But, the most loyal long time avid readers of Slashdot, are not trolling the site in protest of the failed beta. Where is GNAA, Natalie Portman grits, and frist prost when you need them!
The issue is that to use the slider you have to have javascript enabled in the first place. Fine, I can enable it once so the cookie will be set and I always read comments at +5.
But then, I often find a discussion interesting and I want to check comments at a lower level, sometimes +4, sometimes +2 as the case may be, how many total comments,...etc.
To do this, I need to enable javascript again to use the slider.
When I wiped all cookies in the browser, and then logged in, I get betagroup 90. But I am still on Classic. So perhaps they just postponed me forced to beta by some days or weeks.
Many hate beta because of whitespace and look and feel, but my main beef is that it requires javascript enabled so it can run jquery for the comment slider.
You said everything I wanted to say, and posted about, regarding beta.
While many rail at it because of white space and what not, my main beef is requiring javascript.
Let me explain...
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.
An article about JQuery labelled as a hack, while my main beef with Beta is that it requires Javascript and JQuery, to hide comment thresholds client side...
Let me explain...
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.
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.
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.
I have not tested it extensively. It drives me crazy.
But yes, it seems like it does require you to click on the slider on every article.
This is just insane! 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
I did not ask for a ban on Haj. But if some leading organizers and promoters of international events were actively discouraging the participants from getting vaccinations, yes, I would ask for the ban/boycott/protest of such events. Because of the historical nature of Haj, I would be more lenient on Haj, but not on other international events, including the Olympics
This is another fallacy: that the organizers of promoters of Hajj are the ones who are discouraging vaccinations. You totally miss how Islam operates. There is no central authority. Saudi Arabia manages the event, and largely do an OK job. Muslims want to go on their own accord, not because some cleric says go or not. Saudi Arabia mandates vaccinations for certain diseases, without which they don't issue a Hajj visa. I know, because I had to take them, and everyone else. They change the list depending on epidemics, e.g. they added meningitis in the 90s. I recall (vaguely) that they banned an entire country when an epidemic broke out there for something uncommon.
The problem might be confined to a few clerics. They could very well be the minority. But when it comes to deadly diseases caused by pathogens, all it takes is one carrier to reintroduce it and reestablish it in a distant, unsuspecting, vulnerable part of the world.
Totally agree. Yes, they are localized, and normally find fertile ground in countries rife with civil war, and other socio-economic ills. Think of why Afghanistan is in those top three. Think of Nigeria and that crazy Boko Haram movement (want to ban Western education, then morphed into a military confrontation), think Pakistan which has a disfunctional government for over half a century.
Yes, CIA is to be blamed and condemned for using polio vaccinations as the ruse. We, the liberals of the West, will find a way to rein in our bad actors, the NSA, the CIA, the Haliburtons, the oil companies, Senator "bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-iran" McCains and Cheneys. If we don't our culture and our way of life will perish in the coming decades. By exactly the same token, if the Muslims do not find a way to restrain their bad actors, that religion will crumble in the coming decades.
Agree...
The apathy I see towards Obama being just another Bush, and the NSA fiasco does not give me much hope.
Yeah, Hajj gathers people from all around the world. So does international events, included CES, the Oscars,...etc.. Should we cancel them too? Here in Canada a nurse traveled to China and got H5N1 bird flu, and died in Alberta. Should we ban certain ethnicities or destinations or professions from traveling at all?
The few clerics who are a problem for polio, are also problematic for many other things, such as preventing girls getting an education. In all cases, they are not the majority, and they have to be dealt with by dissiminating awareness and education to counter their bigotry.
The CIA's use of vaccination as a cover to get Bin Laden is appaling, not the least because it has made people suspicious of getting immunization in a place where some preachers malign it already. This would add fuel to their fire and vindicate them of a western conspiracy is in place and vaccination is its vehicle for making them sterile/sick/quack-du-jour.
Hajj re-introducing polio? How so? Hajj has been running annually for 14 centuries. How different is that from Hindu religious gatherings?
And from TFA:
"Religious leaders were persuaded to join the effort. "The calls that went out to the Muslim faithful every Friday contained reminders to take children to the immunization booths," said Mr. Kapur of Rotary International. "These were the people initially most skeptical of the vaccines but, once convinced, they became our biggest agents of change."
So, it is not Islam, nor religion i. general that is at play here.
Sea urchins, really the ovaries with roe in them, are still eaten in the Mediterranean. This applies to Alexandria in Egypt, and shared by today's Greeks, Italians and (I think) the south of France. They are eaten fresh with some lime juice squeezed on them.
My mother is 82 years old. Me and my brother tried for years to get her to use computers, with her repeated asking for certain sites of interest. Using a mouse and learning to aim, single click, double click, right click,...etc is an exercise in frustration because of lack of dexterity and no previous exposure to the paradigm of using a mouse.
We got her and Android tablet, Lenovo IdeaTab 9", but anything 9" or 10" should work. After some coaching during an extended visit, she uses it daily and happy to be on the internet.
Here are some tips: - Teach them how to click in the address bar and enter a search term or a URL. Also how to scroll down and close a tab. - Bookmark sites that they use often and teach them how to get to them. - Tell them if they get stuck somewhere, pressing the back button a few will get them to a familiar point. - Using the Facebook app will help see pictures of you and grand kids. Depending on your specifics this can be a great thing or a bad thing. - The difference between what is an ad and what is content is a challenge. Install AdAway from F-Droid if your tablet is rooted, or Adblock Plus from their site with "unknown sources" otherwise. If they click an ad, teach them not to press install at all, unless they call you and you say so.
NonStop used to be Tandem, whic was acquired by Compaq, which got acquired by HP.
Tandem had proprietary hardware, proprietary operating system, and even proprietary languages. It was big in high availability stuff, like bank networks running ATMs,...etc.
There used to be a product manager at a place I worked at, he used to say : "All developers do is move windows around on the screen". So this grew into a running joke at status update meetings "... and I moved some windows around... and had a fix for X...".
That aid to Egypt's army caused it to build an economic empire that controls (by some estimates) up to 40% of Egypt's economy.
Just in the past few days, there is talk about winding down the aid to Egypt's military, and this is welcomed there by both ultranationalists who see the US meddling with Egypt for too long, and the revolutionaries who see the above empire as something to rein in.
In all cases, cutting that aid means the USA loses leverage with the most populous Arab nation, one with a peace treaty and border with Israel.
There will be a long struggle to bring this business empire under civilian oversight. The now suspended 2012 constitution said that the miltiary's budget is not subject to parliamentary oversight, and only a military council with a majority of military people can see the details. The constitution being drafted now seems to be heading that way too after refusal of the army to be under normal civilian elected oversight (public or in private hearing in committees).
So, as usual, foreign policies that worked in the past has had side effects, and we are now seeing them, and it will impact geopolitical future of a country and perhaps the region too.
I agree that the BB's strengths are the keyboard and good battery life. But the lack of an easy repository for apps was what made Apple and Google a success (despite lagging in the keyboard and battery), and BB failed to see that.
My first "smart"phone was a Microsoft Windows, and I chose because of the keyboard factor. It had a sliding keyboard with good touch keys. But Windows was horrible as a phone interface.
I then moved to Android, also preferring a keyboard and got a Motorola Milestone (which is the GSM version of the Motorola Droid). The keyboard was terrible, requiring using your fingernails to press them. But I was hooked to Android, and moved from there to a Sony Xperia X10 and now a Sony Xperia Arc, and soon a Sony Xperia ZL.
In a nutshell, I have gotten used to touchscreens. I don't text a lot though, so that may be a factor. You don't need to do adaptive typing in Android. You can make it suggestive and if you like the word suggestion, you click it and that is that. Friends who have the BB Z10 showed me the flick method for word suggestions, and again, they are not forced on you.
Email is solid with Google's Gmail on Android. Not sure what BB offers that is more, apart from the corporate backend of things (BIS/BES/...etc.)
I never used a BB. But seen people praise the keyboard. For example, reporters in Egypt during the turmoil of past few years saying that when they are under fire and teargas, the keyboard is vital for tweeting without having to look at the screen. It is the same ease that I find in a shell, not distracted by eye/hand coordination using a mouse.
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Dice can't see it, since they are new here (he he)...
But, the most loyal long time most avid readers of Slashdot, are not trolling the site, in protest of the failed beta.
Where is GNAA, Natalie Portman grits, and frist prost when you need them!
They won't have a clue what I am saying ...
Dice can't see it, since they are new here ...
But, the most loyal long time avid readers of Slashdot, are not trolling the site in protest of the failed beta. Where is GNAA, Natalie Portman grits, and frist prost when you need them!
I am running Firefox 26.
The issue is that to use the slider you have to have javascript enabled in the first place. Fine, I can enable it once so the cookie will be set and I always read comments at +5.
But then, I often find a discussion interesting and I want to check comments at a lower level, sometimes +4, sometimes +2 as the case may be, how many total comments, ...etc.
To do this, I need to enable javascript again to use the slider.
Or am I missing something?
When I wiped all cookies in the browser, and then logged in, I get betagroup 90. But I am still on Classic. So perhaps they just postponed me forced to beta by some days or weeks.
I am logged in, and Classic is in my preferences.
If I log out, and log in again, I get forced to go to beta, unless I visit the beta disable link first.
After that, I get Classic all the time, unless I login, or have the cookies wiped.
Looking at the cookies, there is one called betagroup and it is set to -1. Perhaps that is what forces classic.
But, Dice seems to be set on ruining the site we know and love for 15 years, so we all have to voice our displeasure at beta.
That is what I thought, it is only CSS.
Many hate beta because of whitespace and look and feel, but my main beef is that it requires javascript enabled so it can run jquery for the comment slider.
This ruins the site for me, and there is no fix.
Thanks for the userstyle and the reply though.
You said everything I wanted to say, and posted about, regarding beta.
While many rail at it because of white space and what not, my main beef is requiring javascript.
Let me explain ...
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.
Oh, the irony of it all ...
An article about JQuery labelled as a hack, while my main beef with Beta is that it requires Javascript and JQuery, to hide comment thresholds client side ...
Let me explain ...
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.
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.
Does it make the site remember your saved comment threshold preference and only send you the comments above the threshold you have in your profile?
Does it avoid having to use the slider on every page to specify the slider?
Does it avoid the need to have Javascript enabled for the domain?
Does it use your computer resources to hide thresholds you are not interested in?
This is my main beef with beta, the rest I can work around or live with.
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.
I have not tested it extensively. It drives me crazy.
But yes, it seems like it does require you to click on the slider on every article.
This is just insane! 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Must be lack of coffee ... sorry ...
This is another fallacy: that the organizers of promoters of Hajj are the ones who are discouraging vaccinations. You totally miss how Islam operates. There is no central authority. Saudi Arabia manages the event, and largely do an OK job. Muslims want to go on their own accord, not because some cleric says go or not. Saudi Arabia mandates vaccinations for certain diseases, without which they don't issue a Hajj visa. I know, because I had to take them, and everyone else. They change the list depending on epidemics, e.g. they added meningitis in the 90s. I recall (vaguely) that they banned an entire country when an epidemic broke out there for something uncommon.
Totally agree. Yes, they are localized, and normally find fertile ground in countries rife with civil war, and other socio-economic ills. Think of why Afghanistan is in those top three. Think of Nigeria and that crazy Boko Haram movement (want to ban Western education, then morphed into a military confrontation), think Pakistan which has a disfunctional government for over half a century.
Agree ...
The apathy I see towards Obama being just another Bush, and the NSA fiasco does not give me much hope.
Yeah, Hajj gathers people from all around the world. So does international events, included CES, the Oscars, ...etc.. Should we cancel them too? Here in Canada a nurse traveled to China and got H5N1 bird flu, and died in Alberta. Should we ban certain ethnicities or destinations or professions from traveling at all?
The few clerics who are a problem for polio, are also problematic for many other things, such as preventing girls getting an education. In all cases, they are not the majority, and they have to be dealt with by dissiminating awareness and education to counter their bigotry.
The CIA's use of vaccination as a cover to get Bin Laden is appaling, not the least because it has made people suspicious of getting immunization in a place where some preachers malign it already. This would add fuel to their fire and vindicate them of a western conspiracy is in place and vaccination is its vehicle for making them sterile/sick/quack-du-jour.
Hajj re-introducing polio? How so?
Hajj has been running annually for 14 centuries.
How different is that from Hindu religious gatherings?
And from TFA:
"Religious leaders were persuaded to join the effort. "The calls that went out to the Muslim faithful every Friday contained reminders to take children to the immunization booths," said Mr. Kapur of Rotary International. "These were the people initially most skeptical of the vaccines but, once convinced, they became our biggest agents of change."
So, it is not Islam, nor religion i. general that is at play here.
Sea urchins, really the ovaries with roe in them, are still eaten in the Mediterranean. This applies to Alexandria in Egypt, and shared by today's Greeks, Italians and (I think) the south of France. They are eaten fresh with some lime juice squeezed on them.
My mother is 82 years old. Me and my brother tried for years to get her to use computers, with her repeated asking for certain sites of interest. Using a mouse and learning to aim, single click, double click, right click, ...etc is an exercise in frustration because of lack of dexterity and no previous exposure to the paradigm of using a mouse.
We got her and Android tablet, Lenovo IdeaTab 9", but anything 9" or 10" should work. After some coaching during an extended visit, she uses it daily and happy to be on the internet.
Here are some tips:
- Teach them how to click in the address bar and enter a search term or a URL. Also how to scroll down and close a tab.
- Bookmark sites that they use often and teach them how to get to them.
- Tell them if they get stuck somewhere, pressing the back button a few will get them to a familiar point.
- Using the Facebook app will help see pictures of you and grand kids. Depending on your specifics this can be a great thing or a bad thing.
- The difference between what is an ad and what is content is a challenge. Install AdAway from F-Droid if your tablet is rooted, or Adblock Plus from their site with "unknown sources" otherwise. If they click an ad, teach them not to press install at all, unless they call you and you say so.
Indeed it was the Romans who destroyed it first.
Here is an article I wrote years ago with references on really happened. The Arabs burning it may be a myth.
Who burned the Library of Alexandria.
For those who don't remember.
NonStop used to be Tandem, whic was acquired by Compaq, which got acquired by HP.
Tandem had proprietary hardware, proprietary operating system, and even proprietary languages. It was big in high availability stuff, like bank networks running ATMs, ...etc.
There used to be a product manager at a place I worked at, he used to say : "All developers do is move windows around on the screen". So this grew into a running joke at status update meetings "... and I moved some windows around ... and had a fix for X ...".
What is the unit for "add two"? Days, weeks, months?
That aid to Egypt's army caused it to build an economic empire that controls (by some estimates) up to 40% of Egypt's economy.
Just in the past few days, there is talk about winding down the aid to Egypt's military, and this is welcomed there by both ultranationalists who see the US meddling with Egypt for too long, and the revolutionaries who see the above empire as something to rein in.
In all cases, cutting that aid means the USA loses leverage with the most populous Arab nation, one with a peace treaty and border with Israel.
There will be a long struggle to bring this business empire under civilian oversight. The now suspended 2012 constitution said that the miltiary's budget is not subject to parliamentary oversight, and only a military council with a majority of military people can see the details. The constitution being drafted now seems to be heading that way too after refusal of the army to be under normal civilian elected oversight (public or in private hearing in committees).
So, as usual, foreign policies that worked in the past has had side effects, and we are now seeing them, and it will impact geopolitical future of a country and perhaps the region too.
I agree that the BB's strengths are the keyboard and good battery life. But the lack of an easy repository for apps was what made Apple and Google a success (despite lagging in the keyboard and battery), and BB failed to see that.
My first "smart"phone was a Microsoft Windows, and I chose because of the keyboard factor. It had a sliding keyboard with good touch keys. But Windows was horrible as a phone interface.
I then moved to Android, also preferring a keyboard and got a Motorola Milestone (which is the GSM version of the Motorola Droid). The keyboard was terrible, requiring using your fingernails to press them. But I was hooked to Android, and moved from there to a Sony Xperia X10 and now a Sony Xperia Arc, and soon a Sony Xperia ZL.
In a nutshell, I have gotten used to touchscreens. I don't text a lot though, so that may be a factor. You don't need to do adaptive typing in Android. You can make it suggestive and if you like the word suggestion, you click it and that is that. Friends who have the BB Z10 showed me the flick method for word suggestions, and again, they are not forced on you.
Email is solid with Google's Gmail on Android. Not sure what BB offers that is more, apart from the corporate backend of things (BIS/BES/...etc.)
I never used a BB. But seen people praise the keyboard. For example, reporters in Egypt during the turmoil of past few years saying that when they are under fire and teargas, the keyboard is vital for tweeting without having to look at the screen. It is the same ease that I find in a shell, not distracted by eye/hand coordination using a mouse.