EFF Compiles Endangered Gizmos List

Hungry Student writes "The EFF has published an "Endangered Gizmos" list of technology that is at risk of extinction from the lobbyists of the entertainment industry. Extinct species include DVD X-Copy and Napster 1.0. Among those fighting for survival are Morpheus and HDTV tuner cards. The BBC has commentary on this as well." From the article: "The EFF intends the list to be part of a wider educational and awareness project, and it will be updated regularly as more gadgets and technologies are saved or killed off."

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An Open Letter to Slashdot editors

[bconway]

Dear Slashdot Editors,

If you find that a link in a story that has been submitted shows up as purple in your browser, it may be worth checking whether the reason you've already visied the site because the story was already submitted.

Your humble reader

Re:An Open Letter to Slashdot editors

[LiquidCoooled]

1) How many slashdot editors actually read the submissions?

2) Is there a SIMPLE one off search point to put keywords into and get listings of the accepted submissions? This should NOT include wading through tonnes of comments slightly similar.
(before you open your mouth and say Google, think - google won't catch the dupes within a couple of days of posting, only the older ones)

3) Does it matter THAT much if theres an occasional dupe. (Yes I realise you are a paying subscriber, and in your case, its just one article you miss out on)

I went away from slash for about a week whilst we moved house recently, and am still shocked at the number of articles I notice I've missed. The web is a big place, and many people coming and going, we can't all see everything all the time, so occasionally dupes come in.
How many times in your life have you heard a dupe joke, or seen a tv show repeated?

Having said all that, I think possibly having moderation on stories so that dupes can be quietly dropped from the front page if an overriding number of moderators select it.

Dupes not on list!!!

[Sabotage]

I couldn't find "Slashdot Dupe" on the endangered list, so I believe that phenomenon will continue to live on....

Slashdotted

[Mr_Silver]

Since the site is dead, you can read a transcript of the site anonymously posted to Slashdot the last tine we killed the server.

Just add water

[88NoSoup4U88]

If you dealing with endangered Gizmos, just pour some water onto them : But for God's sake, don't feed 'em after midnight !

[/Obscure Gremlins reference] ;)

Just tell me one thing:

[killmenow]

Is BSD on the list?

Wha Happen?? EFF Under Quota?

[RobotRunAmok]

I've long had suspicions, but this confirms it: The EFF pays slashdot for all the promotion they get here.

I'm guessing this dupe was due to the fact that the weekly quota of EFF stories was not met as of Friday, Noon, Central Time, so some script in the slashcode kicks in and re-posts an EFF story from days past. (Advertiser charge-backs being a bitch, and all that)

Am I right, or am I right?

Priceless

[eno2001]

It is my belief that eff is a place where defunked professors of law go...

So... do you mean that they smell less bad or something? I think the word you wanted was "defunct" as in obsolete or in Unix parlance: "deprecated". Hehehe "defunked". That's just too good. ;p

Even More Slashcode Speculation

[RobotRunAmok]

They got pudge working on sump'n like this, even as I type:

IF [article_title] contains EFF and [user_name] = "RobotRunAmok" THEN MODIFY (Message_Score) = "-1 Flamebait"

YES!!!! KARMA IS MINE!!!!

[bgarcia]

I just have to cut & paste all of the +5 comments from the last time this topic was posted! YES!!!

Endangered gizmos...

[Faw]

... the EFF web server?

Re:Not everyone saw the article the first time

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, then let's just have them post this article EVERY HOUR! Someone might miss it otherwise.

If what you miss on Slashdot is important, then go back and READ THE DAYS YOU MISS.