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Slashdot Discussions Now Include Roulette Video Chat
It's been a long time coming, but we're pleased to announce the latest updates to our discussion software. We've been paying a lot of attention to what other websites have been doing in the space, and as we are only too happy to steal good ideas, from now on all Slashdot stories will now be accompanied by a Roulette-style webcam video chat. In testing, we've discovered that Slashdot users are amazingly likely to engage in informative, troll-free discussion when presented with the video image of one of their peers. This new addition to Slashdot nicely rounds out and improves the discussion experience for all users.
Boobs or GTFO!
Watch them, it's worth it. I think I see pudge playing guitar, Rob Malda playing guitar singing about short shorts. Crazy dog lady (pretty much straight out of Best in Show) actually a lot of dog related videos. Funny notebook writings like "If you click next, I root your computer" *flip* "Don't make your computer sad." Or "If you turn your head, I win!" A pan of a desk with the nerdiest things you can conjure and then a note that says "Proud to be a nerd." There's a recurring bass player that likes to read you books and sneeze. There's a lot of older folks and women in here ... they probably got their wives and parents to make short videos so it "seemed" like a random demographic.
:-)
Sound seems broken on half of them though.
Well played, Slashdot, but the quality of these videos are too high and entertaining for this to be a real chat roulette
My work here is dung.
Sorry slashdot, bad news: Google's April Fools is a lot better.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
This is what they've been doing instead of fixing the CSS problems on Idle (or simply removing it.)
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
What a great idea. Now I can see BOOBIES from the safety of my parents basement... here...let me try it out..
ewww gross. (click) ewwww gross... (click) ewww yuckko (click) ewww grosser! (click) ahh good, guy with guitar playing a tune... OMG he's lifting his shirt...agghhh ewww gross. (click) ewww gross...
I want Boobies. Girl Boobies. Oh yeah, I forgot...this is Slashdot.
I guess I'll just reload the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boobies
oh YEAH baby... seabirds! yeah! fap fap fap
Karma: Excellent. 15 moderator points expire sometime.
I found my long lost dog through slashdot. Roulette Video Chat FTW
just kidding?
Slashdot has slashdotted itself. Brillant!
... my iPad had a camera and supported Flash.
Not as funny as the kiddies on the Register who act out Brian de Palma's Scarface, but almost. Laughed a good deal about this. The only thing still missing is a CowboyNeal permanent webcam....
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
What is this? 1982?
Very ungentlemanly.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
It is burning all my bandwidth. Now every slashdot article I open I need to open the task manager and kill flash player. :(
Web cams of us? Does that mean I have to put clothes on? Well, you'll finally find out how fat Tami is, and how skinny Tammy is.
Excuse me while I get a robe and warn the women...
Free Martian Whores!
I can only imagine the average /. user logging in from home and what that person looks like. (I include myself in this cohort.)
This is not an april fools joke, it is a potential scary movie!
The Kai's Semi-Updated Website Thingy
But crashing my browser every time I visit the site seems a little extreme.
I'm on the Internet so I DON'T have to interact directly with other humans... :(
You do all see the part that says'
"This application *pretends* to use peer-to-peer connection.
Please configure your firewall accordingly"
Awesome.
Could it be their classic april fools???? Not very interesting, or funny...
Nice how this crashes the Flash plugin under OSX/Safari.
WTF?
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"I have also mastered pomposity, even if I do say so myself." -Kryten
PUFFFF... this "open in a new tab" habit become dangerous...
I call shenanigans.
Anything about the date today ring any bells?!?!?!
Like putting Icy-Hot on my balls...
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
Is it April 2nd yet?
Que Deus te de em dobro o que me desejas
[May God give you double that which you wish for me]
... this would fit right in with all the other crappy non-features that have been forced into slashdot lately.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I don't think I like it. It's more of a distraction for me than anything else. As far as promoting better posting habits, I think it might actually promote judging someone on how they look instead of the content of their post. Also, it introduces the opportunity for annoying advertisements. I never thought I would be disabling flash content on Slashdot...
Dress for success AND excess.
Okay I admit it - The videos were funny at first, but now I'd like to be able to turn them off, and nobody seems to have included that ability.
What web browser are you using? I have my Mozilla Firefox set up so that whenever I reload a page, the SWFs turn off until I click them.
+1 troll
-1 informative
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0 change to score ;-)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I'm 16, you're all pedophiles!
I'm calling Chris Hansen :)
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
Must we really be subjected to this? I have limited internet quota, and my processor is not particularly fast.
Fine, I'm OK with it, got my Logitech Pr0n 9000 set up on the 37" Viewsonic and it gives great closeups of me reclined on the couch; but, I just want you all to know I'm not getting a bikini wax.
ideopath @ play
If not, how do I turn this damn thing off?
At least the plugin is sandboxed under Safari. Seeing as I'm not the only one, I'm sure Apple is gonna love all those crash reports about Flash today. ...how is Flash not being on the iPad a negative, again?
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"I have also mastered pomposity, even if I do say so myself." -Kryten
April 1st roll-out...mighty suspicious...
Dress for success AND excess.
Finally, a way to incessantly argue with insensitive clods combined with an excuse to never wear pants again! Nothing says, "I so ferverently disagree with your contention that only this cleverly-placed sock can demonstrate the level of my dismay" like SlashRoulette!
And anyone who doesn't like it is a socialist pederast!
For a while I trolled chatroulette with meatspin looping through a fake cam feed.
partner: has entered text...
Is all I ever see from my peer.
Now we can not only call someone a wanker we can we can have video proof of the fact they they are.
It all starts at 0
Please don't. I'm probably in the minority, but as far as I'm concerned, this "feature" sucks. I get a lot of interesting information about various subjects from this site, but there is nothing gained with taking up the extra bandwidth for audio and video, especially if the person is a blowhard or just talking out of their ass. Don't get me wrong, we all fall into those categories at some point or another, but there's not much gained by adding this feature.
"Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional."
This is seventy billion shades more awesome than the video chat. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/floyd_nes/
Dark Side of The Moon in 8bit sound! Have it on in the background while you play around with Slashroulette.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
'nuff said.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
This is the first of many idiot-stories for the 1st of April, that will appear on Slashdot. The interesting thing is, ALL the stories are bunk. There won't be a single true one for about 18 hours from now.
Which kinda kills the joke.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
So, do I get an achievement for this or what?
And they do their work just fine face to face...
I'm wondering how many cocks CowboyNeal needed to see while collecting ideas for this joke. On the other hand, it's good to know CowboyNeal is using chatrl, so maybe I could meet him some day, only if I know how he looks.
As in, posting here, or was that only when Achievements were released?
Meow.
... find out what the anonymous coward looks like?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Very very annoying and just a bad idea. I hope slashdot will get back to normal. I don't need to see any videos on slashdot, especially any kind of Flash-based crap. Hopefully enough people will complain and slashdot won't be polluted by Flash anymore. I have no word to describe how obnoxious that is.
It's new features like these that keep the site fresh. srsly
Insert self-referential sig here.
And for slashdot, that's saying something.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
It's comforting to me to see that some things can still be relied upon.
-FL
are the failed page loads part of the joke or are the bideos dragging down the servers?
Now I can share my collection!!!
Yeah... call center full of geeks reading /. because we can't get anywhere else online, and now there's video being loaded. I'm sure that IT will filter us in the face shortly, and come slap us with rulers for watching not-work-related video with company bandwidth. =|
One of these days, I am going to flip out. When I flip out, I'll be back in five minutes.
Looks like the player is slashdotted. None of the videos load properly.
keyboard not found! press any key to continue...
Aargh! My eyes! My eyes! For the love of God, my eyes!
Nope... I still can troll while look my self straight in the face...
Come the revolution, the Bourgeois, Capitalistic, "A PARKING STICKER HOLDERS", will be first against the wall!
ClickToFlash will help alleviate your Flash problems on Safari without completely disabling Flash altogether.
male gynecomastia is quite common in the slashdot user base
you should have let the guy finish lifting his shirt: probably a nice B cup, albeit a little hairy
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You couldn't have improved the optics by including LonelyGeekGirl13 as one of the chattees? Naah, that would have given the game away in a heatbeat.
This is an obnoxious dose of BULLSHIT- I used Slash Dot as a information site. The video pop-up is childish bullshit!!!
I thought this was an April Fool prank. What an annoyance!
I don't run a lot of FF add-ons..just a couple. disabled Ad-block..still won't load just nothing. Loads up right away in IE..
After I participate in 10 chats, do I get an achievement to show for it?
UTF-8: There and Back Again
This is the *STUPIDEST* idea I've seen in a long while (other than, say, the idea that the tea baggers live in the real world).
AND I see no way to turn it off.
Did I mention I hate flash? And are you guaranteeing on-site, 24 hr maintenance, when we get infected from an infected flash video?
mark, who has his setting at "old style" slashdot
No one's forcing you to run IE, even if you don't have root privileges.
But you may need Administrators-group privileges to add a browser to the operating system's binary whitelist, or in some more locked-down organizations, even to mount USB mass storage devices.
I figure its the very least I can do, let you get the ad impressions and maybe I'll see something I like. I leave the ads displayed even with the option to hide them.
Until today.
Now I don't allow flash on slashdot because of this retarded bullcrap.
Way to go there dumbasses, perhaps next time you should think about how utterly fucking annoying you are being before you end up costing yourself income.
Whats better is that this thread is filled with 99.9% bitching and wanting it turned off and you still haven't made it optional or FUCKING TURNED IT OFF.
Are you trying to piss people off, or just that stupid?
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Kinda scary, everyone is looking old, looking to the mirror, oh, me too.
"think of it as evolution in action"
This thing runs my CPU up like crazy and I can not turn it off. I am categorically against Flash. I come to Slashdot because I like to read. Please be more considerate with the features.
Shouldn't slashdot be using html5 instead of flash for this? Some people can't use flash at work and doing it in html5 would make it possible because every browser is compatible with the html5 devices tag that enables webcams in html5.
Also, there should be a mute button, or volume controls. I'm too stupid to mute only the player, and I want to be able to listen to my own music and watch at the same time.
And finally, I love today. (My new i9 super gaming desktop from dell came in the mail today!)
This 'feature' locks up my Mac cold when I view this via Chrome. I've never had a hard lock on this until today. I'm scrambling to addblock it.
Congratulations ./
I would like to lodge a complaint about this new /. chatroulette feature!
/. have any perverts with big cocks?
Some skinny red-headed guy with a skeevy goat ee had his pants down and was apparently waving his micropenis at the camera!
doesn't
If only they used this for dating sites, and it would either go to the next person after you hit it or they hit it. I believe it would go well you could go though the entire website of mates in less than a few hours. It would let those people bypass all the freaking bots that are out that and make you waste your money to pay for the dating site.
This is a Mac, what you have there is an embarrassment to your fellow computer users.
I'm on my droid and flash isn't working. Well played though.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. indymedia
Nope, no, no, I don't wanna see this on slashdot.
like...repeatedly
no /. for me today, i guess =\
Your brain is not a computer.
The fat lady is singing, but she doesn't have a webcam so you can't watch her.
now we can laugh at the worlds morons with full video...of...us...err...crud...
The above comments are the ravings of a lunatic and should be ignored completely.
Just plain annoying is all it is...
Dude this wasn't funny, I don't like moving images in my browser at work, and now I can't even load /. without them!
...Natalie Portman, but instead there was mr. goatse.cx, yuck!
Just told NoScript to forbid fsdn.com. Incredibly annoying problem solved.
Goddamnit I hate this poor excuse for a holiday.
$ echo "ceci n'est pas une pipe" | sed -Ee 's/(eci n|pas )//g'
Whether it is a joke or not, having multiple windows with Slashdot in them now makes Firefox crawl and randomly crash. Thanks!
ahh, the one day I need to remember to NOT visit /.
Ce n'est pas une signature automatique.
No more posting in the nude.
---In a time of Chimpanzees I was a Monkey.
LOL.. good one.
...I'm gonna to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab the person who came up with SlashRoulette in the face across the Internet.
Is 10pm still not the same day? Some of us don't get to read ./ during the day.
This is the dumbest idea you guys have ever come up with.