You have a warning. It's up to you to decide what the risk is to you, and whether to click the link or not.
Except there's a difference between "NSFW" and "potentially illegal". If there's potentially illegal content in the link then it shouldn't even appear on/.
We all know headlines exist solely to generate traffic...
And Slashdot isn't helping any by front-paging people from these magazine sites to submit their own content, complete with misleading headlines and writeups.
Can we stop with the "politicizing" of Slashdot. And return to geekiness of nerdworthy news - thank you!
This will never happen. The Slashdot folks found that, prior to the 2004 elections, adding a "Politics" section was click-bait ad revenue heaven. As long as there are politicos here Slashdot trying to shove politics down the rest of our throats (complete with dupes and wrong summaries) is here to stay.
Let's bog down a school with a flood of phone calls from people who have no business calling the school other than to complain about some kid getting a detention for disobedience despite a poorly worded article summary on a geek news site!/sarcasm
The slashdot audience might be largely pro-open source, which indeed may render your statement true. I am not sure you can apply that same label to slashdot itself as a corporate entity.
I don't fault either CmdrTaco nor Drew Curtis for trying to "make a buck". It's the method of doing so. If Slashdot tries to think of itself as a bastion of "open source" while running ads for Microsoft or Fark reeling back on it's past of "boobies and beer" by shadowbanning users that post non-moderator approved cleavage (despite the near NSFW ads they sometimes run) the sellout factor becomes apparent.
Whoever is really running Fark these days is trying to further entrench itself in the online market by means of government protection now. Remember when Fark was cool and fresh? (Hell, remember when Slashdot was cool and fresh?)
Somehow, I get the feeling that, even though the "market reality" of the world has quite the upper hand in this situation
Well, basically they do -- sufficient people aren't all that concerned with GPL2 vs GPL3 to the extent that RMS is. Plenty of us aren't all that worried with it, and those who are can just go live in the Hurd camp (hence my initial statement). The whole notion of "either purely RMS's ways or be imprisoned in IP hell" is just stupid though.
I agree with you, but I still think that Stallman's role is hardly negligible.
No one is doubting this, but at the same time much of us live in a market reality where far end puritanical, "unimpeachable" (to use your word) views don't fit well with the rest of the world. He's hurting himself more than helping, hence the idea that if he's full on about a pure GNU system he should just ignore the Linux kernel and focus on his own. If hardly anyone else uses it, then he can just sit in the corner with the few Hurd folks that are more interested in pure philosophy rather than getting work done.
Slashdot Mirror
Can we get the computerized voice with a Canadian accent, eh?
You have a warning. It's up to you to decide what the risk is to you, and whether to click the link or not.
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Except there's a difference between "NSFW" and "potentially illegal". If there's potentially illegal content in the link then it shouldn't even appear on
If you buy a pair of ripped jeans which cost you $5 you are cheap and have no style.
If you buy a pair of ripped jeans for $50 that look like they cost $5, though, then it's a fashion statement.
So he runs around Redmond wearing a black cape with red hands on them?
The way Creative publically handled the situation was so stupid they deserve the continued bad publicity.
There's gobs of projects on Sourceforge that have a license stated, yet no code. A LOC number would at least be somewhat useful.
Is this a Slashvertisement?
T.K. must mean Taliban Kook.
We all know headlines exist solely to generate traffic...
And Slashdot isn't helping any by front-paging people from these magazine sites to submit their own content, complete with misleading headlines and writeups.
Can we stop with the "politicizing" of Slashdot. And return to geekiness of nerdworthy news - thank you!
This will never happen. The Slashdot folks found that, prior to the 2004 elections, adding a "Politics" section was click-bait ad revenue heaven. As long as there are politicos here Slashdot trying to shove politics down the rest of our throats (complete with dupes and wrong summaries) is here to stay.
Plus the submitter's name+link goes to the same site, so I'm guessing this is just more NetworkWorld clickbait for Slashdot.
I nominate the the Slashdot editors to be the first to receive treatment.
Slashdot has "editors" now?
Let's bog down a school with a flood of phone calls from people who have no business calling the school other than to complain about some kid getting a detention for disobedience despite a poorly worded article summary on a geek news site! /sarcasm
The slashdot audience might be largely pro-open source, which indeed may render your statement true. I am not sure you can apply that same label to slashdot itself as a corporate entity.
Today Slashdot is owned by SourceForge, Inc., but it is still run by many of the same people as it was 'Back in the Day'.
Combining user-developed content, online marketplaces and e-commerce, SourceForge is the global technology community's nexus for information exchange, goods for geeks, and open source software distribution and services.
Can't fault CdrTaco & Co. for making a buck
I don't fault either CmdrTaco nor Drew Curtis for trying to "make a buck". It's the method of doing so. If Slashdot tries to think of itself as a bastion of "open source" while running ads for Microsoft or Fark reeling back on it's past of "boobies and beer" by shadowbanning users that post non-moderator approved cleavage (despite the near NSFW ads they sometimes run) the sellout factor becomes apparent.
Whoever is really running Fark these days is trying to further entrench itself in the online market by means of government protection now. Remember when Fark was cool and fresh? (Hell, remember when Slashdot was cool and fresh?)
I'm sick of storing all my porn on punchcards.
who ate all those Hamdingers anyways?
OMG HAXX!
Somehow, I get the feeling that, even though the "market reality" of the world has quite the upper hand in this situation
Well, basically they do -- sufficient people aren't all that concerned with GPL2 vs GPL3 to the extent that RMS is. Plenty of us aren't all that worried with it, and those who are can just go live in the Hurd camp (hence my initial statement). The whole notion of "either purely RMS's ways or be imprisoned in IP hell" is just stupid though.
I agree with you, but I still think that Stallman's role is hardly negligible.
No one is doubting this, but at the same time much of us live in a market reality where far end puritanical, "unimpeachable" (to use your word) views don't fit well with the rest of the world. He's hurting himself more than helping, hence the idea that if he's full on about a pure GNU system he should just ignore the Linux kernel and focus on his own. If hardly anyone else uses it, then he can just sit in the corner with the few Hurd folks that are more interested in pure philosophy rather than getting work done.
... Hurd has made great strides despite relatively small developer base.
Such as? How great can they be if hardly anyone is using it?
Instead of whining about Linus how about you get your ass moving on your own kernel replacement?
a Diggbot.
LOL