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South Pacific Mac Developers' Conference 2002

Posted by pudge on from the if-you-happen-to-be-in-the-area dept.

Andrew Lindesay writes "There will be a South Pacific Mac Developers' Conference held in Auckland, New Zealand on the 24th and 25th of August. This is an exciting opportunity for those interested in Mac OS X development in New Zealand to meet and make contacts. The conference this year will be hosting a number of talks from Apple USA as well as local speakers, covering a number of topics relating to Mac OS X development. We are now taking registrations for the event."

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  1. PttP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *Slashdot is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *Slashdot community
    when IDC
    confirmed that *Slashdot market share has dropped yet again, now down to less
    than a
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    any
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    bad for
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    FreeSlashdot is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
    developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeSlashdot
    developers
    Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly.
    There can no longer be any doubt: FreeSlashdot is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenSlashdot leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenSlashdot. How
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    NetSlashdot posts on
    Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400
    NetSlashdot users. Slashdot/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of
    NetSlashdot
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    FreeSlashdot at about 80 percent of the *Slashdot market. Therefore there are
    (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeSlashdot users. This is consistent with the number
    of
    FreeSlashdot Usenet posts.

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    Fact: *Slashdot is dying

    It seems that the Janitors, in their infinite wisdom, have banned people who have low/negative karma from posting more than twice per day. Personally I find this completely stupid.

    All the trolls will simply post AC as I am doing now. Proxies can be used to get around any ipid bans that result from AC trolls.

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    Here is my proposal: All trolls that cannot post using their account post as AC. Use proxies if need be (www.antiproxy.com [antiproxy.com] is a good source). I suspect this will show them how useless this idea is. Will blocking troll uid's stop trolls? NO! will ipid bans stop trolls? NO!

    I seriously fail to see the point of this and consider it a stupid move by the janitors.

    They want us to troll and crapflood at 0 rather than -1? Fine! So be it! No longer will we post at -1 where few people dare to visit, now we will post at 0 where we will be more visible and waste peoples time, energy and mod points! Hoorah!

    The next thing you know, posting AC will be banned! Then what will you do? No more posting interesting insider tidbits! Groupthink all the way baby! oh yeah!

    So logout, post shit, use proxies and above all have fun!

    Let the games begin! -- on by