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California's reputation as a crazy place is a little overblown. There's a lot of smart folks in CA.

For another example of the crazy people in California, we have them destroying their agricultural industry via epic water mismanagement, and, of course, blaming it on global warming.

Oh yeah, when some dumb shit company who's core business is putting those retards into cubicles bought it.

head to http://soylentnews.org/ and be happy

If it becomes beta only, I'll become soylentnews.org only.

Let me know when you guys get your site working. Just like Slashdot, basic features are completely broken. For example, the following link should display only all the articles from 2014-12-05. It doesn't, it contains articles from 2014-12-04. Then you move forward or back a day and some of the articles are repeated. WTF? I was already looking at them. Why are you showing them to me twice? Slashdot and Soylent News should be on TheDailyWTF for not being able to change pages properly.

https://soylentnews.org/index.pl?issue=20141205

There are no posts from this jackass over at Soylent News.

There are many reasons I now prefer that site over /., but a lack of Bennett Haselton is definitely one of them.

In the meantime, why don't you come join us at https://pipedot.org/? It has both UTF-8 and SSL support already.

And for that matter so does Soylent News, which is even based on the same codebase as Slashdot!

Tell us more on being a schizo, dope smoker (yes we know what "420" means) http://soylentnews.org/article...

Tried Pipedot and SoylentNews?

You're wasting your time posting on Slashdot, your core audience left months ago. You'll probably find most of them at SoylentNews

Come on over to Soylent News, where there's still discussion about technology, science, math, and good stuff like that: https://soylentnews.org/

Have you tried SoylentNews?

Can soylent news legally promise to remain Bennett Haselton free? Yeah, I think they can.

Sure. Soylent News.

I only come to slashdot for the mod points I keep getting, but if that stream stops, I'll quit altogether.

The timing of this is terrible. In the mid-2000s, we had Ubuntu, Debian and even Mandriva providing useful Linux distros. But since then we've seen Ubuntu go out of its way to create the shittiest experience it can, and Debian is catching up as quickly as it can. Mandriva has become totally irrelevant. Linux Mint is maybe the only remotely viable choice, but it isn't comparable to even Windows 7 in terms of what's needed for corporate or organizational desktop users. This development is coming a decade too late to be useful!

Educated guess?
The sites made up of custom code written before HTTPS was really all that common. It's such a mess that adding it now would require just as much work as just flat out rewriting the whole site. Last time they tried a site redesigned all the neck beards on here started shooting rocksalt at them and screaming "GET OFF MY LAW!!!"

I suspect this site barely pays for itself. I do not anticipate any large site redesigns ever.

Guess again! All the beta crap is relatively new as is most of what they shove at you when you use the nobeta option: http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?...\
Old slashcode was much better in function then current, IMO. If you would like to further your "education" then you might want to visit https://soylentnews.org/ which is encoded in older, but with some modification slashcode. If you will notice it works just fine with https and you can leave javascript off there and browse very nicely without it, unlike the broken anti-AC visitor slashcode here at slashdot. For even further education I am sure some simple searches will turn up some variations on the source code that you can download and compare if you are that interested in it.

Slashdot has basically crapped out since the Dice started rolling it over.

Darn and I seem to be out of flame proof underwear.

Can you please save your systemd frustrations for posting on soylentnews? We don't quite have enough of those yet.

I don't think you can put much blame about systemd on Linus. At least the first search I made on "linus torvalds systemd" was an article reporting a somewhat annoyed comment by Linus regarding the inability of systemd developers to fix their own bugs.

Obligatory: Have you tried SolentNews ? The server is already quite mature and the community there is also very good.

That time was months ago. We've all been over at SoylentNews instead.

SoylentNews is people. Like Slashdot, SoylentNews runs Slash software. But unlike Slashdot, SoylentNews is secure and Unicode-capable.

soylentnews.org: it's where all the cool kids hang.

Extensions suck: http://soylentnews.org/comment...

That said, I really dislike a DE that relies on an overview mode as the flashing really aggravates my ADHD. I use minimize to move windows to the back of alt-tab (hey I need to edit a conf file and install another extension), but that is now broken because McCann thought something else looked ugly, so broken by design, a blocker. And I want a file manager that hasn't been neutered. And what I miss most on Linux is Kasbar (the best taskbar ever) and I don't get any taskbar in GNOME. I am not a prospective GNOME user.

This reminds me of a news article I saw recently entitled Two Cosmonauts Find Icicle Hanging from an Air Pipe. After reading that article, I now know why rich folk seeking adventure would want to go to space. It isn't as extreme of an adventure as you may think; it's far more extreme. It's the kind of vacation that you literally can't find here on Earth. You'll see things you never expected to see. You'll feel feelings you've never felt before. You'll be one among a small handful of people who have done things and been places and seen things that even the most well-traveled Earth tourist has never experienced. That is the allure of space. That is what extreme tourism is all about.

In completely unrelated news, Slashcode 14.08 has full UTF-8 functionality, and has been live on Soylent for almost a month now.

Come to soylent news instead.
Not only does https work, they even have a TOR service set up too.

https://soylentnews.org/ is good, but lacks userbase from what im told.

Doesn't look good. The colour scheme is basically lots of grey and a splash of red here and there, and why the fuck are there some icons at the top that are spaced oddly and don't fit with the theme at all or do anything useful accessibility-wise?

its articles like this that help rocket slashdot into obsolescence. Timmy, drunkenly shitposting 4chan fodder at 2:30 in the morning and making it past firehose and onto the newsfeed. Other memorable turds include the video slashvertisement, the video interview/slashvertisement no one wanted, and the news article from a paid advertiser fearmongering for their latest appliance a-go-go. So ill give it a go at trying to make something productive of the comments section related to this worthless post.

lets discuss functional and informative alternatives to slashdot. https://soylentnews.org/ is good, but lacks userbase from what im told.

When having a heated argument with an angry mass audience, it's best to keep your points oversimplified, obvious, easily confirm-able by many people, etc.

And even when you do that, it's a numbers game... there's still a pretty good chance you'll get shouted-down, buried and hidden by negative mods. It happened to me just a short while ago.

To see the discussion on this topic go the other way, with ignorance and bile rising to the top, see the story on SN a few days ago:

http://soylentnews.org/article...

My point being, don't bother with discussion of the intricacies, minutia, and relatively small benefits around here, when surrounded by angry villagers with lit torches and pitchforks.

SN already covered this four days ago.
https://soylentnews.org/articl...
I'm going to bed.

If anyone knows where all the smart contributors went please consider throwing me a link.

http://soylentnews.org/

Here's an example of how one company apparently applies that "no American available" policy:

Now I am working in an American multinational here in the United States, and I find that every last person working for me is an H1B temp work visa holder. There are zero Americans on my staff. In addition to that, we recently had to fill 3 more headcount in my group. My boss instructed me that due to 'budget' that we were to go to our India sourcing department and they would arrange for contractors to be sent in from offshore (India). It would take about 1 month for their visas to be arranged and for them to be on site (in Raleigh North Carolina). Though our Applicant tracking system is overflowing with applications by Americans (including probably some of my own old ones), we didn't even look at those before bringing in the H1Bs. The corporate law firm arranges this, gives the 'no Americans can be found' stamp of approval and the temps are flown in with expedited Visas (H1B or other temp type visas that they use until the H1B is approved). I mentioned this to a couple of my coworkers, and I was discretely told to be quiet about it if I knew what was good for me and didn't want to 'expire' myself.

What to Do When My US Company Won't Hire Americans?

Yet you're posting this on Slashdot, which continues to operate from the .org TLD after having been sold to Andover, VA Linux, and Dice.

While Slashdot may continue to operate from its old .org URL, no one regularly refers to it as "Slashdot.org" with the aim of suggesting community governance, which is still done by some disingenous advocates for Couchsurfing. And luckily with the Dice acquisition and beta debacle, and the rise of SoylentNews, most people are aware of Slashdot's circling the drain and the rise of a community-run alternative.

Slashdot will undergo planned maintenance from Thursday August 14, 5-6pm (Eastern Time).

Does anyone know what that really means?

I don't know, sorry. But remember, there is always Soylent News.

the other article is archived now,
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
but I just wanted to let you know the SEC has agreed with us and not you.
http://soylentnews.org/article...

You weren't here before 2004 then.

That year, Slashdot suddenly became political in support of the Kerry campaign, rolling out a progressive "Politics dot Slashdot dot org" sub-domain and flooding users with Democratic propoganda. That was also the year that paid subscriptions (I bet you don't remember that, either) from the users dropped by two thirds, resulting in a downward spiral that results in Beta dot Slashdot dot org today, and the community fork, SoylentNews.

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Reporting on a 'percentage increase' in vulnerabilities really doesn't give you an idea of how large of a problem there really is. I didn't read TFA after seeing the garbage headline, but it's probably not worth my time. If there were no vulnerabilities and suddenly there was one, that's an increase of an infinite percent!!! Also, does this mean the number of vulnerabilites increase, or just the ones that people were aware of? Another worthless Microsoft bashing article, nothing to see here. Head on over to Soylent News for some more interesting stories that might actually be worth reading.

Do you hate minorities and gay people? Do you think we should bring back nigger lynching? Do you pine for the days of Jim Crow?

If so, join SoylentNews.org and show us your support! Heil Hitler!

- NCommander

Do you hate minorities and gay people? Do you think we should bring back nigger lynching? Do you pine for the days of Jim Crow?

If so, join SoylentNews.org and show us your support! Heil Hitler!

- NCommander

Do you hate minorities and gay people? Do you think we should being back nigger lynching? Do you pine for the days of Jim
Crow?

If so, join SoylentNews.org and show us your support! Heil Hitler!

- NCommander.

First there was the GNAA trolls, but no one listened because they were not a GNAA. Then came the FuckBeta! trolls, but no one listened because they were not part of the FuckBeta! movement. Now all the smart readers have left for soylent news and the remainder of you are stuck with crap posts like this. Yay Slashdot and their new DICE overlords!

Seriously, I have a low 6-digit uid as well. I no longer log in because what is the point. So fuck beta, i'm off to the other slashdot site.

After reading this too
http://soylentnews.org/article...

I would say for a fact there is nothing this admin can do at this point that is not simply criminal in nature. They are straight up covering it up as best they can and destroying evidence. They just handed this man a get out of jail free card. For what could be argued as treason.

Obama could straight up make this mess right in under a week. But instead he sits by and lets it happen. Cabinet members are doing the work at this point. You do not go much higher than Obama himself.

When you make this man look sane by repeated lies you have went the wrong way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I was making fun of my family for their Obama hatred. I now am beginning to understand what he is doing is undermining everything our for-fathers built. They will no longer need lies to tell each other they will have truth and its much worse.

Changing the name from Ask Slashdot to Slashdot Asks seems a rather telling display of your character. You see yourselves as Slashdot, and the commenters as ... what, customers? the audience?

The next Beta Sucks is coming, it is only a matter of time. Until you realize that we, the commenters, are the site -- that we create the value you sell to the readers -- you will never be out from under that hanging sword.

Do me a favor; go to YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Ars, and half a dozen other sites, and read some comment streams. Do you see how vacuous they are? Do you see how much chaff you must wade through to find one or two poignant insights?

The moderation and metamoderation systems here have generated a unique community (well, not entirely unique, with SoylentNews cruising along in the wings). It is the community of commenters that you have the privilege of monetizing. But only so long as you don't piss it away with your narcissism.

This is a test.
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SoylentNews has decided to avoid non-profit status due to the demands it puts on the organisation, so they're now trying to set up as a slightly more normal "we don't actually want to make money" benefit corporation.

There's always this instead:

http://soylentnews.org/

Stupid name, but fewer stupid stories, so...

On the bright side, it's nice to see US companies abiding by foreign laws for a change. For far too long they've gone with the attitude "we're on US soil, so we only have to follow US law", but now they're finally waking up to the fact that they have to follow the laws of every jurisdiction they do business in, or stop doing business there.

Is that a good thing? Case in point: The beta-free site refusing to accept donations, because then they'd have to be separately licensed to receive donations in 50 states. (section Why We Haven't Discussed Pure Donations). I worry that small and even medium size companies will just drop overseas markets, because it's too much hassle.

Like those obnoxious .com sites that only sell to North America. Usually they don't even mention the fact that they won't sell to you until you reach checkout, and they ask you to select your state, but not your country, that's implied. These last years my impression is that there are fewer of those sites, that the world has become more connected. I'd hate to see it go the other way.

On the bright side, it's nice to see US companies abiding by foreign laws for a change. For far too long they've gone with the attitude "we're on US soil, so we only have to follow US law", but now they're finally waking up to the fact that they have to follow the laws of every jurisdiction they do business in, or stop doing business there.

Is that a good thing? Case in point: The beta-free site refusing to accept donations, because then they'd have to be separately licensed to receive donations in 50 states. (section Why We Haven't Discussed Pure Donations). I worry that small and even medium size companies will just drop overseas markets, because it's too much hassle.

Like those obnoxious .com sites that only sell to North America. Usually they don't even mention the fact that they won't sell to you until you reach checkout, and they ask you to select your state, but not your country, that's implied. These last years my impression is that there are fewer of those sites, that the world has become more connected. I'd hate to see it go the other way.

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