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Slashdot is a technology news site featuring user submitted news stories with a focus on technology and science news. The website was founded in 1997 by Rob Malda who is known as Commander Taco on the site.


Slashdot users submit summaries of news stories with links to the original story which are then selected by editors for publication on the site. The site is largely self-regulated with randomly assigned moderators who rate user comments and administrators who watch over the site.

The huge popularity of the website can lead to the so called Slashdot effect which describes the crashing or slowdown of a website or server by users that are visiting the site from the Slashdot news post.

You'll find bloggers talking about Slashdot at sites like GizmoWhiz and Slashdot Review.

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• Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences

  
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  Re:Why is it odd? by Anonymous Coward The ONLY people who should be entitled to a patent on my genome is my parents, and even that is questionable. Its probably much too late for your parents to claim a patent. If theyre anything like my parents you (the invention) were publicly disclosed long before you were ...
  6 days ago

• To Avoid Confusion: Oracles Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme

  
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  Re:Why Does Name Matter? by LordLimecat (1103839) Because the old numbering system of incrementing by 1 was far too complicated. The new system is much easier to understand: * Limited Update releases will be numbered in multiples of 20.   * We intend for Critical Patch Updates to continue to use odd numbers. ...
  1 week ago

• To Avoid Confusion: Oracles Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme

  
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  Re:CPU=Critical Patch Update by chinton (151403) Thats like overriding toString() to format your hard-drive.
  1 week ago

• To Avoid Confusion: Oracles Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme

  
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  Re:CPU=Critical Patch Update by Tackhead (54550) Its not like they could have just said Critical update patch...oh no, we need to make things confusing. What happens when admins get confused and pour the contents of their beverage containers into their servers? We apologize for the confusion in the ...
  1 week ago

• First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With Start Button

  
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  What most of us wanted back was the Start menu, not just the Start button. Microsoft still doesnt get it... Re:Not good enough by mrsquid0 (1335303) What I really want on Windows is a Stop button.
  1 week ago

• Chinese Firm Approved To Raise Worlds Tallest Building In 90 Days

  
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  A 90 Day Erection by Ukab the Great (87152) Is something to be wary of. Re:A 90 Day Erection by OhANameWhatName (2688401) Youre a hard, hard man
  1 week ago

• Gene Therapy May Protect Against Flu

  
  Tech Today with Ken May — Authority: 131
  sciencehabit writes “In 2009, a global collaboration of scientists, public health agencies, and companies raced to make a vaccine against a pandemic influenza virus, but most of it wasn’t ready until the pandemic had peaked. Now, researchers have come up with an alternative, faster strategy for when a pandemic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Slashdot FAQ with BLOOD KISS crew

  
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  Neil Gaiman, Amber Benson and the Blood Kiss Crew Answer Your Questions – Get some answers to some really good questions on this Slashdot article. © hello! yoshi . This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news reader or on http://haroyoshi.com, the site ...
  3 weeks ago

• Network Engineering Q&A Site Launched

  
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  Hamburg writes “Stack Exchange launched a new site for network engineers. It’s in question and answer style, content is tagged for filtering and subscribing to topics. A voting system supports quality of posts, leading to so called reputation scores which determine moderation capabilities of the users. It’s now ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good?

  
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  Re:I assume... by DickBreath (207180) > I assume you work for Zynga? When he makes a statement like: I have begun to doubt my position and wonder if we dont have some responsibility to artificially cripple the solution and in doing so protect the user from themselves That tells me he should consider ...
  3 weeks ago

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