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I'm here for the commentary (Score:5, Insightful)
I browse at -1. The comments are the content.
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Agreed. One of the options was "I'm here for the polls"
Well, I'm here for the TROLLS, motherfuckers!
-- Ethanol-fueled
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TM Playgirl.
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All the good, subtle trolls have all but vanished. Last one I liked was Doctor Bob I think.
Re:I'm here for the commentary (Score:5, Insightful)
Sometimes, I get the feeling that folks don't even read the comments that they are replying to . . .
Re:I'm here for the commentary (Score:5, Funny)
Sometimes, I get the feeling that folks don't even read the comments that they are replying to . . .
It's obvious that the companies in San Fransisco DO have a hiring problem because they don't compensate for the enormous increase in the cost of standard of living there and they expect one to take a shitty salary and live out in the sticks commute for an hour one way.
I mean really, who is going to give up a relatively secure job with benefits, a 20 minute commute and a life to move to SF for an obscenely high cost of living, working for a startup that'll more than likely close its doors in 6 - 12 months all for a "competitive" salary?!
NFW! I don't want "competitive". I want obscene!
To be compensated for the risk of working for a startup, I demand at least a 20% increase in pay, cost of living to live near by (none of this commuting for an hour BS) and equity - none of the LOTTERY ticket BS of stock options - those are for suckers.
To work for the "Next Big Thing" startup in SF, I need at least $500,000 + equity.
Unreasonable? Absolutely!
I have a nice comfortable life in a suburb, a house with a yard, tennis, pool, good schools for the kids, 20 minute commute.
All because the tech companies decided that being in the city is retarded. So, they moved out the suburbs where the workers want to live - even the companies whose HQs are downtown have their IT/development in the 'burbs.
SF is for lammoes and mediocre companies with no imagination.
Alpharetta Georgia is where I'm talking about - up the 400 corridor. No shortage of qualified people here.
Wonder why that is?
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You don't know what your talking about. NASA missions have changed and with it we have to understand that man will not walk on the moon, Mars, or other off world bodies through government means. That space ship has sailed. In once way I'm okay with it for if companies get more involved, then the risk/reward balance will shift a little more towards risk for reward.
I am reading a book about the Voyages of HMS Beagle, the second and third expeditions. Back then Governments accepted a greater risk (death, l
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I get the feeling you are that manager from SF that can't hire developers. Sorry pal, I just can't move out there :)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4012283&cid=44383117 [slashdot.org]
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The summaries are just a suggestion. Really, we're hear to use this excellent soapbox to find like-minded individuals who will agree with our someone non-conformist ideas. We pick comments based not on what they actually say, but how likely they are to get the right eyeballs and to get us modded up by those who think like us :)
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The summaries are just a suggestion.
Now I regret reading so many of them.
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/slashdot/audio [feedburner.com]
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Shhh.... don't disturb the nonconformists who are all thinking and doing the same things....
Mod up, for the love of (insert deity here)!
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Hmm....why don't we all take the non-conformists oath?
Repeat after me...."I Promise to be different"!!
"I Promise to be Unique"
I Promise..... [youtube.com]
Re:I'm here for the commentary (Score:4, Informative)
I think there's room on this planet for both giraffes and peanut butter. Very few people have allergies to both of them.
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Giraffes are doomed to extinction. They're always sticking their necks out, kinda like turtles
Re:I'm here for the commentary (Score:5, Funny)
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Proves my point. Look what happened to her. Living in Brazil is torture.
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Nice way to Godwin a thread.
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I disagree strongly. I didn't bother reading your comment first but I know I disagree with it.
Seriously - I agree with you. Slashdot has become full of stubborn people with weak arguments and no thought processes behind them who demand everyone else accept they are right about everything. They bash comments and insult posters without even understanding what those posters are trying to say. It was always like that to some extent but it's got worse in the last few years.
Plus Slashdot has diverged from 'news f
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Slashdot has become full of stubborn people with weak arguments and no thought processes behind them who demand everyone else accept they are right about everything
Eternal September ho!
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Sometimes, I get the feeling that folks don't even read the comments that they are replying to . . .
F...... Polls, how do they work?
Sometimes I get the feeling that folks don't even read the options and check the first box just because it's there . . .
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Usually, there will be an early comment with a much needed correction to the summary. Slashdot summaries are more unreliable than Fox News.
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you make plenty of assumptions, when in reality you think getting a +5 means shit, and you think you are older than anyone else
grats, now go fuck off
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I don't think many 13 year olds post on slashdot, it just seems that way sometimes.
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I don't think many 13 year olds post on slashdot, it just seems that way sometimes.
So, when did the maturity level of the comments go up?
Cheers,
Dave
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Unlike the parent, I browse at 0. Last time I read -1, it was horribly spammed with GNAA.
Currently there is no spam problem to speak of. Interestingly many articles still have the message from an ancient spammer with random words and the word "BSD" there somewhere. But that's about it. No GNAA around anymore and almost no advertisements. Should be fine browsing at -1.
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and goatse asci-art days are long gone.
Goatse ASCII art:
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I'm just here for the polls (Score:2, Interesting)
Since the transfer of ownership (and perhaps a bit before then, even), there hasn't been any "stuff that matters" in sight....
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By the way, (Score:5, Insightful)
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Jr unir xabja nobhg lbhe cynaf sbe n ybat gvzr...
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By now, several hundred copies of your message have been copy/pasted to random online rot13 websites, causing a blip on the NSA's radar, and having the opposite effect that you probably intended by encoding it...
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Abg ernyyl... zbfg crbcyr whfg hfr gur yrrg xrl cyhtva.
Ubj qvq V abg xabj nobhg guvf nqq-ba?
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You don't need a plugin, you can do it in one line of tr.
tr '[a-m][n-z][A-M][N-Z]' '[n-z][a-m][N-Z][A-M]'
Don't get the impression I'm trying to show off some l33t unix skillz here, such a simple bit of character substitution should be easy for anyone who spends time on the unix command line.
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Ol gur jnl, V ernyyl yvxrq guvf, naq gur arkg bar orybj.
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You must be nude here.
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Uijt qptu xbt pomz fodszqufe xjui SPU-1.
Cz iboe.*
Zpv lopx xibu?
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*Uibu't mffu, npuifsgvdlfst.
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Or translated, as closely as possible:
"If I want to hide everything I write from the NSA, then I rather write in norwegian mixed dialekts, throw in some arbitrary but entirely understandable misspellings inbetween. Not least I throw in
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Works in English too (Score:2)
"I put the weapon in my boot but I was so pissed this morning that I couldn't drive to work."
The NSA would probably be storming the suspect's place of work looking for a really angry person with a weapon shoved into their footwear. What they will find is an unarmed person with a large hangover while their friend is picking up the weapon where they left it in the boot of their car (trunk in American) back at home. In fact I would not be surprise
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Zl AFN-vaqhprq cnenabvn yriry vf fb uvtu, V jbhyqa'g rira cbfg n pbzzrag ba gung cbyy'f cntr.
Bs pbhefr gurl jvyy fgber guvf bar'f erfcbafrf gbb, ohg gurl jba'g or pbaarpgvat gur qbgf orsber zl cynaf ner pbzcyrgr.
Naively thought the encryption above was going to be a little more interesting than the decrypted result following (with the signature included):
Since checking out the rest doesn't look promising
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My NSA-induced paranoia level is so high, I wouldn't even post a comment on that poll's page.
Of course they will store this one's responses too, but they won't be connecting the dots before my plans are complete.
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Fvapr purpxvat bhg gur erfg qbrfa'g ybbx cebzvfvat . . .
V ncbybtvmr vs zl nggrzcg ng zrgn-cbyy uhzbe vfa'g hc gb lbhe ersvarq /. gnfgrf.
Hayvxr lbh, V pna frr gung vg oebhtug n ernfba gb or perngvir be vasbezngvir gb znal /.ref.
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V ncbybtvmr vs zl nggrzcg ng zrgn-cbyy uhzbe vfa'g hc gb lbhe ersvarq /. gnfgrf.
Hayvxr lbh, V pna frr gung vg oebhtug n ernfba gb or perngvir be vasbezngvir gb znal /.ref.
No. No. I get it. I should apologize for making a comment without reading the whole thread first.
I was completely unaware of the plugin, myself.
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V ncbybtvmr vs zl nggrzcg ng zrgn-cbyy uhzbe vfa'g hc gb lbhe ersvarq /. gnfgrf.
Hayvxr lbh, V pna frr gung vg oebhtug n ernfba gb or perngvir be vasbezngvir gb znal /.ref.
No. No. I get it. I should apologize for making a comment without reading the whole thread first.
I was completely unaware of the plugin, myself.
Okay, I understand. Thanks for the response.
And actually, reversing your first post for my response allowed me to learn that LeetKey is smart enough to leave the bracketed tags alone. I was highlighting a line at a time to avoid messing them up, then did a two-paragraph block thinking I would have to correct the [/p][p] tags, but they remained correct. Tried it with the remaining quoted paragraphs, and all the tags stayed the same.
So thanks again, I'm glad you stuck around.
(Leaving this one un-ROTted, in tr
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ITYM the <p> and </p> tags.
Thank you for showing me how to make those two characters without them being activated.
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Correction: (Score:1)
I'm just here for Cowboy Neal.
I read /. the same way I read a newspaper (Score:5, Interesting)
1) Read the titles since they're like headlines. /.ed, see if someone has posted a link to an alternative source for the article.
2) If the title is interesting, read the summary.
3) If the sumary is interesting, read the comments.
4) If the summary is REALLY interesting read the article, then read the comments.
5) If the summary is REALLY, REALLY interesting and the article is
Of course, none of that matters if the posting concerns something I want to comment on. Nothing says you have to read the summary or the article if you want to comment. RTFA? Nah. Same if I have mod points.
Cheers,
Dave
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1) Read the titles since they're like headlines.
2) If the title is interesting, read the summary.
3) If the sumary is interesting, read the comments.
4) If the summary is REALLY interesting read the article, then read the comments.
5) If the summary is REALLY, REALLY interesting [...]
You forgot:
0) Try to get a first post.
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Sounds reasonable but people comment without reading the article. It's only fair to mod without reading the article. :D
Cheers,
Dave
Re:I read /. the same way I read a newspaper (Score:4, Interesting)
Lots of comments is kind of tricky. If my skim of the title and summary gets a , "Yeah, everybody and his uncle will be posting the same old thing," then I skip it. If something that should be obscure is generating a lot of comments (probably not goatse thogh), I'll look in to see what the fuss is about.
The articles that bring out philosophical contradictions are the most fun. I love it when posters can't put together a cogent argument for their position because what they want is contradictory but that doesn't stop them from posting and vehemently arguing their contradictory point.
Cheers,
Dave
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Speaking of /.ed, when was the last time that happened? Seems with the greater speeds this is less likely to happen...
There is probably a correlation to not seeing as many articles with links to obscure sites that can't take a /.ing. Most of the articles linked to of late are to NY Times, BBC, etc. that have plenty of server power and bandwidth. Haven't seen an article that links to something like the high rvelocity potato cannon in a long time.
Cheers,
Dave
/. effect? (Score:1)
I thought the /. effect (or affect) effected (or affected) the *referenced* site and not /..
But then, maybe I'm new here...but I'm not...look at my userid.
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What, you think a high six digit UID is something special? I see one of those on practically every topic I find interesting enough to post to.
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I thought the /. effect (or affect) effected (or affected) the *referenced* site and not /..
It's one of the many mysteries of the Internet. I think that the solution to the paradox is that people click the article to feel smart and close it without reading it -- I know I do! ;)
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But then, maybe I'm new here...but I'm not...look at my userid.
Yes you are
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I thought the /. effect (or affect) effected (or affected) the *referenced* site and not /..
But then, maybe I'm new here...but I'm not...look at my userid.
This userid envy is very persistent and very silly. I guy I worked with had a 4 digit userid and we both started reading slashdot at about the same time. He just signed up for an account earlier.
Like karma it's just a number, it doesn't matter.
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The world of IT has no concept of respecting elders. It respects betters.
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The "Slashdot effect" affects the referenced site.
The "Slashdot affect" is pretending to be a Slashdotter.
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Sometimes, you can't tell from the user ID. Nowadays it has to be spelled out explicitly.
Read the tags (Score:2, Insightful)
Yro? Politics? *skip*
The real poll question should be (Score:5, Funny)
Do the editors read what they post?
Do the editors know the meaning of "editor"?
Do these editors actually exist?
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A real /.er would know the answers already.
Do the editors read these stuff?
No.
Do the editors read what they post?
Hell no
Do the editors know the meaning of "editor"?
I'm sure they know -- as we all do -- that it is Vi and NOT Emacs.
Do these editors actually exist?
Sorry to disappoint you, but they have always been robot overlords.
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you obviously did not, before going on a English professor rant, you might want to make sure your first point is not ...
Do the editors read these stuff?
dumbfuck
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you obviously did not, before going on a English professor rant, you might want to make sure your first point is not ...
Do the editors read these stuff?
dumbfuck
And that's part of what's wrong here. Oldhack made a typo, people type comments fast and sometimes they use the wrong word or grammar. That does not make him a 'dumbfuck'. You are being too aggressive and you have no cause to be.
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yea but I didnt write a rant about the editors of the site with pint #1 being totally butchered now did I
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Is that an English pint or an American pint...or was it meant to be point, thus making the Parent post's pint ...er point.
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I am not an editor of slashdot so I do not see how, but keep grasping for straws, you might get one
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Now that's funny...
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I am not an editor of slashdot ...
Neither is the OP. His point isn't that he is perfect. His point is that the editors are worse at their job, i.e. editing a submission, than even us common folk.
Can I sign off as "dumbfuck" too? Or did you reserve that for yourself?
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no go right ahead, and join the ranks of people that have nothing else to contribute other than being a grammar Nazi
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That's actually exactly what this poll meant to say.
Title, Summary, Comments, Article (Score:2)
Generally I'll read the Title and Summary. If it's interesting I might go to the Article but generally I'll load up the comments. If the comments indicate the Article might be interesting, either because folks are confused about what the Article said/meant, or because the comments are interesting, there's a good chance I'll read the Article(s) as well.
If it's a low comment count farther down the page, I might just read the Title though. Especially if it's collapsed and the summary isn't visible.
It's never r
Department names! (Score:2)
Obviously.. (Score:2)
No one reads the articles anymore... they all get slashdotted.
I have attained Slashdot Zen (Score:2, Funny)
I don't even see the comments. I just see yro, Apple, Privacy and can derive the 36 Full - 8 Abbreviated - 419 HIdden comments from that alone.
RSS Feed (Score:2)
I read /. more via RSS then any other way, so I typically never miss a title; and in mini-view usually grab the top 5 comments too.
The correct answer: (Score:2)
P.S. Why don't the
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we also require support for the core and fundamental tags of HTML, such as < blink > and < marquee >
Well, it bayesians... (Score:2)
When I browse, I always read the title and 25% of the time I read the summary.
When I post, I always read the summary and 75% of the time I read the article.
Missed one (Score:2)
Articles, sometimes (Score:2)
If I'm going to comment, I make sure to read the article first. Every so often there's a story where the summary is completely different, and you can always tell who didn't bother to glance at the article. Also, telling people they got the article wrong is fun.
I don't read articles (Score:2)
Missing Option (Score:2)
Move on without looking, or jump directly to comments where someone will boil his 10,000 words down to two sentences.
"I don't even do the polls" (Score:2)
would have been a better dummy option
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Dammit Frank, you just fucked up the whole joke.
Now where was I?
"So the bartender pulls out a gun..."
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And the customer says, "No, I said a shot of GIN!"
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