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New Project To End Stupidity Online
mrneutron2003 writes to tell us that StupidFilter, a new Open Source project started by Gabriel Ortiz and Paul Starr, plans to provide an intellectual prophylactic for memetically transmitted diseases. "Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. Then, Eternal September hit and we were lost in the noise. The advent of user-driven web content has compounded the matter yet further, straining our tolerance to the breaking point. It's time to fight back."
So who gets to decide whats funny or not? You? Or me? Lots of people find "MOAR" to be funny. Suddenly their opinions are worthless because you don't? Isn't thinking like that whats really stupid?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
If we were to exclude the fools, at the end of the day, one would end up all alone, like a fool!
S'il fallait excepter les imbéciles, à la fin du compte, on se retrouverait tout seul, comme un imbécile !
-- Raymond Devos
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Looks like they managed to filter themselves...
Bigger problem is who decides what is stupid?
All too often on Slashdot people actually believe that "Smart==Thinks like me" and "Stupid==Doesn't think like me"
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
I think the problem is in the summary. After all,
"intellectual prophylactic for memetically transmitted diseases"
Does anybody else feel dumber just reading that?
Remember RFC 873!
Would now be a good time to point out that 'gradiated' isn't a word? (Perhaps you meant 'graduated'....)
~Idarubicin
"We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." - UK military spokesman, July 2007
I think the internet is already full of test subjects... That's the whole point :)
Make SELinux enforcing again!
One of the reasons people call Bush stupid is his complete and total lack of eloquence. Like it or not, people often associate intelligence with ability to form coherent sentences most of the time. I'm not sure how intelligent Bush really is, partially because he never proves his intelligence with decent argument or debate. Others do.
I personally think that the slashdot moderations system works quite well. It avoids mod wars, and in my experience has generally promoted comments that deserve to be promoted and buried those that deserve to be burried, no matter what opinions they express. The fact that slashdot conversations are more lively then kuro5hin is worth the slightly less effective moderation system in my opinion.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.-- Frontinus, 1st cent. AD
Anonymous moderation is subject to its own sets of abuses, but "accountable" moderation is no panacea.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Fascists never sleep, do they
When people will get this that Bush isn't that stupid. However, his and his "elite" reasoning seems very wrong to us. Why? Because they simply think and therefore act different. They are shortsighted, and this is a catch - lot of clever people have been. Cleverness and high IQ have nothing to do with skill of insight, skill of understanding balance of the world, skill of knowing how to vet out our opinion and not to be so righteous about it. Skill of understanding of giving something good and getting it back.
user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu This server is going down for shutdown NOW!