AC or not AC -- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The rules and exceptions of outrageous moderation
Or to take arms against a sea of flames
And by structuring end them. To troll -- to whore
No more; and by a test to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural mistakes
That Slashdot is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To troll -- to whore.
To flame -- perchance to bomb: aye, there's the rub!
For in that post of flame what flames may come
When we have shuffled of this moderation scheme,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
that makes calamity of so long lists.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of karma whoring
Th' console operators wrong, the linked sites crash,
The pangs of despis'd/. effect, the turnaround's delay,
The insolence of cowards, and the spurns
That patient posting of crafted flamebait takes
When he himself might his quietus make
Who would this zealot site bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary language,
But that the dread of something different
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
No negative karma returns -- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make anonymous cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn away
And lose the name of AC.
To AC or not to AC ??
on
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
AC or not AC -- that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The rules and exceptions of outrageous moderation
Or to take arms against a sea of flames
And by structuring end them. To troll -- to whore
No more; and by a test to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural mistakes
That Slashdot is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To troll -- to whore.
To flame -- perchance to bomb: aye, there's the rub!
For in that post of flame what flames may come
When we have shuffled of this moderation scheme,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
that makes calamity of so long lists.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of karma whoring
Th' console operators wrong, the linked sites crash,
The pangs of despis'd/. effect, the turnaround's delay,
The insolence of cowards, and the spurns
That patient posting of crafted flamebait takes
When he himself might his quietus make
Who would this zealot site bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary language,
But that the dread of something different
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
No negative karma returns -- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make anonymous cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn away
And lose the name of AC.
I think 1 in 10 is a gross understatement. Not just for the IT environment but for the dilbert zone overall. It's a shame to see the drone-like atmospheres that new erganomic environments have created. And with the high costs of everything most average cube workers are spending way more time in these shitty environments instead of being out enjoying life. Scary to think what the attituded and culture will be like in 20 more years.
ANY electronic communication coming of going through corporate firewalls (including voice) is fair game. Bottom line is dont ever send anything from work that you don't want big brother to see.
They get away with it because they "own" the environment you are using to communicate and somewhere in the employee manuals it states something like "Company resources are for company use only and can be monitored or restricted without notice. balh blah blah.
Don't be dumb, save the communications you could be fired if caught doing for home. Use the corporate networks for corporate stuff.
So long Slashdot my old friend. I won't come to troll you again. because the console softly creeping, killed my karma while I was sleeping. And the flames with just remnants in my brain, don't remain, upon the threads... of Slashdot.
In flick'ring lights I type along. Submit my troll, before to long, Letters haloed by my squinting, at the rant that I was typing. For my eyes were blurred by the flash of the cathode beam, term'nal screen, and all the trolls... on Slashdot.
And in the fuzzy light I saw 10,000 zealots, maybe more: Zealots karma farming, Zealots flaming without thinking. Zealots modding posts that karma never shared. (No one dared, disturb the balance... of Slashdot)
"Fools," said I, "you do not know. Honest opinion makes the karma grow. They post the rules so that we might read them. Meta mod 'cause we don't heed them." But my posts like trolling karma fell, (Oh well...) An echo, On the threads... of Slashdot.
Thanks folks, it's been a blast. After a long time under the TM account, I feel it's time I call it quits. The TM account was created and used on a bet that a spamming troll could not survive moderation and last more that a few week, made even harder by having to do it with an account name as silly as Trollmastah.
I'm ending my trollish run with:
* +33 Karma (lowest level I hit was around -20) * Due to being over +25, I receive the +1 bonus (kind of ironic) * A long run at -2 default.(Well deserved) * A console initiated permenant tag which keeps default post at -1 regardless of karma. (sort of a select club) * About 50/50 percent positive/negative e-mail(Thank you all) * Easily over 100 "First Posts!"(Woo Hoo!)
Even though trolls are generally discouraged, I did find that trolling is a valuable addition to the/. culture and when done without being offensive, vulgar or mean, even trolls can keep positive karma and add not only to the culture of Slashdot, but also to the content.
I'd like to thank Rob, Jeff and the gang at Andover for providing such a cool forum and for putting up with so much noise, the daily moderators for participating, and also to the trolls, you add the character which makes Slashdot a community.
Ever since I heard of Unix
I've always had a ball,
From SunOS to Minix
I must have run 'em all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
On systems large or small
That tired, squinting, blind kid
Sure makes a mean sys call!
He sits like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine,
Feeling all the limits,
Knows what the signals mean
Hacks by intuition
His process never stalls,
That tired, squinting blind kid
Sure makes a mean sys call!
He a Unix Wizard,
I just can't get the gist
A Unix wizard's
Got such a mental twist
How do you think he does it?
I don't know!
What makes him so good?
Ain't got no distractions
Don't hear no beeps or bells
Don't see no lights a flashin'
Ignores his sense of smell
Patches running kernels
Dumps no core at all,
That tired, squinting and blind kid
Sure makes a mean sys call!
I thought I was
The process table king,
But I just handed
My root password to him.
Even on my favorite boxen,
His hacks can beat my best.
The network leads him in,
And he just does the rest.
He's got crazy Finger servers
Never will seg-fault...
That tired, squinting karma whore
Sure makes a mean sys call!
The real emphasis comes down to the almighty dollar. The social impacts are always secondary. Using your electricity example, the electricity phenomenon was a base in which people looked for ways to exploit it for money, ie: lights, motors etc. The folks leveraging electricity (technology) for the most part were not out for the good of the people or to proactively phase in (no pun intended) any ned social impact. They did it to power the factories and to make products that used the base, so that they would benefit monetarily.
Technology has always affected social behaviors, look at the airplane. It was invented and perfected as a novelty, wasn't really accepted for warfare use until late in WW1 and commercial traffic was not a large profit center because it was simply to expensive to make them safe. However, once they did, it shrunk the world, expanding cultures and races and most importantly to the folks who paid to make air travel safe, it made them buckets of money.
Being on the edge of this latest phenomenon is no different. Why is this technological advance so important in relation to the others? It's not if we just look back and learn from our past, both good and bad. So what if this particular advance spawns geeks instead of pilots, if it advances technical cultures rather than third worlds, the mechanics are the same. The folks who preach that this its the big one" for any technological advance are IMO just short sighted and are doomed to make the same mistakes that we've made throughout history. Midville school for the gifted. We have as a species the ability to learn from our past and unfortunately as a species do that all to infrequently.
Je suis juste un geek moyen Avec une vie moyenne Je signale de neuf à neuf Hé, hé, mon karma paye le prix
Tout que je veux doit être laissé seul Dans mon à la maison moyen; Mais pourquoi je sentez toujours comme Je suis dans la zone des réseaux français de gouvernement; Et
Je me sens toujours comme Le gouvernement français m'observant Et je n'ai aucune intimité Je me sens toujours comme Le gouvernement français m'observant Dites-moi est il juste un rêve
Quand je viens à la maison la nuit I gras la porte vrai serré; Trolls m'appellent au téléphone J'essaye d'éviter Mais peut peuple sur Slashdot me voit Ou suis je juste paranoïde; Quand je suis dans le thread J'ai peur pour parler du warez ' cause je pourrais ouvrir mes yeux Et trouvez le gouvernement français tenir là
Les gens disent que je suis fou; Juste un touché peu; Mais peut-être ISP's me rappellent Du frère trop de C'est pourquoi
Slashdot Mirror
seek topost (thatflamebait);
Firstpost (the thread, fast);
while ($natalie) {
petrifies $to($stone);
not grits;
}
accept the, moderation;
seek the, $-1Troll, $-1offtopic'
and wait;
stat thekarma;
unlink and listen (for, $theflames);
for (a, karmawhore our /.) {
system ("is trollheaven");
--
chicken.
Air and Space in Wash DC
okay. thanks their cheify.
Lame. at least you could have copy/pasted the original.
Sheesh.
Heh, that's funny!
AC or not AC -- that is the question: /. effect, the turnaround's delay,
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The rules and exceptions of outrageous moderation
Or to take arms against a sea of flames
And by structuring end them. To troll -- to whore
No more; and by a test to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural mistakes
That Slashdot is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To troll -- to whore.
To flame -- perchance to bomb: aye, there's the rub!
For in that post of flame what flames may come
When we have shuffled of this moderation scheme,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
that makes calamity of so long lists.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of karma whoring
Th' console operators wrong, the linked sites crash,
The pangs of despis'd
The insolence of cowards, and the spurns
That patient posting of crafted flamebait takes
When he himself might his quietus make
Who would this zealot site bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary language,
But that the dread of something different
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
No negative karma returns -- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make anonymous cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn away
And lose the name of AC.
seek topost (thatflamebait);
Firstpost (the thread, fast);
while ($natalie) {
petrifies $to($stone);
not grits;
}
accept the, moderation;
seek the, $-1Troll, $-1offtopic'
and wait;
stat thekarma;
unlink and listen (for, $theflames);
for (a, karmawhore our /.) {
system ("is trollheaven");
Oh, in that case, HAVE FUN!!
Heh,
-ttm
I would rate this as +5 Accurate.
Flamebait my ass, truth hurts 'eh?
Now all we need is really long cables to play head to head on the interstate.
Dude,
Get you own Schtick. You're 409350 user Id's too late. Good try though.
-ttm
And we though they had trouble with simple imperial calculations.
Heh, what a cool idea. All the comforts of home.
AC or not AC -- that is the question: /. effect, the turnaround's delay,
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The rules and exceptions of outrageous moderation
Or to take arms against a sea of flames
And by structuring end them. To troll -- to whore
No more; and by a test to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural mistakes
That Slashdot is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To troll -- to whore.
To flame -- perchance to bomb: aye, there's the rub!
For in that post of flame what flames may come
When we have shuffled of this moderation scheme,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
that makes calamity of so long lists.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of karma whoring
Th' console operators wrong, the linked sites crash,
The pangs of despis'd
The insolence of cowards, and the spurns
That patient posting of crafted flamebait takes
When he himself might his quietus make
Who would this zealot site bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary language,
But that the dread of something different
The undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
No negative karma returns -- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make anonymous cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn away
And lose the name of AC.
Europe in trademark the own actually we and, "GmBh media integrated convergance" is name company's the.
. . . Us sue they that risk no there's so.
A new standard? No, that's a stretch. It will allow for a wider footprint because it could play to a wider audience, but X will not be replaced IMO.
I think 1 in 10 is a gross understatement. Not just for the IT environment but for the dilbert zone overall. It's a shame to see the drone-like atmospheres that new erganomic environments have created. And with the high costs of everything most average cube workers are spending way more time in these shitty environments instead of being out enjoying life. Scary to think what the attituded and culture will be like in 20 more years.
ANY electronic communication coming of going through corporate firewalls (including voice) is fair game. Bottom line is dont ever send anything from work that you don't want big brother to see.
They get away with it because they "own" the environment you are using to communicate and somewhere in the employee manuals it states something like "Company resources are for company use only and can be monitored or restricted without notice. balh blah blah.
Don't be dumb, save the communications you could be fired if caught doing for home. Use the corporate networks for corporate stuff.
So long Slashdot my old friend.
I won't come to troll you again.
because the console softly creeping,
killed my karma while I was sleeping.
And the flames
with just remnants in my brain,
don't remain,
upon the threads... of Slashdot.
In flick'ring lights I type along.
Submit my troll, before to long,
Letters haloed by my squinting,
at the rant that I was typing.
For my eyes were blurred
by the flash of the cathode beam,
term'nal screen,
and all the trolls... on Slashdot.
And in the fuzzy light I saw
10,000 zealots, maybe more:
Zealots karma farming,
Zealots flaming without thinking.
Zealots modding posts
that karma never shared.
(No one dared,
disturb the balance... of Slashdot)
"Fools," said I, "you do not know.
Honest opinion makes the karma grow.
They post the rules so that we might read them.
Meta mod 'cause we don't heed them."
But my posts
like trolling karma fell,
(Oh well...)
An echo,
On the threads... of Slashdot.
Thanks folks, it's been a blast. After a long time under the TM account, I feel it's time I call it quits. The TM account was created and used on a bet that a spamming troll could not survive moderation and last more that a few week, made even harder by having to do it with an account name as silly as Trollmastah.
I'm ending my trollish run with:
* +33 Karma (lowest level I hit was around -20)
* Due to being over +25, I receive the +1 bonus (kind of ironic)
* A long run at -2 default.(Well deserved)
* A console initiated permenant tag which keeps default post at -1 regardless of karma. (sort of a select club)
* About 50/50 percent positive/negative e-mail(Thank you all)
* Easily over 100 "First Posts!"(Woo Hoo!)
Even though trolls are generally discouraged, I did find that trolling is a valuable addition to the /. culture and when done without being offensive, vulgar or mean, even trolls can keep positive karma and add not only to the culture of Slashdot, but also to the content.
I'd like to thank Rob, Jeff and the gang at Andover for providing such a cool forum and for putting up with so much noise, the daily moderators for participating, and also to the trolls, you add the character which makes Slashdot a community.
Hope you enjoyed the posts,
Regards,
TM
Ever since I heard of Unix
I've always had a ball,
From SunOS to Minix
I must have run 'em all
But I ain't seen nothing like him
On systems large or small
That tired, squinting, blind kid
Sure makes a mean sys call!
He sits like a statue,
Becomes part of the machine,
Feeling all the limits,
Knows what the signals mean
Hacks by intuition
His process never stalls,
That tired, squinting blind kid
Sure makes a mean sys call!
He a Unix Wizard,
I just can't get the gist
A Unix wizard's
Got such a mental twist
How do you think he does it?
I don't know!
What makes him so good?
Ain't got no distractions
Don't hear no beeps or bells
Don't see no lights a flashin'
Ignores his sense of smell
Patches running kernels
Dumps no core at all,
That tired, squinting and blind kid
Sure makes a mean sys call!
I thought I was
The process table king,
But I just handed
My root password to him.
Even on my favorite boxen,
His hacks can beat my best.
The network leads him in,
And he just does the rest.
He's got crazy Finger servers
Never will seg-fault...
That tired, squinting karma whore
Sure makes a mean sys call!
The real emphasis comes down to the almighty dollar. The social impacts are always secondary. Using your electricity example, the electricity phenomenon was a base in which people looked for ways to exploit it for money, ie: lights, motors etc. The folks leveraging electricity (technology) for the most part were not out for the good of the people or to proactively phase in (no pun intended) any ned social impact. They did it to power the factories and to make products that used the base, so that they would benefit monetarily.
Technology has always affected social behaviors, look at the airplane. It was invented and perfected as a novelty, wasn't really accepted for warfare use until late in WW1 and commercial traffic was not a large profit center because it was simply to expensive to make them safe. However, once they did, it shrunk the world, expanding cultures and races and most importantly to the folks who paid to make air travel safe, it made them buckets of money.
Being on the edge of this latest phenomenon is no different. Why is this technological advance so important in relation to the others? It's not if we just look back and learn from our past, both good and bad. So what if this particular advance spawns geeks instead of pilots, if it advances technical cultures rather than third worlds, the mechanics are the same. The folks who preach that this its the big one" for any technological advance are IMO just short sighted and are doomed to make the same mistakes that we've made throughout history. Midville school for the gifted. We have as a species the ability to learn from our past and unfortunately as a species do that all to infrequently.
When I find Slashdot in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Posting words of wisdom:
"Let trolls be."
As the moderating fast approaches,
And grits are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
" Let trolls be."
Let trolls be, Let trolls be,
Let trolls be, oh, Let trolls be.
Karma's dead and buried,
Let trolls be .
I used to post a lot to USENET,
For gradeschool it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for insight!
Let trolls be.
If you've just spent nearly 30 hours,
Reaching for that +1 bump,
Remember we moderate aslo
Let trolls be.
Let trolls be, Let trolls be,
Let trolls be, yeah, Let trolls be.
Flaming's not the answer.
Let trolls be.
Let trolls be, Let trolls be
Let trolls be, oh, Let trolls be.
Troll's, we keep the balance.
Let trolls be.
Je suis juste un geek moyen
Avec une vie moyenne
Je signale de neuf à neuf
Hé, hé, mon karma paye le prix
Tout que je veux doit être laissé seul
Dans mon
à la maison moyen; Mais pourquoi je sentez toujours comme
Je suis dans la zone
des réseaux français de gouvernement; Et
Je me sens toujours comme
Le gouvernement français m'observant
Et je n'ai aucune intimité
Je me sens toujours comme
Le gouvernement français m'observant
Dites-moi est il juste un rêve
Quand je viens à la maison la nuit
I gras la porte vrai
serré; Trolls m'appellent au téléphone
J'essaye d'éviter
Mais peut peuple sur Slashdot me voit
Ou suis je juste
paranoïde;
Quand je suis dans le thread
J'ai peur pour parler du warez
' cause je pourrais ouvrir mes yeux
Et trouvez le gouvernement français tenir là
Les gens disent que je suis
fou; Juste un
touché peu; Mais peut-être ISP's me rappellent
Du frère trop de
C'est pourquoi
Je me sens toujours comme
He's a real Slashdot Fan .plans
/dev/null goes to
.plans ... .plans
Sitting in his LINUX LAN
Making all his LINUX
For nobody.
Knows the blocksize from du
Cares not where
Isn't he a bit like you
And me?
Slashdot Fan, please listen
My lpd(8) is missin'
Slashdot Fan
The wo-o-o-orld is at your command.
He's as wise as he can be
Uses lex and yacc and C
LINUX Man, can you help me
At all?
Slashdot Fan, don't worry
Test with time, don't hurry
Slashdot Fan
The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.
He's a real Slashdot Fan
Sitting in his LINUX LAN
Making all his LINUX
For nobody
Making all his LINUX
For nobody.