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Fiber-Optic Map: A Classified Dissertation?
An anonymous reader writes "So you spent all that time researching, compiling and formatting your dissertation ... now what if it became classified information? That's exactly what may end up happening to Sean Gorman's dissertation.
He's compiled a detailed map of American companies and the networks that bind it all together, right down to the very last fibre connection.
The government wants it classified in the interest of national security. Large financial institutions want it classified/destroyed in the interest of economic security. But terrorists would love for this to be published ... it would make their job so much easier." If Gorman can map the fiber network though, doesn't that mean someone else could do the same? Update: 07/09 13:06 GMT by T : Sorry, I blinked past the story as posted yesterday.
Over- and under- rated mods don't change the class? of the moderation. This post got what looks like 1 funny mod (20%) and 4 over rated mods (80%) starting at two this would take the post to -1 if my caffene deprived math is to be trusted. Some mods prefer those two moderations because they are never subject to metamoderation, as I understand it.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Time for a rant! Evertime I go to submit a story, I search /. to make sure that it has not been submitted. Rarely do I find a story that has not been posted. The very few times that it actually seems to be an orginal submission it always gets rejected. What do I have to do to get a story submitted? Apparently duplicates are acceptable submissions. Maybe I will just stop searching /. to see if my submission is actually orginal and it will get posted! Geez who do you have to bl*w around here to get into the club. Feel free to Mod this down at will, because now I feel better :0
I don't understand why people who are pissed off so much by typos and accidental duplicate story posts (it's not like it's done on purpose) would continue coming here just to bitch about it in the comment threads. Oh, wait, this is /Slashdot/ ...
You do understand that many of us "pissed off" types make noise about stupid and preventable errors because we really, really like Slashdot, don't you?
Do you understand that it's rather embarassing that the premier news website of the geek community isn't even expected to meet basic, high school-level editorial standards? Aren't you the slightest bit ashamed that the face we show the world is that of the stereotypical geek--lazy, smug, careless, unmotivated to do anything but trumpet our own zealous pet projects?
I find it infuriating that the editorial staff seemingly refuses to take their job more seriously than they do. I don't care if they're not journalists, I don't care that they didn't go to school for this sort of thing. Fact is, they're running the most promising geek news site in the world, and it's up to them to start treating it as something more than Taco's hobby. Greatness has been thrust upon them, and they're futzing around as if nothing has changed since the late 1990's. It's friggin' embarassing.
This is a Big. Freaking. Deal. Slashdot has reached a size and level of influence where it does not go unnoticed by the mainstream; I've seen more and more references to this site in "normal" news sites' tech stories. With greater exposure comes greater scrutiny, and unless the editorial staff makes a considerable effort to improve their reporting, we're going to become National Enquirer of technology news.
Frankly, I don't understand why people are so eager to defend the half-assed, mediocre-at-best editorial work that goes on here. Do you like being a champion of carelessness and indifference? Does the thought of Slashdot becoming a solid, well-run, unbiased source of tech news upset you?
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