Charles Carreon has filed suit in California court against Slashdot, alleging that an article appearing on the site defamed him by characterizing his lawsuit agains The Oatmeal as "extortion."

When reached for comment, Carreon stated, "They like to hide behind this claim that their content is all user-generated, but that certainly doesn't obviate their responsibility to... oh, fuck."

While the Dunning-Kruger effect may be thought of as related to the Peter Principle, I think Dunning-Kruger is more apt in describing this case.

While the Peter Principle is the observation that in hierarchical organizations, individuals tend to be promoted to the level of their own incompetence, Dunning-Kruger relates more broadly to the pattern that the less competent one is, the more likely one is to over-assess one's own level of knowledge or skill.

Sounds like Carreon to me.

Not that I would ever nitpick on /.

Neither can being an "Internet lawyer" with absolutely no understanding of the Streisand Effect.

I liked the one that was 'HideYourKids,HideYourWifi'.

Ironically, it was broadcasting hits SSID.

It's an extension to Ruby, written in C.

Often it's a "wrapper," in that it wraps a C function call. Either way, much safer (and far less idiotic) than shell invocations.

Nowadays we're using FFI more, though.

Fat models, skinny controllers, dumb views...

Oh, wait, are we not talking about code all of a sudden? Okay, in that case, dumb, skinny models, and no fat chicks.

In fact, forget I was here.

No, that would be stupid. And we could do that in pure Ruby. The point of writing C extensions is to link the libraries and gain access to the function calls that the shell commands themselves invoke.

Are you even a programmer?

Maybe if ponies were the incentive offered, this would be a viable startup idea.

Rubyists pay attention to low-level details. This is why we write C extensions rather than executing shell commands from web applications, which is asinine.

"Rails developers" are rarely Rubyists, properly speaking. This is one of the issues plaguing the Rails community. It could be worse, though. Rails developers can become Rubyists. In the PHP community, given that the preferred development methodology seems to be having two cats copulate on a keyboard, I don't hold much hope.

We're co-workers? Wow!

It's a small internet after all.

Unless SOPA/PIPA ever become law, in which case, goodbye Slashdot.

I'm so glad my router's SSID is 'serious business'. Because apparently that's what the internet is.

Not always... for our Rails (and Sinatra) projects, we use nginx as the frontend/static asset server to a (pool of) Ruby-based application servers (mostly Unicorn). There's no Apache anywhere in the mix, and that has greatly reduced my migraines. Perhaps in some situation it makes sense to have nginx as a cache engine or load balancer for Apache, but in my world, nginx usually replaces Apache, rather than supplementing it.

Amen, brother.