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Dried Meat "Resurrects" Lost Species of Whale
sciencehabit writes "A gift of dried whale meat—and some clever genetic sleuthing across almost 16,000 kilometers of equatorial waters—has helped scientists identify a long-forgotten animal as a new species of beaked whale. The 'resurrection' raises new questions about beaked whales, the most elusive and mysterious of cetaceans. Overall, the saga shows 'that there are probably even more species of beaked whales that we don't know about,' says Phil Clapham, a marine mammalogist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. 'We don't see them because they're very deep-diving and live far from land.' They also live in a poorly surveyed part of the ocean, Baker says, where very few people dwell on remote atolls."
be heard.
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[Fuck Beta]
Finally tried it and goddamn.
Frist psot and a beta sucks all in one. Tasty.
Jesus, I've been coming here since '99. I won't come back if beta is pushed on me.
I don't think they know what the word, "resurrect", means.
Nah, just kidding. Fuck the beta.
Ah, *ahem* ... FUCK BETA. That is all.
Hot grits are rolling down
Natalie Portman's butt cheeks
Giving me a winter erection.
Fuck Beta.
First comment ever on /.
Been reading it for over 15 years.
Classic or nothing.
Avoid SlashDot Beta
http://www.users.on.net/~onearmed/SD/slash-dot.jpg
Do these scientists study the DNA of all the food they are served? I bet they are skinny scientists...
Too bad It can resurrect Slashdot Classic
The Beta sucks! It's not just bad from a "I don't like change" perspective; it's bad from an aesthetic and usability standpoint! We've told you what is bad about it. Now please incorporate our suggestions.
Well, I'm normally against childish flaming, but this beta thing has me upset.
Especially since I have been giving regular feedback ever since they started rolling out this crap.
Why are they continuing? Death march...
The value of Slashdot is the comment section to the articles. Why would you ever approve a redesign that has ruined the one reason people visit the site!?!?!?!? How hard is it to prevent comments from being squished into oblivion???
the suck-y beta /. site.
Get rid of slashdot beta.
Just in case someone doesn't know, here's how to access Slashdot without the fucking beta activated:
http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1
Now, please, someone FORK THIS DAMN SITE.
FYI, The slashbeta admins are modding threads and replies as -1.... like 5-10 posts all at once. No REAL COMMUNITY MEMBER MODS are doing this, but the admins.
Slashdot doesn't want Slashbeta, but the admins are trying to suppress this obvious reality. The last 3-4 stories all comments are 99% anti-slashbeta and they still want to pretend they're listening to us and asking for our feedback.
The feedback is to take your fucking redesign and rm -fr
Die in a fire slashbeta
Here is Dice's "Contact Us" page. Everybody be sure to call them tomorrow using whatever numbers from that page you can get to ring. Tell every darn receptionist in every darn one of Dice's holdings, along with anyone you can get them to connect you to, that the Slashdot beta is terrible and you won't shut up until it goes away. Fax them a well-illustrated complaint or two or three. Send them a choice letter via snail mail, along with whatever memorabilia you wish.
They keep soliciting our feedback, they can get our feedback, right where it counts.
The most obvious contact points are:
Dice Holdings Inc.
1040 Avenue of the Americas, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10018
T: 212-725-6550
F: 212-725-6559
Slashdot
594 Howard St Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: +1-877-433-5638
www.slashdot.com
...what is good for you! No matter how much we hate it, slashdot beta is coming like a steam locomotive and there ain't no way, other than no slashdot for you, that you will be able to avoid it! You don't like it, I don't like it, hardly anyway likes it, but be prepared to bend over and take it like a man because slashdot beta has a hard on for you!
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Don't be like every other lame site out there. Dare to be different. You know, maybe even nerdy ...
You know you can't resist, Dice knows you can't resist. Resistance is futile my friend.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Well, I'm normally against childish flaming, but this beta thing has me upset. Especially since I have been giving regular feedback ever since they started rolling out this crap.
Why are they continuing? Death march...
Because somebody's getting paid to do it.
It's what happens every time there is a re-branding that users don't like.
Management doesn't want to admit that they wasted all that money on something that no one wants, so they'll try to ram it through anyway.
WTF is this shit. this shit is a deal breaker. This is news for Nerds not Nerds for tards who only want one button.
Fuck Beta
Why is this comment section just like a flat wall of crap?
What happened to the titles? It's like a big blur of text scrolling past.
Even the color scheme hurts my eyes!
[FuckBeta]
Just because the title has "Resurrected" in it doesn't mean that Jesus is reading this thread.
oh what the serious fuck.
are there no blank lines to break up paragraphs anymore?
Once upon a time, I browsed at -1. Those days it was all about Natalie Portman naked, petrified, and covered in grits.
Some people even liked to masturbate with Harry Potter glasses on.
Even the trolls used line breaks.
[fuckbeta]
Vote this up... http://slashdot.org/submission...
Silence is a state of mime.
lets migrate to slashdot.jp
ps yeah fuck beta
I have to admit, I thought people were overreacting about the beta, but now I see what they're on about.
I actually read TFA because it's too painful to stay here.
TFA talks about these whales never having been seen because they live so deep in the sea. Either they have developed rebreathers or everlasting scuba gear OR they have to come to the surface every once in a while to breathe and thus be liable to be seen. The same goes for calves, they'd have to stay relatively close to the surface for the first few days. Good to know that there is still something left to be discovered.
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Now that this is out of the way I'd like to add my voice to those who state that the beta is, shall we say, sub-optimal? I don't tend to use expletives so I'll refrain from them in this context but I do want to let it be known that I'll probably be a goner if I have to access the site through the JS-riddled monstrosity called beta. I already spend more time elsewhere (HN et al) even though 'elsewhere' also has its faults.
To those in command, accept that the beta is generally disliked. Either keep the site as it is until it bleeds dry or, if you insist in changing for changes' sake offer the content through an API so users can decide on their own frontend - think HN. Yes, you'll want to have some way of foisting ads and infomercial content and such pablum on your very suspecting users. They'll find ways to block it as they always did. Just accept that and keep the brand alive, or fight it and perish.
--frank[at]unternet.org
if they insist on pushing this redesign I won't be coming back.
First on-topic post!
Fuck Beta and Bitcoin
Because someone's "UX credentials" are on the line, and like a desperado firing blanks, they find going down in a blaze of glory, taking the site with them, as preferable to a gracious climbdown.
You've got to undertand, some industries/careers are built not on technical merit, but on pure Front. Law, management, trendy design: If you lose face in such industries, your career is basically over. What your ostensibly supposed to be doing has nothing to do with it.
May the Maths Be with you!
Day 1: It wouldn't stop, the redirecting. At first I thought it was malware. Had my first drink in a long time.
Day 2: Barely had the strength to carry on as the BETA REDIRECTIONS continue.. trying not to talk to hallucinations at the bar and in the bathroom which laugh at me about these redirections.
Day 3: Discovered the BETA redirections were random, and while at first they looked somewhat usable, when I looked at me and my monitor screen in the mirror, a horrible woman with flesh hanging off of her body looked back, trying to lead me into a dance as the word BETA appeared across her rancid breasts.
Day 4: These BETA corridors go on FOREVER! On the plus side, I've taken up disassembling vehicles to corner this BETA beast and sacrifice myself rather than lead others to discovering it. I ate some red snow.
Day 5: Finding it harder to concentrate. I've ate some more of the red snow. The taste is starting to grow on me.
Day 6: This typewriter is the only entertainment I have, apart from throwing things at the walls, trying to get some response from the BETA which is now taking over my mind.
Day 7: Hahahahahha! Would you believe it? I'M STILL BEING REDIRECTED TO SLASHDOT BETA PAGES! AHAHhahahaah! Type, type, ding, ding! Wooo!
Day 8: The hallucinations are actually real! Would you believe it? They have offered to help me if I agree to work for them. I'm thinking about patenting this delicious red snow, the taste is unreal!
Day 9: Having black out sessions where I cannot remember large passings of time. Found some makeup, thought I'd paint a joker smile on my face to amuse the people only I can see!
Day 10: Productive today, part of what I wrote for my new screenplay:
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
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I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slas
(drops of blood on paper)
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
I have been a regular visitor to Slashdot for around 15 years. For that, I get the checkbox to disable ads, though I browse with Javascript disabled so my browser does not slow down.
I come here for the discussions, and often read comments at +5, changing that only if I find a discussion interesting and warrants reading at a lower level.
The new beta uses JQuery for the comment threshold selector, and changes that on the fly. This means all the comments are loaded, but not visible, and processing any page with considerable number of comments will slow down MY computer! If I have a few tabs open to read later, my computer will be unusable.
What is worse it that they require you to click on the slider on every article to change the threshold! This is just insane!
If they insist that I enable Javascript to browse the site at the threshold I want, then they will lose me as a long time. I imagine that others long timers will hate the site too.
Dice have to remember that this site has two unmatched features, interlocked: a moderation system that is good at cutting down the trolling, spamming, and noise, and a comment section that is frequented by many people who are passionate about technology and other nerdy stuff.
If they wanted to intentionally ruin the site and drive people away, they would not have done any worse than what they are doing now.
If they manage to aggravate a lot of their users, the comment section will no longer be attractive to the audience. Perhaps we should revive kuro5hin?
I wrote the above in a feedback form that I filled a while ago, and I am emailing this comment to their feedback@slashdot.org. Please send them feedback too.
And mod this up so Dice can see what they are getting themselves into.
2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning.
I agree with what you write, but how can someone spin destroying a heavily trafficked website in a positive way? This redesign looks to be career damaging for those involved as far as I can tell.
Slashdot has long been in decline anyway. They are taking the risk of driving everyone away, in the hopes of attracting a new audience. It won't work, but I can see how it is at least a rational attempt to recover some of their sunk costs.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Well, it's not as big as it used to be, especially not as a percentage of the largest ones.
Of course that still means a lot of users, but in today's capitalism it's probably an obvious gamble to try to make it "even larger", even while risking a complete meltdown.
http://beta.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/1255258/why-new-systems-fail
oh, and the comments from the old story cannot be retrieved
hilarious
Am I the only one who's first thought when reading 'Dried Meat' was: beef jerky. (+ foooood :))
Without meat eating where would we be(ak). One more good reason to carnivore.
it just really sucks. FUCK BETA
-- After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Just star a crowdfunded site called dotslash. Is the software for this site open source?
A group of Slashdot members have already started this ...
See AltSlashdot.
2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning.
ROTFLMAO @ "Chumpy" -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
(You sure "talk a good game" -> http://games.slashdot.org/comm... but you can't even produce a MERE SCRIPT!, windbag...)
You aren't even on the level of a "script kiddie", & full of HOT AIR!
You certainly won't reply there in that 2nd link I posted either, as that would remove your downmods to my posts like this one you can't validly disprove or justify your downmod on -> http://games.slashdot.org/comm...
Oh, I suspect that IS the case here (simply logging out of a registered account & trolling by ac is a common troll trick around here OR using alternate registered 'luser' accounts sockpuppets to do the job will also, & Lumpy is LOADED with those & trolling - which doesn't matter: He PROVES he's all talk, no action (or skills, OR brains, lol))
(You're all TALK, & NO action "CHUMPY!)
* :)
(You know it, I know it, & so does anyone reading AND laughing their asses off @ you now... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Answer the question in the subject-line Lumpy - since you had to "eat your wrods" in the 1st link above flavored with your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH + the "bitter taste of SELF-defeat", lol...
... apk