In other news, the TSA has announced a new screening process involving rubber gloves and an intestinal robot. Americans should be very familiar with the procedure, as one merely has to bend over and take it.
The issue isn't necessarily that he signed the bill. It's that he expressed "serious reservations" as he signed it, as if he wants to be able to appease people who don't like the bill while also appeasing those who do by signed it. As is often the case with this president, he wants it both ways. That is why he's an ass.
With the glacial pace that Slashdot posts stories, and the fact that they often appeared days earlier on other sites anyway, yeah, dupes do clog up the tubes a bit.
The NDAA has to be signed into law. It funds the entire military. If he vetoed it, we'd spend the rest of the year watching non-stop ads about how he took away healthcare from wounded veterans and refused to give guns to troops on the front lines. He'd lose reelection in the biggest landslide in history, because frankly, the average voter is woefully uninformed. So to say he "willingly" signed it into law is a vast oversimplification.
Good thing Obama cared more about his re-election than his serious reservations.
The origin of the scanners can be traced back to a not-so-obvious source: President Obama's signature American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the stimulus bill. That awarded a $27.3 million contract to American Science and Engineering, or AS&E, to build 35 scanners, according to a description at Recovery.gov. Soon afterward, X-ray scanners appeared at the San Ysidro, Calif., checkpoint, sometimes called the world's busiest land crossing; other locations listed in the specification include El Paso, Texas, Columbus, N.M., and Nogales, Ariz.
Oh, for crying out loud. Thanks a lot, government..
It wasn't spun to make it sound like he supported it; it was pointed out that the White House supported anti-piracy measures and simply opposed certain provisions in this one, meaning he could still approve the legislation once those provisions were addressed.
I'm not sure what criticism you're trying to level when the exact same criticism can be leveled at Slashdot, as the comments and articles here are user-submitted. The point is who decides what is useful--on Reddit, it's everyone. On Slashdot, it's a select pool of moderators, and so people with an agenda can wreak havoc on the discussion by filtering out legitimate posts and modding up shitposts, which happens every day.
That's already happening. It's just done with a randomized pool of moderators rather than letting everyone moderate so they can drown out the idiots.
Slashdot absolutely needs a Reddit-like moderation system. It's stupid that it only takes a couple of people to put you into -1 territory when the site is visited by thousands.
And at the same time, shitposts get modded up. Slashdot's moderation has completely broken down in the last couple of years. Metamoderation is supposed to address this and remove bad moderators from appearing in the pool, but clearly it's not working.
Fear not, for it was already submitted yesterday with a direct link to the White House's statement. As stated then, the White House gave itself leeway to approve the legislation if the key objections were addressed, so don't think this means the legislation will go away.
You obviously missed the point. The early asshole comments were initially modded up, and so browsing at a high threshold didn't filter them out. If everyone could vote, the bad moderators would be overruled by the majority.
That's every day. And they get modded up, every time. The moderation system is broken and desperately needs to be replaced with a Reddit-like system where everyone can vote.
The whole point is that there are many different kinds of twitterers, and if you don't like this week's twitterer, maybe the first one will be more to your liking.
Perhaps even better, without the torrent files everyone can soon host a full copy of The Pirate Bay on a USB thumb drive, which may come in handy in the future.
You're asking me why I care about the government monitoring social media sites because you believe tech companies are paying for sockpuppets on Slashdot? Well, you win the blue ribbon for random rant of the day.
From the government that brought us flag@whitehouse.gov. "Homeland security" is a tool used by a media-obsessed administration to justify its ever-increasing intrusiveness. This kind of robotic behavior in which common sense isn't allowed to override unreasonable strictness isn't making us safer, but it is making us miserable. Terrorist attacks have the word "terror" in them for a reason. The killing of innocent victims is just a vehicle for the ultimate goal of instilling paranoia and apprehension to influence behavior, and now we're fretting over jarred cupcakes. Mission accomplished.
I don't really get that comparison. Search is far more sexy because it parses the content of the web and the information people are genuinely interested in.
But DropBox has an agenda too--they want to be the next Google. That means your files and information will become a product for the real customers: advertisers. You can never escape an agenda, and if the effort to avoid that agenda outweighs the convenience the agenda provides for you, then you're acting counterproductively against yourself.
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In other news, the TSA has announced a new screening process involving rubber gloves and an intestinal robot. Americans should be very familiar with the procedure, as one merely has to bend over and take it.
The issue isn't necessarily that he signed the bill. It's that he expressed "serious reservations" as he signed it, as if he wants to be able to appease people who don't like the bill while also appeasing those who do by signed it. As is often the case with this president, he wants it both ways. That is why he's an ass.
He should have said nothing.
With the glacial pace that Slashdot posts stories, and the fact that they often appeared days earlier on other sites anyway, yeah, dupes do clog up the tubes a bit.
Good thing Obama cared more about his re-election than his serious reservations.
I submit content all the time.
It's a massive assumption on your part to presume that "all adults" oppose SOPA. The majority of Americans probably have never even heard of it.
Oh, for crying out loud. Thanks a lot, government..
Brought to you by the same administration that gave guns to international crime lords.
It wasn't spun to make it sound like he supported it; it was pointed out that the White House supported anti-piracy measures and simply opposed certain provisions in this one, meaning he could still approve the legislation once those provisions were addressed.
Hell, it might even just be a token opposition designed to appeal to his supporters but ultimately won't stop the bill. Obama has done that before, declaring that he has "serious reservations" about something he's willingly signing into law. He's kind of an ass like that.
Because something new and relevant could have been posted in its place.
I'm not sure what criticism you're trying to level when the exact same criticism can be leveled at Slashdot, as the comments and articles here are user-submitted. The point is who decides what is useful--on Reddit, it's everyone. On Slashdot, it's a select pool of moderators, and so people with an agenda can wreak havoc on the discussion by filtering out legitimate posts and modding up shitposts, which happens every day.
That's already happening. It's just done with a randomized pool of moderators rather than letting everyone moderate so they can drown out the idiots.
Slashdot absolutely needs a Reddit-like moderation system. It's stupid that it only takes a couple of people to put you into -1 territory when the site is visited by thousands.
And at the same time, shitposts get modded up. Slashdot's moderation has completely broken down in the last couple of years. Metamoderation is supposed to address this and remove bad moderators from appearing in the pool, but clearly it's not working.
Fear not, for it was already submitted yesterday with a direct link to the White House's statement. As stated then, the White House gave itself leeway to approve the legislation if the key objections were addressed, so don't think this means the legislation will go away.
This is a dupe of yesterday's article.
I acknowledge your lack of a counterargument.
Let us continue the current system in which a limited pool of moderators decides what should be seen by everyone else.
You obviously missed the point. The early asshole comments were initially modded up, and so browsing at a high threshold didn't filter them out. If everyone could vote, the bad moderators would be overruled by the majority.
That's every day. And they get modded up, every time. The moderation system is broken and desperately needs to be replaced with a Reddit-like system where everyone can vote.
Don't hold your breath.
The Amazon Kindle Fire dismantles your argument, sorry.
Cool! Let's check out the Twitter feed.
"Open-mindedness often shines like a bright flower in a blurry landscape of prejudices."
...aaaaand it's as douchey as every other Twitter feed ever.
Come in handy for what? Piracy?
Why is that good?
You're asking me why I care about the government monitoring social media sites because you believe tech companies are paying for sockpuppets on Slashdot? Well, you win the blue ribbon for random rant of the day.
From the government that brought us flag@whitehouse.gov. "Homeland security" is a tool used by a media-obsessed administration to justify its ever-increasing intrusiveness. This kind of robotic behavior in which common sense isn't allowed to override unreasonable strictness isn't making us safer, but it is making us miserable. Terrorist attacks have the word "terror" in them for a reason. The killing of innocent victims is just a vehicle for the ultimate goal of instilling paranoia and apprehension to influence behavior, and now we're fretting over jarred cupcakes. Mission accomplished.
I don't really get that comparison. Search is far more sexy because it parses the content of the web and the information people are genuinely interested in.
But DropBox has an agenda too--they want to be the next Google. That means your files and information will become a product for the real customers: advertisers. You can never escape an agenda, and if the effort to avoid that agenda outweighs the convenience the agenda provides for you, then you're acting counterproductively against yourself.