User: The Bugman gad

Re:/. has no single voice

On: Slashdot in Politics?

Here are some information link on where you can contact your representatives.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

I would love to see a bit more contact information here on Slashdot. I like the ideas floating around regarding haveing a banner for the EFF and/or a Slashbox. Althought there a a variety of opinions and view here on Slashdot (and I don't think Slashdot needs to take a stand on these issue, per se), it would be helpful if there was an easier way to help us:

1. Come up with what to tell our representatives. Most of us are computer geeks and not politicians or speech writers, so sometimes it's difficult for us to present a more compelling argument than "Don't do this, 'cause it sucks".
2. Make it easyy to forward that information to our representatives by making acces to our representatives information easier.

Finally, I think it would be a great idea to inform your representatives about Slashdot. What better way for a representative to understand what's going in the ever changing technology arena than for them to get their daily dose of "News for nerds, stuff that matters" themselves?

The Bugman

Slashdot, you rock.

On: Handling the Loads

I first heard about the tragedy on the Howard Stern show on the way to work. Where I work we can recieve no TV or radio signals - so naturally the first thing I did when I go in was hit the news sites. All I kept getting was 500 errors.

Then I hit Slash.

Not only did your site stay up but it provided the freshest views regarding the occuring tragedy. Once I could get through to those other news sites -- I realized that the quality of the content that was being served on Slashdot was better any way. You guys truly serve "Stuff that matters"

Thank you very very much Slashdot and the Slash team. You guys are great.

The BugMan