Makes sense to me - I just get quite annoyed with sites that have clearly only been tested with FF and Chrome, because that's what was easy for the dev to test himself.
What sort of professional performer wouldn't want the majority of his audience to enjoy the show? He's saying that he's unwilling to change his style of performance to the point it's not his any more to achieve that - better to stay away. It's also quite valid to call out that that shouldn't be necessary - being so thin skinned isn't good for people - it makes them unhappier in life than they should be.
I think there is a difference between ridiculing people for what they are and have no control over (skin color, sex etc.) and for the choices they make, like their choice of religion.
Many people think that. So fucking what? To paraphrase Carlin: if you find a comedian offensive, there's a volume knob and there's a channel knob. If you find a speech on campus likely to offend you, don't attend. If you want to prevent that speech because people will actually attend, then go fuck yourself.
To my mind, AmiMoJo's posts are exactly the same in value and content as GNAA posts. But there's an objective difference: GNAA posts only get downmods, but AmiMoJo's post sadly get both up and down mods (it's an imperfect world). On that basis, keeping his posts visible would mean most people could stop browsing at -1 and the GNAA posts would in practice disappear.
If we leave it to any subjective judgement, controversial opinions look just like GNAA posts, but clearly they aren't and thus clearly we need some objective system to provide special handling of them.
have always thought that there should be a way to flag and remove obvious garbage posts rather than simply moderating them to -1.
I disagree - reading at -1 is not for the meek, and I think garbage and meme posts from cows to GNAA to APK keep/. colorful and creative. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the garbage posts staying above -1, and I like the "we never delete anything" ethos.
Thanks for noting the scripts. I think we're all in support of some sort of revenue model to keep the site alive, but one that didn't involve creepy tracking would be appreciated.
Relatedly, please allow AC to be as anonymous as possible, Is TOR still blocked? If so, why? The mod system works well for garbage posts. Most AC posts are garbage of one srt or another, but we've had some pretty informative posts over the years from people who needed to stay anonymous. Anything to fight the tracking would be good to encourage that.
Should we show some stories automatically on the front page that have reached a certain level of popularity within the firehose?
I like that, if done only in the absence of timely editing. Too much voting on what stories make the front page is what killed Digg, but as a fallback it sounds great - and in any case, have it as a way to call the attention of the editors to certain stories!
More timely stories is great, but too many stories means not enough comments on any of them.
Other gripes: * Fix the way/. breaks stories over pages in certain views. It's frustrating to see the same thread in 3 consecutive pages with maybe 1-2 changed posts at the very bottom. * Allow editing of posts, at least for a limited time to fix embarrassing typos - we'd all seem more literate. * Fix the bulleted lists! They work worse than manually typing "*"s last I checked.:)
You could improve the mod system a bit by having it detect "controversial" comments - those with many both up and down mods (just find the statistical outliers). Those should always be kept visible. We need downmods to self-police garbage posts, GNAA posts, APK, and so on. But we need someway to prevent a comment being censored if 10 people mod it up and 12 people mod it down - any such comment is interesting and should be kept visible, rather than becoming a scale of the political leanings of the mods. Maybe mark it in some way and disable further moderation.
Because we don't have one, people use mods like troll and flamebait inappropriately. We need an explicit "disagree" mod to allow mods to express their intent. Whether it's -1 is a different question, but I'd be OK with it either way. We really need to emphasize the idea that someone can disagree with you, but be sincere, not trolling, if we want to be different from the non-geek sites.
While I have no idea who Trump would likely appoint, and it might well be decided on reality TV, that's still better than the nomination going to whoever donates the most to the Clinton Foundation (yes, that's the other ongoing FBI investigation - blatant pay-for-play).
3-3 is 20 times as likely as 6-Hillary. This sub-1% result is possible, but it sure seems fishy. Personally I think the fix is in, and Hillary wins no matter what at the convention, but it will be fun to see how it plays out.
And we'll keep moving, and keep getting more efficient - that's called "technology".
The only thing we really might "run out of" is fossil fuels (it's not like we're going to run out of aluminum or something), and we can always fall back on solar and nuclear. Solar has quite a high ceiling on total available power, it's just currently not the cheapest way (and of course you need something at night). Sometime in the next few hundred years fusion will stop being "just 20 years away" and actually happen, and fossil fuels will be a moot point.
It's also only a matter of time before heavy industry moves to asteroids - I used to think that wouldn't be this century, but it's mostly a robotics challenge and that field is moving so amazingly fast these days that I think I might live to see the beginnings of the shift. Long term, we don't need to be "self-sufficient" as we'd describe it today, and "next few hundred years" is a long time in terms of technological progress.
So...if this starts becoming predominant in the US, I wonder how many Mexican workers will return home after being displaced by the robots?
This has already played out in California. The state shifted towards tree nuts years ago because they were easier to automate. Still a bunch of immigration (legal and otherwise), just not agricultural. Plenty of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs not yet automated: hotels, restaurants, construction, and landscaping dominate.
Eventually all the low-skill jobs will be automated away, but eventually we're all dead.
And in 2002 it was the 6th most used female babyname, coincidentally in that same year a new character named Femke appeared on a popular local tv soap.
The name "Teagan" or "Tegan" for girls appeared from nowhere in the 80s when a companion with that name showed up in Dr Who (4th and 5th Doctors). It was a very rare name before the 80s, but suddenly in the late 80s became a minor trend, peaking in 2010 (at 243rd in popularity by the random site I found - and occasionaly used for boys as well). The show didn't invent the name, but it might as well have.
Anyone who proposes "fixing" lack of features in a software product by educating the customers is an idiot, and trying to fix anything by educating the users is worse than idiotic.
Outlook works the way people expect things to work. Exchange is a horribly painful way to enable that. Doing these things another way is frustrating all your users for the sake of your personal convenience. Is that your job, really?
I'm not voting for her in the primaries, and she probably did fuck up w/operational security big-time. I don't think it was with malice
Doesn't matter. Carelessness with Secret information is a federal felony. These "Special Access" documents are "above Top Secret", and likely contained names of covert sources - that is, when this server was hacked by foreign intelligence services, this carelessness caused deaths. That's why it's a felony.
But there is evidence of malice - there is an email instructing a subordinate to strip off the classified header from a document and "send it insecure".
There are important issues like who does and doesn't get massive financial support from wall street to complain about.
Off topic, but Hillary's top lifetime donors have been investment banks and our friends the cable companies. That is the legal donors. The FBI is also investigating Hillary for illegal contributions to the Clinton fund.
We'll know the truth of all of this when it goes to trial, or we'll know we're in a banana republic if it doesn't. In either case, this isn't some trivial issue - people likely died behind this.
HTTPs only encrypts the contents of what you are retrieving, not the location (URL) that you are retrieving it from. Seems rather pointless to push it everywhere. It only has a purpose when the user and/or server want to exchange secret payloads (e.g. credit card numbers).
I'd prefer my employer didn't know the contents of what I post to Slashdot. You can extend this to just about any forum where ideas are exchanged.
Also get rid of all those spammy APK posts littered everywhere. Figure out how to block his dumb ass from every posting in Slashdot again.
This place just wouldn't be the same without his incoherent rants. It's like my weekly dose of timecube. Trolls are just a core part of the Slashdot experience - it's why we have -1.
Where the hell did Beta go? Everyone here seemed on board and then whoosh, nothing. Like a giant vacuum where no one can hear you compliment the web 3.0 interface. It's a wasted opportunity.
That... that goes beyond the pale, even for Slashdot trolling. You might as well be reading out load from the Necronomicon.
With modern tech, it's easy to recreate both the body panel toolchain and the plastic molds - 3D scanning is so far beyond 30 years ago. However, it likely makes no financial sense at all to build that toolchain or make those molds - those are very capital-intensive.
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Makes sense to me - I just get quite annoyed with sites that have clearly only been tested with FF and Chrome, because that's what was easy for the dev to test himself.
What sort of professional performer wouldn't want the majority of his audience to enjoy the show? He's saying that he's unwilling to change his style of performance to the point it's not his any more to achieve that - better to stay away. It's also quite valid to call out that that shouldn't be necessary - being so thin skinned isn't good for people - it makes them unhappier in life than they should be.
I think there is a difference between ridiculing people for what they are and have no control over (skin color, sex etc.) and for the choices they make, like their choice of religion.
Many people think that. So fucking what? To paraphrase Carlin: if you find a comedian offensive, there's a volume knob and there's a channel knob. If you find a speech on campus likely to offend you, don't attend. If you want to prevent that speech because people will actually attend, then go fuck yourself.
To my mind, AmiMoJo's posts are exactly the same in value and content as GNAA posts. But there's an objective difference: GNAA posts only get downmods, but AmiMoJo's post sadly get both up and down mods (it's an imperfect world). On that basis, keeping his posts visible would mean most people could stop browsing at -1 and the GNAA posts would in practice disappear.
If we leave it to any subjective judgement, controversial opinions look just like GNAA posts, but clearly they aren't and thus clearly we need some objective system to provide special handling of them.
have always thought that there should be a way to flag and remove obvious garbage posts rather than simply moderating them to -1.
I disagree - reading at -1 is not for the meek, and I think garbage and meme posts from cows to GNAA to APK keep /. colorful and creative. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the garbage posts staying above -1, and I like the "we never delete anything" ethos.
. A "disagree" mod that didn't affect a posts score would be pointless
Oh no, it would get used. And much better than abusing -1 mods.
As for if the "disagree" mod has a -1 value, down voting is in essence silencing a
Sure, but that's so damn common already, I doubt it would be worse. I'd prefer "0" though.
Thanks for noting the scripts. I think we're all in support of some sort of revenue model to keep the site alive, but one that didn't involve creepy tracking would be appreciated.
Relatedly, please allow AC to be as anonymous as possible, Is TOR still blocked? If so, why? The mod system works well for garbage posts. Most AC posts are garbage of one srt or another, but we've had some pretty informative posts over the years from people who needed to stay anonymous. Anything to fight the tracking would be good to encourage that.
Should we show some stories automatically on the front page that have reached a certain level of popularity within the firehose?
I like that, if done only in the absence of timely editing. Too much voting on what stories make the front page is what killed Digg, but as a fallback it sounds great - and in any case, have it as a way to call the attention of the editors to certain stories!
More timely stories is great, but too many stories means not enough comments on any of them.
Other gripes: /. breaks stories over pages in certain views. It's frustrating to see the same thread in 3 consecutive pages with maybe 1-2 changed posts at the very bottom. :)
* Fix the way
* Allow editing of posts, at least for a limited time to fix embarrassing typos - we'd all seem more literate.
* Fix the bulleted lists! They work worse than manually typing "*"s last I checked.
Thanks for taking an interest.
You could improve the mod system a bit by having it detect "controversial" comments - those with many both up and down mods (just find the statistical outliers). Those should always be kept visible. We need downmods to self-police garbage posts, GNAA posts, APK, and so on. But we need someway to prevent a comment being censored if 10 people mod it up and 12 people mod it down - any such comment is interesting and should be kept visible, rather than becoming a scale of the political leanings of the mods. Maybe mark it in some way and disable further moderation.
Add a disagree mod.
Because we don't have one, people use mods like troll and flamebait inappropriately. We need an explicit "disagree" mod to allow mods to express their intent. Whether it's -1 is a different question, but I'd be OK with it either way. We really need to emphasize the idea that someone can disagree with you, but be sincere, not trolling, if we want to be different from the non-geek sites.
While I have no idea who Trump would likely appoint, and it might well be decided on reality TV, that's still better than the nomination going to whoever donates the most to the Clinton Foundation (yes, that's the other ongoing FBI investigation - blatant pay-for-play).
3-3 is 20 times as likely as 6-Hillary. This sub-1% result is possible, but it sure seems fishy. Personally I think the fix is in, and Hillary wins no matter what at the convention, but it will be fun to see how it plays out.
And we'll keep moving, and keep getting more efficient - that's called "technology".
The only thing we really might "run out of" is fossil fuels (it's not like we're going to run out of aluminum or something), and we can always fall back on solar and nuclear. Solar has quite a high ceiling on total available power, it's just currently not the cheapest way (and of course you need something at night). Sometime in the next few hundred years fusion will stop being "just 20 years away" and actually happen, and fossil fuels will be a moot point.
It's also only a matter of time before heavy industry moves to asteroids - I used to think that wouldn't be this century, but it's mostly a robotics challenge and that field is moving so amazingly fast these days that I think I might live to see the beginnings of the shift. Long term, we don't need to be "self-sufficient" as we'd describe it today, and "next few hundred years" is a long time in terms of technological progress.
So...if this starts becoming predominant in the US, I wonder how many Mexican workers will return home after being displaced by the robots?
This has already played out in California. The state shifted towards tree nuts years ago because they were easier to automate. Still a bunch of immigration (legal and otherwise), just not agricultural. Plenty of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs not yet automated: hotels, restaurants, construction, and landscaping dominate.
Eventually all the low-skill jobs will be automated away, but eventually we're all dead.
neither of the major free browsers (Firefox and Chromium).
Firefox hasn't been "a major browser" for a while now. Different stats give different answers, but Chrome, IE, and Safari all tend to lead Firefox.
Making a major web page that only works for "free" browsers is absurd. You make it for what your customers use.
And in 2002 it was the 6th most used female babyname, coincidentally in that same year a new character named Femke appeared on a popular local tv soap.
The name "Teagan" or "Tegan" for girls appeared from nowhere in the 80s when a companion with that name showed up in Dr Who (4th and 5th Doctors). It was a very rare name before the 80s, but suddenly in the late 80s became a minor trend, peaking in 2010 (at 243rd in popularity by the random site I found - and occasionaly used for boys as well). The show didn't invent the name, but it might as well have.
Anyone who proposes "fixing" lack of features in a software product by educating the customers is an idiot, and trying to fix anything by educating the users is worse than idiotic.
Outlook works the way people expect things to work. Exchange is a horribly painful way to enable that. Doing these things another way is frustrating all your users for the sake of your personal convenience. Is that your job, really?
I'm not voting for her in the primaries, and she probably did fuck up w/operational security big-time. I don't think it was with malice
Doesn't matter. Carelessness with Secret information is a federal felony. These "Special Access" documents are "above Top Secret", and likely contained names of covert sources - that is, when this server was hacked by foreign intelligence services, this carelessness caused deaths. That's why it's a felony.
But there is evidence of malice - there is an email instructing a subordinate to strip off the classified header from a document and "send it insecure".
There are important issues like who does and doesn't get massive financial support from wall street to complain about.
Off topic, but Hillary's top lifetime donors have been investment banks and our friends the cable companies. That is the legal donors. The FBI is also investigating Hillary for illegal contributions to the Clinton fund.
We'll know the truth of all of this when it goes to trial, or we'll know we're in a banana republic if it doesn't. In either case, this isn't some trivial issue - people likely died behind this.
HTTPs only encrypts the contents of what you are retrieving, not the location (URL) that you are retrieving it from. Seems rather pointless to push it everywhere. It only has a purpose when the user and/or server want to exchange secret payloads (e.g. credit card numbers).
I'd prefer my employer didn't know the contents of what I post to Slashdot. You can extend this to just about any forum where ideas are exchanged.
I agree with my nemesis on this - perhaps the only thing we agree on!
The Red Site has a "disagree" mod that isn't -1. That would be a wonderful improvement for /..
Also get rid of all those spammy APK posts littered everywhere. Figure out how to block his dumb ass from every posting in Slashdot again.
This place just wouldn't be the same without his incoherent rants. It's like my weekly dose of timecube. Trolls are just a core part of the Slashdot experience - it's why we have -1.
Where the hell did Beta go? Everyone here seemed on board and then whoosh, nothing. Like a giant vacuum where no one can hear you compliment the web 3.0 interface. It's a wasted opportunity.
That ... that goes beyond the pale, even for Slashdot trolling. You might as well be reading out load from the Necronomicon.
I for one welcome our new BIZX overlords! Wait, WTF is a BIZX anyhow?
With modern tech, it's easy to recreate both the body panel toolchain and the plastic molds - 3D scanning is so far beyond 30 years ago. However, it likely makes no financial sense at all to build that toolchain or make those molds - those are very capital-intensive.