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When Microbes Ate the Ocean
museumpeace writes "When /. discussed a story about microbes that could break down water as a hydrogen source, many commentors went off on a tangent joking about runaway germs eating the oceans. Now, prof Joe Kirschvink and students at CalTech propose that indeed, the worst iceage ever, which nearly ended life on earth 2.3 billion years ago, was the result of algae evolving the ability to break down water and flooding the atmosphere with oxygen. The absence of oxygen consuming organisms at that time is said to have lead to destruction of atmospheric methane which had hitherto warmed the earth. The professor concludes: 'We haven't had a Snowball in the past 630 million years, and because the sun is warmer now it may be harder to get into the right condition. But if it ever happens, all life on Earth would likely be destroyed.'"
I just want to say.. Thank you. /. doesn't like dissenters in the population. They try to keep you silent and impotent.
I'm sure you'll be modded down as a troll, as
I firmly believe once a community reaches a certain size, it has certain duties to perform, to the truth, the absence of sensationalism, and most of all, equality.
Moderators: I have posted without my +1 bonus. This post is admittedly offtopic. Don't waste your moderation points on a reply. I suggest you use moderation points on parent posts. Its more economical. And remember - mod UP intelligent posts, mod DOWN klerckisms.
I'm more than willing to burn the karma in the hope that some moderators MOD UP the parent post.
It's intelligent, factual, and above all interesting.
Mr Thinly Sliced
You're new here, aren't you?
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
And compared to some of the gibberish that pops up on here, a damn sight more interesting.
Tee-hee!
Yes, nothing like a troll to prove the parent correct.
Mod this UP.
As I tried to return to this post from one of the links it was gone.
It was modded down.
Is that a real poncho? I mean, is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
Very nice. Keep up the good work. I'm glad i spotted this post before it was modded down.
Please continue your research and keep us updated.
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Moderation Totals: Offtopic=6, Troll=1, Insightful=4, Interesting=3, Informative=3, Total=17.
This post had better make it into meta moderation.
And, like an idiot, just undid my 4 moderations to this article, including undoing my mod down of this post.
but slashdot editors are the ones modding posts down, jaime has admitted it...too lazy to look up his actual post claiming this.
Absolutely right and far more interesting than the fact that Oracle has security flaws. So, now what? A few thoughts...
Ditch the Anonymous Coward posts. Just have multiple accounts and accountability for each of them.
User moderation doesn't seem to be such a terrible idea, just poorly implemented. Reconsider how moderator points are allotted. Who gets points, why, and how many?
OTOH, moderation can be just a quick, mindless way of dissing people without adding anything to the discussion. Responding creatively would make the whole shebang a lot more interesting.
Any other ideas?
Sig?
Sigue Sigue Sputnik!!!
Why bother modding up? Generalissimo Taco and the rest of the House UnSlashdotterian Committee have infinite mod points, so this post will eventually be modded into -1 hell along with the goatse links.
To go back on topic, I am not suprised someone found security hole's in Oracle software.
Within a week, I was back posting at +2 with a karma of something like 35. I've found that, the more agreeable you are on slashdot (and the earlier you post), the more karma you get.
Tips?
Anyone else have any suggestions? This is just stuff I've experienced.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Man thats a really weak 'get back on topic' effort there. Nice one.
If anything, it only encourages more trolling as trolls giggle with delight when some jackass gives them a negative score.
I'd say that pretty much sums it up.
No security through obscurity: my password is goatse. Stop me before I troll again.
But I want those goat sex pictures and links clearly seperated from all others
Maybe we need a new moderation
-10 Goat Sex
Slashdot: the the most successful troll ever!
Excuse me, there's a type in your .sig
No security through obscurity: my password is goatse. Stop me before I troll again.
Im personally anoyed at the negative moderations, say for instance you have hit the karma cap, you post something and it gets moded up to +5 (Still at 50 karma cap) the someone comes allong and you get moded down -2 for some reason or another, now your at 48.
I will bend your mind with my spoon
No, you need to edit your /etc/hosts
Well, if the system recorded Karma earned past 50, it wouldn't really be "capped" at 50, would it? Especially if, as you seem to suggest, you'd actually have to receive additional negative moderation to remove those above-50 points prior to actually losing any of the first 50 points.
Perhaps what you meant to say was that there should be no Karma cap.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
since everyone is going on about how they wanna
burn karma and how slashdot sucks:
mod this post down.
Fscking bullshit!!!
All I've seen modded to +5 (Insightful) lately is the fscking Microsoft shills.
FOAD, GOAT, HAND,
Mart (who's expecting that the Microsoft employees^W shills will mod this to oblivion)"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
That way I can have my shot at it. ;)
Why bother.
Well, that makes sense. Thank you! Carry on.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
No there isn't.
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
How about haveing a set of core moderators (Say 4-5 carefully selected users) and when they mod something up. The poster of that comment gets some mod points to distribute. (Obviously they shouldn't be allowed to mod themselves up)
That way only people who make meaningful contributions are able mod up other meaningful contributions.
Just a suggestion I made up right now. Its probably full of holes. (Which I'm sure I'll hear about)
Acaila
Growing Old is Inevitable; Growing Up is Optional.
Yeah, modded down to 0 from 3 in about five seconds. Jesus CHRIST the moderators SUCK here.
Who cares if you're at 50 or 48? If you're a good poster, you'll get back up to the cap eventually. If not, your downward slide just starts a little sooner.
Maybe a system should be put in place that permanently bans troll accounts after so many temporary bannings. Slashdot is supposed to be about the exchanging of ideas, trolls do not bring ideas to the discussion.
You mean like kuro5hin.org? Yes, they have a better system, so why am I still here? Because the average posts they put up are boring or too intellectual. I like stupid commercial advertisements like Slashdot posts.
that doesn't get rid of the dozens of stupid links that get in the way of the people trying to have a real discussion.
intellectual?? i think you mean pseudo-intellectual. those pompous assholes there think they know everything. it's funny to see how often they get trolled. it's basically a left-wing, bleeding-heart liberals site for computer geeks. and they barely cover tech issues anymore.
yup bitchslapped...
..not to mention "insightful"!
No shit. And it's been that way for more than a little while. You'll also get modded down for saying Microsoft sucks even though it's a god damned fact.
Come on. You know that's not true. It used to be, but it just isn't now.
Wouldn't that be Quad Xeon?
I'll leave phenomenon alone =)
Oh yeah... I phailed inglish class
maybe now that we've got the friends and foes structure we should be able to do our own moderation. I wouldn't be suprised if this is what the divine Taco has planned anyway...
J-aims
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Wow, i seem to have sprung a karma leak.
USE YOUR MODERATOR POINTS INTELLIGENTLY IF YOU USE THEM AT ALL.. and stop thinking with your hormones.
Yes there is.
Is this post on topic enough for you?
sif bitchslap!
it's all bnorted!
No, really, there isn't.
be one of us
read this
http://slashdot.org/~Trollaxor/journal
and this
http://slashdot.org/~The TUrd Report/journal
Unfortunately, that doesn't help with Anonymous Coward posts.
(And, no, I'm not gonna use my real account. Must preserve precious karma...)
HAHA! Just like /.
Difference is, K5 is community driven, if they sway away from what the origonal contect was suppoesd to be about. It's because that's what the K5 community wanted, since they choose and submit the stories.
I'd would like to have said "Hey, if you want tech stories, goto Slashdot, not K5." But My first line explains why I didn't.
I didn't think I'd ever see anything like this on Slashdot. This is not what I thought Slashdot was all about.
I'm starting my stop watch. Let's see how long before this is modded down.
When will Windows be ready for the desktop?
No, seriously, there is!
Now what were we talking about again?
If you disagree with the moderation in this thread, please take up posting in this discussion as a protest of what's going on here. I hope there's enough people who care to get that discussion among Slashdot's most active ones. That's on the page to create a discussion if you don't know.
Sorry if it seems like I'm spamming this, but it needs to be done if the editors are going to wake up and conclude that what they did to this thread was wrong.
Post here to protest editor moderation.
Check it out now:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=188, Flamebait=4, Troll=19, Redundant=3, Insightful=47, Interesting=107, Informative=28, Funny=6, Overrated=8, Underrated=32, Total=442.
four hundred and fucking two. +5 though; the people have won.
Unix evolved from Multics.
Sig?
Sigue Sigue Sputnik!!!
Just, K5 is slow...
Too many
Sig?
Sigue Sigue Sputnik!!!
The last thing the editors want to see is this post in the hall of fame. I sincerely doubt they'll go so far as to keep it out, but a story in the hall of fame with a thread like this is the last thing the editors want.
So let's keep posting the hell outta this until it's right up in the hof most active. This will truly test the editors confidence, or lack thereof.
Sig?
Sigue Sigue Sputnik!!!
I've met -so many- linux zealots who can't back their claims of superiority with one fact, yet, they hate windows.. for no reason except the stereotypical "It crashes all the time!" and "Microsoft is a Facist Monopoly bent on world domination!". I forgot who said it, but i like him or her: "Open Source; Closed Minds".
'Tis unfortunate but true. I think a lot of people have latched onto the meme that Linux is a renegade upstart come to topple giants and have formed meager justifications that reflect that basis. These people don't think, they don't lead, and most of them don't write code. They're followers, and many followed Gates before they followed Linus.
Linux is a tool, licensed in a manner very different from similar tools... nothing more, nothing less. Like any tool it has strengths and weaknesses.
I have my reasons for choosing Linux and that's good enough for me. I used to use Windows. Here's why I switched to Linux:
I have a set of tasks that I would like to perform using computers and I have chosen Linux over Windows because Linux is a better tool for my tasks. That and I like the philosophy.
If somebody else wants to use Linux simply because it's grassroots or because it's free($) then I say to each his own. Maybe along the way they'll discover that they're smart people who can solve their own problems, and that Microsoft was really holding them back. Who knows?
Likewise, if somebody wants to use Windows, and has reasons for doing so, then again I say to each his own.
Screaming 14 year olds, as is said, having pissing contests over l33tness
This is typical of most 14 year olds. Some 14 year olds happen to use Linux. They'll each grow up and eventually stop pissing in their own time, but the fact that a group of people with these characteristics exists is simply a feature of our world... or maybe it's a bug ;-)
its better than sitting at work staring at the birds frying in the satellite transmitters on a slow day!
That it is!
I like to play children's songs in minor keys.
"We're all sons of bitches now." --J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Anonymous slime mold Coward, what the fuck is wrong with you? I bet mold doesn't hate itself. You're too conditioned by the TV, hearing only soundbytes. "He said we're mold! He must be a liberal!" What an asshole. You're so partisan and jingoistic that you can't even take a look at the big picture to save your own life. Personally, I hate you for being human. Because mold as dumb as you stays politely out of the conversation.
Also, what the hell is this "majority of the US" you're spluttering about? The majority of the US doesn't go along with *any* politics. Of the fraction who can vote, only about 60% do, for the past 35 years. Accounting for Nixon's pandering to the 18-year-olds he was sending to Vietnam, voting turnout has been steady at least since WWII - leaving the majority of Americans not even voting for anyone. And even in recent elections, the past 2 presidential ones, that "majority" you're assumedly blithering about has amounted to a barely significant 1-3%, even ignoring Bush fraud in Ohio and Florida - twice. What do you say about the actual majority, polled this week, which disapproves of you moronic fascists in every way?
Stick your fake "majority" up your ass. It might not outnumber the rest of us, but it is big enough to fit a gigantic Anonymous asshole Coward like you.
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