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Introducing the Slashdot Firehose 320

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:33PM from the who-wants-to-drink-from-the-firehose dept.

Logged in users have noticed for some time the request to drink from the Slashdot Firehose. Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out. It's partially a collaborative news system, partially a redesigned & dynamic next-generation Slashdot index. It's got a lot of really cool features, and a lot of equally annoying new problems for us to find and fix for the next few weeks. I've attached a rough draft of the FAQ to the end of this article. A quick read of it will probably answer most questions from how it works, what all the color codes mean, to what we intend to do with it.

Submission + - Swiming Pool Stolen (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by techiemikey on Thursday July 26, 2007 @01:42PM

techiemikey writes: So here's one i'd like to see slash dotters out there explain. CNN reports that a pool was stolen out from behind a woman's house in New Jersey without spilling a drop. It was a 10 foot diamater above ground pool that holds approximately 1000 gallon's of water. Police say the obvious, "Someone took a little time and effort thinking about this". I now need to know...how can one silently steal a pool of that size?

Submission + - Dvorak and his Mac 2

Submitted by JFlex on Thursday July 26, 2007 @11:37AM

JFlex writes: Yet another John C Dvorak column, however this time it seems he finally comes around on Apple and the Mac. Hell must have frozen over.

Comment Winners vs. Losers? ... its not a game (Score 5, Insightful) 218

by CountJoe on Monday February 05, 2007 @04:58PM (#17895040) Attached to: How To Tell Open-Source Winners From Losers

I don't appreciate the idea of Winners vs. Losers in the open source world. It's not a game. There are a lot of open source projects that never get released or never get a following, but that doesn't make them Losers. Sometimes you start a project and find out that someone else has already done, or is doing, something better. Sometimes you just lose interest. Things happen. At least some people are trying. And they're not losers.

I say this because I have started/joined several now-dead projects.

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