For one. This is not just Robs site, (infact it isnt his site anymore, its Va Linux's site, but thats beyond the point) its a community site. And as a member of the slashdot community I have a write to express my comments and concerns about the direction or whatever of the website. This website isnt Robs little posting board where he can put whatever he damned well pleases. It is a professional, commericial, new source. We have just as much right to complain as if I had a next door neighbor disturbing our neighbor hood. We can, and do, complain to tv stations etc.. about things we feel is inappropriate, and action does take place. What makes all you guys out there that continously say "its not your website, shuddup" think that we dont have a right to comment. This is not a personal website, and if it was, we still have the write to comment on it, doesnt mean things have to change, but we still have the right.
If anything, this deserved a quickie. Most definently not a full post. It wasnt even remotely funny, if I wanted to see that I would look at pictures of kids playing commando or something, which I wouldnt want to see.
People are blowing this way out of proportion. So they are ping scaning the internet. Who cares. They are not hurting anyone by finding out if a machine is up or not. The fears of malicious intent are also blown way out of proportion. People have said if they dont have any ill-intent why are they doing it so secretely. Read these post, its fairly obviously, because you get lots of idiots that get all paranoid about people portscanning them. Doing it secretely possibly reduces the amount of people who go crazy because they think they are under attack. Thier are alot of legitamate uses for this data. For one, internet topology maps. There are multiple internet mapping websites that scan the internet and creat a graphs and maps of the data they find. Statistics are vary valuable, and it helps governments and companies to make descisions based on internet usage in certain areas. Two, like mentioned before, they could possible using the information to find geographic locations with high latency. With this information companies can best locate servers to provide the fastest speed to their customers. Basically everyone needs to loosen up. IF they were running a vunerability scan on your network, that is one thing to get upset about. That is still perfectly legal, and they could do that if they wish. But they are not, they are traceroute and portscanning.
What would be the interest in a online music store that allows you to immediately download the mp3s of the album, right after you have purchased the album. You would still recieve your cd in the mail, but you would be able to immediately be able to start listening to the music you purchased.
Is it just me, or does Hemos wife look extremely unhappy and horrified in every single picture. I mean, I cannot find one picture where it looks like she is sincerly happy. Alot of them look like she is downright terrified and digusted with being married. I hope it is just bad luck in the picture taking. And Anyrate, Congrats and good luck.
I saw this posted on a few dozen search engines around the date the article actually came out. Just thought I would share that. Maybe if you read weblogs, that might be were you guys have seen it before. Interesting how Slashdot not long is very fast at posting up to date news, and when they do alot of boring crap no one cares about. I remember when it first became Slashdot after Chips and Bits that I would actually read every post and every comment throughout a day. Because they were all interesting!! Now I dont even read completely throught the summaries on the main page because alot of the articles are complete crap. Like, "Ask Slashdot: On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment?" What kinda junk is that? That has been discussed on slashdot have a dozen times before. Its generic boring news that belongs on a uninformative incorrect CNN.com article or something. Processor Reviews and Water Cooled Laptops deserve there own post? Granted, thats some cool stuff, but If I wanted to read about power user stuff like overclocking and processor reviews I would head over to Toms Hardware guide. Its generic news that everyone and there grandmas dog is carrying. Bring bang the interesting and unique content. And all this after they were bought out for a few million, and then Va Linux essential payed another billion for Slashdot. Cause really, sure there is Freshmeat and the other sites on Andover.net, but Slashdot is the bulk of all there visits. Even if they do visit other sites, they also visit slashdot. So Slashdot was basically bought out for a billion dollars. Use that money to make a better site. In fact, I havent seen the money change anything at slashdot. No inprovement, no new features, nothing. Update, or become like Yahoo. I dont mean to say bad things about slashdot. I general like it, and always have. I just think it has declined quality wise in the last year. Hope it gets better not worse.
Umm, You have any more information, like maps and such. I would like to take a group of friends to explore these reed tunnels. In fact, I am thinking about starting a a sorta quasi secret unofficial infilitrating kinda group:). Any other information for portland area schools, and hell, buildings and city and whatnot would also be cool. Like PSU, PCC, Lewis Clark,etc..
I really wonder how slashdot picks submissions. I posted this well over a week ago, and now it shows up a week later accrediting someone else. Interesting. It amazing me why VA Linux would pay 1Billion for Slashdot (Yes, Slashdot, thats all the Andover.Net holds that is worth something. May Freshmeat.)
Excuse me. You are just as bad as the people at the record labels and RIAA that bash on the format MP3 it self. No one said anything about downloading pirated mp3s. And if you think thats all Napster and Gnutella can be used for, you are simply wrong. Thats like blaming CuteFTP for all the warez downloading going on, because they provide an ftp client. Dont blame the format or the tools.
Ironic that this Ask Slashdot comes up, right after I submit a post in regards to web based office suites, and web oses. MyWebOS.com, Desktop.com have been mentioned. Workspot.com gives you a xwindows window in your browsers. Essentially it creats you an account on there linux box and through there modified VNC java viewer you can use linux from any machine with net access. MyFreeDesktop.com I believe is another one. Halfbrain.com i think is another web based app company that is working on a kick ass spread sheet program. The evhead weblog has some links today in regards to web based applications like that, www.evhead.com. Posted direct from SXSW interactive. My personal favorite is ThinkFree.com's Thinkfree Office. It gives you a remote desktop using java, and it has an excellent Wordpreccesor, Spreadsheet, Presentation program. They rival Microsoft Word and Corel Wordperfect. In fact, they are almost exact clones of the products in the Microsoft Office Suite. They even can deal with the formats of office. Its must excellent, you get 20 free megs of workspace , and you can type and edit your documents anywhere with a java enabled browser. It probably sounds like I work for them, I dont, I only wish I did.:)
.. If this is continued to be allowed, alot of people will be getting there domain names stolen from people with "trademarks". This case appaled me. Look at the domain in question, Musicweb.com. How can you claim that you own the trademark and it should be given to you. Its a music site on the web, thus Music Web. You cant trademark stuff like that. That would be like Ford sueing me because I bought Car.com or CarDealer.com or something of the sort. Or a domain like SoftwareLinks.com. The domain name should of never been to arbitration in the first place, and certainly should not of been given to the person who filed the complaint. I can just see it now. This is as silly as the company who tried to steal earth.com because they claimed they owned the trademark to Earth. Whatever.
I personally dont care if he squats domains or not. Personally, I own tons of domains. I dont consider it squatting. I am not going out there and registering domains of other peoples trademarks. Just domains that I one day could use as a legit business. I am not trying to decieve people and redirect them to my website. I think thats the big difference between buying domains and squating domains. Squatting has to do with buying other peoples trademarks to confuse people. There is nothing wrong with buying tons (even thousands of domains) otherwise, that sound cool, and could be used. Regardless, I dont care about the past of this charecter. Mp3.com is one of the best sites on the internet. I whole disagree with anyone that says most of there stuff sucks. I really have never heard a band on mp3.com (in a music category I like, which is primarily everything buy Jazz, Country, World, etc..) that sucks. THe only ones I have heard that sucked was because of audio quality, not the music. Their electronica section just rules. So does alot of there AltRock/Pop area. Granted if you are a teenie bopper who likes to listen to backstreet boys (actually, there is some stuff you would like) and other Top 10 bands you might not find what your looking for.
I am looking forward to it, as long as it brings the cost of cellular service down. If it can bring down the cost of a cellular phone to seriously compete with landlines, and motivate cell phones to be as popular her as in Finland (which 70% of people use cellphones, and an exspecteed 120% (yes thats more then 1 per person) is exspected within a few years). Cell phones are a very valuable resource to me, if everyone had them it would make communication much easier. Anyway, a company called AdBroadcast currently does this, and they pay you money, like 50 cents or something, to send you an ad to your cell phone. Personally, a few of these a day, and my cell phone bill is covered.
BTW. If you are thinking of buying a WAP enabled PCS phone, I suggest the Samsung SCH-3500, I love mine.
It does not boil down to dividends. Thats idiotic. Personally, if they decide to pay me 5 cents a share dividends based on , say, they make 15cents a share, I would have to have millions of shares for it to be worth anything. And then it wouldnt be very much at all, like 50K, thats nothing to someone with that much shares. And yes, you can live on buying low and selling high, thast the only way to make money. I could of sold LNUX at 131 or so a two days ago, and bougt back like 110. Thats is 21 x However many shares I have. Thats where the money is made, certainly not on dividends.
Sorry, I slipped and typed linux instead of windows. Regardless, all my arguements still stand and are true. As you may recall, I said in my original post that it is nothing new, that they already do it, so you dont need to tell me such thing. You are just reiterating what I already said. They are under no obligation to show the source to the linux community, in fact, I wouldnt doubt if they didnt. By only showing the source to other companies to build on, and release there own version (which is still windows), they are helping windows grow, and directly compete with linux. I dont understand why you think they are obligated to show the linux community the source code, especially if like you say, they consider linux a competitor.
Looks like someone didnt read the article. They will not Open Source the linux source code, they will license out the viewing of the source code to other companies. You wont be able to just go download it. In fact, they already do this to embedded companies that need to modify the source code. And the license will be very strict, like an NDA.
For you investors out there, check out the details on there stock, it is just rocking. Projected to be 20 shortly, and around 80-100 end of year. I bought some shares with my LNUX proceeds. Jeff Knox Anyone heard of DTEK?
I just bought a Athlon 700mhz, but the stable series of debian wont install or even boot with an athlon. The unstable series works, but that involves ALOT of work to get shit working. Unless anyone has any resources (how-tos) or information on how they got debian to instlal on there athlons. I would appreciate it. thanks. PS. Sorry for the improper grammer, I cant see what I am typing. I am in windows right now cause I cant get debian installed, and netscape poped up a illegal operation error, but it still allows you to surf the web and write this, it just sorta sticks a error box in your face, s.
I remember visiting another site a year or so ago that also broadcasted tv. ACtually, I dont think it actually producasted tv, but it had links to the actuall websites of the tv companies that were broadcasting the TV. It had a huge huge selection, which stations in tons of countrys, from England to Iraq. I used to watch some german television on it from school. It didnt have its own url, I think it was probably on a free webhost somewhere, like tripod, yes, I am sure it was tripod. I wonder if its still around, I dont suppose anyone knows what I am talking about do they? I have misplaced the url and would like to find it again.
I am posting this 2 days after this thread was on slashdot,so it will probably never get read. The point wasnt that I couldnt see comments or what not, its the principle of the thing. I frankly dont care about the moderation system as an object, but the overall principle of censorship of perfectly good comments.
Exactly my thoughts. This is not meant to really be dis against slashdot, believe me, I have loved slashdot since it was Chips and Dip. There are, however, some serious problems as mentioned by some AC's.
One is the things they are posting on slashdot. There is still alot of good articles, but not nearly as good as it originally was. I used to read every slashdot article and every comment associated with it. Now I find that only a few articles a day are even interesting. And lately Slashdot has been posting stories that were posted a year or so ago, like they forgot they were posted (which is understandable I guess, but if the news link is over a year old, at least search the archives).
Another big problem I see is the moderators. I am all for moderators moderating comments and such, but I disagree with some of the things they moderate. If anyone questions soemthing about slashdot, or the open source movement, it is considered troll bait and marked down to zero or below. I have seen an abundance of good, intellectual post in the past few months that should no have ever been moderated down. If anything, they should of been moderated up. Slashdot is starting to become like , say a government, someone questions it and they are silenced. No matter how intellectual and how good of apoint they have.
And about the issue of open source and slashdot, my sentiments exactly. I have always thought slashdot code should be CVS'ed. Dont get me wrong, I am not open source extremist, but if they are going to open the source, at least give us the most recent versions. Dont open source an initial version, then keep everything private. Thats not open source. I would also like the see the financial records of slashdot open sourced (or content, whatever you feel is appropriate), as in how much Andover paid for Slashdot. Rarely does a company not disclose the takeover/merger price, especially in the internet industry.
Anyway, I cant really say keep up the good work Rob. But you have a good site here, I hope it gets better then where its been going.
Exactly my thoughts. This is not meant to really be dis against slashdot, believe me, I have loved slashdot since it was Chips and Dip. There are, however, some serious problems as mentioned by some AC's. One is the things they are posting on slashdot. There is still alot of good articles, but not nearly as good as it originally was. I used to read every slashdot article and every comment associated with it. Now I find that only a few articles a day are even interesting. And lately Slashdot has been posting stories that were posted a year or so ago, like they forgot they were posted (which is understandable I guess, but if the news link is over a year old, at least search the archives). Another big problem I see is the moderators. I am all for moderators moderating comments and such, but I disagree with some of the things they moderate. If anyone questions soemthing about slashdot, or the open source movement, it is considered troll bait and marked down to zero or below. I have seen an abundance of good, intellectual post in the past few months that should no have ever been moderated down. If anything, they should of been moderated up. Slashdot is starting to become like , say a government, someone questions it and they are silenced. No matter how intellectual and how good of apoint they have. And about the issue of open source and slashdot, my sentiments exactly. I have always thought slashdot code should be CVS'ed. Dont get me wrong, I am not open source extremist, but if they are going to open the source, at least give us the most recent versions. Dont open source an initial version, then keep everything private. Thats not open source. I would also like the see the financial records of slashdot open sourced (or content, whatever you feel is appropriate), as in how much Andover paid for Slashdot. Rarely does a company not disclose the takeover/merger price, especially in the internet industry. Anyway, I cant really say keep up the good work Rob. But you have a good site here, I hope it gets better then where its been going.
Actually, I am suprised. I thought for sure I would be receiving a letter sense I helped Chris DiBona with the book he wrote. In fact, without the initial team, there would be NO book for him to be profiting off of. Lets not even bring up everything I have done to bring Linux into the educational system, and all the other open source projects I am on. Ya ya, I am a whiner, but a whiner that deserves a letter. The funny thing is, I bet the slashdot crew got a letter. Not they would need it. Rob and crew, if you accepted anything less then 10million for your site (which is still nothing in comparison with other website sales, a site like your would go for a few hundred million easily), then you got ripped of by Andover. Ever though of OPENing up the SOURCE of your revenues, like a financial report.
Slashdot Mirror
For one. This is not just Robs site, (infact it isnt his site anymore, its Va Linux's site, but thats beyond the point) its a community site. And as a member of the slashdot community I have a write to express my comments and concerns about the direction or whatever of the website. This website isnt Robs little posting board where he can put whatever he damned well pleases. It is a professional, commericial, new source. We have just as much right to complain as if I had a next door neighbor disturbing our neighbor hood. We can, and do, complain to tv stations etc.. about things we feel is inappropriate, and action does take place. What makes all you guys out there that continously say "its not your website, shuddup" think that we dont have a right to comment. This is not a personal website, and if it was, we still have the write to comment on it, doesnt mean things have to change, but we still have the right.
If anything, this deserved a quickie. Most definently not a full post. It wasnt even remotely funny, if I wanted to see that I would look at pictures of kids playing commando or something, which I wouldnt want to see.
People are blowing this way out of proportion. So they are ping scaning the internet. Who cares. They are not hurting anyone by finding out if a machine is up or not.
The fears of malicious intent are also blown way out of proportion. People have said if they dont have any ill-intent why are they doing it so secretely. Read these post, its fairly obviously, because you get lots of idiots that get all paranoid about people portscanning them. Doing it secretely possibly reduces the amount of people who go crazy because they think they are under attack.
Thier are alot of legitamate uses for this data. For one, internet topology maps. There are multiple internet mapping websites that scan the internet and creat a graphs and maps of the data they find. Statistics are vary valuable, and it helps governments and companies to make descisions based on internet usage in certain areas. Two, like mentioned before, they could possible using the information to find geographic locations with high latency. With this information companies can best locate servers to provide the fastest speed to their customers.
Basically everyone needs to loosen up. IF they were running a vunerability scan on your network, that is one thing to get upset about. That is still perfectly legal, and they could do that if they wish. But they are not, they are traceroute and portscanning.
What would be the interest in a online music store that allows you to immediately download the mp3s of the album, right after you have purchased the album. You would still recieve your cd in the mail, but you would be able to immediately be able to start listening to the music you purchased.
Is it just me, or does Hemos wife look extremely unhappy and horrified in every single picture. I mean, I cannot find one picture where it looks like she is sincerly happy. Alot of them look like she is downright terrified and digusted with being married. I hope it is just bad luck in the picture taking. And Anyrate, Congrats and good luck.
is it just me, or is the release missing the installation instructions. It says to read the INSTALL file, there is none.
I saw this posted on a few dozen search engines around the date the article actually came out. Just thought I would share that. Maybe if you read weblogs, that might be were you guys have seen it before. Interesting how Slashdot not long is very fast at posting up to date news, and when they do alot of boring crap no one cares about. I remember when it first became Slashdot after Chips and Bits that I would actually read every post and every comment throughout a day. Because they were all interesting!! Now I dont even read completely throught the summaries on the main page because alot of the articles are complete crap. Like, "Ask Slashdot: On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment?" What kinda junk is that? That has been discussed on slashdot have a dozen times before. Its generic boring news that belongs on a uninformative incorrect CNN.com article or something. Processor Reviews and Water Cooled Laptops deserve there own post? Granted, thats some cool stuff, but If I wanted to read about power user stuff like overclocking and processor reviews I would head over to Toms Hardware guide. Its generic news that everyone and there grandmas dog is carrying. Bring bang the interesting and unique content.
And all this after they were bought out for a few million, and then Va Linux essential payed another billion for Slashdot. Cause really, sure there is Freshmeat and the other sites on Andover.net, but Slashdot is the bulk of all there visits. Even if they do visit other sites, they also visit slashdot. So Slashdot was basically bought out for a billion dollars. Use that money to make a better site. In fact, I havent seen the money change anything at slashdot. No inprovement, no new features, nothing. Update, or become like Yahoo.
I dont mean to say bad things about slashdot. I general like it, and always have. I just think it has declined quality wise in the last year. Hope it gets better not worse.
Umm, You have any more information, like maps and such. I would like to take a group of friends to explore these reed tunnels. In fact, I am thinking about starting a a sorta quasi secret unofficial infilitrating kinda group :). Any other information for portland area schools, and hell, buildings and city and whatnot would also be cool. Like PSU, PCC, Lewis Clark,etc..
I really wonder how slashdot picks submissions. I posted this well over a week ago, and now it shows up a week later accrediting someone else. Interesting. It amazing me why VA Linux would pay 1Billion for Slashdot (Yes, Slashdot, thats all the Andover.Net holds that is worth something. May Freshmeat.)
Excuse me. You are just as bad as the people at the record labels and RIAA that bash on the format MP3 it self. No one said anything about downloading pirated mp3s. And if you think thats all Napster and Gnutella can be used for, you are simply wrong. Thats like blaming CuteFTP for all the warez downloading going on, because they provide an ftp client. Dont blame the format or the tools.
Ironic that this Ask Slashdot comes up, right after I submit a post in regards to web based office suites, and web oses. MyWebOS.com, Desktop.com have been mentioned. Workspot.com gives you a xwindows window in your browsers. Essentially it creats you an account on there linux box and through there modified VNC java viewer you can use linux from any machine with net access. MyFreeDesktop.com I believe is another one. Halfbrain.com i think is another web based app company that is working on a kick ass spread sheet program. The evhead weblog has some links today in regards to web based applications like that, www.evhead.com. Posted direct from SXSW interactive. My personal favorite is ThinkFree.com's Thinkfree Office. It gives you a remote desktop using java, and it has an excellent Wordpreccesor, Spreadsheet, Presentation program. They rival Microsoft Word and Corel Wordperfect. In fact, they are almost exact clones of the products in the Microsoft Office Suite. They even can deal with the formats of office. Its must excellent, you get 20 free megs of workspace , and you can type and edit your documents anywhere with a java enabled browser. It probably sounds like I work for them, I dont, I only wish I did. :)
.. If this is continued to be allowed, alot of people will be getting there domain names stolen from people with "trademarks". This case appaled me. Look at the domain in question, Musicweb.com. How can you claim that you own the trademark and it should be given to you. Its a music site on the web, thus Music Web. You cant trademark stuff like that. That would be like Ford sueing me because I bought Car.com or CarDealer.com or something of the sort. Or a domain like SoftwareLinks.com. The domain name should of never been to arbitration in the first place, and certainly should not of been given to the person who filed the complaint. I can just see it now. This is as silly as the company who tried to steal earth.com because they claimed they owned the trademark to Earth. Whatever.
I personally dont care if he squats domains or not. Personally, I own tons of domains. I dont consider it squatting. I am not going out there and registering domains of other peoples trademarks. Just domains that I one day could use as a legit business. I am not trying to decieve people and redirect them to my website. I think thats the big difference between buying domains and squating domains. Squatting has to do with buying other peoples trademarks to confuse people. There is nothing wrong with buying tons (even thousands of domains) otherwise, that sound cool, and could be used.
Regardless, I dont care about the past of this charecter. Mp3.com is one of the best sites on the internet. I whole disagree with anyone that says most of there stuff sucks. I really have never heard a band on mp3.com (in a music category I like, which is primarily everything buy Jazz, Country, World, etc..) that sucks. THe only ones I have heard that sucked was because of audio quality, not the music. Their electronica section just rules. So does alot of there AltRock/Pop area. Granted if you are a teenie bopper who likes to listen to backstreet boys (actually, there is some stuff you would like) and other Top 10 bands you might not find what your looking for.
The url is adbroadcast.com/?jknox if you didnt get it.
Jeff
I am looking forward to it, as long as it brings the cost of cellular service down. If it can bring down the cost of a cellular phone to seriously compete with landlines, and motivate cell phones to be as popular her as in Finland (which 70% of people use cellphones, and an exspecteed 120% (yes thats more then 1 per person) is exspected within a few years). Cell phones are a very valuable resource to me, if everyone had them it would make communication much easier. Anyway, a company called AdBroadcast currently does this, and they pay you money, like 50 cents or something, to send you an ad to your cell phone. Personally, a few of these a day, and my cell phone bill is covered.
BTW. If you are thinking of buying a WAP enabled PCS phone, I suggest the Samsung SCH-3500, I love mine.
It does not boil down to dividends. Thats idiotic. Personally, if they decide to pay me 5 cents a share dividends based on , say, they make 15cents a share, I would have to have millions of shares for it to be worth anything. And then it wouldnt be very much at all, like 50K, thats nothing to someone with that much shares. And yes, you can live on buying low and selling high, thast the only way to make money. I could of sold LNUX at 131 or so a two days ago, and bougt back like 110. Thats is 21 x However many shares I have. Thats where the money is made, certainly not on dividends.
Sorry, I slipped and typed linux instead of windows. Regardless, all my arguements still stand and are true. As you may recall, I said in my original post that it is nothing new, that they already do it, so you dont need to tell me such thing. You are just reiterating what I already said. They are under no obligation to show the source to the linux community, in fact, I wouldnt doubt if they didnt. By only showing the source to other companies to build on, and release there own version (which is still windows), they are helping windows grow, and directly compete with linux. I dont understand why you think they are obligated to show the linux community the source code, especially if like you say, they consider linux a competitor.
Looks like someone didnt read the article. They will not Open Source the linux source code, they will license out the viewing of the source code to other companies. You wont be able to just go download it. In fact, they already do this to embedded companies that need to modify the source code. And the license will be very strict, like an NDA.
For you investors out there, check out the details on there stock, it is just rocking. Projected to be 20 shortly, and around 80-100 end of year. I bought some shares with my LNUX proceeds. Jeff Knox Anyone heard of DTEK?
I just bought a Athlon 700mhz, but the stable series of debian wont install or even boot with an athlon. The unstable series works, but that involves ALOT of work to get shit working. Unless anyone has any resources (how-tos) or information on how they got debian to instlal on there athlons. I would appreciate it. thanks. PS. Sorry for the improper grammer, I cant see what I am typing. I am in windows right now cause I cant get debian installed, and netscape poped up a illegal operation error, but it still allows you to surf the web and write this, it just sorta sticks a error box in your face, s.
I remember visiting another site a year or so ago that also broadcasted tv. ACtually, I dont think it actually producasted tv, but it had links to the actuall websites of the tv companies that were broadcasting the TV. It had a huge huge selection, which stations in tons of countrys, from England to Iraq. I used to watch some german television on it from school. It didnt have its own url, I think it was probably on a free webhost somewhere, like tripod, yes, I am sure it was tripod. I wonder if its still around, I dont suppose anyone knows what I am talking about do they? I have misplaced the url and would like to find it again.
I am posting this 2 days after this thread was on slashdot,so it will probably never get read. The point wasnt that I couldnt see comments or what not, its the principle of the thing. I frankly dont care about the moderation system as an object, but the overall principle of censorship of perfectly good comments.
Exactly my thoughts. This is not meant to really be dis against slashdot, believe me, I have loved slashdot since it was Chips and Dip. There are, however, some serious problems as mentioned by some AC's.
One is the things they are posting on slashdot. There is still alot of good articles, but not nearly as good as it originally was. I used to read every slashdot article and every comment associated with it. Now I find that only a few articles a day are even interesting. And lately Slashdot has been posting stories that were posted a year or so ago, like they forgot they were posted (which is understandable I guess, but if the news link is over a year old, at least search the archives).
Another big problem I see is the moderators. I am all for moderators moderating comments and such, but I disagree with some of the things they moderate. If anyone questions soemthing about slashdot, or the open source movement, it is considered troll bait and marked down to zero or below. I have seen an abundance of good, intellectual post in the past few months that should no have ever been moderated down. If anything, they should of been moderated up. Slashdot is starting to become like , say a government, someone questions it and they are silenced. No matter how intellectual and how good of apoint they have.
And about the issue of open source and slashdot, my sentiments exactly. I have always thought slashdot code should be CVS'ed. Dont get me wrong, I am not open source extremist, but if they are going to open the source, at least give us the most recent versions. Dont open source an initial version, then keep everything private. Thats not open source. I would also like the see the financial records of slashdot open sourced (or content, whatever you feel is appropriate), as in how much Andover paid for Slashdot. Rarely does a company not disclose the takeover/merger price, especially in the internet industry.
Anyway, I cant really say keep up the good work Rob. But you have a good site here, I hope it gets better then where its been going.
Exactly my thoughts. This is not meant to really be dis against slashdot, believe me, I have loved slashdot since it was Chips and Dip. There are, however, some serious problems as mentioned by some AC's. One is the things they are posting on slashdot. There is still alot of good articles, but not nearly as good as it originally was. I used to read every slashdot article and every comment associated with it. Now I find that only a few articles a day are even interesting. And lately Slashdot has been posting stories that were posted a year or so ago, like they forgot they were posted (which is understandable I guess, but if the news link is over a year old, at least search the archives). Another big problem I see is the moderators. I am all for moderators moderating comments and such, but I disagree with some of the things they moderate. If anyone questions soemthing about slashdot, or the open source movement, it is considered troll bait and marked down to zero or below. I have seen an abundance of good, intellectual post in the past few months that should no have ever been moderated down. If anything, they should of been moderated up. Slashdot is starting to become like , say a government, someone questions it and they are silenced. No matter how intellectual and how good of apoint they have. And about the issue of open source and slashdot, my sentiments exactly. I have always thought slashdot code should be CVS'ed. Dont get me wrong, I am not open source extremist, but if they are going to open the source, at least give us the most recent versions. Dont open source an initial version, then keep everything private. Thats not open source. I would also like the see the financial records of slashdot open sourced (or content, whatever you feel is appropriate), as in how much Andover paid for Slashdot. Rarely does a company not disclose the takeover/merger price, especially in the internet industry. Anyway, I cant really say keep up the good work Rob. But you have a good site here, I hope it gets better then where its been going.
Actually, I am suprised. I thought for sure I would be receiving a letter sense I helped Chris DiBona with the book he wrote. In fact, without the initial team, there would be NO book for him to be profiting off of. Lets not even bring up everything I have done to bring Linux into the educational system, and all the other open source projects I am on. Ya ya, I am a whiner, but a whiner that deserves a letter. The funny thing is, I bet the slashdot crew got a letter. Not they would need it. Rob and crew, if you accepted anything less then 10million for your site (which is still nothing in comparison with other website sales, a site like your would go for a few hundred million easily), then you got ripped of by Andover. Ever though of OPENing up the SOURCE of your revenues, like a financial report.