I often use an invalid TLD. (Un)fortunately, there are a lot more now, but long random domains often work. It seems most scripts only check to see a) there is a name before the '@', b) there is an '@', and c) there is something after the '@'. Some check to make sure that there is a two part domain or more, but most won't ever check the length as long as it can handle it (in other words, you can usually throw in a five charcter TLD like.xspam or something).
Actually, nowadays, Pluto and its "moon" Charon, are actually considered to each orbit each other, much the same that binary stars orbit each other. Pluto is believed to have formerly been a moon itself, but the two of them broke out of orbit and began to orbit themselves. Thus neither can really be considered a moon any more.
What difference does the number of moons make anyway? If we had an extra, would we now go and trash one? Well, knowing us, yeah, but would it make it right?
if video clips aren't viewable under Linux, I can't view them to consider them for posting, so don't bother submitting those quicktime clips
If that doesn't smack of elitism . . . hypocricy at its finest.
Well, I can't view the clip at my connection anyway . . . and I booted into windoze to try:( (I'm sorry, but I'd rather take my chances with an NSA key than known privacy vandals)
Don't you wish you could slap the article poster with a -1, Flamebait?
"News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" definitely needs to be changed to that.
It is a shame that this is what slashdot has become. Zealots out of one corner, trolls out of the other. Something becomes truth because it matches their beliefs.
Moderators are moderating based on this belief, M2 doesn't seem to be doing much better . . . We're getting stories submitted with misleading information or outright lies.
Everyone has to start taking a step back and looking objectively at all the facts. This isn't what we, a community that is supposed to be open to other views and encourage free expression of different thought, are supposed to be doing. It's almost as if/. has been turned upside down lately. There are accusations of the editors censoring comments and there are even those who would have this be. COME ON! Has it been this long since we fought against mandated censorware?
I'm not saying that what the Trolls said actually happened, but this is what is going on in our community right now. Perhaps the allusion that follows is brought on because I just finished watching the movie again, but this is too much like The Matrix. We have people who, like Cipher, are willing to give up all our rights--something that we would cause us to take up arms if it were IRL--for the pleasure that is bliss.
Changing your threshold doesn't do enough when moderators make biased decisions. This is a note to all the moderators out there: don't you get tired of reading the same stuff every time? "Linux is good, Linux is great, I surrender my will as of this date." Come on. For the rest of us, do something useful. Moderate up those posts that have a novel idea, not one that just says something you agree with.
And for everyone else: RTFA. Read the articles before posting. A (-1, Redundant) is a pain, especially since it is impossible to read every post, but when you state something clearly stated in the article it wastes everyone's time. If the site the article is on is being slashdotted, wait until you read it before posting. As I said before, this is for everyone, including moderators. You have your moderator points for a while, you have time to check validity of posts before moderating them up or down.
And what happened to moderation totals anyway? I like knowing what's happened to a post.
I understand where they're coming from, but if the registrars were to ignore their counterparts, what would happen?
We could end up with the Internet no longer a world wide entity, but instead divided among the Americas (just the US, or US+Canada, etc) and Eurasia, perhaps Australia splitting too?
As bad as it may be to bow before the mighty Americans, everyone needs to find a way to get out of this before it goes to far (if domain name conflicts are a problem now, imagine if everything were to split and come back togeather again in ten years) . . .
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I often use an invalid TLD. (Un)fortunately, there are a lot more now, but long random domains often work. It seems most scripts only check to see a) there is a name before the '@', b) there is an '@', and c) there is something after the '@'. Some check to make sure that there is a two part domain or more, but most won't ever check the length as long as it can handle it (in other words, you can usually throw in a five charcter TLD like .xspam or something).
Actually, nowadays, Pluto and its "moon" Charon, are actually considered to each orbit each other, much the same that binary stars orbit each other. Pluto is believed to have formerly been a moon itself, but the two of them broke out of orbit and began to orbit themselves. Thus neither can really be considered a moon any more.
What difference does the number of moons make anyway? If we had an extra, would we now go and trash one? Well, knowing us, yeah, but would it make it right?
if video clips aren't viewable under Linux, I can't view them to consider them for posting, so don't bother submitting those quicktime clips
If that doesn't smack of elitism . . . hypocricy at its finest.
Well, I can't view the clip at my connection anyway . . . and I booted into windoze to try :( (I'm sorry, but I'd rather take my chances with an NSA key than known privacy vandals)
Don't you wish you could slap the article poster with a -1, Flamebait?
"News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" definitely needs to be changed to that.
It is a shame that this is what slashdot has become. Zealots out of one corner, trolls out of the other. Something becomes truth because it matches their beliefs.
Moderators are moderating based on this belief, M2 doesn't seem to be doing much better . . . We're getting stories submitted with misleading information or outright lies.
Everyone has to start taking a step back and looking objectively at all the facts. This isn't what we, a community that is supposed to be open to other views and encourage free expression of different thought, are supposed to be doing. It's almost as if /. has been turned upside down lately. There are accusations of the editors censoring comments and there are even those who would have this be. COME ON! Has it been this long since we fought against mandated censorware?
I'm not saying that what the Trolls said actually happened, but this is what is going on in our community right now. Perhaps the allusion that follows is brought on because I just finished watching the movie again, but this is too much like The Matrix. We have people who, like Cipher, are willing to give up all our rights--something that we would cause us to take up arms if it were IRL--for the pleasure that is bliss.
Changing your threshold doesn't do enough when moderators make biased decisions. This is a note to all the moderators out there: don't you get tired of reading the same stuff every time? "Linux is good, Linux is great, I surrender my will as of this date." Come on. For the rest of us, do something useful. Moderate up those posts that have a novel idea, not one that just says something you agree with.
And for everyone else: RTFA. Read the articles before posting. A (-1, Redundant) is a pain, especially since it is impossible to read every post, but when you state something clearly stated in the article it wastes everyone's time. If the site the article is on is being slashdotted, wait until you read it before posting. As I said before, this is for everyone, including moderators. You have your moderator points for a while, you have time to check validity of posts before moderating them up or down.
And what happened to moderation totals anyway? I like knowing what's happened to a post.
I understand where they're coming from, but if the registrars were to ignore their counterparts, what would happen?
We could end up with the Internet no longer a world wide entity, but instead divided among the Americas (just the US, or US+Canada, etc) and Eurasia, perhaps Australia splitting too?
As bad as it may be to bow before the mighty Americans, everyone needs to find a way to get out of this before it goes to far (if domain name conflicts are a problem now, imagine if everything were to split and come back togeather again in ten years) . . .