Jesus christ, you are so right. I have never seen a more insightful post on slashdot. I'm starting a petition to allow this post to be modded up to 6.:)
This turns Alex/Jimmy e-vil, and he begins plotting Super Ted's downfall... "I have way lots of kryptonite, you futuristic dick-weed! Time to die, Super Dude!"
"Super Ted" was a kiddie cartoon in the late 80s.
"Super Dude" was the name of a hamster on the Simpsons.
I'm willing to bet that if the politicos bought votes with lines of code, and us geeks wrote programs by arranging bits of green paper, the situation would be very different. (Does that make sense?)
You're implying that whoever wrote the article should not have been attempting to write it in an unbiased manner. Ergo, you're saying the writer should be biased. Biased towards your personal ideas on the topic, that is.
The thing that differentiates news from editorial is that in an editorial, the writer's opinion is offered. Regardless of the views of a newswriter, they should attempt to provide the facts, lest they turn news into editorial (as happens so very often on Slashdot).
You seem to suffer from an all-to-common disease: you think that your personal views are what are "right" and "good", and views that aren't in line with yours are "wrong" and "evil". I, for one, am thankful that you are not a news reporter!
... after media companies complained they wouldn't release high-quality versions of their published content to personal computers because of piracy concerns.
Exactly what "high-quality content" are they talking about here? Last I checked, I could play (and rip) DVD movies and CD music on my personal computer just fine. What high-quality content is being withheld from the computer world, hmm Mr. Biddle?
What will happen when corporate america convinces the world that it owns the internet?
Absolutely nothing. We'll keep using it just the same way we always have.
What will happen when corporate america convinces the world that Pi equals exactly 3? Well, a lot of shoddy engineering. But they can convince all they want, it won't make it so.
Isn't it ironic that this guy, jerking off about how bright he is in his sig...
atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa [mensa.org] member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
... managed to misspell tolerence?
Anyone who so badly needs to assert their superiority is more than likely just insecure. Want people to think you're smart? Say smart things. Don't just put your 'Clever' hat on.
It's a good thing that this story linked to the CNN front page, because I couldn't remember what the URL is! Thanks, Slashdot.
Okay, there're many legitimate things to complain about when it comes to Slashdot:
Frequent double-posted stories.
Editorialising in the story body (from "on high") rather than in the comments.
Spelling, CmdrTaco.
All the pretentious, self-important twits, jerking off over their own inflated egos.
Super-moderator's occasional abuse of power.
The fact that we're no longer allowed to see a numerical karma count. Everyone started keeping count in their head when the new system was introduced, Taco! We're nerds: we like numbers!
JonKatz and michael in general.
But complaining because the story poster linked to www.cnn.com is just being a whingy bitch. (Oops, I did it too!)
Oh well, scratch two more karma. No matter, another 34 where that came from.:)
Troll 1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames. (Source)
Now, ignoring the Usenet bit, tell me the poster wasn't trolling with this:
Neil Gaiman won this year's Hugo for his novel American Gods.
A much better choice than last year.
(Referring to Harry Potter).
Slashdot editors and story submitters really need to start restraining themselves from editorialising in the story itself. That's what the comment section is for. That's what would be professional.
This isn't intended to be a troll. Now mod me into oblivion.
Okay. A link to a file which will no doubt be extremely popular has just been posted on the front page, and it's 45 fricking megabytes. The/. effect on a news site or whatever is one thing; being totally inconsiderate to the poor sod who's hosting that file is quite another.
Save it for the P2P nets, kids. This is a real good example of where we should be using them legitimately.
... a little game as a protest (of sorts) against the Australian government's policy on, uh, unsolicited refugee landings. For what it's worth (which isn't much, given my game design skills), it can be found here.
namebase.org is now slashdotted. I would be able to view it via the Google cache, but some brilliant webmaster specified that the Googlebot should not archive the site.
Thanks, Daniel Brandt! You've prevented me from reading your own site!
That eBlaster software seems like a totally excellent way to increase the amount of spam you receive in your inbox per day.
Thanks, SpectorSoft.com! You've made my week!
Re:This project is more difficult than it appears
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Speech For The Deaf
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· Score: 2
1 in 20 words wrong or every third sentence gives across the wrong meaning.
The poster managed to spell 1 in every 7 words wrong (`audble' `speach', `mannor', etc.), and still more or less got across his meaning. I'd say there's hope for the gloves.:)
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Jesus christ, you are so right. I have never seen a more insightful post on slashdot. I'm starting a petition to allow this post to be modded up to 6. :)
The crooks, labor organizers, and opposition, have mastered the "sophistication" of the telephone.
Sigh. It'd be funny if it weren't true.
Moderators note: this is to be moderated as off-topic, not insightful or interesting. Just in case you can't work that out for yourselves.
Or does he mean entropy?
E-N-T-to the-R-to the-O-to the-P-to the-Y (the reason the sun will one day burn up and die?)
Word.
Parent is not offtopic! In fact, it's very relevant (not to mention funny).
:)
See this Penny-Arcade strip.
We need a +1 (Previous moderator missed the point) option.
I'm willing to bet that if the politicos bought votes with lines of code, and us geeks wrote programs by arranging bits of green paper, the situation would be very different. (Does that make sense?)
I think you're totally off-base on this one.
You're implying that whoever wrote the article should not have been attempting to write it in an unbiased manner. Ergo, you're saying the writer should be biased. Biased towards your personal ideas on the topic, that is.
The thing that differentiates news from editorial is that in an editorial, the writer's opinion is offered. Regardless of the views of a newswriter, they should attempt to provide the facts, lest they turn news into editorial (as happens so very often on Slashdot).
You seem to suffer from an all-to-common disease: you think that your personal views are what are "right" and "good", and views that aren't in line with yours are "wrong" and "evil". I, for one, am thankful that you are not a news reporter!
What will happen when corporate america convinces the world that Pi equals exactly 3? Well, a lot of shoddy engineering. But they can convince all they want, it won't make it so.
IP is IP. TCP/IP is something else entirely.
Heh, FTC slashdots self.
Anyone who so badly needs to assert their superiority is more than likely just insecure. Want people to think you're smart? Say smart things. Don't just put your 'Clever' hat on.
- Frequent double-posted stories.
- Editorialising in the story body (from "on high") rather than in the comments.
- Spelling, CmdrTaco.
- All the pretentious, self-important twits, jerking off over their own inflated egos.
- Super-moderator's occasional abuse of power.
- The fact that we're no longer allowed to see a numerical karma count. Everyone started keeping count in their head when the new system was introduced, Taco! We're nerds: we like numbers!
- JonKatz and michael in general.
But complaining because the story poster linked to www.cnn.com is just being a whingy bitch. (Oops, I did it too!)Oh well, scratch two more karma. No matter, another 34 where that came from.
I think sci-fi is like art (and pornography for that matter). I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
It's my initials.
No mod points available, but +1 Insightful anyways.
Now, ignoring the Usenet bit, tell me the poster wasn't trolling with this:
(Referring to Harry Potter).
Slashdot editors and story submitters really need to start restraining themselves from editorialising in the story itself. That's what the comment section is for. That's what would be professional.
This isn't intended to be a troll. Now mod me into oblivion.
Okay. A link to a file which will no doubt be extremely popular has just been posted on the front page, and it's 45 fricking megabytes. The /. effect on a news site or whatever is one thing; being totally inconsiderate to the poor sod who's hosting that file is quite another.
Save it for the P2P nets, kids. This is a real good example of where we should be using them legitimately.
... a little game as a protest (of sorts) against the Australian government's policy on, uh, unsolicited refugee landings. For what it's worth (which isn't much, given my game design skills), it can be found here.
Who says code isn't speech?
Why the hell is this modded as "informative"? Funny, at a strech. But informative?
No offense intended to the poster, but I think the mods need their heads checked on this one.
namebase.org is now slashdotted. I would be able to view it via the Google cache, but some brilliant webmaster specified that the Googlebot should not archive the site.
Thanks, Daniel Brandt! You've prevented me from reading your own site!
That eBlaster software seems like a totally excellent way to increase the amount of spam you receive in your inbox per day.
Thanks, SpectorSoft.com! You've made my week!
1 in 20 words wrong or every third sentence gives across the wrong meaning.
:)
The poster managed to spell 1 in every 7 words wrong (`audble' `speach', `mannor', etc.), and still more or less got across his meaning. I'd say there's hope for the gloves.