We should attach electrodes to the genitals of all slashdot editors. And they are all automically shocked when one of them posts a dupe. Also they will then receive an email saying which one of them did it. The offender gets twice the voltage and twice the duration.
They will finally show the extended version of the final fight scene between Anakin and Obi Wan. This slashdot poster got a transcript of the dialogue which starts of with Anakin saying "None shall pass."
Don't forget about Palm's shortlived Rosy model, it's revolutionary 'Bator stylus, and the new eJac charging system. Thought the stylus was designed for a better grip, it caused carpal tunnel in its heaviest users. It's ironic that amongst chronic 'bators the carpal tunnel was so severe that it prevented blindness from occuring. They got away with only having to wear glasses. A few users complained the eJac would suddenly discharge the Palm and they'd lose loads of data when they lost power.
NASA used to be the shining example of a good Federal agency. They lost that status after Challenger and instead of regaining it they sank even further with Columbia. The unmanned programs are still doing well. The unmanned propopents say we get a better return on our investment with robots. From a scientific point of view, the answer is yes, but from a public perspective, the answer is no. Without manned space travel we have no visions of space as a frontier. The lure of the frontier is deeply embedded in the American psyche. We look to the people, the astronauts, who enter it. NASA needs to do a better job with it's manned program. The return on investment with a manned space program isn't the same as those of an unmanned one. We need both.
From reading the other comments sounds like this guy is a whiner, a sour grapes kinda guy. I knew I was too lazy to become an engineer so I stuck with computer science. I think the problem these days with any high-tech field is that you spend a lot of money on an education for an uncertain personal future. Though the future is bright the reality of it for most techies is pretty dim. If you don't believe me, take a look at Philip Greenspun's Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientist. And he wrote this before the tech bubble burst.
Isn't it one of the signs of the coming Apocolypse that not one Overlords joke has been modded up in this story yet?
It's worse than that. I was just complaining about having to welcome yet another overlord when they announced
acetylene based life on Titan. Now we add the Giant Squid Overlords and the
Poison Dart Dolphin Overlords into the mix. The field is just getting too crowded. Maybe the guy who replied to my comment is
right. It's about having the Overlord Championships and the toy tie ins. He was right. It's all about the children.
Get ready to RUMM-BOLLL!!!! I for one welcome the Overlord Championships. It is the only civilized way to find out who to be subservient and obsequious to.
I have a password that will be easy for everyone to remember, foo.bar. Change it to that and everyone send me your id's and I'll make sure it's secure. That way everyone only ever has to have one password.
I worked for a company that had the most retarded rules for passwords. It had to have a number and a capital letter in it. The number had to between the first and last letters. We had multiple logins for various systems. We had a separate login for our computer, then a login to access our application suite, then a password for each application. And we had 7 or 8 of them. Needless to say, I kept the same password for as many of them as I could. My password was ih8Sprint. And then they made us change them every 60 days, so it became Ih8sprint, then iH8sprint, then Ih85print. You'd never guess who I worked for.
Leave the old continent in charge of these matters; after all France invented the universal declaration of human rights didn't they?
Sure. They did such a good job with the Barbary pirates. The French also invented the guillotine. Of course, we Americans invented the atomic bomb.
Interesting to watch my comment get modded up to a 5 insightful then modded down to a 2 with troll and overrated. I might agree with the latter. It's easy to point fingers at repressive countries. It's not so easy when your own country starts behaving like them. I must have pushed someone's button to be rated troll. I feel honored.
Don't forget the Neocons in charge require communication restriction. No pictures of dead bodies floating in the water of New Orleans, no pictures of the coffins of our servicemen who paid the ultimate price in Iraq and Afghanistan. They put people in jail without communication, without access to lawyers, strip them of their citizenship. They treat prisoners of war in defiance of the principles of the Geneva convention. This is America. How did we become like the Chinese communists? How long has the hunger strike in Guantanamo been going on now? It's easy to be an armchair supporter of freedom of speech. It's very frightening when you exercise it in a country that is heading down a dark path.
At least being stoned all the time makes dupes more tolerable
Hmmm... maybe I should try that instead of bitching about the dupes. What do you expect from a bunch of ninth grade mentalities who seem incapable of using a simple search function on slashdot or google? Maybe the posters are stoned too. It would explain why they don't remember the dupes. And if they type anything in the search fields stoned they'll laugh their asses off when they type in the search term "don't make me get my flying monkey."
I'd still prefer to work in a call center rather than say eking out a miserable existence in say East Africa. So I know there are worse places to be. Thankfully for me the nightmare is over. I no longer work in a call center. Though it was the worst job I ever had I will say it was the 4th highest paying job I've held. The most frustrating part of it was not having any ability to fix a customer's problem but required to tell them it was going to get fixed when in all likelihood it wasn't going to. And if it did, it would take a long time. Telling the truth wasn't an option because it would escalate to a supervisor call or they'd get even angrier than the already were. A co-worker of mine commented there was no bottom to this place. And like the character Peter Gibbons in the movie Office Space it was true. Every day there was the worst day of my life. At least when I was in basic training there was a reason for the headgames.
But what a relief to have a real job again and in my career field. I work for a small university so the pay isn't the same as the industry standard, but when industry jobs are scarce there's not much room to complain. I'm pretty happy to do the work I went to school for, sort of. Besides I could be back in that hell hole of a call center. I knew it was a temp job. I'd estimated it would take me 6 months to find a real job. I felt I could cope with the call center crap. It took me 3 fucking years! I just had to remind myself that other people were far worse off.
How could this possibly be flamebait? Did the person who mod this down actually read the Guardian article? Or are they modding it flamebait because I think the slashdot story moderators are acting like a bunch of 9th graders? How hard is it to do a Google search for the people mentioned in the article? Is Leo Sheridan, a respected dolphin researcher and accident investigator, a real person?
Who the hell is this highly respected dolphin expert, Leo Sheridan? Google only turns up 19 hits with his name and the word dolphins. Never let facts get in the way of a whacky story. I wonder if the Guardian did it as a plant to see if gets picked up by slashdot. Way to go Slashdot. When did they put 9th graders in charge? First they keep posting dupes about space elevators, monorails, and zeppelins. How many times will this one get duped. I think the only thing duped here is the person who posted it to slashdot.
Is Slashdot stuck in some kind of timewarp? They keep posting stories about space elevators, monorails, and zeppelins. Don't they have a dupechecker? At least none of them are old enough to remember the L5 Society. Their bumper sticker mantra was "L5 in 95" (1995 that is). They were a bunch of Libertarians who believed in minimal government but they wanted a huge government project so they could all go live in space. Do they approve stories on a quota basis? The post the first ten stories regardless of it's substance.
When gasoline reaches $5 per gallon in the US then their will be some serious discussion about alternative forms of transport. Buy a good pair of walking shoes and wear sunscreen.
Enough with the dupes about the retarded space elevator. We get it and we don't care. Whoever keeps posting these stories must from Attention Deficit Dis... Ooh shiny penny!
I bet someone sent Ashcroft an email with Goatse hidden in it. And they sent it to him because he covered all those deviant porno statues. Especially that one that was behind him for every press conference. He was so traumatized he had to step down, but he had to let the incoming AG know about it so the FBI could go after all that Goatse porn.
Tivo does indeed change the way you watch televsion. I stayed with a friend for a while who had one. And it is an awesome device, but every time I turn around there's another negative story on Slashdot that makes me want to get one less and less. More and more stuff about DRM flags and now these service contracts.
How many overlords does this make? Doesn't it get a bit tiring every time you turn around we have welcome new overlords like those giant ants, black monoliths, 900 foot Jesus, giant squid, or even intelligent doormats. C'mon slashdot. Just stick with one overlord and we'll all be happy toiling away in the gallium arsnide mines, the selenium tarpits, and Wal-Marts. Hold on there's a knock at the door.
I'm back. The delivery man gave me this package. It had this cool hat in it. It's a gelatinous blue with tentacles. It looked just like the one he was wearing. Except his was pulsating. I'm going to try it on.
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ACETYLENE BASED LIFEFORM TITAN OVERLORDS. TIME TO DELIVER MORE HATS.
I was trying to post a message on topic. So I think the off-topic rating is unfair because I was wondering if it was the story. I'm seeing a lot of changes to the site besides the CSS changes that bother me. Oh, well I guess it's better than being modded troll.
I read the article and they really fucked this guy over. He will be stigmatized for the rest of his life, no matter what he looked like. How many others have they done this too?
What the fuck? I've never seen this before. It's been a while since I did an anonymous post. Is it this story?
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What about alcohol induced blogging as a form of therapy? I call it blearging. Before writing you drink an entire bottle of Jack Daniels. Then practice the following in that I'm-throwing-up-kinda-voice "Ralph, Earl, bring out the Buick." or "Ralph, Earl, bring out the gorilla." Next sit down at the keyboard and begin blearging. Oh, and try not to piss yourself.
Enough with the space elevator already. How many dupes does this make? There was one just last week. Can they go a month without posting a stupid space elevator story. Anyway, it's not going to happen. We are more likely to see a resurgence in Zeppelin travel before we get a fucking space elevator.
Why not build a space escalator instead? With a sign that says "This way for all true believers and chosen ones!" Except when they get to the top they'll have suffocated because there is no fucking air. The bodies will be easy to dispose of because they'll burn up when they fall off. And a little sensor will trigger a small bell at the base with a sign below it that says: "Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings!"
Slashdot Mirror
We should attach electrodes to the genitals of all slashdot editors. And they are all automically shocked when one of them posts a dupe. Also they will then receive an email saying which one of them did it. The offender gets twice the voltage and twice the duration.
Geezer Tech: They can have my sliderule when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Young Blood Tech: --Looks at watch-- That shouldn't be too long from now.
Geezer Tech: Did I tell you we use to use punch cards and magnetic tape? Boy, those were the days.
Young Blood Tech: About a thousand times. Careful, you're getting drool in your pocket protector.
Geezer Tech: You want to see my floppy disk?
Young Blood Tech: --looks alarmed-- That's Okaaay! While I may be curious, I'm not into that kind of tech.
Geezer Tech: I've got this really keen FORTRAN program that can calculate the drag coefficient on a brassiere.
Young Blood Tech: Yes, I'm sure you do.
Geezer Tech: Some of the guys at the company I worked for was really dissappointed when they no longer needed live models for the wind tunnel.
Young Blood Tech: I would be too. --looks at watch-- Well, time flies when you are having fun. And it's time for me to do a Starbucks run.
They will finally show the extended version of the final fight scene between Anakin and Obi Wan. This slashdot poster got a transcript of the dialogue which starts of with Anakin saying "None shall pass."
But thankfully the dupes show no abatement in their momentum. Here, here, here, and here.
With NASA's satellite mapping capability and Googles search engine. They can help Jimmy Buffet find that lost shaker of salt.
Don't forget about Palm's shortlived Rosy model, it's revolutionary 'Bator stylus, and the new eJac charging system. Thought the stylus was designed for a better grip, it caused carpal tunnel in its heaviest users. It's ironic that amongst chronic 'bators the carpal tunnel was so severe that it prevented blindness from occuring. They got away with only having to wear glasses. A few users complained the eJac would suddenly discharge the Palm and they'd lose loads of data when they lost power.
I know it's bad, but I don't care.
NASA used to be the shining example of a good Federal agency. They lost that status after Challenger and instead of regaining it they sank even further with Columbia. The unmanned programs are still doing well. The unmanned propopents say we get a better return on our investment with robots. From a scientific point of view, the answer is yes, but from a public perspective, the answer is no. Without manned space travel we have no visions of space as a frontier. The lure of the frontier is deeply embedded in the American psyche. We look to the people, the astronauts, who enter it. NASA needs to do a better job with it's manned program. The return on investment with a manned space program isn't the same as those of an unmanned one. We need both.
From reading the other comments sounds like this guy is a whiner, a sour grapes kinda guy. I knew I was too lazy to become an engineer so I stuck with computer science. I think the problem these days with any high-tech field is that you spend a lot of money on an education for an uncertain personal future. Though the future is bright the reality of it for most techies is pretty dim. If you don't believe me, take a look at Philip Greenspun's Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientist. And he wrote this before the tech bubble burst.
Isn't it one of the signs of the coming Apocolypse that not one Overlords joke has been modded up in this story yet?
It's worse than that. I was just complaining about having to welcome yet another overlord when they announced acetylene based life on Titan. Now we add the Giant Squid Overlords and the Poison Dart Dolphin Overlords into the mix. The field is just getting too crowded. Maybe the guy who replied to my comment is right. It's about having the Overlord Championships and the toy tie ins. He was right. It's all about the children.
Get ready to RUMM-BOLLL!!!! I for one welcome the Overlord Championships. It is the only civilized way to find out who to be subservient and obsequious to.
I have a password that will be easy for everyone to remember, foo.bar. Change it to that and everyone send me your id's and I'll make sure it's secure. That way everyone only ever has to have one password.
I worked for a company that had the most retarded rules for passwords. It had to have a number and a capital letter in it. The number had to between the first and last letters. We had multiple logins for various systems. We had a separate login for our computer, then a login to access our application suite, then a password for each application. And we had 7 or 8 of them. Needless to say, I kept the same password for as many of them as I could. My password was ih8Sprint. And then they made us change them every 60 days, so it became Ih8sprint, then iH8sprint, then Ih85print. You'd never guess who I worked for.
Leave the old continent in charge of these matters; after all France invented the universal declaration of human rights didn't they?
Sure. They did such a good job with the Barbary pirates. The French also invented the guillotine. Of course, we Americans invented the atomic bomb.
Interesting to watch my comment get modded up to a 5 insightful then modded down to a 2 with troll and overrated. I might agree with the latter. It's easy to point fingers at repressive countries. It's not so easy when your own country starts behaving like them. I must have pushed someone's button to be rated troll. I feel honored.
Don't forget the Neocons in charge require communication restriction. No pictures of dead bodies floating in the water of New Orleans, no pictures of the coffins of our servicemen who paid the ultimate price in Iraq and Afghanistan. They put people in jail without communication, without access to lawyers, strip them of their citizenship. They treat prisoners of war in defiance of the principles of the Geneva convention. This is America. How did we become like the Chinese communists? How long has the hunger strike in Guantanamo been going on now? It's easy to be an armchair supporter of freedom of speech. It's very frightening when you exercise it in a country that is heading down a dark path.
"Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job."
At least being stoned all the time makes dupes more tolerable
Hmmm... maybe I should try that instead of bitching about the dupes. What do you expect from a bunch of ninth grade mentalities who seem incapable of using a simple search function on slashdot or google? Maybe the posters are stoned too. It would explain why they don't remember the dupes. And if they type anything in the search fields stoned they'll laugh their asses off when they type in the search term "don't make me get my flying monkey."
I'd still prefer to work in a call center rather than say eking out a miserable existence in say East Africa. So I know there are worse places to be. Thankfully for me the nightmare is over. I no longer work in a call center. Though it was the worst job I ever had I will say it was the 4th highest paying job I've held. The most frustrating part of it was not having any ability to fix a customer's problem but required to tell them it was going to get fixed when in all likelihood it wasn't going to. And if it did, it would take a long time. Telling the truth wasn't an option because it would escalate to a supervisor call or they'd get even angrier than the already were. A co-worker of mine commented there was no bottom to this place. And like the character Peter Gibbons in the movie Office Space it was true. Every day there was the worst day of my life. At least when I was in basic training there was a reason for the headgames.
But what a relief to have a real job again and in my career field. I work for a small university so the pay isn't the same as the industry standard, but when industry jobs are scarce there's not much room to complain. I'm pretty happy to do the work I went to school for, sort of. Besides I could be back in that hell hole of a call center. I knew it was a temp job. I'd estimated it would take me 6 months to find a real job. I felt I could cope with the call center crap. It took me 3 fucking years! I just had to remind myself that other people were far worse off.
How could this possibly be flamebait? Did the person who mod this down actually read the Guardian article? Or are they modding it flamebait because I think the slashdot story moderators are acting like a bunch of 9th graders? How hard is it to do a Google search for the people mentioned in the article? Is Leo Sheridan, a respected dolphin researcher and accident investigator, a real person?
Who the hell is this highly respected dolphin expert, Leo Sheridan? Google only turns up 19 hits with his name and the word dolphins. Never let facts get in the way of a whacky story. I wonder if the Guardian did it as a plant to see if gets picked up by slashdot. Way to go Slashdot. When did they put 9th graders in charge? First they keep posting dupes about space elevators, monorails, and zeppelins. How many times will this one get duped. I think the only thing duped here is the person who posted it to slashdot.
Is Slashdot stuck in some kind of timewarp? They keep posting stories about space elevators, monorails, and zeppelins. Don't they have a dupechecker? At least none of them are old enough to remember the L5 Society. Their bumper sticker mantra was "L5 in 95" (1995 that is). They were a bunch of Libertarians who believed in minimal government but they wanted a huge government project so they could all go live in space. Do they approve stories on a quota basis? The post the first ten stories regardless of it's substance.
When gasoline reaches $5 per gallon in the US then their will be some serious discussion about alternative forms of transport. Buy a good pair of walking shoes and wear sunscreen.
Enough with the dupes about the retarded space elevator. We get it and we don't care. Whoever keeps posting these stories must from Attention Deficit Dis... Ooh shiny penny!
I bet someone sent Ashcroft an email with Goatse hidden in it. And they sent it to him because he covered all those deviant porno statues. Especially that one that was behind him for every press conference. He was so traumatized he had to step down, but he had to let the incoming AG know about it so the FBI could go after all that Goatse porn.
Tivo does indeed change the way you watch televsion. I stayed with a friend for a while who had one. And it is an awesome device, but every time I turn around there's another negative story on Slashdot that makes me want to get one less and less. More and more stuff about DRM flags and now these service contracts.
How many overlords does this make? Doesn't it get a bit tiring every time you turn around we have welcome new overlords like those giant ants, black monoliths, 900 foot Jesus, giant squid, or even intelligent doormats. C'mon slashdot. Just stick with one overlord and we'll all be happy toiling away in the gallium arsnide mines, the selenium tarpits, and Wal-Marts. Hold on there's a knock at the door.
I'm back. The delivery man gave me this package. It had this cool hat in it. It's a gelatinous blue with tentacles. It looked just like the one he was wearing. Except his was pulsating. I'm going to try it on.
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ACETYLENE BASED LIFEFORM TITAN OVERLORDS. TIME TO DELIVER MORE HATS.
I was trying to post a message on topic. So I think the off-topic rating is unfair because I was wondering if it was the story. I'm seeing a lot of changes to the site besides the CSS changes that bother me. Oh, well I guess it's better than being modded troll.
I read the article and they really fucked this guy over. He will be stigmatized for the rest of his life, no matter what he looked like. How many others have they done this too?
What the fuck? I've never seen this before. It's been a while since I did an anonymous post. Is it this story?
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are "xxx" and "yyy" and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number "0.0.0.0" and your username "zzz".
What about alcohol induced blogging as a form of therapy? I call it blearging. Before writing you drink an entire bottle of Jack Daniels. Then practice the following in that I'm-throwing-up-kinda-voice "Ralph, Earl, bring out the Buick." or "Ralph, Earl, bring out the gorilla." Next sit down at the keyboard and begin blearging. Oh, and try not to piss yourself.
Enough with the space elevator already. How many dupes does this make? There was one just last week. Can they go a month without posting a stupid space elevator story. Anyway, it's not going to happen. We are more likely to see a resurgence in Zeppelin travel before we get a fucking space elevator.
Why not build a space escalator instead? With a sign that says "This way for all true believers and chosen ones!" Except when they get to the top they'll have suffocated because there is no fucking air. The bodies will be easy to dispose of because they'll burn up when they fall off. And a little sensor will trigger a small bell at the base with a sign below it that says: "Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings!"