I like Slashdot, I really do. However, it seems that a lot of articles are just introductions to something someone else wrote about altogether. You get a glimpse of what the article is about, then a link to it on another site. Then you follow this link on this poor tiny little server that gets flooded with thousands of http requests from Slashdot readers. The server gets knocked offline because the bandwidth consumption acts as a denial of service attack. Instead of just posting these links on Slashdot, perhaps you should get permition from the original site to link there first? Maybe even get permition to copy the article and post it here? Perhaps even be as nice as to get permission to copy the article, then host it on your own server instead? I am not trying to start a fight with anyone, I am just giving my humble opinions like everyone else does. I am not telling anyone to do anything at all except think about what I have said. Try to understand what the owner of that server is going through when they get Slashdotted.
The simple fact is, whatever you call their software, it still sucks! Especially since once you have it, it's extremely hard to get rid of it. If anything, I would call it a trojan myself.
"The rumors of a thousand ill-informed people do not add up to the knowledge of a single well-informed person."
You have to agree though, sometimes it can be an amazing source of entertainment to see what the idiots think about a particular topic.
If you were dig information from a book in your public library, there would be no iron-clad guarantee that what you are reading is true. It is up to the individual to decide for himself whether to accept or reject a source no matter where it comes from... Even if that source includes your own relatives and peers. However, I must agree that there is a lot of misinformation that clouds the facts when viewing online content.
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I like Slashdot, I really do. However, it seems that a lot of articles are just introductions to something someone else wrote about altogether. You get a glimpse of what the article is about, then a link to it on another site. Then you follow this link on this poor tiny little server that gets flooded with thousands of http requests from Slashdot readers. The server gets knocked offline because the bandwidth consumption acts as a denial of service attack. Instead of just posting these links on Slashdot, perhaps you should get permition from the original site to link there first? Maybe even get permition to copy the article and post it here? Perhaps even be as nice as to get permission to copy the article, then host it on your own server instead? I am not trying to start a fight with anyone, I am just giving my humble opinions like everyone else does. I am not telling anyone to do anything at all except think about what I have said. Try to understand what the owner of that server is going through when they get Slashdotted.
The simple fact is, whatever you call their software, it still sucks! Especially since once you have it, it's extremely hard to get rid of it. If anything, I would call it a trojan myself.
You have to agree though, sometimes it can be an amazing source of entertainment to see what the idiots think about a particular topic.
If you were dig information from a book in your public library, there would be no iron-clad guarantee that what you are reading is true. It is up to the individual to decide for himself whether to accept or reject a source no matter where it comes from... Even if that source includes your own relatives and peers. However, I must agree that there is a lot of misinformation that clouds the facts when viewing online content.