Yes, I once again got to be a Moderator. I am not wasting my Mod Points again. So, I am modding up people at random, rather than waste them. HA! Making Moderation Interesting is not my idea of fun.

Random Moderation is fun. Who knows That "Insightful" moderation you are bragging to your friends about just might be ..... Random act of Kindness, and not really reflective of a "Insightful" comment.

Then again, it might be because I like your name. HA! Moderation points, the new Toy to play with.

In addition, I have taken my first steps at Meta Moderation, where the object is to moderate the moderation. While this seems interesting, in my mind, I usually take things to the furthest logical end to see how workable or sick an idea really is.

In this case, I want to Meta Meta moderate. I want to meta moderate the Meta Moderators. You know to see how "helpful" the Meta moderators are at moderating, and moderate them on their meta moderation skills.

I doubt that will happen though.

Okay, I did something kinda silly yesterday. It was kind of brash and mostly out of charactor for me. I offered my services as Ahhhhnold's Technology Consultant.

Not that I expect any sort of real answer. But wouldn't it be funny if Ahhhhnold let me be his campaign Technology Advisor?

I would do it for free, if given the chance.

Sounds like a Sex thing doesn't it. Well, its not you horny slashdotters. It is Moderation points.

I would like to see Slashdot set up a system where you can earn/keep moderation points, and not be limited to one chance in a blue moon to moderate.

Perhaps 10 Moderation points a week, 25 max in the bank. Mind you these are just suggested levels.

How about click an advertisement link, get 1 point (per day, upto 10 extra per month). I also think that ACs should be -1 to start. If they are good posts, it won't matter, but most ACs are crap, not worth reading. People posting with 50 total troll posts are -5 to start (Yeah I know, nothing lower than -1), you know which ones I am talking about.

Anyway, it is nearing the end of the day, and I have 5 points and nothing I want to say. So I have modded up 5 journal entries of someone, not that they needed the extra Karma. Your welcome my friend, I think you know who you are.

Use them or lose them.

The field is mostly set, and we have all sorts of people running for Governor of California. Appearenly over 500 people have taken out papers to run for Governor of this formerly fine state.

The biggest name is obviously "Ahnold". But other notables are Mrs Huffington, Mr Flint, Mr Uberoth, Mr Bustamonte.

Alot of others who are more psuedo famous are also running, in nothing more than to pad their resumes with "Former Candidate for Governor".

Heck, if I had an extra $3500 bucks laying around, I would have run. If I could find 65 people to sign a petition that is.

Not really belonging to a political party, as none really suit me, This race will no doubt offer me a wider choice of idiots to plug my nose to vote from.

Not a typical conservative, and definitely not a typical liberal, I have some pretty strong feelings on issues that just don't fit any platform offered by most parties.

I am a Messianic Christian Libertarian with realistic anarchist tendancies. Human Government is evil, and all forms of it are flawed. Some forms are more flawed than others. Some are more realistic than others which are idealistic. Most are frought with the same error, that OTHERS can decide for ME what is best for others (all) at my expense.

Let me hear your views.

SharpFang #651121 wrote the following about some freak of his:

"He landed on my "friend" list. I'm just full of compassion."

I wonder where He got that idea. Hmmmmm. Maybe it is time for him to be one of my fans, since he is copying my ideas.

My life is so boring. So it really amazes me when it becomes abundantly clear that someone actually reads my journals (Thanks Bethanie).

In fact I find most public journals to be quite egocentric to the authors, which really makes them fairly boring in nature.

I do, however, understand the nature of trying to make the whole net experience more "personal". But my experience is that most of the people I have met on the net are indeed real people, but are a limited edition of themselves, crafted and carved from all of their experiences into the self image they WISH they could be (whether that be a port star, or super human).

And to make it very clear, I am guilty of that which I am accusing.

My questions are these: "How much of you is real, and how much of you isn't real? How much of you is NOT found in your "online personality".

To be fair, Most of me is real (now). I found that trying to create alternate personalities was difficult at best, and crazy (MPD type) at worse.

However, I hold my card very close to my chest, so that the Internet doesn't know all about me either.

So, how 'bout it? Who are you?

Today, like many days past, I have been awarded 5 mod points to give out to whomever I choose. However, today, unlike most other days, I am not modding posts on articles, but only in other peoples journals.

Why people don't mod journal entries is beyond me, and my hope and goal is to have the journal moderation system UNLINKED with the article moderation system.

Perhaps if the journal Mod system was reflected in the Friend, Foe, Fan, Freaks it would provide a much better way of recognizing who your friends and fans, foes and freaks really are, rather than some drive by random choice.

This is my chance to improve Slashdot. If you like this idea, tell the Slashcoders to get right on it.

What hasn't already been said on slashdot and elsewhere? Okay, my $.02, not that you asked.

SCO is so screwed. I can smell class action lawsuit by everyone and their brother over this mess. Even now they cannot be bought out for fear of the shareholders of the Dark Knight (IBM) suing the pants off the Board of directors.

Every couple of days, SCO issues a FUD missle to the whole technical community, not really careing where it hits.

IBM, on the other hand, is playing this marvelously. They know exactly what SCO is worth, and aren't buying anything (literally or figuratively). They are just sitting quietly, problably morbidly curious about the next move SCO is going to make.

SCO is playing right into that quiet hand of IBM, by complying with an increasing clownish act. The idiocy of the people at the top of SCO is truly a remarkable example of the Peter Principle.

The rest of the Linux community (FSF, Red Hat, Gnu, Stallman et al) is doing a remarkable job at digging up various pieces of evidence that should dismantle the whole court case (if it reaches there), SCO is planning to bring.

Which is why SCO is acting more insane every time they open there mouth. They say something and it is immediatly swarmed upon by the various Slashkids, and rip to IANAL pieces. Some of which are quite intellegent.

So who is missing from this whole mess? Sun and Microsoft have bought into SCO's FUD missle program. Red Hat, SuSE, FSF, ESR, RS etc have all spoken out on this.

There is ONE big tech company that is absent from the fray. One Company who could come in and do something rather BOLD and OFF Kilter, when compared to the rest of the Industry. That being the Reality Distortion Field (RDF) activated company of Jobs, Apple.

What would Apple do with the remenants of SCO? Frankly, I haven't a clue. Really! Steve Jobs is just wacky enough to try something like this, and to ultimately brilliant enough pull something wild out of his ArseTechnica. Worse case scenerio, is that Jobs blows it and activates another burst of the RDF. At least SCO will be put to rest by then.

You heard it hear first.

I just realized something. I am not a cultural Maven (whatever THAT means). I have never used a P2P software of anykind to download MP3 (or anything else).

My problem is that I am not "into" music that much. I don't mind listening to music, but most of the "pop" music is irritating to me. (C)rap music is just plain Nasty for the most part. Metal is grinding on my nerves, Britney et al is just plain annoying drivel.

Silence is much better than filling my ears with lousy and bad junk music. Most people can't stand their own thoughts, and would much rather not have to think.

I have decided, that life is too short to hate people, even those that hate me. So, in an effort to inflict as much positive love energy, I have decided to apply a virtual hug to my Freaks, by adding them to my Friends list.

That is right, virtual hug! As long as you are on my freaks list, I am gonna hug you, by being your friend, even if I am your Foe.

Change your mind, let me know, and I will remove you from my Friend list. But as long as you hate me, I am gonna love you, Brother (or sister).

Have a blessed day.

An Internet friend of mine died this weekend. July 4th was her independance day. How can I be so sad for someone I never met, hugged or even smiled at, except with little silly little Emoticons?

((((skiiter)))) I love you sis.

Second Freak Whoot.

I have no idea what I did to piss that guy off.

Wife's birthday is tomarrow. Got to get her something nice. Any suggestions. I am thinking jewelry. But that is the "easy" choice, isn't it?

I think Bethanie is the best Slashdot friend I have.

I have my first freak. Probably some NeoCom. He hates me, but ... I don't hate him. I pity the poor fellow.

TI have two fans now. my #2 fan likes me, because I them first. I guess that is how it is supposed to work.

At least I don't have any Foes at the moment!

Another stupid duplicate article. What is this anyway?