How to Make a Starship Enterprise out of a 3.5" Floppy 538
Wow, there is absolutely nothing good to post in the bin today, so you get to enjoy this little gem:
Here are some simple instructions for making an Enterpris from
a 3.5" floppy disk. Remember those? Before CDRWs cost next to nothing?
Thanks to Ant for digging this one up. Update Removed the link when the original content was removed.
Truly... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's exactly the antidote to a morning of reading the news from around the world...
Re:DVDs? (Score:2, Insightful)
Competely offline now.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I think they really, really, really didn't like finding out about the
Re:Main asciipr0n.com site... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Slashdot uses it's power unresponsibly (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:LOL (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Just in case... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:This page cannot be viewed without written cons (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Just in case... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Just in case... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is just idiotic. You have to realize that not everyone who puts up a website expects to have that kind of traffic. Nor should they. The other aspect to this is the folks who put up a website that may have some appeal on Slashdot, but don't really realize that. Maybe they are hosting it on an NT4 Workstation running Personal Web Services. Should they be expected to be able to withstand the onslaught of a Slashdotting? Do we ask the people who put flyers on cars in parking lots to publish on four color glossies? Would we expect them to? No. This is no different. Slashdot needs to consider these things. They should first ASK a site if it's OK to post their URL. Slashdot should then offer sites that WANT Slashdot exposure, but may not have the bandwidth or hardware to support a Slashdotting, the option of caching their site. All of this could be done very easily if the folks at Slashdot were to create an internal Slashdot site for themselves where they just point and click for this to be an automatic process.
And for all you idiots who keep ripping on CmdrTaco for not being a "journalist"... get a fucking clue. Slashdot has NOTHING to do with journalism. It's basically a very advanced blog. That's it. They can't be held to any journalistic standards or accountability ebcause they are not a news source. That would be like asking a company who puts out a newsletter to fact check everything before it goes out to the staff. NO COMPANY truly does this. So to all you people who cry about journalistic integrity: get fucked.
Re:Wait a minute (Score:2, Insightful)
No wonder slashdotters never get real dates
Re:This page cannot be viewed without written cons (Score:2, Insightful)
Sites slashdotted.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot so naughty. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:ERm? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Just in case... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:1, Insightful)
Imagine three kids and two parents voting on a trip to the dentist.
The anatomy of a Slashdotting (Score:2, Insightful)
Thanks for this mirror. When I saw how light the page was, I wondered how the site could have been slashdotted. Well, this is how:
This is still waaay under the bandwidth caps of most hosting accounts, but is probably more than anybody wants to serve in an hour. You've still got the rest of the month to go!
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:3, Insightful)
We're going on and on as a country about just how crappy it is to live in other countries, with just cause.
But when did we get so damned coddled as a country that stopping our SUVs from getting through a street is the worst thing that can happen to us? I've been listening to some of the counter-protestors on my campus, and they seem to be the most thin-skinned reactionaries I have ever met. I'm not an avid anti-war person (though I oppose it), but I'd be embarrassed to be associated with group of people who can't think of anything more threatening to their daily lives than the possibility of blocked traffic.
The notion that the blocking of traffic endangers people through the blocking of emergency services is specious. Plenty of things block traffic a lot more often than protests do -- road work, parades, weather. Are those terrorism?
Re:Slashdot so naughty. (Score:4, Insightful)
You can't please everyone. BTW no body expects to be
What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
Anyways, I think it is funny that these guys act like
-Sean
Re:What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
Imagine going down to your neighborhood park and finding 500,000 people jumping up and down. Sure, it's a public place, but it wasn't designed for that. It was designed for 50 or 100 people to hang out for a bit, and move on.
If you think about it a bit more though, this is like someone's back yard. This guy has to pay for bandwidth. He's got a sign saying "sure, come in, sit down for a bit". It's not public, it's private, and he's being generous in letting people use it, but that generocity is abused when slashdot decides to pour people all over his site.
Last example. Think of public marches. The roads are owned by the people, and it's perfectly acceptable for 50,000 people to march through downtown seattle, with streets closed down. BUT, before they can do that, they have to ask permission and obtain a permit from the city. It's simple consideration for others before taking for yourself.
Re:Just in case... (Score:4, Insightful)
If you can't have enough sense to create a webpage that detects a spike in visits, and handles it approprietly, then tough tits.
Should CNN mirrors sites it talks about?
what happens to reporting if people have to ask before they can report something. If you are driving a hot pink cadilac, do I have to ask you before I point and laugh at you with my friends?
Re:Nothing good to post??? (Score:4, Insightful)
Only in a military dominated dictatorship does the minority make the rules. The United States is a Democratic Republic.
Actually, we're not. As you may or may not have learned in 9th grade civics, the US is a Constitutionally Limited Republic, precisely to prevent the majority from making rules that screw over an unpopular minority.
We have a process in which to 'listen to the damn people.' It's called elections.
In your little world, I'm sure that's how change always happens. However, that's only one way in which the populace can effect change. Remember little things like the Boston Tea Party? That involved disrupting the operations of a major shipping port. Perhaps another tiny little non-electon event called the American Revolution? At some point, the populace may wake up and find that their "representatives" are not. The votes in the houses of government already bought and paid for by corporate interests successfully buying legislation to keep money exactly where it is and out of your pockets.
When the choice presented at election time is between two individuals who have already sold their integrity to the highest bidder, other means of expressing dissatisfaction are needed.
That's different from shutting down a city or country until the government does what you want.
Your inability to get a super double latte caffiene injection at the Starbucks of your choice and having to go around three blocks does not constitute "shutting down a city". Hyperbole won't help your argument any more than the strawmen you've been erecting.
However, it [the minority] does not have the right to cause mass violence or economic hardship.
That's a couple of rather disparate items to be throwing into the same list. I mean, it's almost as if you're equating your personal inconvenience with violence. Do you know anything about the protests you're objecting to? The only time I've heard of there being violence is when some group of your "correct thinking" friends picks a fight with them. You'd do better to object to the cost of those lattes that you're unable to get from your favorite chain shop than the protestors preventing you from getting there.
The "American Way" that you so jingoistically claim to defend *is* the first amendment, where protest, including protests that block traffic and shut down freeways is very much a part of. At some point, my only remaining observation to a nimrod like yourself is that if you really want a police state where those annoying people complaining about things below your radar don't get to interfere with your day-to-day life, why don't you move to China where they've already got all of that?
Personally, I'd prefer the US moved the other way, i.e. get rid of Tom Ridge and his neo-police state Homeland Defense organization. Put more limitations on the police in reaction to new technologies instead of less. But there isn't anyone on the ballot who represents that view, is there? So I guess that exhausts all of my options according to you...
Regards,
Ross
Links are what the internet is about (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
The problem is that the web isn't someone's backyard. It is something quite different. 1) It takes very little effort for someone to visit the site and 2) the concept of linking is very different and enables this activity so easily a website should expect this.
I do think however, that there could be a way to opt out. Perhaps something equivalent to the robots.txt file? Either the linking body or the web server could control how clients connect, particularly with respect to linked referrals.
-Sean
Re:What is up with /.'ed webmasters? (Score:3, Insightful)
(Looks like the social skills of
There is a responsibility associated with putting something online. You should be able to deal with such issues as lots of traffic, being sued, slander, etc. If you can't, don't put it online. Some people seem to think that because they are in high school, their entire world should function like they are in high school. The internet is the real world, and webmasters should treat it as such.
-Sean
Re:CmdrTaco (Score:2, Insightful)
So CmdrTaco picks a sleepy Sunday Morning to /. a site. Well, it is disseminating information to individuals; each had to click on it to get it. All CmdrTaco did was to bring the link into public view. Kinda the same thing businesses pay advertising agencies big bux for. If the site admin does not want the publicity, no biggie, but blame CmdrTaco for it?? nah. Not in my book. Not at all.
Its well known in the /. community that /. is extremely current; that is that things often get on the system within hours, if not minutes, of its occurrence, often beating out other well-known news agencies, as the very people involved in making the news are often /.'ers themselves.
Well, its a public site. The sysadmin has the option of closing his site if he's getting far more traffic than he wants. No biggie. Just bookmark the site and visit later when the hordes are gone. Sports venues do this all the time when traffic exceeds capacity. Its called "sold out".
You usually put stuff on the net if you want to expose it publically. I think CmdrTaco did them a service by exposing it to /.'ers. I can not find /.'ing a site any more offensive than storming a Burger King with several busloads of kids during a summer outing. ( Yes, I've done that. )
Re:Sites slashdotted.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Which raises an interesting question: Should
Re:Sites slashdotted.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Any slashcode people reading this, think about adding an automatic mirror, or at least a link to the google catch if avalible.
Re:Sites slashdotted.. (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't belive that people should have to get permission to link to another site, in general. If you put something on the Web without putting a password on it or whatever, you're explicitly allowing others to link to it -- at least in my opinion.
...but not to worry. It is the proverbial 'Does the tree make a sound in the woods' question, every answer is right and wrong :) good read, wish you hadnt posted as AC so more would see it linked here [kuro5hin.org].
Slashdot should embrace P2P (Score:3, Insightful)
This story [slashdot.org] presented a good way for ISOs to be distributed.
Everyone and their grandma is looking for a way to "legitimize" P2P sharing without involving music.
Why doesn't slashdot start a P2P mirror. Simple gzip the page that's cool to look at, and host it via bittorrent or kazaa. Bandwidth gets shared among the slashdot community, and no site gets hit too hard (except google, which will invaribly be linked to by people who insist on posting google cache links in nearly every discussion