The anti-beta crowd essentially managed to make the comment threads unusable for a couple days before Slashdot finally relented. I think that was more a matter of them realizing that by the time they rolled out the beta, all the normal readers would have already been driven away.

By the way, thanks for posting this, Soulskill.

Frankly, the excuse of why it took so long is pretty lame -- we're supposed to believe that it's just a coincidence that the story critical of a /. sister site is the only one that got delayed for several days? -- but at least now it's been acknowledged.

The original announcement for when Sourceforge added the "feature" of injecting malware into installers said that the money earned would be shared with the developers. So I have to wonder: did they send the GIMP a check? Have the GIMP developers demanded that Sourceforge do so?

On the assumption that Sourceforge did not, it seems like they've just burned a bridge that they shouldn't have. They killed any trust that users would have had for SF projects a long time ago, but developers who were willing to sell out have stuck around. But now that developers know that SF is willing to just assume control of a project (and the associated profits), why would any developer continue to use SF.

I don't know, What Interesting Things Can I Power With an External USB Battery? comes pretty close.

But yes, this is pretty bad. And if you click through to the article, you'll find that it's every bit as moronic as the summary makes it sound.

It's funny, the Slashdot editors used to be aware of the Streisand effect. Apparently they still haven't learned not to try to hide something that's already been publicized widely on the internet.

If his hobby is "pissing people like you off," then he's doing well.

Apparently there just wasn't anything interesting or important to talk about today.

Oh, wait...

The actual measurement, from TFA, is 2.8x2.8 square micrometers.

Apparently timothy is too busy burying unflattering stories about his employer to bother reading what he's posting to the front page.

An organization that was formerly one of the major hubs of open-source and free software has hijacked the downloads of a major free software project, and is using that to push malware to their users. Do you seriously think that's non-newsworthy, especially to the Slashdot readership? WTF, do you work for Dice too?

Several of the submitted stories have been fairly well-sourced, and I haven't seen anything to suggest that they aren't true.

Until the Slashdot staff grows some balls and allows the story through, writing off-topic posts is the best we'll get.

It took the readers revolting over the Slashdot beta and making the comment sections unusable for the /. editors to descend from on high and even deign to address the complaints. Maybe something similar needs to happen here. Those with mod points (unfortunately I don't now) should at least mod up these posts, which reference a story that the readers here are obviously interested in but which /. finds embarrassing to their parent company.