1) No, that's completely wrong. Think about that one a bit harder. 2) You'll find this is the situation with moderators pretty much everywhere in real life; you must be young 3) Also wrong, and obviously so; you know very well posting to a thread you moderated will undo the moderation, and frankly it matters very little since moderation can't completely remove any posts. 4) You'll find this is also true of the internet in general. 5) You'll find the distinction between these two types of posts is only clear if you're the one who posted it. This is a universal constant of society too; nothing to do with slashcode. 6) You didn't think this one out very carefully either, obviously. 7) See #6. What, do you think getting all your friends to help gang up and moderate some poor sucker's post to -1000 is gonna actually help this situation any? Careful... your hidden agenda is showing... 8) see #5 9) Seriously? all your complaints above and you actually still think someone is gonna use a "disagree" moderation when they can call it a troll or flamebait? you said yourself there's no accountability.... come on. if you want to actually address problems you have to actually think out your "solutions" to their logical conclusion. Even if you could enforce use of "disagree" moderation, there's absolutely no sane world where disagreeing with someone's post should be justification for being allowed to moderate it. In fact, quite the opposite; what your suggestion creates here is called a "conflict of interest." At best, this suggestion doesn't change anything at all and just adds server load and development costs. At worst, it actually causes/exacerbates a problem you claim to care about; that legitimate posts are unfairly moderated down. 10) I'm not even sure what you mean by this. The moderator points are assigned clearly by past behavior. Don't post anonymously so much and you'll get more moderator points to spend. Simple. This point also appears to be wrong, but Its possible I just don't understand what you mean, or you meant to type something else.
And then we have:
11) I guess I don't know about any delays, but my guess is its a server-load/hosting-cost issue. Not all ACs are going to be the honorable gentlemen you envision them to be; many of them are actually trying to crash or infect Slashdot's servers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In the real world, I can't imagine any high profile website that allows users to post content anonymously without any sort of throttle whatsoever. You must not maintain web software for a living. 12) Ok this one you're right about, and I actually agree with you. Someone clearly needs to brush up on their understanding of character sets and regular expressions, because the data handling of this text field is so amateur-hour 1996. Its pretty embarrassing to see it still behaving the same exact way in 2015. They should have put development man-hours into fixing this first, instead of that whole "Slashdot Beta" boondoggle. 13) God help us all if you actually get your way on this one. The rest of us would rather NOT see every single user's stupid rich-content banner-ad signature. I'm certain the signature character limit was specifically chosen to prohibit the ability for the signatures to carry a Google tracking tag. Your other opinions might just be misguided, but this one makes me suspect you're actually a bad person, who seeks to do harm on those around him.
And of course...
14) Ok, I agree here too. The editing sucks. At least they could fix obvious typos and grammatical errors, missing links, outright inaccuracies, etc. Its pretty clear most of them take zero pride in their work, or else their parents just didn't discipline them enough as children. 15) No, the firehose is there so all submissions are visible by the users. If you think its a waste of time just don't use it. Nobody ever implied you should in the first place. Your lack of self control isn't a justification for removing
... and they can probably protect identities if desired.
Nooope. Not anymore. You forgot the Snowden disclosures. Journalistic integrity with regards to protecting identities of whistleblowers is utterly impossible now. This is why Groklaw shut down, actually.
... for declassifying the shark repellant recipe. We all forgive you and Jula Childs and love you as you are. Please now also declassify the cure for cancer.
That's actually not a totally unsound point. My advice is next time you present this to an audience don't use the word "Gaia" as the name for our planet. Its okay, I really like anime too, but the people who most need to hear your message will see that one word and just ignore the rest, assuming you're some sort of Hippie freak.
No, they're investing a ton of money in renewable energy too; mostly to stifle it from killing the fossil fuels market before they can figure out how to meter and charge you for access to sunlight.
Right, except that you're forgetting that the MicroBit can be plugged into and programmed from a Raspberry Pi. You can't do that in the other direction, so the devices don't actually even fit the same use cases.
In fact, I'd recommend that you don't even use your phone to check your email unless its an email account with completely separate authentication and hosting that you use only for that phone, and never use as a contact address for any accounts anywhere else.
I know you're saying this sarcastically, but he's not wrong. Don't use your phone to pay your bills. Really. Especially if its an Android or any other type of "smartphone" that runs "apps."
The parent post deserves to be modded +5 insightful. What is fundamentally killing our economy right now is simply that malicious incompetence is given a free pass. It seems like most the world doesn't realize its possible for incompetent people to pretend, purposefully, to be either more or less incompetent than they actually are, to suit their own ends. In both cases, this type of behavior at the very least should disqualify them from claiming they can do said tasks effectively, even if they actually could do so by trying harder. Almost universally though I see cases where obviously malicious laziness and incompetence is given a free pass because apparently the one thing we, as Americans are too polite to do is fire someone for lying about their own qualifications.
TFS says: "It's not intended as a competitor to devices like the Raspberry Pi or the Arduino — it is intended to complement them while remaining simple for educational purposes" so it appears that is NOT in fact what they say they have done.
What are you worried about? They waste their own money doing something stupid? They find out that you need an apartment with a good skylight or balcony to really pull this off well? They find out corn isn't actually a super-efficient all-purpose source of food and ethanol its advertised as by big agricultire? Or maybe deep down inside, the part about this that really bugs you that you can't admit to yourself is the nagging fear that "city folk" might learn to grow their own food and then the one last thing justifying generations of isolation and bigotry promoted by "country folk" will simply evaporate along with all of Monsanto's revenue?
Its a big park and facial recognition tech has come a very long way. Also, in California, FastPass as well as various police agencies have been (possibly illegally) logging license plate numbers and processing them with licence plate recognition tech for some time now. Chances are even if you DID pay for everything in cash they still know who you are within a few minutes of entering their property, unless you drove your own car and parked it in their lot, in which case they know as soon as you approach the gate.
Yea dude, super old news but the on-ride photos at Disneyland can now be emailed to you. You just type in your email on a touchscreen at the end of the ride.
They emphatically do not screw around with this... which leads me to wonder who would be dumb enough to risk the ire of authorities and property owners by pulling such a stupid stunt.
If I were a betting man, I'd place my money on unsupervised 12-year-olds.
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I assume this post was meant to be attached to the grandparent post, not mine.
Disagree != misunderstand.
Nice advertisement in your signature.
1) No, that's completely wrong. Think about that one a bit harder.
2) You'll find this is the situation with moderators pretty much everywhere in real life; you must be young
3) Also wrong, and obviously so; you know very well posting to a thread you moderated will undo the moderation, and frankly it matters very little since moderation can't completely remove any posts.
4) You'll find this is also true of the internet in general.
5) You'll find the distinction between these two types of posts is only clear if you're the one who posted it. This is a universal constant of society too; nothing to do with slashcode.
6) You didn't think this one out very carefully either, obviously.
7) See #6. What, do you think getting all your friends to help gang up and moderate some poor sucker's post to -1000 is gonna actually help this situation any? Careful... your hidden agenda is showing...
8) see #5
9) Seriously? all your complaints above and you actually still think someone is gonna use a "disagree" moderation when they can call it a troll or flamebait? you said yourself there's no accountability.... come on. if you want to actually address problems you have to actually think out your "solutions" to their logical conclusion. Even if you could enforce use of "disagree" moderation, there's absolutely no sane world where disagreeing with someone's post should be justification for being allowed to moderate it. In fact, quite the opposite; what your suggestion creates here is called a "conflict of interest." At best, this suggestion doesn't change anything at all and just adds server load and development costs. At worst, it actually causes/exacerbates a problem you claim to care about; that legitimate posts are unfairly moderated down.
10) I'm not even sure what you mean by this. The moderator points are assigned clearly by past behavior. Don't post anonymously so much and you'll get more moderator points to spend. Simple. This point also appears to be wrong, but Its possible I just don't understand what you mean, or you meant to type something else.
And then we have:
11) I guess I don't know about any delays, but my guess is its a server-load/hosting-cost issue. Not all ACs are going to be the honorable gentlemen you envision them to be; many of them are actually trying to crash or infect Slashdot's servers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In the real world, I can't imagine any high profile website that allows users to post content anonymously without any sort of throttle whatsoever. You must not maintain web software for a living.
12) Ok this one you're right about, and I actually agree with you. Someone clearly needs to brush up on their understanding of character sets and regular expressions, because the data handling of this text field is so amateur-hour 1996. Its pretty embarrassing to see it still behaving the same exact way in 2015. They should have put development man-hours into fixing this first, instead of that whole "Slashdot Beta" boondoggle.
13) God help us all if you actually get your way on this one. The rest of us would rather NOT see every single user's stupid rich-content banner-ad signature. I'm certain the signature character limit was specifically chosen to prohibit the ability for the signatures to carry a Google tracking tag. Your other opinions might just be misguided, but this one makes me suspect you're actually a bad person, who seeks to do harm on those around him.
And of course...
14) Ok, I agree here too. The editing sucks. At least they could fix obvious typos and grammatical errors, missing links, outright inaccuracies, etc. Its pretty clear most of them take zero pride in their work, or else their parents just didn't discipline them enough as children.
15) No, the firehose is there so all submissions are visible by the users. If you think its a waste of time just don't use it. Nobody ever implied you should in the first place. Your lack of self control isn't a justification for removing
I'd say that's a fair sign of success. Despite the sense of jealousy, nobody can think of anything bad to say
... and they can probably protect identities if desired.
Nooope. Not anymore. You forgot the Snowden disclosures. Journalistic integrity with regards to protecting identities of whistleblowers is utterly impossible now. This is why Groklaw shut down, actually.
Rampant.
Illegal.
Despicable.
... for declassifying the shark repellant recipe. We all forgive you and Jula Childs and love you as you are. Please now also declassify the cure for cancer.
I'm pretty sure Powerman 5000 already covered this.
That's actually not a totally unsound point. My advice is next time you present this to an audience don't use the word "Gaia" as the name for our planet. Its okay, I really like anime too, but the people who most need to hear your message will see that one word and just ignore the rest, assuming you're some sort of Hippie freak.
No, they're investing a ton of money in renewable energy too; mostly to stifle it from killing the fossil fuels market before they can figure out how to meter and charge you for access to sunlight.
Right, except that you're forgetting that the MicroBit can be plugged into and programmed from a Raspberry Pi. You can't do that in the other direction, so the devices don't actually even fit the same use cases.
I think someone probably was stealing your mail just to fuck with you.
... they are either incompetent or lying.
There is absolutely no reason to expect its not both.
In fact, I'd recommend that you don't even use your phone to check your email unless its an email account with completely separate authentication and hosting that you use only for that phone, and never use as a contact address for any accounts anywhere else.
I know you're saying this sarcastically, but he's not wrong. Don't use your phone to pay your bills. Really. Especially if its an Android or any other type of "smartphone" that runs "apps."
The parent post deserves to be modded +5 insightful. What is fundamentally killing our economy right now is simply that malicious incompetence is given a free pass. It seems like most the world doesn't realize its possible for incompetent people to pretend, purposefully, to be either more or less incompetent than they actually are, to suit their own ends. In both cases, this type of behavior at the very least should disqualify them from claiming they can do said tasks effectively, even if they actually could do so by trying harder. Almost universally though I see cases where obviously malicious laziness and incompetence is given a free pass because apparently the one thing we, as Americans are too polite to do is fire someone for lying about their own qualifications.
TFS says: "It's not intended as a competitor to devices like the Raspberry Pi or the Arduino — it is intended to complement them while remaining simple for educational purposes" so it appears that is NOT in fact what they say they have done.
What are you worried about? They waste their own money doing something stupid? They find out that you need an apartment with a good skylight or balcony to really pull this off well? They find out corn isn't actually a super-efficient all-purpose source of food and ethanol its advertised as by big agricultire? Or maybe deep down inside, the part about this that really bugs you that you can't admit to yourself is the nagging fear that "city folk" might learn to grow their own food and then the one last thing justifying generations of isolation and bigotry promoted by "country folk" will simply evaporate along with all of Monsanto's revenue?
Also, I'm pretty sure Home Depot sells at least half a dozen variations on this product already.
Its a big park and facial recognition tech has come a very long way. Also, in California, FastPass as well as various police agencies have been (possibly illegally) logging license plate numbers and processing them with licence plate recognition tech for some time now. Chances are even if you DID pay for everything in cash they still know who you are within a few minutes of entering their property, unless you drove your own car and parked it in their lot, in which case they know as soon as you approach the gate.
Yea dude, super old news but the on-ride photos at Disneyland can now be emailed to you. You just type in your email on a touchscreen at the end of the ride.
Hah, nice shout-out to Pomona, but Google Maps says that bar is in St. Louis.
Seconded, but we're still largely failing at both.
Who can say, while the "Invisible Hand" is too busy giving out Holland Tunnel Hand-jobs at $50 a pop to regulate the economy?
They emphatically do not screw around with this... which leads me to wonder who would be dumb enough to risk the ire of authorities and property owners by pulling such a stupid stunt.
If I were a betting man, I'd place my money on unsupervised 12-year-olds.