Overclocking Calculators?

Klar writes "If you're looking for something new to prove your tech prowess, Richard Piotter has a great how to on overclocking Texas Instruments graphing calculators. You can actually double the cpu speed, which is noticeable when graphing complex functions."

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Do Something, Taco!

[Slash Watch]

Stop michael Now

For literally years, the "editor" "michael" has been splattering his moronic influence all over this website. Now, if Slashdot were some dipshit site without any effect on the online world, that'd be all well and good, but I and I'm sure you too would agree that as editor of the most popular "News for nerds" website, michael has a responsibility to us. Amongst the many things that michael has done are:

• insert biased editorialising into story blurbs by putting words in "quotes" to put Democrat-oriented stories into disrepute
• go off on rants in prominent comments in all caps, screaming and railing against Intel's 64-bit efforts
• posting stories that have been instantly archived, allowing no one to post, and then not fixing the situation for an hour and a half
• moderating to -1, Offtopic or -1, Flamebait anyone who contests his idiot behaviour
• modbombing entire threads of dozens of posts to -1, Offtopic
• applying a "bitchslap" operation to users who disagree with him, setting their karma to "Bad" or "Terrible" and taking away their ability to ever moderate again
• not explain his actions
• hijack domains
• post blatantly false hoax stories, perpetuating the flow of misinformation (case in point: the tsunami creature story)
• post links to sites that have then been switched to goatse, and then not explain what happened afterwards
• not edit stories in light of new, overriding information
• posted stories with broken URLs
• posted stories in the wrong section
• posted consecutive dupes - only he, CmdrTaco and timothy have managed to do this

The list goes on and on. michael must go. Slashdot's not that great as it is, but he's just dragging this place down all the faster. What can we do? Taco ignores all emails about his beloved $20K-a-year staff; he trusts michael more than the opinion of his beloved readers. Taco won't do a thing unless we can hit him where it hurts - in the pocket.

How? Simple. Taco relies upon the insightful-sounding commentary that this site occasionally produces. (You'll notice he doesn't go to the trouble of modding it up himself - he leaves it to us!). Without it, people stop visiting and Slashdot becomes unprofitable. So, here's what to do if you want to oust michael and force Taco to fix Slashdot:

• install adblocking software like Privoxy to block adverts
• set your preferences to eliminate the slanted crap posted by michael
• don't put links to Slashdot URLs on your blog; link directly to the URLs that the Slashdot story includes
• don't post genuine comments in the stories; if you must post them at all, do them in the journals of the people you want to talk to or email them privately
• any time michael (or any editor, for that matter) does something that they need to be called up on, say something. Post about it, even if others have done so - the more noise people make about editor screw-ups, the more incentive they have not to do them
• change your comment preferences to give a +6 bonus to Flamebait and Offtopic moderations. These are popularly used for moderation-enabled censorship. Overrated is too, but I guess Taco wants to keep at least one moderation that we can't dodge
• if you get the chance to metamoderate, moderate all positive moderations as "Fair" and all negative moderations as "Unfair". This won't get picked up at all and you're helping to stop over-sensitive censors like michael
• whenever you moderate, use your mod points to moderate comments at -1 and 0 upwards as "Underrated"; you can't get metamoderated for this

There you go. Now you know what needs to be done. If you agree, reply. If you disagree, re

Re:Do Something, Taco!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, and you know what else is annoying?

People who post completely offtopic stuff

People who use Slashdot as an forum for their own little campaigns

Trolling and flamebait

People who think that just because they read a site they have some right to dictate its content.

Re:Do Something, Taco!

[Anonymous Coward]

Guy you are asking too much from the bunch of bums that lead this site, once they sold out they took the same atittude of any corporation: we say so.

Don't waste your time, there is a lot of sites like engadget, hackaday and so that are doing a better job in keeping the community informed and musch inpoertand without the bias.

Re:Do Something, Taco!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sod off and set up your own site if you don't like this one.

Hypocrite.

[Slash Watch]

Way to post ontopic material there. I really don't know what kind of axe you have to grind.

Re:pfft

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you tried water cooling?

Re:Next:

[the pickle]

In Soviet Korea, a Beowulf cluster of our new Texas Instruments overclocking overlords welcomes naked, petrified old people in hot grits.

p

I agree.

[Anonymous Coward]

Keep up the good work, Slash Watch!

Michael Has Done 3 of those 4 Things

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, and you know what else is annoying?

# People who post completely offtopic stuff
# People who use Slashdot as an forum for their own little campaigns
# Trolling and flamebait

Michael did all three of these with his speakeasy sucks campaign he threw all over the front page (click here for the post and here for the explanation about what happened). As a newcomer to the site, I just learned about his actions through the various discussions today, and I'd like to thank Slash Watch and the others who have been suffering the offtopic moderation to communicate how childish this guy is. I particularly like his subtle way of modding criticism offtopic -1 or bitchslapping the poster to quell discussion instead of justifying his actions (particularly acting hypocritically about hijacking domains or using the front page of slashdot to vent about customer service).