MetaFilter posts tagged with slashdot and brokenlink

sherman — Sat, 08 Jun 2002 12:17:54 -0800

Meet Cyc. This endeavor to produce AI has been going on since 1984. In ’86 it asked if it were human; it later asked “if any other computers were engaged in such a project”. It’s strength lies in a database of assumptions and generalities, in the hopes that it will eventually “generalize as much as possible until further generalization would be false”. Is this going to be the breakthrough, or does it just seem really cool? (yes, via Slashdot)

patrickje — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:21:32 -0800

Should creation of intellectual property be taxable? The City of Seattle wants to tax the development of software, not the sale, the development. Across the country state and local governments are starting to consider taxing this. The question is, is software development taxable? If so, is writing a book taxable, painting a picture? People pay sales tax on the software, and businesses pay income, use, and B&O taxes already. Why is this different? via /.

arnab — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 02:30:01 -0800

Slashdot.info is the address that I randomly typed in, (just for fun) and reached the page. Quite informative. Better than a spoof page, atleast. Also, the .biz is not registered yet...

RylandDotNet — Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:09:14 -0800

Oh my god, the internet has porn on it! (Again.) The U.S. Congress makes their annual re-discovery that not everything on the internet is child-friendly. This time they noticed the Gnutella network. (Yes, I got the link from Slashdot - but I like discussing things here rather than there.)

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 07 Jun 2001 07:46:36 -0800

"Three of the top Net-nerd forum/discussion sites, Metafilter, Plastic.com and Slashdot, have threads discussing ways to block these ads." Ouch. I don't know which I resent more: "Net-nerd" or being grouped with "Plastic.com".

holloway — Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:29:05 -0800

"I knew lots of rednecks that had taken potshots at the [Goodyear] blimp."

kliuless — Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:38:52 -0800

No Logo slash site. Naomi Klein's book has it's own site based on slashcode. New media for the anti-corporate masses :)

veruca — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:27:54 -0800

Slashdot , meet Greendot.

lbergstr — Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:50:06 -0800

Content Protection at the Hardware Level. Sounds silly, doesn't it? The further you read, though, the scarier it is. What if your speakers refused to play non-watermarked audio? Followup to the Sony VP's speech.

grumblebee — Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:10:54 -0800

The original programmer of the Broderbund/Mattel "spyware" explains that it's actually NOT spyware. This topic was originally discussed on MeFi in this thread.

mathowie — Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:08:22 -0800

/. has a link to a contest to find the slowest booting NT server. That's one of the things that really bugs me about NT. My workstation takes about 15 minutes and this very server (MetaFilter) takes at least 10 minutes to reboot.