more concerned about someone getting my slashdot password than getting my slashdot.meetup.com password. And not really too concerned about either, when you come right down to it.
If this was a problem, how come you never mentioned it before? How did you log in?
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