Slashdot Mirror
Introducing the Slashdot Firehose
The Slashdot Firehose is a way for you to participate in the Slashdot editorial process. You are able to see all the content submitted to Slashdot: from RSS Feeds and user submissions, to journal entries and successful completed Slashdot stories.
You can participate by voting on these entries: click the minus icon if you don't think the story is great for Slashdot, and click the plus if you do. Better yet, when you make these choices you can help further refine your decision by clarifying why you made the choice you did. You can tell us if a story was binspam, or a dupe, or insightful. If you don't like the options provided in the pop-up windows, you can always open the tagging box and provide whatever tags you think will help Slashdot Editors, and other Slashdot Readers make informed decisions about the content they are reading.
Why does the Firehose have articles in it?The Firehose has all data on Slashdot. RSS Feeds. Journal Entries. Story Submissions. And of course, accepted Slashdot Stories. The idea is that this view of Slashdot can provide you a single place to view all Slashdot content in one interface.
If you don't like any particular data type, you can filter it out. If you don't like journals, you can just filter on -journal and they are gone. If you don't want Slashdot stories, -story will get you there.
You will note a variety of interesting options that allow you to control how this page is displayed. For example, if you filter on 'story' and set 'expand top rated' you will see a page that is very similar to Slashdot's main page today... except that it dynamically updates and allows voting and in-place expansion of sectional content. Alternatively, filtering to -story and toggling 'abbreviated mode' will let you see a real-time stream of reader contributions. It's really up to you
What do the colors mean?The spectrum of colors represents an overall quality rating for content. Red is the most popular, the highest rated, and hopefully the best content on Slashdot. There is relatively little Red content, although most stories we post default to red. Some stories show up as orange. As you work down the spectrum you will find more content. Default submissions to the Firehose start at blue. At indigo you will find a number of RSS feeds and journal entries. At violet you are probably wasting your time, and at black you definitely are!
Play with the color slider to find the level you enjoy reading most at. Use Red or Orange for busy days or if you are a casual reader. The lower you pull the slider, the more content you will see.
How does the calendar widget work?The Firehose is usable in 3 "Modes". In "latest content" mode you are looking at the last few days of Slashdot content. Display is optimized for you to easily navigate within this small bit of time. In 'Day Of' mode you will see content only from (surprise) any day you specify in the calender. Finally in 'Search Archive' mode you will search the entire database. For now, this goes back only perhaps 6 months but eventually we think this can replace our existing search infrastructure.
What can I do with the Firehose Tabs?We've found that we like to use the firehose in a number of different ways. Sometimes I want a casual view of Slashdot, and other times i want to see more stories. Sometimes I want to see only the stories I've tagged. Other times I just want to see Journals. Well, shockingly enough, each tab will remember your settings and allow you to quickly return to them later.
If you change your settings, you do so in an 'Untitled' tab. If you click on your tab, you can name it which will save it for later. Also, you can subscribe to an RSS feed for any particular tab if that's your cup of tea. Please keep in mind that we have a robots.txt file that restricts the rate that you refresh pages. I'd suggest a 30 minute minimum.
What browsers are supported?Currently we work great under Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, as well as Safari. IE7 is functional but has glitches that we are working to fix. The iPhone functions as well with a number of optimizations for small screens (although the bandwidth requirements are still fairly steep so you are probably better off on a WiFi connection for now)
IE6 is known to be broken. Other browsers might work, but we haven't really tested them.
Why didn't you post a submission that made it to red?Slashdot is a complex beast with readers with a wide variety of interests. Part of the job of Slashdot Editor is to create a website that is interesting to all of us. That means that sometimes our opinions may differ from yours. We use the voting in the Firehose as an indicator of value, but not as the definitive measure of if something is a Slashdot story.
If you don't like that, you can simply remove our Slashdot stories by putting -story in your filter. The firehose you read will be then be completely reader driven. We believe that the way we've built this system can appeal to the wide variety of Slashdot readers without compromising the story quality for our core audience.
Doesn't this make you just likeWell first of all, we're happy to use good ideas when we see them. Countless websites have knocked off our cool ideas, just like we joyously took ideas from those that came before us. But ultimately the idea here is not to imitate any other social network news site. We feel that the editorial layer that exists on top of Slashdot is important. But we also think that having many eyeballs will help us more efficiently sort through the ever increasing volume of content on this here internet of ours. That's why we'll aim to strike a balance. Slashdot stories will continue to be posted by our editors. We will use the advice given to us by our readers. Sometimes we will agree, and other times we won't. You are welcome to read more or less editor content depending on your tastes.
At the end of the day, striking a balance between the wisdom of crowds and the tyranny of mobs is a difficult one. It's also a personal one: some people might regard it as having a moral component. Others may just want to read a bunch of good stories no matter what the methodology. We're hoping that we can strike a balance that will work for everyone. Your feedback can only improve the system for everyone.
In case anyone misses the reference, the invitation to "drink from the firehose" is referring to UHF, the 1989 movie by "Weird Al" Yankovic, in which Stanley Spadowski (played by a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards) treats a kid who wins a game on his Captain Kangaroo-type show to drink from the firehose. The kid opens his mouth wide to the hose's nozzle, Stanly pulls the lever back, and the kid is promptly blown several feet off his seat.
Really funny stuff, including lots of television and movie genre parodies. If you like Weird Al's music and haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend you check it out. It's gained a cult following (obviously, with obscure references on Slashdot and all...) after having a disappointing theatrical release.
(But to be fair, that summer was particularly strong, with the release of Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2, Back to the Future Part II, Ghostbusters II, The Little Mermaid... Any other year, and it probably would have been a moderate success. As you can tell, I wish Al would make another.)
UHF was a great movie.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
We can now pitch the editors!
The firehose view just lists the story subjects and allows the user to click +/- from there. Yes, you can view the entire story, but I think most people are just going to vote based on the subject alone. Is this good or bad?
binspam tag to this shameless self-promotion?
(disclaimer: just joking, I enjoy drinking from the Firehose Fountain.)
...but better. Like those sites if they were posted to, read by, and moderated by people with a mode age greater than 6 and a mode emotional age greater than 2 :)
u-bend
Slashdot does'nt test anything in IE. Yes I know, everyone is supposed to use firefox! But while you people keep dreaming of that day, the rest of the world uses Internet Explorer. I am sure this service is nice, but as of right now I can not use the service because it looks like complete trash with JS errors in Internet Explorer. sigh. You are excluding 50% of the browsing market from using your website. Thanks!!
If it makes Slashdot more like digg, then bad idea. It's a train wreck of sex and conspiracy theories over there. Well...on second thought maybe we can make it half like digg.
12:50 - press return.
I've tried the Slashdot Firehose. It sucks.
;)
However, the name and target audience are probably a good fit: you would need some serious free time to process all the crap from the Firehose but a large proportion of Slashdotters are highly single and have no responsibilities other than to get themselves to and from work five days a week.
This site is falling down the same hill of poor quality that digg is.
I like the part about IE6 known broken, no other comments : ) Kinda curious about IE7 working better than IE6, would have figured it would be the other way around. Is IE7 more flexible with code that 6? "Slashdot endorses Firefox by breaking IE6 functionality on thier site, news at 11." j/k.
An I.T. motto in the hands of an idiot is a dangerous thing...
I've been using this for a while now, since it first appeared mostly, but in the last week or two or three (since the last major update) things haven't been rendering correctly for me in Safari 2. It used to work perfectly, but now it doesn't. The problem I have is the article text is there when I expand it, but the links (read more, comment, etc) show up on top of the article text thus making some words and part of a line or two unreadable.
Since it is mentioned that it works in Safari, is anyone else having this problem?
I'm on OS X, 10.4.10 for what it's worth.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
English was a great language... and then you came along.
"Drinking from a firehose" was coined long before UHF.
MIT President ['71-'80] Jerome Weisner coined the phrase "getting an Education from MIT is like taking a drink from a Fire Hose."
Colorblind. Can't help you with this new feature. You'll find that about 9% of your male audience will also be unable to use it correctly (not that some of them won't try.)
In general, color-coding is a poor practice when designing any UI. Especially contiguous spectrums.
Call me when you rank your firehose stories by popularity using a number, okay?
Genocide Man -- Life is funny. Death is funnier. Mass murder can be hilarious.
After all, it looks much like Digg already.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
It's a pretty good bandwidth too.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
... up to 11?
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Judging by your name, perhaps some time on the various gay porn sites would be more to your liking?
Slashdot is just fine as it is and the firehose is a welcome addition.
End of story.
It would be nice if stories that I have opened to read would not scroll off when more come through or fall off the 'hose or disappear because someone else voted it down below my filter setting. At least, not within the first two minutes of opening it. It happens before I have a chance to decide to click "Read more" to open in a new tab, and some (like bookmarks) have no "Read more" option.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
"Drink from the Firehose" sounds like something you are forced to do in prison, when you aren't bending over "to pick up the soap"
You mean, I can participate in improving the quality of the editorial process?
Reduce dupes?
Improve article summary quality?
Filter irrelevant material?
Tell Zonk to go to hell?
*wicked evil grin blood-curdling cackle of glee*
I welcome myself as your new overlord.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
...or else it gets the Firehose again?
Why use cryptic flags like -story and -journal that the user has to just magically know (i don't see any list of available flags by the filter box). Why not just use checkboxes or something of things to include? [x] stories [ ] journal
I use the Firehose quite often with Opera and it seems to work as expected. I'll be letting you know if it stops working. ;)
Having seen the evolution of the Firehose over the last few months I can say that it's definitely going in the right direction. Looks good, am particularly happy that a reason has to be given for modding stuff up/down. It makes me stop and think, rather than just modding things based upon my predisposed opinions.
I'm going to transform myself into a mighty hawk. Either that or I'll just go and work at Dixons, haven't decided yet.
Why isn't there a "troll" or "flamebait" option in the minus sign menu? These apply to a lot of the journal rants, and several of the submissions too, but the closest thing you can mod them is "stupid".
Is there a way to set the view to show more than 25 entries at a time?
If you click the plus or minus sign, but don't provide a reason in the menu that comes up, does the plus or minus rating still take effect?
While the comment above is indeed flamebait (for the bad attitude), I find that the Firehose does indeed suck, at least for me.
This is not a flame, but a reasoned comment made after testing the thing out many multiples of times. I try using the thing almost every day and while it worked okay at first, it started not working at all for me about a week or two ago.
The problem is that when the slider is set to the first step in the "purple" range, I get nothing but a huge list of stories spammed from Science Daily. This is their RSS feed of course, but surprisingly, I get no other stories at all. I do not get other RSS feeds, no matter how low I dial the setting (towards the black), and if I raise the setting out of the purple even to the very next "step," all stories disappear completely. I can continue "stepping" up towards the orange, red, etc. and no stories appear at all, all the way to the left. This has been the case for about a week and a half now and I stopped even trying to use it about 5 days ago, although I still check back in once in a while to see if it's working again.
Obviously I am doing something wrong here, but it's not clear to me what it is. Even though I can find literelly no stories in the firehose sometimes, when I go back to the main screen, there are new stories that have been approved while I was in the firehose. I have even left the firehose open for an hour or two once to see if it was a time-based issue and perhaps the stories were just less frequent than I imagined, but no dice.
I kind of hope that I am the only one that can't make this thing work as it would be a really unfair proposition if this experience was widespread, but here is one intelligent, reasonably capable person, who is really trying, and really interested in making the firehose work, but who hasn't got the firehose to work at all for quite a while now.
After a certain incident in a park, I'm much less likely to "drink from a firehose" again.
Yep, it sucks alright.. as in being a Slashdot 'editor' sucks...
I have no idea if it works or not, I didn't use enough to find out
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The real problem with that is that we have historically very low data sampling for purple and lower stories. The hope is that once a few hundred readers turn their OCD juices on, that we'll have enough data to make better judgement on this content. It doesn't really take many people to make that happen. It just takes more than what we have now. Since almost everyone reads at blue, the purple area rapidly become a skeleton graveyard of RSS feeds.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
So spank my ass and mod me redundant.
Did something changed from the last time I used the firehose, my javascript has been acting weird, or I'm just plain stupid. Because I click the minus, and bam, there was "Dupe". What have I been smoking...?
I lost my sig.
...at least that's one reason.
n/t
What happens to the comments if the story gets dumped?
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This is intentional. The hope is that readers will find benefit from the ability to discuss entries as they rise and fall in the hose.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
I've been manning the hose for a while. Sometimes I have to reject a story that's a perfect fit for slashdot subject matter, but just isn't "big enough" to be a full story, since full stories have to be meaty enough to soak up comments for about an hour until the next story gets published.
It would be cool to have a place for the worthy small-fry stories, while keeping slashdot's overall big-stories-only-on-the-front-page approach. Right now that place is digg, which is too free-for-all for my taste.
After setting it to sort by popularity and then back to sort by time, the icon indicates that it's sorting by time, but instead it's still sorted by popularity. Pressing the icon again doesn't change anything anymore. I tried to reset to defaults in the preferences, but that opens this page, which seems to be empty. I am using Firefox 2.0.0.6.
Also, when it still worked, I noticed that changing the color from red to orange shows red and orange content. I think it would be much better, if there was an option to only show orange. I, for one, like to browse through the quality content first and when I still have the time and feel for it, lower the threshold to browse through other stuff some more. Still showing the content I already looked at makes that very uncomfortable.
Oh yeah? Well I'm BLIND, you insensitive clod!
How can I filter stories that are already on the frontpage, I don't want to see them in firehose. I don't see the need to mod these stories as they are already on a frontpage and me down modding them will not remove them.
Tagging for these stories can be done on the frontpage itself.
What power has law where only money rules.
I use the Firefox plugin Web Developer ( http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ ) to turn off page images and colors and to use firehose I have to turn both back on. To me this would be similar to requiring people to turn off NoScript. I hope the regular old method of browsing /. continues on.
I read Slashdot for the headlines, because the headlines, unlike the articles, are usually original and never duplicated
> Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out.
Using I.E. 6.0 SP 1 from XP...
Bug 1) Filter button is smack dab in the middle of the rainbow slider, with "Filter" under the rainbow, unreadable.
Bug 2) Listing of stories to mod does not appear, vertically, until after all my boxes on the right (e.g. Book Reviews, Games, Hollywood Bitchslap, etc.) People with a lot of boxes will have to scroll quite aways before they get there. This may or may not have something to do with text display size. In any case, it should be side-by-side to the right-hand box column.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
This makes sense, but I still have to assume that there is some kind of classic "dumb move" being made on my part as this explanation does not completely cover what I have experienced. My experience (for the last few days), is a complete lack of stories of *any* kind except for Science Daily RSS, and then only when I am on that one purple "notch" of the scale.
I will have to do some actual, repeatable experimentation to back myself up and find out what the heck I am doing wrong. Possibly the fact that it's now "live" will give me a different result, or possibly I am just not waiting long enough for stories to show up.
I don't know what to tell you except that once a story falls from blue to indigo, the small group of active hose users won't see it any more because they mostly browse at blue or so. And all RSS feeds start at indigo. Like I said- it's messy down there, and only more involved eyeballs will really solve the "Problem" which I don't think is that big of a deal. Blue is the middle of the curve. It's where the action is. Go from there. If you really got time to kill, visit indigo.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
It would be good to be able to link submissions together, as in "these are the same story". Flagging a submission as "dupe" is logically awkward if there are several submissions covering the same story from a different angle. Do you flag the weakest submissions as the dupe or the later ones? Not sure how that would work interface-wise though.
I'm really interested, but I can't participate. Corporate policy is currently for IE 6. I'm guessing so we can keep testing the firewall, and keep us off of /. One out of two ain't bad. ...wait, surf from home? You mean people actually come here when they aren't (supposed to be) working?
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
I IE7 the whole colour bar can be dragged left to right, rather then just the gray slide handle.
The best way to stop spam is to kill it at its source, in this case the RSS feed itself. One method might be direct moderation of the RSS feeds that slashdot imports, or you could give feeds a karma rating that's derived from the moderation of its story submissions. Either way, a story's initial color should be derived from its feed's rating, so that items from CNet, Bruce Schneir's blog and Penny Arcade might all start out yellow or orange, while stories from less reputable sources would start out as indigo or even black. I wonder if you could move to an entirely RSS-driven submission system? The current submission process could be replaced by requiring user-submitted stories to start as a journal posting, maybe with a special author-added tag.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
Displaying with Simple and Lowbandwidth design, the story titles are unreadable (black text on dark cyan background).
Can provide screenshot if requested.
Anything is possible given time and money.
Might I suggest requiring any RSS feed submissions to be pre-tagged with a tag indicating which feed they're from? That way they can be filtered out.
Actually how about a policy that simply forbids automated submissions like that as spam? Interested people already have slashboxes, and if it's really newsworthy, someone's going to submit it by hand.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
I haven't been able to save tags to anything since around yesterday. I get the "tags have been saved" prompt but then the text box clears and they don't show up, either in my user tags or on the article. Obviously others have been able to tag this article so I know it's working in general...is it possible my tag access got revoked for some reason?
I'm not colorblind, but I agree that a rainbow spectrum is a bad idea. In a color circle, violet is closer to red than green is. Having violet equal bad and red equal good is confusing. Anything spanning more than 180 degrees of a color circle will be. And certain colors, like yellow, stand out more psychologically, giving a strange emphasis to stories with scores around 60%.
The best solution might be monochromatic: black to white, or white to red. Or have black be neutral, red be positive, and blue be negative with monochromatic gradients in between. That'd be like a good elevation map: green to brown for increasing altitude of land, light blue to dark blue for increasing depth of water.
AlpineR
Brilliant. In fact, thats exactly how it works :)
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
Today subscribers can see articles before they get posted to the front page. How it that handled with the firehose? Do articles disappear from the hose once they're approved but before they are on the front page?
Oh, I thought this was digg.
Sorry.
It would be nice if the dynamic ajax comment update marked new comments as being new (If you're familiar with kuro5hin/scoop, new comments are marked as "[new]" (in red). It would make catching new comments easier (and should be trivial to implement).
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I'm getting a slight graphical error of what I would assume is a CSS error. I tried it out in Firefox but not Opera - only shows up in Opera. What happens is that the coloured bar doesn't completely wrap around when viewing in a non-fullscreen mode.
Since I keep my taskbar at the side and off auto-hide, it's a constant error. Also happens if I decide to view the page in windowed mode: screenshot. There are also other wrapping issues in Opera =\
Visit http://theshrine.ca/ at irregular intervals and you might see something interesting.
When are we going to get the "YOU SO STUPID!" section?
Slashdot is kind of like Playboy; we aren't here to read the articles.
that Dvorak articles will never make it to the front page from now on?
An example: part of why Slashdot is relevant is because us editors exist and prevent... we editors More than half of Slashdot readership is only interested in the articles those editors you hate so much. [butthead] uhhh... uh-huhuh-huh... He said editors.[/butthead]
...we need to strike a balance between what works for each groups particular needs. each group's particular needsUnrelated, I've also intended for nine years to institute a three dimensional/colour rating system: one indicating endorsement/agreement, a second rejection/opposition and the third recognition/importance, to draw others' attention to the item without implying a value judgment. Feel free to steal it unproven if you like.
-- Our systemic servants do not good masters make.
On the UTF-8 support topic, this post from May 2006 on the slash dev mailing list (link here, but scrambled by sourceforge), the maintainer of Solidot successfully modified slash to support Chinese characters. Maybe the dev team could reuse their patches? Does it works? Yes, here's the proof.
Animoog.org
We don't use emoticons on Slashdot. You must be new here.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
With the (more) widespread use of event processing (http://www.complexevents.com/) technology, you can create custom RSS filtering that is far more expressive than any filtering currently in place. The more information you provide in the RSS feed, the more I can apply these technologies to Slashdot's firehose. :)
--Thomas J. Owens
...if they manage to include rejected stories in the history mechanism. Damn shame we can't see the rejected stories from 1996-2007, I'm sure there would be some interesting gems lost among the tripe.
there's a hottie who works in accounting who's gonna be drinking from my hose this weekend, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, if you know what i mean.
(i'm talking about my penis)
The text is unreadable. No contrast.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
You would rather exclude millions of people from participating period, and comply to 'web standards' instead very informative!
If I ever put out a product for a client the way the slashdot front page looks I would pretty much be fired. It has to look DECENT (not perfect) in all browsers. overlapping shit is unacceptable for anyone who considers themselfs a professional coder period. People who put 'SWITCH TO FIREFOX NOW' on their site are retards also. Someone who has no idea (or has no privlidges to install software) is not going to care about what firefox is. They just want to browse the internet.
Stop being so fucking hard headed people. Here I read cmdrtaco thanking people about colorblind features and considerations. What is the use of a colorblind feature if a noob user who browses with IE only by default is going to see overlapping text? Useless.
Would there be a chance to maintain the comments created in the hose? Granted, we should be using the hose comments to discuss modding the story... but, hey, this is Slashdot. What happens if the article is crap, but firehose users don't want to lose a particular comment thread?
DUGG!
There's a problem when using the tag triangle on the right of the article to open the tag editor in Firefox. After the tag editor expands, the list of tags overlaps the, "Read More", link and the # of comments. At this point, the tag editor cannot be closed, and obscured tags cannot be clicked on.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Renaming the tabs doesn't work. You can click on the, "Edit this tab", button, but after you type something into the text box, there is no way to accept the change. I've tried just pressing return, but that doesn't work. I've tried looking for a button, but all that I see is the RSS button. How do you rename a tab?
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
"Logged in users have noticed for some time the request to drink from the Slashdot Firehose." I'd used it plenty before I even had a /. account. I just opened the page, and there it was. I always thought everyone had it...
By the way, it seems to work fine in Konqueror, too. I haven't tested it a whole lot in Konqi, tho.
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> You would rather exclude millions of people
/.?
There are millions of people using IE on platforms not supported by Firefox?
> Someone who has no idea (or has no privlidges to install software) is not going to care about what
> firefox is. They just want to browse the internet.
And you feel that people who can't install software or have heard of FireFox is the core demographics of
> More than half of Slashdot readership is only interested in the articles those editors you hate so much.
> Perhaps a third of you are 'The Community'
I suspect you overestimate the size of the "community" with one or two orders of magnitude.
Maybe one in ten sometimes reads the comments, and one in hundred ever writes a comment.
How about allowing users to submit an alternate abstract to a story in the firehose. Sometimes the links in a slashdot story are placed in a confusing way or the abstract would gain from some extra information. If you allow users to submit a complete alternate abstract then it is easy for the editor to choose the best abstract for the story. Eventually the readers will gain.
I made your favorite...a Twinkie-dog!
...or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-San is bringing down the aisle right now! What's it gonna be?
Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk.
[In the TV show "Conan the Librarian"]
Young book customer: [Whimpering before Conan slices him in half] These books are a little overdue.
Hello, this is Sy Greenblum, president of Spatula City. I like the spatulas so much, I bought the company.
Kuni: Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty. Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper...
[Hiro-San emerges, carrying a table with a box]
Kuni:
[Phyllis Weaver has difficulty in choosing as the audience point to the box]
Phyllis Weaver: I'll take the box. The box!
[applause]
Kuni: You took the box? Let's see what's in the box!
[Hiro-san opens the box; the audience gasps. There is a silence]
Kuni: Nothing! Absolutely nothing! STUPID! You're so STU-PIIIIIIIIIIID!
For those of you just joining us, today we're teaching poodles how to fly.
Oh, Joel Miller, you've just found the marble in the oatmeal. You're a lucky, lucky, lucky little boy. 'Cause you know why? You get to drink from... the FIRE HOOOOOSE!
Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers.
[jumps out from behind a door marked "Supplies] Supplies!
This town means about as much to me as a festering bowl of dog snot.
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I'm at work. We run XP. With IE6. This _may_ change in the next, ooh, three years, but being a big financial company we tend to move with appalling slowness when it comes to our machines.
/. itself, but I'd be surprised if it was much less than 30%.
Looking around, it seems that you're cutting off somewhere between 25 and 50% of users from the system. I don't know what the stats are like for
My Journal
What you are talking about is Kuro5hin's edit queue, not Slahdot.
I wonder how hard it would be to track down my first comment, and the first story I got posted.
Best Slashdot Co
My CSS rules remove the left hand menu, thank you.
The is that the '+' menu is also off the screen.
Would it be possible to move that menu to the right
like the '-' menu. aTdHvAaNnKcSe
Is there some reason you can't install Firefox or Opera on your own machine, just locally? There's a portable version of Firefox that requires no special permissions to execute, doesn't use an installer, and can be run from a single folder (which can be placed on a flash drive, hence "portable"). There are other methods that may work, depending on your situation, but portable Firefox may be the best bet.
I'm very, very sorry you still have to use that sorry excuse for a browser. My work machine also has IE6, but I don't need to *use* it, thankfully.
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
every story I've ever seen in the firehose is from the register. all of them. If I wanted to look at the register stories I would go there. this is /. god damn the register