Pan T. Hose's Journal: The Slashdot Forum Seems To Be Broken

Dear Slashdotters,

I am not sure whether anyone will be able to read this article, as there seem to be rather strange problems with the Slashdot forum lately. Just few minutes ago, when trying to send a long post explaining the often overlooked but remarkably essential difference between capability system in the sense of Norman Hardy's research and the POSIX capabilities as implemented in the GNU Hurd kernel and why it will not be straightforward to implement native capabilities in any POSIX-compliant Unix kernel using the example of the famous BSD port to KeyKOS system, I got this erroneous message and completely lost the effect of nearly two hours of writing:

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Call It A Night, Cowboy!

Slashdot only allows a user with your karma to post 10 times per day (more or less, depending on moderation). You've already shared your thoughts with us that many times. Take a breather, and come back and see us in 24 hours or so.

If you think this is unfair, please email [e-mail] with your username "Pan T. Hose". Let us know how many comments you think you've posted in the last 24 hours.

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As you can plainly see, something is apparently broken. I will not email [e-mail] because probably many other Slashdot users are experiencing the very same error and have already reported it, and I don't want to slashdot Slashdot (pun not intended) overwhelming them with another instance of the same error report. I just wanted to warn you about this error and strongly urge you to make backup copies of every Slashdot comment you write. Have a nice day and have a happy new year!