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."
I do not live in the US, and I do not live in any of the (major) cities given. If I were actually interested, what would I do?
Sig: Where I'd put something witty if I could think of it.
Any chicks coming???
Or is it going to be like my comp lecture where the ratio of boys to girls is 100:1
This may be a good organized way for us to get political representation. This may offer the physical "grouping" needed to effectivly lobby our elected government officials.
Maybe try and invite your local congressman to hold a Q/A thing about technology legislation. It makes it easier to organize petitions. Organize a group drop off to his local office when you know he is in...bring the whole group. Can you think of a better way to make a point? Image if this happened at congressional office all over your county (the US in my case.)
Something like that may be enough of a reason to get me to go to something like this, or at least join the mailing list.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Well, it's actually meetup.com's terms, but seems that sites are supposed to adhere. I'm not even sure what this means:
3.3 License. We do not claim ownership of Your Information. We will use Your Information only in accordance with our privacy policy. However, to enable us to use your Public Information and to ensure we do not violate any rights you may have in your Public Information, you agree to grant MEETUP a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in your Public Information, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to your Public Information.
Would there not already be a lot of /.ers at these meetings 2600
It's ironic that Slashdot, which is so against crappy EULA's, has created such a un-friendly Terms Agreement.
Quoting the license,
We may amend the Agreement at any time or times by posting the amended terms on our web site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on our web site. This Agreement is effective for all users of our services.
Does this seem like the "push" system to anyone? What if I'm away for 30 days (vacation) and they create some new crappy Terms like "you must pay us $$$ per $$$ and you can no longer terminate this agreement?" Maybe I'm just paranoid; otherwise, there's something wrong w/ this.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an insane security freak, but this kinda bothered me. After you sign up look at your address bar (all relevant information changed):
m ypasswordisbeingprintedinplaintext&terms=on&action =join&zip=00000&localeId=&setLocale=1
http://slashdot.meetup.com/?email=x@y.z&password=
*sigh*...
Imagine the scene of a total troll get-together. One guy would be off in the corner pouring hot grits down his pants, while another turned to stone while looking at the large bird perched atop the third's dick. This all being watched over by the goatse guy, who is somewhat occupied trying to, ahem, hold himself shut.
On the other hand, it might just be a room full of pasty white guys sporting various operating system advertising clothing items all hoping to meet the nonexistant geek girls.
-- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
(* I can't stand most of these people online! Why, in gawds name would I want to meet them in person? *)
Indeed. If you think our words are ugly, wait until you see the rest of us.
If we were pleasent and meetable, we would be out shooting pool or flirting or dancing or something. Instead, we hide behind text and argue about nerdy things such as how much OOP sucks rotton eggs and trying to guess the percentage probability that we will get marked as "troll" in the process.
Actually, I like working at engineering companies. Lunch is much more interesting with geeks (just try not to look them/us in the face). Geeks talk about robots, second guess osama, parachute accidents, etc. That to me beats what non-nerds talk about: movies, sports, lottery, and gossip about who bleeped who.
However, it takes a while to work into that mode with geeks. One meeting is not enough. The first meeting all geeks do is think, "please God, tell me I not as gawky as that dweeb." Then when reality is finally accepted (you are one of us, stop fighting it), the fun starts.
Table-ized A.I.