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101 Dumbest Moments In Business
hhutkin writes "It's that time again. Business 2.0 posted their 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Of course, they lambast Enron, but they also slam Ginger, a laptop computer made for the steering wheel of your car, Steve Ballmer dancing, and some other really dumb stuff from the past year."
because I haven't the foggiest idea who Andrea Thompson is.
18. CNN 1, Fox News 0: On her first day as a newsreader for CNN's Headline News, former NYPD Blue actress Andrea Thompson ingratiates herself to viewers by announcing, "I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that."
I forget...are we at war with Eurasia or East Asia?
1 loyal U.S. Senator...$5,000. 1 trip to Disneyland...$2,000. 1 video tape of a U.S. Senator throwing up on Space Mountain and promising that Disneyland will be sold to China...priceless.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Most of the people that cared to moderate, and didn't read too often to be able to moderate, can't anymore.
Taco or one of his "buds" used the thread of death as an excuse to remove several hundred people's moderation privs.
I'd say a lot larger percent of the moderation is done by the editors themselves now. They used to do over 10% of it, but now with a big chunk of the moderating population gone, it's probably a lot higher.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The Slashdot Mistake.
t -rich and "Let's Not Offend Anyone" Slashdot.
How about using Javascript to put ads on a page, like our Beloved Slashdot(tm).
All one has to do is look at the source code, see the horrible mangly js code that adds to the download size, and realize that they are willing to alienate nerds like myself over trying to make a buck, or at least pay for their bandwidth, when in fact all they have to do is use nice CSS and fire all their marketing people, their Editors (they have them?) and John Katz. This is not Salon. Or MSN. We don't want to be politically correct. We want to say rude and obnoxious things, and if the advertisers want us to tone the rethoric down, then I say: you don't understand Geeks.
If I want normal, sensitive-up-to-the-collar news commentary, then I'll read up with the BBC and CNN. When I want blood and gore at the bottom of the trenches and sulfur choking my lungs in the technology battlefield, then I don't want some actor who has never even seen source code dressed in a frog-green space suit from the 60s and his adorable used-to-work-as-a-waitress assistant pitching an overpriced database system.
News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. Can we append "Shop now, we take VISA" to keep up with the Times?
There are websites who make mistakes, because they don't know any better. Then there is Slashdot, where even the notion that Geeks don't like the Establishment will be used as a marketing tool by the aforementioned Establishment for the explicit purpose of providing value to the shareholders.
Personally I would rather see no Slashdot than a corporate-media-million-eyeballs-per-day-let's-ge
"Piter, too, is dead."
Iridium flares are awesome to watch, really.
Iridium flares are the reflection of the sun off the MMA's, only a few seconds long, but the brightest object in the night sky when it occurs. See http://www.heavens-above.com/iridiumhelp.asp
if you have never seen one.
At least each satellite has three main mission antennas (MMAs), which are flat, highly reflective surfaces, that can reflect the Sun's rays to an observer on the ground when the geometry is correct. The satellite's attitude is controlled so that the long axis remains vertical, with one MMA always pointing forwards. Given this knowledge of the attitude, together with the orbital position of the satellite and the Sun and observer's location, it is possible to calculate the angle between the direction to the observer from the satellite and the line of a perfect reflection of the Sun. This is the so-called "mirror angle" and determines the magnitude of the flare.
Give this moron some oxy.