I currently browse Slashdot with the old-old no-JavaScript UI. It's just what I want. Fix the bug where the same comments show up on page after page - that would be great!
I don't want to be opening/closing threads or anything like that. I read all threads expanded, -1 shown, threaded but otherwise in time order. In other words: the raw body of comments, but threaded.
I don't want any help viewing comments, no AJAX or Web 2.0 stuff, just a (threaded) mass of posts to read, with raw links to reply (so it's easy to reply on a new tab).
What more can we say than we like the current system better? The Beta fails in many ways - hiding post times, hiding UID, making it hard to navigate "up", and so on.
Why fix what isn't broken? I still browse with the original no-JavaScript layout, just a page of comments and no "live" controls. It's great; it's just the way I like it. I like "reply to this" as a plain old link that I can middle-click on to compose a reply in a new tab. I like the fact that the entire comment tree is pre-expanded and I don't need anything but "Page down" to read.
Want to make me happy? Fix the bug where in this mode most of a page will have the same comments repeated from the previous page. Everything else is great, thanks.
A black hole represents the maximum possible entropy for a fuck beta of that radius. Unless the Plank star is much much larger, and still has relatively high fuck beta, there would be a reduction in entropy in the fuck beta. However, reductions in entropy can happen "locally" when enough energy is fed into the fuck beta, so if this happens because of a lot of incoming energy, it would makes sense - much like fuck beta.
See, this is what makes Slashdot cool: we'll turn even a Beta whine fest into a pro/anti libertarian fight. Well, we used to, before Beta came along and made/. a vast empty wilderness.
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They could *own* bitcoin if they wanted, surely (with their processing power, I mean) Why haven't they?
There are far less computationally-intensive ways to "own bitcoin". For example, if all the biggest bitcoin wallets are on machines that the NSA intercepted to add keyloggers, then all your bitcoin belong to NSA.
Actually mining BTC is for chumps when you can hack systems at will.
And the author of the section of the Patriot Act that the NSA is using to justify it's actions is leading the charge here. Do you really find it impossible to see past your prejudices?
It wouldn't be "discriminatory throttling" under those FCC rules, was SuperKendall's point. Just because something is called "Net Neutrality" doesn't mean it does what you want - even before regulatory capture perverts it.
Now the company which safeguards those companies' financial records has their facilites burnt to the ground... I encourage you to google "iron mountain datawarehouse fire" and look past the obvious results from Argentina. You'll find this firm has a history of destroying their customer's recors on demand.
Hehe - well, they do offer records destruction as a service line. Maybe this is just the deluxe version.
The Republican bloc is unlikely to do anything that would curb military or intelligence related activities.
You haven't been paying attention. The Republicans are up in arms over this, with the RNC calling the NSAs activities straight up unconstitutional and calling for their end with no mention of terrorism nor other weasel wording.
Equality of any kind between traffic on a home residential connection and traffic on a business connection has nothing at all to do with Net Neutrality. All Net Neutrality says is "you can't do company-specific throttling". Verizon wasn't, they were (apparently) throttling all cloud sources equally (obviously as a way to throttle Netflix without targeting Netflix), which was legal under the rules.
Depends on where you live. In most places, it's only slightly indirected - the money goes into the city coffers, and the exact amount of money the police raised in revenue for the city is very much a part of the budget discussions for the police department.
For some things it's worse, like in East Texas where if you're pulled over for DWB and they find you're carrying significant cash, they just keep the cash (or a % of it) under the drug laws. Isn't the war on drugs wonderful?
Military incendiaries burn under water, in a halon dump, etc, because the oxygen is in the reactants already. But as was pointed out in the thread - the paper still wouldn't burn without environmental oxygen.
If I had to guess, I'd put my money on incompetence on behalf of Iron Mountain.
You wouldn't if you'd even been inside one of their facilities. (That being said, maybe Argentina is different.) Malice seems more likely than incompetence, at least given how Iron Mountain facilities in the US are run.
Very few companies want to keep those archives - the data can only harm them. You store one copy as legally required, and you store it in the best facility to show you made a proper effort, and if something still happens, well, it's not your fault any more.
You do realize the Iron Mountain is the offsite backup, right? If you mean "did the bank send offsite backups to two different places?" then I'd bet not.
Well, that's a good point. If you dump enough energy into the building, it will burn, but the bomb holes in the building would be pretty obvious. OTOH, a bit of sabotage to the fire suppression system would go a long way.
A fire suppression system wouldn't stop military incendiaries. You can't really put out thermite, for example (don't throw your burning thermite in the swimming pool, it will merely burn through the concrete at the bottom and crack the pool). A similar explanation would cover the nearby fire fighting team. If Iron Mountain has the same warehouse standards worldwide (I think they do), Hanlon's razor doesn't cover this fire, I don't think.
How many readers are going to leave if they cut it off slashdot classic completely?
I'm likely to. I'm thinking of changing my signature to "If Hitler were also a pedophile, he'd still be better than Slashdot Beta". But maybe beta will improve?
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I currently browse Slashdot with the old-old no-JavaScript UI. It's just what I want. Fix the bug where the same comments show up on page after page - that would be great!
I don't want to be opening/closing threads or anything like that. I read all threads expanded, -1 shown, threaded but otherwise in time order. In other words: the raw body of comments, but threaded.
I don't want any help viewing comments, no AJAX or Web 2.0 stuff, just a (threaded) mass of posts to read, with raw links to reply (so it's easy to reply on a new tab).
What more can we say than we like the current system better? The Beta fails in many ways - hiding post times, hiding UID, making it hard to navigate "up", and so on.
Why fix what isn't broken? I still browse with the original no-JavaScript layout, just a page of comments and no "live" controls. It's great; it's just the way I like it. I like "reply to this" as a plain old link that I can middle-click on to compose a reply in a new tab. I like the fact that the entire comment tree is pre-expanded and I don't need anything but "Page down" to read.
Want to make me happy? Fix the bug where in this mode most of a page will have the same comments repeated from the previous page. Everything else is great, thanks.
A black hole represents the maximum possible entropy for a fuck beta of that radius. Unless the Plank star is much much larger, and still has relatively high fuck beta, there would be a reduction in entropy in the fuck beta. However, reductions in entropy can happen "locally" when enough energy is fed into the fuck beta, so if this happens because of a lot of incoming energy, it would makes sense - much like fuck beta.
See, this is what makes Slashdot cool: we'll turn even a Beta whine fest into a pro/anti libertarian fight. Well, we used to, before Beta came along and made /. a vast empty wilderness.
Indeed, it was time to change my signature to that effect. To show my support for classic, I chose the classic phrasing.
Bah, we've all been reading /. about the same amount of time - but there was no real reason to get an account before the mod system.
I have to agree - one way or another, I won't be using beta.
OOG THE CAVEMAN not post much any more. OOG THE CAVEMAN is very sad since caps filter. But OOG THE CAVEMAN still remembers the good days, and beta makes OOG THE CAVEMAN cry.
Netcraft confirms it: Slashdot Alpha is dying.
They could *own* bitcoin if they wanted, surely (with their processing power, I mean) Why haven't they?
There are far less computationally-intensive ways to "own bitcoin". For example, if all the biggest bitcoin wallets are on machines that the NSA intercepted to add keyloggers, then all your bitcoin belong to NSA.
Actually mining BTC is for chumps when you can hack systems at will.
$6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
A better description of Slashdot Beta I've yet to see!
And the author of the section of the Patriot Act that the NSA is using to justify it's actions is leading the charge here. Do you really find it impossible to see past your prejudices?
It wouldn't be "discriminatory throttling" under those FCC rules, was SuperKendall's point. Just because something is called "Net Neutrality" doesn't mean it does what you want - even before regulatory capture perverts it.
Now the company which safeguards those companies' financial records has their facilites burnt to the ground... I encourage you to google "iron mountain datawarehouse fire" and look past the obvious results from Argentina. You'll find this firm has a history of destroying their customer's recors on demand.
Hehe - well, they do offer records destruction as a service line. Maybe this is just the deluxe version.
The Republican bloc is unlikely to do anything that would curb military or intelligence related activities.
You haven't been paying attention. The Republicans are up in arms over this, with the RNC calling the NSAs activities straight up unconstitutional and calling for their end with no mention of terrorism nor other weasel wording.
Haha, awesome. "Post-free market", indeed.
Equality of any kind between traffic on a home residential connection and traffic on a business connection has nothing at all to do with Net Neutrality. All Net Neutrality says is "you can't do company-specific throttling". Verizon wasn't, they were (apparently) throttling all cloud sources equally (obviously as a way to throttle Netflix without targeting Netflix), which was legal under the rules.
The rules weren't well thought out.
Depends on where you live. In most places, it's only slightly indirected - the money goes into the city coffers, and the exact amount of money the police raised in revenue for the city is very much a part of the budget discussions for the police department.
For some things it's worse, like in East Texas where if you're pulled over for DWB and they find you're carrying significant cash, they just keep the cash (or a % of it) under the drug laws. Isn't the war on drugs wonderful?
Military incendiaries burn under water, in a halon dump, etc, because the oxygen is in the reactants already. But as was pointed out in the thread - the paper still wouldn't burn without environmental oxygen.
If I had to guess, I'd put my money on incompetence on behalf of Iron Mountain.
You wouldn't if you'd even been inside one of their facilities. (That being said, maybe Argentina is different.) Malice seems more likely than incompetence, at least given how Iron Mountain facilities in the US are run.
Very few companies want to keep those archives - the data can only harm them. You store one copy as legally required, and you store it in the best facility to show you made a proper effort, and if something still happens, well, it's not your fault any more.
Because these were paper and tape records? Iron Mountain is as good as it gets for storing those.
You do realize the Iron Mountain is the offsite backup, right? If you mean "did the bank send offsite backups to two different places?" then I'd bet not.
Well, that's a good point. If you dump enough energy into the building, it will burn, but the bomb holes in the building would be pretty obvious. OTOH, a bit of sabotage to the fire suppression system would go a long way.
A fire suppression system wouldn't stop military incendiaries. You can't really put out thermite, for example (don't throw your burning thermite in the swimming pool, it will merely burn through the concrete at the bottom and crack the pool). A similar explanation would cover the nearby fire fighting team. If Iron Mountain has the same warehouse standards worldwide (I think they do), Hanlon's razor doesn't cover this fire, I don't think.
When that many failsafes all fail (and Iron Mountain certainly takes this sort of stuff seriously), it's pretty clearly an "accident" not an accident.
How many readers are going to leave if they cut it off slashdot classic completely?
I'm likely to. I'm thinking of changing my signature to "If Hitler were also a pedophile, he'd still be better than Slashdot Beta". But maybe beta will improve?
Well, it could be worse: it could have continued long enough for regulatory capture to set in.