The articles I see on the front page are file sharing, file sharing, global warming, file sharing, file sharing... you get the idea. The pattern seems to be the norm these days.
Surely there must be something going on in the wide world that is both topical to Slashdot and not related to file sharing or global warming?
Ah, there's the science I'm looking for. But rather than spend $20 on a light bulb, I think I'll stick with incandescent bulbs and donate $19 to dolphins or something.
For some reason, my skin looks, I don't know, pale green under CFLs. I'm sticking with incandescent lights in my bachelor pad. Can't look bad in front of the ladies...
CAPTCHAs have moved far past "tiny speed bumps" for me. Many are case sensitive yet vary letter size greatly; they use fonts which make the number 1 and the letter l identical; and they smash things together making, for example "m" and "n n" identical.
Implementers also suck royally. Sites often require a long list of information be typed, including redundant passwords. Then they lose ALL that information when you get the CAPTCHA wrong. Some get caching all screwed up. It's a mess.
CAPTCHAs today are so much worse than "speed bumps" for regular users, that I'm beginning to wonder whether I, myself, am a bot. The internet is becoming unusable to me.
Anyone who has ever maintained perl will tell you that it isn't always the best idea to give programmers the choice of how to do things. If there is a right way, don't give them the option of doing it the wrong way, because many will do so. And if two ways are equally good, just pick one--there's no reason to give people an option!
I have a question for the neuroscientists however... what's so critically important about this work, to demand the enormous resources being sunk into this?
That's a puzzling question. What would you rather have the neuroscientists working on, if not neuroscience?
I'm guessing some coke-head in marketing/sales dreamed this one up to get free press about the site. Nobody in IT or Finance would conceive of a "joke" so stupid.
Anchor these floating windmills to the sea floor so that they can be used for tidal generation, too. While we're at it, use solar panels for the blades. It just doesn't get greener than that.
Knowledge work is entirely different from manufacturing type work. The relationship between actual production and hours-spent is very weak. We aren't screwing on hubcaps; we have to coax the glob of meat between our ears to cooperate.
Where I work, there are managers who (incompetently) think knowledge workers should be managed like factory workers. These chumps have extremely high turnover, and their employees seem defensive and stressed most of the time. One such manager constantly monitors his employee's internet usage, and fires all of those who visit non-work-related web sites.
If you have an incompetent manager who thinks he's running a factory, browse anyway. You really should be happy if you get fired for moderate web use, because you will be miserable trying to build a career under such a buffoon, anyway.
Obama is not descended from slaves! I know this is true of most black Americans, but it is NOT true of Obama! He has no more relationship with the slavery than any of you cube-dwelling white boys!
Yeah, your raving about "the left," especially in a star trek thread, makes me think you aren't really capable of discussing politics or economics intelligently if you tried. You've been brainwashed into the "them" and "us" mentality, destroying your ability to examine views based on their merits.
Antimatter energy generation (nearly free energy) + replicator technology (nearly free production) + transporter technology (nearly free transportation) + secular society (no holy wars) does mean the elemination of the issues people fight over today. You can never have enough RAM, but you can have enough that you don't really care to do battle for more.
When scarcity is eliminated, distinctions between economic systems are meaningless. You shouldn't use words like "socialism" unless you know what they mean.
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The articles I see on the front page are file sharing, file sharing, global warming, file sharing, file sharing... you get the idea. The pattern seems to be the norm these days.
Surely there must be something going on in the wide world that is both topical to Slashdot and not related to file sharing or global warming?
Ah, there's the science I'm looking for. But rather than spend $20 on a light bulb, I think I'll stick with incandescent bulbs and donate $19 to dolphins or something.
For some reason, my skin looks, I don't know, pale green under CFLs. I'm sticking with incandescent lights in my bachelor pad. Can't look bad in front of the ladies...
1% of sites use CAPTCHAs? Ha! What internet are you living on, buddy?
CAPTCHAs have moved far past "tiny speed bumps" for me. Many are case sensitive yet vary letter size greatly; they use fonts which make the number 1 and the letter l identical; and they smash things together making, for example "m" and "n n" identical.
Implementers also suck royally. Sites often require a long list of information be typed, including redundant passwords. Then they lose ALL that information when you get the CAPTCHA wrong. Some get caching all screwed up. It's a mess.
CAPTCHAs today are so much worse than "speed bumps" for regular users, that I'm beginning to wonder whether I, myself, am a bot. The internet is becoming unusable to me.
They could grip it by the husk!
Anyone who has ever maintained perl will tell you that it isn't always the best idea to give programmers the choice of how to do things. If there is a right way, don't give them the option of doing it the wrong way, because many will do so. And if two ways are equally good, just pick one--there's no reason to give people an option!
I claim .com]
All your passwords are belong to me!
Fake IP rights claims aside, you realize this is just entertainment, right? Baseball players and Britney Spears server the same purpose.
That's a puzzling question. What would you rather have the neuroscientists working on, if not neuroscience?
... so they can advertise on 4chan?
Linux beat Vista by infinity percent, though.
Ballad of the Spreadsheet
an eyestrain tale.
I'm guessing some coke-head in marketing/sales dreamed this one up to get free press about the site. Nobody in IT or Finance would conceive of a "joke" so stupid.
If direction-changing unicode characters expand outside someone's post (their div or cell) then that's a browser bug, not a slashdot bug.
Anchor these floating windmills to the sea floor so that they can be used for tidal generation, too. While we're at it, use solar panels for the blades. It just doesn't get greener than that.
You don't want to piss off the English. They might retaliate with the infamous British drive-by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzOBlPKZjxE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgKdxcert3k
Why don't you have a seat over there, mate?
Knowledge work is entirely different from manufacturing type work. The relationship between actual production and hours-spent is very weak. We aren't screwing on hubcaps; we have to coax the glob of meat between our ears to cooperate.
Where I work, there are managers who (incompetently) think knowledge workers should be managed like factory workers. These chumps have extremely high turnover, and their employees seem defensive and stressed most of the time. One such manager constantly monitors his employee's internet usage, and fires all of those who visit non-work-related web sites.
If you have an incompetent manager who thinks he's running a factory, browse anyway. You really should be happy if you get fired for moderate web use, because you will be miserable trying to build a career under such a buffoon, anyway.
Obama is not descended from slaves! I know this is true of most black Americans, but it is NOT true of Obama! He has no more relationship with the slavery than any of you cube-dwelling white boys!
She's not a "top person." She's a celebutard like Britney or Lohan or whoever. She is not an elected leader; she's an entertainer.
An april 1 tech story that actually made me laugh a little. Nice.
I'm going to print that cover so I can put it over an old book on my bookshelf.
Yeah, your raving about "the left," especially in a star trek thread, makes me think you aren't really capable of discussing politics or economics intelligently if you tried. You've been brainwashed into the "them" and "us" mentality, destroying your ability to examine views based on their merits.
Good day.
Antimatter energy generation (nearly free energy) + replicator technology (nearly free production) + transporter technology (nearly free transportation) + secular society (no holy wars) does mean the elemination of the issues people fight over today. You can never have enough RAM, but you can have enough that you don't really care to do battle for more.
When scarcity is eliminated, distinctions between economic systems are meaningless. You shouldn't use words like "socialism" unless you know what they mean.