It will cost you the job when someone replies to your job application, congratulating you on sense of humour (who doesn't love minions?), telling you you're just the person they've been looking for, and offering you double the salary.
Because you won't get the reply. The feature mutes any replies.
I'm glad the new owners of Slashdot have kept up the yearly tradition of completely missing the point of April Fools; day.
It's not "do something weird and quirky" day. You're supposed to do something - well, really you're supposed to tell people something - that they might actually fall for (and, preferably, get annoyed about). Otherwise it's no different from (rather lame) satire.
So if you're going with the binary thing, announce it. Explain why you're doing it - say it's to make Slashdot more compatible with the Internet of Things, or something. That'll annoy plenty of people.
That's if anyone actually believed it for a moment, which they almost certainly wouldn't.
Here's a few you can have for free:
Facebook is moving exclusively to Tor to protect the privacy of its users. Microsoft has declared Windows 10 a failure and will be force-downgrading to Windows 7 for all users. Amazon plans to send a small probe to the Moon to relay data and act as its corporate headquarters for tax purposes (this idea (c) wonkey_monkey Mooncorp Enterprises 2016)
And y'all might bear in mind that this study was conducted by scientists in London (that's in England) and looked at the change in BMI of populations around the world. Any choice of definitions doesn't change the real statistical conclusion of the study, which is that people are getting fatter.
No, what they're doing is doing statistics on BMI, and using some arbitrary thresholds.
Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that. Because the conclusion of this study is that obesity is on the increase:
They found that over the 40-year-span, the proportion of obese men worldwide more than tripled, to roughly 11 percent, and the proportion of obese woman more than doubled, to about 15 percent.
The fact that there are more fatties than skinnies isn't actually that significant, but it makes for good headlines to drive home the immensity (ahem) of the problem.
Because Hypertext in that fashion was never going to work, not really. I don't see why I should have to open a new tab and wait at the very least one second (they add up, y'know) and could be much longer (if it works at all) to find out what a decent editor could have explained, succinctly, with a few words. I could have taken in such information literally at a glance.
No, I didn't, because I expect (in vain) the editors to do their job and make stories understandable for the great majority of their readership without having to refer to another website.
I don't think that's too much to ask of a site like this.
There's no excuse in 2016 to sit there and think to yourself, "Gee, I don't know what this thing is, let me post on some random message board asking other people about it"
Yes there is. It's called "expecting the supposedly professional providers of a tech-skewed news aggregation website to do their bloody simple jobs."
As interesting an idea as fully-linked hypertext is, humans are still far better as taking in written information linearly.
Call me lazy, but I come here to get news because I don't want to be bounced around teh interwebs.
All I ask is enough information so I can at least be reasonably sure about whether or not I want to go looking for more on the subject.
When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites.
Most websites? Really? That's a lot of badly written websites. I mean, wouldn't you have to almost go out of your way to make it crap enough to fall over when giving the string "Null"?
This is because the word “null” is often inserted into database fields to indicate that there is no data there.
If you're literally entering the word "null" to indicate no data then you're a really shitty database programmer.
I can't help wondering if Ms Null had this happen to her once - maybe twice - and enjoyed the attention her little story got her so much that she's started embellishing it each time she tells it.
That's probably far too expensive and wastes far too much time, as far as the lottery runners are concerned. Can't sell people more lottery tickets if they're all waiting to find out if their last one won or not!
The possibility of instant wins makes the whole concept more like a slot machine with a printer instead of spinning reels.
Slashdot Mirror
Electric Bike Company Lets Users Create Replacement Parts with 3D Printers
That word implies they weren't "allowed" to before.
Though given the behaviour of other companies with regards to third-party spare parts...
Phys.org is reporting the discovery of a rare planet with three different stars in its sky
That's nothing. I just looked out of my window and saw hundreds.
Yeah, but people buying biscuits come back all the time to buy another pack of biscuits, and...
Okay, not so different, I guess.
Fourth is the array of annoying words they've added like 'doozy'.
What about "lookit"?
Xinhua announced on social media Friday
So they ban April Fools' Day but still celebrate Social Media Friday? What a country.
It will cost you the job when someone replies to your job application, congratulating you on sense of humour (who doesn't love minions?), telling you you're just the person they've been looking for, and offering you double the salary.
Because you won't get the reply. The feature mutes any replies.
and you want to tell me someone has already been fired because they sent a gif in an email?
Not quite. He was supposedly fired for not responding to the (presumably urgent) replies he was sent (because this "feature" doesn't deliver them).
I'm glad the new owners of Slashdot have kept up the yearly tradition of completely missing the point of April Fools; day.
It's not "do something weird and quirky" day. You're supposed to do something - well, really you're supposed to tell people something - that they might actually fall for (and, preferably, get annoyed about). Otherwise it's no different from (rather lame) satire.
So if you're going with the binary thing, announce it. Explain why you're doing it - say it's to make Slashdot more compatible with the Internet of Things, or something. That'll annoy plenty of people.
That's if anyone actually believed it for a moment, which they almost certainly wouldn't.
Here's a few you can have for free:
Facebook is moving exclusively to Tor to protect the privacy of its users.
Microsoft has declared Windows 10 a failure and will be force-downgrading to Windows 7 for all users.
Amazon plans to send a small probe to the Moon to relay data and act as its corporate headquarters for tax purposes (this idea (c) wonkey_monkey Mooncorp Enterprises 2016)
They're just keeping the old traditions alive (by completely missing the point of April Fools day)
You'll find front and rear trunks, offering more cargo capacity than any cargo gas car with the same external dimensions.
Why don'tcha slip the word "cargo" in there a few more times?
And y'all might bear in mind that this study was conducted by scientists in London (that's in England) and looked at the change in BMI of populations around the world. Any choice of definitions doesn't change the real statistical conclusion of the study, which is that people are getting fatter.
No, what they're doing is doing statistics on BMI, and using some arbitrary thresholds.
Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that. Because the conclusion of this study is that obesity is on the increase:
They found that over the 40-year-span, the proportion of obese men worldwide more than tripled, to roughly 11 percent, and the proportion of obese woman more than doubled, to about 15 percent.
The fact that there are more fatties than skinnies isn't actually that significant, but it makes for good headlines to drive home the immensity (ahem) of the problem.
Citation needed.
Are animals getting fatter as well?
to which it can deploy content directly through a wired connection.
Wired? Pfft. Lame.
CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers
No it didn't. Please try writing a real headline.
Because Hypertext in that fashion was never going to work, not really. I don't see why I should have to open a new tab and wait at the very least one second (they add up, y'know) and could be much longer (if it works at all) to find out what a decent editor could have explained, succinctly, with a few words. I could have taken in such information literally at a glance.
No, I didn't, because I expect (in vain) the editors to do their job and make stories understandable for the great majority of their readership without having to refer to another website.
I don't think that's too much to ask of a site like this.
IFTTT is hardly up there with the Twitters and the Facebooks of the world.
There's no excuse in 2016 to sit there and think to yourself, "Gee, I don't know what this thing is, let me post on some random message board asking other people about it"
Yes there is. It's called "expecting the supposedly professional providers of a tech-skewed news aggregation website to do their bloody simple jobs."
As interesting an idea as fully-linked hypertext is, humans are still far better as taking in written information linearly.
Call me lazy, but I come here to get news because I don't want to be bounced around teh interwebs.
All I ask is enough information so I can at least be reasonably sure about whether or not I want to go looking for more on the subject.
Just one question...
What the bloody hell is IFTTT?
Like many of you, I use IFTTT.
I think you've overestimated.
and at least with the 84-inch model, an expansive canvas for interactive presentations and virtual meetings
What, a freakin' 55" screen isn't big enough to warrant being called "expansive"?
Sheesh.
When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites.
Most websites? Really? That's a lot of badly written websites. I mean, wouldn't you have to almost go out of your way to make it crap enough to fall over when giving the string "Null"?
This is because the word “null” is often inserted into database fields to indicate that there is no data there.
If you're literally entering the word "null" to indicate no data then you're a really shitty database programmer.
I can't help wondering if Ms Null had this happen to her once - maybe twice - and enjoyed the attention her little story got her so much that she's started embellishing it each time she tells it.
Data cannot break computers.
Why not? Kirk used to do it just by talking to 'em.
That's probably far too expensive and wastes far too much time, as far as the lottery runners are concerned. Can't sell people more lottery tickets if they're all waiting to find out if their last one won or not!
The possibility of instant wins makes the whole concept more like a slot machine with a printer instead of spinning reels.
Body language, emotive expressions, a feel for your interest in conversation.
Also boobs.