The law says if you plan on taping/broadcasting people you need to hang a sign in a conspicous place. We have a nice big 6' x 1' vinyl banner (printed at kinkos) to the right of the stage, as well as signs placed at the entrance that says folks are being broadcasted.
In addition, we don't force anyone wanting to sing to be on camera. We encourage it, but don't force it. We use wireless mics, so if folks don't feel like being on cam, they can simply sing from their seats (we only have 1 person that does that because she's self concious about her weight)
The bar pays about $1500 a year in ASCAP/BMI/SESAC fee's for public performance, and AOL has their own deals with these agencies in addition to soundexchange.
So basically, we're covered. Going back to my original question though, since we are on the grey line, if this law passes, are we going to be *required* by law to start using a DRM format?
This would be very detrimental to my broadcasts since in order to record the broadcasts (for later playback when the bar closes) we use streamripper32. If I could not use streamripper to record the live events (which I guess puts this into a whole new realm) we'd be fucked. What about other live broadcasters using the shoutcast system? Would they be shit out of luck too?
I'm an AOL sponsored NSV (nullsoft streaming video) station. The reason I ask "Where do I fit into this" is my station rides the grey line of copyright and licensed music... I broadcast people singing from a karaoke bar.
Our audio is broadcasted using ACCP, because the sound quality is fantastic. Let's say for a minute though, we decided to broadcast back into vp3 video and mp3 audio (so linux/macs could watch)
Is this really copyright infringement? Or are we semi protected by parody exemptions? Nearly %100 of karaoke music is reproduced backing tracks, made by the karaoke companies in their studios. Add in that 1/2 these folks couldn't carry a tune to save their lives, it's actually pretty funny and amusing to watch.
I'm only slightly worried, Feinstien sounds like she doesn't know WTF she's talking about. Add to that i've got AOL behind me, and she can kiss my ass. Seriously though, i'm riding a grey line of copyright here, anyone have any insights or thoughts?
Designed by a Chinese company called BLX, the the cheap chip is clocked at 400 or 600MHZ and supposedly provides performance comparable to that of an Intel P3."
When you watch american kung fu flicks (chuck norris) they automagically get the "out of sync english voiceover" effect.
UAV's don't have to weigh 14 lb's to get the job done. I fly a Parkzone F-27 Stryker. It only weighs 21 oz.
I've flown it plenty of times with a cheapo swann 2.4 ghz wireless camera on board. It's made of foam, and it's a pusher (prop in back) so in the even it does hit somebody, they're not going to be chopped to pieces from a propeller.
With the assistance of a friend holding a pringles cantenna, i've gotten plenty of range for the video.
Of course, we're not talking common sense here, we're talking the military, and anything that isn't bullet proof, costs 10x what it should cost, and doesn't have some degree of danger will never be acceptable for them.
Personally, i'm not too worried about UAV's flying overhead. I'm more scared of cops that are jack booted thugs beating up on innocent people.
Sort of off topic, but we had a *HUGE* turnout of GDC folks at my bar last night. Had a nice chat with the art director for zipper interactive, few other folks. Replay video from last night will be playing till 5pm today, then again on sunday.
In countries near and around japan labor is cheap, dirt cheap. Philipines, Malaysia, Taiwan, the list can go on. I'd expect this robot to cost no less than 70-80k and would only be for the extremely wealthy %1 of the population.
For the average japanese joe in thier sunset years, they're more likely to import labor from other countries to work in thier nursing home facilities (why not? We already import Filipino nurses like crazy in california) for the price of 1 robot, you could pay the salary of 4 imported nurses, or a nursing home facility.
And despite the report saying there is a decline in birth rates, everyone has family to lean on at some point.
Realistically, would you want to be taken care of a cold, unloving robot that couldn't imagine what I was feeling? What's this thing going to do, detect if I stop breathing and call the coroner? No thanks.
Advice from a KJ (karaoke jock)
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Check my sig, and you can watch video of my show (just click "the stage" on the site)
Just remember, there is a difference between a KJ and a DJ. If you ever find yourself doing karaoke, remember what I have to say...
The huge difference between KJ's and DJ's is how a playlist is handled. A DJ's playlist will generally try to work with the mood of the crowd, thier goal is to get the crowd off thier feet dancing and having a good time. This absolutely warrents using 2 turntables, crossfader, and a bit of an ear for beat matching so everything sounds like one contingous mix.
KJ's are a completely different realm altogether.....
In karaoke there is a rule called "Rotation" whos goal is basically to give everyone equal stage time no matter how many songs are turned in. Let's say Bob turns in 3 tickets, Frank turns in 2 tickets, Bill turns in 1 Ticket, and Mary turns in 4 tickets (glory stage hog bitch) The ticket order would go like this.
Bob, Frank, Bill, Mary, Bob, Frank, Mary, Bob, Mary, Mary
You can see the same basic pattern there. Everyone has songs qued in round 1, Then it's just Bob, Frank and Mary round 2, Bob and Mary in round 3, then Mary all by herself in round 4.
Lets say Bill and Bob both decide to turn in new songs. Here is how the playlist would look after.
Bill gets put in at round 2, since he only had 1 ticket in. Bobs new song is enqued at round 4 because he already had 3 in. This is how rotation gives everyone equal stage time.
So with that in mind, karaoke isn't about mix at all, it's about making everyone happy because they all know when they're coming up, and who they're going to follow if they turn new songs into the rotation.
Another piece of advice I have about being a KJ is don't try to be a DJ at a show you're doing karaoke at. Karaoke folks are more concerned with getting thier stage time than mixing. Rapid fire your playlist like I do, use the wireless mic's as batons in a relay race, passing them off to the next singer. In the minds of your customers, you're not wasting time with anything but keeping the show moving towards thier next turn, and they'll really love you for that.
Only reason i'm posting about karaoke jocking is that I do it for a living, and I know a lot of folks that try to be a jack of all trades at thier shows. Just focus on being good at whatever you're supposed to be doing, and folks will appriciate it.
Windows is just a big open target. Even if Vista patches every single hole; xp, 2000, nt40, nt3.51 ME 98 and 95 are still totally open and vulnerable to attack because the products have been end of lifed.
Truth is, a lot of people still use the outdated O/S's. There is tons of excuses why they do, everything from "it runs better" to "I don't want MS peeking in my nono spot" to "my old programs won't run on the new systems"
So these old O/S's will still supply sustainable income for the anti spyware companies because MS will not support them anymore.
Vista will still be a major target for spyware makers though because it will have a large install base. I doubt MS will be able to continuously keep up with the spywares creators.
I run toqerTV, the only live streaming broadcast of karaoke in the world. You may not like karaoke and terrible singing, but if you like seeing drunk girls jump up and down then we're for you.
I did try to do real musicians one sunday. For about 5 hours we broadcasted various local rap artists. Ratings online sucked, and everyone that came to the show just ordered water.
That's only if you advertise on the stream itself. If you take donations on the website and only advertise on your website, you're in the clear (like ravetrax.com does)
I've been broadcasting "toqerTV LIVE at the 7 Bamboo karaoke lounge" for 2 years now. Even with AOL flippin the bill for bandwidth, I haven't been able to pay off my bills.
Camcorder Capable of streaming - $600 First 2 months hosting at he.net $1600 (they tacked on an early cancellation fee) Encoding PC - $600 DSL setup and monthly (first year)(speakeasy) $1400 bunch of misc costs here and there, $1000
Even with donations (usually only got enough to pay the credit card minimums) to help me pay stuff off, after the first year with interest charges my first years credit card balance was $5000, now it's $7000 on year 2.
I've tried exploring every kind of sponsorship I could find, but nobody wants to sponsor a karaoke video stream. I've offered web ads, ads in our karaoke songbooks, vinyl banners hung from our stage, and even overlayed ads on our stream. I've approached local businesses (mostly resuraunts), i've approached DUI lawyers and bails bondsman (you'd figure advertising in a bar would be hot to them) I've tried contacting budweiser, coors, etc. Nobody is really interested in advertising on an online station. It could be my content, I dunno.
I've heard ads on my fellow shoutcasters radio stations, but it's mostly companies that do business on the net. It's not the type of businesses you usually hear on FM radio stations.
The technology is there. Internet radio does sound way better than FM these days. Unfortunatly advertisers don't see a reason to go there. For most of them, it's a lack of understanding of the technology, but there are some savvy ones. The Savvy ones know that the number of listeners your station can reach is limited by your bandwidth, which on average amounts to about 200 listeners per station on even the best bandwidth.
I don't know what to do anymore. I love what I do, it's damn unique and the few regular viewers we have are really cool. Lately though just lookin at the numbers, even with AOL sponsoring my bandwidth if I don't start getting either advertising dollars or more regular donations, i'm going to have to stop it. Wife and I had our first kid 2 months ago, I have other bills to worry about. Then again, I feel the stream and the small community I created is my baby too.
I was even featured in the New York Times which in print terms should have been as good as a slashdot effect. Yet I never got a single call or email from an interested advertiser.
I think i'm just gonna wrap this up by saying internet broadcasting is cool as hell. I just wish advertisers would see it the same way.
I started growing pubic hairs around 14, voice dropped around 18 and didn't really start getting tall or facial hair till around 20.
Being really small, geeky and awkward made me a target. I would have rather been 5'10" 200lbs at 12 with a 5 o-clock shadow than at 20, would have made Jr. High and High school so much easier.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/preview <pickanick> testing <toqer|7boo> ya that thing is pretty friggen cool <toqer|7boo> its like knowin which ho has ghonorhea before you bang her <toqer|7boo> very sexy <pickanick> cool analogy <Drumstix> hah
A few weeks back slash had an article on weird USB drives. My comment for that is the same for this one, you can carve space out of ANYTHING and turn it into a PC case.
Case modding is like, the car with a lawn on it. The scene is mostly filled up with cheesy ricer neon mods with everyone trying to see who can make the weirdest case possible.
I think the last great innovation I saw in a case was on the blue apple G3 tower. I hate macs, but man, the swingout motherboard on that case was sweet. Actually, the shuttle cases and form factor were pretty innovative, but they are sort of hard to work on being such a cramped space.
Cases can be an extension of ones personality, but between the toilet bowl case, and the manga bit boobie girl, you have to wonder whats goin on in these folks minds.
Anyways, I hope folks stop going nuts over these lame cases. It's getting old.
I understand that you have a strong opinion about this, but there are certainly far better ways to make your point. The instant you used the phrase, "Christopher Reeds fetus brain sucking stem cell cheerleading" I lost any respect for you I might have ever had.
I can't believe you got modded anything other than troll.
I'm a nerd, I watch cartoons and animation. Ever hear of southpark? The episode Krazy Kripples features Christopher Reeve eating a fetus for its stem cells. Nerds often say things in the context of the shows they watch, like I haven't seen other nerds quote Star Trek or explain things based around a Futurama episode more than a few times on slashdot.
Mispelling? Who cares? My nick? Who cares? I make a very important valid point that a lot of folks agreed with. I was pissed off to see this story on a site i've been posting on for many years, and didn't take the time to use a websters dictionary. I didn't realize that a comment on slashdot was subject to the same grammer and spelling rules that must be followed in a doctorial thesis. YOU CHILL OUT MAN.
Christ, now i'm ranting, I won't stop, i'll just keep on writing, so here, enjoy.
I don't care how much respect you have for me. You obviously didn't get my joke, and poking someone for spelling is about as desperate of a retort as a your mama joke. Couldn't you have at least come up with something a little more insightful than that?
Yah we're not supposed to grouse over rejected submissions but,
HOLY FUCKING HELL THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A BULGE IN A GUYS COSTUME!!! What the hell/. editors, i've submitted at least a 1/2 a dozen stories more on topic with being "news for nerds" than this one.
Taco, do male bulges turn you on? Michael? Any other/. editors want to comment? Is this a turn on or penis envy? WTF!
I mean sure, superman IS nerdy to a point. It's science fiction, it was a comic book, maybe we can stretch it out to include Christopher Reeds fetus brain sucking stem cell cheerleading, but "OMFG SUPERMAN HAS A PENIS BULGE!! ROTF LOL!!" is about as nerdy and mature as the turd reports discussion on what he left in the toilet bowl. I'm sorry, it has no place here.
And before you decide to downmod me, seriously ask yourself, are you happy with this story being posted? Have you, yourself, the moderator had stories rejected in the last few months only to see this stupid childish drivel posted on the slashdots front page? Seriously, this story is about as mature as reading at -1 and GNFOS posts. I'm really disheartened to see a site that started off with such a great concept fall completely into trash journalism.
Before anyone says "Chill toq, it's parody" Duh!, yes I know it's a parody, but ask yourself, does even a parody about the new superman actor having a super dick even qualify as news for nerds? Didn't think so.
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The law says if you plan on taping/broadcasting people you need to hang a sign in a conspicous place. We have a nice big 6' x 1' vinyl banner (printed at kinkos) to the right of the stage, as well as signs placed at the entrance that says folks are being broadcasted.
In addition, we don't force anyone wanting to sing to be on camera. We encourage it, but don't force it. We use wireless mics, so if folks don't feel like being on cam, they can simply sing from their seats (we only have 1 person that does that because she's self concious about her weight)
The bar pays about $1500 a year in ASCAP/BMI/SESAC fee's for public performance, and AOL has their own deals with these agencies in addition to soundexchange.
So basically, we're covered. Going back to my original question though, since we are on the grey line, if this law passes, are we going to be *required* by law to start using a DRM format?
This would be very detrimental to my broadcasts since in order to record the broadcasts (for later playback when the bar closes) we use streamripper32. If I could not use streamripper to record the live events (which I guess puts this into a whole new realm) we'd be fucked. What about other live broadcasters using the shoutcast system? Would they be shit out of luck too?
I'm an AOL sponsored NSV (nullsoft streaming video) station. The reason I ask "Where do I fit into this" is my station rides the grey line of copyright and licensed music... I broadcast people singing from a karaoke bar.
Our audio is broadcasted using ACCP, because the sound quality is fantastic. Let's say for a minute though, we decided to broadcast back into vp3 video and mp3 audio (so linux/macs could watch)
Is this really copyright infringement? Or are we semi protected by parody exemptions? Nearly %100 of karaoke music is reproduced backing tracks, made by the karaoke companies in their studios. Add in that 1/2 these folks couldn't carry a tune to save their lives, it's actually pretty funny and amusing to watch.
I'm only slightly worried, Feinstien sounds like she doesn't know WTF she's talking about. Add to that i've got AOL behind me, and she can kiss my ass. Seriously though, i'm riding a grey line of copyright here, anyone have any insights or thoughts?
--toq
Designed by a Chinese company called BLX, the the cheap chip is clocked at 400 or 600MHZ and supposedly provides performance comparable to that of an Intel P3."
When you watch american kung fu flicks (chuck norris) they automagically get the "out of sync english voiceover" effect.
See above. So which is it? Nvidia makes thier graphics chip right? So wouldn't the blame chain trickle down to them?
PS, typin live at my karaoke show right now. Follow the link in my sig, say hi, if you like streamin video of drunk girls singin.
UAV's don't have to weigh 14 lb's to get the job done. I fly a Parkzone F-27 Stryker. It only weighs 21 oz.
I've flown it plenty of times with a cheapo swann 2.4 ghz wireless camera on board. It's made of foam, and it's a pusher (prop in back) so in the even it does hit somebody, they're not going to be chopped to pieces from a propeller.
With the assistance of a friend holding a pringles cantenna, i've gotten plenty of range for the video.
Of course, we're not talking common sense here, we're talking the military, and anything that isn't bullet proof, costs 10x what it should cost, and doesn't have some degree of danger will never be acceptable for them.
Personally, i'm not too worried about UAV's flying overhead. I'm more scared of cops that are jack booted thugs beating up on innocent people.
They've got a boatload of money now and have nothing better to spend it on than lawyers.
Sort of off topic, but we had a *HUGE* turnout of GDC folks at my bar last night. Had a nice chat with the art director for zipper interactive, few other folks. Replay video from last night will be playing till 5pm today, then again on sunday.
Winamp compatible stream here
--toq
In countries near and around japan labor is cheap, dirt cheap. Philipines, Malaysia, Taiwan, the list can go on. I'd expect this robot to cost no less than 70-80k and would only be for the extremely wealthy %1 of the population.
For the average japanese joe in thier sunset years, they're more likely to import labor from other countries to work in thier nursing home facilities (why not? We already import Filipino nurses like crazy in california) for the price of 1 robot, you could pay the salary of 4 imported nurses, or a nursing home facility.
And despite the report saying there is a decline in birth rates, everyone has family to lean on at some point.
Realistically, would you want to be taken care of a cold, unloving robot that couldn't imagine what I was feeling? What's this thing going to do, detect if I stop breathing and call the coroner? No thanks.
Check my sig, and you can watch video of my show (just click "the stage" on the site)
Just remember, there is a difference between a KJ and a DJ. If you ever find yourself doing karaoke, remember what I have to say...
The huge difference between KJ's and DJ's is how a playlist is handled. A DJ's playlist will generally try to work with the mood of the crowd, thier goal is to get the crowd off thier feet dancing and having a good time. This absolutely warrents using 2 turntables, crossfader, and a bit of an ear for beat matching so everything sounds like one contingous mix.
KJ's are a completely different realm altogether.....
In karaoke there is a rule called "Rotation" whos goal is basically to give everyone equal stage time no matter how many songs are turned in. Let's say Bob turns in 3 tickets, Frank turns in 2 tickets, Bill turns in 1 Ticket, and Mary turns in 4 tickets (glory stage hog bitch) The ticket order would go like this.
Bob, Frank, Bill, Mary, Bob, Frank, Mary, Bob, Mary, Mary
You can see the same basic pattern there. Everyone has songs qued in round 1, Then it's just Bob, Frank and Mary round 2, Bob and Mary in round 3, then Mary all by herself in round 4.
Lets say Bill and Bob both decide to turn in new songs. Here is how the playlist would look after.
Bob, Frank, Bill, Mary, Bob, Frank, Bill, Mary, Bob, Mary, Bob, Mary
Bill gets put in at round 2, since he only had 1 ticket in. Bobs new song is enqued at round 4 because he already had 3 in. This is how rotation gives everyone equal stage time.
So with that in mind, karaoke isn't about mix at all, it's about making everyone happy because they all know when they're coming up, and who they're going to follow if they turn new songs into the rotation.
Another piece of advice I have about being a KJ is don't try to be a DJ at a show you're doing karaoke at. Karaoke folks are more concerned with getting thier stage time than mixing. Rapid fire your playlist like I do, use the wireless mic's as batons in a relay race, passing them off to the next singer. In the minds of your customers, you're not wasting time with anything but keeping the show moving towards thier next turn, and they'll really love you for that.
Only reason i'm posting about karaoke jocking is that I do it for a living, and I know a lot of folks that try to be a jack of all trades at thier shows. Just focus on being good at whatever you're supposed to be doing, and folks will appriciate it.
Windows is just a big open target. Even if Vista patches every single hole; xp, 2000, nt40, nt3.51 ME 98 and 95 are still totally open and vulnerable to attack because the products have been end of lifed.
Truth is, a lot of people still use the outdated O/S's. There is tons of excuses why they do, everything from "it runs better" to "I don't want MS peeking in my nono spot" to "my old programs won't run on the new systems"
So these old O/S's will still supply sustainable income for the anti spyware companies because MS will not support them anymore.
Vista will still be a major target for spyware makers though because it will have a large install base. I doubt MS will be able to continuously keep up with the spywares creators.
AACP or sometimes known as ACC+
Thread on configuration Here
I run toqerTV, the only live streaming broadcast of karaoke in the world. You may not like karaoke and terrible singing, but if you like seeing drunk girls jump up and down then we're for you.
I did try to do real musicians one sunday. For about 5 hours we broadcasted various local rap artists. Ratings online sucked, and everyone that came to the show just ordered water.
That's only if you advertise on the stream itself. If you take donations on the website and only advertise on your website, you're in the clear (like ravetrax.com does)
I've been broadcasting "toqerTV LIVE at the 7 Bamboo karaoke lounge" for 2 years now. Even with AOL flippin the bill for bandwidth, I haven't been able to pay off my bills.
Camcorder Capable of streaming - $600
First 2 months hosting at he.net $1600 (they tacked on an early cancellation fee)
Encoding PC - $600
DSL setup and monthly (first year)(speakeasy) $1400
bunch of misc costs here and there, $1000
Even with donations (usually only got enough to pay the credit card minimums) to help me pay stuff off, after the first year with interest charges my first years credit card balance was $5000, now it's $7000 on year 2.
I've tried exploring every kind of sponsorship I could find, but nobody wants to sponsor a karaoke video stream. I've offered web ads, ads in our karaoke songbooks, vinyl banners hung from our stage, and even overlayed ads on our stream. I've approached local businesses (mostly resuraunts), i've approached DUI lawyers and bails bondsman (you'd figure advertising in a bar would be hot to them) I've tried contacting budweiser, coors, etc. Nobody is really interested in advertising on an online station. It could be my content, I dunno.
I've heard ads on my fellow shoutcasters radio stations, but it's mostly companies that do business on the net. It's not the type of businesses you usually hear on FM radio stations.
The technology is there. Internet radio does sound way better than FM these days. Unfortunatly advertisers don't see a reason to go there. For most of them, it's a lack of understanding of the technology, but there are some savvy ones. The Savvy ones know that the number of listeners your station can reach is limited by your bandwidth, which on average amounts to about 200 listeners per station on even the best bandwidth.
I don't know what to do anymore. I love what I do, it's damn unique and the few regular viewers we have are really cool. Lately though just lookin at the numbers, even with AOL sponsoring my bandwidth if I don't start getting either advertising dollars or more regular donations, i'm going to have to stop it. Wife and I had our first kid 2 months ago, I have other bills to worry about. Then again, I feel the stream and the small community I created is my baby too.
I was even featured in the New York Times which in print terms should have been as good as a slashdot effect. Yet I never got a single call or email from an interested advertiser.
I think i'm just gonna wrap this up by saying internet broadcasting is cool as hell. I just wish advertisers would see it the same way.
You mean stuff like porn?
Just plug a microphone in. Make sure it's sinsoid and not cartoid type, since sinsoid picks up sound in any direction.
Put on your headphones, then adjust the mic mix till you hear the desired amount of background noise.
I started growing pubic hairs around 14, voice dropped around 18 and didn't really start getting tall or facial hair till around 20.
Being really small, geeky and awkward made me a target. I would have rather been 5'10" 200lbs at 12 with a 5 o-clock shadow than at 20, would have made Jr. High and High school so much easier.
What was the last thing to go through Christa McAuliffe head?
The Control Panel!
Thank you, thank you i'll be here every night this week.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/preview
<pickanick> testing
<toqer|7boo> ya that thing is pretty friggen cool
<toqer|7boo> its like knowin which ho has ghonorhea before you bang her
<toqer|7boo> very sexy
<pickanick> cool analogy
<Drumstix> hah
In futurama they cooled the earth with giant ice cubes mined from Halley's comet and dropped into the worlds oceans. So maybe cooling the oceans is a good thing.
A few weeks back slash had an article on weird USB drives. My comment for that is the same for this one, you can carve space out of ANYTHING and turn it into a PC case.
Case modding is like, the car with a lawn on it. The scene is mostly filled up with cheesy ricer neon mods with everyone trying to see who can make the weirdest case possible.
I think the last great innovation I saw in a case was on the blue apple G3 tower. I hate macs, but man, the swingout motherboard on that case was sweet. Actually, the shuttle cases and form factor were pretty innovative, but they are sort of hard to work on being such a cramped space.
Cases can be an extension of ones personality, but between the toilet bowl case, and the manga bit boobie girl, you have to wonder whats goin on in these folks minds.
Anyways, I hope folks stop going nuts over these lame cases. It's getting old.
I can't believe you got modded anything other than troll.
I'm a nerd, I watch cartoons and animation. Ever hear of southpark? The episode Krazy Kripples features Christopher Reeve eating a fetus for its stem cells. Nerds often say things in the context of the shows they watch, like I haven't seen other nerds quote Star Trek or explain things based around a Futurama episode more than a few times on slashdot.
Mispelling? Who cares? My nick? Who cares? I make a very important valid point that a lot of folks agreed with. I was pissed off to see this story on a site i've been posting on for many years, and didn't take the time to use a websters dictionary. I didn't realize that a comment on slashdot was subject to the same grammer and spelling rules that must be followed in a doctorial thesis. YOU CHILL OUT MAN.
Christ, now i'm ranting, I won't stop, i'll just keep on writing, so here, enjoy.
I don't care how much respect you have for me. You obviously didn't get my joke, and poking someone for spelling is about as desperate of a retort as a your mama joke. Couldn't you have at least come up with something a little more insightful than that?
Grow up.
Yah we're not supposed to grouse over rejected submissions but,
/. editors, i've submitted at least a 1/2 a dozen stories more on topic with being "news for nerds" than this one.
/. editors want to comment? Is this a turn on or penis envy? WTF!
HOLY FUCKING HELL THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A BULGE IN A GUYS COSTUME!!! What the hell
Taco, do male bulges turn you on? Michael? Any other
I mean sure, superman IS nerdy to a point. It's science fiction, it was a comic book, maybe we can stretch it out to include Christopher Reeds fetus brain sucking stem cell cheerleading, but "OMFG SUPERMAN HAS A PENIS BULGE!! ROTF LOL!!" is about as nerdy and mature as the turd reports discussion on what he left in the toilet bowl. I'm sorry, it has no place here.
And before you decide to downmod me, seriously ask yourself, are you happy with this story being posted? Have you, yourself, the moderator had stories rejected in the last few months only to see this stupid childish drivel posted on the slashdots front page? Seriously, this story is about as mature as reading at -1 and GNFOS posts. I'm really disheartened to see a site that started off with such a great concept fall completely into trash journalism.
Before anyone says "Chill toq, it's parody" Duh!, yes I know it's a parody, but ask yourself, does even a parody about the new superman actor having a super dick even qualify as news for nerds? Didn't think so.
--toq
Just FYI Fry's carries everything you need, from those special power modulators to mini flourescent tubes to repair your LCD's.
Is zero, with the small size of most USB drives, I could carve some space out of anything, even "mariatal aids".