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Give the Gift of Slashdot
It's time to blatantly plug a recent addition to Slashdot's Subscription System: just in time for the holidays, you can now give a subscription to any other user. You have the choice to give your gift anonymously, or take credit for your fabulous selfless generosity. If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Get 'em hooked, then they'll have to keep joining, once they see that the banners have once again quadrupled in size!
I shall give you the gift of bullets and shoes!!
Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Do we all get a cool account to use?
I have to admit, my slashdot fleece that I got a couple years ago is still my fleece of choice. It is incredibly comfortable and warm and looks just as good as when I got it. Also, I've had two other fleeces since I've gotten the slashdot one from thinkgeek, and they haven't fared nearly as well.
The anti-salmon
My checkbook is open Mr. Taco - all you have to do is give me the answers to write you the dollars.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
and never have sex with your girlfriend again.
And thanks to my subscription, I got a heads up from the mysterious future on this ;) Just in case /. gets slashdotted
Urgo: "I want to live. I want to experience the universe and I want to eat pie!"
Jack: "Who doesn't??"
I'm going to give a large amount of pages for userid #1 for his trouble of bringing us a great site full of first posts, hot grits, etc.
Give the Gift of Slashdot(ting)
Funny, when I first read the headline I thought it meant you could buy a service to crash someone else's server....
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
The more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?
t'nera semordnilap
Any hot geek guys out there who want gifts from a "secret admirer?" I'm feeling...um...generous (MOWAHAHA)
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
If Santa writes you down as an "insensitive clod," do you get a lump of coal or a /. T-shirt?
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"Ours was a free culture. It is becoming much less so."-Lawrence Lessig
"... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry."
Well, isn't that the geek mantra?
- - Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand. - -
If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Not to mention that once you own enough t-shirts, you can start a pile in the corner. As you remove a dirty t-shirt, you through it on top. When you need a new one, you take from the bottom. The weight of all the t-shirts on top pressure cleans the ones toward the bottom. Once you acheive a critical mass of t-shirts in your cleaning queue, you will never have to do laundry again.
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
It's not a dupe, it's the gift that keeps on giving!
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
.... or you could gift some extra bandwidth to a person who was slashdotted and is still washing dishes to pay for the $200 fee his ISP has slapped on him!
Laundry? What's laundry.
I mean, otherwise, he'd have to get a "real job" *gasp*
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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All slashdot is is a linking system to other sites. Using ones brain they can get the exact same content in about the same amount of time through various sites combined. Just like fark, its all out there and easy to find so why pay for it?
do I get better, more relevant stories, no dupes, and editors that actually EDIT?
Or is it just to get rid of a couple annoying ads and have the privelege of seeing what the slashdot gods decided is important before the rest of the unpaying masses.....
no thanks.
I think this is a fairly important question and would like to see an editor answer it. If user names are then tied to name and address by subscribing, count me out.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
Due to high costs of energy this holiday season, the lump of coal in your stocking has been replaced by a Slashdot subscription.
Oh, and a complimentary First Post to sweeten the deal!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
nice to be able to gift a subscription, but where do I set up my wishlist?
edit your hosts file
127.0.0.1 ads.osdn.com
no more ads!
the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry
true, however, the more that pile of unclean clothes in the corner grows the more they start to stink up the joint.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
I bought myself a subscription basically because I read
And then I found that it blocked all the ads! This is the one site I've EVER visited that I find the sponsors interesting!
Oh the irony!
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
n/t
Fuck Beta. Fuck Dice
I think it would help the Open Source developer community if they were granted a gift subscription to /. . The content in Slashdot would be invaluable in their daily research, as informed individuals share their experiences and insights. It would also alleviate the tedium that permeates their lives when they get to follow the insight GNAA, TEH SPOKE, and Subject Line trolls.
So don't delay and support your local Open Source developer, since you never know when you need that Ogg Vorbis support in your favorite application!
Wearing pants should always be optional.
I hate to say this, but the editorial work of the Slashdot staff is not worth paying for. All the things I value in Slashdot come from the posters. I think the editorial staff needs to make a concerted effort to become more professional, drop the dupes, and fix the grammar.
Do the T-shirt contest winners get any money for each shirt (of theirs) that is purchased? Or did they get something for their design straight up? Just curious...
that this story gets duped ?
yur qute ;)
No, I tend to be bored, actually.
I've said this before, but Slashdot doesn't know how to listen. You need money? Set up an Ebay-like auction system here.
You have a huge, loyal audience. A ton of people go through here everyday. They all have tons of gadgets, computers to sell, Batman dollies to shill. You have excellent (?) programmers - why keep tweaking Slash code? that's not making you money. build an auction system, and it will be a service to the community and keep you from begging. What a bunch of idiots you are. You're like Netscape, who waited too long and could have been like Yahoo, and blew it.
And put up classifieds, and maybe user group lists, where slash'ers in cities can meet. The Slash code is done enough, do something productive now. "Journals" won't make you money.
Go look at craigslist.com - see how they build their community. Spend 2 weeks analysing ebay in depth, then start building - you'll make mistakes, but start coding. look at some of the pre-built auction systems and learn. didn't Phil Greenspun's TCL system have an auction and classified system - download, learn the db schema, and do something practical.
what morons. not a drop of sense.
Man, I own plenty of t-shirts. You want to really help me not have to do laundry? Sell slashdot brand underwear and socks in bulk. Every laundry cycle, that's what I run out of first. Or am I the only one?
(Yeah, slashdot undergarments, I'm sure the ladies dig that....)
Karma: T-rexcellent.
Considering that my girlfriend is running BSD, has a Dual Intel Xeon processor, 1 GB ram, a network interface card and can't really walk much further than the length of her powercord...I think a slashdot subscription is just the thing...that is until the price of fuel cell technology drops to the point where we can actually go out on our first date!!!
BTW...she's rack mounted...hubba, hubba.
It's interesting you can give a /. subscription as a gift to another user anonymously. Is that like the parallel to "a drink for you, my lady, from the mysterious gentleman in the back" or what?
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
> the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
The more t-shirts you buy, the more laundry you have to do.
Ads are broken.
Give Slashdot to your competitors. Come to think of it, give it to that coworker or manager that is in the way of your political aspirations.
Was putting up this post right after the post where Jobs said the above quote some kind of Freudian slip?
Rock over London. Rock on Chicago. Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Everytime I get the chance to moderate, I will bestow apon you as many points as I can.
I will honor and support you in any flame war.
During times your times of good karma, and bad karma,
through a dialup or in broadband
I will be there to post by your comment.
Till the subscription runs out...
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Anyone who pays for a subscription for UID 575467 is elligible for genuine praise, meaningful thanks, and a christmas card.
Your girlfriend runs BSD? That's a shame she's dying. My girlfriend is a quad-processor Solaris box. She's as stable as hell and likes to get freaky-deaky!
I think it's about giving money to those you think deserve it.
Some people will download most big label stuff because they know that the RIAA eats up all the money and gives pennies to artists (except for a couple dozens of BIG onse who could negociate decent contracts) but will gladfully give to Slashdot or the Mozilla org or whatever because they think they deserve the money.
I guess it's about choosing who you support.
Of course some people are insensitive clods and don't give back anything to anybody... They'll get coal this xmas.
Slashdot is one of the single largest time sinks in my day.
Makes me think of a friend of mine, we were out and someone said he had "The gift of the gab", and his gf (now wife) groaned.
Apparently he didn't posses "The gift of the gab" as much as "The curse of never shutting up"
I have been checking out the subscription system and trying to figure out what pages are? Pages are 5 bucks but what are pages?? Oh yea, and one more question, how can I make a url link in a comment I tried to do that and I couldn't figure that out either.
The ability to fucking count.
Offer a 1 year fixed fee subscription and I'll consider subscribing if your fee is reasonable. But if I'm paying for this, I want to see *ZERO* advertisements and any number of slashdot pages I want. It is my money, and if you don't want to give me my money's worth, then I'll find other worthwhile subscriptions (like the Free Software Foundation.)
I don't want it. Have you seen what happens to most websites that are "given the gift of slashdot"? No thanks!
My solution to not doing the laundry? I go for a run. They often have a T-shirt as a memento. On one side something about the event the other a message from the sponsor. Celavita,,
Gerard
More evidence that not only do users not read the articles, but moderators don't read the comments... ;)
Though that is definitely an interesting study in social behavior. All of us randomly posting comments that have nothing to do with each other and then moderating them "accordingly"! It must look like chaos to those on the outside...
(But that explains all those SCO posts that have nothing to do with the story! Ah ha!!!)
Sort of like herpes...
I must agree to this list, also since my subscription has run out (I had a 5000 page subscription) I have not recieved any mod points. Perhaps it's because of my recently downmodded posts. If that is the case, then there needs to be a change in the method of handing out mod points. People are not always 100% karma whores, and if karma whores are the only ones getting mod points then this system is stupid.
slashdot - give us an option to pay with e-gold.
e-gold is to paypal/creditcards
as
linux is to windows.
.... are right here, thanks to Dave Barry - "Bowel Buddy" Bran Wafers:
We here at the Holiday Gift Guide sincerely believe that this may be the best product name in the history of the world. The web page for this product begins with the following statement: ''If you suffer from constipation, chances are you know it!''
How very true those words are. And if there is somebody on your holiday list who suffers from this problem, we can think of no gift more likely to bring a grimace of joy to that person's face than tearing off the wrapping paper and seeing a nice big box of Bowel Buddy bran wafers! At that point, you can shout out this traditional and festive holiday greeting: ''Bowel Buddies quickly supply a large amount of insoluble fiber directly to the bowel where, with water, it goes to work pushing, cleaning churning and clearing.'' Ho ho ho!
I'm not one of those mad /. reader who refresh every 5 minutes. I mostly read during lunch or eventings, so I always end up with smoking ruins of an interesting website. I would appreciate it if the subscription gave you a full copy of the pages that were being discussed including images or other media.
Any chance of that happening?
Why should I? It isn't like a subscription to /. buys anything. If /. editors would edit the articles, check for dups, change the mod system (just check the BSD subsite to see how broken it has become) and post everyonce in a while then I would subscribe.
Whaa?! A meatspace joke? Guards, seize him!
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
In this time of gift giving and hustle and bustle...lets not forget the true reason for the season, the birth of Santa.
Phredd - "I have found people tend to take you far less seriously once you start waving your genitals at them..."
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What do you mean laundry ? I leave all my dirty clothes in the hamper upstairs by the washing machine. Mom returns them to me when they are clean.
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infra-red, How I hate the night.
Not quite. It's more like : "Why pay for rubbish when the good stuff is available legally for free."
Some of us realised this back in about 1994 and have never regretted having this insight.
Stick Men
More T-shirts, less laundry, right?
Well, maybe not. I don't know about the rest of you, but even I have a lot of extra T-shirts, I would still need to do laundry every so often. Otherwise, I would run out clean underware! Since ThinkGeek doesn't appear to sell any, I doubt if the frequency of may laundry would change that much even if I get one of these Slashdot T-shirts...
Of course, this also makes me wonder something... CmdrTaco either has a lot of underwares or doesn't change his underware very often... I hope the truth is the second one...
The "adopt a troll" program has been online forever, and grub and sir Haxalot are well represented...
...where you can say "take credit" and "selfless" in the same sentence and get away with it :-)
I spent $20 and got 4000 ad-free page views in return. Currently I have only used something like 320... and it has been months!
Most of the time, I forget to login, that accounts for part of the problem. The features are nice, but I wanted to support Slashdot. Plain and simple.
I do love the ability to read the entire posting history of users. Probably the coolest feature in my book.
If you thought that Michael comment didn't belong, you just haven't been reading the stories he posts.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Hey! I shoulda taken out a patent or copyright or trademark or SOME SORT of IP on my slashdot name.
Sunzabictches stealing my idea.
I oughta offer Darl a partnership to take my case, it's got more validity and a better chance od getting actual moeny from some sucker.
Infuriate left and right
the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
This is technically only true if shirts are the limiting reagent in your laundry process. For me, its boxer shorts.
Yeah, but need more socks and jeans, too. Boxer shorts not so critical - going commando in a pair of line-dried jeans feels *so* good.
Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?Sure! You can send me your cool t-shirt donations. I like to work on cars, so I go through t-shirts, but I would especially like offensive, amusing, or technology t-shirts. (My favorites? "Fellatio is not an opera.", saw it when I was walking past a store in Toronto's gay village and decided that I had to have it. Also have a black Maytag golf shirt which I love.)
Why do I like the Maytag shirt so much? Well, years ago, I had a GE washing machine (it was a Hotpoint brand, GE made washers for dozens of other companies). The design of this washing machine was stupid - the tub is stationary, and in an unbalanced spin, the basket moves relative to the tub. At the bottom of the tub, there was a massive rubber seal between the tub and the top of the transmission. And that rubber seal was strangely dissolving into the wash water.
So, about 10 years ago, I scored a 1954 Maytag washer out of the garbage. Took a look and discovered that it needed belts. (Maytag washers *must* use Maytag belts; they did away with a complicated and unreliable clutch mechanism by simply designing the belt to slip as the washer comes up to speed in the spin cycle. Regular belts don't slip enough, so the washer will make nasty noises and might burn out its motor.) Spend $20 on a set of Maytag belts, and the thing has been running perfectly ever since. Washing dirty underwear for 49 years now with nothing more than two new belts - love it. No stupid rubber tub seal to dissolve and stain your clothes, no tub-basket contact in an unbalanced load to chip the basket and make it abrasive to clothing. Bulletproof design, almost all Maytags from 1940s to modern coin-op laundromat washers use this same mechanism. My clothes last almost forever, and I've grown so fond of my 1954 Maytag washer that I actually look forward to doing laundry.
In 2000, my 1967 Maytag dryer (also scored at about the same time, every bit as tough as the washer) got choked up with lint when the vent hose fell off the back. I pulled it apart to clean it and decided to change the felt drum seals at the same time. When I was at the appliance store buying the seals, I was chatting with the counter guy, and he asked me about my washer. He called over the sales manager and they asked me if they could borrow my washing machine to put in the showroom for the holiday rush ("Maytag Dependability" was the sign over my washer). I agreed, and they sent over a truck with a brand-new Maytag Neptune for me to use while mine was on display. And a Maytag golf shirt.
Anyway, to organize my clothes, I bought a $15 wooden shelving unit. I simply fold them and place them on that - for some reason, I don't use drawers. This has been a cheap and easy solution, reducing the former problem of a chair buried in cotton.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
That's Terry Pratchett's joke! :)
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Because after they've been flamed on Slashdot, they'll hate you forever.
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to someone you hate ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
[sniffs armpits and grunts approvingly]
What is this laundry of which you speak?
I don't want one!
1. Yes! Yes! Yes! OK, maybe not immunity, but a more K5-like (being careful to engineer it so that editors and users get equal mod points, and lots of them, but not so that it can be abused like on K5)
2. Where? Unfortunately, Slash isn't really the best engine to use for a system like that. I do agree that one is needed - the classic incident you mention in #3 was addressed by Rob with a user-created story, which is in a hidden area of Slashdot (Trolltalk resides in the same area).
3. See #2, and make it more democratic, like K5.
4. I agree. Also, I feel that the mod scores should show the actual mod scores, and how many of them were done by editors (who modded would be even better). Karma should also go back to displaying the number.
5. OK - I have it set to receive mod messages, but that is important
6. If you fix the mod system, you won't have to. However, I feel that the text should be "Your post, (post title), was moderated (type) on (time/date) by (user)".
7. OK, sounds good. How 'bout someone fire michael? Maybe even $rtbl him!
8. Didn't someone port it to CSS Strict a while ago?
9. I disagree. An open submissions queue period. Look at K5 - Rusty just keeps it running.
10. Myself, I use Nested, and the Javascript in the Dynamic modes just adds bandwidth and CPU usage.
#8. slash has been converted to TT2 so this should be easier. Is /. using it though?
I'd add:
Is there any way for instance to search for posts by userID, date? ie: get your first post or 100?
peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
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I'll only subscribe if I can blatantly troll and have unlimited karma!
Oh, and a complimentary First Post to sweeten the deal!
I can't say that the trolling and karma will be affected, but I can testify that paying for a subscription will set you up at the all-you-can-eat buffet of on-topic First Postage. Creamy goodness with every post!
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
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If you are a conservative, put your money where your mouth is and support Richard Milhous Nixon by buying him a subscription to slashdot. You know I'll put the liberals in their place just like I did when I was the 37th President of the United States. It is the best way to support conservatism and TWAT on slashdot.
Thank you.
Nobody died when Nixon lied.
I'm meeting you half way you stupid hippies!
That has to be the longest off-topic non-troll post I've ever seen on
Heheh... Yeah. I know. I had to be creative for work today, so I didn't take my Ritalin.
(If anyone *ever* questions the reality of ADD, I submit my posting as evidence.)
You, sir could give my rambling 80-year-old professor a run for his money. Well done.Yeah, the rambling is good sometimes, though.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Where does the money go? How much actually goes to Slashdot costs?
Question about Paypall.
Can I go to Western Union, The UPS Store, or the Paypall store or whatever and create a paypall account with cash, and without giving them my personal information?
In an interview with a spammer, the spammer said that he had opened accounts with ISPs with anonymous pre-paid credit cards that you could purchase at convenience stores. This is an evil use but if they are still around it would be a good way to anonymously subscribe to online services like slashdot, where you trust them to have your IP address and opinions, but would rather they didn't know your name.
Anyone know if either of these options would work?
This signature used to contain a cute kitty virus with ansii art. Please set the slashdot editors on fire. Thank you
I never see any ads on /. or any other site for that matter, ad-free bliss is only a
userContent.css away
-- To dream a dream is grand, but to live it is divine. -- Leto ][
Any.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
The fscking site runs and *pays* itself, it was borne out of immaterial ether.
The bastards.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Thus, stop whining.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Perhaps its your dinky wink. Or your winky dink.