He paid a $20,000 fine and is currently serving a 7 year jail term. His family also paid out an undisclosed amount in a lawsuit. That's the easy way out. I say burn him at the stake with Jeff Derderian (who almost rise to that level of scumbaggery).
Reggie Stephey deserves the fucking chair. The asshole killed two people. It's Texas... isn't it dirtbags like that who the gas chamber (or whatever Texas uses) was designed for?
Hell, I say we googlebomb Reggis Stephey into oblivion for this. Put Slashdot's PageRank mojo to good use. This retard has no right to live.
Just think, if you were a subscriber you could have seen it early and brought it to their attention. Now the fact that this wasn't caught indicates that either no one's actually reading stories in the future, or that the editors don't listen to those of us who are pathetic (but subscribing) peons. Take your pick.
I don't know the Cornell situation, but I imagine they have unified logins, through NIS or something similar. The proxies that might be used would be something on the order of, "I only transfer 1GB/month, I'll let you use 512MB through my proxy if you pay me... type arrangements.
It'd be interesting to know what Oregon's northern neighbors in Redmond think about this.
You know, I think Washington should activate their National Guard and invade Oregon over this. That would be really fun to watch on TV. I know, we have that as the 8:00 lead-in to the war in Iraq at 9:00. Dyn-o-mite!
Of course, I would not be surprised to see that subscribers would tend to be the better posters...
Remember, if a subscriber posts crap in the window, it won't slip by (whereas a logged in crapflood about 100 or so comments into a story will not tend to get modded down... this I know from experience).
Update To clarify the timing. Right now the mysterious future is set to 20 minutes. That number is not a promise tho, since a story posted 11 minutes before "Air time" would be seen slighter later. A story posted 30 minutes in advance will be visible 20 minutes early.
Is it just me or is that even less clear than it was before?
Thats a pretty good idea. I would still think the/. effect would be better suppressed if slashdot would mirror stories, especially if its running off of somebody's mother's DSL connection.
Maybe make the Slashdot mirror only for subscribers?
That would be really interesting. Subscribers having the ability to make editorial comments, with additional links and first dibs on getting them into the updates... cool.
I don't see a single post defending this obviously frivolous patent, or Apple for filing it. I do, however, see your post assuming that people will defend it.
Just wait until the Apple fans come out of the woodwork...
Sorry, I don't think people read Slashdot for the articles... the discussions are the heart and soul of the site (CmdrTaco's statistics to the contrary).
Slashdot Mirror
He paid a $20,000 fine and is currently serving a 7 year jail term. His family also paid out an undisclosed amount in a lawsuit. That's the easy way out. I say burn him at the stake with Jeff Derderian (who almost rise to that level of scumbaggery).
Reggie Stephey deserves the fucking chair. The asshole killed two people. It's Texas... isn't it dirtbags like that who the gas chamber (or whatever Texas uses) was designed for?
Hell, I say we googlebomb Reggis Stephey into oblivion for this. Put Slashdot's PageRank mojo to good use. This retard has no right to live.
Just think, if you were a subscriber you could have seen it early and brought it to their attention. Now the fact that this wasn't caught indicates that either no one's actually reading stories in the future, or that the editors don't listen to those of us who are pathetic (but subscribing) peons. Take your pick.
I think if you searched for "Jim Miller" you wouldn't find an arm... ;o)
C'mon... there's gotta be a Bears fan on Slashdot who will mod that up!
"ring" and "goatse" should never be use near each other!
In which case, one of two things happens:
I don't know the Cornell situation, but I imagine they have unified logins, through NIS or something similar. The proxies that might be used would be something on the order of, "I only transfer 1GB/month, I'll let you use 512MB through my proxy if you pay me... type arrangements.
You know, I think Washington should activate their National Guard and invade Oregon over this. That would be really fun to watch on TV. I know, we have that as the 8:00 lead-in to the war in Iraq at 9:00. Dyn-o-mite!
Check the story on the front page posted at about 11:30 AM EST.
If you want people to read Newsforge, stop running ads that put Mozilla into a endless loop of reloading.
Are you sure that those connections talked about are the same types of connections?
It actually is against federal law to use the SSN as a means of identification.
I've used a few accounts for crapflooding Slashdot, a long time ago...
Of course, I would not be surprised to see that subscribers would tend to be the better posters...
Remember, if a subscriber posts crap in the window, it won't slip by (whereas a logged in crapflood about 100 or so comments into a story will not tend to get modded down... this I know from experience).
The BSD section is already red. How would stories from the future be posted to the BSD section?
I can see the replies already to this post: "*BSD is dying; it has no future!"
Get it right. It's not "American". The preferred term is "USian".
Is it just me or is that even less clear than it was before?
Try Kuro5hin. Reader supported (even the bulk of the ads are by readers).
Maybe make the Slashdot mirror only for subscribers?
That would be really interesting. Subscribers having the ability to make editorial comments, with additional links and first dibs on getting them into the updates... cool.
Hey, if all the FP trolls^H^H^H^H^H^Hcrapflooders want to subsidize Slashdot for me, I have no problem with that...
Hey, I'm surprised to see that it got any upmods...
Great idea with the timelimits... maybe adjust to ban positive mods within the first 100 comments (to mark the trolls and so forth down).
Just wait until the Apple fans come out of the woodwork...
Sorry, I don't think people read Slashdot for the articles... the discussions are the heart and soul of the site (CmdrTaco's statistics to the contrary).
I thought SmartSuite was Lotus' competitor to MS Office...