"What a lot of people dont realize (Including a lot of programmers). That a lot of applications are not multithreaded."
Well we realize it here, because it's BROUGHT UP every single time there's a mention of more than one processor running!! Yeesh. Heh.
On a lighter note: When these processors become more popular, multi-threaded apps will come. Besides, its not like our machines aren't keeping up with apps today. Except for my 3D rendering, I don't have anything that would benefit from a faster processor, and I doubt many other people do either.
Even that is about as 'obnoxious' as that gets. The Google ads are more subtle. Also, they do NOT blink, flash, make noise, or do anything else. They're quite literally Google text ads.
"That's monumentally stupid. You're saying that a higher percentage of posts complaining about said post will help him? Esp. when said post is rated at +5 and has community support?"
Yes, absolutely. Slashdot's ad driven. More comments == more ads served. More ads serve == more ad revenue. By posting Roland stories, they're benefitting themselves. They don't give a rat's ass what the community thinks. If they did, would we see dupes ever again?
"It doesn't, but it is generally held to a higher standard than a typical blog or webvert. Much of the time, it actually upholds a very high standard of integrity - better than many current media outlets - with any public retractions or updates added onto the front page, rather than tucked away out of sight."
Wow, I seriously disagree with this. Slashdot has demonstrated bias and sensationalism numerous times. If you like Linux, FireFox, OSS in general, Farscape, etc then you're happy here. If you don't mind Microsoft, find FireFox to be clunky, enjoy Enterprise, etc you're poorly represented here. Not only a good chunk of the stories sensationalist in nature, but the mod system basically drives conformity in public opinion.
To put it another way: I have a hard time believing anything that's printed on Slashdot. I know I'm not alone in this feeling.
Slashdot's a little more general purpose than the sites I've seen. What do you find interesting?
I'm sorry I made that suggestion without giving you a good direction to go. Truth be told, my expectations of Slashdot aren't that high, so I haven't felt the need to go elsewhere. In the mean time, I have a primary interest in CG/Computer rendering. So I hang out at CGTalk.com. (Often they quote Slashdot stories, hehe.)
"Some of us leave our machines always logged on, or 'locked'. I'd know real fast if it automatically rebooted and I was at a fresh login screen."
Heh.
"Welp, I'm done for the next 30 minutes. I'd better close all my windows and get it back to the 'freshly loaded' state so it's nice and clean when I come back after lunch!"
"Slashdot IS a damn troll itself, for continuing to post that lamer's blog plugs. I am going to actively begin searching out another tech site with comments; I like a lot of the comments here at/., but the editors SUCK."
The editors ALWAYS sucked. I've been here quite a few years myself, and I cannot remember a single period where there wasn't SOME complaint about how incompetent the Slashdot Editors are.
If it riles you up so much, go to news.google.com. I don't really care where you go provided you chill on this topic. Why? Because I'm defending the dude? Uh, no. It's because he and Slashdot BOTH make money through advertising. In that business, bad publicity is good publicity. Ever see that Howard Stern movie? "Fans of the show listen for an average of 45 minutes a day. People that hate him listen for 3 hours. Think about it.
"Meanwhile, back at the ranch, another few hundred links that may actually be of interest to nerds and that may actually matter go rotting in the submission queue."
If Slashdot isn't supplying what you demand, then seek a new site.
Seriously, do you expect him to go away if all his submissions generate 100+ comments even if half of them are bitch bitch bitching? Let me put it another way: We still have dupes, stories with factual errors, and grammar abuse in the articles.
"It's because he's french isn't it? I can understand that."
It's because bitching about Roland is a sign of status.
If somebody were really offended by Roland, they'd know that the best way to get this guy off the air is to not up the post count by bitching about him.
It did have a slightly different color, yes. It also had the same voice as 3PO. If it decided to impersonate 3PO, it'd be difficult for the audience to tell. I'm not sure what it'd be like face, to face, though. At that point, I would start wondering about what the world looks like through Vader's mask.;)
"My Nokia 3650 crashes every few hours anyway. Like a virus would make it any worse..."
Except it could cost you money. I don't know about your service provider, but I know that once I've downloaded a meg of information, I'll start having to pay per kilobyte. I suppose potentially a virus could infect my phone, put it into internet mode, and start downloading until my bill gets ridiculously high.
I'm not terribly paranoid about that, though. I'm more concerned over a virus that caused a bunch of machines to dial 911 a few years ago. If whatever phone I have was capable of making calls because a malicious app told it to do so, I could find myself owing a lot of money because it dialed an expensive number. There are businesses thriving over that sort of scam.
"Are we really supposed to be up in arms against Symantec for saying that cell phones are vulnerable?"
Well.. if they're selling a cell phone anti-virus product.
Still, though, I see your point. Whatever Symantec's motivations are, there is benefit to be had over warning people about what advances in cell phone technology could mean. Cell phone developers have an almost clean slate to work from. If the big buzzword is 'security', hopefully they'll develop with the right mind set in place. Almost certainly, there'd be little concern over security if there was no perception that future customers would be worried about it. So, yes, I see your point. Symantec may unintentionally be doing everybody a favor.
"When there is one uniform OS Smartphone and the people using them aren't limited to savvy business men."
They'll need that AND more web enabled services. This'll happen soon, but I wanted to mention it. One of the reasons I have a hard time imagining a cell phone virus taking off is that most phones today rarely spend a lot of time on the net. SMS is about as close as one can get.
"and I can make XP BSOD or restart almost on demand."
That's funny because of all the computers I've had running 2K or XP (with one exception), I've only managed to do it 2 or 3 times. That's going back over 5 years and different hardware setups.
On the other hand, there was one machine that was horribly defective. I could make it BSOD with XP. Then I replaced the mobo and suddenly, blammo, no BSODs. Go fig.
Slashdot Mirror
"A much easier to execute Denial-of-Service would be to slash the tires, doncha think?"
A security camera will not catch you wirelessly interferring with a car.
"Watch out for the next few centuries though. They'll be among the most exciting highlights of the entire multi-billion-year record."
Maybe I'm just shallow, but I like taking the climate for granted.
Well, I called it a default because if you just quickly Okay through it, it goes straight to the Google ads.
Sorry if I've frustrated ya on the topic.
That might be funny except I didn't post that screen shot. I linked an image I found that has the same banner.
;)
What IS funny is that the reason I didn't show you a screen grab of my browser is that I've got visible porn links all over it.
"You're just exceedingly cynical."
Maybe. On the other hand, when Katz was around, Slashdot wasn't completely ad supported.
"What a lot of people dont realize (Including a lot of programmers). That a lot of applications are not multithreaded."
Well we realize it here, because it's BROUGHT UP every single time there's a mention of more than one processor running!! Yeesh. Heh.
On a lighter note: When these processors become more popular, multi-threaded apps will come. Besides, its not like our machines aren't keeping up with apps today. Except for my 3D rendering, I don't have anything that would benefit from a faster processor, and I doubt many other people do either.
THat's not even close to what Opera's default banner looks like.
Take a look at this.
Even that is about as 'obnoxious' as that gets. The Google ads are more subtle. Also, they do NOT blink, flash, make noise, or do anything else. They're quite literally Google text ads.
"That's monumentally stupid. You're saying that a higher percentage of posts complaining about said post will help him? Esp. when said post is rated at +5 and has community support?"
Yes, absolutely. Slashdot's ad driven. More comments == more ads served. More ads serve == more ad revenue. By posting Roland stories, they're benefitting themselves. They don't give a rat's ass what the community thinks. If they did, would we see dupes ever again?
Whatcha interested in?
:)
Assuming comments aren't what you're after, it seems to me a few well chosen RSS feeds would keep ya happy.
"It doesn't, but it is generally held to a higher standard than a typical blog or webvert. Much of the time, it actually upholds a very high standard of integrity - better than many current media outlets - with any public retractions or updates added onto the front page, rather than tucked away out of sight."
Wow, I seriously disagree with this. Slashdot has demonstrated bias and sensationalism numerous times. If you like Linux, FireFox, OSS in general, Farscape, etc then you're happy here. If you don't mind Microsoft, find FireFox to be clunky, enjoy Enterprise, etc you're poorly represented here. Not only a good chunk of the stories sensationalist in nature, but the mod system basically drives conformity in public opinion.
To put it another way: I have a hard time believing anything that's printed on Slashdot. I know I'm not alone in this feeling.
"Any recommendations for a news site that does?"
Slashdot's a little more general purpose than the sites I've seen. What do you find interesting?
I'm sorry I made that suggestion without giving you a good direction to go. Truth be told, my expectations of Slashdot aren't that high, so I haven't felt the need to go elsewhere. In the mean time, I have a primary interest in CG/Computer rendering. So I hang out at CGTalk.com. (Often they quote Slashdot stories, hehe.)
"Some of us leave our machines always logged on, or 'locked'. I'd know real fast if it automatically rebooted and I was at a fresh login screen."
Heh.
"Welp, I'm done for the next 30 minutes. I'd better close all my windows and get it back to the 'freshly loaded' state so it's nice and clean when I come back after lunch!"
"Slashdot IS a damn troll itself, for continuing to post that lamer's blog plugs. I am going to actively begin searching out another tech site with comments; I like a lot of the comments here at /., but the editors SUCK."
The editors ALWAYS sucked. I've been here quite a few years myself, and I cannot remember a single period where there wasn't SOME complaint about how incompetent the Slashdot Editors are.
If it riles you up so much, go to news.google.com. I don't really care where you go provided you chill on this topic. Why? Because I'm defending the dude? Uh, no. It's because he and Slashdot BOTH make money through advertising. In that business, bad publicity is good publicity. Ever see that Howard Stern movie? "Fans of the show listen for an average of 45 minutes a day. People that hate him listen for 3 hours. Think about it.
" keeps posting your non-stories reflects extremely poorly on the status of any journalistic integrity /. claims to have."
Where does Slashdot claim to have any journalistic integrity?
"Meanwhile, back at the ranch, another few hundred links that may actually be of interest to nerds and that may actually matter go rotting in the submission queue."
If Slashdot isn't supplying what you demand, then seek a new site.
Seriously, do you expect him to go away if all his submissions generate 100+ comments even if half of them are bitch bitch bitching? Let me put it another way: We still have dupes, stories with factual errors, and grammar abuse in the articles.
"It's because he's french isn't it? I can understand that."
It's because bitching about Roland is a sign of status.
If somebody were really offended by Roland, they'd know that the best way to get this guy off the air is to not up the post count by bitching about him.
"I fear that it is too late to burn virii as the abomination it is."
Uh.. why is 'virii' so bad that it's an abomination?
It did have a slightly different color, yes. It also had the same voice as 3PO. If it decided to impersonate 3PO, it'd be difficult for the audience to tell. I'm not sure what it'd be like face, to face, though. At that point, I would start wondering about what the world looks like through Vader's mask. ;)
"Maybe he didn't see 3po on the walking carpet's back, perchance?"
It's worth mentioning that another identical droid was in that complex. C3PO greeted him and the reply was rude.
"you know, the plural of virus is NOT virii, it's viruses."
You know, there was a little more to that story than the proper use of the word viruses, right?
"My Nokia 3650 crashes every few hours anyway. Like a virus would make it any worse..."
Except it could cost you money. I don't know about your service provider, but I know that once I've downloaded a meg of information, I'll start having to pay per kilobyte. I suppose potentially a virus could infect my phone, put it into internet mode, and start downloading until my bill gets ridiculously high.
I'm not terribly paranoid about that, though. I'm more concerned over a virus that caused a bunch of machines to dial 911 a few years ago. If whatever phone I have was capable of making calls because a malicious app told it to do so, I could find myself owing a lot of money because it dialed an expensive number. There are businesses thriving over that sort of scam.
"Are we really supposed to be up in arms against Symantec for saying that cell phones are vulnerable?"
Well.. if they're selling a cell phone anti-virus product.
Still, though, I see your point. Whatever Symantec's motivations are, there is benefit to be had over warning people about what advances in cell phone technology could mean. Cell phone developers have an almost clean slate to work from. If the big buzzword is 'security', hopefully they'll develop with the right mind set in place. Almost certainly, there'd be little concern over security if there was no perception that future customers would be worried about it. So, yes, I see your point. Symantec may unintentionally be doing everybody a favor.
"When there is one uniform OS Smartphone and the people using them aren't limited to savvy business men."
They'll need that AND more web enabled services. This'll happen soon, but I wanted to mention it. One of the reasons I have a hard time imagining a cell phone virus taking off is that most phones today rarely spend a lot of time on the net. SMS is about as close as one can get.
"FYI, the plural of virus is viruses."
FYI it's not a big deal.
"and I can make XP BSOD or restart almost on demand."
That's funny because of all the computers I've had running 2K or XP (with one exception), I've only managed to do it 2 or 3 times. That's going back over 5 years and different hardware setups.
On the other hand, there was one machine that was horribly defective. I could make it BSOD with XP. Then I replaced the mobo and suddenly, blammo, no BSODs. Go fig.