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Broken Links No More?
johndoejersey writes "Students in England have developed a tool which could bring the end to broken links. Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM scans company weblinks and replaces outdated information with other relevant documents and links. IBM have already filed 2 patents for the project. The students said Peridot could protect companies by spotting links to sites that have been removed, or which point to wholly unsuitable content. 'Peridot could lead to a world where there are no more broken links,' James Bell, computer science student at the University of Warwick, told BBC News Online. Here is another story on it." See also the BBC story.
How silly do we have to get, vying for something that matters so little?
My rectal blood is perfuse... can we replace this with a better link?
You're the original submitter, aren't you?
No, just a subscriber; I saw the story 10-15 minutes before everyone else. I post A/C because I have a problem of easily becoming "addicted" to posting on Slashdot: tracking my posts, seeing how well they do, and making sure I always get +5 on everything. When people would mod me down I'd get all upset and bothered. So I'm trying to wean off Slashdot by posting A/C. This way there's no record of my posts for me to go back to, and it takes the "game" aspect out of it. It's working OK.
I know, it's not perfect. It's the best I can do. I'd love to hear anyone's suggestions, or from anyone else who has a similar problem. Slashdot really takes up too much of my time.
run L^H^H^H^H^Hprevent a site from being /.ed?
/. junkies like me ;p
anything else is uselees to
(hint to Taco: how about a script replacing any link in a submission with the Coral cache link?)
Glad to hear I'm not the only one doing this (posting as AC when I have an account).
:-)
I used to be the same way you describe. I was addicted to karma. I have a 5-digit account, but I haven't posted under it in a long, long time, and probably won't again. Besides, being AC is so much more fun. It's good to be able to let loose and say what you really feel sometimes!
This is AMAZING. The intarweb will never be the same.
You probably bookmark your A/C posts so you can slip back and check them.
Eh, there are people that don't do this? Not doing it would be like admitting you don't actually want to participate in a discussion but rather just troll and fire-and-forget remarks.
AC is not automatically troll or don't-bother-reading. Not for me at least.
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