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I stopped clicking slashdot last year, whatever change they made on the mobile template I ended up with a blank page 4 times out of 5. I got over it. Moved on.
The issue is with Slashcode that runs many sites including Slashdot , its birthplace.
Can you name another site that uses Slash?
I believe the other site(s) would include the ruinator's other Taco acquisitions Sourceforge & Freecode. I could be wrong and often am.
This isn't anything new. Slashdot commenting used to trigger my IDS. This is just an old and unnecessary way of approaching a problem, just like Slashdot itself.
I'm not sure what Slashdot actually is anymore. The titles of the entries appear interesting at first, but when you read the associated articles, any substantive content seems to vanish into thin air. I'm still interested, it's just not that interesting.
I agree that Slashdot's lost its way and cachet, but substance is hardly prominent across much of the Internet today.
Stages of Open Source: Run opensource so you can pour through the code and trust that it is secure by finding the issues in the code. Benefit from the masses of users also pouring through the code to make sure it is safe. Gain critical mass such that no security flaw goes undiscovered. Grow complacent and assume all the other users are checking so you don't have. Gain a large enough install base that malicious contri…
Stages of Open Source: Run opensource so you can pour through the code and trust that it is secure by finding the issues in the code. Benefit from the masses of users also pouring through the code to make sure it is safe. Gain critical mass such that no security flaw goes undiscovered. Grow complacent and assume all the other users are checking so you don't have. Gain a large enough install base that malicious contri…
The process you're describing bears no relation whatsoever to the origin of this code. It was written by Slashdot employees to solve a real operational problem on Slashdot; see above for a comment from the man himself.
This tactic has probably blocked a million bot posts over the years, so I guess... Sorry... But not really sorry?
I don't understand all the huff on that forum about this. It pings to see if you have some ports open. So what?