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I for one welcome our new corporate overlords! f1rst p0st! How about a Beowulf cluster of those??

Ah, the good old days... :)

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BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it.

Slashdot is also where I first saw http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt posted.

Anyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")?

Anyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")?

I had a few of those. I was more proud of my "(Score: -1, Insightful)" though.

Having been involved in the anti-spam thing for a while, I can simplify the "spam solutions" checklist to two items:

1) Do you have a solution to one piece of the spam problem?

  ( ) Yes - go away, you don't solve the whole spam problem.
  ( ) No  - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem

2) Do you have a solution to the whole spam problem?

  ( ) Yes - go away, you're a FUSTTSP scammer
  ( ) No  - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem.

The explicit approach by the SMTP people was both of the above at the same time. Incremental solutions were derided as "the spammers will just try something else". Major fixes to SMTP were derided as "it takes a decade to deploy a new protocol".

Well, it's been a decade since I was involved. Changes to SMTP practices mean that I've got jump through more hoops to prove my worthiness when I send email. But the amount of spam I'm getting hasn't gone down.

Searching turns up zero results for "FUSTTSP" apart from your comment. Can you elaborate?

It was from memory.. it's FUSSP:

http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html

Best I ever managed was a +4, Flamebait.

Natalie Portman, naked and petrified and covered in hot grits

All your base!

Those were some good times.

Constantly referring to 'M$FT' to be edgy. Good times.

Seriously though 2016 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

The Borg icon of Bill.

And the /. pony logo.

And the 9/11 live coverage on Slashdot, when every other news site was down, Slashdot was up and running: http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-tower... and http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-har...

Ah, fond memories.

If you think about it, the year of the Linux mobile has happened already.

I guess that was the point: everyone was trying to conquer the desktop when the desktop was already giving way to a more dominant form of computing.

But hey, the Linux kernel and Konqueror basically won consumers in the end.

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