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And so... by cbope · 2013-10-21 01:03 · Score: 5, Funny

... the beginning of the end is near...

Re:And so... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Wonderful. I won't have to know what time my neighbors kids were picked up by the bus or what uplifting JPEG my old girlfriend shared today.
Re:And so... by BSAtHome · 2013-10-21 01:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

But the start of a very productive work-day is upon us. The shutdown of facebook may recoup some of the lost economics from the government impasse.
Also, it reminds me of the final scene in Surrogates, where all people suddenly go outside to see the world again. It is a nice idea, though. One is allowed to dream of a better future.
Re:And so... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:12 · Score: 5, Funny

my old girlfriend shared today.
Psst... they don't like being called "old".
Re:And so... by sosume · 2013-10-21 01:27 · Score: 3, Funny

I just told my boss I have to go home because Facebook isn't working properly. So I can be at home looking at a non-functional Facebook.
Re: And so... by MrTheBunny · 2013-10-21 01:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Senior citizens can date too you insensitive clod!
Re:And so... by TheCarp · 2013-10-21 01:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Been listening to too much Bill Hicks recently
"Why aren't you working?"
"There is nothing to do"
"Then pretend like you are busy"
"You get paid more than me, you fantasize. Hell, pretend I am mopping, go hog wild"

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Re:And so... by JeanInMontana · 2013-10-21 01:48 · Score: 2, Informative

Wonderful. I won't have to know what time my neighbors kids were picked up by the bus or what uplifting JPEG my old girlfriend shared today.
You don't have to know any of it. Use your settings or unfriend those whom you don't want to see things from.

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Re:And so... by michelcolman · 2013-10-21 01:50 · Score: 5, Funny

She probably doesn't like being called his girlfriend either :-)
Re:And so... by TWX · 2013-10-21 01:51 · Score: 1

I worked for this boss. Unfortunately it tends to descend into a scene like in Cool Hand Luke where the two guards make him dig a hole, then fill it, then dig it, then fill it, etc... Better to just follow the original instructions and indeed, fill the time with something that looks like work. With a PC on your desk that shouldn't be all that hard to do.

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Re:And so... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 02:02 · Score: 1

Information is power my friend, you never know when you'll need it.
Re:And so... by rickb928 · 2013-10-21 02:12 · Score: 1

Apparently she likes being called by anyone. Even HER exes.

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Re:And so... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 02:20 · Score: 1

But the start of a very productive work-day is upon us. The shutdown of facebook may recoup some of the lost economics from the government impasse.
Also, it reminds me of the final scene in Surrogates, where all people suddenly go outside to see the world again. It is a nice idea, though. One is allowed to dream of a better future.
Wow... Somebody who actually watched Surrogates...
Re:And so... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 02:21 · Score: 1

Wonderful. I won't have to know what time my neighbors kids were picked up by the bus or what uplifting JPEG my old girlfriend shared today.
You don't have to know any of it. Use your settings or unfriend those whom you don't want to see things from.
You don't even have to unfriend. You can 1) hide updates from specific persons and apps in your news stream or 2) stop interacting with them and they will automatically be deprioritized and fade away from your news stream unless they do something that gets a lot of attention/likes from others, then that post can pop up again. With both 1) and 2) you can still go in and look at their updates if you want to.
Re:And so... by MBGMorden · 2013-10-21 03:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

Better to just follow the original instructions and indeed, fill the time with something that looks like work. With a PC on your desk that shouldn't be all that hard to do.
I've found that nothing looks like work more than a giant page of text. When things are slow around her I just read e-books on my computer. It lets me read a lot more than I otherwise would and nobody EVER questions what you're doing :).

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Re:And so... by bob_super · 2013-10-21 03:30 · Score: 1

A future of 100% extra posts all day long on /.
Re:And so... by cellocgw · 2013-10-21 04:51 · Score: 1

Also, it reminds me of the final scene in Surrogates, where all people suddenly go outside to see the world again. It is a nice idea, though. One is allowed to dream of a better future.
Wow... Somebody who actually watched Surrogates...
Not necessarily. I suspect his surrogate watched it and gave him the Cliff^H^H^H^HSparkNotes version.

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Re:And so... by Compuser84 · 2013-10-21 22:28 · Score: 1

IF she even knew she was. ;-)
Re:And so... by JeanInMontana · 2013-10-22 01:13 · Score: 1

Wonderful. I won't have to know what time my neighbors kids were picked up by the bus or what uplifting JPEG my old girlfriend shared today.
You don't have to know any of it. Use your settings or unfriend those whom you don't want to see things from.
You don't even have to unfriend. You can 1) hide updates from specific persons and apps in your news stream or 2) stop interacting with them and they will automatically be deprioritized and fade away from your news stream unless they do something that gets a lot of attention/likes from others, then that post can pop up again. With both 1) and 2) you can still go in and look at their updates if you want to.
Excellent. I was being lazy and a bit sarcastic. It does amaze me how many have no clue they control what they see in the news feed. Those are the ones who also compromise their own security and all who are friends, because they don't take responsibility for learning about how to secure accounts and the importance of keeping personal info private.

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broken by Aryden · 2013-10-21 01:03 · Score: 1

Wont even load up right now, just getting a blank screen.

Re:broken by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Same contractor as healthcare.gov?
Re:broken by roscocoltran · 2013-10-21 05:23 · Score: 1

Who cares ? Is slashdot becoming the nagios of popular websites ?
Re:broken by drkim · 2013-10-21 19:04 · Score: 1

Same contractor as healthcare.gov?
Perhaps all the FB IT people have been hired over to fix healthcare.gov...

And.... by Gumug · 2013-10-21 01:04 · Score: 4, Informative

nothing of value was lossed.

Re:And.... by doti · 2013-10-21 01:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

nothing of value was lossed.
But your reputation as an English literate.

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Re:And.... by dkf · 2013-10-21 01:23 · Score: 4, Funny

nothing of value was lossed.
But your reputation as an English literate.
You're ascribing value to that?

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Re:And.... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:28 · Score: 1

nothing of value was lossed.
But your reputation as an English literate.
He is not from an English speaking country you insensitive clod!
Re:And.... by AdamColley · 2013-10-21 01:46 · Score: 1

Klingon -.o
Re:And.... by RivenAleem · 2013-10-21 01:47 · Score: 1

"RivenAleem likes this"
Ahhh sweet sweet release. Seriously, I was getting the shakes.
*off in search of more things to like*
Re:And.... by ebno-10db · 2013-10-21 01:48 · Score: 2

Turkish. A native speaker told me that it has only one irregular verb. Perhaps they keep it around so students can be already familiar with the concept when they learn a foreign language.
Re:And.... by Megane · 2013-10-21 01:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Indeed, it should be "Nothing of value was loosed."
(If you're going to use the wrong word, at least use the right wrong word!)

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Re:And.... by Megane · 2013-10-21 01:58 · Score: 3, Interesting

Japanese has only like two irregular verbs (one of which only has one irregular form, iirc) and one group of around ten honorific verbs that use the same different conjugation.
Of course all that is more than offset by combining Chinese word parts into new words (like English takes Greek and Latin), while flattening the pronunciation (from a tonal language to only five vowel sounds) so that you can't tell without context which one it really is, and giving multiple readings for many kanji. A couple of dozen kanji alone are simply pronounced "shin".

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Re:And.... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 02:05 · Score: 1

You can speak Quechua, it is the only spoken language without irregular verbs or cases (and you have about 20 declension cases).
Re:And.... by wonkey_monkey · 2013-10-21 02:05 · Score: 3, Funny

And you just started a sentence with a conjunction. For shame!

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Re:And.... by u38cg · 2013-10-21 02:14 · Score: 3, Insightful

If it's good enough for Chaucer and Shakespeare, I say...

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Re:And.... by dmbasso · 2013-10-21 02:30 · Score: 1

If you want irregularity in the Japanese language, look for the counters... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counter_word

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Re:And.... by omnichad · 2013-10-21 03:41 · Score: 1

If loss were a verb, maybe that would have some merit in this conversation. This is a case of spelling out a similar pronunciation with the wrong word.
Re:And.... by Obfuscant · 2013-10-21 04:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Japanese has only like two irregular verbs ...
I found where Facebook's missing 'like' went to.
Re:And.... by pegdhcp · 2013-10-21 07:13 · Score: 2

I have not realized that we had one.... Interesting, I wonder which verb is irregular.
When it is your native language peculiarities of the language tend to be overlooked. For example, in Turkish vocalization of vowels are horrible. We kid ourselves that it is very simple and regular. They might be simpler than English, but there are strange variations. I became aware of those modifications only in University while trying to explain my English teacher, how we understand particular homonyms' different meanings out of context. It turned out that they were not homonyms, but homographs.
And yes, I cheated by using Google now, it is not possible to remember homonym, homograph and homophone after 20 years :)
Re:And.... by seyyah · 2013-10-21 07:32 · Score: 1

The verb "to be" is very irregular in Turkish. But in reality other verbs are also irregular but to a lesser degree.
Re:And.... by drkim · 2013-10-21 19:05 · Score: 1

nothing of value was lossed.
But your reputation as an English literate.
He is not from an English speaking country you insensitive clod!
Yes, he's from the United Kingdom.
Re:And.... by doti · 2013-10-22 04:12 · Score: 1

Neither am I.

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Back to the lock-in! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:04 · Score: 1

Gee, maybe they need to lock-in a bunch of more undocumented foreign workers to get things humming along again. No one over twenty, we all know those people are just retarded, right!

Re:Back to the lock-in! by OakDragon · 2013-10-21 02:24 · Score: 1

I "Like" this... where's the thumbs-up icon?

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Re:Back to the lock-in! by Culture20 · 2013-10-21 03:12 · Score: 1

This is what happens when you over-work people by forcing them to stay at work until a task is done. They "finish" it by sweeping the dust under the rug instead of out the door like they should.
Re:Back to the lock-in! by Garridan · 2013-10-21 03:42 · Score: 2

Sorry madam or sir, you cannot like anything today. As a perpetual grump, this suits me fine. Can't say I like it, though.

it's a feature by ericchad · 2013-10-21 01:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

now if they can only keep it like that

Like by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Like +1

Re:Like by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 06:33 · Score: 1

* favorite

works fine for me by donnyspi · 2013-10-21 01:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

How about we not turn one sentence, unverified, anonymous reports of stuff not working on websites into Slashdot stories. Might as well pipe our corporate helpdesk ticketing system into the Slashdot story submitter. "MY MONITAR WIL NOT TURN ON!!11!!"

Re:works fine for me by EmagGeek · 2013-10-21 01:15 · Score: 4, Funny

My cup holder is broken!!!
Re:works fine for me by Vanderhoth · 2013-10-21 01:22 · Score: 5, Informative

I just jumped on to FB and tried to like a post to see if it was true. Interesting results I received a "Please try again - An error occurred. Please try again in a few minutes.", tried to post a "Test post to confirm Facebook is broken" message was met with a similar error message.

Seems like the report is easy verify. Were you just too lazy to try it yourself and would rather spend your time raging against /.?
Re:works fine for me by pmontra · 2013-10-21 01:22 · Score: 1

Seconded. Btw, I shamelessly posted a link on fb this morning, maybe 4 hours ago. It worked. I don't want to waste my time checking if it still works now. My daily posting allowance has been already spent between fb and /. :-)
Re:works fine for me by Zedrick · 2013-10-21 01:26 · Score: 1

> MY MONITAR WIL NOT TURN ON!!11!!

Please make sure the power cable is plugged in.
Re:works fine for me by Dthief · 2013-10-21 01:37 · Score: 2

citation needed

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Re:works fine for me by Ioldanach · 2013-10-21 01:38 · Score: 4, Funny

MY MONITAR WIL NOT TURN ON!!11!!
Please make sure the power cable is plugged in.
IS TO DARK T0O SEE WHAT I'M DOING THE POWR IS OUT.
Re:works fine for me by benf_2004 · 2013-10-21 01:45 · Score: 1

Those kind of reports really happen. We had a user contact us because his PC would not turn on. Apparently the fact that there were only emergency lights on in the building and no other PCs on did not give him the hint that the power was out because his first assumption was that it had overheated.
Re:works fine for me by S.O.B. · 2013-10-21 01:47 · Score: 1

He wasn't commenting on the veracity of the story. He was pointing out that it was anonymous and Tweet sized and wondering if that's how /. is going to gather stories now.

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Re:works fine for me by Dragonslicer · 2013-10-21 01:53 · Score: 1

I kept getting an error message when I tried to post a comment on someone else's post, but other people were posting comments at the same time. At least at some point this morning, it wasn't a universal error.
Re:works fine for me by Joining+Yet+Again · 2013-10-21 01:57 · Score: 1

Making assumptions that things are related is for IQ tests.
In the real world, it's best not to jump to conclusions - either become an expert, or get in touch with one.
Re:works fine for me by Fnord666 · 2013-10-21 02:02 · Score: 3, Funny

My cup holder is broken!!!
Closed as being unable to reproduce. Hopefully the same holds true for the ticket submitter.

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Re:works fine for me by Megane · 2013-10-21 02:03 · Score: 1

Of course the new /. will attach a large animated .gif with the Facebook logo to balance out how small TFS is. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, right?

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Re:works fine for me by Big+Hairy+Ian · 2013-10-21 02:05 · Score: 1

There's a whale in the thames?

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Re:works fine for me by msauve · 2013-10-21 02:08 · Score: 1

For help, press any key.

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Re:works fine for me by gsslay · 2013-10-21 02:30 · Score: 1

Testing it yourself only proves that FB is down for two people. You, and some other anonymous guy.
This does not make it a news story.
Re:works fine for me by cybertears · 2013-10-21 02:49 · Score: 2

I once had a coworker go apeshit because his laptop was still on despite the power in the building going out. We gave him a few minutes to come to his own conclusion, but he never did.
Re:works fine for me by gravis777 · 2013-10-21 03:19 · Score: 1

Its been working all morning for me as well. Maybe facebook employees server colocations and one of their centers went down
Re:works fine for me by Vanderhoth · 2013-10-21 03:36 · Score: 1

That's an insightful and completely reasonable point to make, "Maybe the problem is regional" as opposed to, "Works for me, &#$% /. and the horse they rode in on <insert rant here>".

I read a couple of other posts were people had no issues, and I've read a few post from people that can confirm there are issues. So the conclusion I came to was maybe there's a "localized" issue, the question for me is how "localized" is it? Canada, North America, Eastern seaboard?
Re:works fine for me by cyn1c77 · 2013-10-21 03:42 · Score: 1

I just jumped on to FB and tried to like a post to see if it was true. Interesting results I received a "Please try again - An error occurred. Please try again in a few minutes.", tried to post a "Test post to confirm Facebook is broken" message was met with a similar error message.
Seems like the report is easy verify. Were you just too lazy to try it yourself and would rather spend your time raging against /.?
It's hard to verify for those of us that don't have facebook accounts!
Also, your reply is a bit snarky given that the article does read like a (poor) trouble ticket.
Re:works fine for me by torsmo · 2013-10-21 03:56 · Score: 1

Have you given your monitor a reason to get turned on? WORK ON THAT BUTTON, NINCOMPOOP!!
Re:works fine for me by Culture20 · 2013-10-21 04:12 · Score: 1

FB has regular problems like this, and since they've got thousands of servers, you might have connected to a borked one while GP connected to a working one.
Re:works fine for me by rlh100 · 2013-10-21 04:47 · Score: 1

Press the eject button on your PC again.
Re:works fine for me by operagost · 2013-10-21 05:07 · Score: 1

Status: Closed.
Resolution: User is too stupid to own a computer.

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Re:works fine for me by thunderclap · 2013-10-21 13:46 · Score: 1

OMG my any key is missing. Someone stole my any key!!!!!!!!! (Will the windows key work?)

I haven't had a problem by jfdavis668 · 2013-10-21 01:07 · Score: 1

Been working fine for me.

Really? .. and a concious choice not to use it by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:08 · Score: 1

This is how the world is going to end?

But really, the reaction I get when I tell people that I am not on FB and refuse to sign up ever amazes me. People seem to think that I don't know what FB is about. Much to the contrary, I know exactly how it works, what it is about. And that is exactly the reason why I choose not to use it.

Re:Really? .. and a concious choice not to use it by Dthief · 2013-10-21 01:39 · Score: 1

are you trying to convince us, or yourself, that it was a good idea for you to not join.

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Re:Really? .. and a concious choice not to use it by DavidRawling · 2013-10-21 10:11 · Score: 1

Think of it more like a reminder and a chance to begin the education of those who were suckered in by their friends/colleagues (and who aren't/weren't privacy-conscious to start with).
I don't have a Facebook account now because of privacy concerns. But I didn't get one originally (04-05 I guess?) because frankly I'm a bit of a loner and I couldn't think of a group of people I'd rather avoid than those with whom I went to school. Yes, I've missed out on staying connected to people with whom I'd want to continue to associate (Uni friends), but I'm not sacrificing my privacy for it now. I'd rather be detached and a little boring. It's a choice - but I hope an informed one.

just a technical problem at the NSA by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Nothing to see move on little minions.

Re:just a technical problem at the NSA by http · 2013-10-21 09:03 · Score: 1

It's run by the CIA. The NSA only monitors it.

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Let's face it. by Cyfun · 2013-10-21 01:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

And nothing of value was lost.

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Of *course* you can't like anything today.... by QilessQi · 2013-10-21 01:09 · Score: 5, Funny

...it's Monday.

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Re:Of *course* you can't like anything today.... by Svartalf · 2013-10-21 01:46 · Score: 1

For wont of mod points....

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This just IN!! by RalphMichaelDeLeon · 2013-10-21 01:10 · Score: 2

/. activity skyrockets for the first time in years as millions of nerds deprived of Candy Crush Saga,Bitstrip, and Marvel Avengers Alliance pour onto net forums to rage and claim the end of the world.

Re:This just IN!! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:12 · Score: 2, Interesting

I find it hilarious that your user shows "From Facebook".
Re:This just IN!! by Dthief · 2013-10-21 01:40 · Score: 1

this

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Re:This just IN!! by RalphMichaelDeLeon · 2013-10-21 04:02 · Score: 1

Twas the joke >:)

Doesn't work on a PC, works on android. by diorcc · 2013-10-21 01:11 · Score: 5, Informative

Browsers tried, Opera, FF, Chrome. Android 4.1, FB app works (or pretends to).

Works fine for me by EmagGeek · 2013-10-21 01:13 · Score: 4, Informative

Maybe people should think a little before posting on Slashdot...

News for people who are not nerds by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:17 · Score: 1

Who gives a flying fuck about facebook?!

This is getting tiring by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2013-10-21 01:17 · Score: 5, Insightful

Every other post on /. is about Facebook these days.

News for internet tools, stuff that doesn't really matter...

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Re:This is getting tiring by BitZtream · 2013-10-21 01:20 · Score: 1

I thought every other post was about Apple these days?
I guess every post is the most popular post when you want to bitch about it.

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Re:This is getting tiring by lexa1979 · 2013-10-21 01:21 · Score: 1

yup, I miss the good old days of Bitcoin reports...
Re:This is getting tiring by Dthief · 2013-10-21 01:41 · Score: 1

every other post is about apple, AND every other post is about facebook.
its 50-50 since 3D printing and bitcoin became old hat.

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Re:This is getting tiring by RivenAleem · 2013-10-21 01:49 · Score: 1

A Facebook outage, like a Google outage, is news. Sure, there might be a bunch of stuff that worthless, but actual outages are news.
Re:This is getting tiring by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · 2013-10-21 02:03 · Score: 1

Well Raspberry Pi news has been fairly slow of late so they need to get page hits some other way.

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Re:This is getting tiring by omnichad · 2013-10-21 03:53 · Score: 1

You want me to go post on Facebook about the decline of Slashdot to balance things out?

Awesome day! by BitZtream · 2013-10-21 01:20 · Score: 2

I woke up this morning thinking that today just felt like such a great day.

I now have confirmation. No Facebook posts from anyone? That is indeed a good day!

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Re:Awesome day! by Megane · 2013-10-21 02:09 · Score: 1

Now if I can just send 600VAC back up the internets to e-mail spammers, it would be an awesome day.

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It's a bug by SJHillman · 2013-10-21 01:20 · Score: 2

Turns out commenting, likes and posts were all bugs, not features. The real news is that Facebook has finally started fixing bugs.

Zombie Appocolypse is finally over! by Marcus8675 · 2013-10-21 01:20 · Score: 1

Could this be the begining of the end? See the young people emerge from the houses squinting at the daylight

I have an idea by slashmydots · 2013-10-21 01:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Here's a great tip I learned to make money from Facebook!
1. close Facebook
2. go to work
3. make money

This is a great time to try it out.

Re:I have an idea by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · 2013-10-21 02:04 · Score: 2

So you must be that single mom who discovered the secrete to making big bucks then.

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Re:I have an idea by sandytaru · 2013-10-21 02:05 · Score: 1

Naw, Slashdot and Google News would also need to break for that to work for me.

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Re:I have an idea by Heddahenrik · 2013-10-21 02:14 · Score: 1

My work is to post stuff on Facebook!
Re:I have an idea by ilsaloving · 2013-10-21 04:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Hey, being a wet nurse is a perfectly acceptable way to make money.
Re:I have an idea by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · 2013-10-21 05:13 · Score: 1

And that is what I get for typing too early in the morning.

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[Citation Needed] by rfrenzob · 2013-10-21 01:24 · Score: 1

No article to back up this one sentence story?!? So many variables that could lead to an outage that AC didn't account for...

and eBay trouble by Alioth · 2013-10-21 01:28 · Score: 1

...and I've also noted that eBay isn't working correctly - no searches seem to be working. Potentially more upsetting to someone because I bought what I was after off Amazon instead (so some ebayer lost a sale)

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Re:and eBay trouble by PseudoCoder · 2013-10-21 02:04 · Score: 1

No, you're just seeing the desert that eBay has become these days. I remember one of my saved searches used to generate about 8 pages of results. I checked it the other day and didn't even fill a full page. They raped their golden goose with the new fee structures a while back and hasn't been the same since.

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Re:and eBay trouble by nctritech · 2013-10-21 02:28 · Score: 1

Strangely enough, eBay is still the number one place I am aware of to source used laptop parts at reasonable prices.
Re:and eBay trouble by omnichad · 2013-10-21 03:56 · Score: 1

Amazon Marketplace just isn't a viable substitute. But you need a framework for these sellers who would never do this with their own web site.

Twitter by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-21 01:28 · Score: 1

The first Slashdot story that's short enough to be a tweet.

Re:Twitter by grub · 2013-10-21 01:38 · Score: 1

All they'd have to do is tweet a hash of the headline and summary. SHA512 preferred, MD5 would give us more dupes.

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Shortest evah by SmartAboutThings · 2013-10-21 01:29 · Score: 1

the shortest story ever on /.

URGENT NEWSFLASH by NeoTron · 2013-10-21 01:33 · Score: 1

After an apt-get upgrade on my Debian Jessie/Sid workstation, I discovered to my dismay that the eric5 IDE segfaulted when I tried to run it this morning.

After an extensive Google trawl (like it took 30 seconds!) I managed to find a solution, which was to apt-build install python-qscintilla2.

A short while later, after I installed the newly-rebuilt packages, eric5 happily began to run again, and all was well with the Universe.

(well, that was FAR more interesting than this supposed \. news item - which was apparently a load of crap seeing as Facebook is behaving as expected, as I write this)

website experiences short outage by scourfish · 2013-10-21 01:43 · Score: 1

Thank god slashdot was there to cover this.

Seems tied to user table by sabernet · 2013-10-21 01:47 · Score: 2

The errors match those gotten with a borked cookie. Also, not knowing there was an outage, I signed my account out, but it no longer recognizes my password nor sends the reset email(I know my p/w absolutely, was just testing the reset), effectively locking me out entirely.

I have a sinking "we've been hacked" feeling. Otherwise, I suppose I'll just have to be more productive today!

So where are all the facebook System Programmers? by bobbied · 2013-10-21 01:48 · Score: 1

They are all over at Healthcare.gov trying to get that working before the HHS secretary looses her job.

I guess we will find out how well the best and brightest can handle multiple outages.. Not looking good so far.

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Genyuses at work by ebno-10db · 2013-10-21 01:51 · Score: 1

Looks like the genyuses of Silicon Valley's bleeding edge social media have been hard at work creating ever more reliable software. I'm glad these people don't work on banking networks. Perhaps Zuck and company should offer their expertise to the Obamacare website.

Re:Genyuses at work by ebno-10db · 2013-10-21 03:35 · Score: 1

I'm also an East Coast embedded developer. I've worked with some excellent people in SV, but agree that the average caliber is nothing to write home about. There are still some serious tech startups, but they seem to be overshadowed by all the over-hyped garbage. Is there money in social media? Sure, but there's probably more in parking garages (you have to have seen the Curious George movie to fully appreciate that reference).
SV's biggest export these days seems to be hype, and too many people, both there and elsewhere, actually believe it. This leads to SV provincialism, where SV denizens are unaware of anything outside of the Bay Area (except for India of course). They scream for more H-1B's, and in a new twist apparently, illegal aliens (I remember when they just did farm work). Bay Area zillionaires and their lackeys complain that they can't hire enough people there, and for all I know they're right. Try Pittsburgh, and any of at least a dozen other places in the country (I'm not in Pittsburgh, but thanks to CMU, it's an excellent place to find software talent). It's astounding how people who crow about how they've shrunk the world, can't seem to locate anything outside of a small radius. I admit the vineyards in Pittsburgh suck, and occasionally they have something called "snow", but if the locals can live with it, SV genyuses ought to be able to withstand a visit or two.

Re:Heh. by Joining+Yet+Again · 2013-10-21 01:53 · Score: 3, Informative

Ubuntu is the easiest thing to install if it works first time, and the hardest if it doesn't. In that respect, it's much like Windows.

Why /. News by g0bshiTe · 2013-10-21 01:55 · Score: 2

Why is this /. news? I'm sure it falls under something technical, but you don't see me posting to /. when my servers are down.

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Well that's odd by cjjjer · 2013-10-21 01:58 · Score: 1

I just posted to Facebook, liked a friends vacation photo and commented on it and it seemed to work fine for me. Canada here, maybe a regional thing?

Re:Who cares? by michelcolman · 2013-10-21 01:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

Fortunately I don't use FaceBook, so I can still like whatever I want.

The solution by Stickerboy · 2013-10-21 01:59 · Score: 2

They obviously need more employee lock-ins. Servants! Work harder! You are failing management!

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nothing of value was lost. by nimbius · 2013-10-21 02:04 · Score: 1

Maybe if Zuckerberg had one of those famous lock-in sessions we could fix the problem. you know. the act of doing everything legally possible to prohibit employees from egress at the end of a normal business day.

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Facebook May Not Be Deterministic by dcollins · 2013-10-21 02:10 · Score: 1

My impression is that the Facebook system, for all its corporate might, is a nigh baling-twine-and-duct-taped mishmash of servers with unpredictable sets of code in them. Partly this is due to my discovery that sometimes your post history fails to be included in a downloaded archive (link). At the time, it was working for some people but not for others. It had worked for me in the past, then stopped, then restarted later on. A Facebook worker in the comments actually asked around and said the feature was supposed to still be there, and someone should be fixing it. But how on earth would part of a downloaded archive just entirely go missing, including the link in the index page? The only way I can parse that is that different servers are running different code and features in unpredictable ways, sometimes changing for part of the client population and not others.

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How else shall I indulge my vanity? by PseudoCoder · 2013-10-21 02:10 · Score: 1

and show my friends, enemies and vague acquaintances how interesting, joyful, and insightful my life is? Especially compared to others. You can't do all those things with just a mirror, or around the watercooler!

I wonder what's going on at Google+...

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Facebook is UP now. by rtoz · 2013-10-21 02:11 · Score: 1

It seems Facebook Status update issue got resolved now. I could add new Facebook Status now.

And the world carried on. by macbeth66 · 2013-10-21 02:14 · Score: 1

Imagine that, it is like Facebook fell off the Internet. I thought I heard crying and whimpering.

My kids ( early 20s ) didn't even notice as they moved on from the site last year. They wouldn't be caught dead on what they call an 'old people site'.

My theory by daboochmeister · 2013-10-21 02:15 · Score: 1

They secretly run all of Facebook on Windows firesale Surface devices, but moved user profiles/timelines to a separate volume ... and upgraded to Windows 8.1 over the weekend.

Coincidence that this happens on the same day Ed Bott blogs about this exact issue with Win8.1? I don't think so ...

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Facebook finally useful by tekrat · 2013-10-21 02:16 · Score: 1

You can't post, comment or like anything.
Finally. This is the official start of Facebook's slow decline. Next up. Video ads in your newsfeed that you cannot turn off and then starts the great migration to the next big thing.

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Re:Heh. by msobkow · 2013-10-21 02:17 · Score: 1, Informative

Yo. Fucktard. I've been living in Unix land since the mid-eighties. Ubuntu fucked up, not me.

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Perhaps I should submit my own slashdot news flash by goffster · 2013-10-21 02:17 · Score: 2

"Slashdot accepts lame unverified story that is probably not even relevant in 60 seconds" (even if it were relevant to begin with)

hmmmmm by Ronin+Developer · 2013-10-21 02:19 · Score: 1

And, this is bad why?

Why is this even on slashdot? by mark-t · 2013-10-21 02:19 · Score: 1

This story has proved to me that it just may be possible to become *less* intelligent simply by reading something

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Labor labor labor by nctritech · 2013-10-21 02:19 · Score: 1

The people who are playing Farmville all day at work on the company dime with a Google tab open to hide it if someone walks in should be forced to go outside today and DO ACTUAL WORK FOR ONCE.

Re:Labor labor labor by ColdWetDog · 2013-10-21 03:16 · Score: 1

Why? You want more things to break?

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Re:Heh. by msobkow · 2013-10-21 02:24 · Score: 1

And thanks to that experience I've not lost any data, only time. I've already recovered the OS, installed the extra packages I need, and am posting this from Debian. The last two pieces of software I need are downloading now, and the source code for my pet project is all in SourceForge repositories so I'll have it back in a development-worthy state by the end of the day.

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I'm jumping for sure! by tjstork · 2013-10-21 02:26 · Score: 1

Facebook's down! Oh my gosh, I'm jumping off a bridge.

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Re:I'm jumping for sure! by Nimey · 2013-10-21 02:57 · Score: 2

[3 people like this]

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Re:Cue the Old Fuckers by macbeth66 · 2013-10-21 02:27 · Score: 1

Right. Old people that still think it is 1995 are the only ones still using Facebook.

It's not morning by Vlijmen+Fileer · 2013-10-21 02:31 · Score: 2

It's evening. When will people (Americans?) finally grok that internet is international, and that the country they live in is just one of many countries...

This is the first post I have liked in a long time by thisisauniqueid · 2013-10-21 02:32 · Score: 1

Pun intended.

Facebook is down? That's OK by damn_registrars · 2013-10-21 02:38 · Score: 1

You can come here to slashdot to read about it. Facebook is one of our favorite subjects to post on the front page; come here to read about your favorite facebook celebrities and what they are doing with their money. Come here to read about all the things that facebook is doing that slashdot couldn't figure out how to do themselves in time. Come here to reminisce about how much wealthier Taco and company would be if they could have gone public with a successful product (business plans be damned!) instead of being absorbed by dice.

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I like ... by bmuenzer · 2013-10-21 02:39 · Score: 1

... the "like" button under a post saying that "like" buttons ar broken.

Re:So where are all the facebook System Programmer by NineNine · 2013-10-21 02:40 · Score: 1

Do the best and the brightest know the difference between "lose" and "loose"?

I'm sitting here humming, by SuricouRaven · 2013-10-21 02:50 · Score: 1

Ode to joy, in glorious schadenfreude.

Terrible! by whizbang77045 · 2013-10-21 02:52 · Score: 1

Horrors! The world is going to end. How will I know what to think today?

Re:Cue the Old Fuckers by Geste · 2013-10-21 03:01 · Score: 1

34? That's old.

Some? by BetaDays · 2013-10-21 03:02 · Score: 1

The only thing I think is missing from the list is Viewing things.

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Re:So where are all the facebook System Programmer by gravis777 · 2013-10-21 03:22 · Score: 1

How about in bed or coming into the office. When this story was posted on Slashdot, it was 6AM in Silicon Valley

Problems? by Carnivore24 · 2013-10-21 03:31 · Score: 1

First world problems.

this means... by buddyglass · 2013-10-21 03:43 · Score: 2

...it must be time for an employee lock-in.

Re:transcript of live report from the site [update by omnichad · 2013-10-21 03:52 · Score: 1

One more Candy Crush invite and it was bound to happen by someone's hand.

And across facebook campus, the war cry sounded.. by slashmojo · 2013-10-21 03:57 · Score: 1

Lockdown!

Tell me why by FredGauss · 2013-10-21 04:06 · Score: 1

I don't "like" Mondays.

Good by hduff · 2013-10-21 04:17 · Score: 1

GrumpyCat.jpg

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when the power is out? by Chirs · 2013-10-21 04:44 · Score: 1

I worked TV tech support one summer and had a guy call in because his TV wasn't working during a power outage. I was just stunned...

Re:when the power is out? by Joining+Yet+Again · 2013-10-21 05:29 · Score: 1

Joking aside, I wonder if it's a symptom of service-oriented economy. You might have been regarded as the guy responsible for delivering TV service, so it's for you to deal with whatever's wrong - even if that's the power.
It's like when some drunk driver rammed into a telephone pole outside our house. The correct procedure was to call our 1. retail telephony provider and 2. (separately) ISP, even though these companies themselves could do sweet fuck all beyond passing the logged fault on to the company with ownership and responsibility for this equipment: BT Openreach.
Anyway, we contacted the retail telephony provider, but they dallied a while. They said we could not contact Openreach directly. So we took the most direct route, collaring some local repairmen for a chat while they were wandering around trying to identify a nearby fault. It turned out they hadn't even yet been notified about the accident, and the information we gave from the initial safety repairs helped them with what they were actually out for. When they returned a couple of days later, we plied them with a continual supply of tea and biscuits until they'd restored connectivity for everyone in the street.
tl;dr The system is slow, but the workers are quick. Unfortunately, you're discouraged from interacting directly with them, training you into helplessness unless you're particularly stubborn.

Really? by Kimomaru · 2013-10-21 04:47 · Score: 1

I think finally Facebook has introduced a USEFUL change for their platform.

Re:So where are all the facebook System Programmer by bobbied · 2013-10-21 05:02 · Score: 1

guess not...

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In other news... by daniel.garcia.romero · 2013-10-21 05:07 · Score: 1

ISS blew up, Hubble is gone and Shengzou is falling down.

Like by frovingslosh · 2013-10-21 05:17 · Score: 1

Finally something about Facebook that I like.

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"As if millions of voices..." by terryk29 · 2013-10-21 05:25 · Score: 1

...were suddenly silenced, and cried out in terror - ?

(geez, disappointed in you all I am; this story was posted 4 hours ago...)

Re:Heh. by aitikin · 2013-10-21 06:21 · Score: 1

Have you tried LFS?

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Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious by tepples · 2013-10-21 07:51 · Score: 1

1. close Facebook
2. go to work

So how should people who don't use Facebook get a job in the first place? This story from 15 months ago claims that people without an account appear even more suspicious than those with few friends.

What new eBay fee structure? by tepples · 2013-10-21 07:55 · Score: 1

They raped their golden goose with the new fee structures a while back and hasn't been the same since.

For the past six years, I've worked for small businesses that sell R/C cars and model trains on eBay. The 15% commission (12% eBay final value fee, 3% PayPal fee) hasn't really changed much over the past six years and isn't much different from Amazon other than that eBay's insertion fees are much lower at certain volume levels. So how are you defining "new"?

Japanese irregular verbs by pne · 2013-10-21 23:05 · Score: 1

Japanese has only like two irregular verbs (one of which only has one irregular form, iirc)

I like to say two-and-a-half; kuru and suru are the really irregular ones and iku is regular except for the fact that its -te form is itte instead of *iite.

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Only one thing to say... by Chris+Mattern · 2013-10-22 00:13 · Score: 1

Best. Patch. *Ever*.

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