It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
EDIT: Hahhahahaha. CmdrTaco is predictable as drool from a retard. I posted the text of this journal entry in a CmdrTaco story, and I've been bitchslapped AGAIN! Here's some cut&paste HTML from my messages:
Moderation of "Predators improve the breed."Wed Jan 29, '03 10:18 AM Moderation of "Predators improve the breed."Wed Jan 29, '03 10:19 AM Moderation of "Amen."Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM Moderation of "Predators improve the breed."Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM Moderation of "Predators improve the breed."Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM Moderation of "Arrogant dick. You're helping them win."Wed Jan 29, '03 10:21 AM
See how the first moderation of my thread post occurred less than a minute after I posted it? Then all those other mods occurred at the same time.
I've been bitchslapped again! Taco REALLY doesn't like it when you criticise. Such a fragile ego!
Jesus fucking christ that's childish, even for Slashdot. Grow the fuck up.
Here's a tip: It's very tempting to get self-righteous and act adversarial when you're working on new technology, especially when it's open vs. closed.
However, adults and mature people tend to push this aside and try to convince people based on merit instead of childish "US VS. THEM" attitudes.
Of course, you LUnix zealots can't grasp this, and that's what's hindering LUnix on the desktop and other open formats and software like Ogg.
I can see the flame-mail hitting every new mp3 hardware manufacturer. To paraphrase: "OMG U DONT SUPORT OGG ILL NEVER BY YOUR HARDWARE FAGS", which has the obvious effect of ensuring that the hardware manufacturer regards Ogg users as immature children. Are they right?
It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
How do you feel getting schooled by that expert in the BIOS interview? That must have hurt. Or perhaps it's just more confirmation that everyone's out to get you.
I'm impressed that you edited an article you posted, and finally MENTIONED that it's been edited. Are you becoming less of a coward? Are you (shock! horror!) becoming less of a hypocrite?
Care to provide a half-informed, snide remark in reply? Come on. You must be itching to spread your discontent. Let it flow.
Arrogant dick. You're helping them win.
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Shutting down Kazaa
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You're doing as good a job bringing down P2P as RIAA/MPAA, you arrogant shit.
By keeping your shared content in stupid circle-jerk setups like that, and keeping Joe Average out, you're effectively ceding the rank-and-file P2P networks to leeches and the RIAA. Which means the RIAA wins.
I know it's all cool to post on Slashdot about how fucking 1337 you are with your 10Mb connection and massive 50-machine home network, and it's just really fucking OUTSTANDING to be arrogant and condescending about how much smarter you are than Windoze Lozers because you run LUNIX.
I know it feels good to be in a stratified plane of existance because you have such 1337 harware, so you only share your massive collections with other arrogant shitheads like yourself. It's a penis-size contest, but without the refreshing honesty of just dropping your drawers and whipping out the actual units.
Meanwhile, P2P networks like Kazaa are seeded with absolute shit by anti-Peer companies and choked by leeches. As that continues, Joe Average will get so frustrated trying to find decent stuff that he'll give up "on that whole Napster thing".
Bang. RIAA wins.
Instead of being the technological equivalent of a fat, rich white businessman in an exclusive golf resort bragging to each other about how fucking rich you are, you should actually stick your neck out and help keep decent content on the P2P networks.
But you're a Slashdot whore, and lord knows Slashdot whores just love being fucking arrogant, condescending pricks.
He mods his own crackpot conspiracy theory question into the top 10, then gets schooled by someone much smarter than him.
Also, Roblimo said: we have low tolerance for PR whitewashes around here
What the fuck is that? So all of the editor's smart-assed snide comments added to user-submitted stories (and the accepted stories themselves, which are often titled misleadingly and contain an obvious bias) are just my imagination?
Slashdot commits as much whitewashing and FUD spreading as any other organization. Lunix and open source are ALWAYS good, Microsoft is ALWAYS bad.
Goddamn hypocrites. Especially you, Michael "I HATE CENSORSHIP UNLESS I NEED TO BITCHSLAP A DISSENTING OPINION".
Watch. I had a comment posted the other day that was +5 Funny (despite getting modded by editors as "overrated" and "Troll"). How much you want to bet michael will magically make that post -1 real soon?
The users modded that up, dipshit. You don't have the right to override it ("bitchslapping") just because you don't like me.
Learn to live with your dissenters, Slashdot editors. We're actually trying to help, but you're too fucking hypocritical and insecure to see it.
...slam down a post like this for being "offtopic" when it is actually quite true and insightful?
Ah, that's right. I forgot for a minute. Any dissenting view is slapped down. MUST CONFORM TO SLASHDOT POSTING PARADIGM!
MS BAD!
LUNIX GOOD!
MPAA/RIAA BAD! (unless they have a movie/CD I want to buy, then I'm their bitch. Fuck principles. I'll piss and moan about their policies, but I can't stick to my guns and actually do what I think would help the situation. Gimme my shiny new DVD.)
CENSORSHIP BAD! (unless it's michael abusing his infinite mod points, or other mods shoving dissenting views down into -1 oblivion).
SMARTASSED, HALF-INFORMED VITRIOLIC QUIPS GOOD!
Slashdot, you really, really suck, and it's too bad. It could be so much better. So many decently intelligent people hang out here, but they're only welcome if they toe the Slashdot party line. Instead of being a forum for intelligent discussion, it's an anti-establishment bitch party inhabited by a lot of noisy children who aren't even out of college yet, and hence feel like they know everything.
For more cookie-cutter responses (i.e. "Micro$oft sux! LOL!), please search for any recent M$ article, look for the highest-modded wisecracks from that article, copy and paste to a post in this thread!
Instant Karma!
Instant karma's gonna get you. Gonna knock you right on your head One day you will find you are starving and eating all of the words you just said.
I don't know about Ireland, but whenever I needed to do a science project, I had to supply shitloads of information, especially when making bold claims. Isn't that how science works?
Hell, even reading the hypothesis of his project would be an improvement over what we have -- nothing.
What shitty news coverage. The media isn't skeptical enough when it comes to science. If this was some miracle dreamed up by a politician, the media would have torn him to shreds by now, digging up dirt on him, his family, his marital history... everything.
But when a miracle science story comes around, the media swallows it hook, line, and sinker. Unacceptable for this day and age.
* I wonder how long it'll be until the first Time-Virus is released for the MS Watch!
* The MS Watch will come preinstalled with the game Monopoly!
* You'll need a digitally-signed ARM just to run the watch!
* I bet they're "Embracing and Extending" IP from Timex!
* Didn't Timex already do this, and not get hauled into court for it?
* I hope it's smaller than the X Box.
* If the X-Box team designed it, the buttons will be HUGE
* Will we have to start a distributed computing project just to hack into it to change the time?
* I hope we can install Lunix on it! That'll show 'em!
* Maybe the stock ticker is set up to show MS's continued domination over the tech world!
Say it with me:
LOL OMG ROTFLCHAIRMANMAO HAHAH +10 Sidesplitting and witty! A thrilling masterpiece! If you make one canned joke this year, make it an anti-MS one! TWO THUMBS UP!
Now that this horse is bludgeoned beyond recognition with these woefully unoriginal anti-MS statements, let's move on to... A STORY ABOUT RIAA AND MPAA AND HOW EVIL THEY ARE! YARRR!
If you'd like to find out how Slashdot editors abuse their infinite amount of mod points (especially Mr. Hypocrite, a.k.a. michael sims), have a read of my journals.
Now please try to bitchslap me further, Michael "Anti-Censorship-Unless-It-Criticises-Me" Sims!
He'd have had some smartassed sarcastic anti-Microsoft, anti-IP, anti-censorship addition to the story, and then had to delete it once HE read your post and then actually bothered to read the article.
The ugly truth: michael is a hypocrite and a jerk.
* He'd need a team of assistants to write it, then when it didn't go his way, he'd quit in a huff, hijack the book title and the remaining authors would have to publish the book as "Lord o' da Rings". He'd eventually publish a pamphlet titled "Lord of the Rings", but it would consist entirely of him whining how the book didn't go his way.
* He'd be stuck working for some half-assed SciFi magazine with an incompetent editor named CmdrTaco. His articles would be insulting and pedantic, yet strangely void of any substance.
Read my journal, and those of cetan and AnimeFreak. Michael's the most enormous prick ever. He and Seth Finkelstein are cut from the same cloth and should be wed.
I can make a bunch of half-informed, self-important snide comments in articles, and I'm fully capable of carrying a grudge for a LONG time. Can I be a Slashdot editor? I promise I'll make duplicate news posts and bitch endlessly about SPAM.
It would be nice though if the CD also included a large collection of HOWTOs.
Hahahhaha... that's a good one. Linux HOWTOs are written assuming that you know EVERYTHING ELSE about Linux except for the subject of the HOWTO, so they get down 'n obtuse within the first paragraph. They're incomprehensible to newbies, just like those throwbacks the MAN pages.
This, and the "KEEP IT OBSCURE SO WE CAN FEEL SUPERIOR" attitude of most Lunix zealots is what's keeping MS nice and profitable.
Slashdot Mirror
Why are you such an insecure, thin-skinned hypocrite?
To find out more (if you can find it on this site) please check my journals.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
EDIT:
Hahhahahaha. CmdrTaco is predictable as drool from a retard. I posted the text of this journal entry in a CmdrTaco story, and I've been bitchslapped AGAIN! Here's some cut&paste HTML from my messages:
See how the first moderation of my thread post occurred less than a minute after I posted it? Then all those other mods occurred at the same time.
I've been bitchslapped again! Taco REALLY doesn't like it when you criticise. Such a fragile ego!
Jesus fucking christ that's childish, even for Slashdot. Grow the fuck up.
Here's a tip: It's very tempting to get self-righteous and act adversarial when you're working on new technology, especially when it's open vs. closed.
However, adults and mature people tend to push this aside and try to convince people based on merit instead of childish "US VS. THEM" attitudes.
Of course, you LUnix zealots can't grasp this, and that's what's hindering LUnix on the desktop and other open formats and software like Ogg.
I can see the flame-mail hitting every new mp3 hardware manufacturer. To paraphrase: "OMG U DONT SUPORT OGG ILL NEVER BY YOUR HARDWARE FAGS", which has the obvious effect of ensuring that the hardware manufacturer regards Ogg users as immature children. Are they right?
It's been a while since I posted a journal, and there's a few new happenings.
I got another story submitted. I'm really surprised I got this one, since I'm sure the stupid Lunix fanboys submitted this 500 times. Of course, the discussion that followed was purely anti-Microsoft, even though there are a billion LUnix systems out there that are vulnerable to other exploits, and can be just as big a pain to patch. Fucking hypocrites.
I'm improving in my ability to karma whore, as you can see. As I type this, I've got "Positive" karma, and I ping-pong pretty freely between Positive, Bad and Neutral. Not bad. Hell, I've even posted a blatant anti-michael post logged in and not been any worse for wear.
With positive karma, I'm metamodding several times a day now, pretty much marking everything as "unfair" (unless it's a troll, who's karma whoring and has been modded up. Then I either stay neutral or metamod "Fair" or "Funny"). $20 says I spend more time meta-moderating than most -- and I'm doing it for the sole purpose of getting the signal/noise ratio as low as possible. I wish my other accounts were able to metamod.
On to the subject of this little Journal: Predators improve the breed. It's occurred to me that my work, and the work of the many trolls (most of which are far more competent than I) might actually make Slashdot better if Taco were to begin listening to them. He's mentioned in his journal that he's heard all the grousing about moderation, which means grousing is not going unheard.
Don't get me wrong -- CmdrTaco is still an idiot, totally out of his league running a site like this. But the fact that he puts oil on the squeaky wheels means he has ears and can be annoyed. Unfortunatly the "oil" is an even more fucked-up moderation system, hamfistedly added to allow editors to put the "squeaky wheels" (trolls) into more-and-more-soundproof rooms instead of solving the problem. You know why divorces happen? Because the people in the relationship don't address their problems. Instead they push them aside and try their hardest to ignore them until they can't any longer, spending more energy ignoring them than they do dealing with them.
Why not just meet the issues head-on?
1) Ditch the irrational, unprofessional condescending LUnix fanboyism from the editors. As FortKnox says, "Lunix isn't always the answer. Microsoft isn't always the problem."
2) Before publishing articles, have the common sense to spellcheck and fact-check them. Is it a dupe? If you want to preserve the stupidity of the submitter, just put some "[sic]" marks in the article.
3) Don't pull a michael and add unnecessary snide remarks. It's unprofessional.
4) If you won't do #1, #2 and #3, please drop any pretense of being objective or even rational. It's insulting.
5) For fuck's sake, stop pretending you're not censoring. Stop insulting your readers' intelligence and just admit that the mod system is there so editors can ensure Slashdot reflects THEIR opinions, not those of the readers. Then you can do what you really want to do: delete comments and users that you don't like.
6) The only redeeming quality of michael is that he seems to post fewer (if any) duplicate articles. Fire him. If that's not enough, please fire him because he's the only editor with the sense to check for dupes, which probably makes the other editors jealous. Does he have rich parents or something? Is he paying Slashdot to keep him occupied so he can research his petty conspiracy lunacy?
7) I'm fully capable of reading Wired, The Register, CNN and The New York Times all by myself, and I won't get Slashdot's editorial bias or mind-numbingly stupid interpretations by Slashdot editors and article submitters. Sooner or later, even the stupidest of your drooling LUnix fanboys will realize this and leave. How about stopping Slashdot from becoming the unofficial comment board for these sites?
See, Taco, that's what a lot of the grousing seems to be about. If you were to truly embrace your Liberal sensibilities, you'd see that your Predators -- your trolls -- are trying to improve their Prey -- Slashdot. It's Darwinian, you stupid twat, but you're too dense to see it.
YHBT. HAND.
Have you bitchslapped anyone today?
How do you feel getting schooled by that expert in the BIOS interview? That must have hurt. Or perhaps it's just more confirmation that everyone's out to get you.
I'm impressed that you edited an article you posted, and finally MENTIONED that it's been edited. Are you becoming less of a coward? Are you (shock! horror!) becoming less of a hypocrite?
Care to provide a half-informed, snide remark in reply? Come on. You must be itching to spread your discontent. Let it flow.
You're doing as good a job bringing down P2P as RIAA/MPAA, you arrogant shit.
By keeping your shared content in stupid circle-jerk setups like that, and keeping Joe Average out, you're effectively ceding the rank-and-file P2P networks to leeches and the RIAA. Which means the RIAA wins.
I know it's all cool to post on Slashdot about how fucking 1337 you are with your 10Mb connection and massive 50-machine home network, and it's just really fucking OUTSTANDING to be arrogant and condescending about how much smarter you are than Windoze Lozers because you run LUNIX.
I know it feels good to be in a stratified plane of existance because you have such 1337 harware, so you only share your massive collections with other arrogant shitheads like yourself. It's a penis-size contest, but without the refreshing honesty of just dropping your drawers and whipping out the actual units.
Meanwhile, P2P networks like Kazaa are seeded with absolute shit by anti-Peer companies and choked by leeches. As that continues, Joe Average will get so frustrated trying to find decent stuff that he'll give up "on that whole Napster thing".
Bang. RIAA wins.
Instead of being the technological equivalent of a fat, rich white businessman in an exclusive golf resort bragging to each other about how fucking rich you are, you should actually stick your neck out and help keep decent content on the P2P networks.
But you're a Slashdot whore, and lord knows Slashdot whores just love being fucking arrogant, condescending pricks.
Fuck you.
Keep it Simple, Stupid. A reminder to yourself that what you're building, designing, etc. should be simple and not unnecessarily complex.
It's probably as old as FUBAR.
Just think, when our grandkids are psychic-text messenging each other with "OMG STFU FAG", we'll get to explain it to them.
He mods his own crackpot conspiracy theory question into the top 10, then gets schooled by someone much smarter than him.
Also, Roblimo said:
we have low tolerance for PR whitewashes around here
What the fuck is that? So all of the editor's smart-assed snide comments added to user-submitted stories (and the accepted stories themselves, which are often titled misleadingly and contain an obvious bias) are just my imagination?
Slashdot commits as much whitewashing and FUD spreading as any other organization. Lunix and open source are ALWAYS good, Microsoft is ALWAYS bad.
Goddamn hypocrites. Especially you, Michael "I HATE CENSORSHIP UNLESS I NEED TO BITCHSLAP A DISSENTING OPINION".
Watch. I had a comment posted the other day that was +5 Funny (despite getting modded by editors as "overrated" and "Troll"). How much you want to bet michael will magically make that post -1 real soon?
The users modded that up, dipshit. You don't have the right to override it ("bitchslapping") just because you don't like me.
Learn to live with your dissenters, Slashdot editors. We're actually trying to help, but you're too fucking hypocritical and insecure to see it.
Those guys are really dedicated.
They don't GNU Win II Quit! LOL OMG WTF
kill me
...slam down a post like this for being "offtopic" when it is actually quite true and insightful?
Ah, that's right. I forgot for a minute. Any dissenting view is slapped down. MUST CONFORM TO SLASHDOT POSTING PARADIGM!
MS BAD!
LUNIX GOOD!
MPAA/RIAA BAD! (unless they have a movie/CD I want to buy, then I'm their bitch. Fuck principles. I'll piss and moan about their policies, but I can't stick to my guns and actually do what I think would help the situation. Gimme my shiny new DVD.)
CENSORSHIP BAD! (unless it's michael abusing his infinite mod points, or other mods shoving dissenting views down into -1 oblivion).
SMARTASSED, HALF-INFORMED VITRIOLIC QUIPS GOOD!
Slashdot, you really, really suck, and it's too bad. It could be so much better. So many decently intelligent people hang out here, but they're only welcome if they toe the Slashdot party line. Instead of being a forum for intelligent discussion, it's an anti-establishment bitch party inhabited by a lot of noisy children who aren't even out of college yet, and hence feel like they know everything.
about Microsoft (OMG BLUESCREEN LOL) to issue a token anti-Lunix wisecrack:
What the submission doesn't make clear is that the Lunix machine is used only to drill the hole in the patient's head.
Three weeks after learning unnecessarily obscure and arcane command-line stuff, YOU'D end up with a hole in your head too. From a bullet.
GUIs forever!
For more cookie-cutter responses (i.e. "Micro$oft sux! LOL!), please search for any recent M$ article, look for the highest-modded wisecracks from that article, copy and paste to a post in this thread!
Instant Karma!
Instant karma's gonna get you.
Gonna knock you right on your head
One day you will find you are starving
and eating all of the words you just said.
Oops. Mixed up Lennon and DiFranco there. Sorry.
I don't know about Ireland, but whenever I needed to do a science project, I had to supply shitloads of information, especially when making bold claims. Isn't that how science works?
Hell, even reading the hypothesis of his project would be an improvement over what we have -- nothing.
What shitty news coverage. The media isn't skeptical enough when it comes to science. If this was some miracle dreamed up by a politician, the media would have torn him to shreds by now, digging up dirt on him, his family, his marital history... everything.
But when a miracle science story comes around, the media swallows it hook, line, and sinker. Unacceptable for this day and age.
In case you've not noticed, your site is absolute crap.
Of course, you hired the editors that make it that way (by abusing the moderation system), so it's probably no secret this site is shit.
http://slashdot.org/~mondomor/journal
* I wonder how long it'll be until the first Time-Virus is released for the MS Watch!
* The MS Watch will come preinstalled with the game Monopoly!
* You'll need a digitally-signed ARM just to run the watch!
* I bet they're "Embracing and Extending" IP from Timex!
* Didn't Timex already do this, and not get hauled into court for it?
* I hope it's smaller than the X Box.
* If the X-Box team designed it, the buttons will be HUGE
* Will we have to start a distributed computing project just to hack into it to change the time?
* I hope we can install Lunix on it! That'll show 'em!
* Maybe the stock ticker is set up to show MS's continued domination over the tech world!
Say it with me:
LOL OMG ROTFLCHAIRMANMAO HAHAH +10 Sidesplitting and witty! A thrilling masterpiece! If you make one canned joke this year, make it an anti-MS one! TWO THUMBS UP!
Now that this horse is bludgeoned beyond recognition with these woefully unoriginal anti-MS statements, let's move on to... A STORY ABOUT RIAA AND MPAA AND HOW EVIL THEY ARE! YARRR!
If you'd like to find out how Slashdot editors abuse their infinite amount of mod points (especially Mr. Hypocrite, a.k.a. michael sims), have a read of my journals.
Now please try to bitchslap me further, Michael "Anti-Censorship-Unless-It-Criticises-Me" Sims!
He'd have had some smartassed sarcastic anti-Microsoft, anti-IP, anti-censorship addition to the story, and then had to delete it once HE read your post and then actually bothered to read the article.
The ugly truth: michael is a hypocrite and a jerk.
* each chapter would have some snotty, snide, holier-than-thou subtitle.
* He'd need a team of assistants to write it, then when it didn't go his way, he'd quit in a huff, hijack the book title and the remaining authors would have to publish the book as "Lord o' da Rings". He'd eventually publish a pamphlet titled "Lord of the Rings", but it would consist entirely of him whining how the book didn't go his way.
* He'd be stuck working for some half-assed SciFi magazine with an incompetent editor named CmdrTaco. His articles would be insulting and pedantic, yet strangely void of any substance.
* anyone who complained about his shitty attitude would have their subscription revoked, instead getting a huge pink sheet of paper saying they're "bad".
Read my journal, and those of cetan and AnimeFreak. Michael's the most enormous prick ever. He and Seth Finkelstein are cut from the same cloth and should be wed.
Just check out my page. It's all there.
I can make a bunch of half-informed, self-important snide comments in articles, and I'm fully capable of carrying a grudge for a LONG time. Can I be a Slashdot editor? I promise I'll make duplicate news posts and bitch endlessly about SPAM.
I love you, Taco.
BURN THE WITCH! Heretic! Heathen!
CLI forever!
that's what you want from webbing.
Come, skript kiddies, your next toolkit is here
Full Lyrics.
Sheena Easton invented Struts.
Hahahhaha... that's a good one. Linux HOWTOs are written assuming that you know EVERYTHING ELSE about Linux except for the subject of the HOWTO, so they get down 'n obtuse within the first paragraph. They're incomprehensible to newbies, just like those throwbacks the MAN pages.
This, and the "KEEP IT OBSCURE SO WE CAN FEEL SUPERIOR" attitude of most Lunix zealots is what's keeping MS nice and profitable.
At least that's what the article reads like.
"Fast processor, you will like, hmm?"
What's next? Yoda reviews graphics cards?
"A gamer feels the GeForce FLOWING through him!"
So it's not like it's exactly environmentally friendly. Plastics, the wonderful übermaterial, are a modern monument to our addiction to fossil fuels.