Actually I'm surprised to not see this referenced. That one URL and it's historical relevance in how it pushed the evolution of highlighting, link shorteners and the entire arms race around link bating is significant. Slashdot even gets reference in the Wikipedia page on the URL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

Hats off to you, aged sir.

Thanks but us 4 digits watch out for each other just fine.

btw, it really was the the shit back in the day...

http://devilmaster.altervista.org/rend386.html

Old sk00l represent!

Why is this news? I'm already doing this on my Android phone with 123D Catch and it's available for iOS and Windows Phone as well. You can find more about it here.

http://www.123dapp.com/catch

No more... "you tell us what you're doing and we'll decide how much we want to charge you" bullshit. I want clean and clear commercial licensing costs written down, up front. Otherwise I'm not even going to consider the technology for the project.

Oh then you're really missing out. The fan conversion of VC3 sets the bar for this kind of effort.

This is what qualifies for insightful these days? Really, this is just a spastic rant at Sony by someone who readily admits they buy no software for the system and use it as nothing more than a portable emulator for pirated 20+ year old console games.

The PSP had some amazing titles for it... some examples of just UMD releases to name just a few (and I'm not even counting several Mini's and other digital only titles, including PS1 games):

Patapon 1 & 2 (3 not so much)
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (3 excellent Casltevania games in one)
Gunpey
Little Big Planet
Phantasy Star Portable 1 & 2
Ridge Racer
Space Invaders Extreme
Ys series of games ...and best of all, you can get a component cable for the PSP and hook the system directly to your TV to play at 480P.

As for the rant about the Vita memory cards. The idea is not to get people on a new standard. The idea is to completely lock the Vita down and put the breaks on the rampant piracy the PSP had regardless of the reasons for the piracy.

IDK, the 2-digit ID guy that posted elsewhere in this thread didn't like the new look either.

Good grief!?!? 2-digit! I didn't think they let people in the old-folks home have computers!

Yeah, we're here. Just keeping an eye on you guys... but clearly not well enough as apparently one of you brought your girlfriend in and she's putting photos all over the place instead of the news.

OH yeah, and I already e-mailed them my feedback saying as much.

I read Reddit and Hackernews for most of my tech news these days but have always fallen back to scanning Slashdot every day for the cream of the crop and to check the comments for interesting dialog because it was a lightweight, scan to get through the content.

I've gotta say, the Beta is pretty bad from a UX perspective and I would say that it is out of line with my perceptions of who a Slashdot user is.

It's like someone just said "this is trendy, make it happen" without any real consideration for the active user base. I can only hope that the feedback from the Beta supports my perception and they reverse on it, but I have to admit to myself that that's highly unlikely and I can say right now that it will very likely effect my visit frequency to the site.

Pretty bummed about it.