Not only that, but slashdot.com and slashdot.net were totally different websites not so long ago. Then, they quietly started redirecting to slashdot.org.
Perhaps the webmaster should take a second to change the document's title from "Untitled Document" to something else. All the webmasters that are reading this: Check your pages. I see one like this every day, and it doesn't make the page look better. (It also usually means that a WYSIWYG editor was used, for better or for worse.)
In other news today, these absolutely ridiculous events happened:
A mechanic was sued for the poor job he did on a client's car.
A doctor was sued for the poor and unprofessional diagnosis he gave a patient.
A building contractor was sued over the fact that the walls in the house he built just six months ago started cracking.
I don't really see any reason to sue here, but I do think that good work should be expected of web designers. Usually, where I work, the client is shown what is going on in the process, and things they don't like are changed, provided that their requests are reasonable.
Does Walmart keep track of every product you buy when you are there?
I would wager that they keep track of everything they can. If you use a creditcard, they use that as your "preferred customer card" to track when and where you shop. If you give them a zip code, they use it to record demographical data. And, of course, they record all purchases made.
Recently, I was purchasing a wrap (sandwich-like object) at a local Wawa (a food mart). After having paid for it, I realized that I grabbed the wrong kind, and I wanted to exchange it (without opening it) for a similar sandwich of the same price. At this point, I was informed by the cashier that I have to return it and then buy a new one. Why do you think they did that?
Tracking is everywhere. The only remedy is to purposely pollute the information hives, but that'll never work because most people don't care.
One of the reasons I don't think that online voting won't catch on for a long time is this. I'm sure that some Slashdotters have voted. I haven't yet, but I roughly know how the process takes place. Do you remember it now? I'm sure you've seen it in some TV show if you haven't been there yourself.
You sign a paper, proceed to a... what's this... booth! And the booth has a... curtain! One of the most important parts of voting is that it is private! How will this be ensured when voting is done from your home? What would prevent someone paying me or threatening me into voting for a particular candidate?
Currently, they have no way to ensure the desired vote takes place. What happens when I can do it from home?
Posting on Slashdot is enough. I've already gotten several pieces of spam at the address above. One of them actually included the phone number of the company:
Message sent by: Kuppler Graphics, 32 West Main Street, Maple Shade, New Jersey, 08052, 1-800-810-4330. This list will NOT be sold. All addresses are automatically added to our remove list. Hello. My name is Bill from Kuppler Graphics. We do screenprinting on T Shirts, Sweatshirts, Jackets, Hats, Tote Bags and more!
(And so on.)
I called them once, and I'm gonna call them again. And I'm gonna keep calling until they agree with me that spamming is not a good marketing strategy.
So... what happens when the CMOS battery dies? This isn't a troll, I honestly want to know.
Personally, I think that the best solution is to add a few jumpers and do it that way. Anyone who doesn't know how to open the box up and set a jumper or two should not be overclocking. This isn't eliticism, IMHO, it's for the user's own good.
Why is Slashdot using cookies to track me even when I'm browsing anonymously? I just thought that I'd use Lynx on the G4 box at work for a change, and lo!..
Does anyone else see anything wrong with this? I'm glad that I can use JunkBuster to filter images*.slashdot.org. I guess Rob will have to wait a bit until I start loading the banners again! Is this in the Slashcode tarball? If so, what does it do? If it isn't, why not? Could someone familiar with Slash please clarify this?
(Yes, I know that I'm replying to a troll, but I couldn't resist.)
When I was buying a new modem, I needed an external one. Besides, IMHO, being more reliable, they also have those neato LEDs that may also come in handy.
Since I'm familiar with the brand, and since I considered them to be reliable, I went for a U.S. Robotics at first. I bought an open-box unit for about 2/3 the price and went home to enjoy it. After about 12 hours of continuous use, it died.
Not being easily discouraged, I returned that one, and bought a second identical unit, this time still in its original shrink-wrap, and for full-price. Guess what? The same thing happened.
So I returned another modem, and bought a Zoom modem instead.
It's been happily chugging along ever since. It is connected virtually 24 hours a day, and I haven't had any problems yet.
It has more LEDs than the U.S. Robotics modem, and they are actually useful. It has four "mode" lights: V34, 56K, FAX, and MSG. Since I have a sucky phone line, there is often noise, and sometimes the modem will lose the connection, and renegotiate into V34 mode. The LED lets me know this, and I know to drop the connection and reconnect.
It isn't nearly as ugly. Besides the old 2400 Hayes modems with the aluminum bodies, I've yet to see a nicer-looking external modem.
A link to the gzip'd diff, which you then have to search through for the changelog? Nah. I appreciate the post.
I didn't realize it was not a separate file. I take back my complaint, unless the info is available in a separate textfile somewhere else.
And what's with all the "instructions to moderators" type posts - is this some sort of pseudo-meta-moderation?
Well, if you see something wrong, don't you try to change it? This post apparently being the exception, I see a lot of people just go to a page on the linked site, copy all the info on it, and paste it into a post hoping to get a few karma points. As a result, I have to scroll back through 3 pages of the +5,Informative post I just read a minute ago.
(This is just an off-topic rant about Internet.com. I thought that it would be semi-appropriate here.)
Is anyone else annoyed by the big Internet.com "network"? It seems that they are going around and buying every single worthwhile and half-worthwhile website out there? After the site is acquired, it becomes slower than it was before, because they fill it with ads and links to their other sites.
During the last year, this has happened to many of the sites I frequent. I'm getting really bugged, and a even a little scared. This post on Slashdot just gives me another reason to be so.
TheCounter was an excellent counter service. They had a website with two banner ads on each page, and a nice clean layout. The counters they provided loaded quickly and reliably. After having been acquired, the website was redone to something that makes my eyes hurt, and the counters started either taking ages to load, or failing to load at all. Their solution? Create a new account so that it exists on our new server.
No major changes yet at LinuxApps, except for all the links and ads for the other Internet.com sites. However, the same problem as the one listed in this post arises. Would a post about Freshmeat on LinuxNewbie be pulled because Internet.com owns LinuxApps, which is similar to Freshmeat? This is, apparently, what happened in this case.
BrowserWatch, LinuxNewbie, PHPBuilder, and a lot of other sites I frequent have all been bought by Internet.com. There haven't been major changes on them yet, besides all the annoying links and logos, but this post gives me more reason to be paranoid.
I guess a few companies are currently trying to capture as much eyeballs on the web as possible to have more control, in order to be able to continue to capture more and more eyeballs. Sounds familiar? I think that the point here (if there is any) that all corporations are the same, be it meatspace or here. There is absolutely no reason to trust them, and they must be watched and kept in check.
Also please note that the ICQ software, as with most Internet applications, is vulnerable to various security issues and hence should be considered unsecured.
Since when do "most Internet applications" use client-side security?
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- A mechanic was sued for the poor job he did on a client's car.
- A doctor was sued for the poor and unprofessional diagnosis he gave a patient.
- A building contractor was sued over the fact that the walls in the house he built just six months ago started cracking.
I don't really see any reason to sue here, but I do think that good work should be expected of web designers. Usually, where I work, the client is shown what is going on in the process, and things they don't like are changed, provided that their requests are reasonable.--
I would wager that they keep track of everything they can. If you use a creditcard, they use that as your "preferred customer card" to track when and where you shop. If you give them a zip code, they use it to record demographical data. And, of course, they record all purchases made.
Recently, I was purchasing a wrap (sandwich-like object) at a local Wawa (a food mart). After having paid for it, I realized that I grabbed the wrong kind, and I wanted to exchange it (without opening it) for a similar sandwich of the same price. At this point, I was informed by the cashier that I have to return it and then buy a new one. Why do you think they did that?
Tracking is everywhere. The only remedy is to purposely pollute the information hives, but that'll never work because most people don't care.
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You sign a paper, proceed to a... what's this... booth! And the booth has a... curtain! One of the most important parts of voting is that it is private! How will this be ensured when voting is done from your home? What would prevent someone paying me or threatening me into voting for a particular candidate?
Currently, they have no way to ensure the desired vote takes place. What happens when I can do it from home?
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I called them once, and I'm gonna call them again. And I'm gonna keep calling until they agree with me that spamming is not a good marketing strategy.
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So... what happens when the CMOS battery dies? This isn't a troll, I honestly want to know.
Personally, I think that the best solution is to add a few jumpers and do it that way. Anyone who doesn't know how to open the box up and set a jumper or two should not be overclocking. This isn't eliticism, IMHO, it's for the user's own good.
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So, out of curiosity, I take a peek around the source of this very page I'm posting a comment from, and what's this?
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Does anyone else see anything wrong with this? I'm glad that I can use JunkBuster to filter images*.slashdot.org. I guess Rob will have to wait a bit until I start loading the banners again! Is this in the Slashcode tarball? If so, what does it do? If it isn't, why not? Could someone familiar with Slash please clarify this?
Watch me get bitchslapped...
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When I was buying a new modem, I needed an external one. Besides, IMHO, being more reliable, they also have those neato LEDs that may also come in handy.
Since I'm familiar with the brand, and since I considered them to be reliable, I went for a U.S. Robotics at first. I bought an open-box unit for about 2/3 the price and went home to enjoy it. After about 12 hours of continuous use, it died.
Not being easily discouraged, I returned that one, and bought a second identical unit, this time still in its original shrink-wrap, and for full-price. Guess what? The same thing happened.
So I returned another modem, and bought a Zoom modem instead.
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I didn't realize it was not a separate file. I take back my complaint, unless the info is available in a separate textfile somewhere else.
And what's with all the "instructions to moderators" type posts - is this some sort of pseudo-meta-moderation?
Well, if you see something wrong, don't you try to change it? This post apparently being the exception, I see a lot of people just go to a page on the linked site, copy all the info on it, and paste it into a post hoping to get a few karma points. As a result, I have to scroll back through 3 pages of the +5,Informative post I just read a minute ago.
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Is anyone else annoyed by the big Internet.com "network"? It seems that they are going around and buying every single worthwhile and half-worthwhile website out there? After the site is acquired, it becomes slower than it was before, because they fill it with ads and links to their other sites.
During the last year, this has happened to many of the sites I frequent. I'm getting really bugged, and a even a little scared. This post on Slashdot just gives me another reason to be so.
- TheCounter was an excellent counter service. They had a website with two banner ads on each page, and a nice clean layout. The counters they provided loaded quickly and reliably. After having been acquired, the website was redone to something that makes my eyes hurt, and the counters started either taking ages to load, or failing to load at all. Their solution? Create a new account so that it exists on our new server.
- No major changes yet at LinuxApps, except for all the links and ads for the other Internet.com sites. However, the same problem as the one listed in this post arises. Would a post about Freshmeat on LinuxNewbie be pulled because Internet.com owns LinuxApps, which is similar to Freshmeat? This is, apparently, what happened in this case.
- BrowserWatch, LinuxNewbie, PHPBuilder, and a lot of other sites I frequent have all been bought by Internet.com. There haven't been major changes on them yet, besides all the annoying links and logos, but this post gives me more reason to be paranoid.
I guess a few companies are currently trying to capture as much eyeballs on the web as possible to have more control, in order to be able to continue to capture more and more eyeballs. Sounds familiar? I think that the point here (if there is any) that all corporations are the same, be it meatspace or here. There is absolutely no reason to trust them, and they must be watched and kept in check.--
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Because 90% of the time, messages on ICQ are sent CTC.
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Since when do "most Internet applications" use client-side security?
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