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Slashback: Intentia, Ephemera, Restoration
With a baby and some makeup you can add in some aliens.
Docrobot writes "NASA is obviously tired of the recent fanatical conspiracy claims dealing with 'faked' Apollo Moon Landings, the 'Face on Mars,' and most recently EuroSeti's claim that enhanced SOHO satellite images show UFOs.
NASA debunks EuroSeti's resent image enhanced SOHO satellite UFO photos covered by us here with this snappy and smug how-to article entitled: How to Make Your Own UFO.
It looks like Euroseti should to go back to the drawing board, or up their meds..."
At least use a security envelope next time. mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, Reuters will not be prosecuted due to the alleged hack of Intentia's web server. Intentia did not clearly state that the information was secret, nor did Intentia try protecting it. Intentia stated that the report would be available at a certain time, and you only had to slightly change the URL from the report of the previous quarter in order to obtain the current report. Hence, the prosecutor will not initiate proceedings against Reuters or any of its reporters."
(Here is Slashdot's previous story on this affair.)
A happy turn in the PCI list saga. DieNadel writes "I've received an email today from PCI-SIG regarding the End of the Free PCI Device List, that says:
'Dear PCI Community,The PCI Vendor and Device Lists located at http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ have been restored. The PCI-SIG recognizes the value of Jim Boemler's Web site and our officers have worked with him to restore it.
We are committed to working with Jim and the rest of the community to ensure this service is not interrupted in the future.
Thank you for your continued support of our technologies. We will keep you informed with any other updates.
Best Regards,
Tony Pierce
PCI-SIG Chairman.'
I think it's a nice move from PCI-SIG!"
Making money with Free software, explained. Yesterday, we posted a link to an article explaining Red Hat's new EOL schedule for various versions of its operating system. Red Hat's decision drew a lot of flak in the comments attached to that story; not that it won't again, but over on NewsForge, Red Hat's Jeremy Hogan has a reaction-to-the-reaction (not just on Slashdot) which the new EOL schedule drew.
Has anyone else experienced server timeouts and general connection problems with Slashdot recently? I've been really saddened by the poor service as of late.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
Oh well, if that's all YOU want to know, then by all means, kick us ALL in the nuts. There's no way that could have been made into a feature. Dumas.
"...I'm certainly open to suggestions...."
This is the biggest change I've ever seen. Are you open to the suggestion every single person has been giving you since Day One? Use K5's moderation system. Also, if you are "open to suggestions" why can't we post a comment in that diary^H^H^H^H^Hjournal entry? Dumas.
Currently we only let people see their last 24 comments (this is to prevent robots from crawling us...
Has never heard of robots.txt. Check. Dumas.
Remember everybody's favorite signature? Slashdot Math: 50+1-1 = 49. Taco was so incensed about that he decided to hide Karma from everyone so they couldn't criticize his math skills. This was a good idea, and one he should have stuck with.
Recently, Slashteam decided that printing moderation totals was a bad idea. It's part of a continuing development trend of hiding the Slash backend from the users (not a bad idea). Maybe Krow has been playing an audio version of Chromatic's O'Reilly article to Taco while he sleeps. Maybe Taco's pride has finally yielded enough that he's willing to listen to someone else. Who knows. For whatever reason, someone's trying to make it harder to game the Slash system by removing anything that could be construed as "points" (I'm wondering how they plan to make it impossible to count your friends, but that's another story).Personally, I like to think that Trollback was responsible. But that's just ego talking.
In any event, moderation totals are now shown as percentages in an attempt to hide the number of times a post has been moderated. While it's pretty simple to reverse-engineer this number, you now need a calculator, which raises the bar a bit.
The funny thing, however, is that Taco has once again exposed his math skills to the world. So, once again, we get to put "Slashdot Math" in our .sigs. Are you ready?
Slashdot Math: 30+40+10 = 100
Enjoy,
Update: As many have pointed out in the comments, it is true that this change has a few side affects. One is that editors can now disguise their modbombing activity a little easier. The second is that by activating a division-based mod system, SlashTeam has proven that all its protestations about K5's moderation not scaling are a bogus. Of course, if you haven't accepted the fact that modbombing and handwaving are a way of life around here, you're blind, and you don't read my journal.
nice sig!
The most important thing any republican needs to know.
I've been to a /. meatup. Vat a sausage party! It was at Swen's Swankatorium. Da Sveedish chef came to our table and he said "dork,dork,dork!"
If only the solution was for some of these people to get a life and a girl.... This is and always will be their lives--what with the R.R. Martin and the smiting and the ay yi yi. That's who they are. Page-loading speed, karma whoring, and modbombing conspiracy theories must never go away. That's what gives the Open Source community its *cough*strength*cough*.
What we need here is a little focus. I've been to the other site too. The way I understand it, one of them is bad. But I can never tell which one so I keep hopping back and forth looking for one with spunk. I am impressed with the ability of the alleged kabal to even put up with some of the twits that inhabit this place. And I am also confounded by some of the twits' twixotry (cf.) when it comes to running shit. [haughtily] Scalable indeed.
You enjoyed /. but now you don't? And it's the rulers' fault? How about all you fscknuts go back to doing something you enjoy instead of getting pissed off at something you don't. The magnitude of this revelation is unnerving, even to me, Comic Book Man. Same for the nation. If you wanna do a wunnie while d/l'ing Ween on your wireless broadband, screw the fascists. If enough citizens can just blow off all this pent up antipathy, the people in charge will have no choice but to mellow out as well.
[group hug for a group blog]
Damn! It's good to get that off my chest!
PS [refrain] Jam your Rumsfeld up your Ashcroft, W.
PPS I wasted an hour on this?!
Dumas.
Big words coming from somebody using the wrong insult 3 times.
Dumbass.
The name is DoomAhhs.
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