See Spot Surf

theodp writes "Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter. Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear. Spike from the East Bay just wants to kiss pretty girls. Two months after computer and canine geeks in San Francisco launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves."

Comments

Barking mad

[Space cowboy]

The problem with a 'free society' is that some people have far far too much time on their hands :-) All the more kudos to the site-creators for finding an oft-overlooked gap in the market for a site that most people (the sane ones) never suspected would exist...

Oh yeah, and (from the article):

Rosemary Pepper is a writer and founder of an online feminist magazine who wrote the copy for the Dogster site. She is the "I Like It Ruff" columnist.

/me definitely doesn't mention anything about spicy feminists liking it "ruff", 'cos that would be politically incorrect [grin]

Simon

Re:Barking mad

[ekephart]

"The problem with a 'free society' is that some people have far far too much time on their hands

I thought this was a GOAL of a free society: to allow progress to give us free time for leisure.

Re:Barking mad

[frenetic3]

I think 'liking Ruff' that much is illegal in most states. :P

-fren

Re:Barking mad

[Temporal Outcast]

To allow *sustained* progress which also gives us free time for liesure would be more appropriate, IMHO.

Re:Barking mad

[Glonoinha]

The first thought when I read the OP header was 'somebody needs to get laid.'
I was even going to post that, but I know one of you clowns would follow up with 'You're new here, aren't you?'

Re:Barking mad

[azav]

If that makes you mad, then I won't mention the people thinking about a "queer eye for the straight dog", "let's make everything faahbulous" in one of the local SF weekly magazines.

Ugh is too kind a word.

My dog...

[bonytony]

Likes to sniff butts!

Re:My dog...

[wesman83]

likes to hump legs

Re:My dog...

[Anonymous Coward]

Your dog is therefore already qualified to be a Slashdot editor.

Dogster.com?

[Anonymous Coward]

And here I was thinking it was a dating site for fugly chicks!

Re:Dogster.com?

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Thanks to alcohol, there aint no such thing as an ugly chick.

Re:Dogster.com?

[nolife]

I use alcohol and a watch. You must really be desperate.

Re:Dogster.com?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's the watch for?

Re:Dogster.com?

[nolife]

Are you serious?
A watch provides the standard for a time base correction to the beer goggles. When used together, a 10pm chick should be much better looking then a 1am chick. Without this time correction, you risk leaving early with a 2am chick which in most states is also considered a "closing" chick.

The important question..

[grub]

..do dogs laugh at themselves for being suckered into looking at goatse.cx?

Re:The important question..

[Anonymous Coward]

only if they have the websent protocal hooked up.

Re:The important question..

[Cruciform]

Only because they can't get their noses through the screen.

Re:The important question..

[Photon Ghoul]

That is just wrong.

Re:The important question..

[Short Circuit]

I had to leave the room because my laughter was disturbing the other person in the lab...

So sad

[Supp0rtLinux]

So sad that so many people out there need to get a life. Yeah, those of us with pets love them a lot, but this is a bit extreme... though knowing our twisted society, it'll probably make for the best IPO in history in a few months...

Is there a separate section for same sex dogs?

The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers

Re:So sad

[Anonymous Coward]

Until you said "pets," I thought you were talking about a site dedicated to open source zealots brainlessly bashing Microsoft. My bad.

Re:So sad

[Anonymous Coward]

So sad that so many people out there need to get a life.

Coming from a Linux geek who writes "Micro$oft".

Reminds me of all those fats guys who bash fat chicks

Re:So sad

[Anonymous Coward]

So sad that so many people out there need to get a life.

Like Slashdot posters?

Re:So sad

[bahwi]

No, they only offer "civildogster.com" it has only a few of the same features, nearly none of the benefits, but it has a different name and follows the ideology of a mis-translated old book. But it should be good enough for them!!

http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/sexorien t/ bible-gay.html

http://www.postfun.com/pfp/homosexual.html

Re:So sad

[booms]

So sad that so many people out there need to get a life.

The same could be said about a Linux zealot-- "It's just some software... 1's and 0's when it comes down to it. Who cares?"

Most everyone has at least one hobby which they are passionate about. Keep an open mind, and you'll find that you have a lot in common with people that you despise or look down on.

I think geeks are really bad in this respect-- we whine about being outcasts in society, yet we persecute others for not being like us.

Re:So sad

[Lord_Dweomer]

Why is this a bit extreme? Because you wouldn't use it? Please. There's tons of websites for dogs out there, tons of communities, and dog lovers are some of the most involved people ever when it comes to their pets. Why is it sad that they made this website? If they have the time and money to dedicate to this, why not? Its not like its cluttering your net space. Don't like it? Don't go there.

I really fail to see how you can justify making those kind of trollish comments about this.

where my bitches at?

[SoupGuru]

oh yeah, had to be said. apologies.

cool!

[torpor]

i'm gonna score me some bitches!

Obviously

[wowbagger]

Obviously, this is the application for which the British are working on smell for email.

However, do you realise how much "dog butt" carts are going to cost?

Re:Obviously

[torpor]

Don't worry. I'm sure some smelly monks will come up with a money-making after-market refill service that'll rock ass.

1. Invent smell-o-vision.
2. Put dogs on Internet.
3. ???
4. Get some monks to bottle ass refills.
5. Profit!!!

(Sorry, I'm lousy at the "??? ... Profit!" kick ... but hey, in Soviet Russia, You Sniff Dog Butt!)

*ster is dead

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, we know... Napster was big.... in 1999. Then we got Friendster. Now Dogster? End it now. We're still recovering from the e-* syndrome, and the newer iSyndrome is pretty bad, too. Come up with an original name!

Sincerely,
The Owner of eCyber-iSter.com

Re:*ster is dead

[jantheman]

dogdar looks free.

see how nice i am teh give it away?

Urban Legend Time.

[saintlupus]

Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter.

[cue porno bassline]

--saint

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[vena]

urban legend nothing, i'm from new jersey and knew a girl in highschool who had to change schools after everyone found out how she was enticing her dog into licking certain parts of her body.

not a friend of a friend of a cousin thing, this girl was on my bus.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

So this happened to a girl who some guy off the internet says he knew? Definitely can't be an urban legend, then.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[stratjakt]

And you know it was true, and not just a viscious rumour spread by bitchy teenaged girls (who are genetically predisposed to such activities), because....?

There was a spaz in my high school known only as "Cat Fucker", because legends tell of him fucking a cat. I'm not gullible enough to just believe it, though, I need proof. Show me the half cat-half man offspring, or something.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

I have only one remaining question: creamy or crunchy?

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

I call bullshit, on account that this post is 2 minutes older then the other cat story above. Name that school's initials. The only people who know the specifics will have gone to that school.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

tis true that it is no urban legend. hell, I've tried it, the animal in question was interested the first few licks, but was not into it after that. it felt good, though.

I knew a girl who did that kind of stuff. its all good if the animal likes it, too.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Ohreally_factor]

You need evidence? How about duct tape with cat fur stuck to it?

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[stratjakt]

We truly called the guy Cat Fucker, that was his name. In fact, I can't for the life of me think of his real name, I'm thinking Craig, but I dunno. He was a spaz, you know, not a retard, but definately touched in the head.

He may or may not have fucked a cat. But he sure looked and acted like a cat fucker.

Also, in the same graduating class, were Fingerella, Shit-Dick and King of the Kikes.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

That doesn't sound familiar, and my name isn't Craig or even close to that, which means there was another poor bastard out there being called that. I'd still like to know the school initials, or at least the part of the country where you went to high school, just to make sure. But knowing the people I went to school with, only myself and very few others would have stayed hardcore geeks, and probably fewer still would post on /., so I doubt we went to the same school.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone knew a girl like this in high school.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[EverDense]

urban legend nothing, i'm from new jersey and knew a girl in highschool who had to change schools after everyone found out how she was enticing her dog into licking certain parts of her body.

not a friend of a friend of a cousin thing, this girl was on my bus.

She did this on the bus? ;-)

I hope the bus had a internal security camera.

Get the tape, there is a market for that sort of thing.

Re:Urban Legend Time.

[BillX]

I didn't, you insensitive clod!

Two bones...

[Genjurosan]

I'll bet you two bones that the gusy that created the site were victims of outsourcing.

Re:Two bones...

[dogster]

Actually, dogster's a victim of writing the entire thing myslef and no budgets.

Goodbye Orkut, Hello dogster!

[Anonymous Coward]

I've given up holding my breath waiting for the Orkut invite. Will I have to prove my doggy status by licking my own balls or something? If not, I'm in!

In former times they said ...

[maxwell demon]

... in the net nobody knows you are a dog.
Obviously this site is out to change that.

Re:In former times they said ...

[frozenray]

Here's the famous cartoon from the New Yorker which originated the phrase "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog":

http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/mod5/18-in ternet-dog.html

Re:In former times they said ...

[superyooser]

It used to be a joke, but "everybody and their dog" really does have their own web site!

Lawsuit?

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody's going to get sued over that name....

Patents

[thedillybar]

Out of all the articles we read that talk about patents, this article doesn't even mention the word.

Here's something new and innovative. Where are the patent freaks?

Bakery

[nycsubway]

There is a bakery in my town that sells ONLY dog treats. They are in the shape of cookies, pastries, cakes, etc. But they're for dogs.

It is sad, but if money can be made doing it, I'm sure someone will.

Re:Bakery

[Hollinger]

You know, they have one in Memphis, TN too (well, Germantown, but close enough).

I wonder what other niche markets you can find catering to dogs or, more generally, pets?

Mike.

Re:Bakery

[kfg]

I wonder what other niche markets you can find catering to dogs or, more generally, pets?

Hats. Little doggie fedoras. Fashion in general actually, but the hat thing weirds me out a bit. A nice doggie blanket might well be functional for some dogs on cold days, and I suppose they might as well look sharp wearing one, but, opera hats? Come on. You're just making your dog into a dork. All the other dogs are laughing at him.

Then there's the whole functional line of niche products that aren't really weird, but can strike you as such when first encountering them.

Camping equipment for dogs, for instance. Spot gets to carry his own Alpo when venturing into the woods these days, in his own doggie backpack. I first started seeing this stuff hacked up by hiking hippies back in the 60s, but now it's a full commericial enterprise. Perhaps in future we'll come full circle again and Spot will start having to carry our backpacks as well.

To me though, I think the oddest of these odd, but actually functional, products is the avian diaper. Yes, that's right. There's a company that does nothing but make functional diapers for birds, all sorts of birds, so that they can be left free to roam the living room without leaving "calling cards" all over the place.

Let me tell you a budgie in a diaper is a pretty silly sight first time, tenth time too for that matter, but the damned things actually work.

KFG

Re:Bakery

[ekephart]

Why is this sad? Perhaps instead of complaining about it, you should try to take advantage of the situation. Invest in such a company or try to shut them down, but don't complain; it gets you nowhere.

Re:Bakery

[stratjakt]

We have an old cat, a kitten I rescued after falling down a basement window well, and a puppy (both about 8 months old now)..

Anyways, the old cat's taken to pissing everywhere. In the laundry hamper, on the kids backpacks, on the sofa. Cat piss is second only to skunk spray in terms of foulness. Dog pee is tolerable, it can be cleaned up without an odor lingering behind it for a month.

So I took the thing to the vet, and asked him if he could check it out, maybe some sort of urinary infection or something that makes it piss everywhere.

He didn't even do any physical examination of the cat, and starts feeding me all this new age mumbo jumbo about the cat being upset because of the new puppy and kitten. I told him its been going on longer than the kitten and puppy have been around, so he starts saying that the cat's "acting out" and wants attention and THEN the guy recommends a FUCKING CAT PSYCOLOGIST to me.

As though I'm going to pay $200/hour to have my cats head shrunk.

So I went out and found a real vet, who told me the cats just old, and like humans, they get both a little incontinent and forgetful, cant find the litterbox, or make it to the litterbox, so they just go at the closest convenient place.

Of course, the ultimate solution was to punt the stupid thing outside. Cats suck.

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

You should totally shut them down. Who do those fuckers think they are? Treats for dogs. Makes me sick!

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

Could you elborate on why exactly that is sad?

They sell dog treats. I fail to see what's "sad" about that.

Re:Bakery

[globalar]

I think a lot of people are lonely (maybe don't have children, a SO, a happy relationship, etc.) for whatever reason and bored. I know people who spend enormous sums of money on their single (in some cases multiple) animal(s), have pictures of them throughout their house, buy them special food, all manner of toys and accessories, have their pet professionally cleaned/manicured, and will pay medical bills akin to that of a sickly child*. They also like to talk to other people about their $PET's, they help out at rescue shelters, and get to know the area vets and other owners.

Not only are $PET's like a serious hobby, they are also a way to socialize and gain some identity (some people really see themselves as $PET people). Not my thing, but then again I am posting on /. so not too much room for criticism.

*You would simply not believe the specialist vets that exist - you can get your dog a dermatologist, optometrist, etc. These doctors specialize in just certain organs of a few animals.

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

You appear to run (or at least promote) a website that makes reference cards for C and Chesmtry. I have no use for those. So by your logical, that's just sad...

Re:Bakery

[jpmkm]

There is a fucking pet bakery in KC on the plaza. My girlfriend dragged me down to the plaza one day and if that wasn't bad enough, she dragged me to the fucking doggy bakery. Holy shit. Needless to say, she bought some damn cookies or some shit for her dog. That shit looked pretty good, too! She wouldn't let me buy any though. She said they were for dogs only and I couldn't have any. God damn dogs eating better than I am.

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

They sell dog treats. I fail to see what's "sad" about that.

For the love of God! Think of the cats!

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

Your solution is to go to Petco.

Everytime I take my typical-male spouse to the PETCO store I have to smack his hand from eating the dog cookies they have on display. It doesn't help when the cashier is eating one and telling us "They're just regular cookies. Not bad actually."

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

I assume you're a troll, but if we ever meet, I'll being doing some punting of my own

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a slight problem with this comparison. If all the chemists and C++ programmers in the world disappeared, it would constitute a disaster of biblical proportions for the industrialized world. If all the gourmet doggie treats in the world disappered, along with all knowledge of how to make more, a few pet owners would have to find some other way to spend absurd amounts of money on their own pets.

There is a huge difference between "unimportant" and "it can't possibly be important because I'm not personally involved in it myself."

Re:Bakery

[Anonymous Coward]

Hah. As a former employee at a Petco I used to munch those "dog" cookies all the time. Sometimes I'd skip lunch and just eat those. It was great for weirding out customers. ;-)

Lies - it's a cookbook!

[Anonymous Coward]

The purpose of Dog being, of course, To Serve Man.

Re:Lies - it's a cookbook!

[DrEvil-47]

No - but here is one. I like the ear wraps.

http://www.deliciousdogs.com/

My dog's site

[superpulpsicle]

www.microsoft.com

Check it out my dog did a really good job.

Re:My dog's site

[Anonymous Coward]

bad dog! running a ruff monopoly, bad!

Re:My dog's site

[Anonymous Coward]

That explains a lot.

What did he do for lunch?

Dog Personals

[MosesJones]

WLTM Bitch in Heat for romantic butt sniffing and frenzied humping. Any breed or cross breed is fine, I'm not breedist. Must have own walker and a good turn of speed. I'm a 200 pound Newfoundland so small dogs might not want to apply, unless you have been around a bit.

Likes: Butt sniffing and frenzied humping

Dislikes: Buckets of Cold water

Re:Dog Personals

[Anonymous Coward]

Likes: Butt sniffing and frenzied humping

Dislikes: Buckets of Cold water

No toilet-bowl drinkers, please.

slashdot is pretty much the same...

[Anonymous Coward]

slashdot is pretty much the same than that doggie site... imagine those pet-holders thinkin about a weblog all about computers and linuxes and geeky stuff. Theyd probably think the same what we think of them...

Re:slashdot is pretty much the same...

[maxwell demon]

You mean we'll soon have the dogster effect?

Re:slashdot is pretty much the same...

[markfive]

slashdot is pretty much the same than that doggie site... imagine those pet-holders thinkin about a weblog all about computers and linuxes and geeky stuff. Theyd probably think the same what we think of them...

I'm not really sure if that was English or not...

Re:slashdot is pretty much the same...

[dr_dank]

So the Dogster people sit around imagining a Beo-woof cluster of these?

Well,

[pete-classic]

So much for "on the Internet no one knows you're a dog." :-(

-Peter

Re:Well,

[dr_dank]

The slogan for the now defunct pets.com was "because pets can't drive. Now that they can type and work a mouse, the driving thing can't be too far behind...

Re:Well,

[Peorth]

It's worse for dogs from Russia, too. Now you'll be hearing all of the Dog versions of the Soviet Russia jokes!
"Kibble is Red, French Poodles are Blue,
In Soviet Russia, Testicles Lick You!"

Re:Well,

[thomasdelbert]

.... but everyone knows you're slashdotted!

Re:Well,

[U.I.D 754625]

I'll give you three... no four dollars!

Re:Well,

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, dogs get bit by YOU!

O Tempora, O Mores!

[orthogonal]

[The 21st century's answer to Aristotle, Euripides and Sophocles] launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves.

Ha! Take that, Library of Alexandria!

Guess you don't look so special now, with your dusty old Greek plays and crap, huh?

Re:O Tempora, O Mores!

[sarastro_us]

Guess I shouldn't make any comments about the Cat-iline Conspiracy here, should I :-P

rate me troll, but

[XCondE]

this is the lamest thing I've ever heard of.
Sad. Really sad.

Re:rate me troll, but

[clandaith]

As for dog related, the lamest thing I have ever heard was that Pres. dog, Spot's favorite "Color if she could see colors" would be blue

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/spotty/index.html

Re:rate me troll, but

[qtp]

Waste of time, yes, but it sounds quite lucrative for the site operators.

Most of the crap here on the internet is targeted at small demographics, but due to the large geographic market, they can be quite successful.

There's probably still lots of untapped market in the pet oriented websphere. If you are a pet owner who knows how obsessive some pet owners can be, then why not? (note to self: remember this and get to work!)

Too many people here seem to expect the web to remain self-referencial forever, but how many websites about web technologies do we really need? The money is not going to be made off of geeks, rather it will be made off of the mundane, niche-market foibles and obsessions of the common person.

OT

[*coughs loudly*]

What a wildly inappropriate slashdot article. Eight thousand pictures of dogs on the internet? Wow, that's really stretching what's possible with our infrastructure in a geek-friendly way.

Re:OT

[El]

I thought there were already several thousand pictures of dogs on the internet here

Welcome

[dnoyeb]

Welcome to the world of slashdot Dogster...

Let that be a lesson to all of you!

News

[savagedome]

In other news, Baja men are not happy.

Scented Emails

[The_Rippa]

See, this is why we need to further develop the Scented Email...my dog said it want's to get a wiff of the ass of CutePup316

Re:Scented Emails

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah its all fun and games until someone sends you a goatse.cx link

*ster rehabilitated for 2004?

[heironymouscoward]

The coolster suffix for all those dudesters who dream of starting their own boomster sitester.

Catster.com for pussies? Ratster for rodents? How about Hamster.com for those who like smoked pig thighs? Chickster.com for girls?

We can make it even more cool:

Dogsta! Chicksta! Gangsta! Hamsta!

Hey d00d, I'm a Slashsta!

Re:*ster rehabilitated for 2004?

[justMichael]

Someone already beat you to catster.com, by almost 4 years ;)

Re:*ster rehabilitated for 2004?

[Anonymous Coward]

actually there is one that covers them all..

PETSTER.COM -- WHERE PETS RULE http://petster.com

What's next?

[Anonymous Coward]

...a virtual leg humping machine?

So What?

[H8X55]

Yeah - I scoffed at the article. Then I read it and scoffed a bit more. Then i went and registered our two dogs. And you know you did the same thing.

Re:So What?

[maxwell demon]

No, I didn't register your two dogs. Really!

Re:So What?

[farnz]

Nope. I have no pets at all, so I've not registered anything.

Re:So What?

[TRS80NT]

Nope. If anyone is going to register my dog they're going to have to pry him out of my cold, dead hands.

Re:So What?

[H8X55]

no wait. i thought that was registering your gun.

No no, that's http://personals.osdn.com

[Anonymous Coward]

:P

Re:No no, that's http://personals.osdn.com

[andalay]

Number of people/s visiting dogster.com: 100
Number of people/s trying to think of clever remarks in response to this news featuer: 1000
Number of geeks/s who check out personals.osdn.com: 1000000000000000000000000000

There are 10 types of people reading this posting. Those who think the above is in decimal, and those who know better.

Dogster.com sponsored by...

[Anonymous Coward]

...The Koreatown chamber of commerce.

Wonderful!

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, would like to welcome our Canine overlords! Woof!

they cut this line out

[plams]

and Barney from Seattle likes to smell your crotch and lick his balls.

Rant

[DarkHelmet]

Sorry Slashdot readers, but I'm a little pissed.

Dogster. Wonderful. I write an Open Source Social Network program, and Slashdot rejects any sort of story on it only to put a story about Dogster.

Sorry, but I feel a little shunned. I do have a little bit of pride in what I do, and things like this kind of shatter it.

Yeah, I know, the type of site I'm doing has been done... But then again, does that make Linux "Just Another Kernel?" I'm sure that would be up for debate.

Yes everyone, the ideal is novel. But hello, anyone? This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs. We typically like things like anime, Open Source, Star Wars and SCO. This fits under neither.

This wasn't even marked as "Humor". I'm not laughing anyway.

/Rant off.

Re:Rant

[dave420]

Dude, it's slashdot. You have to expect brilliant articles being overlooked and replaced by dupes from earlier this morning. Just like you have to expect overzealous moderators and insensitive clods...

It's easy to get your feelings hurt on here, but just remember that it's slashdot. After all's said and done, this is just a website with a bunch of geeks spouting off :-P

And long may it continue... ;)

Re:Rant

[savagedome]

This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs

The guy sitting next to me greets me every morning with 'What up dog?'. I figure the story is appropriate.

Re:Rant

[Anonymous Coward]

slashter might be neat, but without more than five lines of a description before you're asked to join there's not much reason why you'd want to. how many members does it have? what's the interface look like? many unanswered questions...

Re:Rant

[e-Motion]

This wasn't even marked as "Humor". I'm not laughing anyway.

Really? I see a foot icon.

Re:Rant

[DarkHelmet]

It's not like it's a black box. You can always download the source to the project and take a look at it that way. Hell, start your own clone site from it.

There are approximately 825 signups right now. But it's one of those things where publicity helps, and spreading the word helps.

Re:Rant

[prescot6]

This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs.

I have a dream that one day Slashdot will be transformed into a situation where nerds and dogs will be able to join hands and read their news together...

Re:Rant

[CompWerks]

Mike, Just a suggestion... You might have better luck if you don't use your picture or refer to yourself as "DarkHelmet"

Re:Rant

[Mr. McGibby]

You can always download the source to the project and take a look at it that way.

Are you fucking serious?

Why should I waste my time with your project? Sorry, I just don't see the need to spend hours looking over your code just to find out what does.

Re:Rant

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree. I wrote a program awhile back that automatically downloads porn and slashdot wouldn't even post it! anyway here is the source if anyone is interested. it pretty much compiles on any computer (including atari and commodore);

10 Download(pron)
20 goto 10

Let me know what you think guys!

Re:Rant

[DarkHelmet]

Sorry, I just don't see the need to spend hours looking over your code just to find out what does.

You can always just install it, which does not take hours and hours to do.

But you are right. I need a tour page.

Re:Rant

[maxwell demon]

Do you always install things from the net of which you don't know what they do?

Re:Rant

[musselm]

"We typically like things like anime, Open Source, Star Wars and SCO."

Who's we?

What about cheap desktop eyeglass manufacturing, or The Stopping of Light, subjects recently featured here in these hollowed[sic] halls? Would those past your test?

Now I'm ranting, but there are "typically" lots of interests among readers here, and as another just posted, lighten up.

Re:Rant

[Mr. McGibby]

You can always just install it, which does not take hours and hours to do.

That's already about 10 times more effort than I am willing to put into it.

Look, I understand that you put a lot of effort into it and *you* think it is very worthwhile. You just need to understand that no one really cares about all that. They just want to know, in less than 1 minute, what it does, so they can decide if they want to spend 2 minutes deciding whether or not to take 5 minutes and so on until they actually use your code.

Re:Rant

[Anonymous Coward]

watch out...here comes the "wambulance"....waaaaaaa.....

Re:Rant

[switcha]

Sounds like you're pissed because you can't get your free promotion up on /..
If your marketing plan for your Social Network doesn't extend further that a /. story, I see an impending social network of One.

Re:Rant

[shadowbearer]

Dude, it's slashdot. You have to expect brilliant, humorous trolls being overlooked and modded Insightful. Just like you have to expect overzealous moderators with no sense of humor and ability to piss off a poster by modding him funny, rather than insightful.

It's easy to not give a shit, but just remember - it's slashdot. After all's said and done, this is just a website with a half a bazillion geeks, ranging from politicians, engineers, code monkeys and jizm collectors spouting off *grin*

Amen, forever, and ever. I hope to be reading slashdot when I'm 60 (oh, god, not as far off as it used to be! ;( No, Mr. Bill, no!!!

Heh.

SB

Reminds me

[nizo]

This reminds me of the story about some guy who had what he called a "stud service" for dogs, but was essentially doggy prostitution. For the dog who has everything (else) I suppose, or at least a good way to keep him from humping your leg all the time. It was in a newspaper somewhere, anyone have a reference to this wonderful story?

Dog Personals?

[WorkEmail]

Max is a German Shepherd, he is a scorpio, he likes to lick and sniff your a$$, long walks on the beach, eating grass, and chewing on a good toy.

Orkut parody idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dorkut.com. Dorks can build social networks now, too!

Raughh?

[Anonymous Coward]

How the hell do they type?

Signs of the Apocalypse

[trix_e]

--Reality shows getting their own awards show
--"Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: The Motion Picture"
--Dogster

www.PeopleHaveTooMuchTimeOnTheirHands.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Rapes, murders, beatings, muggers, domestic violence, mass-starvation, bombs in Iraq

and dogster.

Re:www.PeopleHaveTooMuchTimeOnTheirHands.com

[Anonymous Coward]

Rapes, murders, beatings, muggers, domestic violence, mass-starvation, bombs in Iraq

and dogster.

and trolling Slashdot.

and replying to trolls on Slashdot.

my ex-gf

[WormholeFiend]

she had this weird dog.

the dog's mother was a doberman pinscher, while the father was a cocker spaniel.

imagine a doberman with a cocker spaniel head.

when asked, she said her dog's breed was "cock-pinscher".

Direct your passions...

[addie]

Everyone seems to be passionate about one thing or another, for many /. readers it's open source software, criticizing George Lucas, or karma whoring. For these people it's their dogs. Whenever I see someone who is so obsessed with a subject as to be considered disturbed, it makes me depressed. At first. Why don't you find beauty and inspiration in nature I think, or the arts? Get a hobby!

But wait, you have one already...

These people may have "nothing better to do with their time" or are "lonely and sad" but the fact is that everyone is passionate about one thing or another. If we all enjoyed the same interests then this world would be a very boring place, and there wouldn't be the advances in science and technology that there have been. So don't bash the hobby-freaks too much, as you're probably one too. Freak is in the eye of the beholder, as it were.

Re:Direct your passions...

[Anonymous Coward]

My hobby is making my peepee spit in my belly button.

My accuracy is up to 90%.

Re:Direct your passions...

[Anonymous Coward]

Keep practicing. I believe in you. I know you can do it!

My Family.

[Sentosus]

My girlfriend and I can no medically have children. This is something that we have known for a while. Instead, we have Cricket, Cupid, and Prancer. They are our children. Cricket sleeps with his head on the pillow in bed. Cupid rolls up behind his mommy's(girlfriend)legs. Prancer sleeps on the floor.

Cricket has missing front teeth from his owners in Winnsboro, South Carolina kicking him. He also suffers epilepsy. Cupid has no fur where his two previous owns let him get fleas, which he was allergic. Prancer has no fur at also.

There is nothing wrong with us as a family. I care for them and pay their doctor bils. They are similar to a small child 6-7 years old. They love to go for rides in the car and also know when we are having a bad day.

I truely endorse this website as any steps for us to make their life happy in the same way they make mine happy and soothe my needs to have children.

So please do not put down pet owners or say they are freaks. You may simply not understand the bond that people have with their animals. I know that I consider Cricket to be my son and when he gets a shot, he reaches for me just like any child would to their parent.

^---- Chichiuahuas. --- Spelling bad.

Re:My Family.

[kabocox]

Um. You could have adopted a human. I'm adopted. I'm glad that my adopted parents didn't decide to get a dog instead.

Re:My Family.

[XCondE]

What about adoption? There are lots of orphan kids in Brazil who'd love to have a home in a 1st world country. Heck, they'd love to have any home.

Re:My Family.

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think anyone considers pet-owners freaks (or at least, if they do, they're probably freaks themselves). We do share the planet, after all... I think its a little ... different ... to sleep with the dogs head on your pillow though.

I'm sure you've considered it, and I'm sure you have your reasons for rejecting it, but a lot of people who cannot have children go for adoption instead.

If you have a need for children in your life, an animal (however needing and dependent on you) isn't quite the same as a child, IMHO. Y(H?)O seems to be different though, and it's your life, so hey, live it as you like!

Re:My Family.

[Anonymous Coward]

he reaches for me just like any child would to their parent

Uhhhh, you are a freak. Perhaps that's why kids wasn't the best idea anyway...

Re:My Family.

[grocer]

I have very strong feelings to the contary on this one...it's a pet, not a child. Go make the world a better place and adopt a child who needs home, don't delude yourself that animals can somehow take the place of children. You and your girlfriend may want to ask some serious questions about your relationship...after having dealt with the same thing, not being able to have children can be difficult.

Of course, having adopted a daughter and being married to someone who was adopted may add certain bias to my opinion.

Re:My Family.

[Cryp2Nite]

To quote the parent:
I truely endorse this website as any steps for us to make their life happy...
Trust me when i say your dogs don't care. If you want to make their life happier, take them out to play more often, buy them a bone or a toy, spend some more time with them.

Putting your pooch on the web has nothing to do with with their happiness. It has to do with the owners being goofballs ;-)

Re:My Family.

[pcraven]

Who knows? Maybe they didn't have the money for it. Adoption is not cheap. Adoption is not for everyone.

How many kids a person has, and what they have for pets is a rather personal decision. I would not presume to second guess anyone for their choice, particularly in a public forum. (Unless they aren't taking care of the kids/pets.)

Re:My Family.

[Jonas the Bold]

I'm not sure I'd want to have this guy given a kid.. he seems a little crazy. No offense, Sentosus, but you do.

Re:My Family.

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone else's family got a dog instead of adopting a human. Don't you wish they adopted you too?

Re:My Family.

[afeeney]

It's definitely a social trend for more and more people to feel strongly about their pets to the point of considering them family. People spend more time single, either before marrying or settling into a living together relationship or after a divorce, and as well those not able to have children, there are more people who choose not to, for any number of reasons.

We also live in a society where people are increasingly likely to spoiltheir pets, so these kinds of sites are just going to keep coming, much the same way that so many people put up sites about or for kids. Some of 'em will be kind of excessive, sure, but then when you have something like pets, an interest/hobby for some, family for others, of course there'll be passion and sites of varying usefulness and sanity.

Me, I'm firmly in the camp of if there's a living critter you love dearly and who loves you just as dearly right back, then that's family, at least in my book.

Re:My Family.

[Anonymous Coward]

I endorse the option of having human "pounds", especially in 3rd-world countries, where unwanted children can be put up for display in cages. Potential adoptive parents could then browse and have a good idea of what's "out there" without needing to go through the extensive, expensive paperwork and red tape. Once a child becomes too old or sickly it would be euthanized to make room for the more desirable children. To make this option more desirable, perhaps a child adopted in a 3rd world country could be given a special "pet" designation that would its owner to legally dispose of it, in case it is no longer amusing? Let's iron out the details to make this a reality!

Re:My Family.

[orthogonal]

So please do not put down pet owners or say they are freaks. You may simply not understand the bond that people have with their animals. I know that I consider Cricket to be my son and when he gets a shot, he reaches for me just like any child would to their parent.

The twisty paths natural selection takes through "problem space" never ceases to amaze me.

Humans are neotenous apes: our maturity is delayed, our childhood prolonged, in order that we can take the years required to train our over-sized brains to modify our environment to our species's needs. That big brain is our only real strength as a species -- we are slower than lions, weaker than chimps, less robust than bears -- and that brain is only an advantage after years of education, years during which the juvenile human is essentially defenseless.

This extreme K-selected reproductive strategy -- K selection meaning that rather than produce many offspring requiring little or no parental investment (or "r-selection"), humans produce relatively few (although not as few as gorillas) offspring that require tremendous parental investment over a period of decades.

Clearly, humans unwilling or unable to make an investment in their offspring will have far fewer -- if any -- grandchildren: or in other words, lack of parental investment in a species requiring extreme K-selection will be severely penalized by natural selection. So humans evolution must either develop traits that encourage parental investment, or abandon K-selection and the big, slowly educated brain.

And so evolution has -- as usual -- taken a indirect course: parental investment per se may not seem all that fun, but what seems fulfilling to humans "just happens" to encourage parental investment: pair bonding between couples who become parents, a desire to have children and a family in the first place, a joy in the touch and smile of the child, the feeling of being needed when the child "gets a shot, [and] reaches for me just like any child".

What's even more amazing about the twisty paths adaptation takes is that these desires are so profoundly inculcated in humans (despite that big brain, it seems that we have more and more complex instincts than most other animals) that when we can't get the fulfillment that adaption has made us hunger for by having children of our own, we'll actually go so far as to adopt children.

Now think about that.

Adopting -- at least outside one's own family -- does nothing to propagate the adopter's genes. Indeed, adoption precludes using those same resources to contribute to a sibling's children -- who at least shares one-quarter of the adopter's genes --, or leaving the person with whom you're infertile, in the hopes that you'll be fertile with someone else. Adoption essentially means the extinction of your particular unique combination of genes -- the end of the branch that is you, after some three billion years -- with all those resources placed at the disposal of some entirely un-related gene line. It's a bizarre squandering of the efforts of your gene line over the three billion years of its refinement from the first proto-bateria through to your parents.

Now consider the parent poster: he doesn't support his sister's kids -- who share one-quarter of his genes. He doesn't adopt a child who is essentially a distance cousin, a member of his tribe. He doesn't even adopt a child from Brazil, a fellow human who at least shares 6 million years of evolution with him.

No, the parent poster adopts three canines -- members not of the same species, or even genus or order -- animals with which he has the same genetic affinity as with any placental mammal.

But that's what's so interesting -- he adopts these dogs not because they are genetically closely related to him, but because evolution has shaped him -- in a uniquely human way -- to need and desire the role of a parent, however he can get it. And evoluti

Re:My Family.

[cpeterso]

If he really wanted to be a parent, he could adopt a human. Dogs are cheaper and easier to care for and more fun than human babies.

Re:My Family.

[captainClassLoader]

Also:

1. Dogs won't ever bring home some sleaze bag as their S.O. or;
2. Cost you massive amounts of money to go to the college of their choice, and;
3. They're always happy to see you.

Others I'm sure can add to this list. Some people want to care for another living thing, but may not be that interested in children. IMHO this is waaay better than people having children and then deciding that they're not interested in having them.

Re:My Family.

[tarsi210]

First: I am very, very glad that you love and care for your pets. There are plenty of people in the world who do not and they should be disdained as much as those who don't care for their children. Neglect is neglect.

That being said, I am very, very disturbed and oftentimes annoyed by those who anthropomorphosize their pets. While your dog may be the best thing in the world to you, it is still a dog. I have friends who refuse to come visit because "the dog couldn't possibly be alone that long". One friend's mother scolded her dog and the daughter piped up, "Mom, you can't do that! He's sensitive! He's a little dog in a big dog's body!" Needless to say, statements like this lead me to conclude that these people have lost the reality of what they have.

If you have pets, please understand that they are pets, animals, but NOT human. They may exhibit traits which can be humanlike, but they do not have the functionality of a real human nor should be treated like one. Dogs could give a damn about the web, the Internet, or what color their doggie sweater is. Leaving your pet in its cage/enclosure with adequate food and water while you go visit a friend for the afternoon is NOT going to severely damage them mentally. Etc.

Please always keep in mind the attributes that pets have and the attributes that humans have and assign to each their proper dues and respect, but don't mix them up. It's not healthy or intelligent.

Re:My Family.

[gavri]

There are kids in orphanages dreaming of a couple someday adopting them.

Re:My Family.

[BubbaJonBoy]

Very very scientific - but I like Occam's Razor myself. Besides your diatribe does nothing to explain people that choose not to have children or even pets for that matter. What? Their genes told them they were at an evolutionary dead-end so just forego procreation? Nahhhhh.
Dogs are far easier to care for and provide instant gratification with very few legal obligations. Plus as pack animals dogs are mostly subservient to their pack leader human - unlike kids who feel a need to carve out an swath of independance within the family. It's nice being top dog without having to work at it. A very simple and rewarding social structure rather than some dark darwinian self-delusional nightmare.
regards,
BubbaJon

Do not forget:

[Anonymous Coward]

Wormster - the social networking site for the worms in your colon.

Filtering

[RedShoeRider]

Just what I needed....another bitch on all fours wearing nothing more than her birthday suit. I have enough pOrn on my computer already.

who gives a shit

[Dego]

I mean really people. People are dying in Pakistan, its Super Tuesday. Dogster. I mean shit.

Re: Time?

[Anonymous Coward]

Too much time isn't the problem. It's LAME use of that time...

Finally!

[Anonymous Coward]

News for nerds and stuff that matters about dogs!

I've searched and find many references to 'cat' on this site. But they're all in sigs I can't understand or seem to be about wiring someone's LAN.

DOOMED-TO-FAIL(tm)

[Asprin]

I pronouce this idea DOOMED-TO-FAIL(tm)!

Why?

No smell-o-vision. Dogs need that.

All that's missing are......

[GOD_ALMIGHTY]

really big bags of venture capital, a sock-puppet mascot and some future felons currently employed as stock analysts.

When they outsource it to India, will it spin-off a Cowster.com?

Did they make that html site

[bareman]

with Doggie Style sheets?

mod parent up!

[Anonymous Coward]

man what a waste of three minutes.

Catster

[Lord Zerrr]

They like cats to as they also have catster.com registered.

Registrant:
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
US

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: CATSTER.COM
Created on: 14-MAY-00
Expires on: 14-MAY-04
Last Updated on: 21-FEB-04

Administrative, Technical Contact:
Rheingold, Ted info@onematchfire.com
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
US
415.552.9594

Domain servers in listed order:
FIRE.KSPACE.COM
MIZAR.KSPACE.COM

and dogster.com

Registrant:
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San francisco, CA 94117
US

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: DOGSTER.COM
Created on: 12-APR-00
Expires on: 12-APR-04
Last Updated on: 09-AUG-03

Administrative, Technical Contact:
Rheingold, Ted ted@onematchfire.com
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San francisco, CA 94117
US
415.533.8855

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ATLANTIC.NET
NS2.ATLANTIC.NET

Re:Catster

[curtisk]

Well if they also have or will get "fishter" I'll be in pet web exploiting heaven!

Re:Catster

[Vexware]

Nice one, I think you managed to get Catster.com to down under the Slashdot effect too!

sorry.. it's obligatory...

[jdrake]

in soviet russia, dogs register you!

Dogstar?

[Punchinello]

What does Keanu Reeves band Dogstar have to do with Surfing Dogs?

Ohhhh! you said dogstEr. That's very different.

Slashdot hacked?

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

Geez don't scare me, a quick glance at the article and I saw this:

Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear

and thought WTF is happening hear?

Dogs are liked better than humans

[Anonymous Coward]

in US. Also the cats. So much so that they are not eaten!

can't we all be friends (petster)

[Anonymous Coward]

There is even a site for intra-species social relationships, because there's no reason Fluffy the cat and Fido the dog (even tweety the bird) can't network with one another.

PETSTER.COM -- WHERE PETS RULE http://petster.com

A simple request...

[prescot6]

Uhh... Could everybody stop going to the site? It's really feeling the burn of /. and my dog is expecting a really important e-mail from this bitch he met online last week.

...

Today's Ditherati says it best....

[curtisk]

Ditherati

see after quote...

On behalf of Cats

[RailGunner]

I want, nay, I demand equal representation for Cats. Discrimination against cats has gone on too long.. Felines have for far too long been portrayed in film and other media as villians - for example, why was Tom the Cat in the Tom and Jerry cartoons the villians? Why was Sylvester inept and always scared? My cat tells me that she's not taking it, and the claws will come out if they have to!

This could very well be the most important civil rights issue in a long time. ;)

Re:On behalf of Cats

[RailGunner]

Oh - there's a Catster out there, so Cats are equally represented. Damn.. makes the joke a lot less funny.

I guess all I have now is to channel Roseanna Roseannadanna and say "Never Mind".

i can see it now...

[donnyspi]

...coming soon to match.com:

I am a:
__ man seeking woman
__ woman seeking man
__ man seeking man
__ woman seeking woman
__ dog seeking dog
__ man seeking dog
__ woman seeking dog
__ dog seeking man
__ dog seeking woman
...

Dognoses.com

[RatBastard]

You've never been to DogNoses.Com, have you?

A-fucking-men brother

[JoeBaldwin]

Same here. I wrote a little program which automates installing source packages for stupid people (i.e those that don't want to use the terminal). It was basically just a little thing that could provide a massive bundle of help for many. Indeed-imagine if this were integrated into KDE! Click a .tar.gz icon and watch it compile and install right before your eyes! It could be like RPMs, just without dependency hell. It could be like Portage on any distro. It could be like Debian, but with no need to apt-get -f install, or type in some obscure library name.

But no. Of course, dogs on a fucking website makes more sense than something that could help a lot of people, and a lot of sysadmins.

If anybody thinks the program is a good idea, mail me or put a comment on my blog somewhere. I lost the tarball a while back, but I'm willing to redo it.

Re:A-fucking-men brother

[thelasttemptation]

so how did it deal with non normal installs? what about uninstalling? how did it deal with deps? how did you find all the deps of a program? Do you auto scan the make file and pass it the correct paths if they are nonstandard? What about packages requiring older/newer versions of automake/autoconf/gcc/etc? What about compiling flags? how does it deal with programs that don't support certain flags or need others on your platform?

Lots of questions :P

Re:A-fucking-men brother

[JoeBaldwin]

None o' that. That was planned for later versions.

The idea was that you would have one central repository for programs, with big tarballs. Each of the tarballs would have an app, and these apps would have dependencies. These dependencies would be provided for by other tarballs etc...

Hell, it's RPM minus the bullshit and with Gentoo happiness. Uninstalling would be dealt with by copying the source code to the compiled program to a specified directory, and then an uninstall prog would make uninstall that. Simple, but obviously it would be as painful as a kick in the nuts for a noob.

Non normal installs I would make normal :)

Re:A-fucking-men brother

[thelasttemptation]

To be honest, it sounds like another portage, the main app of gentoo, and you do know you can install portage on other distros? :P

Re:A-fucking-men brother

[JoeBaldwin]

Yes, I do. But I can't be arsed. This is just drop in and easy :)

check out wifester.com

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.wifester.com/

Wifester is an online antisocial networking community that permanently connects two people in an exclusive network, eliminating all possibilities for dating or making new friends.

State of Personals sites.

[antimith]

No one even looks at personal sites for PEOPLE... what's gonna come of dogs? I can't wait until they start up Doggy Blogs. Just think, that could concievably add around 20% to the internets junk like most normal blogs. Hurray!

Silly me

[sarastro_us]

And see, I thought the only smelly, furry geeks on /. were the one's who never shave and only bathe once a month... Guess the dog's got you beat there, too, don't they?

Servers slow

[dr_dank]

Looks like Dogster has been put to sleep.

Re:Servers slow

[Davorama]

Well, at least yawning.

Actually, it's kinda a pleasant surprise to see a highly dynamic php site still up when the norm at this point is a refused connection or the endearing classic 'mysql cannot open any more connections' error.

Dogster's developers/hoster get's a gold star for planning ahead!

I hate other people's dogs

[Anonymous Coward]

They poop all other the place.
They bark and make other anoying noises.
Worst of all, they are loyal
no matter what the stupid owner does.

This woulda been great for my dog Gus

[SnappingTurtle]

Gus (God rest his beloved soul) was a wonderful little terrier mutt thing. We adopted him when he found him starving in the streets. Although he improved under our care, he was old and sick and never gained full health in the few months we had him before he passed away.

But, ahhh, the girlie dogs loved him! Because Gus had a special passion for using his little dog tongue to please the ladies. It was his favorite passtime. One petstore owner actually had to ask me to stop letting him please the bitches. Too bad, because the bitches had no complaints.

Boy, that woulda made a great social networking page. Rest in peace, Gus, we miss you, and your girlie friends miss you too.

The market has decided...

[Wee]

...and nobody cares. I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this.

Dogster. Wonderful. I write an Open Source Social Network program, and Slashdot rejects any sort of story on it only to put a story about Dogster.

Perhaps that's because the owners of this site feel that nobody would care about your web site? Or are you just upset that you can't get free advertising? Not to put too fine a point on it, but you sound like a kid whining because nobody comes to your birthday party. You can't force them to come, you know. If people see some value in doign so, or satisfy some personal need in doing so, they will come.

Yeah, I know, the type of site I'm doing has been done... But then again, does that make Linux "Just Another Kernel?" I'm sure that would be up for debate.

You hit the nail on the head: "it's been done". And done more than a few times. And been done probably better than you did it -- better than I would have done it, too. That's just reality.

But what gets me is that you compare your web page to an operating system's kernel. Newflash: one is important in the grand scheme of things, and one is not. Again, that's just reality. I'm a little surprised that I even have to say that. I mean, your comparison isn't even close to valid. It's like you're complaining that nobody cares about the really nice and intricate paper airplanes you've made, and all anyone talks about is 747's. And now all everyone -- the ingrates! -- is talking about this new Airbus thing. Where's the justice? Seriously, can't you see where your anger is just a little misplaced?

Yes everyone, the ideal is novel

Again, you hit the nail squarely on the head: Dogster is a novel idea. My mom even knows about it. My relatives who hardly use computers think it's just fabulous, and put up profiles of little Fluffy the poodle. The idea has traction, for whatever reason (quite a bit of that reason is being the first to do it).

Yours is not a novel concept, and is probably somewhat played out by now. You're late to the party. Time to look at reality again. If you did "Catster" or "Birdster" or, hell, even "Hamster" people might come. But imagine if you did a Dogster clone. Can you see anyone coming to it? No? Why not? Probably for the same reason that nobody comes to your Friendster clone: it's an already crowded market, with no room for your efforts. That may be sad, but it's true.

But hello, anyone? This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs. We typically like things like anime, Open Source, Star Wars and SCO. This fits under neither.

Try not to tell people what they like. That's likely partly the cause of your problems.

I'd suggest abandoning the Friendster clone you've done and spending time and effort on something else. You've probably learned a lot from your efforts, so it likely wasn't a completely lost cause. Use that knowledge to make a new site, if a web site is really what you want, only this time find a novel concept. Slashdot, even though it's been copied over and over, was novel when it started out. That's why it's popular (and regardless of what you think about its occupants or its design, Slashdot is popular).

-B

Re:The market has decided...

[Anonymous Coward]

I wish I had mod points... this is exactly what I was thinking, but didn't bother to type out. The grandparent needs to stop whining about no one caring about his project. What does it say when submitting a story?

Note: grousing about rejected submissions is Offtopic and usually gets moderated that way. It happens, don't take it personally.

All of my submissions have been rejected, and you don't see me throwing a tantrum. Grow up.

Re:The market has decided...

[DarkHelmet]

Yes, I completely sound like a kid that's whining. Because that's how I feel at the moment.

I'm comparing Linux to this in the fact that it's Open, and it's free. My project is not novel in its function, it's novel in that it's Open Source where all the other implmentations are not. It's also novel in that you can clone it if you so desire.

The site itself is not original. The fact that "Catster", "Birdster" or even "Hamster" could be running off this codebase, is.

I know you'll probably see me as entirely wrong in these points, but I thought I'd put that out as food for thought.

Re:The market has decided...

[Wee]

The site itself is not original. The fact that "Catster", "Birdster" or even "Hamster" could be running off this codebase, is.

Well, there you go. That's more than a silver lining: it's the groundwork for a new project. (Assuming that a popular web site is what's you're aiming for.)

If what you're after is to showcase your work and get the word out there about your project, then why not try something like Linux Magazine's Project of the Month? They've had articles by the guys that did Gallery, TightVNC, etc, so you'd be in good company. It'd be a good way to get your project in front of people.

-B

Re:The market has decided...

[DarkHelmet]

Not sure why that was modded as funny, but thank you.

I am honestly more interested in making this a project, than a site. I have the site there primarily for testing. If slashster the site got really popular, and had a lot of users, it'd be beneficial for stress testing and the like.

What I'd really love to see are subculturish sites based off of this. Say for instance, college alumnus sites, that sort of thing.

To me, SlashCode is a lot more beneficial than Slashdot. After all, I guess if you don't like the way things are run on /., I guess there's the option of setting up my own place.

Then again, maybe I should have thought about that before complaining... Hmmm...

This is a great site....

[malelder]

For me to poop on!

Sorry :/

Re:Watch Out for Asians

[Anonymous Coward]

ror me ruv you long time Joe, hey whel you guy, me give you boom-boom no condom

OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah...I know that was suppose to be funny. But not to her. And I know this is offtopic, that why I'm posting AC...

I realise that I don't know the full story, and that it could be completely true. But did you ever stop to think that it could have been just a rumour, the type that fly's around a school and is so funny and outragous that it MUST be true especially since EVERYONE knows about it...

I speak of it this way because this same sort of thing happened to me. A nasty fat fugly cow started a rumour in grade 9 that I did rather expicit things to a cat. And being a geek who got picked on a lot in school, I did NOT need something like that going around. Not that it's even physically possible. But that didn't matter. Within 10 minutes the entire classroom heard it, and they laughed. Within a day, the entire school knew, and they laughed. That was in the first week of grade 9...the beginning of high school. And it didn't stop until I moved in grade 11. Not once. Day in and day out I would be teased and attacked by everyone because of it. I would have people coming up to me, at any time of the day no matter where I was, to say "hey man, did you really fuck that cat? I bet it was hard." I would get beat up for it. I would be an outcast for it. And what did I do wrong? I was an unpopular geek who just wanted to be left alone. That was my only crime. I was severely depressed. I considered suicide. I considered doing things that would make Columbine look like a mild standoff. I considered a lot of things. About the only thing I could do where I didn't end up dead or in jail for a long time was to move. I shouldn't have been forced to move to get away from that. It wasn't right. And it still affects me to this day.

Remember that the next time you want to talk about this girl. And remember...if you ever have kids, and they talk about something like this, TAKE IT VERY FUCKING SERIOUSLY and talk to them about it. You may be saving everyone from another Columbine...

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you every say anything besides shrugging away for two years? Did you ever see a counselor about it? Sounds like you should have..

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you kill the fat fugly cow who started the rumour?

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw a counsellor. They said it would stop by the end of the school year. I heard that said three times.

Have you ever tried to deny something that everyone around you says you did? Especially high school kids? You just look all the more guilty. "He's denying it, IT MUST BE TRUE!!!"

I had some of my classes rearranged so that I could avoid the worst offenders. I took an early lunch (in a school with one lunch period), so that I could avoid most people. I spent any time not in a class in the Special Resources room with all the "special" kids. I fought back whenever I was forced to. It didn't matter. It just made it all the more fun for them. Literally, the last resort I had was to blow up the school (you'd be amased at what you can learn from a library in the pre-internet days), kill myself, or move. I'd like to think I picked the right choice.

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Molina the Bofh]

Literally, the last resort I had was to blow up the school (you'd be amased at what you can learn from a library in the pre-internet days), kill myself, or move. I'd like to think I picked the right choice.

So you're the one who bombed it, uh?

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Brandybuck]

Way back in grade school we used to tease a guy by calling him "horse dick". Why we did it I will never know. But he obviously did not like it.

How much does this affect people? I did not see him for the next five years, as he went off to another school. But I ran into him once by happenstance, and out of nowhere he physically attacked me, screaming that he did not have a horse dick. This was five years later!

We had obviously damaged him through our teasing. It probably wasn't his primary damage (I'm suspecting a bad family situation), but it was enough that it had a firm enough hold on his subconscious that he instinctly attacked one of his teasers half a decade after the incident.

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell...I would have LOVED to called horsedick. There were a lot of sluts on my school, so one of them would have tried to test the rumour.

But I understand the damage. If you are subjected to something you hate for long enough, those feelings will never go away. I would still kick the living shit out of the fugly bitch that started the rumour about me, or pretty much anyone else that brings it up...and this is over a decade later.

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[Opie812]

Hey, I know you...didn't you fuck a cat?

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[BillX]

Wow, it really is funny how these things work. Where I come from, "horse dick" is not exactly an insult. A few people I know started perpetuating a rumor...a couple with firsthand experience, but more just blindly spreading rumors without checking into them, so I've heard 'em all - The Ruler, the Prudential, Vlad the Impaler, references to making "bitch-kebobs", etc.

Needle-Dick the Bug Fucker, that I can understand...but what ever gave you the notion to tease a guy by calling him "horse dick", and whatever gave him the notion to take it as such? Of course, I suppose the context matters. Saying it while knocking the books out of his hands, throwing him into lockers, and etc., probably clarified it...

Re:OT - Re:Urban Legend Time.

[vena]

no, the word of her actions came from her own mouth. if it was just rumour, then it was her rumour, that she started, which she perpetuated and she accepted. really messed up girl overall.

Pets.com anyone?

[Saint Stephen]

It's official: Friendster and Instant Messaging are in a bubble. I swear to freaking god, people will fall for the same crapola time after time after time after time. Remember, people once thought pets.com was a GREAT idea!

It's times like this I'm glad Silicon Valley is being outsourced.

Sad?

[Vexware]

Well, I'm not trying to say those 8,000 dog owners are freaks, but I'm not exactly fascinated by how 'Snubby99' once sent his dog food into the pool, or some other entrancing past story, and I don't know anyone who digs meeting dogs over the Internet. I expect a 'Dog Blog' section to be up soon. They forgot to add the 'God XXX Porn' section, featuring intense sweaty moments of butt sniffing and threesome multiracial humping - ooh, sexy!

Of course..

[Bon bons]

This just in: The first announced lawsuit against a linux user by the SCO is Mister Bojangles and his site about the wonderful world of fetching. Mister Bojangles could not be reached for comment.

Re:MOD PARENT D O W N

[Anonymous Coward]

In soviet russia lameness filets you.

Pretty sad slashdotting

[Chatmag]

Come on now, I am three miles from the dogster.com server in Gainesville, Fl, and I can't access it.

*goes off looking for the "pause Internet" button*

Re:MY MANAGERS ARE TOTAL IDIOTS

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe you have hit the nail on the head. They are probably incompetent fuckups and your asking them an insightful and relevant question threatened to expose their inadequacy and to harm their sense of superiority. You might ask fellow underlings who have had the misfortune of dealing with these two whether they feel the same. If it becomes clear that your suspicions are well-founded, take appropriate action.

Going -ster crazy

[artemis67]

First it was e-... eToys, eBay, e-dreamz

Then Steve Jobs came along, and convinced that "i" was a much cooler letter... iMac, iBook, iPod, iTunes.

Now everything is -ster... Napster, Friendster, Feedster, Dogster, BulkRegister (oh wait...).

WILL THE MADNESS NEVER END?!?!?

Re:Going -ster crazy

[maxwell demon]

No it won't end, indeed we'll have e-a-ster later this year! Two of those in one word!

Re:Going -ster crazy

[spood]

The funny part is that the owners registered the site with the Dotster domain registrar.

Re:MY MANAGERS ARE TOTAL IDIOTS

[Anonymous Coward]

In situations like these, it is best to take things to the next higher-up level. So, my suggestion is KILL THEM ALL AND LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT!

Also, piss in their apple juice.

So sad -- so true

[Anonymous Coward]

I love my cat. She's awesome, and I like to share funny stories occasionally with friends who also own cats or other animals.

But this is just too much. I have a life, a girlfriend, and other interests. There's no need to live vicariously through my pet. Yeesh.

End of the world

[Zygote-IC-]

Suddenly the story below this one about a series of catastrophic asteroid strikes leveling most of the life on the planet doesn't seem like such a bad thing after all.
It's all about perspective.

On the weekends.. I pose

[Anonymous Coward]

as a 3 year old French Poodle,
butI'm really a 10 year old Bassist Hound.

-w00f

Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[GuyMannDude]

The comment about Slashdot Personals being a refuge for ugly chicks is really not in very good taste, considering that several of them will see this message should it be modded up high enough. I'm sure that most girl geeks don't consider themselves sex goddesses (although a few of them are nice enough to give us guys something to fantasize about) but I doubt there is really any girl who wants to hear that she's ugly. Considering the many guy geeks have probably been mocked by the pretty, popular girls during school years (and the fact that we are so constantly overlooked by women in our 20s as well) I would think that guy geeks would have more understanding of the concept of "total beauty" (as opposed to superficial or physical-only beauty) and have more respect for girl geeks. At least not blatantly accuse them of being ugly on a site that they frequent.

You're not going to find any girl geeks who look like Playboy playmates but they have a beauty all their own. I know that I find a woman much more attractive if she is intelligent, thoughtful, inquistive, and skillful. Given a choice between a sexy girl who is an airhead or a reasonably attractive geek girl, there's no question in my mind which one I would pursue. So please guys, show the girl geeks here a little respect. It's not fun for them to be bombarded with images of impossibily beautiful women in the media. It's not fun for them to have to put up with their mothers complaining that they should spend less effort on the career and more time finding a suitable husband and producing grandchildren. The last thing these wonderful women need is to be bombarded with this type of "geek girls are ugly" crap on slashdot.

GMD

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[Feyr]

all what you've said is entirely true... except the parent poster was talking about dogster.com, not slashdot :)

nice try though

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck all that.

I'm a decent looking geek guy, and I only want to date a decent or good looking girl.

I'm not even going to consider dating someone who is not physically attractive. That means ugly and/or fat girls need not apply. Feel like I'm being unfair, superficial, etc? Too bad, go kill yourself. Its called evolution. Someone has to put a stop to the evolutionary polution that keeps continuing. If you are so frustrated with life because you are ugly and can't find a partner (or can't learn to live alone), don't be pissed at me because I won't even consider you. If its really that bad, suicide is a reasonable answer. Why must you reproduce and bring yet another ugly person into the world to suffer?

I'll stick with intelligent, physically beautiful girls, who are fun, and have good personalities (yes, rare, but they ARE out there)... and NOT a geek girl.

I'm sorry, but geek girls and other fat ugly bitches just smell funny.

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[kin_korn_karn]

You're not going to find any girl geeks who look like Playboy playmates
Doesn't Playboy have a contest right now to pick a TechTV hostess to appear in the magazine?

But those girls aren't really geeks, they're just playing the role to get lonely horny geek guys to watch the station and think "there's got to be another Morgan Webb out there".

Reminds me of the guy that owned the comic shop in the town where I grew up. He would hire the hottest girls he could get that were still literate enough to not look stupid and instruct them all to flirt with the customers, to keep repeat business up.

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[Dave2 Wickham]

You probably have a high threshold:

No no, that's http://personals.osdn.com (Score:1, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on 17:53 Tuesday 02 March 2004 (#8442264) :P

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, most slashdot guys are ugly. Therefore it follows that most slashdot girls are ugly. Also, they're probably not the pick of the litter if they're using a personals site. Most slashdot guys also aren't very picky, and will fall in love with an ugly chick, which is totally okay, as long as both people are happy. Besides, after being ignored for so many years by women, a lot of geek guys eventually end up going after guys, because even an ugly gay guy can get laid like a rockstar. Which, deep down, is actually all most straight guys really care about anyway.

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[laeren]

Fuck all that. I'm a decent looking geek girl, and I only want to date a decent or good looking guy. I'm not even going to consider dating someone who is not physically attractive. That means ugly and/or fat guys need not apply. Feel like I'm being unfair, superficial, etc? Too bad, go kill yourself. Its called evolution. Someone has to put a stop to the evolutionary polution that keeps continuing. If you are so frustrated with life because you are ugly and can't find a partner (or can't learn to live alone), don't be pissed at me because I won't even consider you. If its really that bad, suicide is a reasonable answer. Why must you reproduce and bring yet another ugly person into the world to suffer? I'll stick with intelligent, physically handsome guys, who are fun, and have good personalities (yes, rare, but they ARE out there)... and NOT a geek guy. I'm sorry, but geek guys and other fat ugly assholes just smell funny.

</respond to troll>
Seriously. You don't have to be an ass about not wanting to date people that smell funny. No one wants to date someone who smells funny. I do, however, resent the implication that geek girls can't also be "intelligent, physically beautiful girls, who are fun, and have good personalities." Sure, I'm not "beautiful," but, Mr. "Decent Looking Geek" Anonymous Coward, somehow I suspect that you're hitting the top 10 list of any "objective" standard of handsomeness yourself.
Sigh. And thus another long streak of not posting anything is AGAIN broken by being pissed off. By an AC. Ah fuck it, I was bored.

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, you're quite attractive.

Posting as an AC, because I am pointing out the
obvious, not hitting on you.

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

thats because a lot of geek girls are man hating feminazis as well. you come on to them at all and they pretend to be all grossed out and offended that you could possibly ever think of them in that manner. fuck that noise. college is about getting laid and having fun, not internalizing stupid crushes for 2 years. if you have a crush on a guy, go out and fuck him rotten, he'll enjoy it and you probably will too. geek girls often suffer from the same fucked up social deficiencies as geek guys, but life is a lot more interesting if you go out and fuck up once in a while.

Re:Don't be dissin' girl geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously. You don't have to be an ass about not wanting to date people that smell funny. No one wants to date someone who smells funny. I do, however, resent the implication that geek girls can't also be "intelligent, physically beautiful girls, who are fun, and have good personalities."

Well, congratulations, you have been trolled. Actually, only the last two lines were trolling. Ok, just the last line. The second to last line I think I meant. If there were a girl with all those qualities, she most likely wouldn't be a geek, or at least not typically categorized as one. Besides, I don't want some boring DND RPG nerd. Then she'd have all her nerdy RPG friends over all the time to play and they will sit around all like "I cast level 12 boredom inducing spell on you" and "I absorb your boredom inducing spell with my +5 nerd magnet blahblahblah." I've seen one of my friends with a girlfriend like that, I would get tired of that quickly. To each his own, I guess.

Sure, I'm not "beautiful," but, Mr. "Decent Looking Geek" Anonymous Coward, somehow I suspect that you're hitting the top 10 list of any "objective" standard of handsomeness yourself.

Well, to be honest, I was trying to be modest. Most women seem to think I'm attractive and good looking. And also I have a large penis which women seem to love playing with. And I have no problem getting beautiful girls who meet my qualifications. But they seem to get serious too quickly, and I have to dump them before they start expecting me to be exclusive with them.

And thus another long streak of not posting anything is AGAIN broken by being pissed off. By an AC. Ah fuck it, I was bored.

My main point is keep the gene pool clean. If you are not fat and ugly you don't have to worry. Unless your mom (or even your dad) is fat and/or ugly, then you're in trouble. In that case you probably should avoid letting some drunk guy cum inside you.

Oh, and totally offtopic, but, I have hooked up with girls who were extremely physically gourgeous, but smell funny. Man does that suck. They should be excluded as well. Other types to exclude:

-psychos
-alcoholics / drug addicts
-vegetarians
-cigarette smokers
-socially-awkward / shy
-history of depression / mental disorders / suicidal
-girls who are not good at sex or don't like it
-the other extreme, nympho sluts who give it up to everyone
-hermaphrodites
-closet homosexuals (this one is sometimes hard to tell though)
-girls who don't like children
-girls who abuse their pets (e.g. declaw their cat)
-girls with personal web pages
-girls who post on Slashdot

I also think we should legalize assisted suicide and make it available to anyone and everyone who wants it. Yes, I realize the implications of what I'm saying, but I think after the initial ugliness of it, the human race will be a lot better for shedding the weak.

Laugh if you want to...

[Anonymous Coward]

but I've met a number of hot bitches on that site.

and cowboyneal

[apparently]

Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter. Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear. CowboyNeal from Michigan is partial to having his head up his ass.

So what's new?

[Sly Mongoose]

Check out the Dotcom web-page...

See Spot, See Spot Type.

[RLW]

And to create dogs that can create and maintain their own web site.
They just need a paw friendly key board and GUI that doesn't rely on colors to make sense.

STOP IMPREGNATING UGLY BITCHES

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks to alcohol, there aint no such thing as an ugly chick.

It's fuckheads like you who impregnate ugly bitches and cause the human race to continue to be ugly.

Re:STOP IMPREGNATING UGLY BITCHES

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Yes. And I'll keep doing that until mirror industry pays me a 100 million dollar.

OMG

[Anonymous Coward]

YUO ARE TEH FUNNAY!!!!!oneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneone

Yep, it's slashdotted

[dogster]

I have no idea why dogster merits slashdot listing in the face of NASA news of an organic history on Mars, but I can honestly say I can die happy now. Seriously, I've been ./ed and can die happy. I coded the whole site myself as simple as it is. (begin code critiques now) Perhaps once the link is off the /. homepage you could even get a page or two served on the site. So thanks for checking it out, but please go away ;> (If you're wondering yes, it is on some crappy virtual hosting server ... until I can cope with moving it. If anyone wants to swap/barter dedicated hosting for promotions, shoot an email ;)

I Wonder

[certsoft]

If the terms of service require the disclosure of the use of Neuticles?

Mug shots?

[spood]

complete with mug shots

Shouldn't that be pug shots?

where is...

[isecore_JMK]

the Catster?

Hope dogs have better luck finding a date

[linuxlover]

given it is in San Francisco bay area:-)

Wow

[cnmill]

The say this internet thing will revolutionize the way we live. Who'da guessed this?

You're a troll.

[Anonymous Coward]

this is the lamest thing I've ever heard of

What, you mean posting on /.?

Stuff that matters

[coljac]

I don't usually post comments like this, but Jesus Christ, you sad fucks!

Wow...

[MC_Cancer_Pants]

Welcome to the slashdot infomercial network, does this mean that I too can spam slashdot with advertisements phrased as articles?! I don't see any "news" here, there isn't anything significant about a "8000+ mark".

Pet peeves?

[Chatmag]

From the article: "listings of likes and pet peeves."

Shouldn't that be "human peeves"?

That's nothing!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's nothing! There's this crazy-ass company called Purina? And they sell nothing but food for like, dogs and cats. Dog and cat food! Is that crazy or what? And I heard there are even people who go to actual medical school for years and years to become doctors . . . for animals. What the fuck?!!??!!? They're called "vetrimanariums" or something. It's a weird, weird, world. And sad, very sad.

dude

[circletimessquare]

that was some beautiful shit

i often tell people that organized religion is at odds with true spirituality, that true spirituality has nothing at all to do with organized religion, and in fact, organized religion can deaden and retard the development of true spirituality

and then i read this, and am completely in awe of what you say, and am reminded of the dark days we live in of civilization where the intolerant minions of the magic sky ghost cult still hold such enormous power and sway

i look forward to the death of organized religion and the rise of true spirituality like yours, a day when human civilization frees itself of it's teenage years spent under the sway of intolerant, evil organized religion

imagine what spiritual awakenings will appear in such a time... it may be decades or centuries hence, but i can dream

wrong site

[commodoresloat]

he belongs on slashdog.org

Pictures-of-my-dog@homepagecities.com

[BillX]

Does this invalidate the stereotype of newbie sites on free webspace hosting "pictures of my dog" as their primary content?

Welcome to Dogster

[Lord Zerrr]

where every dog has a webpage

[Important Update 3/2/04. Soooo sorry the site is painfully slow. Dogster has been slashdotted. The site will likely be slow thru the end of the day. You may want to hold off of registering or adding dogs until tonight. You can rest your paws that we'll be upgarding our servers soon. Happy and sad all at once.]

cat fucking not so rare

[commodoresloat]

People do fuck cats. I was as surprised to learn this as anyone but I had a housemate in college who had a cat that was unnaturally friendly with humans. Really friendly. I finally asked him what was up with his cat and he told me that his former roommate was fucking her with a q-tip. I'm not making this up. I thought it was insane, but it makes a hilarious story (well, not so funny for the cat), so I was telling some other people about this a few weeks later and one guy said, "that's not so weird, I've done that." What?! For real - he claimed he and friends were having a poker game and the cat was in heat and wouldn't stop whining until somebody got busy, again with a q-tip. He was like, you don't understand, the cat wouldn't shut up, etc. etc. The way he was talking it was like it wasn't that unusual to him at all. Based on this purely anecdotal and entirely unscientific survey I would suggest that cat fuckers are actually more common than you might think.....

Wicked DOGZILLA CD for $4.00!!!!!!

[bmajoros]

My dog plays guitar! She has a CD for sale at ShortRunMusic for only $4.00: http://www.shortrunmusic.com/cds/966.html If anybody likes Satriani, Vai, Tangerine Dream, Ozric Tentacles, or Eric Johnson, check out this CD! At $4 for 68 minutes of wicked guitar music it's a steal. Hear samples at http://www.billmajoros.com/guitar.html

Why do i feel so guilty?

[Scroatzilla]

Why do I feel so guilty for thinking this is so pathetic? I just can't help it. I guess I've bumped into way too many people who are way too into their dogs, and who talk about them as if they are children. And all I keep thinking about are all of those little dogs dressed in sweaters that I see walking through the park on my way to the train every day. Must... resist... urge... to puke.

Hmm. Maybe i'll start a site for cats.