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."
Can I show up as an AC?
I have been pwned because my
What do we say when we meet?
"FIRST POST!"
Hmm. Time to see if my boss reads slashdot.
If so, time to start posting anonymously.
--saint
There are others like me in my town? I can get 300k downloads off my cablemodem in the evening since there are so few geeks in my area. You think there is enough of us to have a meeting?
What are you smoking! That's why I spend my time here.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
Who wants to meet? Since when are geeks social? Grab your PC and CAT5 and setup a LAN party into the wee hours of the morning.
Ouch! I just had a visual of 50 people all trying to get first post...all in the same room.
-Pete
Soccer Goal Plans
3) If we get there first do we get to yell 'FIRST MEET!'???
2) Will there be moderators monitoring our conversations? If so do I get more karma for imported beer?
1) Hey man, if we linked them all up together via video conferencing it would be like a Beowulf cluster of /. meetings!!!
You're fired.
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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
-Waldo Jaquith
You get to "moderate" the trolls whether you have points or not.
(cracks knuckles)
I'm sorry, but I'd rather stay at home chatting up guys who *say* they're women than knowing that they're not.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
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.
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'
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*...
Please invite the person who wrote up this oft-posted drivel... so we can beat him/her up.
Also, be sure to setup some tables for the trolls, and then offer a free round of drinks... laced with something...
No longer must we verbally assault strangers via the Internet, now we may physically assualt them in person. Thanks Slashdot.
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.
Who will be attending this meetup?
So far, the following people have signed up:
AssFace
Ummm...
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
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
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
lets get a couple hundred people to try and get into a small bar running a 1 bartender server system, and see if he can handle the load.
with this many people, it should be pretty easy to over run the bar buffer and get into the back end areas like the kitchen and accounting areas.
ahhh, the REAL slashdot effect in person.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
(* 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.
NOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT!
/. and meetup.com for totally screwing over my entire life!
Thank you,
I just ran into Jon Katz at one of them there meetup.com social mixers and found him to be funny, thoughtful & intelligent.
NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO BITCH ABOUT?!??!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
Sadly, there's no barelylegalteens.meetup.com... yet...
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"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
I was going to make a slick joke about the mysterious lack of interest for a meetup in Redmond, Washington...
BUT...
I was wrong.
It all goes downhill from first post
warning : this is a corporate entity sponsoring th organisation of this meetup
knowing this, it might be useful to browse their privacy agreement before giving them an email address that you like to keep spam free
particularly this section of text :
We should hold an ole fashioned stonecutters conventions. We all just wear our Slashdot User Numbers and the lower numbers get to order all the newbies around. While quaffing beer and signing bawdy songs. ;-)