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HDD Assault Cannon
Anonymous Coward writes "Check out what these crazy fools have done. One has to ask, exactly how much time these people have on their hands? Got a couple of old 2GB Hard drives. You too could join in on their madness. Hard Drive Assault Cannons for all!"
Hahaha!
... cannons drive YOU!!!
Slashdotted already?
"Anonymous Coward", the submitter, says "Check out what these crazy fools have done. One has to ask, exactly how much time these people have on their hands?"
Apparently you have enough time to speak in the third person about yourself. If you're going to astroturf your website at least make sure your machine and bandwidth can handle the load, idiot.
To those that couldn't load it: all you missed was a very slow loading gallery with 50 pictures and Quicktime movies of someone taking apart a hard disk and attaching shit to it.
Next story, please.
We have boxes of old drives that we need to get rid of here at work, but have to drill holes into them then have them melted down or buried in a landfill. This would be way more fun..
*Emailing boss the link*
I guess they could have used a more defensive tool to withstand the inevitable slashdotting...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Slashdotted already.. Probably had one of those 2 gig drives in it, and filled it full of apache logs.
OK, you know that some guys private webspace on his dsl connected linux server is going to be slashdotted within seconds.
So why not actually put SOMETHING in the submission that describes, in some way, WHAT THE SITE IS ABOUT?
"Check out what this crazy guy did with his computer!!!11!!!!11ROFLOL!"
It's an absolute waste of everyones time. Why even put shit like that on the front page?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
So now that our laptops are going to be classified as weapons, us Geeks are even closer to being chained to the desk, sadly enough. This is not funny, because I just chewed through my posie straps last week, and managed to roam the floor above me. Now that my laptop is a deadly weapon, I guess I should go re-tie those knots and just give up.
I can see all the cookie cutter jokes about being slashdotted already.
Let me see.
"must have used the webservers 2gb hdd"
"must have back fired"
"hard drives now replacing RAM disks"
etc...
Official GOD FAQ.
But I did not shoot his webserver.
Farked...erm...I mean Slashdotted...at only 4 comments.
Figures. Hopefully someone grabbed a mirror of it before we turned his hard drives into his next cannon fodder.
Three posts in, and the site is already unresponsive. The cannon just got assaulted... slashdot style
while true ; do echo this is my sig; done
kicks-ass.net is a free subdomain from dyndns.org - bet he's having some surfing issues right about now...
but on the other hand....with all the old obsolete machines around, world domination finally becomes a reality!
Did you know you can be apathetic to apathy? Not that I give a shit...
You may have a hard drive assault cannon, but your web server crumbles before the /. assault cannon!
--- Where's my car, and why are these grass stains on my pants?
Isn't that one of those free redirect services that people generally use to point to their cable/DSLed home machines? He's probably so slashdotted that he can't open slashdot to see that he's been slashdotted.
Think of all the porn you could bring to the world with these!
This site was already /.ed while it was still in the "Mysterious Future".
Whose turn was it to warn the linked sites today?
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
I can use 2 gig disks for my OpenBSD servers. However, I finally have a use for that stack of 200MB to 500MB Harddisks I've stashing like a packrat.
That I'm at school, because they filtered that website. *lol*
All we have to do is drum up a story about someone where taking apart something, gluing a hub inside something, or anything tech-related where pictures are involved, then post said pictures on their site, and link the story from /. Crashola! Works every time. If only the HDD assault cannon was that accurate.
stuff |
Okay, so the site's down less than a dozen replies in. Fair enough that it's probably not designed for this kind of load but I guess there's a couple of lessons here
1) Put some detail in the OP. It helps us who weren't lucky enugh to get it before the rush.
2) Mirror. Preferably before submitting.
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Anonymous Coward writes: HEY Check out the bitchin comment that Anonymous Coward wrote over on slashdot! What a wacky dude, commenting on his comment about a post that submits themselves in the third person! What are we at now, like the 6th person!!!LOLROFLLAMOAFAIKWTF?!?!?!?
Either their site was really horrible, or we are just getting better at /.ing!
You're just using that piece of poo browser Mozilla.
...you will need a 7200RPM or greater drive.
5 minutes is remove the site and put a simple HTTP redirect to TubGirl ;)
Guess who made the following statements? You get only 3 guesses. The winner gets a boredom-filled weekend at the White House
Respectfully,
Kilgore Trout
The Top 19 Dumbest Statements of the Past Week
by Harry Browne
April 20, 2004
Politicians are a continual source of empty rhetoric, rosy promises that are never fulfilled, meaningless mom-and-apple-pie clichés, and outright lies.
Last week was a particularly fertile one for such inanities. Here are the week's 19 dumbest political statements. At the end of the list, I'll tell you who said them.
19. "Iraq will either be a peaceful, democratic country, or it will again be a source of violence, a haven for terror, and a threat to America and to the world."
Right now Iraq is "a source of violence" and certainly "a haven for terror." Or are all those bloody scenes we see on television just reruns from Miami Vice? And, of course, Iraq was never a threat to the America.
18. "Our nation honors the memory of those who have been killed, and we pray that their families will find God's comfort in the midst of their grief. . . . we will finish the work of the fallen."
In other words, Americans will continue to die as a tribute to those who have already died.
17. "We seek an independent, free and secure Iraq."
. . . Independent and free so long as it conforms to the conditions the U.S. government has laid down.
Liberation
16. "We are a liberating power, as nations in Europe and Asia can attest."
Don't forget the liberated Haitians, on whom we forced Aristide. And the liberated Iranians, on whom we forced the Shah. And the Philippines, on whom we forced Marcos. And the Dominican Republic, on whom we forced the Trujillos. And Indonesia, where the U.S. government helped Suharto liberate tens of thousands of East Timorese from the burden of living.
And what about those liberated Iraqis -- carrying identity cards, going through road blocks and checkpoints, liberated from freedom of the press and freedom of assembly, occupied by a foreign power, their towns ringed by barbed wire, subject to raids and attacks without warrants by the U.S. military, liberated from the right to carry a gun and defend oneself against murderers and rapists?
15. "The nation of Iraq is moving toward self-rule . . . We're working closely with the United Nations envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, and with Iraqis to determine the exact form of the government that will receive sovereignty on June 30th."
I'm sorry I must have misunderstood. I thought "self-rule" meant that people determined their own form of government -- not a government determined by the U.S. government or the United Nations. This sounds more like the "self-rule" the Soviet Union gave to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary at the end of World War II.
14. "Iraqi's neighbors also have responsibilities to make their region more stable."
And they will shortly receive the appropriate ultimatums to inform them of their responsibilities.
13. "Over the last several decades, we've seen that any concession or retreat on our part will only embolden this enemy and invite more bloodshed."
I haven't seen any concessions or retreats by the U.S. government. What I have seen are invasions of Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq; U.S. troops stationed at over 700 foreign bases; ultimatums to foreign countries to do what American Presidents demand; resources confiscated from American taxpayers and given to brutal foreign dictators to oppress their subjects. I've yet to see any concessions or retreats, but I have seen a lot of innocent people die.
12. "We serve the cause of liberty, and that is, always and everywhere, a cause worth serving."
Speaking of liberty, have you been in an American airport lately?
Changing the World
11. "We're changing the world. And the world will be better off. . . . there's an historic opportuni
When is this evil going to be wiped from the planet? Will it take gnome 3.0 to do this? But at that point they'll just call it
KNOME
(in loving memory of )MEEPT!!
I gave up clicking on links to articles on any post that doesn't link to the top 100 company's on the Fortune 500.
Even then i don't think it would be too complicated to create a Slashdot Google-Cache-esqe type mirroring system (Open Source of course) so we can at least read the articles...but then again most commenters don't even read them before unleashing their retarded wisdom on the Slashdot masses
But yeah i agree with the article microsoft sucks!
--
sig shmig...
Hrm, I went to http://hddcannon.ass-kicked.net/ and got the same result.
This sounds about as fun as hard drive hockey was in the tech lab at my highschool. During the end of the year all the desks would be removed from the class room for floor maintenece. At the same time the old computers were being moved into storage to make space for the new ones. Combine that with a ready supply of screwdrivers and PVC piping and viola. You have Hard Drive hockey (which really played more like hard drive shuffle board but it was fun nontheless).
As soon as this guys DSL modem comes back from therapy I indend on looking this page up.
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
Check out what these crazy fools have done. One has to ask, exactly how much time these people have on their hands? Got a couple of old 2GB Hard drives and a slow Internet connection? You too could join in on their madness. Slashdot Assault Your Own Website for all!
---anactofgod---
---anactofgod---
"Equal opportunity swindling - *that* is the true test of a sustainable democracy."
After all I'm still using a laptop with a 1.2 GB disk. Precious disk space!
Could slashdot just add a link next to articles called "mirror" and pre-cache these smaller sites *before* they get hammered? I'm constantly scrolling through comments to find mirrors to slashdotted sites. Seems like a no-brainer. You could even do a 15-sec stress test on the site to determine it's ability to be directly linked.
Several times, i've seen sites that have had to shut down their site with a "please check back later" message. An inconvenience to us, but surely a REAL inconvenience to their normal viewers.
Thoughts? Thank you.
I prefer to disassemble old HDs. The voice coils and spindle motors tend to contain insanely strong rare earth magnets. And the platters make pleasant wind chimes (especialy if you have a mix of 3.5", 5", and 8" platters). I suppose one could also get a few bucks from the cast aluminum anclosures.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Personally, I'm going to keep on clicking the link, in the hope of doing some more damage to the stupid prick.
/. . I mean, there are people with megabit connections who get pwned by a link on /., what was this guy thinking ?
As has already been said in above posts, this guy is a moron. Astroturfing his site just to get it killed by
HDD Assault Cannon Mirror
Okay, this is a serious pet peeve. Fark is not a word, never was, never will be, STOP USING IT unless you want to be placed in the same category as lusers who make the Vulcan "V" sign.
Farscape was a TV show, not "reality", and the only reason the word was "invented" was because Scifi didn't want the rating level increase that would come with characters actually properly swearing. If you're gonna swear, swear properly.
Please help metamoderate.
Given that mention of any given web site often spells doom for anything but the most rugged servers and the biggest of pipes, Slashdot should come up with a web site cache tool that would hold the story/article/pages for us.
Okay, google does that for us, so why not link to the Google page rather than the actual site?
Yes, you always want to remove the gauze from your hard-drive before destroying it. Otherwise, it might catch on fire during the melting step (#4). I'm sure Karl Freidrich appreciates the hint.
--JoeProgram Intellivision!
See: www.fark.com and understand.
Seriously! It says this page cannot be displayed. So it's clear that all of you open-source zealots should just get a real web browser and enjoy the aforementioned website. SUCKERRRRRRRRRRS!!!111!!1
Of the MoveOn from Netscape 4.x Campaign could you please delete from your box this Netscape 4.8 install.
Thank you.
what really creeps me out is that not only do you have some weird science fiction meaning for that word, but it's a pet peeve of yours...
EOM
If a site is Slashdotted before you have a chance to see it, does it even exist?
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Because it's not in the Google cache, that's why.
should of put it on a Geocities site to handle that kind of /.'ing..
Slashdotters are ruthless. :P
Thats your server melting.
Religion is for people afraid of going to hell.
Is that not one post has been mod'ed up about the actual project - just the /. effect ;^)
A beowulf cluster of these! Mwah hah hah hah!
Normally, I have nothing but sympathy for people like that. I run servers on my DSL too and dread getting linked by ./. I defend against this by having nothing interesting on my servers :)
./ing but if you read the site enough to submit something, you ought to have an idea that 256k isn't going to cut it for serving up lots of pictures and videos.
However this guy I have NO sympathy for since the e-mail address strongly suggests that the person that made it was the one that submitted it. That qualifies as a Grade-A bonehead move if you asked me. I mean sure, maybe not everyone realises the full impace of a
I find HDD mechanical hacks to be intriguing. I have often thought it would be cool to make RC cars out of old Hard Drives and have races.
Mechanically, the hack would be pretty straightforward: To to drive the wheels, attach a worm gear to the disk shaft. To operate the steering, utilize the arm that guides the disk head.
I am not sure, however, how to interface with an RC transmitter. Any ideas?
1. Submit Astroturf story about dynamicDNSed site. ...
2. Your home DSL gets slashdoted
3. Redirect dynamicDNS to the Goatse
4.
5. Profit!
All of them.
It's not out of small-mindedness or forgetfulness after all. Hrm... maybe we should cut the editors a small break once in a while? Nah, 'twould spoil the fun! :)
O'course, why a google cache couldn't be erected is another story...
Any generalization is a stupid one.
This person knows now!
I believe there are are sites that are designed to cope with this type of thing. The guy that designed the TRON costume at Penguicon has his site at home on a DSL, but copied the site to ibiblio before submitting to slashdot.
Craig Steffen
http://www.craigsteffen.net
1. submit inane story and link to pictures using dyndns
2. change dyndns ip to computer you want to nuclerate once the story has been approved
3. ???
4. profit!
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
these HDDs? I'm seeking for a reason to resign as president of my local LUG...
Achille Talon
Hop!
What if this was an intentional DDOS attack? Someone you don't like runs a dinky little webserver off his DSL account, with some vaguely /. appropriate material. Submit his site, it gets on the front page, and BOOM... instant DOS.
Dammit, where's my tinfoil hat??
Detailed plan for world domination:
1. Build Hard Drive Assault Cannon
2. ?????
3. World Domination!
My God! It's so simple, it's brilliant!
"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect."- Steven Wright
Imagine the bitching if it were a simple text-only "how-to" article.
Hard Drive Assault Cannon HOWTO
1 Introduction
This HOWTO aims to show how to manufacture a hard drive assault cannon.
2 Materials
You will need:
* One (1) or more hard drives, preferrably 3.5", and of unusably small capacity
* One (1) 4.50" ID PVC pipe, length must be at least one foot
* One (1) explosive device, any form
* Materials for explosive device to PVC pipe interface
3 Assembly
Somehow attach the PVC pipe to the explosive device in such a manner that most of the force enters the PVC pipe. Insert the hard drive into the PVC pipe.
4 Usage
Detonate the explosive device. The hard drive should exit the pipe, and move through the air. To use again, the cannon must be reassembled (as per step 3).
*Note: This isn't a real mirror, do not assume this is actually the mirror.
How many articles are going to be posted about the slashdotting effect? What's that? This wasn't about the slashdotting effect? Then WHAT'S WITH ALL THE COMMENTS??!?!!
Mod +5 Drunk
This idiot writes "Check out what a crazy fool I am! One has to ask, exactly how much time do I have on my hands to go through all the spam I'm gonna get? Got a couple of old 2GB Hard drives. Great, can I have 'em? I gonna need 'em for all the spam. You too could join in on the madness. All you need to do is post your email on a public website.
Like this: hddassaultcannon@hotmail.com
Hard Drive Spam Cannons for me!"
heed the .sig...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Just stop posting all these lame, trollish articles. Don't worry slashdot, we'll keep reloading even with just 3 quality articles per day. At least that way the 3 good articles won't scroll off the main page and we can have even higher quality discussions on them.
If you're still compelled to post these simplistic tidbits, bring back the Quickies. I miss those!
Never mind where the magnet is*, where's the parent's .sig link (explaining what these projects are)?
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
[This post is in the public domain (copyright-free) unless otherwise stated]
Do it, mods!
ok blokes, i jumped in the old bomb and motored over to yack with these foolz with the catapult.(I reside in the next big smoke over)
...Slashdotters, I can't describe....wait
i'm standing here in the doorway now. luck for me my wireless is still running fulltit.
after some quick g'days being exchanged, these guys are going to show me how this thing works (yes their DSL connection has gone tits'up).
[mates, what you doing there? that looks a whee bit dangerous...oh that's clever using the chilly bin for cooling, the whole mess looks a bit stroppy...]
i'll keep relaying for you Slashdot blokes, since their net link has gone bush.
[uh blokes, not sure you should be doing...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!! don't...]
There's this bright $&%^#&fq9q1 1q91qwei and som238 dodgy metallicj 11(#%(*& for t28 love of god, don'1*31#(@#
[NO CARRIER]
The Slashdot FAQ is an interesting read.
I recommend it to all those reading this post, especially those who moderated this post as Insightful.
Perhaps the article submitter is not the webpage author at all but the author's enemy. As others have pointed out, the submitter's hotmail address doesn't necessarily mean it's the author (c'mon folks you can't be that daft!). This can be a good easy way to get your geeky enemy: post enemy's website on slashdot, watch enemy lose their internet connection for the remainder of the month.
his site hasn't been /.'d, the DOD shut him down. The plans posted on the site could be used by terrorists to create WMD...
Thanks for reminding us that this is The United States of America. You have no rights because there is no Constitution thanks to none other than your hero Scrambled-InCommand
Do you think this loser actually participates in decision making?
Regards,
Kilgore
That should be Scrambled-In-Command
Remember to Get Your War On
and your little dog too!
Oh god I can rhyme.
You didn't even give google enough time to cache the site!
google search reveals:
HDD Assault Cannon - Slashdot - 1 hour ago
Actually it both exists and doesn't exits,
It's only when the wave function breaks down that the address of a slashdotted article defined.
Its kind of embarassing, but my Macintosh Duo210 only has a 75 MB drive, and its about the only Mac laptop that didn't have a built-in SCSI port *sigh*
That being said, its still one of the smallest laptops ever, and I can stand on it without damaging it (I accidentally discovered). Pity about the greyscale monitor...
does his HDD cannon still work while his computer is /.ed?
Bring back the Quickies!
The other option would be to offer a webmail account with 2Gb storage. It would be more newsworthy than this article - even if it would be for only one person.
In light of the site being removed, can someone take a moment and tell us what it was?
from slashdotting to farking frelling to what the Fuck? You all need to look at some porn or something. I still want to see the damn cannon.
they had taken one of those robotic arm storage systems and used it to conquer a planet. Now THAT'S a misuse of techology!
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
You're new here, right?
It's called Slashdot, and it worked again. ;)
That is sooooo about to become my new sig.
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
I've read the FAQ and I don't buy it. I believe it's mainly laziness preventing the implementation of some caching layer here, combined with the cost of bandwidth they'd normally be able to shovel in the direction of the site the article is talking about.
So long as the cache/mirror honors HTTP caching headers, there's no true problem caching the information. Banner ads are usually served without caching headers (or with a must-revalidate header) to trigger a hit to the origin server, so they get credit for the impression. Real content usually (if the admin is clueful) expresses caching headers indicating the page can be held on to for a longer period of time. If the author is paranoid about people seeing his updates, a max-age of 1 minute or even 10 seconds would still spare his site from being slashdotted. If a good slashdotting results in, say, 100 hits per second, that's at least 1000 hits to the cache/proxy for every one hit the cache/proxy makes to his server. Not a bad reduction.
Of course, sites are always free to say "don't cache this page!" in HTTP, preventing any sort of proxy or cache from "legally" caching the page even for a short duration. If they're being dumb like that, though, they deserve the slashdotting they get.
Hulk try to look at pictures - site not respond.
Hulk get angry - Hulk SMASH Puny Human web site.
Hulk say more fun is watching Hulk jump off a house.
Hulk use hulk'in web server.
I worked at a DoD site once. If we were in danger of being overrun by the enemy (since it was in Hawaii, I guess that'd be either the North Koreans, China, or the Japanese out for a little payback), we were supposed to haul the crypto gear and all storage media out to the parking lot, smack the hell out of it with sledges, pile thermite on top and melt it into slag. I was sorely disappointed that I never got the opportunity.
What insight? He make a fucking statement of fact. That's it!
Who's to say the poor idiot who's server /. just slammed, is actually the guy who submitted it in the first place?
/. generates, this site was destined to go down in a heartbeat, but that could have been the submitter's intention.
With the volume of hits
As it's been stated numerous times, this poor schmuck now probably has no bandwidth, has probably gotten the attention of his ISP (and all the repurcussions of violating their EULA and home-based webserver operations that so many seem to have)..
Wouldn't it be amusing if you all were just unwitting pawns in a vicious denial of service attack?
I've made some lower tech weapons from computer components that can be quite useful. One is a PC2100 DDR RAM buoy knife I have it on my blog. But please dont /. me! (ha!)
Pics
Eat a Chicken, You know you want to.
Sigh...
Is it fascism yet?
My hard drive cannon is twice as good because I use 4gb drives.
None of those wimpy IDE drives, either -- I use Ultra-Wide SCSI drives (the extra circuitry makes them fly further).
Chip H.
(isn't one-upsmanship fun?)
the link in parent is up, pictures are not all that stable; they may work and may not. you may have to hit show picture a few times if they dont immediately work, but if not, sorry, you can always email me and i can send them if you are DYING to see it!
Eat a Chicken, You know you want to.
"De-gauze"? Isn't that what nurses do to patients with wounds? I think you meant "degauss"
OT, but I note you ran all this as root (or at least the # prompt indicates the logged in user has root privileges).
It is generally best practise to only do things as root that need to be done as root. Things like running 'host' don't - so as good security practise, you should have done this as a non-root user!
Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows
Ironically, "Anonymous Coward" who posted this story left as his e-mail address "hddassaultcannon@hotmail.com"
I suggest we all email him about sending us some sample pictures of whatever the hell he was talking about.
Ideally, three or four times a day.
Asshat.
WTF?
Ad-supported: no cache.
Non ad-supported: cache, but only forward user to cache when server is slashdotted. Cache is cleared once the article leaves the front page. What is on the "slashdot front page" is defined by the default settings.
$8.95/mo web hosting
A RAID array?
ANY website he mentions on the air disappears instantly.
It's almost magical.
I guess that would be called "Sterning"?
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
I wouldn't know whether it was slashdotted or not, my company's web filter blocked it as "porn"
-- stream of did I lock the front door consciousness
This guy's using Slashdot to DOS a rival 733t tribe member's PC. It's easy. Make up a title intriguing to geeks and post it anonymously on Slashdot.
I run three web sites off an old P100 with two old 1GB drives as the main storage in RAID-1 configuration.
I hate it when people waste old hardware that could go to good use!
Ydco co
This thread has gone to the dogs. I've been posting to slashdot and reading every article I can get my hands on for only a few months. But this is by far the worst collection of overmodded, stupid, and waste of moderation points on comments I have seen yet.
/. Too many non-Nerds, too many kids, too many repetetive stories, and not enough NEWS!
Seeing posts like this:
It's too bad... That I'm at school, because they filtered that website. *lol*
make me want to puke.
it even got modded funny
Slash dot is, News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters and i've gotten the sense since April 1st that something has happened bad to
Even worse, we just /.'d New Zealand.
Maybe they were running their webserver on one of the HDs they launched!
Monthly ISP Bill - $50
Computer - $1000
12 years of primary school - Thousands of tax dollars.
Learning that "there" is a properly spelled word and that "usage" is the term you're harassing another poster about - Priceless.
Virg
Behold the power of bored people with 'net connections!
"In a hierarchy every employee will rise to his level of incompetence". The Peter Principle
and not Freidrich :-)
Maybe I'm just confused, but I thought the Underpants Gnome's list was:
1.) Steal Underpants.
2.) ???
3.) Profit!
Am I still the only one who sees that the obvious entry for number 2 is:
2.) Sell them to old Japanese guys out of vending machines.
Why is this so tough? It's not even illegal, apparently.
Virg
tell him how much he sucks so his hotmail account goes down as well.
He wants to know where he can find an example of himself. I figured you might know.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
There is no text!
Do me a favor. Spare the 2 GB HDD, and give it to a charity organisation. There are organisations who make complete computers with old hardware and then give them away to people who need a computer.
2 GB HDD's can easily hold enough data for serving as an Internet computer capable for browsing the web. Together with a CPU like a P1/200 and some RAM they're Good for people who can't afford a computer like poor people or 3rd world countries. In other words, good enough! If you'd say 64 MB HDD i wouldn't have much to say. Because yeah, those aren't very useful (though still can be).
What you handle as garbage and useless is useful for others!
I think Fark would disagree.
FYI: Fark is yet another news site, with powers that possibly rival even the slashdot effect.
-Lucas
You may call him nazi. But still I won't call you literate. And the thread is far from over! For the man's name is Godwin, check your spelling for god's sake!
Scallywag.
OMG! So that's why my ISP (I'm on a paradise.net.nz ADSL connection) has been reeking of dialup lately.
I'd like to thank that website for disconnecting me in the middle of many online games, which has been occuring a lot lately. =/
Ahh.. would it be possible to combine BT and HTTP so that when someone hits a website the 'files' can be downloaded from their cache? This would make slashdotting a thing of the past. Nice idea.. but would anyone do it? (max 1K upload per client perhaps?)
Sure, '#' usually means root, but this guy's prompt says "(104):tim@pigeon:{11:45}:~#". That looks like a custom prompt if I've ever seen one (you too can set the PS1 variable). Looks like the prompt tells us: 104 commands on the history stack, the user is tim (not root!!), the host is pigeon, current time 11:45, current directory is tim's home directory. The '#' is probably just his favorite prompt character.
Dr Superlove 300ml. I use my powers for awesome
A better fix would be to mark all astroturf submissions "denied".
Then Slashdot would have to shut down on principle....
astroturf/free ad: 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba
astroturf/free ad: VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard
astroturf/free ad: Delorean Time Machine Replica Up For Auction
astroturf/free ad: DSPAM v2.10 Released
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Entertainment news: Jack Valenti retires (& expensive 9-figure movies) Thursday March 25, @12:10PM Rejected
astroturf/free ad: A bold, new approach to fighting spam.... Thursday March 11, @11:51PM Rejected
Toshiba got free advertising on Slashdot.
VIA got free advertising on Slashdot.
The person selling the BTTF Delorean Time Machine Replica got free advertising on Slashdot.
The DSPAM creator(s) got free advertising on Slashdot.
Jack Valenti retires!
Sounded like news to me so I pass the URL on to Slashdot.
Rejected.
Hey everybody, I wrote 'the mother of all email spam filters' after months of research, thought, and programming.
I pass the URL on to Slashdot so others can know about it.
Rejected.
It would appear Slashdot's editorial policy is inconsistent....
What does it take to get a story on Slashdot?
I submitted a genuine, non-astroturf story about outgoing MPAA president Jack Valenti and expensive Hollywood movies and got rejected. Can't be a bandwith issue--surely Slashdot cannot slashdot the BBC's website, can they? So then why was this story rejected after I (haphazardly) summarized it (along with some parting thoughts) rather than simply give them a sentence or two along with the URL?
My retail software product is, at face value no different from the other items for sale mentioned above. Why the apparent bias that appears to favor big companies or 'big ticket items' offered for sale by private citizens?
Then there's DSPAM and CF13, two email spam filters.
One is open source.
The other is closed source but open algorithm. There is enough information available at the CF13 homepage for a knowledgeable programmer to write their own version of CF13 if they wanted to. In fact, I took GREAT PAINS to make sure the algorithms used by CF13 wouldn't wind up patented and out of play for the next twenty years!
Doesn't that sound like something newsworthy?
Does Slashdot's editorial policy boil down to:
If there is money involved, size matters. If not, it has to be free and open source.
If it does, it should be changed for the better to something more impartial than what is in place now....
I'm glad I wasn't alone on that one. I couldn't stop thinking about how absolutely asinine that was, and it made me wonder what kind of dungeons-and-dragons-loving, everquest-playing, "star-trek-next-generation-isn't-the-real-thing" mother's basement world the poster lived in.
it took me a minute to get he was ranting about a tv show, which I guess makes me feel safely comfortable about my sci-fi geek level.
EOM
If enough Moderators made the parent post Insightful, maybe then its actually a Valid Point, regardless of any Official Decrees from Authority Figures?
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