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'''Slashdot''', often abbreviated as /.<ref>http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico</ref>, a name coined to confuse individuals who attempt to pronounce the URL as "h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org"<ref>http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm150</ref>, is a [[Web 2.0]] [[website]] owned by [[SourceForge]] that, in keeping with its billing as "News for nerds, stuff that matters", purveys user-submitted articles that deal with a variety of technologically-related topics. Slashdot is powered by the [[open-source]] [[Slash (software)|Slash]] engine, which is written in [[Perl]], and uses the [[mod_perl]] [[Apache (web server)|Apache]] module. The actual content is stored using the [[MySQL]] [[database]] software. Slashdot has acquired a good deal of fame within the [[geek]] community.
'''Slashdot''', often abbreviated as /.,<ref>http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico</ref> a name coined to confuse individuals who attempt to pronounce the URL as "h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-org",<ref>http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm150</ref> is a [[Web 2.0]] [[website]] owned by [[SourceForge]] that, in keeping with its billing as "News for nerds, stuff that matters", purveys user-submitted articles that deal with a variety of technologically-related topics. Slashdot is powered by the [[open-source]] [[Slash (software)|Slash]] engine, which is written in [[Perl]], and uses the [[mod perl]] [[Apache (web server)|Apache]] module. The actual content is stored using the [[MySQL]] [[database]] software. Slashdot has acquired a good deal of fame within the [[geek]] community.
Slashdot receives about 5.5 million visitors per month<ref>http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,,1843366,00.html</ref>, and a resultant phenomenon often associated with Slashdot is the "Slashdot effect", which is, essentially, a huge [[traffic (Internet)|traffic spike]] resulting from a website being featured in a Slashdot article, and the subsequent direction of large numbers of people to the website. This has been known to result in diminished website performance, or even loss of service. A website which has experienced such failure due to the Slashdot effect is said to have been "Slashdotted".
Slashdot receives about 5.5 million visitors per month,<ref>http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,,1843366,00.html</ref> and a resultant phenomenon often associated with Slashdot is the "Slashdot effect", which is, essentially, a huge [[traffic (Internet)|traffic spike]] resulting from a website being featured in a Slashdot article, and the subsequent direction of large numbers of people to the website. This has been known to result in diminished website performance, or even loss of service. A website which has experienced such failure due to the Slashdot effect is said to have been "Slashdotted".
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==Prescient Quotes on Police State Internet Surveillance==
* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with [[wiretap]]ping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from [[hard disk|secret drawers]], can reproduce them in [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|court]], and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the [[computer science|psychic and related sciences]] may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every [[citizen|man]] in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser [[tyranny|intrusions]] than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no [[Right to Privacy|protection]] against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
*[http://slashdot.org Slashdot]
** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
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*[http://slashdot.org Slashdot]
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