Doesn't matter if you have a good moderation system if you have crappy moderators. The Slashdot admins do ban some people from moderating. The moderation at Kuro5hin was presumably done by sock puppets of various warring factions.
FWIW I've stopped getting mod points for years. Maybe I was a crap moderator. But whatever it is, Slashdot is doing better than kuro5hin.
That said, Slashdot does seem to be declining in quality - lots of troll stories that seem to be designed just to get comments and hits. Heck sometimes I think they purposely leave in or even add editing errors to generate more comments. So the top 25% of the comments end up being comments about the crappy editing and nothing to do with the story.
If you're talking about Facebook they should invalidate all active logged in sessions but allow you to reactivate the account just by logging in successfully and saying "yes I wish to reactivate this account" within X months after the account is memorialized.
If dead people can still log in, it likely means they're not dead.
Require manual labor to deal with most people trying to reactivate their pranked account costs Facebook money and is stupid.
Just go to Firefox's config stuff and "untrust" the CAs you don't trust.
It's much harder to do this in IE because IE does not come with a full list of all the root CAs they will trust. CA's can get added automatically as long as a trusted CA has signed them.
That said in practice there's not a big difference since many major CAs sign other CA's certificates. So if you trust Entrust, you can end up trusting CNNIC (China's main CA).
I just use stuff like Certificate Patrol. However it does need to be cleverer about sites that rotate amongst a bunch of certs.
I'm pretty sure the NSA and a couple of other agencies can request that CAs emit certificates to them and force them to keep their mouth shut about it.
If so then the tax would have to be linked to the fourth power of the weight per load bearing wheel of the vehicle as well. Otherwise you would have to pay taxes on your bike too.
The heavier vehicles damage the road more (yes it's more complicated than that but... ).
Quest repetition is not a problem as long as it is fun. Grind is when the repetitive thing is actually boring.
Look at those people still playing Counter-strike and clones. They are playing the same thing over and over again, it's not a grind to them. Heck they often play the exact same maps over and over! Most are not doing it so that weeks later they get some reward. They find their reward in doing the repetitive thing itself.
FWIW I play Guild Wars 1 and in PvE you can play an entire squad, not just one person. You can have up to 7 heroes (semicontrollable customizable NPCs) in your team so even though the mission or quest is the same, you could try to complete it with a different team configuration. Or come up with one that works in as many cases as possible. Here's some guy's team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI-d7ZVuYm4
Solving the AV problem is harder than solving the "Halting Problem", since you aren't given the full source and inputs. Sandboxing and similar is the better approach.
In many cases if you do things right (esp on servers), AV software is more likely to cause problems than viruses. Every now and then you hear of an AV software with a system crippling false positive or other big problem. So if you are sandboxing stuff, and not regularly adding 3rd party software to a server or browsing with it, installing AV software on servers is more likely to cause problems than it'll ever solve.
Good thing it's optional (I think from googling- I've never used Windows 8). Sometimes the one monitor is for you and one monitor is for other people, and you don't want those other people to be distracted by the taskbar or other stuff.
We're just seeing the view counts that they calculate as they calculate them.
Not sure how they are calculated but I think videos shouldn't be counted as viewed if you stop viewing after a few seconds. That way misleading or crap videos won't get a high view count.
Given the interference GSM phones seem to cause with many stuff I'm OK with regulations on wireless stuff on airliners. A single device might not be that likely to cause problems, but the odds might go up when you have 200 active devices in a flying metal tube.
What annoys me more is not being allowed to bring on board a bottle of water ( while being allowed to bring many bottles of alcohol;) ). Dehydration is common for airline passengers due to the very dry lower pressure air. DVT is more likely if you are dehydrated. Maybe the "no water bottle" ruling might cost more lives than it saves.
Are you going to keep the receipts of purchase around? If not, how are you going to prove all your digital copies are legal? Particularly the ones from physical media that you no longer possess.
Lots more people see it than merely those physically there. It's in a very famous area, where New Year celebrations are held, where some movies do some filming, where tourists take photos which are then shown to their friends and posted online, etc.
That said, if this is bringing in 23 million/year I wonder how much Toshiba is paying for their ad on the "ball drop" building...
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Doesn't matter if you have a good moderation system if you have crappy moderators. The Slashdot admins do ban some people from moderating. The moderation at Kuro5hin was presumably done by sock puppets of various warring factions.
FWIW I've stopped getting mod points for years. Maybe I was a crap moderator. But whatever it is, Slashdot is doing better than kuro5hin.
That said, Slashdot does seem to be declining in quality - lots of troll stories that seem to be designed just to get comments and hits. Heck sometimes I think they purposely leave in or even add editing errors to generate more comments. So the top 25% of the comments end up being comments about the crappy editing and nothing to do with the story.
If you're talking about Facebook they should invalidate all active logged in sessions but allow you to reactivate the account just by logging in successfully and saying "yes I wish to reactivate this account" within X months after the account is memorialized.
If dead people can still log in, it likely means they're not dead.
Require manual labor to deal with most people trying to reactivate their pranked account costs Facebook money and is stupid.
Might those trenches be 6 feet deep perchance?
Yeah it needs to be able to track the last X certificates that you say "OK" too and don't give warnings for those.
Just go to Firefox's config stuff and "untrust" the CAs you don't trust.
It's much harder to do this in IE because IE does not come with a full list of all the root CAs they will trust. CA's can get added automatically as long as a trusted CA has signed them.
That said in practice there's not a big difference since many major CAs sign other CA's certificates. So if you trust Entrust, you can end up trusting CNNIC (China's main CA).
I just use stuff like Certificate Patrol. However it does need to be cleverer about sites that rotate amongst a bunch of certs.
They shouldn't automatically trust them.
I'm pretty sure the NSA and a couple of other agencies can request that CAs emit certificates to them and force them to keep their mouth shut about it.
I use Certificate Patrol: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/
Makes that attack a bit harder.
If so then the tax would have to be linked to the fourth power of the weight per load bearing wheel of the vehicle as well. Otherwise you would have to pay taxes on your bike too.
The heavier vehicles damage the road more (yes it's more complicated than that but... ).
Use PGP/GPG. All parties can then sign the document.
Check out tennis, chess, golf, counterstrike, bejewelled, etc.
Doing the same quest over and over is not what makes it grind.
The other way is to make the repetitive thing fun.
:).
People play the same maps in FPS games over and over all the time sometimes even using very similar tactics.
People play bejewelled, temple run, fruit ninja, etc and it's the same thing over and over.
It's tricky though... Sometimes having a big reward at the end makes it less fun and more like work, psychology and all that
Quest repetition is not a problem as long as it is fun. Grind is when the repetitive thing is actually boring.
Look at those people still playing Counter-strike and clones. They are playing the same thing over and over again, it's not a grind to them. Heck they often play the exact same maps over and over! Most are not doing it so that weeks later they get some reward. They find their reward in doing the repetitive thing itself.
FWIW I play Guild Wars 1 and in PvE you can play an entire squad, not just one person. You can have up to 7 heroes (semicontrollable customizable NPCs) in your team so even though the mission or quest is the same, you could try to complete it with a different team configuration. Or come up with one that works in as many cases as possible. Here's some guy's team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI-d7ZVuYm4
Solving the AV problem is harder than solving the "Halting Problem", since you aren't given the full source and inputs. Sandboxing and similar is the better approach.
In many cases if you do things right (esp on servers), AV software is more likely to cause problems than viruses. Every now and then you hear of an AV software with a system crippling false positive or other big problem. So if you are sandboxing stuff, and not regularly adding 3rd party software to a server or browsing with it, installing AV software on servers is more likely to cause problems than it'll ever solve.
yep the young and future generations will pay for it.
Good thing it's optional (I think from googling- I've never used Windows 8). Sometimes the one monitor is for you and one monitor is for other people, and you don't want those other people to be distracted by the taskbar or other stuff.
We're just seeing the view counts that they calculate as they calculate them.
Not sure how they are calculated but I think videos shouldn't be counted as viewed if you stop viewing after a few seconds. That way misleading or crap videos won't get a high view count.
They're not completely banned in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHlqpzhlasE
Given the interference GSM phones seem to cause with many stuff I'm OK with regulations on wireless stuff on airliners. A single device might not be that likely to cause problems, but the odds might go up when you have 200 active devices in a flying metal tube.
;) ). Dehydration is common for airline passengers due to the very dry lower pressure air. DVT is more likely if you are dehydrated. Maybe the "no water bottle" ruling might cost more lives than it saves.
What annoys me more is not being allowed to bring on board a bottle of water ( while being allowed to bring many bottles of alcohol
Barring hitting a train, can you actually move fast enough in Indian traffic to be in a spectacular wreck? ;)
I'd suspect the drivers in China might be "competitive" in this area. It's pretty bad there.
So, any driver that has managed to stay alive for a few years ... automatically good driver
Or just lucky.
Blowing up fruit and youtube somehow brings to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6XU48MWJOo
Are you going to keep the receipts of purchase around? If not, how are you going to prove all your digital copies are legal? Particularly the ones from physical media that you no longer possess.
How do you fix the election process? Who has the power to fix the election process? And who has influence over that person/group?
He just lacked the will to fully comprehend the thread and your post ;).
It's not so popular now due to vendor lock-in.
Lots more people see it than merely those physically there. It's in a very famous area, where New Year celebrations are held, where some movies do some filming, where tourists take photos which are then shown to their friends and posted online, etc.
That said, if this is bringing in 23 million/year I wonder how much Toshiba is paying for their ad on the "ball drop" building...