You could only be wondering about broken mobile sites if you haven't looked at the mobile version of this site. Few mobile sites are less functional - excluding of course the earlier mobile version of this site which was amazingly even worse.
Part of the problem with corresponding with authors of papers more than 2 years old is that there is no good way to uniquely identify an author. If you know that you are interested in a "John Smith" who wrote a Nature paper i n1989, good luck figuring out which "John Smith" is the same one today (if he is still alive). Another good example is of how many papers are by "Z Huang":currently over 6,000 to date in pubmed.
Considering how we expect researchers to change institutions multiple times in their careers in order to advance, this only becomes more difficult of a problem over time.
I dont know, most here seem to be for the constitution and individual liberties
That would be fine and dandy if they were concerned about the entire constitution and all liberties. The truth though is that on slashdot the libertarians are concerned only about certain parts of the constitution (not even all 10 amendments of the bill of rights, for example) and certainly not all liberties. For that matter the policies they support more often grant more corporate liberties and count on people to be able to fund their own protection for their individual liberties.
I get the tax aspect is the one harped on the most
And also the one most contradictory for most of them. They support reducing taxes to the point where nearly every aspect of being alive becomes dramatically more expensive for the 99%.
however i dont fully agree that most libertarians here are really conservatives hiding behind the libertarian name.
We are all entitled to our beliefs. That said an argument could be made that the slashdot libertarians don't actually want people to have their own beliefs, either...
The likelihood of the facebook stocks not tanking soon is pretty well near zero. They still don't have a meaningful long-term business plan that leads to profit and a product with long-term potential. The marketing potential of peoples' wall updates is limited.
I can't really think of a time when I would want to be naked in front of my PC. While that doesn't excuse the invasion of privacy, it does suggest that some people are lacking in common sense. People generally wouldn't walk naked in front of a window with the blinds drawn, why do it in front of a powered-on PC?
Last time I checked the largest ISPs in this country were cable companies. Even if you drop cable TV entirely in many regions there is no faster connection available than a cable modem, hence they are still making money off of you.
What about the $100 million that just went towards this, promoted by Biden?
For one, the $100M is not new money, it is in part money diverted from other causes. That isn't the biggest failing of it by far, though.
What does that money do to reduce the stigma placed on the act of seeking out mental health care?
What does that money do to actually make mental health care available to those who don't have access due either to their geographical area or the health care plan they are enrolled in?
What does that money do to ensure that those who are treated for mental health problems are not discriminated against on the workplace or elsewhere?
The lesson we keep ignoring is that the root of the overwhelming vast majority of these cases is the same: mental health. Our country continues to completely ignore the elephant in the room. Until we improve access to mental health care, and de-stigmatize the pursuit of mental health treatment, we will continue to have unstable individuals in our society who will do this to us. We don't necessarily need to lock them all up, many can be treated; but they all need access to help.
Our current health care system fails miserably at this. The Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010 (aka "affordable care act", aka "Obamacare") does almost nothing for this problem.
I think you mean libertarian, this site has always had a libertarian slant,
Only if by 'libertarian' you mean "so deeply conservative as to be embarrassed to call oneself a conservative for fear of being grouped in with regular American republicans". The only liberties that matter to American 'libertarians' are the ones pertaining to not paying taxes.
sure in 08 everyone had a boner for obama
There were plenty of people here choking the dolphin to photoshopped images of Palin as well. Very few slashdotters voted for Obama in 08 or 12, though few were happy with McCain and his inability to commit to anything adequately conservative.
for the most part people here have been largly libertarian
Again only for a very specific definition of 'libertarian'. Most other countries would have libertarians that actually care about legitimate liberties.
This site gets more conservative every year. Currently if you don't have a shrine to Ayn Rand in your house you will be labeled a communist here.
How the hell is this a "conservative" thing?
It is a conservative matter because this story was posted here not to catalyze discussion but rather to incite another round of "liberal" bashing. Read the comments, and look at the source of this story. This is not here to drive intelligent discussion of the matter.
The problem with a lot of people is they insist on casting everything no matter how factual as a poplitical issue. This is not politcs.
No, this is politics. This story was posted to get people angry at Obama (not that any special action is required to get that to happen here). Notice that this one places blame for the matter squarely at the feet of Obama, even though the state is running its own exchange (and hence is not tethered to the problems of the federal exchange).
You know what? I like socilised healthcare.
That will earn you a large number of freaks here - welcome to the club. Prepare to be called all kinds of uncivilized things soon.
A website is a tech thing and a $300e6 website is an unusual enough tech thing to warrant being interesting
The cost is not the part that they are going after the most. They are trying to claim that the site, the ACA, the president, the democratic party, and all things that are not in line with Randian philosophy, are all epic failures. If it had been put together with all volunteer work and $100 worth of cabling for donated hardware and connectivity, the authors would still be tripping over each other to see who could bash it the hardest. And most likely, that bashing would have found its way to the slashdot front page.
While I do agree with you, that economy cabin seats could be more roomey and comfortable, I do think that you exaggerate.
I'm 6'1" and around 240 lbs and I have no problem relaxing on a plane.
I'm 6'3" myself. I am happy if I can get a plane where my knees aren't hitting the seat in front of me. On top of that it appears that every time I fly the reclining ability of the steerage class seats diminishes a bit more; I've had non-bulkhead seats on some recent flights that did not recline at all. I find it nearly impossible to relax in an airline seat now.
Have you been paying attention in the past 10 or so years? This site gets more conservative every year. Currently if you don't have a shrine to Ayn Rand in your house you will be labeled a communist here. Next year... who knows. So yes, this belongs here, because it supports the standard conservative narrative that dominates this site .
Seriously, the summary is even laughably over-spun. They are blaming this on the Obama administration while simultaneously admitting that Oregon set up a state exchange, meaning they did not require interaction from the federal website or the federal government for anything beyond certifying that people bought qualified plans. Yet we go and blame the low enrollment on Obama.
Of course, here on slashdot, anything and everything wrong in the world can be blamed on Obama and Monica Lewinsky, personally.
Why can't people just relax and enjoy the peace and quiet ?
Relax? Not if you're over 5'6" or the person sitting next to you weighs more than 150 lbs. Airline seats are some of the least comfortable places I ever go; I've been more comfortable in porta-potties. If I can't rest I might as well get some work done (provided of course my battery holds out, as I can never seem to get planes with AC for charging my laptop). Bring on the wifi, I say.
But the last time I paid for wifi in flight (one of the gogo services on Delta, IIRC) it was way faster than dial-up speed. I was easily able to check email, read the news, search for research papers, and download relevant items during my previous 2.5 hour flight. If it were at dial-up speed I would not have been able to even finish downloading the first of several papers that I found during that flight.
The first couple times I saw the title I thought it said "Killer Qualities of Japanese Fruit Revealed". Granted, that also could have been really interesting.
I would hope the list of allowable PINs is shorter than that. The 10 possibilities with the same number repeated all the way through should be disallowed (and usually are), as well as 1234, 4321, and anything else with four consecutive digits. While taking those 24 possibilities out doesn't dramatically reduce the number of possible PINs (only 2.4% reduction) it is still a list of less than 10,000.
A large number of very competent and qualified scientists get pushed out of the system long before they ever get to compete for tenure. The system is arranged such that there is not much room for full faculty, hence the odds of reaching one of those positions is remote for any grad student. That is part of why many grad students end up going to industry after completing their PhD.
Furthermore, I never move it by accident with my thumbs or wrist when they are resting at the bottom of the keyboard.
Clearly never used a mac multi-touch trackpad.
I have had exactly the same problems with Mac laptops of the current generation that I have had with every other touchpad ever put on any laptop keyboard, ever. A fancy overpriced laptop does not change the fact that a touchpad is simply an inferior way to move the cursor about.
Maybe aggregate a wealth of information on people for whatever purposes the highest bidder may pay. But then again, NSA and Marketing would have no need for any of that so I'm probably wrong.
Selling ads only gets you so far, if people don't click on the ads you show them (regardless of how tailored they are) or more importantly don't actually buy anything from the people the ads are for. Eventually people will stop advertising on facebook when they realize that they aren't generating enough money from the ads to justify their costs. At that point, the whole business collapses as the NSA already has all the data they need (and wouldn't pay facebook for data anyways).
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You could only be wondering about broken mobile sites if you haven't looked at the mobile version of this site. Few mobile sites are less functional - excluding of course the earlier mobile version of this site which was amazingly even worse.
whether you're a goth, surfer, hipster, or biker
As often happens, I was placed in "none of the above" when social classification came around.
Part of the problem with corresponding with authors of papers more than 2 years old is that there is no good way to uniquely identify an author. If you know that you are interested in a "John Smith" who wrote a Nature paper i n1989, good luck figuring out which "John Smith" is the same one today (if he is still alive). Another good example is of how many papers are by "Z Huang":currently over 6,000 to date in pubmed.
Considering how we expect researchers to change institutions multiple times in their careers in order to advance, this only becomes more difficult of a problem over time.
Dr. Who's phone booth.
Dr. Who has no phone booth. Everyone knows the TARDIS is a police box.
I dont know, most here seem to be for the constitution and individual liberties
That would be fine and dandy if they were concerned about the entire constitution and all liberties. The truth though is that on slashdot the libertarians are concerned only about certain parts of the constitution (not even all 10 amendments of the bill of rights, for example) and certainly not all liberties. For that matter the policies they support more often grant more corporate liberties and count on people to be able to fund their own protection for their individual liberties.
I get the tax aspect is the one harped on the most
And also the one most contradictory for most of them. They support reducing taxes to the point where nearly every aspect of being alive becomes dramatically more expensive for the 99%.
however i dont fully agree that most libertarians here are really conservatives hiding behind the libertarian name.
We are all entitled to our beliefs. That said an argument could be made that the slashdot libertarians don't actually want people to have their own beliefs, either...
The likelihood of the facebook stocks not tanking soon is pretty well near zero. They still don't have a meaningful long-term business plan that leads to profit and a product with long-term potential. The marketing potential of peoples' wall updates is limited.
I can't really think of a time when I would want to be naked in front of my PC. While that doesn't excuse the invasion of privacy, it does suggest that some people are lacking in common sense. People generally wouldn't walk naked in front of a window with the blinds drawn, why do it in front of a powered-on PC?
There are some snow fleas up in Canada...
Last time I checked the largest ISPs in this country were cable companies. Even if you drop cable TV entirely in many regions there is no faster connection available than a cable modem, hence they are still making money off of you.
What about the $100 million that just went towards this, promoted by Biden?
For one, the $100M is not new money, it is in part money diverted from other causes. That isn't the biggest failing of it by far, though.
What does that money do to reduce the stigma placed on the act of seeking out mental health care?
What does that money do to actually make mental health care available to those who don't have access due either to their geographical area or the health care plan they are enrolled in?
What does that money do to ensure that those who are treated for mental health problems are not discriminated against on the workplace or elsewhere?
The lesson we keep ignoring is that the root of the overwhelming vast majority of these cases is the same: mental health. Our country continues to completely ignore the elephant in the room. Until we improve access to mental health care, and de-stigmatize the pursuit of mental health treatment, we will continue to have unstable individuals in our society who will do this to us. We don't necessarily need to lock them all up, many can be treated; but they all need access to help.
Our current health care system fails miserably at this. The Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010 (aka "affordable care act", aka "Obamacare") does almost nothing for this problem.
I recall hearing Kim Jong-Un already had someone executed by artillery in the recent past. I'm curious to know if he tried to top that with this one.
I think you mean libertarian, this site has always had a libertarian slant,
Only if by 'libertarian' you mean "so deeply conservative as to be embarrassed to call oneself a conservative for fear of being grouped in with regular American republicans". The only liberties that matter to American 'libertarians' are the ones pertaining to not paying taxes.
sure in 08 everyone had a boner for obama
There were plenty of people here choking the dolphin to photoshopped images of Palin as well. Very few slashdotters voted for Obama in 08 or 12, though few were happy with McCain and his inability to commit to anything adequately conservative.
for the most part people here have been largly libertarian
Again only for a very specific definition of 'libertarian'. Most other countries would have libertarians that actually care about legitimate liberties.
This site gets more conservative every year. Currently if you don't have a shrine to Ayn Rand in your house you will be labeled a communist here.
How the hell is this a "conservative" thing?
It is a conservative matter because this story was posted here not to catalyze discussion but rather to incite another round of "liberal" bashing. Read the comments, and look at the source of this story. This is not here to drive intelligent discussion of the matter.
The problem with a lot of people is they insist on casting everything no matter how factual as a poplitical issue. This is not politcs.
No, this is politics. This story was posted to get people angry at Obama (not that any special action is required to get that to happen here). Notice that this one places blame for the matter squarely at the feet of Obama, even though the state is running its own exchange (and hence is not tethered to the problems of the federal exchange).
You know what? I like socilised healthcare.
That will earn you a large number of freaks here - welcome to the club. Prepare to be called all kinds of uncivilized things soon.
A website is a tech thing and a $300e6 website is an unusual enough tech thing to warrant being interesting
The cost is not the part that they are going after the most. They are trying to claim that the site, the ACA, the president, the democratic party, and all things that are not in line with Randian philosophy, are all epic failures. If it had been put together with all volunteer work and $100 worth of cabling for donated hardware and connectivity, the authors would still be tripping over each other to see who could bash it the hardest. And most likely, that bashing would have found its way to the slashdot front page.
While I do agree with you, that economy cabin seats could be more roomey and comfortable, I do think that you exaggerate.
I'm 6'1" and around 240 lbs and I have no problem relaxing on a plane.
I'm 6'3" myself. I am happy if I can get a plane where my knees aren't hitting the seat in front of me. On top of that it appears that every time I fly the reclining ability of the steerage class seats diminishes a bit more; I've had non-bulkhead seats on some recent flights that did not recline at all. I find it nearly impossible to relax in an airline seat now.
Does this really belong on /.? Seriously?
Have you been paying attention in the past 10 or so years? This site gets more conservative every year. Currently if you don't have a shrine to Ayn Rand in your house you will be labeled a communist here. Next year... who knows. So yes, this belongs here, because it supports the standard conservative narrative that dominates this site .
Seriously, the summary is even laughably over-spun. They are blaming this on the Obama administration while simultaneously admitting that Oregon set up a state exchange, meaning they did not require interaction from the federal website or the federal government for anything beyond certifying that people bought qualified plans. Yet we go and blame the low enrollment on Obama.
Of course, here on slashdot, anything and everything wrong in the world can be blamed on Obama and Monica Lewinsky, personally.
Why can't people just relax and enjoy the peace and quiet ?
Relax? Not if you're over 5'6" or the person sitting next to you weighs more than 150 lbs. Airline seats are some of the least comfortable places I ever go; I've been more comfortable in porta-potties. If I can't rest I might as well get some work done (provided of course my battery holds out, as I can never seem to get planes with AC for charging my laptop). Bring on the wifi, I say.
But the last time I paid for wifi in flight (one of the gogo services on Delta, IIRC) it was way faster than dial-up speed. I was easily able to check email, read the news, search for research papers, and download relevant items during my previous 2.5 hour flight. If it were at dial-up speed I would not have been able to even finish downloading the first of several papers that I found during that flight.
The first couple times I saw the title I thought it said "Killer Qualities of Japanese Fruit Revealed". Granted, that also could have been really interesting.
I would think "news" or "the world" would be a better fit. Calling him a politician is a bit like calling Einstein a mathematician.
I would hope the list of allowable PINs is shorter than that. The 10 possibilities with the same number repeated all the way through should be disallowed (and usually are), as well as 1234, 4321, and anything else with four consecutive digits. While taking those 24 possibilities out doesn't dramatically reduce the number of possible PINs (only 2.4% reduction) it is still a list of less than 10,000.
A large number of very competent and qualified scientists get pushed out of the system long before they ever get to compete for tenure. The system is arranged such that there is not much room for full faculty, hence the odds of reaching one of those positions is remote for any grad student. That is part of why many grad students end up going to industry after completing their PhD.
Furthermore, I never move it by accident with my thumbs or wrist when they are resting at the bottom of the keyboard.
Clearly never used a mac multi-touch trackpad.
I have had exactly the same problems with Mac laptops of the current generation that I have had with every other touchpad ever put on any laptop keyboard, ever. A fancy overpriced laptop does not change the fact that a touchpad is simply an inferior way to move the cursor about.
what is their business plan?
Maybe aggregate a wealth of information on people for whatever purposes the highest bidder may pay. But then again, NSA and Marketing would have no need for any of that so I'm probably wrong.
Selling ads only gets you so far, if people don't click on the ads you show them (regardless of how tailored they are) or more importantly don't actually buy anything from the people the ads are for. Eventually people will stop advertising on facebook when they realize that they aren't generating enough money from the ads to justify their costs. At that point, the whole business collapses as the NSA already has all the data they need (and wouldn't pay facebook for data anyways).