"Observers said the test was going quite smoothly up until seconds before the fiery spectacle when the robot began the 'Talking on the cell phone and putting on make-up in the rear-view mirror' portion of the test."
I was going to say that more could be found at sid=index, or maybe it was sid=indexed, but either way, it seems to have disappeared so I'll just mention sid=moderation and sid=metamoderation.
sid=Slashdot Marketing is hilarious (with a few exceptions). Hot Grits and Natalie Portman are lame 'cause those trolls can't stand posting where it won't annoy anybody. they're all out spamming other threads.
I got here in October of '98, before the Halloween Papers that led to the Katz infestation, and just as the "JWZ is dead" story went up (boy did that hit the fan). That got me # 5733, if that helps you work out anything.
I've noticed that the random slashbox often has one category's header and another's stories. Frinstance, it'll say Ask Slashdot but all the stories are from Your Rights Online.
I think there's a mutating bug running loose causing various intermittent flakiness in the whole karma/moderation system but nothing that's consistent enough to track down or produce repeatable results.
I also think that in the past couple of months some people who just think and see things differently have started moderating and meta-moderating. My personal suspicion is that they are either under or over medicated.:-)
So what you're looking for is a Slashdot without any of the stuff that makes Slashdot Slashdot, and without any of the advertising that pays for the equipment, bandwidth, and staff that makes it possible? No problem, go turn your monitor on and your computer off.
I appreciate the above being moderated up as funny, but whoever got it up to 4 did so in the past 5 or 6 hours and therefore had to have seen that it was already sitting at 3. That's a mod point that could have been put to better use elswhere.
All of this assumes that I am incorrect in my paranoid theory, based on strange and/or hours after the fact moderations, that there is a plot afoot to manipulate my karma up and down like a yo-yo just to mess with my head. Kind of like the guy whose new car kept getting better and better gas mileage and then worse and worse until one day his friends couldn't contain themselves or their laughter anymore and admitted to first adding extra gas to his tank and then later siphoning more and more out.
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This post, which was #20, arrived fewer than 10 minutes later than post #16, making it quite likely that the poster of this was unaware of the first. As both contain the same content, probably neither are original, yet 5 moderation points have been wasted because one or more AC's came along an hour or so later and started whining before considering the evidence.
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For "fo", read "of". I can spell just fine, it's my fingers that have trouble.
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Is the above not an accurate statement of a security problem with a particular piece fo software? Was it moderated as a troll solely on its own merits (or lack thereof) or because of who posted it?
"fraudian slip" Was this a Freudian slip, disclosing your intenton to fraud us?
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"George W. "W" Bush said almost exactly the same thing last week, in a speech where he also blasted every single major Internet censorship proposal that has come up so far." Sorry, hoaxes have to have at least *some* element of believability to them in order to work. Thank you for playing and goodnight.
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This may be an AC pretending to be the impulsiveprofits guy, who, I'm pretty sure, posted as a logged-in user. Which would make this a hoax, instead of spam, making it just about every bad thing you could call it except for "off-topic".
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Apparently calling them the Central *Intelligence* Agency is a dis-information ploy. From the article "Two years ago, in an attempt to test potential market reaction to the system, George approached Tibbetts, a US based company that supplies the CIA with miniature electronics components. Tibbetts approached the CIA on George's behalf, offering a price of material costs plus $15 per exploding device, based on an order of 100,000 units. The CIA was very interested in the product but on a smaller initial scale - it offered to pay $70 per unit for an amount of 50,000 units when the product was complete. This offer has now been on hold for two years, as the team in Switzerland continues to develop the system." Am I the only one who thinks that sounds like paying 3.5 million dollars for 50K of them instead of 1.5 million dollars for 100K of them? At that rate we could have bought one for about 1.7 trillion dollars. Imagine what we would have had to pay to keep them from sending us any.
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Judging by the following quote from the story AOL is already involved:-)
"We focus our tests very strongly on the CD, mainly because we can get an endless supply of CDs to destroy,..."
Have all utilities-phone, power, cable, etc-disconnected. Discontinue all newspaper delivery Remove mailbox, get restraining order against postperson Put RF shielding over and around house And at the rate he's becoming ubiquitous, surround property with barb wire fence and put in landmines
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That is such a hideously stupid idea that it might very well work--Hey, in a world where every negative report about the future of Rambus sends its stock climbing to new heights...
(if you're really serious, e-mail me. What the bleep, it's only a buck.)
The sig is just self-deprecation type humor. I actually browse at a painful -1, even though I don't get to moderate anymore*, cause every once in a while something good is buried down there amongst all the grits and stuff. Although I appreciate the efforts of the majority of the Slashdot moderators, there are a few that are obviously over or under medicated.
*I came up with that sig after getting enough karma to qualify for the extra point (which I try to remember to disable). It turns out that posting enough to get your karma up there marks you as too active a poster to qualify as a moderator.
Slashdot Mirror
"so all the people in here...don't look like they're crazy."
Maybe *that* was the joke.
I spent most of my broadcast career swearing at radio stations
There is a separate sid=metamoderation thread.
"Observers said the test was going quite smoothly up until seconds before the fiery spectacle when the robot began the 'Talking on the cell phone and putting on make-up in the rear-view mirror' portion of the test."
sid=Slashdot Marketing is hilarious (with a few exceptions). Hot Grits and Natalie Portman are lame 'cause those trolls can't stand posting where it won't annoy anybody. they're all out spamming other threads.
I got here in October of '98, before the Halloween Papers that led to the Katz infestation, and just as the "JWZ is dead" story went up (boy did that hit the fan). That got me # 5733, if that helps you work out anything.
I've noticed that the random slashbox often has one category's header and another's stories. Frinstance, it'll say Ask Slashdot but all the stories are from Your Rights Online.
I also think that in the past couple of months some people who just think and see things differently have started moderating and meta-moderating. My personal suspicion is that they are either under or over medicated. :-)
Oh yeah, if I were going to get a bunch of people together to plan something I'd be sure to use something like Slashdot :-)
So what you're looking for is a Slashdot without any of the stuff that makes Slashdot Slashdot, and without any of the advertising that pays for the equipment, bandwidth, and staff that makes it possible? No problem, go turn your monitor on and your computer off.
All of this assumes that I am incorrect in my paranoid theory, based on strange and/or hours after the fact moderations, that there is a plot afoot to manipulate my karma up and down like a yo-yo just to mess with my head.
Kind of like the guy whose new car kept getting better and better gas mileage and then worse and worse until one day his friends couldn't contain themselves or their laughter anymore and admitted to first adding extra gas to his tank and then later siphoning more and more out.
This post, which was #20, arrived fewer than 10 minutes later than post #16, making it quite likely that the poster of this was unaware of the first. As both contain the same content, probably neither are original, yet 5 moderation points have been wasted because one or more AC's came along an hour or so later and started whining before considering the evidence.
For "fo", read "of". I can spell just fine, it's my fingers that have trouble.
Is the above not an accurate statement of a security problem with a particular piece fo software? Was it moderated as a troll solely on its own merits (or lack thereof) or because of who posted it?
"fraudian slip"
Was this a Freudian slip, disclosing your intenton to fraud us?
"George W. "W" Bush said almost exactly the same thing last week, in a speech where he also blasted every single major Internet censorship proposal that has come up so far."
Sorry, hoaxes have to have at least *some* element of believability to them in order to work.
Thank you for playing and goodnight.
This may be an AC pretending to be the impulsiveprofits guy, who, I'm pretty sure, posted as a logged-in user. Which would make this a hoax, instead of spam, making it just about every bad thing you could call it except for "off-topic".
Apparently calling them the Central *Intelligence* Agency is a dis-information ploy.
From the article
"Two years ago, in an attempt to test potential market reaction to the system, George approached Tibbetts, a US based company that supplies the CIA with miniature electronics components. Tibbetts approached the CIA on George's behalf, offering a price of material costs plus $15 per exploding device, based on an order of 100,000 units. The CIA was very interested in the product but on a smaller initial scale - it offered to pay $70 per unit for an amount of 50,000 units when the product was complete. This offer has now been on hold for two years, as the team in Switzerland continues to develop the system."
Am I the only one who thinks that sounds like paying 3.5 million dollars for 50K of them instead of 1.5 million dollars for 100K of them? At that rate we could have bought one for about 1.7 trillion dollars. Imagine what we would have had to pay to keep them from sending us any.
"We focus our tests very strongly on the CD, mainly because we can get an endless supply of CDs to destroy,..."
Have all utilities-phone, power, cable, etc-disconnected.
Discontinue all newspaper delivery
Remove mailbox, get restraining order against postperson
Put RF shielding over and around house
And at the rate he's becoming ubiquitous, surround property with barb wire fence and put in landmines
Aren't they all, sooner or later?
1. go outdoors
2. look down
Instead of giving that mod point to an AC, ILikeRed should have gotten it to counteract being improperly moderated down.
That is such a hideously stupid idea that it might very well work--Hey, in a world where every negative report about the future of Rambus sends its stock climbing to new heights...
(if you're really serious, e-mail me. What the bleep, it's only a buck.)
*I came up with that sig after getting enough karma to qualify for the extra point (which I try to remember to disable). It turns out that posting enough to get your karma up there marks you as too active a poster to qualify as a moderator.