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Offline iago

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Being on SlashDot sucks!
« on: March 23, 2007, 09:52:21 am »
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/103694602/article.pl

They reference a news article that drew an invalid conclusion from our report. And because everybody hates Symantec (perhaps for good reason), they're accepting it as evidence of Symantec's malice, but we didn't even say that!

Is Slashdot _always_ this bad? :-o

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2007, 10:40:02 am »
LOL I saw that last night, but wasn't sure if it was part of your whole group thingy.
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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2007, 12:52:48 pm »
Correct them?

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2007, 01:28:01 pm »
I posted a couple replies, but there are too many posts and nobody really listens.

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2007, 01:34:13 pm »
I posted a couple replies, but there are too many posts and nobody really listens.

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The numbers are all pulled from a public source (SecurityFocus/Bugtraq, which are owned by Symantec). So no, there's no conspiracy. But I'll continue to wear my tinfoil hat.

HAHAHAHA!

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2007, 01:40:26 pm »
iago, you can go here to contact the author of the main article.

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2007, 01:49:03 pm »
I posted a couple replies, but there are too many posts and nobody really listens.

hah I noticed nobody responded to any of your replies.

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2007, 03:00:16 pm »
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The numbers are all pulled from a public source (SecurityFocus/Bugtraq, which are owned by Symantec). So no, there's no conspiracy. But I'll continue to wear my tinfoil hat.

HAHAHAHA!
Well, most of the replies were serious, but that was a reply to a "Funny" post so I had to stick with funny.

iago, you can go here to contact the author of the main article.

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Unfortunately, I very much doubt they'd care.

hah I noticed nobody responded to any of your replies.
But one of them got +1 informative! I'm changing the world!

The problem is, I've found that if you don't reply in the first 20 - 30 minutes, you don't get noticed. I don't read Slashdot frequently enough, so most of my comments are unnoticed.

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2007, 03:36:17 pm »
Yea, I've stopped reading slashdot on a regular basis because of the constant claims of the thread posters getting it wrong.

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2007, 03:37:06 pm »
I generally filter out everything that isn't moderated "funny" -- that's all I generally care about.

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2007, 08:11:49 pm »
If that article is true, however, I still find it pathetic that it would take a full team of OS developers 13 days to fix and patch a high-priority vulnerability when they're getting paid only God knows how big a fortune to do it.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2007, 10:56:25 pm »
The numbers are accurate -- you can find them here.

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2007, 10:39:06 pm »
I generally filter out everything that isn't moderated "funny" -- that's all I generally care about.

Yeah. The funny comments kick ass. :D
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That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Being on SlashDot sucks!
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2007, 08:52:57 pm »
I generally filter out everything that isn't moderated "funny" -- that's all I generally care about.

Yeah. The funny comments kick ass. :D
Only the 5: funny and 4: funny ones.. the rest suck. :\
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