Slashdot Mirror
20 Years of Stuff That Matters
Read on for a trip down memory lane.
Update: Slashdot founder CmdrTaco has taken to Medium with some of his own Slashdot nostalgia.
The most obvious place to start would be some of the stories listed in the Hall of Fame. While Slashdot isn't a political site, we do post particularly relevant political news, and two of the three most commented-on posts were about the winning of a U.S. presidential election. John Kerry's concession to George W. Bush in 2004 drew 5687 comments, more than half again as much as Barack Obama's victory in 2008. Interestingly, Obama's name was thrown around in the 2004 thread as possible future candidate, but many thought he'd be running for vice president alongside Hillary Clinton or another, more established Democrat name. A few other tidbits: health care was mentioned much more often in the 2008 discussion, while comments on the military were four times as common in 2004. The economy was discussed slightly more in 2004, while mentions of the banking system in 2008 far surpassed the 2004 count.
While a few other political discussions rank in the top 10 for total comments, total views is another story. A quick and simple post about source code leaks for Windows 2000 and NT has garnered over 700,000 views. It generated a great deal of insightful commentary on the security implications of the leak and how the code should be approached by developers curious to get a look. Many users warned others off of glancing at Microsoft code, fearing that copyrighted samples would find their way into open source projects, thus giving Microsoft a tool with which to disrupt the projects. This leak followed one a few months earlier of the Half-Life 2 source code, which garnered a strong but much different reaction. Many called for Valve to go ahead and open source the game, since the cat was out of the bag. Others were worried about the influx of bots and cheats for the game, since the people writing those tools had much clearer access to the game's internals.
Two of our other most popular posts, and two of the most significant to us internally, are posts about somebody trying to get us to delete comments. We've always taken a strong stance both for preserving freedom of speech, and for simply providing a reliable wall upon which readers can scribble their words and know the words won't disappear. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act made that difficult in a few situations, and we made sure to be open and transparent about what happened. In early 2000, Microsoft asked us to kill off a few comments. We asked you folks how we should proceed, and you had no shortage of suggestions. Then, almost a year later, the Church of Scientology happened to notice a Slashdot comment which contained copyrighted text: part of the Fishman Affidavit, court documents that contained church course materials as well as criticism of the organization and its leadership. This was part of a war Scientology had been waging for several years to keep the documents secret. We were forced to remove the comment, but CmdrTaco's notification post thoroughly demonstrated how useless such an action was in the digital age, and encouraged people to reach out to their representatives to speak against the DMCA. He wrote, "This is the first time since we instituted our moderation system that a comment has had to be removed because of its content, and believe me nobody is more broken-hearted about it than me." He also went out of his way to point out the bad press surrounding the church for various other incidents. Fortunately, those types of requests seem to be largely behind us, now.
As the site evolved in those early days, the staff began to realize that the Slashdot community wasn't just absorbing the news and moving on; it was digesting the news and coming back with knowledgeable additions in the discussion. As interesting as an article may be, the community's response to it could generate informed discussion that surpassed the article tenfold. The staff considered how to harness this attribute to help the community, and shortly thereafter Ask Slashdot was born. In the time since then, almost 10,000 reader questions have been answered by other readers, and they frequently form the basis for the site's most informative discussions. The most popular was certainly "What's keeping you on Windows?" from 2002, a question that was revisited almost a decade later. Many of the specific reasons changed in that time, but the ability to easily play games was a sticking point for users in both discussions. There have been many common refrains over the years: how to get into IT or programming, how to get kids into it, what kind of phone/GPU/HDD/monitor to buy, or how best to put together some arcane but useful device or program. They occasionally get rather esoteric: questions about finding beautiful code, depressing sci-fi, or trying to pin down the biggest lies told by hardware and software vendors. Ask Slashdot is also sometimes used as a method of defense. Early this year, when the Stop Online Piracy Act and its sibling PIPA threatened freedom of speech on the web, we used it as a vehicle to show precisely why the legislation was bad, and figure out what more could be done to prevent them from being signed into law.
Slashdot's audience has always been very much about science, as well. This manifests itself in several different ways. For one, since readers' level of scientific education is higher, on average, than the general population's, any attack on science meets with strong opposition. For example, debates about creationism in the classroom spark a great deal of interesting discourse. While there's often a fair amount of vitriol, there are also well-reasoned and politely stated arguments. Other science-related topics sidestep the arguing in favor of excitement and wonder; when SpaceShipOne achieved the X-prize in 2004, the comment section was ripe with hopes for the commercial space sector (which is continuing to blossom today) and the possibility of ubiquitous spaceflight in our lifetimes. More recently, the discussion of CERN's supposed faster-than-light neutrinos, which took place over many months, brought into sharp relief the difficulties bleeding-edge science faces, and the resilience of the scientific method itself, which compelled researchers to come forward with results they suspected were wrong and then engage the scientific community in the task of confirming or repudiating them.
One of the greatest things about the Slashdot community is its above average level of understanding for all things technical. Commenters, submitters, and interviewees alike understand they don't have to use layman's terms to describe complex concepts. One of the best examples happened earlier this year when a group of fusion researchers from MIT got together to answer questions from readers on the state of fusion power. They didn't hold back, and were happy to provide a ton of very interesting information on how fusion reactors work, what it will take to make it a viable technology, what the safety issues are, and more. Similarly, there have been some fantastic, techinical answers from people like John Carmack, Vint Cerf, and Bjarne Stroustrup. But even when the interviews aren't highly technical, the community's strong opinions can lend themselves to contentious but productive discussions, as happened with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich over the band's fight against file sharing, a Marketing exec for Microsoft Windows over some of the company's competitive practices, and Richard Stallman about the ethics of free software and open source.
It's also interesting to go back and look at stories that flew under the radar at the time, but later developed into huge, ongoing news items. For example, the launch of WikiLeaks in 2007 met mainly indifference and doubts that such a repository could do anything useful. Similarly, Google's unveiling of Android in 2007 brought a lot of speculation as to how open it would be and whether another phone OS could succeed. Facebook didn't get a mention on the site until late 2005, and its opening to the public the next year brought skepticism that it could trump MySpace or operate without compromising user privacy. The announcement of SpaceX by Elon Musk was blandly titled "Another Private Space Startup." Wikipedia got a couple of mentions in early 2001, even from Jimmy Wales himself. And, not exactly under the radar, but who can forget the early critique of Apple's original iPod?
On a more somber note, this collection of old stories wouldn't be complete without mentioning the day of September 11th, 2001. Here is how the page looked that day. News organizations around the world got a lesson in how people flock to the internet in times of emergency, and Slashdot was no exception. Readers congregated to share news as it was happening, and the staff frantically shut off portions of the site to keep it from buckling under the strain. It's a set of problems that have largely been solved in 2017, but they were new back then.
The last couple years have seen our world become more polarized than ever before, or at least it seems that way, likely because of the internet. Some of the most discussed and visited stories of the past year include the election of Donald Trump, Google firing engineer James Damore for writing a memo, to Silicon Valley investors calling for California to secede from the United States. One non-political, less polarizing story that made the Slashdot 2017 Hall of Fame was "Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie?", which is about as Slashdot as Slashdot gets, and the comments are well worth the read.
We hope this walk back through Slashdot's history provided a nostalgic diversion for you. With over 162,000 to pick from, it's inevitable that we'll leave some good ones out, so feel free to share in the comments any particular stories that have stuck in your memory. A lot of you have been around and contributing to the site for years, and we hope you'll stick around for years more. This is part of our 20-year anniversary celebration, and we've set up a page to coordinate user meet-ups. We'll be continuing to run some special pieces throughout the month, so keep an eye out for those.
... or was forced out...
The second TEN matter if you are into Likes, ads in your face, and plain creepy stuff.
9/11. At the time, my habit was to login and go to sites like cnn.com for the morning's news. None of the normal news sites would come up. That is odd I thought. Continued onto /., where I first saw the post about it. I immediately went and turned on the TV. Crazy stuff.
Indeed, unfortunately only rarely news for nerds.
20th post!
that we don't have 20 years of creimer/cashews nonsense... We've had quite enough of his crap! The moderation system works.
I enjoy coming here.
Even if it has gotten worse (and that varies), Slashdot still has the best comment layout and system out of any news site I read
Unfortunately, the trolls have won and continue to run off good people from Slashdot. Some trolls are showing up at SoylentNews to spread their hatred. Posting as AC for obvious reasons.
https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/tag/slashdot/
I think it's time to revisit the moderation system here.
Back when stories would routinely get 500 or more comments, it was helpful to have the moderation system pick out the best ones. But that's no longer the case. It's now rare for a story here to break even 200 comments. A lot of them are well under 100 comments.
I've seen stories where there aren't any comments shown by default, even when there have been 20 or more comments posted!
To make matters worse, abusive moderating is a real problem here now, and I keep seeing the most interesting comments modded down to 0 or -1, meaning they aren't visible by default.
So the end result is that I have to always browse at -1. This, of course, makes the moderation system redundant. If I have to view all comments anyway just to see content worth reading, then Slashdot might as well just get rid of its moderating system completely and show us all of the comments by default.
The moderation system here made sense 15 years ago, when this site was far more popular than it is today. But now that there are fewer commenters, and presumably a smaller moderator pool, the moderation system does more harm than good. It impedes our ability to read good comments.
It's time for the current moderation system to go, I think. We don't want a shitty Reddit or Hacker News style moderation system here, of course. That's why it would be best just to get rid of the moderation system and show all comments by default.
The last 5 years have been a dumpster fire.
Who could ever forget The Glorious Meept!!?
In all seriousness:
But I must have been one of the first posters!
Mazeltov old friend.
I forget when the Beanies died but the attempt to revive them in 2014 saw the editors try to put Anita Sarkeesian on the same level as Malala Yousafzay:
https://slashdot.org/story/14/...
It was such a mistep that they were too embarrassed to even follow up with a winner. Good times.
P.S. I should note this was done under the previous owner (Dice).
Where are mentions of OMG Ponies! and the Parrot runtime?
What? No mention of Bitcoin?
I'll echo the sentiment expressed by others here.
Slashdot may have survived 20 years, which is remarkable, but in the past 3-5 years it's definitely been on the wane.
Many articles are just reposts from arstechnica, engadget, current political news, and trending social media stories.
Meaningful comments have been replaced by anonymous coward trolls and actual registered trolls.
The once-vaunted "slashdot effect" has diminished and I expect soon enough, in the next 2-4 years, that slashdot will be no more.
Slashdot is a husk of it's former self. The garbage submissions, bots and right wing kiddies are brutal. Very little interesting discussion goes on here any more.
The new management said it was coming real soon when they took over.
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
Slashdot had the best moderation system, and tech community in the beginning. Then they made so many stupid changes like limiting the amount of posts ACs could make per day. All this did was reduce traffic and lead people to unlimited places like 4chan. Then they started arbitrarily rearranging the order of posts, probably in some misguided attempt to end "first posters" even though the moderation system already handled that. Change the post order just made it a chore to come back and find old threads later in the day to continue the discussion from your break or whatever. This site used to be the most addictive site on the internet, but after those foolish changes, I barely visit anymore, much less actually post something. What kind of idiot updates they're site to be LESS addictive? Dumbasses.
My one and only accepted story submission turned out to be the launch article for apple.slashdot.org
My little piece of Slashdot history .... otherwise, my comments have been consistently useless for 20 years now.
Only users with 4 digit IDs should be allowed to post in this thread.
I've wasted many hours here. The news coverage has changed over the years, not always for the better, but I still keep coming back.
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
... returns 100,000 stories.
Happy Birthday /.
Why isn't there a way to search my own posts ? And why is search in general still mostly broken ? I mean it's not like you have to use perl or something, right ? Right ?
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Like we ever leave our keyboards.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
on how many posts this topic will generate?
A. 300
B. 500
C. 1000
February 14, 2002 - The day that CmdrTaco's life changed forever: https://slashdot.org/story/02/...
The poll is where everyone is in agreement.
This week also marks the 20th anniversary of Jakob Neilsen's article, How Users Read on the Web. (published Oct. 1, 1997)
Maybe the Slashdot editors should have a look at this article, given the tome that was included in today's post.
should have let that theme stay, it was good for a laugh.
It would be introducIng me to goat.se
I didn't remember that it was 20 years. I would actually have guessed 21 years ago. All I know is I was sitting in my college dorm and a friend from across the hall mentioned that a site we had been reading had just gone live with user accounts and I should jump on it to get a low account ID. He had already signed up and has a 3 digit account. I didn't care enough at the time, so I waited an hour or two. By that time I got a high four digit ID since so many people had already signed up. That was the speed of how important these things were to people 20 years ago. There were two tech sites that I read all day every day at that point, because new articles were posted sporadically, and you wanted your FIRST PSOT! /. was by far the most relevant site to me at the time, but I also read Tweak3d. Stories on /. in the first few years were very entertaining. Most didn't get a ton of comments, and then you'd come across a story that was overwhelmed with comments and you'd go through and read every one, often posting a response or three in some of the more active threads - even if you were posting anonymously in order to not lose your editor points or whatever they called them back then. And then you'd come across the duplicate posts, probably by some editor who was drunk at the time and didn't remember the story having already been posted. Comments on those were brutal. A few years after that there was a new staff member (I don't recall the name) that had more blog style articles that weren't strictly in the same vein as the normal /. articles, and people hated him with a passion! He was more of a professional journalist than a techie that was writing news for their friends like the other editors. The point is that there was real atmosphere. There was a real sense of belonging to a site that mattered and was interesting and creative at the same time.
But things changed over the years. It was around 2010 or 2011 that the changes really took effect. The stories got less relevant, comments got less interesting, etc. Personally I still enjoy /. and read it every day, but I've probably only posted a dozen comments in the past 10 years, and it's rare that I even bother to look at the first few comments.
The mojo is gone. The excitement that used to surround each story, and the way the people commented (yes, even including a couple of the original trolls that would FILL the comment section with repeated random garbage) is just different. It's likely because the founders are gone, and /. has gone through multiple corporate overlords since those first few years. Stories are more boilerplate and more like the stories on other websites now.
There are likely still tens of thousands of lurkers like me from the early days that still read /. almost daily. Bring back the mojo and they'll start participating again.
I post anonymous because I can't recover my old 4 digit id after I changed my email.
And Goatse scarred me for life.
It's been a roller coaster ride for sure. Although the growing anti-science in the latter half of the site's existence has made it difficult for the original highly technical population to continue participating, Slashdot still manages to hold its niche together.
I look forward to another 20 years. :-)
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
Like Slashdot's admins, I also work in borderline-unprofitable media and advertising. For the last 2 years in particular, I never know if the job is still going to be here next week. Maybe we'll close tomorrow, maybe we're somehow keep on keeping on for another 5 years. No idea. The pay is total shit, but I'd still rather stay here.
It's always bittersweet when the powers above want to make a big thing about an anniversary. On one hand, it is pretty hilarious and maybe newsworthy that we're still open, against all odds. On the other hand, it's boring and generally is a symptom of us not having time/money to make real content. If we were a TV show, this would be like Lucille Ball introducing the "funniest and most touching moments" from Threes Company. Clip show. (Except we don't have Lucille Ball here; really, you couldn't even get a guest post from Taco?) That's what media anniversary content is: clip shows. And I can tell you, as a media consumer you can't get any worse than a clip show. So whenever we do it, I know we're letting down the few readers we have left, and boring some more of them away even though we can't afford to lose anyone. OTOH, WE'RE STILL HERE!!
And so is Slashdot, And whoever still "works" over there, must be enjoying the same ambivalence: they just did their worse/laziest content (seriously, basically no better than running an ad as content, though at least it's an ad for themselves), but .. THEY'RE STILL HERE! And that is something.
Sorry you can't run the same website that you remember, Slashdot. But even so, you're still here. And amazingly, so am I. Who would have thunk, my friend?
Your comment reminded me of heroes. And there's one Slashdot Hero that I'd like to thank for his fantastic contributions over the years: John C. Randolph, also known as "jcr".
There are few users here whose comments I look forward to reading. John is among those commenters. When I'm scrolling through the comments rapidly and "~jcr" catches my eye, I stop and read the comment every time.
John embodies the original spirit of Slashdot. Unlike so many here, he has a huge amount of hands-on industry experience working on important computing systems. Yet at the same time he has such a strong understanding of politics, economics, and so many other fields.
He brings important insight and wisdom to the discussion here, and he has helped expand my understanding of the world far beyond what it otherwise would have been. In many ways he has become an indirect mentor to me. As I've read his comments over the years I have grown intellectually.
And before anyone wrongly claims that I'm John posting this, let me assure you that I'm not. I could never achieve even a fraction of what John has achieved.
Thank you, John, for all of your comments. They truly are the hidden gems of this website.
Happy Birthday, Slashdot!
For all your cruftiness, and all the complaints, you're still also the source of some of the most interesting discussions I run across on a day-to-day basis.
-- Sent from a computer.
Use to be news for nerds, stuff that matters Now, it's more like POLITICAL news that doesn't matter. Get enough of that garbage on 99.9% of the other sites.
Tech community is larger than ever, so why aren't we growing? One idea is to allow customized story feeds where individual slashdot users can post their own story or import all/selected stories posted by site owners and and other users. If some of these become popular, they will drive more traffic to ads and to the main page. This will let us move away from being bland and mainstream for everyone. Some are interested in hardcore science and in depth tech. Some may want to discuss onslaught of political correctness that silences beneficial practical use of such science and tech. And so on.
would like to thank our meme overlords for the excellent /dotty adventure. Since 1999 /. has been my goto for nerdilicious stuff that matters. Thanks /.
20 years. Makes one feel old... thanks for everything!
Donâ(TM)t know what I would do without being able to read you guys during my morning... um.. sit down I suppose is the nice way to put it.
The thing that got me hooked on /. was the regular polling of opinion. Invariably, CowboyNeal often won.
The Voices from the Hellmouth series seemed like one of the most important stories on /. as enabled the masses of readers to express their own experiences of being bullied or treated by others within school. It seemed to be one of the first articles about us rather than about some technology or company.
Recall that this story was from back in '99, way before being in IT/computers was cool or mainstream.
Slashdot is still great. Happy birthday, and congratulations on finally implementing unicode.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Happy Birthday. There were a pile of gnome stories way back when about every little change, Linux desktop supremacy was just around the corner, or so we thought,
Does anyone remember before you could register a handle? I seem to remember browsing the site and being able to sign the bottom of a post with any handle or am I crazy? There was no reason to register if I remember right, then some change happened and everyone was registering like mad,
Haven't been to Digg in years (except to see if it is still there). Haven't been on Fark in about a year now (miss those boobies!). Only Slashdot remains on my daily list.
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention him. He was quite a prolific and controversial poster here.
Not one chips n dip days...
Lost my 5 digit userid when I couldn't remember the password, and had long lost access to the email address.
Natalie Portman's grits.
I've always been the go-to person for information, opinions, and guidance in my social group. When people ask where I get news and ideas, Slashdot is always at/near the top. It's a variety of related news plus some incredibly insightful comments. The value in my life has been thus far immeasurable.
Especially in the wake of the Columbine shooting. The Jon Katz post "Voices from the Hellmouth" (https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from-the-hellmouth) helped me understand that what I was experiencing wasn't abnormal. Nerds, geeks, gamers, goths, loners, introverts -- they were all being profiled as potential mass-murderers. Many were treated as suspects in thought crime. Many were forced into counseling out of such fear. And still the worst was that it was so extremely taboo to say, "While I don't condone what they did, I completely understand why they did it." And that taboo prevented any real reduction in pain for those "at risk" social rejects.
When I went to college, I went in as "me". Long black hair, dark clothing, and chains. People were scared to be around me at first. One person asked me to play a game a gin rummy in my first week at the dorms. He used that game to inquire why "I was angry with life". (This is why I loved the first year of college. It was OK to ask awkward questions and get into deep discussions.) It was the first time someone had attempted that discussion with me. I told him that I wasn't angry with life, but that many things had happened in my life that made me feel contemplative and rebellious against certain ways of life. I continued and explained that I had decided that if "those people" looked like that, then I didn't want to identify is one of them by looking like them.
His eyes burst open like he just suddenly understood a massive part of his own high school experience 4 months too late. We continued to play cards, but I couldn't get the hang of gin rummy. We played poker instead.
In the following years, I decided to reinvent myself. The dark clothing went away. The hair went from long to short to long to short again. I got a bit athletic. I started learning about sports and held manly conversations with people about cars, football, and guns. (You know how it is... you learn one thing about at topic and suddenly you have to LEARN EVERYTHING.) Eventually, I discovered that I had become an undercover nerd. You wouldn't know it from looking at me, but half the time, I just want to go home and play Everquest. (Ya. I still play Everquest.) So when I break out my white-hot data skills, or legal knowledge, or when something at work requires me to learn a new vendor system and I master it in a couple days sufficient to send bug reports to the vendor, people flip out (with joy!).
In today's workplace, people LOVE to have a nerd on hand. They'll happily put up marginal social quirks to have nerd powers in the office across the way. The nation's most visible million/billionaires are nerds. People WANT to look nerdy to be hip. People are demanding that teachers make more FEMALE nerds so we can reach NERD EQUITY. And today, the discussion of the high school harassment is completely blown wide open. Bullying, cyber-bullying, sexual harassment, microaggressions, picoaggressions, quantumshade -- today, in many schools, being mean is bad.
It's not perfect. Your mileage may vary. But it's better.
Still, every 4/20, when people are joking about weed on campus, I'm solemn because I remember what happened with a couple of kids felt so rejected and so alone that they retreated into a cesspool of resentment and no one cared to notice until the violence came. (Seems similar to the building of a lot of white resentment building in the nation today.) I have to explain to people that the root of the problem wasn't simply mental illness or the existence of guns. A major part of the problem was that people felt that it was absolutely OK for kids to torture kids.
I've been part of higher education outreach into low-i
In the not-too-distant past the dominant voice on this site took a hard right turn. During the administration of Obama we saw a constant barrage of anti-Obama and anti-Clinton news bits on the front page, while simultaneously seeing articles that championed various right wing causes.
Sure, we see some front page articles now that point out a subset of the failings of the current POTUS, but regardless of how much someone loves him it would be nearly impossible to not have to come to face with his failings on at least a daily basis.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
One of my favorite articles can be found here: DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers - https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
I've used it in taglines and wherever I could pass it on, and get another chance now : )
And yet, you keep coming back. Doesn't speak for your intelligence, but then again your posts already don't.
Just Go away with your feces.
You makinâ(TM) me feel old! (Back in the day, I would browse /. in NetPositive running on a real BeBox... remember those?)
I don't see 3- and 4-digit user ids very often. Glad some are still around!
Some have accused Slashdot of forsaking its mantra in search of more hits. While it may have been diluted a bit over the years, this is still my go-to for the nerdiest news. Hope you'll be around for another 20!
Truth
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
Growing up in the 90's this site was exciting like a secret club with all the science and tech info that regular people would never talk about, or the news might pick up only months later. Now it's a place to catch days old mainstream news, too many of them non-tech, too many of them political.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
APK
I started reading in 1999 but didn't create an account until a year later or so. I got wind of the place through a college instructor who talked of things such as Linux Install Parties - which at the time was the nerdiest sounding thing I had ever heard. I remember people posting links to tiny grainy videos of the prequel Star Wars and Matrix trailers hosted on their personal servers. I remember waiting sometimes up to a day to visit sources linked in stories because they were "slashdotted". I remember spilling my guts and talking shit and having actual insightful conversations with people - or getting modded down and having to think about the dumb ass stuff I was talking about. That had a big effect about how I thought about online communication that I don't think my tiny brain had contemplated before.
I remember learning about new things, reading different points of view and growing up from a scraggly 20-something to a scraggly 40-something and watching my attitudes change over time (going back to old comments ... wow).
Slashdot was everything I loved about IRC at the time but with a moderation system and some really interesting people. It's still kinda this today. I mean I still read every damn day so there's gotta be something goin' on here right? RIGHT? Anyway, when Taco left it didn't feel the same, and certainly we've had a lot more political, and slashvertisement stories than outright nerdly or technical ones but still more sedate and varied than other sources that still somehow exist.
The only thing that has really left me with chills about this place is how people saw 15+ years ago how invasive technology would become and how much more difficult privacy would be to maintain and even how most people would likely give it up for nothin'... it seemed incredibly far-fetched at the time. Man...
Anyway Happy 20th /. Thanks for filling my compile time since 1999!
crazy dynamite monkey
Except for that one day.
because this "we" you refer to were just gleams in your daddy's eye when WE ran this site. The current generation, as usual, has ruined the site, nay, the world, for the rest of us. I blame the parents for not practising safe sex, or aborting the little bastards.
I haven't logged in for years, but did today. Happy Birthday, Slashdot!
I'd completely managed to lose all recollection that Jon Katz ever existed... then I read your post.
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Twenty years ago, someone came up with the idea to take already existing news stories, post a link to them and let people provide the content with their opinions. In return give them the pleasure of viewing your advertisements which generates millions of dollars for the company which bought the original idea. Yes, I believe some self congratulations is in order. Bastards ;^)
from an old fart (10379)
See subject: Note they don't id WHO issues 'downmods'? Says it all for me if you can't stand behind your words.
APK
P.S.=> The "downmoderation system" here IS for truly cowardly SLIME WORMS (behind fake names for FAKE "ne'er-do-well" LIVES) designed BY fellow slimeworms... apk
Been on here since 99 or so, when i got my first tech job and slashdot was set as the homepage from my predecessor. Haven't stopped reading since.
Sure i play around with reddit, but their moderation system, shadowbans, and the fact that each subreddit only has a handful (if that) of moderators keeps me coming back here. There is far too much groupthink on any other aggregator with comments that I have tried, and the quality of comments on slashdot is always top notch. The AC system is also a rare delight in the new world order of disquis forums and such.
So keep on keeping on slashdot! Even fatboy slim had a song about you back in the day! linky
My personal favourite article from recent memory was the one about peoples favourite sci-fi films. Which I keep mining for new gems to watch on a friday night.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
/. keeps posting history that lets me bookmark when I made FAKE NAME for FAKE LIFE fools eat their words (to toss back @ 'em when they try "butthurt revenge" lol).
* I LOVE IT!
Seems to me that's about ALL THEY ARE GOOD FOR (& "downmodpoints" I get them to run out of + reposting what they downmod in the end again anyway, lol) & then they dump using FAKE NAMES for FAKE LIVES doing UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts (proving my point, hahahahaha).
Seems there's an ENTIRE GENERATION of reprehensible no BALLS worms out there that needed swatting & I'm just the man to do it!
APK
P.S.=> It's been EXTREMELY USEFUL in that very capacity & it makes me LMAO when they afford me the opportunity to do exactly what I state above... apk
For some reason, the full text triggers the lameness filter, but follow the link to the History of the World, where The Glorious MEEPT!! plays a role...
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=64664&cid=5990632
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
and The WHO is still a bunch of fags!
Happy birthday /.
Thank you for bringing us together. Thank you for having the curating system that has highlighted so many insightful and funny comments. I've learned a lot from /. in the ~17 years I'm browsing the site (made this account a long time after I started to read my daily news here), and I hope to still be learning new things 20 years from now.
Happy Birthday Slashdot!
I started here after reading an interview with Dave Taylor, formerly of id Software. Stuck around for a while. Wandered to greener pastures and come back every once in a while to see how the old girl is doing.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Many of the comments I have read are lamenting that /. just ain't what it used to be. Kind of true, kind of not.
What keeps me coming back are the pure simplicity of the site and the opportunity to learn by having the more esoteric stories explained by truly knowledgeable people.
Happy bday Slashdot. May Cowboy Neal never die!
Average Intelligence is a Scary Thing
I have been doing this for 20 years! Loading the /. website, how cool is that? Thanks CmdrTaco! I loved the pool question too, for example the one that asked how do you prefer to install the toilet paper, with the feed on top or bellow? Priceless! Will try to search for my earlier screenshot, but I lost my original Linux desktop after running a defrag for ext2, my worst idea ever, hit ctrl+c and lost everything. The author said, sorry about that, didn't think about writing a callback for ctrl+c ...
Get my e-mail after a captcha test in: http://tinymailt
Despite the lows of the last years, still my favourite site. Congratulations to all involved in keeping this nerd temple.
stween@islay:0:~$ host -t aaaa slashdot.org
slashdot.org has no AAAA record
Oh.
See subject: I reduced you to your TRUE self (not a fake name for your fake life) of a useless unidentifiable "ne'er-do-well"... lol!
APK
P.S.=> It's just (& per tradition, I've just GOTTA say it again) "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" letting "your kind" (projecting simpletons) show everyone just what you REALLY truly are (& you KNOW it, proving it for me even now yet again, lol)... apk
Apk did it again making you look stupid blowing your useless downmod points! He just reposted about your kind https://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11188265&cid=55315941/!
Slashdot should take this opportunity to start posting some self analytic studies. (Or if they've done these studies then publish the results.) What's the proportion of posts per story type (lots of posts for current events &c)? Of modded comments to total posts for different types of stories? User ID/AC distribution per story? Anyone else curious about this?
Been reading for a solid 12(??) years, but heard about it when it first kicked off back in the late 90s. The person that told me about it is actually dead now, strangely.
It used to be fun to go and check the polls Slashdot does, but I haven't participated in one for years now.
I read science news elsewhere and wonder why cool stuff like that isn't getting posted here...
Here's to another 20, in any case.
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Happy Birthday /.
It is difficult to fathom that the site has been around for 20 years, because I've "only" been online for 25 or so and I can't possibly be that old. Right? Right??
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
No explanation of the two days down
No wireless. Fewer topics than Reddit. Lame.
I have many memories of Slashdot, some good, and some bad.
9/11
That Jon Katz asshat
Natalie Portman, and hot grits.
But I never visit any more.
http://unxmaal.com
Basically every system I use has windowmaker as the primary WM, unless I need specific functionality it doesn't have (extended sensor display, or fps counter while gaming, in which case lxde/xfce or e17 are the preferred environments.)
And in all that time the only major changes to it was truetype font support, the taskmanager window when alt-tabbing, and the dynamic menu support (went through an iteration or two before it was stable.) Sadly, in all that time gnustep never really got solid, and objective-c support never improved outside of Apple.
Alas.
Also Happy 20th Slashdot. You're been through a lot, including all the secondary business ventures and all the sales when a way to monetize it couldn't be found.
Are CmdrTaco or any of the other oldtimers showing up to comment on such a momentous occasion?
APK. For when batshit crazy just isn't enough.
In '97 everybody I knew was multitasking online. In '99 even people who only knew how to turn on a computer and the basic operations of windows were playing videogames and browsing and socializing online. I did my part to try and educate some of them, and then all of a sudden everybody was online by ~'03. And by '05-'08 it was old hat for basically everyone.
tl;dr
I'll wait for the dupe post
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
Doesn't look crazy. It's fact he runs you unidentifiable dorks out of your 1 so called weapon in downmod points you abuse constantly which is why you are posting your off topic stupidity now. You are out of ammo that bounces off him anyway!
You have to deduct all the April 1st days.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Slashdot stayed up while the other sites choked on the massive onrush of traffic. From what I understand, they disabled recursive IP checks and a few other things, but overall the site stayed the same while the others went HTML lite just to get something out there.
Lots of SysAdmins earned their stripes that day dealing with that nightmare.
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
I saw this posted in the morning when it only had a few comments. Most of them saying how bad the site is now compared to its glory days. And although I haven't logged in a quite some time to post, I must say I still ready daily and find the discourse fascinating. Sure, there's a lot of chaff to go through, but as others put it, that's true of any website.
/. has been through the hands of quite a few now, but the most important part remains: its users. I really enjoy finding that one post that goes into such extraneous detail that presents new to me information and concepts. Something I wouldn't have come across otherwise. And of course, you can usually find excellent lengthy posts - something that is sorely missed in typical social media websites.
So thank you, posters, editors, and owners. Here's to another 20 years!
In Soviet Russia, Slashdot celebrates you!
My abilities are only limited by my imagination
Sad I am getting so old it hurts to flail my arms like that any more. Post little but still read daily.
Sure, 9/11 was big. But JonKatz's Voices from the Hellmouth about Columbine was a big deal. Yes, we all grew tired of JonKatz eventually, but a lot of people opened up about their horrible experiences being bullied in high school. There's been a lot of improvements in schools recognizing bullying, though a lot of that has just moved online and gotten worse there. Still, for those of us who were here, that was a really memorable time. I'm surprised there was no mention.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Nostalgia? Pass the Gravol.
The only large parameter I've ever cared about here is whether sharp story submissions encourage sharp dialogue.
Why so often—during various epochs—story submissions tapering off into a woolly final sentence? Is it an actually goal here (by some) to unleash an obligatory pocket-protector Olympics of beat-the-buzzer geek stereotypy?
Trolls, consider yourself trolled—for the extremely predictable lolz.
No, true nerd-hood is about going through life in the spirit that no consequential detail is ever too small to hold up to the tomographic megaphone—for as long as it takes. Wool is what other people like to pull over the fine technical fine print. I continue to celebrate every wool-free story submission that /. has ever run.
Blessed be the pinprick lightsaber that shears sheep.
I don't think there are many websites that have made such a big impact as this site has made. Even though I don't really have time to partake in the discussions here (or at other websites for that matter due to real life) I still visit slashdot more or less daily and I often find interesting news here. Lets hope the site continues to run for 20 more years (by that time we will all be highly paid consultants working to fix the imminent 2038 year bug :) )
Great to be on Slashdot all this time!
The AC comment for "Resonance: Beings Of Frequency"
For some reason these don't come up when viewing the "starting on 20010911" page, but the original and followup stories as 9/11 was happening are here:
https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-towers-and-pentagon-attacked
https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1640219/us-attack----more-updates
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Holy shit. Anyone who believes this must be an extreme ultra leftist who thinks that even Communists are "too conservative".
It's laughable to think that this site "took a hard right turn". It's routine to get anti-Trump submissions on the front page. This site is infested with leftists like AmiMoJo spewing leftist crap all of the place. Seriously, just look at this awful comment from AmiMoJo in this very story. Currently it's modded as 5, Insightful, while being full of leftist lunacy. It even blames Russia for Brexit, for example, which anyone who isn't an idiot knows is complete nonsense.
Open up any story about so-called "climate change". Any comment that isn't spewing agreement with the leftist narratives regarding so-called "climate change" will be brutally downmodded.
Look at Slashdot's Twitter account. What's its location set as? San Francisco! You know, the most leftist city in the most leftist American state! California is so leftist that it makes many far-left European nations seem right wing!
If we had to put Slashdot on the political spectrum, it would probably be solidly in the "far left" camp these days. It's not as far left to the left as Reddit, Hacker News, or the Huffington Post are, but it's pretty damn close to them. It surely cannot be considered "centrist" or "moderate", and it thus can definitely not be considered "right wing" in any sense.
Now maybe you can't see this because you're so far to the left that literally everyone else appears to be "right wing", even staunch leftists. But the reality is that Slashdot is not "right wing", and anyone who thinks Slashdot is "right wing" must be a drooling, extreme leftist.
It's a shitty website but the alternatives are worse!
love is just extroverted narcissism
fark was taken over by sjws..that's why no boobies and a lot more man-bashing.
Can we meet the editors? I sure would like to slap some of them up side the head.
I can't believe it's been 20 years.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
Two decades is a reasonable age and Slashdot's first quarter century isn't all that distant, so we might as well start putting the paleohistory in order. This needs an era classification scheme, and mcmonkey seems to have given us an ideal metric for era boundaries: the number of digits in the Slashdot ID. As every proper techie will understand, this gives us a logarithmic scale which normalizes the population explosion nicely.
Well I know where to start, but the rest needs input:
1 digit - Tacomordium - life emerges by accident from the primordial nerd soup. ... ...
2 digits - [Suggestions?]
3
4
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
I organised the 10 year party in Canberra, Australia, at the "Uni Pub". I organised a plasticised "attendance card" for those who came. I still carry my card in my wallet. So, I can be called a "card-carrying Slashdoter".
Looking at space, radio, science and computing from a 'down-under' amateur enthusiast perspective.
I've only been reading for 17 or 18 years but the site has been a bit part of my daily experience for a long time. Kudos.
Slashdot is pretty much dead. I only come here because of habit. I don't even bother reading the comments or clicking anything. New management are Communist/Anifa DNC libtards who spread leftist conspiracy theories. This site doesn't heave anything to do with nerdom anymore. Whoever owns this site should just shut it down and put it out of its misery.
RIP Slashdot!
Hey, where do I sign up for all these anniversary parties at!? https://www.wired.com/2007/10/...
I gave up on Fark back in the early '00s, after I realized they were tracking people who used more than one user account. If it detected a cookie from another user when you logged in, it would link both those accounts in their database and hit them all when a ban happened. For a couple of years after that I spent some time on a site called F*king Otaku, then discovered 4chan from one of its users. I'm mostly on /a/ and /pol/, but also on half a dozen other boards from time to time. I got used to the default anonymous posting there, and for a while I would post on Slashdot with the AC checkbox more often than without it. Now I post under my user name more often again, because that lets me check replies a few days later.
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
I would like to use this opportunity to highlight the problem of teenage suicide in our society. From a site that made it through, despite many attempts on its own life. Having been orphaned from its natural family and sent from foster family to foster family through its teenage years, Slashdot had a difficult time as a teen, and this manifested itself in such self destructive behavior as experimenting with obtrusive advertising, rebellious layout changes and the hiring of Bennet Haselton. But it made it through and this should be a beacon of hope for depressed teens everywhere.
While Slashdot isn't a political site
LULz
There hasn't been anything worth reading on this site in a few years. Just flame bait crap reviews at best.
Just imagine a Beowolf cluster of Slashdots.
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I have to admit, the layout does look a bit dated but in a retro/cool kind of way. It's still my go to site for tech news. And I love that it's build by geeks...for geeks.
Best comments section around. Some of them are funny, some of them are brilliant, some of them piss me off. But I still find myself spending more time on the reaction to the story than the story itself. Here's to another 20 years!
I left high school a year and a half early. It had been unpleasant since junior high, but sophmore year took it to a whole other level. Only thing that had allowed me to cope was my online social life which was mostly late nights when I really should have been sleeping, quiet out of the way places where I wouldn't get hassled, or self abuse so I wouldn't go crazy and deal with people physically (very few people got into physical altercations at our school, but there was a lot of passive aggressiveness and doing what you could that other people couldn't prove.) I got out the semester before columbine happened, or I no doubt would have been one of those kids who got hassled as a potential next 'threat'. In fact someone I know got targeted like that during their end of year for middle school and ended up hanging out with druggies and criminals in Adult Education instead of going to a normal high school. Would have gone to school with Sasha Grey if he hadn't, which always made him feel bad in the years she had become a popular porn star :)
^ Dox down to less than 1 in 2 million people there. Less if you are the NSA who's been keeping plaintext logs of all IMs since the 90s... :)
An ARC professor of math and web development, until they got dedicated staff for the latter.
'Did you feel the rush?'
'There is this great site, called Slashdot, you should all check it out.'
A bit less than 20 years later, I am still checking it out. Thanks for the reference Phil!
Slashdot was vibrant because it welcome submissions from members
Nowadays tho, it has become very dangerous for members to submit articles to Slashdot. Look at the following:
https://slashdot.org/submission/5996487/china-homegrown-electronic-and-worlds-fastest-supercomputer
Is the above submit a spam? Really?
But SPAM it is, according to the current Slashdot admin
I started reading ./ when my English was really poor and hardly understood the more technical texts. We had a 15th aniversary party here in Mexico City and cannot believe we're 20 now.
I visit the site once a week, now we have many more ways to get news.
I remember reading Slashdot (roughly) 20 years ago, using lynx on a RS6000 terminal at college. At that time we had to compile stuff by ourselves to enjoy the internet... Slashdot was one of the few sites that didn't try to sell stuff to us. Wasted more hours reading stories here than attending math courses...
NoScript shows at least 11. I had to open this in Chrome even to post, because the posting link was disabled in Firefox.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Next time I'll set the alarm!
- R.V. Winkle
P.S. is M$ still Public Enemy #1 around here?
This comment is likely to get so downmodded (Offtopic, or Overrated) that my Karma will go from 'Excellent' to 'Bad', or whatever is worst these days, but I don't care. This is worth it.
I do hereby record my username and number on this thread, on this article, on this auspicious day, for several reasons:
1) It's likely to stick around for posterity
2) It will annoy all the people who need to be annoyed and sadly, some people who don't deserve it (collateral damage)
3) I can say "I told you so" when Islam, helped along by BAMN/Anti-fa starts civil wars based on doctrine and ideological hate in the West in years to come, from my kingdom in the lake district, the last small c conservative nation that will be left after this happens
4) In between now and the war, true free speech will be more and more curtailed. We must use it whilst we can, for it's most important purpose - to tell the truth, the facts.
This tagline was transcoded to result in at least one smirk. If you experience failure to smirk, please consult your Gen
Happy Birthday /.
It's amazing that it still exists, not as cool as it used to be, but still has some value.
So very nice to see all the low user ID's posting today.
It was Chips & Dips when I found it, can't recall what site I found the notice on though, some geeky place lost to memory.
I thought it was so professional when it went color with the teal headers, beautiful and unique.
Other than Kuro5hin, /. was my "go to" site every day for years.
I still have my FREE Dmitry Sklyarov T shirt, remember that corporate/state clown act, a harbinger of oppressions to come?
And I do miss OGG! the caveman.
So many great memories, and so glad it's still here.
Your attitude about bookmarks is not unlike your view of hosts files as a replacement for DNS. Not at all surprising.
This is a long shot, but I'm looking for the founder of, I believe it was called the HellHole BBS, based in the Palo Alto area decades ago.
I did some electrical work in his parents house (he was in High School), and we talked about this new website called SlashDot.
Just wondering if he's still around.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Communities_membership_referendum,_1975
I think you'll find that's a super majority.
Like all good Brexit morons, you don't let the truth get in the way of your hyperbole.
I found this place oh so long ago, all the other sites I was paying attention to then have mostly passed on.
Mostly lurking, looking for some tidbit of sanity not available anywhere else.
The Gates Borg icon was fun.
Keep paying the bills and doing what you do so well, or poorly or somewhere in between.
Been following Slashdot since close to the beginning and still tune in every day. The site has certainly changed and not always for the better, but I'm still here so subjectively it can't be all bad. I am not going to use this opportunity as many commenters do to list various stuff that could change - why not leave that for the 364 other days of the year and today just be happy for all the good bits. Thanks for keeping the site around.
Thank you for 20 years of nerd-news addiction! Happy, happy birthday!
It's not effective enough; I still see your comments, APK.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
... stil no UTF8 support! Way to go guys! ©åß
In the early days, Slashdot was the place that broke many IT news stories and acted as the bridge to get these into the mainstream media. Something that was acknowledge BBC back in 1999 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci... Things have changed a little, it is no longer slashdot taking the same lead but the role of the net in breaking news has only increased.
We also shouldn't forget the Slashdot Effect which unintentionally knocked sites of the net with the amount of inbound traffic it provided.
...what are the Bennett Hasleton's thoughts on that matter.
One of my favorite sites.
I originally used the name ‘slashdot’ on my desktop a year earlier when I got my first static IP in the Voorhees Hall dorm room
Voorhees Hall? Did the dress code include hockey masks?
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
those days when a front page story caused the origin site to go down... that is something i will never forget.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
I must admint that it's been a while since i logged in. I usually only read, and you can do that without.
Back in the days /. was my home as now is reddit.
What I love about ./ is the tech focus.
Happy Birthday! Keep up the work!
Could be worse. Could be raining.
It would be interesting to understand the amount of bandwidth required to service a front page post in 24 hours historically and compared to today
now we find netflix is serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance...
regards
John Jones
https://john.jones.name
See subject: You can't backup your bs. Here's proof I use both hosts & remote DNS to compliment one another liar...
APK
P.S.=> FACT: You're a lying little illliterate UNIDENTIFIABLE TROLLING WORM & your post proves it scumbag TRYING TO PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH I NEVER STATED - that's WEAK punk, like you (hence your UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous post, pussy)... apk
Like many, been coming here for years. '99/'00 timeframe IIRC. Visiting on and off, with a large interval between states. Wasn't until this post that I remembered I had a login; albeit a non-leet sub-5 digit UID. Thanks for all the great stories, commentary, and community Slashdot!!!
See subject: You can't backup your bs. Here's proof I use both hosts & remote DNS to compliment one another https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11180523&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=55289329/ liar...
APK
P.S.=> FACT: You're a lying little illliterate UNIDENTIFIABLE TROLLING WORM & your post proves it scumbag TRYING TO PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH I NEVER STATED - that's WEAK punk, like you (hence your UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous post, pussy)... apk
zzzzzzzzz what? Am I to late?
Get off my lawn!
Happy birthday Slashdot!
It's been a wild ride and I'd like to think the pace of change will decrease, but I doubt it.
Strap in for the next 20! See you in 2037!
Ash-Fox It was a pleasure making you concede DNS has issues vs. custom hosts files on numerous points http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2931443&cid=40415267/ on DNS having security vulnerabilities that hosts files fix, + that your "fix" against dns redirect poisoning DOUBLES your overheads (using TCP vs. UDP the default) creating yet MORE INEFFICIENCY in your doing so... lol!
APK
P.S.=> What was even more "priceless" was your "I was pretending" garbage here too -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3929071&cid=44224863/ where I pointed out fastflux, & dynamic DNS utilizing botnets abusing DNS servers taking advantage of their VERY NATURE to do exploits on users - so the ONLY thing you are "pretending" on, is that you are PRETENDING to know a damn thing about computing, lol & that ALL proves it... apk
Some of my favorite posts in slashdot history have been the short-form fiction that people spontaneously write in response to stories. Unfortunately my google-fu is weak this morning, but there was a particular user back in the day who would post on any story about a problem with a Mars rover... they were these great news releases from Martian Emperor Grog or something, praising the Martian's glorious triumph over the alien invaders.
I wish I could find one to pull up, I think they were back from my lurking days. Many mod points to you if you can post a link here.
Now it's just Google this, Apple that, Samsung blah blah, and a constant, probably intentional, overuse of the characters "s ex", like "scientists expect", "analysts exhumed", et. al. Glad to finally see HTTPS be used by default, though.
...due to lack of Duke Nuke 'em Forever reference.
Is THAT "wannabe 'SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /.'" bs the best ya got vs. what I posted here? Absolutely (lmao) https://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11188265&cid=55321381/
* Some "FIX" there stupid, lol - you made MY POINT that not only is DNS riddled w/ security issues but also INEFFICIENT as hell vs. hosts locally (especially via your shoddy 'fix' & using a LOCAL DNS SERVER (eating more resources like mad, & for what?).
FACT: TCP has DOUBLE THE OVERHEADS (@ least that due to 2 trips) OF UDP stupid... & THAT was your 'fix'? LMAO - some 'fix'!
APK
P.S.=> Want MORE times I've shot you to pieces? I've literally got DOZENS more - come on now boy (wannabe, lol), ask & "ye shall receive" much to YOUR PUBLIC DISMAY as always vs. myself (after all, YOU SAID IT - EVERYONE CAN SEE IT)... apk
Ash-Fox tell us another "NDA" lie you do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" MENIAL zero FAKE NAME for your fake life https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7580903&cid=49961005/
* By comparison (to your lying bullshit) I can actually show SUCCESSFULLY (for decades) SOLD COMMERCIAL CODE OUT THERE TO THIS VERY DAY (that won a high placement @ MS TechEd 2 yrs in a row in its hardest category no less) TO MY CREDIT...
(A lying BLOWHARD in yourself can't, lol, & you KNOW it - now, everyone else does too (as you said hahahaha)).
APK
P.S.=> Oh, this is JUST THE BEGINNING - I am going to have a FIELD DAY on you, lol... apk
Ash-Fox the LOSER lying about "NDA" (lol) https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3153677&cid=41553465/ prove it you LYING little "ne'er-do-well" bullshitter - I can prove myself easily (proof's right there & only a SMALL FRACTION of what I can actually & did put out to MY credit, unlike a bullshit artist like YOU, lol...)
APK
P.S.=> Having fun yet, liar? No small wonder you use a FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE, loser... apk
See subject & your DNS fail point by point https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2931443&cid=40415267/ & your NDA lie below too!
APK
P.S.=> Ash-Fox do tell us about your "NDA" & PROVE IT https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3153677&cid=41553465/ since YOU CERTAINLY COULDN'T THERE long ago, you FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE you "ne'er-do-well" loser (especially where I have you in BLACK & WHITE telling that fucking lie) ... apk
because I am mostly correct on issues
What issues do you have in mind that you have been "mostly correct" on? I might not have seen them, I mostly see you quoting your favorite scriptures, recruiting for your favorite cult, and repeatedly lying about the constant everyday role of your faith in your life. I will give you credit for being consistent, but not for being correct.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
See subject & https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3153677&cid=41553465/ + yer DNS fail https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2931443&cid=40415267/ fool!
* ROTFLMAO!
(It is a PLEASURE publicly DESTROYING a FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE ass fool... )
APK
P.S.=> Ash-Fox do tell us about your "NDA" & PROVE IT since YOU CERTAINLY COULDN'T THERE long ago, you FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE you "ne'er-do-well" loser (especially where I have you in BLACK & WHITE telling that fucking lie) ... apk
Wish I could mod up.
let's hope for another 20...
Welcome to Slashdot!
Come for the goatse.cx, stay for the trolls!
Happy 20th /.! But being old doesn't mean you should stop supporting older features like the old Palm site. Some of us still use those...
"Powers. I have them."
You fucked yourself royally AshFox. Talking behind apk's back? Please. Nobody takes you seriously Mr. NO NDA hahahahaha.
Happy birthday, Slashdot! Here's to the next 20 years!
See subject & https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... [slashdot.org] + yer DNS fail https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] fool!
(I feel SO BAD for publicly being a FOOL and attacking NICE PEOPLE who didnt DESERVE IT... )
APK
P.S.=> Ash-Fox I am so sorry AGAIN and if I MISBEHAVE remember it's very VERY EASY to fake my posts BECAUSE I'M AN IDIOT who cant login on websites. ... apk
Ash-Fox AssFux you've got to be kidding. You impersonate apk that way and you started this https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11188265&cid=55320153/ ? Give us a break. Grow up loser. By the way, I see you've become a "Salad Chef" of some reknown hohohohoho https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11203125&cid=55326121/ and unique flair RoTfLmAo *snicker* and troll-face!!
Congratulations and thanks for both the entertainment and learning opportunities.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Just got an email yesterday that after 17 years, FatWallet is closing.
Good job, Slashdot!
Holy carp nuggets! Happy birthday /.!
I remember meeting Rob briefly at one of the Atlanta Linux Symposium, what a great memory. My work life wouldn't be the same without the comments, experience and insight I gained here. Big thanks.
I said no... but I missed and it came out yes.
...i guess
Came here for the story but decided to log in again and say hi.