Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later?

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Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @04:30AM from the party-like-it's-2012 dept.

October marks Slashdot's 15th birthday. That's right, we're almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser. Throughout October we'll be running a number of meta news articles about our history, plans for the future, and special interviews. We're also giving away T-shirts to people willing to organize and host the biggest Slashdot parties. It's easy to get started. Just visit the Slashdot Anniversary Party Web Page. Sign up to go to a party, or if there aren't any in your area, create your own during the official party period of Oct. 20-30. The details of your local parties are up to you. Each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst yourselves. Wherever several Slashdot readers gather, we'll attempt to mail shirts until we run out. Geeknet will host parties in San Francisco, New York, and Ann Arbor. To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by September 27, or sign up to attend one by September 28. This will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them. Help us celebrate 15 years of news for nerds and stuff that matters.

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What are you doing later? by aurashift · 2012-09-19 04:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Call me when you're 18.
1. Re:What are you doing later? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 04:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  eewwww. I would never touch slashdot... it's covered in goatse trolls, and judging from the articles on the front page, it's borderline retarded.
2. Re:What are you doing later? by alexander_686 · 2012-09-19 05:04 · Score: 2
  
  What do you mean by "almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser." Isn’t the minimum age to drive 14? (And yes, I did grow up in a farm state)
3. Re:What are you doing later? by Brucelet · 2012-09-19 05:10 · Score: 1
  
  If I point out that I liked the site better in past years, am I a pedophile in this metaphor?
4. Re:What are you doing later? by kelemvor4 · 2012-09-19 05:10 · Score: 1
  
  What do you mean by "almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser." Isn’t the minimum age to drive 14? (And yes, I did grow up in a farm state)
  It's 16 here (Florida, USA). There's been talk for years of raising it to 18.
5. Re:What are you doing later? by Enry · 2012-09-19 05:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  And grits. Never forget the grits.
6. Re:What are you doing later? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 05:51 · Score: 1
  
  eewwww. I would never touch slashdot... it's covered in goatse trolls, and judging from the articles on the front page, it's borderline retarded.
  And.. That's why you are here...
7. Re:What are you doing later? by scorp1us · 2012-09-19 06:18 · Score: 1
  
  Your layout looks CSS2, but your Ajax says you're web 2.0
  
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8. Re:What are you doing later? by Jane+Q.+Public · 2012-09-19 06:28 · Score: 2
  
  " There's been talk for years of raising it to 18."
  They talked about doing that here, too. They also did try some "restricted privileges" between 16 and 18.
  
  Big mistake. The State needs to decide on an age that is "adult", and stick with it. Instead, they have been pushing these namby-pamby rules about "old enough to decide this for yourself, but not that".
  
  It's all bullshit. Set an age, have done with it. We don't need all those lawyers. Really.
9. Re:What are you doing later? by hodet · 2012-09-19 08:28 · Score: 1
  
  i don't know. sounds like a sausage party.
10. Re:What are you doing later? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 08:50 · Score: 1
  
  HOT GRITS DOWN NATALIE PORTMAN'S PANTS!
  Sorry, had to be said. Long time since we've had that. I say we invite Natalie Portman. She won't mind hanging out with a 15-year old either.
11. Re:What are you doing later? by nobaloney · 2012-09-20 06:49 · Score: 1
  
  It's 16 here (Florida, USA). There's been talk for years of raising it to 18.
  It was 14 when I was a 14-yo in Florida (in 1958). But only during daylight hours, and with a parent in the seat next to me. Or while riding a two wheel motorized vehicle (we called them motor-scooters) of less than 5 brake horsepower.
12. Re:What are you doing later? by lsatenstein · 2012-09-20 07:52 · Score: 1
  
  Am I the only one from Montreal and area? How about a 5 a 7 in a nice place in Montreal?
  Montreal has wonderful international set of food emporiums, with refreshments. Whatever you like, from sushi to hamburgers,
  from Burger King to Costco (grin).
  And we are multilingual and multicultural
  
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13. Re:What are you doing later? by Nethemas+the+Great · 2012-09-21 06:18 · Score: 1
  
  When did farmers start paying attention to laws relating to minors?
  
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14. Re:What are you doing later? by nguyentruongto.bcv · 2012-09-21 13:13 · Score: 1
  
  I am 23 old.
Should have just held it a little early... by damn_registrars · 2012-09-19 04:33 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The republican convention wasn't that long ago, and slashdot would have fit right in with the rest of the conservative journalists reporting there.

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1. Re:Should have just held it a little early... by Soulskill · 2012-09-19 05:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
2. Re:Should have just held it a little early... by TheNextCorner · 2012-09-19 05:57 · Score: 1
  
  I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
  You want tax returns with that birth certificate too..?
3. Re:Should have just held it a little early... by damn_registrars · 2012-09-19 12:28 · Score: 1
  
  I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
  My wikipedia page will do you one better, and link to my death certificate as well. Do I get extra credit for being buried outside the US?
  
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4. Re:Should have just held it a little early... by dmsetser · 2012-09-19 21:01 · Score: 1
  
  Sonny, we didn't have UID's when I started hanging around Slashdot. I was still installing Slackware from floppy disks hoping that disk n5 didn't have bad sectors, before compiling my own kernel and coming back a couple hours later to see if it was done. Now I work for Microsoft. Weird.
  
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5. Re:Should have just held it a little early... by Nethemas+the+Great · 2012-09-21 06:20 · Score: 1
  
  Tax returns are not required for republicans.
  
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6. Re:Should have just held it a little early... by AliasBackslash · 2012-10-01 02:50 · Score: 1
  
  WOOOSH
Next to the plant in the corner by Ashenkase · 2012-09-19 04:33 · Score: 2

A party?! With my fellow neck-beards?! How engaging!
1. Re:Next to the plant in the corner by ethanms · 2012-09-19 04:38 · Score: 1
  
  We're gonna need at least a 20-sided room and lots of potted plants...
2. Re:Next to the plant in the corner by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 04:39 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Timmy's bring all his movies. Come on, it'll be FUN! My mom's making popcorn and pizza bites and we can stay up until 11PM.
  Plus, and don't tell anyone this, there will be pr0n.
3. Re:Next to the plant in the corner by vlm · 2012-09-19 04:50 · Score: 1
  
  Plus, and don't tell anyone this, there will be pr0n.
  Yeah that's the good news.
  The bad news is its all links where the text reads "click here for britney spears naked pics" however the URLs actually point to goatse.cx.
  
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4. Re:Next to the plant in the corner by SQLGuru · 2012-09-19 04:56 · Score: 1
  
  I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
5. Re:Next to the plant in the corner by nitehawk214 · 2012-09-19 06:37 · Score: 1
  
  I'm hosting a party. And in traditional Slashdot fashion, it will be a party of one and in my mom's basement. Attendees will be given a bowl of hot grits that they may or may not slather over Jane Foster MiniMates (http://www.artasylum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/janefosterfrostgiantback39.jpg) -- aka. Petrified Natalie Portman.
  The name of the image file made it sound like Jane Foster is a frost giant.
  Maybe an anorexic one.
  
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6. Re:Next to the plant in the corner by Darinbob · 2012-09-19 07:44 · Score: 1
  
  It will be easy to get them to engage. Bring a laptop running some obscure 10 yar old BSD variant. After a couple of minutes claim that you can't get the wifi configured correctly and that you need some help. After awhile you'll have 30 of the guys all huddled around giving suggestions.
  If that doesn't work, bring out the D&D dice.
Hey Slashdot by bazald · 2012-09-19 04:38 · Score: 2

What happened to the attendees lists for the 10th anniversary parties? The comments have been preserved, but they all seem to be registering 0 attendees. Losing that history is a bit sad.

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1. Re:Hey Slashdot by vroom · 2012-09-19 05:05 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  10 year attendee data issue has been fixed, so you can see them again. We added that menu option precisely so you could see the historical parties, and attendees.
2. Re:Hey Slashdot by bazald · 2012-09-19 05:13 · Score: 1
  
  Excellent. Thanks.
  
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3. Re:Hey Slashdot by nullchar · 2012-09-19 11:31 · Score: 1
  
  Troll? That was funny!
Party? by phantomfive · 2012-09-19 04:43 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't know, I might meet some of the people I've insulted.

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1. Re:Party? by rbrausse · 2012-09-19 06:11 · Score: 1
  
  it is often more interesting to insult people vis-à-vis; an important part of the fun is to see the reaction. insulting/flamebaiting/trolling while (an|pseud)onymous is dull.
2. Re:Party? by shutdown+-p+now · 2012-09-19 10:39 · Score: 1
  
  That's the whole point of going, no?
3. Re:Party? by phantomfive · 2012-09-19 13:07 · Score: 1
  
  So I can punch them in the face in real life, just like I did with my words on the internet?
  
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4. Re:Party? by shutdown+-p+now · 2012-09-19 13:23 · Score: 1
  
  Well, if you want to. But more importantly it's to see if anyone will want to punch you in the face. If they do, you know your posts have had the intended effect.
5. Re:Party? by phantomfive · 2012-09-19 13:29 · Score: 1
  
  good point.
  
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Hammer, corporate tool by fermion · 2012-09-19 04:45 · Score: 1

You know I did sell out to the corporations until I was nearly 30. How precious for slashdot.

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Commenters are worth it! by zipherx · 2012-09-19 04:46 · Score: 4, Interesting

I have been reading /. for about all the time I have really worked in IT, when a few friends and I started out Cybercafe back in Martch '97. The era of Quake and IRC, I will never forget.
Thanks for all the news, and the great comments, who, most of the time are worth spending quite alot of time reading (more interesting than the actual news) ;)

Have some nice parties, "overthere".
1. Re:Commenters are worth it! by olau · 2012-09-19 08:55 · Score: 1
  
  Either we're good at writing comments, or we, as a community, are just really bad at submitting news.
Re:Worst. by vlm · 2012-09-19 04:48 · Score: 1

You forgot to count the dupes

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Ye Olde Slashdot by Phusion · 2012-09-19 04:52 · Score: 2

I started reading Slashdot some time in high school (late 90's), this was the beginning of my career in IT. I was hired sophomore year to be a member of the paid IT staff and never looked back. I'm also part of a loyal bunch of pot headed IT folk by the name of "Smokedot". We've been around for almost as long, but consume a lot more dorritos.
Thank you Slashdot, even though Rob called me a noob at LinuxWorld a while back, I still love you.

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User ID vs year joined? by Sebastopol · 2012-09-19 04:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.
It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....
User Ids:
1995 : 0 - 1000
1996: 1001 - 50000
1997; 50,000 - 200,000
etc...

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1. Re:User ID vs year joined? by xpurple · 2012-09-19 05:02 · Score: 1
  
  It's insane the number of people here now. Please note my low ID :)
  
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2. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Rob+Kaper · 2012-09-19 05:06 · Score: 2
  
  You didn't get yours in 1997. That is 15 years ago.
3. Re:User ID vs year joined? by rhizome · 2012-09-19 05:12 · Score: 1
  
  Everybody probalby thought 1200 users was a lot for the site back then. :) Once past 10,000 someone started saying how there are too many people and /. had lost its edge or wasn't cool anymore. Then around 90,000 people started registering for the low uids. Obviously I'm not a joiner. ;)
  
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4. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Nodatadj · 2012-09-19 05:20 · Score: 1
  
  I got mine at the end of 1998
5. Re:User ID vs year joined? by LuxuryYacht · 2012-09-19 05:21 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Some of us would just visit the site daily without siging up until a couple of years later to be able to submit stories, post or moderate.
  
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6. Re:User ID vs year joined? by curunir · 2012-09-19 05:26 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  I started reading late '97 but wasn't convinced to actually sign up until sometime in '99. My guess is that you signed up early 2000. There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up, so slightly higher IDs aren't really an indication that people missed the early days.
  
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7. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Desler · 2012-09-19 05:31 · Score: 1
  
  There were no registered accounts in 1995 or 1996 since, you know, the site didn't even exist. There is also no way you registered in 1997 since the site started in September and there were not 200000 registered users since user accounts didn't exist until after the 1998 rewrite.
8. Re:User ID vs year joined? by cluening · 2012-09-19 05:38 · Score: 1
  
  Back at the time, I actually purposely avoided signing up because it was right at the time that web accounts were ballooning and I didn't want to add to my set of disjointed accounts. Now I'm kind of sad that my uid is so high.
  
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9. Re:User ID vs year joined? by alexandre · 2012-09-19 05:46 · Score: 2
  
  Low ID? :D
10. Re:User ID vs year joined? by mcrbids · 2012-09-19 05:49 · Score: 1
  
  Cue up a lame pissing match where people compete for the lowest number UID.
  Oh, and mine is lower than yours. :)
  
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11. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Sebastopol · 2012-09-19 06:00 · Score: 1
  
  Three cheers for 15 years of pedantic trolls like you who fail to understand context and higher-level thought patterns!
  Hip hip! Yawn....
  
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12. Re:User ID vs year joined? by ArsonSmith · 2012-09-19 06:11 · Score: 1
  
  Yea, 90k is when it all went down hill.
  
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13. Re:User ID vs year joined? by dubbreak · 2012-09-19 06:12 · Score: 1
  
  I started reading in '98 (started a degree in compsci) but didn't create an account for years. I tried to go back through my posting history to find the oldest post I made. Didn't find my first post but did notice that spell check in web browsers improved my posting quality dramatically. Some of those early posts make me cringe now.
  
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14. Re:User ID vs year joined? by xpurple · 2012-09-19 06:12 · Score: 1
  
  Hahaha, yes. You have me beat :)
  
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15. Re:User ID vs year joined? by aok · 2012-09-19 06:51 · Score: 2
  
  When Slashdot finally implemented user accounts, there was a bit of paranoia about people losing their anonymity and I held off joining until finally one of the features was too juicy to have...I think it was one of the ways to sort posts :)
  Back then, or a little before, you could essentially read every post every day without it taking TOO much of your time. LOL.
16. Re:User ID vs year joined? by macraig · 2012-09-19 07:07 · Score: 1
  
  And now we Google Plus with real IDs to fix all those disjointed accounts!
  *ducks*
  *ducks lower*
17. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Sean · 2012-09-19 07:30 · Score: 1
  
  I remember chips & dips. And when the admins made us create users on the system to control the comments! :)
18. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Saija · 2012-09-19 07:37 · Score: 1
  
  Maybe a display of the date i registered here could be cool on the user preferences page
  
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19. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Darinbob · 2012-09-19 07:46 · Score: 1
  
  I was actually reading slashdot back in the 90s. But I didn't angry enough to subscribe until later :-)
20. Re:User ID vs year joined? by mikael_j · 2012-09-19 07:55 · Score: 1
  
  Clearly I had more willpower than you did. And yes, I too was mighty annoyed at every other site wanting me to give them my full name, home address and my mother's first cat's favorite color just to access anything.
  
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21. Re:User ID vs year joined? by tinkerton · 2012-09-19 07:59 · Score: 1
  
  I started reading late '97 but wasn't convinced to actually sign up until sometime in '99. My guess is that you signed up early 2000. There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up, so slightly higher IDs aren't really an indication that people missed the early days.
  Something like that. Although with me it was probably first lurking, then registering, and only much later posting.
22. Re:User ID vs year joined? by mooingyak · 2012-09-19 08:05 · Score: 1
  
  It's insane the number of people here now. Please note my low ID :)
  I never think of mine as low, but the ones being given out now are over 3x mine. I think I got mine in '02 though, so that seems to scale if the rate the ids are given out remain static.
  
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23. Re:User ID vs year joined? by anjrober · 2012-09-19 08:14 · Score: 1
  
  1227 is truly impressive
24. Re:User ID vs year joined? by anjrober · 2012-09-19 08:15 · Score: 1
  
  i assume you saw the ID of 53 a few lines above. 53.....now thats low.
25. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Misagon · 2012-09-19 08:33 · Score: 1
  
  There was a moment in the early days when the site went through some technical difficulties and everyone who wanted to post had to re-register. I think that I did that the same day that it happened. I got a much lower user ID when I had re-registered than what I had had before.
  Being a Star Wars fan, I wish that I had registered only a fraction of a section later ...
  
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26. Re:User ID vs year joined? by iceaxe · 2012-09-19 09:03 · Score: 1
  
  I can't remember what this topic was about. Oh, well, my rocking chair is nice.
  
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27. Re:User ID vs year joined? by mu51c10rd · 2012-09-19 09:07 · Score: 1
  
  Good point...looks like I must have registered about the same time as you.
28. Re:User ID vs year joined? by bill_mcgonigle · 2012-09-19 10:27 · Score: 1
  
  There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up
  Yeah, it was all "anonymity on the Internet forever!" until Slashdot was like, "oh, but you wouldn't have to Preview anymore," and then we all just handed over our data.
  
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29. Re:User ID vs year joined? by jittles · 2012-09-19 10:31 · Score: 1
  
  Me too! Actually I stopped reading slashdot for a while too, from around 2000 until 2006 when I started having more free time...
30. Re:User ID vs year joined? by sho-gun · 2012-09-19 11:15 · Score: 1
  
  Ahh.. yes I remember chips & dips.
  I can't think of any other site that I've visited literally daily for that long of a period of time,
  barring vacations and other RL reasons for AFK.
31. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Malc · 2012-09-19 11:37 · Score: 1
  
  What's the turn-over? How many old timers are still active or even lurking on here? Life and career are so busy for me now I barely have time to read the headlines on here.
32. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Paul+Fernhout · 2012-09-19 13:04 · Score: 1
  
  I guess I had just a tiny bit more willpower than you. :-)
  
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33. Re:User ID vs year joined? by lsatenstein · 2012-09-20 07:53 · Score: 1
  
  Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.
  It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....
  User Ids:
  1995 : 0 - 1000
  1996: 1001 - 50000
  1997; 50,000 - 200,000
  etc...
  Me too
  
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34. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Slime-dogg · 2012-09-21 04:54 · Score: 1
  
  You signed up in 1999 or 2000. I know, because that's about when I signed up.
  
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35. Re:User ID vs year joined? by calc · 2012-09-21 06:23 · Score: 1
  
  Your id isn't from 97 as some others have already pointed out. I think it was late 97 early 98 when the registration system was implemented. I think I waited a while before registering and still have a four digit one. People liked the anonymity of the original site, heh.
36. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Flammon · 2012-09-22 05:43 · Score: 1
  
  I'm still around but barely. The content has become too mainstream, stuff that I can find anywhere so I've subscribed other more specialized sites.
  I only frequent this site when I procrastinate now.
  
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Host a G+ Hangout! by tetrahedrassface · 2012-09-19 04:56 · Score: 3, Interesting

Please host a series of G+ hangouts. Come on guys please? I'm begging.
1. Re:Host a G+ Hangout! by Soulskill · 2012-09-19 05:13 · Score: 2
  
  Interesting idea, we hadn't thought of that. I'll see if that's something we can do.
2. Re:Host a G+ Hangout! by Errol+backfiring · 2012-09-19 05:15 · Score: 1
  
  And then? Sell your soul to G? No thanks!
  
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3. Re:Host a G+ Hangout! by tetrahedrassface · 2012-09-19 05:30 · Score: 1
  
  You don't have to even log in to G+ to be in a hangout anymore.........
That must be some party ... by gstoddart · 2012-09-19 04:56 · Score: 4, Funny

I can only imagine how that party plays out.
Several groups standing around flaming one another over something inane. A couple of people saying the party is a dupe. One guy in the corner talking about picking poo out of the toilet in the library. A couple of people walking around with the goatse picture trying to get people to look at it. And one or two people who seem to have Tourette's shouting obscenities for no good reason. One really loud guy saying the iPad is for hipster douchebags even though he's never used one. The odd mumble about our new Dice (or other) overlords.
Shame there's not one near me. ;-)

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1. Re:That must be some party ... by Darinbob · 2012-09-19 07:49 · Score: 1
  
  I wonder if I could sell tin foil hats at a party?
2. Re:That must be some party ... by CityZen · 2012-09-19 09:15 · Score: 1
  
  Only if they have all the latest features. You don't want to show up with last year's model, or you'll never hear the end of it.
3. Re:That must be some party ... by Darinbob · 2012-09-19 10:08 · Score: 1
  
  You mean my vintage collectible tin foil hats?
4. Re:That must be some party ... by gstoddart · 2012-09-19 12:43 · Score: 1
  
  You mean my vintage collectible tin foil hats?
  Bonus points for real tin.
  
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5. Re:That must be some party ... by mythix · 2012-09-20 02:41 · Score: 1
  
  if you are hosting that party, count me in!
i joined in 2000. or 1999. i forget by circletimessquare · 2012-09-19 05:00 · Score: 1

i visit at least weekly, if not daily, since then
thanks slashdot!

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1. Re:i joined in 2000. or 1999. i forget by circletimessquare · 2012-09-19 05:49 · Score: 1
  
  but i did join in 1999 or 2000. really!
  is there an objective chart somewhere to correlate year of join and uid?
  
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  intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
2. Re:i joined in 2000. or 1999. i forget by Hotawa+Hawk-eye · 2012-09-19 06:22 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  They're not necessarily correlated. I created an account a while back (over a decade ago) under my college email address. I'd consider that to be when I "joined" Slashdot. After I graduated I lost access to that email address. Since I didn't remember the password for that old account, and didn't have access to the email address to which the password change email would be sent, that account is dead and so I created this new one. In hindsight, I should have changed the email on that old account to use an address to which I would retain access even after graduation, but hindsight is 20/20 and my foresight is significantly worse.
3. Re:i joined in 2000. or 1999. i forget by degeneratemonkey · 2012-09-19 06:55 · Score: 1
  
  Same here. I created my original account in 2000, but have long since lost the e-mail account to which my /. uid was attached. Apparently when I graduated and moved on to bigger and better things, maintaining my /. user profile was not at the top of my priority list. D:
I can't find it by cvtan · 2012-09-19 05:01 · Score: 1

The Slashdot party page isn't on Facebook so it must not really exist.

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Oh dear by benbean · 2012-09-19 05:01 · Score: 1

You know, if you have to bribe people to hold a party... and with t-shirts... it's all a bit sad.
The old girl's looking pretty rough these days.

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Re:Meta: get editors. Stop posting crap. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 05:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Looking at your list of submissions I wouldn't throw any stones there chief.
logo contest by vlm · 2012-09-19 05:07 · Score: 1

Is this in addition to or replacement of the logo contest?
http://slashdot.org/logocontest.shtml

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1. Re:logo contest by Soulskill · 2012-09-19 05:12 · Score: 1
  
  It's in addition to the logo contest.
Has it been that long? by Hecubas · 2012-09-19 05:07 · Score: 3, Interesting

15 years of an almost daily ritual, and yet 99% of the time I don't post myself. Still, good times!

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Re:Why a PT Cruiser? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 05:09 · Score: 1

Wrong, the Potomic Azzgrack is.
How about some birthday presents for the users by onyxruby · 2012-09-19 05:13 · Score: 3, Interesting

Let's give the users some birthday presents. How about bringing about some features that people have been asking for?
Mobile Application - how does a technology based website /not/ have a mobile application?
Mobile Support - actually trying to use slashdot on a mobile platform is painful.
Simple Status Change - a simple delta of how people have modded you or commented on your comments?
A disagree button - it's 15 years on and their is still no simple 'disagree', instead fanbois simply -1 any comment against their pet /whatever/
Comment activity - if you've got a comment that's being heavily modified you can't get the stats for it anymore, as memory serves you used to.
Your user stats - once upon a time these were available, now your limited to your number of +5 comments
Better shill detection - I wouldn't think this would be that hard to program, but I'm not a programmer
Editor - enough said!
1. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by Soulskill · 2012-09-19 05:21 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  We've got a couple presents coming. We're just about done wrapping them.
2. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by onyxruby · 2012-09-19 05:41 · Score: 1
  
  Awesome, look forward to seeing them.
3. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by jimbo · 2012-09-19 06:07 · Score: 1
  
  Oooo. I like presents!
4. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by organgtool · 2012-09-19 08:06 · Score: 2
  
  We're just about done wrapping them.
  That's what someone says when they forgot to buy the present!
5. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by Saija · 2012-09-19 08:42 · Score: 1
  
  Or wrapping dog poo in a nice box with ribbons
  
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6. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by CityZen · 2012-09-19 09:26 · Score: 1
  
  I, for one, hate mobile applications of websites. The regular website should just work well on any platform. That's the whole point of standard platforms.
  Of course, I understand that I am free to ignore such apps. However, producing such an app should not be an excuse to not make the website work right.
  (And I do understand that making a website "work right" across lots of browsers and platforms is hard. Consider it a challenge that only wimps decline.)
Re:Why a PT Cruiser? by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · 2012-09-19 05:14 · Score: 2

I thought that distinction went to the Pontiac Aztec.

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Re:First? by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-19 05:20 · Score: 2

I'll get there early so I can prep my speech about how great Windows 7 Phone is.

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Re:Why a PT Cruiser? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-19 05:21 · Score: 1

IIRC, Slashdot had a PT they were using for promotional purposes early on. That would be about the right timeframe. I remember seeing glossy magazine ads for it in the late 90s (when even tech people were still reading printed magazines!). I had two thoughts about the PT at the time: 1. It's nice to see Detroit doing something that isn't just a blob. 2. The retro-styling might be an ominous portent that the booming economy is coming to an end, because it looked like something from the 30s or 40s.
When I found out it was built on a Neon chasis, 1 went out the door. 2 proved prescient with the passage of time...
Makes me feel old. by Erich · 2012-09-19 05:27 · Score: 2

In a lot of ways, things are more or less the same. The SNR is lower, but that's true for the internet as a whole. :-(

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1. Re:Makes me feel old. by jimbo · 2012-09-19 06:15 · Score: 1
  
  It appears to me there are more bitches. A generational shift. In the beginning new funky projects and ideas were met with "he's done that because he could - cool". Now things are met with "Why did he do that? Theres no use to me! There's no point? What a waste of time!".
2. Re:Makes me feel old. by Darinbob · 2012-09-19 07:50 · Score: 1
  
  It's nothing near as bad as that September when Usenet died.
3. Re:Makes me feel old. by DaGoodBoy · 2012-09-19 12:22 · Score: 1
  
  Me too. Of course, I *am* old so maybe that's why.
  
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Most memorable article? by scorp1us · 2012-09-19 05:29 · Score: 1

For me, Kathleen Fent Read this Story which proved to me that geeks can be loved.

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You still look 12 by rickb928 · 2012-09-19 05:32 · Score: 2

...or 26, depending on the lighting.
While we're at it:
"This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations. "
So your new foster parents are a little uptight about stuff, eh? Too bad about that. You may be no fun to play with soon, but at least the worst trolls will be dismayed. For a while.

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1. Re:You still look 12 by Soulskill · 2012-09-19 05:35 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Actually, that's just people finding a new way to troll by pasting that line into their comments. No posts are being deleted.
2. Re:You still look 12 by rickb928 · 2012-09-19 06:20 · Score: 1
  
  Of course not...
  
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3. Re:You still look 12 by Soulskill · 2012-09-19 06:31 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  *shrug*
  You're welcome to believe or not as you choose, but a quick browse through at -1 should provide plenty of evidence that even the most uncomplimentary or impolite comments are staying in place.
4. Re:You still look 12 by Slime-dogg · 2012-09-21 05:05 · Score: 1
  
  Why not hand out /. branded tinfoil beanies in addition to the t-shirts?
  
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Gunzerk this by Quiet_Desperation · 2012-09-19 05:35 · Score: 1

What are you doing later?
Borderlands 2 four player co-op. No, you are not invited.
1. Re:Gunzerk this by Seumas · 2012-09-19 05:44 · Score: 1
  
  I wish I had three friends.
  "Borderlands is such an amazing co-op game. I mean, I imagine that it probably is."
2. Re:Gunzerk this by Quiet_Desperation · 2012-09-19 05:52 · Score: 1
  
  I'm lucky to have exactly three with very similar gaming tastes, although we do have wildly different schedules at times.
  There's drop-in drop-out matchmaking if you don't.
3. Re:Gunzerk this by Seumas · 2012-09-19 06:03 · Score: 1
  
  It's really crazy how they nailed the co-op in this game (the first and second). It's adequate as a single-player game, but it completely opens up with other players in a way that co-op usually doesn't add to other games. I'm really hoping they've improved facilitation of co-op drop-ins and arrangements in the second, though. The first was adequate, but disparities between party levels, mob levels, and story progression often left something to be desired.
  It will be interesting to see if they're able to pull a third game out of the hat. It seems obvious they'll attempt it. But how far can they push this while still being a beloved success?
Re:Really Sad about this anniversary by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-19 05:38 · Score: 1

I've been reading since year 1, and feel the only reason I even come here anymore is just force of habit. The quality of the site has continually gone down, the stories are half flamebait and half trollbait, and has strayed far from the originally news for nerds idea.
Not the mention the comment moderation still remains horrifically broken and prone to abuse, the ugly layout has barely gotten any better. This place kind of reminds of myspace or RIM- early pioneer that couldn't innovate and adapt to changing times.
Just wanted to second this, even though I know I'll receive retaliatory moderation for it. Slashdot's approach of 'give random people a badge and a gun with no accountability' has created an environment best suited for long-term flame wars. Please fix either the reqs for being a mod or our ability to kick the assholes out of the mod-pool.

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T-Shirt sizes by alexandre · 2012-09-19 05:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

Please ship the t-shirts somewhat like this:
10% Small 50% Medium, 30% Large, 10% XLarge
and not only "large" (or was it XL?) like the 10th anniversary...
Cheers and happy birthday! :D
1. Re:T-Shirt sizes by EricWright · 2012-09-19 08:17 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  This is slashdot ... Try 1% Small, 9% Medium, 30% Large, 40% X-Large and 20% XXXL
2. Re:T-Shirt sizes by alexandre · 2012-09-20 05:10 · Score: 1
  
  hehe, I don't think so, the 10th anniversary t-shirts were a problem as everyone had t-shirt that were way too big... :)
3. Re:T-Shirt sizes by arglesnaf · 2012-09-21 06:57 · Score: 1
  
  Fromt he same site, amongst geeks and gamers the sizing breakdown:
  S 13.5%
  M 16%
  L 19%
  XL 19%
  2X 19%
  3X 13.5%
Re:community? by Seumas · 2012-09-19 05:48 · Score: 1

The amount of obvious spam and the constant politicizing of everything around here (encouraged by the often very political; not necessarily geek-oriented editorial submissions) has been pretty off-putting, too. And the comments don't help that, either. More each day, I run across discussions on here that sound like the vomit I read spewed out by mouth-breathing jack-holes on any random website that Matt Drudge links to (say, the comment section of a CBS News article about a hit and run accident that immediately turns into a room full of five year olds blathering about Obama's birth certificate and jesus this and god that and libtard this and republithug that.
. . . and then, there's the slow redditization of Slashdot. That's probably the ultimate insult. You see this evidenced by the back and forth idiotic circle-jerks of one-liners and occasional links to "FOREVER ALONE GUY" and other bullshit.
The real question is... by xtal · 2012-09-19 05:53 · Score: 1

Where is OOG? What will he smash now that there are no more open souce CDs? OOG SMASH TORRENT LINK.. just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Is Natalie Portman still naked and petrified after all these years? :-)

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1. Re:The real question is... by Hecubas · 2012-09-19 06:02 · Score: 1
  
  You know, you really haven't had the full Slashdot experience if you haven't browsed at -1 at least for a while. There are trolls, and then there are some truly dedicated individuals that have taken it to the next level.
  I suspect the grits are still hot.
  
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2. Re:The real question is... by xtal · 2012-09-19 06:06 · Score: 1
  
  ..you're doing WHAT to that Yoda doll?
  I don't remember most of the articles, but there's art in some of the trolls.
  
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3. Re:The real question is... by Iskender · 2012-09-19 11:04 · Score: 1
  
  Heh yeah. Stuff like http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77714&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=88&mode=thread&cid=6905002 . Or the recent fake "this was removed by dice" messages someone (not me) came up with. Or why not http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?threshold=-1&mode=nested&commentsort=0&op=Change&sid=6106&cid=991736&pid=991736.
  But really this stuff cannot adequately be conveyed by the links. One just has to browse a bit, like you say.
  And no need for -1 really: at least in the past it was possible to give trolls a +6 bonus, which is just great.
SlashApp by WillRobinson · 2012-09-19 05:54 · Score: 1

I got a email awhile back about a slashdot app, has this come out yet? I figured they would on anniversary.
Re:Really Sad about this anniversary by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-19 06:01 · Score: 1

Because I'm unaware of a technique where submitting a story will fix our moderation system.

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Re:Ok guys, this is how were gonna party by macbeth66 · 2012-09-19 06:18 · Score: 1

This has better be part of some truly not funny practical joke.
Re:Ok guys, this is how we're gonna party by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · 2012-09-19 06:21 · Score: 1

WTF are Dice content standards violations? Wrong type of plastic?
First post! by GrifterCC · 2012-09-19 06:29 · Score: 1

...to create a party for the DC metro area. It's time to fly your geek flag. Hill staffers in particular must come prepared to explain the Series of Tubes.
Montréal's party by alexandre · 2012-09-19 06:31 · Score: 2

Le voilà:
http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=843
Same name, different critter? by macraig · 2012-09-19 06:34 · Score: 2

Only it's not really the same "Slashdot" any more now, is it? It's like a sex slave being passed around from one plantation owner to another, but none of 'em likes her enough to cough up a weddin' ring.
1. Re:Same name, different critter? by Type44Q · 2012-09-19 09:21 · Score: 1
  
  Geez; that's one hell of a visual - that happen to you or something? :p
2. Re:Same name, different critter? by macraig · 2012-09-19 09:27 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah. I'll share the YouTube video later when my therapist thinks I can handle it.
3. Re:Same name, different critter? by stretch0611 · 2012-09-19 09:59 · Score: 1
  
  Only it's not really the same "Slashdot" any more now, is it? It's like a sex slave being passed around from one plantation owner to another, but none of 'em likes her enough to cough up a weddin' ring.
  The most recent of which was only a few days ago, and I actually found out about through ARS, not slashdot...
  http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/slashdot-sourceforge-freecode-sold-to-jobs-site-company/
  Makes you wonder if they are starting to regret their role as a sex slave.
  
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This is the year! by degeneratemonkey · 2012-09-19 06:57 · Score: 1

Slashdot's 15th birthday.

The year of the Linux Desktop!
Re:Really Sad about this anniversary by macraig · 2012-09-19 07:01 · Score: 1

How exactly does anything to do with story submission fix the moderation of comments that follows? See, you're precisely the sort of shoot-from-the-hip knee-jerker that the moderation system should exclude. You would moderate before you think. What's done is then done, even if you do belatedly bring some introspection to bear; you can't change your mods. Well... you could if you posted in the discussion, but would we really wanna hear what you have to say after you shot from the hip in the first place?
Re:community? by macraig · 2012-09-19 07:12 · Score: 1

I started a local Slashdot Meetup (meetup.com) years ago, but I guess the interaction with real people was too much because it fizzled in six months.
One thing's for sure by GodfatherofSoul · 2012-09-19 07:14 · Score: 2

This party is going to be a sausage fest.

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1. Re:One thing's for sure by Culture20 · 2012-09-19 09:51 · Score: 1
  
  Just in time for Oktoberfest!
Anyone here have a lower user number than me? by Sean · 2012-09-19 07:28 · Score: 1

Mine is 422
1. Re:Anyone here have a lower user number than me? by Sean · 2012-09-19 07:33 · Score: 1
  
  I see alexandre (53)!
  Who's got a single digit?
Re:First? by tinkerton · 2012-09-19 07:51 · Score: 1

You won't. The real Anonymous Coward always disguises him or herself by posting under an UID. Those who post under that name are impostors.
Re:Slashdot may be turning 15, but . . . by Andrewkov · 2012-09-19 07:51 · Score: 1

I picked up a nice Rolexo last time I was in Mexico..
Thanks, Slashdot! by organgtool · 2012-09-19 07:57 · Score: 2

My feelings about Slashdot can be summed up in the words of a great philosopher: "I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."

Thanks for providing one of the best internet forums for intelligent discussions. Some people will claim that this site isn't what it once was, but many other sites have come up and none of them provide a better format for progressive discussions. Don't ever lose that, Slashdot!
it was good by blue_teeth · 2012-09-19 08:06 · Score: 1

Dear Slashdot, It was good while it lasted. Happy Birthday.
Oklahoma and Southern Kansas... by Hugh+Pickens+writes · 2012-09-19 08:17 · Score: 1

Join us in Ponca City at the Marland Mansion on Saturday, October 20 at 11 am

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Celebrating 13 years of trolling Slashdot by Elbereth · 2012-09-19 08:28 · Score: 1

I'd say that the moderation system is working well. I've been banned from moderating for years now. My karma is probably just about infinite, but I like to balance out every (+5, interesting) with a (-1, troll). It makes life interesting.
And, yes, I have been diagnosed as bipolar.
1. Re:Celebrating 13 years of trolling Slashdot by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-19 08:37 · Score: 1
  
  I'd say that the moderation system is working well.
  One of the common complaints around here is that if somebody speaks against the common view on a topic people get heavily downmodded. The very nature of how people get mod points makes that outcome pretty obvious There are no enforced standards for how to 'properly' moderate
  
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2. Re:Celebrating 13 years of trolling Slashdot by Elbereth · 2012-09-19 09:30 · Score: 1
  
  Yeah, but who takes the moderation seriously?
  I'll admit that Slashdot's moderation system is conducive to groupthink (and very susceptible to social engineering), but it's harmless enough that I really don't care. If my comments get modded up, then I shrug. When they get modded down, I shrug. If someone actually cares, then I think they're taking this way too seriously.
  It's always nice to have the validation of someone thinking that your comments are insightful or interesting, but the same people who are posting goatse links are moderating. You have to keep that in mind.
Re:community? by macraig · 2012-09-19 08:31 · Score: 1

Maybe it's the urban concentration of London that made it work for you... or maybe you had a talented charismatic organizer.
Re:Ok guys, this is how we're gonna party by mcgrew · 2012-09-19 08:39 · Score: 1

Dice.com bought slashdot. It was on the front page yesterday.
BTW, moderators, a heartfelt thank you for modding my previous post and the one I responded to as offtopic. Seriously, it was indeed offtopic and I'd hoped you'd mod it and its parent down, my karma remains excellent and I like to see slashdot retain its excellence as well. Good work!

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Re:Not that many. by Nick · 2012-09-19 09:28 · Score: 1

i let mine lapse for a good 5 years i think and was able to recover it later

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Re:Really Sad about this anniversary by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-09-19 11:47 · Score: 1

Hah! I had forgotten I took it down for an experiment.
And, yeah, I lost my mod points not long after (fairly) modding up a comment that failed to paint Microsoft as some sort of cartoonesque villain. I doubt that was a coincidence.

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Re:Really Sad about this anniversary by Kyusaku+Natsume · 2012-09-19 17:12 · Score: 1

Or submitting a story that will pass the pro-troll-fest filter that editors have in effect in the last months. The quality of many stories and the comments are below what you see in Facebook and getting closer to the comments in Yahoo.

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How about a "firsts" link list to celebrate? by Tablizer · 2012-09-19 18:23 · Score: 1

for example, first "first post", first goatse link, first grits, first "imagine a cluster of", first in Soviet Russia joke, first article, first dupe, first dupe, first complaint about slashdot being off topic, etc.

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Ain't no party by MrKaos · 2012-09-19 23:59 · Score: 1

Like a six digit party.

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Re:Not that many. by jjohn · 2012-09-20 00:52 · Score: 1

Wow. 109. You should eBay that sucker. :-D
Re:Ok guys, this is how were gonna party by nobaloney · 2012-09-20 06:46 · Score: 1

This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations.

I suppose it's possible, but I doubt it. It's easy enough for you and I to write exactly the same thing in a post. If I still had mod points (used 'em up yesterday) I'd have modded them down.
Reading Old Posts, Apparently by tmjva · 2012-09-20 13:36 · Score: 1

I found after 15 years, Slashdot is a day late and a dollar short. (Literally on the first, metaphorically on the latter.)
Back in the good ol' days the Slashdot newsletter came just after midnight. It used to be plain text, which made it useful for cutting and pasting and forwarding to friends.
Now it comes at Noon a half a day late with old Stories. If I want fresh stories I have to be mindful to go to the web site, which I rarely do anymore. The newsletter is now html which is not as convenient as it once was.

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Yay! by Endophage · 2012-09-21 05:29 · Score: 1

Well done /. I'm doubly pleased because I now have something to buy with the ThinkGeek voucher I've had sitting on my desk for the last year. (I'm not saying ThinkGeek doesn't have lots of cool stuff, I just don't have any more room for cool toys, but I always have a need of more t-shirts)
Re:Not that many. by Nethemas+the+Great · 2012-09-21 06:26 · Score: 1

Shame I cannot recover mine (forgot password, old ISP with defunct email), it wasn't quite as low as 109 but still a badge of pride to have.

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Not as many as I thought. No German Slashdotters ? by udippel · 2012-09-21 07:08 · Score: 1

Okay, I somehow have been living with Slashdot for the last 10+ years, sharing some part of my life with it, through good and bad.
So I want some 'party', maybe not the usual, outgoing splurge; it is getting cold in Germany anyway. And yet, I will be sitting in my favourite place in Duisburg that evening, and wonder if anyone wants to come along?
Just check the parties, and find your way!
Re:Not that many. by FitForTheSun · 2012-09-21 07:09 · Score: 1

Indeed. My name is Nick, and I would pay for that UID. How much? Probably not much. But it's pretty sweet. My original handle had a UID in the five digits.
My Internet newspaper by fred133 · 2012-09-21 16:23 · Score: 1

You are my "internet newspaper"!
Gannet's got nothing.
And isc.incidents.org, my 1st 2 stops everyday.....
Can't say how long its been, 1999?
keep it alive!
UK party by RockDoctor · 2012-09-22 07:34 · Score: 1

What is the likelihood of there being a party in the UK. Or anywhere else in Europe?

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Re:Not as many as I thought. No German Slashdotter by kju · 2012-09-23 14:45 · Score: 1

Duisburg is fine. I'm planning to attend.
Re:Not as many as I thought. No German Slashdotter by udippel · 2012-09-23 21:56 · Score: 1

And I'll be pleased to shake the hand of a 3-digit-Slashdotter!
Hopefully a few more people can make it? And maybe-maybe we can get a T-shirt? Who knows!
Hot grits by anakha · 2012-09-28 12:02 · Score: 1

Which party is Natalie Portman attending?