If it's "new to you" and you are reading the firehose, it gets clicked up, then the bots that have replaced the admins click on all the ones that are sticking up above all the others and they get conveyor-belted to the front page.
Occasionally, the admin who snuck the "Idle" page in will grab one that tickles his cat's fancy, but that's about the only variation in the zombie conga line that passes for a meme stream here any more.
America put a trillion dollars into the Internet, between the government's deliberate kickstart and industry's capitalizing on it. The point was to create a new future for America.
It created a depression for America and a new future for China and India, and made a few of the industrialists a little richer at the rest of America's expense.
You do want people to change it, if they have improved the facts.
And you want it to be up-to-date. If it takes six months to get the first word of an article online, then there's a chance you've got a lot of facts in the article that have been overcome by events in that six months. Not so relevant on Thomas Aquinas, hyper-relevant on Solar Technology.
Yes, peer review is a good thing that improves the chances the facts are correct. But you have to be able to take a fractal approach to granularity of the facts. Peer review a whole new article, then peer review the edits to that article as they are made.
I guess we'll have to wait for the next iteration of Wikipedia-killer for someone to get it right, because Stanford didn't.
The world got crappy services and the world's greatest economy got raped while the world's worst became an even bigger object lesson in sweatshop economics.
I'm bitter that Carly Fiorina has the testicles to run for public office after committing treason. The change in fortunes is as if India and China had defeated America in a war.
The US was leading on everything. The rest of the world would have played catch-up. But rather than continue to compete, Carly & Co. shut down American jobs and moved the Internet economy across the ocean. It made her money and destroyed America's economy, and the shock to the financial sector almost took the world's economy with it. If there hadn't been a coincidental situation brewing with the real-estate/credit fraud market there would have been no bubble/bust in the mid-00s to camouflage it.
See, how that happens is, corporations own the patents, so once they move the production of patented items overseas, you and I can't pick up the slack with trained workers here.
You do, in fact, have the right to halt progress to preserve your profits, and screw your own country and the rest of the world.
We did make the Internet, and between government and business and private citizens we spent about $1 Trillion bringing it up to the state where Carly Fiorina and the other outsourcing robber-barons could use it to ship the whole information economy to India and China, cratering the return we expected from our investment, so they could pocket a few $billion in quick profit.
We'd like our money back. Someone tell Carly she owes us.
The individual reactions of these new molecular structures in converting sunlight are about 40 percent efficient, or about double the efficiency of today's best commercial solar cells.
But they're not learning anything from them, because they never increase security once knowledge of the holes in their system becomes widespread, and they never turn the filters off when the holes become the norm and the filters become disused, either.
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It's all online. Why the fuck would you print it out?
That's only because I'm here, which is only because I'm bored.
Get the kid a coloring book and some crayons, for crap's sake.
The last thing you want him to do is toss computing aside and forget about it until he's 48 and wishing he was young again.
/. is no longer hip to the world.
If it's "new to you" and you are reading the firehose, it gets clicked up, then the bots that have replaced the admins click on all the ones that are sticking up above all the others and they get conveyor-belted to the front page.
Occasionally, the admin who snuck the "Idle" page in will grab one that tickles his cat's fancy, but that's about the only variation in the zombie conga line that passes for a meme stream here any more.
They could do the same thing with Mars that I do with milk:
Sniff it.
If it smells like there's anything growing in it, throw it out.
If not, taste a little.
If it tastes distinctly bitter or sour, throw it out.
If not, put it back in the fridge until you need it.
I'm not sure what that means in this context.
If I tell you not to put any cookies on my machine, then DON'T.
And don't sneak around to other websites to find my IP address, either.
Just forget I ever visit more than one site.
No mistake about that.
There's a solution for that:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1776316&cid=33469174
You've already put yourself off the internet, Mr. AC. #fail
America put a trillion dollars into the Internet, between the government's deliberate kickstart and industry's capitalizing on it. The point was to create a new future for America.
It created a depression for America and a new future for China and India, and made a few of the industrialists a little richer at the rest of America's expense.
It could just mean that the guys who used more legs and arms were just exposing their #fail more than the ones who didn't.
If you did this same test with professional dancers, how would it come out?
It ties in.
When men walk, we move our shoulders. When women walk, they move their asses.
Shouldn't be any different on the dance floor, right?
"Dancing makes women horny and men tired."
-Dad
According to this article, it is now optimal not to move either your feet or your hands when you dance.
FTA FTW.
We saw the Twist, Mashed Potato, etc., and rebelled by not being that silly ever again.
(Pogos off the stage.)
Hey look!
A radiometer
You do want people to change it, if they have improved the facts.
And you want it to be up-to-date. If it takes six months to get the first word of an article online, then there's a chance you've got a lot of facts in the article that have been overcome by events in that six months. Not so relevant on Thomas Aquinas, hyper-relevant on Solar Technology.
Yes, peer review is a good thing that improves the chances the facts are correct. But you have to be able to take a fractal approach to granularity of the facts. Peer review a whole new article, then peer review the edits to that article as they are made.
I guess we'll have to wait for the next iteration of Wikipedia-killer for someone to get it right, because Stanford didn't.
The world got crappy services and the world's greatest economy got raped while the world's worst became an even bigger object lesson in sweatshop economics.
I'm bitter that Carly Fiorina has the testicles to run for public office after committing treason. The change in fortunes is as if India and China had defeated America in a war.
Imagine. The other leaders of an organization devoted to openness and truth don't like it when one of them turns out to be a sneaky liar.
The US was leading on everything. The rest of the world would have played catch-up. But rather than continue to compete, Carly & Co. shut down American jobs and moved the Internet economy across the ocean. It made her money and destroyed America's economy, and the shock to the financial sector almost took the world's economy with it. If there hadn't been a coincidental situation brewing with the real-estate/credit fraud market there would have been no bubble/bust in the mid-00s to camouflage it.
See, how that happens is, corporations own the patents, so once they move the production of patented items overseas, you and I can't pick up the slack with trained workers here.
You do, in fact, have the right to halt progress to preserve your profits, and screw your own country and the rest of the world.
We did make the Internet, and between government and business and private citizens we spent about $1 Trillion bringing it up to the state where Carly Fiorina and the other outsourcing robber-barons could use it to ship the whole information economy to India and China, cratering the return we expected from our investment, so they could pocket a few $billion in quick profit.
We'd like our money back. Someone tell Carly she owes us.
The real story here is buried at the end of TFA:
The individual reactions of these new molecular structures in converting sunlight are about 40 percent efficient, or about double the efficiency of today's best commercial solar cells.
The real headine is:
Scientists Double Efficiency of Solar Cells
They went by salary, using the usual "family of four" criterion.
They didn't subtract taxes or scale for localized cost-of-living.
As science, it's bollocks. As politics, it's solid gold.
My dad used to live in NYC. He estimated if you weren't making $500k/year, you weren't "comfortable" there. And this was the late '80s.
And a maximum $150k living wage until the minimum is raised.
Sounds like a good idea.
But they're not learning anything from them, because they never increase security once knowledge of the holes in their system becomes widespread, and they never turn the filters off when the holes become the norm and the filters become disused, either.
Accurate enough, except that there's not a lot of turf involved in nookie any more.