Post #195,303
2/17/05 11:18:46 PM
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You should
Everyone should.
It's like Google being down.
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Post #195,309
2/17/05 11:35:29 PM
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*yawn*
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #195,315
2/17/05 11:44:34 PM
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Uh...
Google: invaluable informational resource that I have set as my home page.
Slashdot: tons of stupid, uninteresting crap with the occasional link to a good article.
How exactly is it like Google being down...?
It was probably just a programming error in the Perl scripts.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #195,391
2/18/05 12:46:59 PM
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Oh, *slashdot*. Thanks for reminding me what /. means
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Post #195,518
2/19/05 12:06:02 PM
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Huh? It's a slash and a dot - WTF else COULD it mean?!?
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Post #195,527
2/19/05 12:34:49 PM
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Dry humor burns brightest--did you have to douse it?
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Post #195,529
2/19/05 12:40:54 PM
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It's the famous CRC-o-Matic Frog-dissectotron!
Peter
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Post #195,552
2/19/05 6:18:26 PM
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Works even better as humour if it actually is *funny*. HTH!
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Post #195,327
2/18/05 12:47:57 AM
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Huh? In what way?
I use Google all day long. I last looked at /. about 3 years ago, and that was about a month after the first time I looked at it.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #195,343
2/18/05 6:34:39 AM
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Fine, them I'm the only /. type geek here
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Post #195,347
2/18/05 7:55:48 AM
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Well, at least the only one obsessing over it, maybe. ;-)
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Post #195,355
2/18/05 8:32:21 AM
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I go there daily. Feel better? ;-P
Hate their comments/forums/whatever - LOVE the stories.
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #195,356
2/18/05 8:36:19 AM
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In my aggregator at bloglines
But when I used to hit it directly, I notice that it became inaccessible at least a couple times a month (for short periods of time).
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Post #195,377
2/18/05 11:58:49 AM
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Stopped going when they increased amount of mod points
I didn't see any formal announcement, but the typical front-page story went from about 10-20 +5 comments to well over 30 on almost every story. The obvious problem was that there was suddenly too much to keep up with. The more subtle problem was worse: Now that every semi-coherent comment was getting to +5 the real gems weren't getting noticed. The overall quality of visible comments went down sharply.
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Post #195,383
2/18/05 12:14:35 PM
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If they'd have a separate category for "funny" it'd help.
The thing that bothers me most about /. is that a clear insightful comment earns the same amount as some stupid "[link|http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139878&cid=11710830|"funny"] comment. I try to browse /. occasionally, showing comments above 3 or 4, but sometimes it seems 80% of them are [link|http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139879&cid=11711174|"funny"] (even if the actual proportion is lower). It's maddening. They should have a checkbox to exclude [link|http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139859&cid=11710717|"funny"] posts in the displayed articles.
But of course they'd never do that...
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #195,385
2/18/05 12:20:27 PM
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They do
you can configure your user preferences to ignore mod points for Funny. The problem is that the good comments are never seen, because the quick jokes pile up fast and furious, and by the time someone posts something thoughtful it's already buried.
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Post #195,390
2/18/05 12:40:31 PM
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How?
Do you have to be logged in to get that functionality? I can't see it in the settings visible to me.
I think I have an account in the low 4 or 5 digit range, but I haven't logged into /. in ~ 5 years or more. I'm not sure I remember my password...
Thanks.
Oh, and I agree about the diamonds being buried under the mountain of coal slag.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #195,469
2/18/05 10:47:38 PM
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Yes, have to be logged in
If you care, you can enter your email and have your password sent, but it's really not worth it any more IMO.
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Post #195,471
2/18/05 10:50:59 PM
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I'm in Scott's boat
Plus I'm sure that I've changed email addresses once or twice since I created that account. So I'm not getting it back.
On the plus side, I have several times the maximum allowable karma.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #195,474
2/18/05 11:01:02 PM
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Not any more you don't
Before I stopped reading it -- but not much before, now that I think about it -- they changed karma. Instead of showing an actual number it was just "Good", "Excellent", etc.
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Post #195,404
2/18/05 1:43:37 PM
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No.
[link|http://slashdot.org/~gfolkert|41005]
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #195,411
2/18/05 2:55:01 PM
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And?
[link|http://slashdot.org/~malraux|5479]
Slashdot has gone way, way downhill.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #195,414
2/18/05 3:31:15 PM
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6420
[link|http://forfree.sytes.net|
] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #195,429
2/18/05 6:10:38 PM
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2300
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Post #195,464
2/18/05 10:34:15 PM
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9225
Peter
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Post #195,468
2/18/05 10:45:28 PM
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Okay, that's enough willy-waving
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Post #195,475
2/18/05 11:10:55 PM
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:-)
Apparently I never had an account - nothing shows up when I request my password. I think I posted something there long ago, but I must have been an AC. No idea what it was though...
No great loss.
I might sign up for an account just so that I can sort out the "funny" stuff.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #195,694
2/20/05 9:50:42 PM
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1229
Sorry, Drew. :-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #195,536
2/19/05 1:59:42 PM
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Wasn't willy waving... more like "No barry you are wrong!"
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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