MetaFilter posts tagged with slashdot

Non-news for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter

blue_beetle — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:04:57 -0800

idle.slashdot.org is slashdot's place for off-topic videos/humour/viral web junk. Official announcement.

Im in ur congress, monitoring changes to ur legislation

grobstein — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:22:13 -0800

Slashdot poster has brilliant legislative reform idea: "Source Control for Bills in Congress." What if sneaky changes to pending legislation showed up as soon as they were made instead of in ominously worded media reports months later?

CmdrTaco: 16,777,216 comments should be enough for everyone

forwebsites — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:48:06 -0800

Slashdot runs out of comments

Bestest best of the web?

feelinglistless — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:07:58 -0800

Websites that changed the world? This Observer piece lists fifteen websites that aught to be considered the best of the web. It's a bold claim and although the potted histories are excellent, I'm wondering the extent to which it mostly includes website that have broken the public recognition barrier in the uk rather than changing the world. How many are simply pioneers in their field? Where for example is flickr?

Diggdot -Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular mashup

srboisvert — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:37:01 -0800

Diggdot.us Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular - this is a constant browsing cycle for us. So why not combine them into a unified format without all the extra chrome? We can eliminate dupes and add some extra niceities.

EP3 Trailer

jimjam — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:09:28 -0800

EP3 Trailer Awesome.

What do bloggers owe their sources?

tomharpel — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:53:20 -0800

Roland Piquepaille, author of the excellent Technology Trends blog and frequent contributor to Slashdot, is accused of using plagirism, Slashdot and his own blog to pump up his Blogads revenue. Long quotes and summarization of sources are staples of the blogging culture. When revenue is involved, some infer that the blogger owes more than just credit to their sources. [via Eyebeam Reblog].

next big thing: digg

johnnydark — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:21:48 -0800

yesterday: news.com
today: Slashdot
tomorrow: digg

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

daHIFI — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:50:31 -0800

Google's sorcery You use it, I use it some 30-40 times a day, but did you ever wonder exactly how they do it? The numbers are staggering:

# Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed. # Up to 2,000 PCs in a cluster. # Over 30 clusters. # 104 interface languages including Klingon and Tagalog. # One petabyte of data in a cluster -- so much that hard disk error rates of 10-15 begin to be a real issue. # Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster. # An expectation that two machines will fail every day in each of the larger clusters. # No complete system failure since February 2000.

Is Google God? (via /.)

Michael Badnarik on Slashdot

bitpart — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:49:02 -0800

Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik answers Slashdot's questions.

I kid... I kid...

togdon — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:51:27 -0800

politics.slashdot.org ... Can politics.metafilter.com be far behind?

Slashdot posts Megway parody 3 years later.

hobbes — Sun, 09 May 2004 12:24:52 -0800

Slashdot just a bit late?

Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage

tomplus2 — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:09:17 -0800

Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage. (link goes to /. with the story and links)

Goatse.CX Suspended

angry modem — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:50:00 -0800

Complaint to nic.cx results in goatse.cx being suspended. Obligatory online petition is started. Screams and sobbing are heard on a regular basis on Slashdot. Links are SFW, but any investigation further may not be. This is truly a dark time for the internet.

A screen scraped version of Slashdot

holloway — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:22:47 -0800

Alterslash is a screen-scraped version of Slashdot that improves on the original.

Greed is God

kablam — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:26:27 -0800

delenda mp3.com est "Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNet. However, they're not selling the approximately one million songs on the archive. (recorded by over 250,000 artists) Instead, they're simply destroying it as of December 3. MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs." (via Slashdot)

NewsAtAGlance

srboisvert — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:13:41 -0800

The news at a glance. Categorized news photos. [via slashdot]

Gaiman Q&A

srboisvert — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:56:09 -0800

Neil Gaiman Q&A on Slashdot. Another on Sequential Tart. If you loved the books find out about the author (who has a blog and has been mentioned here a few times).

Iraqfilter

condour75 — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:30:44 -0800

Iraqfilter. "Sometime between April 2003 and October 2003, someone at the White House added virtually all of the directories with 'Iraq' in them to its robots.txt file, meaning that search engines would no longer list those pages in results or archive them." The robots.txt file is here. And here's the Slashdot discussion. I guess it's hard to restore integrity to the Presidency when people can compare your statements over time.

Where do you get your news?

Blake — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 12:47:55 -0800

Here's A Really Neat "Ask Slashdot" feature on how much we rely on the good 'ol Net for our daily dose of news and knowledge.
I've gradually abandoned almost all other sources of news, to the point where TV, magazines and news papers have pretty much disappeared from my life, but unlike the Slashdot guy, I still get a fair amount of "Information" from books.
He's got a good question, and there are some really Good Answers at Slashdot, but I'm curious about the mefites... "Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge?" From his post:"...but if I'm trying to look up something and can't find it online in a couple minutes I generally just blow it off, as if there's no other place to look. This realization seems sort of stunning. I'm very curious if other Slashdot readers have become dependent on the Internet to that level, and what their thoughts are on the subject." "
According to a study Teens and young adults spend more time online than watching TV, and looking at Other Studies, they all seem to point the same way.
Is print dead?

Is Metafliter.com taken?

jonson — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 19:03:28 -0800

If you want something done, do it yourself; tired of the browser timeout that came when he mis-spelled the domain name of one of his favorite (and most-visited) sites, this enterprising young man took matters into his own hands. But I encourage you to take his advice and not mess with him while looking for backdoors.

joeclark — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:31:22 -0800

What a bunch of feral Slashdotters had to say when Blogger... got hacked recently “I would put forth the theory that communication may have been one of the very shortcomings that channelled so many veteran Slashdotters into their chosen field of hunched backs, Help Desk apps that prevent human communication, and Barney Miller-school hair concepts” – John Kusch

namespan — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:57:26 -0800

Blogger Hacked A slashdot reader reported (on slashdot) that "Blogger has been severely hacked into, with users' passwords and e-mail addresses being replaced with 'hacx0redbyme' or 'hax0redbyme.' " Perhaps the most amusing comment in the ensuing discussion says "I'm glad I don't use a blog... I wouldn't want some l337 hax0r coming in and reading everything about my personal life!" But levity aside, is there some serious implication that a widely used web service is hacked? Is Pyra safe to use?

paulschreiber — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:24:55 -0800

UW sells out -- for only $2.3 million. As part of the "Academic Innovation Alliance Initiatives" agreement with Microsoft, the University of Waterloo's Electrical & Computer Engineering department has agreed to teach C# to students. In addition to discussion on uwstudent.org, Slashdot thread, press releases from MS and UW and a rebuttal release from the UW Federation of Students.

verso — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:50:36 -0800

Today we'll be discussing Jason, Slashdot's Commander, and Ernie. Apparently there's going to be a class in blogging taught to journalism grad students. Do you rail against this at all? Is it because most students won't get it and eff up blogging as a whole, or is it because this means that the blog has Sold Out To The Man? usual "I searched and couldn't find this" disclaimers apply.