It seems http://slashdot.org/~slashser2 and http://slashdot.org/~commash are the same person, given both accounts posted the same link today. Unfortunately I assume he will continue making accounts and trolling with nothing slashdot can really do.
Or maybe wearing the phones make them feel extra cool, but only on that side. They start developing this imperceptible swagger, and with it start feeling a bit more hip- due to the conservation of mass this results in a decrease in hip density.
Of course many smaller browsers didn't get much of a turn out- everyone knows to cast your ballot for one of the front runners or you're wasting your vote.
Which is why I am against the practice of publishing arrests and reports of ongoing investigations in the news. The general public tends to treat it as "innocent until accused of being guilty", and the legal system and the media know that, yet they love to pretend otherwise.
Of course, for high-profile cases like Blagojevich where no matter what word is going to get out that the governor was arrested, a no-coverage policy won't work. To be honest, I don't know what's the fairest way to deal with such cases.
Actually that is what I was trying to get at by "accessibility", although the misunderstanding just goes to show how the term is used misleadingly too often.
True, but Netflix might not be able to deal with losing that 30% cut to those who do subscribe (or renew) through Apple. If so, they can't give you that Netflix app even though your entire subscription fee went to them.
Not that I disagree with the assumption that many European countries have better healthcare than the US, but infant mortality rates and life expectancy only tell you so much.
From wikipedia:
the method of calculating IMR often varies widely between countries, and is based on how they define a live birth
The higher US IMR is largely attributed to a higher proportion of premature births, giving us a lot more cases that some countries wouldn't count toward IMR. While the variance in how IMR is calculated only counts for so much, the point is to take such statistics with a grain of salt.
As for life expectancy, that's as much an indicator of lifestyle as healthcare, being affected by murder rates, fatal car crashes, and of course America's obesity problem.
That said, life expectancy and IMR are a decent starting point, but I think a better evaluation of healthcare systems would be to compare accessibility and quality of treatment.
Exactly. It's just like those idiots who say steam, water and ice are three forms of the same thing, those morons. Good to know I'm not the only one who can see past their lies.
Simple, the city just waits until 500 people have hit the same pothole, and only then sends someone out to check.
1. Put large hose or similar across road (in the middle of nowhere)
2. Wait for 500 cars to run over said hose
3. Remove hose
4. Watch confused road crew respond to "pothole"
5. Repeat
I think some fraction of your nominal connection speed should be guaranteed to you. From there, it is up to you what to flag as high priority (ie what should use your guaranteed bandwidth). Any high-priority stuff over that goes ahead of low-priority stuff from your neighbors, but is overall at the mercy of the current demand. This kind of discourages people from flagging everything high-priority, as it means they have no control over what goes through their guaranteed connection.
Now, if your neighbor constantly runs a hundred torrents at high priority, and you just want to stream a movie on occasion, you deserve to have your occasional use be prioritized. The only good way to deal with that is to prioritize within that high-priority traffic based on who has used less in the last X amount of time, but to simplify things this step might not be necessary.
When I go to options, change my timezone, and hit save, it doesn't make the change. I was in eastern timezone for school, but having since graduated, I'm in central time, but slashdot seems to think otherwise.
While you Brits get more miles to the gallon, your larger gallons of fuel inevitably cost more than US gallons. With that in mind, I am devising a new gallon that combines both the cost efficiency of the US gallon, and the fuel efficiency of the Imperial gallon. My world domination should follow soon after.
Links in stories don't stand out very well, and when I've clicked on them they turn black (if not black, I can't tell the difference). Underline, bold or a lighter color would all be good choices. While not a major problem (the difference is color is obvious enough as I read the text), I always thought it was accepted convention for links to stand out somewhat. I suppose it bothers me than actually affects me, but some people might really have a hard time with it.
I browse slashdot by going to the main page, scrolling down the list of stories, and opening any interesting ones in new tabs. I never browse by category, so I never expect to use those links on the left that sit there wherever I am on the site.
How about giving me the option of using that space to notify me of stuff? Stuff like new stories being posted, replies to my comments, my comments being moderated and comments being posted with split infinitives (so I can mod them into oblivion) . Being optional, people opting for a low-overhead (and poorly grammared) site don't have to worry about it.
I'm aware the most popular suggestion for changing that left bar is "remove it", but I'm on a wide screen so that would just give me more white space and nothing useful- I expect I'm not the only one. So, anyone else have ideas for something useful to put over there?
The comment box I am typing in is less than 1/4 the available width. Also, the green title bar on comments runs right into the right edge of the screen (this is not the case if I click a comment # to view replies).
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If your strategy is to get the best candidate into office this election, then yes you can waste your vote on someone who clearly can't win. If your strategy is simply to break the two party system in the long run, you are wasting your vote if you vote for anything but third party. It's not that I think third parties are better, it's that I think the only chance at voting reform is to have more than two parties in the discussion.
To be fair, I assume the ratio (people pointing lasers at cockpits):(people legitimately inconvenienced by a ban on lasers) is a far better than (people pointing lasers at cockpits):(laser pointer owners). I still doubt such a ban is a good idea, but if you're going to point out problems with the pro/con considerations, for argument's sake it helps to be thorough.
To be specific:
Pros: (small number of laser pointer idiots)*(moderate cost of each incident)
Cons: (large number of people with laser pointers for no reason)*(very small inconvenience) + (somewhat small number of people with good reason (practical or safe and recreational) to have laser pointers)*(moderate cost per person)
Let me get this straight: I put my bread in this thing, and then instead of giving me my toast, it brings it a kilometer away and now I have to go get it? Worst toaster ever.
Wait, the difference between Rankine and Fahrenheit is 459.67 degrees. That makes it a difference of 459.688 degrees... sounds to me like the earth ending in 2012 is a bit optimistic.
Summary is misleading "The credit union used by members of the U.S. armed forces and their families" made me think it was referring to my credit union (USAA, open to federal employees and families, not just armed forces). It had me worried for a moment there.
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It seems http://slashdot.org/~slashser2 and http://slashdot.org/~commash are the same person, given both accounts posted the same link today. Unfortunately I assume he will continue making accounts and trolling with nothing slashdot can really do.
Or maybe wearing the phones make them feel extra cool, but only on that side. They start developing this imperceptible swagger, and with it start feeling a bit more hip- due to the conservation of mass this results in a decrease in hip density.
Of course many smaller browsers didn't get much of a turn out- everyone knows to cast your ballot for one of the front runners or you're wasting your vote.
It's nice in theory, but good god those annual renewals would be a pain to process. In practice I think it would just create even more problems.
To be fair, Mountain Time includes places like Montana, which can be safely ignored, so 3 time zones is a good approximation.
There are already news articles speculating that Watson systems will be used in hospitals to help doctors with diagnoses.
Which is why I am against the practice of publishing arrests and reports of ongoing investigations in the news. The general public tends to treat it as "innocent until accused of being guilty", and the legal system and the media know that, yet they love to pretend otherwise.
Of course, for high-profile cases like Blagojevich where no matter what word is going to get out that the governor was arrested, a no-coverage policy won't work. To be honest, I don't know what's the fairest way to deal with such cases.
Actually that is what I was trying to get at by "accessibility", although the misunderstanding just goes to show how the term is used misleadingly too often.
True, but Netflix might not be able to deal with losing that 30% cut to those who do subscribe (or renew) through Apple. If so, they can't give you that Netflix app even though your entire subscription fee went to them.
From wikipedia:
the method of calculating IMR often varies widely between countries, and is based on how they define a live birth
The higher US IMR is largely attributed to a higher proportion of premature births, giving us a lot more cases that some countries wouldn't count toward IMR. While the variance in how IMR is calculated only counts for so much, the point is to take such statistics with a grain of salt.
As for life expectancy, that's as much an indicator of lifestyle as healthcare, being affected by murder rates, fatal car crashes, and of course America's obesity problem.
That said, life expectancy and IMR are a decent starting point, but I think a better evaluation of healthcare systems would be to compare accessibility and quality of treatment.
Exactly. It's just like those idiots who say steam, water and ice are three forms of the same thing, those morons. Good to know I'm not the only one who can see past their lies.
Disclaimer: I'm an atheist raised as Catholic.
Simple, the city just waits until 500 people have hit the same pothole, and only then sends someone out to check.
1. Put large hose or similar across road (in the middle of nowhere)
2. Wait for 500 cars to run over said hose
3. Remove hose
4. Watch confused road crew respond to "pothole"
5. Repeat
I think some fraction of your nominal connection speed should be guaranteed to you. From there, it is up to you what to flag as high priority (ie what should use your guaranteed bandwidth). Any high-priority stuff over that goes ahead of low-priority stuff from your neighbors, but is overall at the mercy of the current demand. This kind of discourages people from flagging everything high-priority, as it means they have no control over what goes through their guaranteed connection.
Now, if your neighbor constantly runs a hundred torrents at high priority, and you just want to stream a movie on occasion, you deserve to have your occasional use be prioritized. The only good way to deal with that is to prioritize within that high-priority traffic based on who has used less in the last X amount of time, but to simplify things this step might not be necessary.
Seems not everyone at Sony is evil.
Not true. They're just helping you get the crapware out of the way so their rootkits run better.
When I go to options, change my timezone, and hit save, it doesn't make the change. I was in eastern timezone for school, but having since graduated, I'm in central time, but slashdot seems to think otherwise.
While you Brits get more miles to the gallon, your larger gallons of fuel inevitably cost more than US gallons. With that in mind, I am devising a new gallon that combines both the cost efficiency of the US gallon, and the fuel efficiency of the Imperial gallon. My world domination should follow soon after.
Links in stories don't stand out very well, and when I've clicked on them they turn black (if not black, I can't tell the difference). Underline, bold or a lighter color would all be good choices. While not a major problem (the difference is color is obvious enough as I read the text), I always thought it was accepted convention for links to stand out somewhat. I suppose it bothers me than actually affects me, but some people might really have a hard time with it.
I browse slashdot by going to the main page, scrolling down the list of stories, and opening any interesting ones in new tabs. I never browse by category, so I never expect to use those links on the left that sit there wherever I am on the site.
How about giving me the option of using that space to notify me of stuff? Stuff like new stories being posted, replies to my comments, my comments being moderated and comments being posted with split infinitives (so I can mod them into oblivion) . Being optional, people opting for a low-overhead (and poorly grammared) site don't have to worry about it.
I'm aware the most popular suggestion for changing that left bar is "remove it", but I'm on a wide screen so that would just give me more white space and nothing useful- I expect I'm not the only one. So, anyone else have ideas for something useful to put over there?
The comment box I am typing in is less than 1/4 the available width. Also, the green title bar on comments runs right into the right edge of the screen (this is not the case if I click a comment # to view replies) .
FF 3.6.13: AdBlock, NoScript (fsdn and slashdot allowed)
If your strategy is to get the best candidate into office this election, then yes you can waste your vote on someone who clearly can't win. If your strategy is simply to break the two party system in the long run, you are wasting your vote if you vote for anything but third party. It's not that I think third parties are better, it's that I think the only chance at voting reform is to have more than two parties in the discussion.
To be fair, I assume the ratio (people pointing lasers at cockpits):(people legitimately inconvenienced by a ban on lasers) is a far better than (people pointing lasers at cockpits):(laser pointer owners). I still doubt such a ban is a good idea, but if you're going to point out problems with the pro/con considerations, for argument's sake it helps to be thorough.
To be specific:
Pros: (small number of laser pointer idiots)*(moderate cost of each incident)
Cons: (large number of people with laser pointers for no reason)*(very small inconvenience) + (somewhat small number of people with good reason (practical or safe and recreational) to have laser pointers)*(moderate cost per person)
uses about the same power as a toaster.
Let me get this straight: I put my bread in this thing, and then instead of giving me my toast, it brings it a kilometer away and now I have to go get it? Worst toaster ever.
Wait, the difference between Rankine and Fahrenheit is 459.67 degrees. That makes it a difference of 459.688 degrees... sounds to me like the earth ending in 2012 is a bit optimistic.
Slashdot.
Summary is misleading "The credit union used by members of the U.S. armed forces and their families" made me think it was referring to my credit union (USAA, open to federal employees and families, not just armed forces). It had me worried for a moment there.