Forgot your password? User Journal  Journal: Google Blocks Pings
2  Journal by Ash Vince  Google are now not responding to pings
from the outside world so all of us who ping their servers to
check if the internet is up now have to find any something else
to ping instead.  Does anyone have any recommendations for a
decent site you can ping to see if your local internet
connection has crashed?   Journal: Slashdot - Are you getting
paid to read it? 3  Journal by Ash Vince  After reading the
Media Defender email leak recently it got me wondering as to how
many other companies actually pay their employees to read
slashdot. In the case of media defender it seems as though they
pay staff to read it but probably don't mind them posting the
occasional comment as at one point they talk about a comment
being friendly and ask if it was one them posting it.  This led
me to wonder how many people actually read and post on slashdot
through choice nowadays. Now don't get me wrong, this is not one
of those moaning posts where