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A High-School Hacker's Notebook

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-mario-eats-a-helium-canister dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Remember those high-school lunchtimes, back in the day, when you and your computer-nerd friends would hang out by the Krunch Korral, discussing that cool computer game that you were all going to write? And one guy did the music, and one guy made the levels, and you wrote it all down in a notebook? Well, just in case you lost it, here's that notebook."

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  1. Remember when? High school? by dmorin · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The concept still exists. It's called Sourceforge.

    "Hey, I have an idea, but I have no skills, so I'm looking for people to do all the work and I just want all the credit! What, no takers? Open source sucks!"

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  2. Re:Mine was similiar by bokmann · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a car insurance company called 'Geico'. they had a series of commercials with a large 'waiting room' of people as if they were trying out for a commercial spokesman competition. It was pretty funny.... if you looked through the crowd, they had ALL KINDS of sponsors from commercials past...

    Incedentally, GEICO is a large insurer around the washington, DC area... I'm not sure if they are across the U.S. GEICO stands for Government Enployees Insurance Company... but they have been a commercial company serving the general public for a long time (20+ years).

  3. Re:Suggestion to help SLASHDOT EFFECT by redink1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A couple of other things that should be done in addition to your ideas. 1) Only link to the 'Slash Cache' if the site is down. Check every 10 minutes to see if the site is down, and if it is display the handly Slash Cache link. If the site is reachable again, then remove the link. This solves the problem of lost banner revenue, as the site can't get banner revenue if it is dead. 2) I believe there is something in the robots.txt file (or some other config file) that Google searches for that will tell it not to cache pages. Slashdot could look for the same thing, and see if caching is allowed. This should bypass any copyright problems.

  4. Re:A good suggestion, except... by renehollan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ... for all the messy copyright issues it raises. Asking a site that's about to be slashdotted if it wants to be cached would be a bit of a pain, and might delay reporting the story if no response was forthcomming. I think the Slashdot FAQ answers these and other related questions.

    That said, it would be very nice if there was some standard machine readable mechanism to indicate, "yes, you may cache this to avoid slashdotting this site" that the site could serve. Of course, then it gets complex: the caching parameters have to be specified, you ight want allow/deny lists for cachers, etc. Finally, if someone does cache such a site, they'd want to have legal proof that permission was granted, and that brings us to the use of PKI and certified digital signatures.

    Great idea, but the overhead of a practical implementation with legal safeguards is probably too high. Hmm, perhaps such caching could be construed as a "fair use" of copyright material?

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  5. Re:Suggestion to help SLASHDOT EFFECT by jsse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that this problem only exists in http://www.slashdot.org and no where else with the same code base. This new addition would be pretty useless for others.

    (I always find it amazing a high-hit-rate site as such could not make profit. Well, nevermind...)