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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.
diarhea. hehehehehehe
This Is A Test. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
This is a test of the Emergency Double-post Detection System.
In the event of a Real Emergency, you will be directed to link to another site, such as The Mystery of Britney's Breasts or The Mystery of Britney's Breasts. This is only a test.
This Has Been A Test of the Emergency Double-post Detection System.
My user name was a mistake. Input wasn't restricted, my bad.
What's even more ironic is that the majority of the posts are about this being a duplicate post.
But now I've made a duplicate post of a post saying that everyone is complaining that this is a duplicate post... hmmm
You never know, you know.
So why doesn't the story posting mechanism simply not post a story until it has been approved by another editor. They don't have to read it all, or what-not, just give it a glance. I don't see all the stories posted on slashdot, (shit, does that mean I have a life... no.) I can't see how one editor (maybe with a life) could see and remember all the articles. Just having that glance by another person has the potential to cut down on the dupes by a fair amount without too much extra burden.
Bah!
Fact : Jon Katz is dying
It is official; Slashdot confirms: Jon Katz is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Jon Katz community when IDC confirmed that Jon Katz market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashdot survey which plainly states that Jon Katz has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Jon Katz is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Jon Katz's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Jon Katz faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Jon Katz because Jon Katz is dying. Things are looking very bad for Jon Katz. As many of us are already aware, Jon Katz continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
CowboyNeal is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time CowboyNeal developers Klerck The Page Widner only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: CowboyNeal is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Cmdr Taco leader OGG states that there are 7000 users of Cmdr Taco. How many users of Micheal are there? Let's see. The number of Cmdr Taco versus Micheal posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Micheal users. Timothy posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Micheal posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Timothy. A recent article put CowboyNeal at about 80 percent of the Jon Katz market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 CowboyNeal users. This is consistent with the number of CowboyNeal Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Ipv4, abysmal sales and so on, CowboyNeal went out of business and was taken over by Ipv6 who sell another troubled OS. Now Ipv6 is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Jon Katz has steadily declined in market share. Jon Katz is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Jon Katz is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Jon Katz continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Jon Katz is dead.
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?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
THE JENNY JONES SHOW
"I have a perverse sexual fetish"
Jenny: Hi, and welcome to today's show - "I have a perverse sexual fetish." Let me warn you, today's topic is on the distrubing side. We will meet three men who at first glance appear to be normal, sane, and well-educated but thier deviant addiction to the popular Internet website Slashdot.org and individual sexual perversions set them apart from you and I.
Audience: EWWWWW!
Jenny: Let us meet our first guest, Harry Knowles.
(Harry Knowles, webmaster of the popular movie rumor site Aint It Cool News, is escorted from the backstage area in a wheelchair.)
Jenny: Hello Harry. I must say, I have visited your site many times and am honored to finally speak with you. So tell us, what is your sexual perversion?
Harry: Well Jenny...I have never admitted this before...but...I'm sorry.
(Harry is obviously distraught.)
Jenny: Don't be. Does it have anything to do with your paralysis?
Harry: Yes. I once enjoyed a normal sex-life, but that changed after the accident which left me paralyised from the waist down and left me unable to orgasm.
Jenny: That's understandable
Harry: It gets worse. After hours of masturbation and ingesting dangerous amounts of amyl-nitrate, I realized only one thing gives me any semblance of carnal pleasure....
(Harry pauses.)
Harry (head in hands): I like to pour hot grits down my pants.
Audience: EWWWWW!
Jenny: Hot grits...as in the breakfast food..??
Harry (in tears): Yes. Hot grits as in warm ground corn. I like to pour them down my pants. It feels so warm, so tender...don't hate me, is it wrong for a man to do the only thing that pleasures him?
Jenny: No, no it is not. It is obvious this strains you.
Harry (smiling): Strains me? Oh heavens no! Hot grits are a wonderful lover! Oh, to feel her sweet carress on my lifeless genitals. It is that of the great muse, Natalie Portman!
Audience: WOOOOO! NATALIE PORTMAN!
Harry: Yes Jenny, I am a gritsman...and I love it!
Jenny: Well I am glad you have found some way of self-satisfaction in material objects. Our next guest, however, finds gratification only in the digital world. Signal 11, come out!
(Signal 11, posterboy karma whore of Slashdot, is escorted from the backstage area. He sits, legs crossed, in a chair next to Harry Knowles.)
(Somewhere in the audience screams of "-1, Troll" are heard. Signal 11 reaches into his pocket and withdraws a phone. The phone is solid black, save for the words "BITCHSLAP" written on it. He quickly hits the button labeled "speed dial to cmdr. taco" and converses briefly. Suddenly, the entire audience is quiet and Signal 11 smiles.)
Jenny: Hello Signal 11.
Signal 11: Hello Jenny. I am pleased to be here. Perhaps after the show we can go orchestrate e-commerce applications?
Jenny: Uhhhh....anyway, what is your sexual perversion?
Signal 11: It all stems from my inability to syndicate interactive communities properly, embrace strategic supply-chains in the correct vortals....and that I have only one testicle.
Jenny: Wow. Those buzzwords. You strike me as one Insightful, Interesting, and Informative guy!
Signal 11: No need for the praise Jenny. My mod squad is on it. Say, how about that recent merger between Bungie and Micro$oft? That's going to leverage killer e-markets!
Audience: mmmmgrgppgh
Jenny: (laughing) Ha ha ha ha! "Micro$oft" You are a true master of language Signal 11, and Funny too!
Audience: mmmmgrgppgh