bfg9000's Journal: Posting Again.

I can post again, but now my karma's been kicked down to Good from Excellent, which is where it was last week. It'll take me 3 days to get back up to Excellent, I figure. Unless of course, someone with infinite mod points is gunning for me. That could make Slashdot much more interesting.

And still no response email to either of my TWO well-worded and intelligent requests.

I have no clue what happened, I showed my friends my posting history on the weekend, and they *ALL* thought it was my "an OS cannot be proven to be backdoor-free unless you can see 100% of the source code" comment. Every one of them (IT guys and coders all) thinks that Apple must either be a silent partner in VA Software, and is thus to be "protected and promoted from on high", or that it's just a pissed-off rogue editor who cares more for pushing OS X than for the truth (pudge probably, he was even mentioned by name by one older, more experienced acquaintance). Interesting how secrecy and seemingly-corrupt behaviour leads to immediate thoughts of conspiracy. It is, after all, the most direct route to an acceptable and logical conclusion.

Whatever. I'll never find out as long as moderation is anonymous and without real accountability, and people can be banned without explanation of any kind. In this way, Slashdot is as closed and secretive as Microsoft or the White House -- but far less important, far less accountable, and far less just.

In my humble embittered opinion.

THIS POST'S IDEAL TOPIC ICON: Mulder And Scully Saying "A-HA!", Smoking Man Sneaking Out The Back Door.

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[bfg9000]

Yup, I agree. It's sad but true, Sam. I was at Excellent last week, and an apparent unfunny joke or two got me banned (I thought they were funny, at least). The ban was for my specific nym, since the message said the ban applied to "... your username "bfg9000" (as I see it, this means it was me, logged in as myself, not someone on my subnet or whatever). My account record is here for everybody to see, and nobody can tell what I did wrong. Thus the conspiracy theories of my friends. Anyway, the good thing th

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[Mmm coffee]

I have a mod point to help you with, doubt I'll see any more for a week or so, however. Should have posted five hours earlier before I upmodded everyone in the RMS/E-Mail story who didn't jump Stallman.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fanboy. Piss off.

Side note - Anyone use Konqueror? I'm using 3.2.3 and once I configured it just right it blew away Firefox, IMO. Muck with KHotKeys to get mouse gestures, toss on anti-aliasing, have it render every page with a decent font...