Slashdot's best days are behind it. There are too many other sources of news to wish submissions were better. There's a zillion sites and blogs for gaming news, gadget news, linux news, science news and anything else. It's easy to find. I rarely see it on Slashdot first, and the other sites usually have better visuals.
The only thing Slashdot has going for it over those other sites is the comment system.
You guys should stop worrying about who submits the news and start worrying about how you're going to compete with the bloggers who go out and find their own news.
And if you support drilling there, you should be forced to vacation cleaning up oil spills.
Why? If I'm going to help, I think it would be best to help people. If a couple of ducks die in oil spills every 10 years, that's too bad. The good that comes to people outweighs it.
Maybe I should go down to the Gulf of Mexico and clean up all the oil spills from the off-shore drilling rigs that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. But there were none. Some bad stuff happened to some people though.
...You'll die without your 8 mpg SUV...
I don't drive an SUV. As if it's any of your business what people drive.
We can't tell the caribou to walk around an oil rig to the next mile of wasteland, but they get to decide what kind of car we drive?
And no, people might not die without their SUV. But they'll be worse off. When you buy a vehicle, you buy the one that works best for you. If you can't get that one, you end up with one that's doesn't fit your needs as well. But hey, the caribou and ducks might be better off -- at least in our self-righteous imaginings. Isn't that what's important?
- Stop opposing drilling for oil on US soil and in US waters.
If you oppose drilling for oil in ANWR you ought to be forced to vacation there every year. It's a beautiful wilderness paradise, isn't it? Caribou are more important than people, aren't they? Go visit then.
- More nuclear power
I think NY has a power plant that's completely built, but they won't operate. Not 100% sure on that. Cheap electricity would allow people in the northeast to switch from heating oil to electric heat. Less oil for heating means more oil for your car.
- Build a port to allow liquid natural gas to be imported in NY. Greens are preventing this now.
Next warm day, the alarmists will be saying "See. Global Warming!". Even if you believe in the whole global warming package, they're wrong. The temperature on one day in one place means nothing. Will you tell them?
Dude, real science is hard and boring. And it doesn't fulfil my emotional needs at all.
Plus, Katie on the Today show said pseudoscience is the new pop-psychology. And pop-psych made me feel so good about myself, you're not going to make me miss out on this new thing.
Yes. In fact, depending on where you are today, it's colder or warmer, wetter or dryer, brighter or darker, calmer or stormier than normal. Some places are even foggy. It's all evidence of climate change.
What else could it be? Can we afford to wait to find out?
Stop commerce now. Before the weather gets any less precisely normal.
For example, if you hurt yourself gaming, should health insurance pay?
What does my policy say? If it says yes, then the answer is yes. If no, then no. The policy is a voluntary agreement between myself and the insurance company.
If so, then you are costing everyone in the plan.
What does their policy say? It's what they agreed to. They're welcome to find a policy with different exclusions.
If you die, life insurance pays out,
Depending on the policy.
as does Social Security death benefits.
Oops. Here we found the involuntary one. That's a problem. But since death is cheaper than retirement, Social Security is getting a bargain. The real solution is private accounts, but the press consistently lies about them, so we're stuck with the crappy system we have now until it collapses in a few years.
And since these pay out to the survivors, I find it harder to deny them this because their loved one was some sort of addict.
Then it's a good thing the policy covers it, or it's a bad thing the policy doesn't cover it. Whichever.
And then there's the question of what choices we penalize people for. Drugs? Drinking? Smoking? Skiing? Heli-skiing?
None of the above. Or, it depends on how much I want to pay in insurance premiums. Maybe I'll live a safer life to save myself insurance payments.
Whatever the solution, government and the lawyers and the anti-[insert behavior here] activists should butt-out and stop making the world a safer place for a longer and more-and-more pointless existence. Because that's what we're getting.
If you're addicted to something, it may not be your fault... but it's your problem. And you're responsible to get the problem fixed. No one is required to help you or make it easier for you.
Our society of no responsibility (created by lawyers, so they can make money off of every single thing that harms a person, every time it happens) allows addicts a whole range of excuses they can use instead of fixing the problem.
Because dying of disease, infection, drowning, poisoning, hunger, thirst, and/or war is now rare.
The longer you live, the more likely you are to die of something new. The newer it is, the more likely it gets your dead self in the newspaper.
The more hype it gets in the news, the more people think it's more significant than getting hit by a car or falling out of a tree.
Someone cries on TV. Lawyers get involved. New laws are passed that prohibit things. Life becomes a little less worth living. People resort to videogames to escape. And then...
Maybe someday, we'll wise up and just allow people to make their own choices.
HP wants to support HD-DVD because Windows Vista will have support for HD-DVD, but add-ons like Java will be required for Blu-ray. Microsoft won't ship Java with Windows Vista.
This only matters for PCs and laptops, not stand-alone Blu-ray players. The makers of stand-alone players are happy to ship Java.
I plan on buying the PS3 as my high-def disc player. It will support Blu-ray and it runs Linux. Plus I can play games on it.
It is widely known they they almost never turn down warrants.
Um, "widely known" doesn't mean the same thing as "true".
Also, presumably, the court has somewhat simple criteria for turning down requests for warrants. Why would you seek a warrant if you thought you were unlikely to get one? The fact that warrant requests tend to lead to warrants would seem to indicate little more than a lack of spontaneity in the process.
After 9/11 they said "the government failed to connect the dots".
Now, 4 years later, we've decided we don't even care to try to connect the dots any more. I guess it's a good thing terrorism doesn't exist any more and we'll never again be threatened by it.
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XBox 360
Sequel products are rarely considered very innovative.
Dell PowerVault ML6000
A modular tape library, no matter how innovative, is only interesting to a very narrow audience.
When is the last time a NewsAlert went out based on the words of Michael Dell or Bill Gates?
When was the last time either of those guys released an interesting, innovative product?
Slashdot's best days are behind it. There are too many other sources of news to wish submissions were better. There's a zillion sites and blogs for gaming news, gadget news, linux news, science news and anything else. It's easy to find. I rarely see it on Slashdot first, and the other sites usually have better visuals.
The only thing Slashdot has going for it over those other sites is the comment system.
You guys should stop worrying about who submits the news and start worrying about how you're going to compete with the bloggers who go out and find their own news.
And if you support drilling there, you should be forced to vacation cleaning up oil spills.
...You'll die without your 8 mpg SUV...
Why? If I'm going to help, I think it would be best to help people. If a couple of ducks die in oil spills every 10 years, that's too bad. The good that comes to people outweighs it.
Maybe I should go down to the Gulf of Mexico and clean up all the oil spills from the off-shore drilling rigs that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. But there were none. Some bad stuff happened to some people though.
I don't drive an SUV. As if it's any of your business what people drive.
We can't tell the caribou to walk around an oil rig to the next mile of wasteland, but they get to decide what kind of car we drive?
And no, people might not die without their SUV. But they'll be worse off. When you buy a vehicle, you buy the one that works best for you. If you can't get that one, you end up with one that's doesn't fit your needs as well. But hey, the caribou and ducks might be better off -- at least in our self-righteous imaginings. Isn't that what's important?
More ways to get cheaper fuels:
- Stop opposing drilling for oil on US soil and in US waters.
If you oppose drilling for oil in ANWR you ought to be forced to vacation there every year. It's a beautiful wilderness paradise, isn't it? Caribou are more important than people, aren't they? Go visit then.
- More nuclear power
I think NY has a power plant that's completely built, but they won't operate. Not 100% sure on that. Cheap electricity would allow people in the northeast to switch from heating oil to electric heat. Less oil for heating means more oil for your car.
- Build a port to allow liquid natural gas to be imported in NY. Greens are preventing this now.
Same deal. Natural gas heat vs heating oil.
Yeah, weather is variable. Climate is too.
Next warm day, the alarmists will be saying "See. Global Warming!". Even if you believe in the whole global warming package, they're wrong. The temperature on one day in one place means nothing. Will you tell them?
Dude, real science is hard and boring. And it doesn't fulfil my emotional needs at all.
Plus, Katie on the Today show said pseudoscience is the new pop-psychology. And pop-psych made me feel so good about myself, you're not going to make me miss out on this new thing.
Chillax. It's all good.
Climate change evidence will continue to mount.
Yes. In fact, depending on where you are today, it's colder or warmer, wetter or dryer, brighter or darker, calmer or stormier than normal. Some places are even foggy. It's all evidence of climate change.
What else could it be? Can we afford to wait to find out?
Stop commerce now. Before the weather gets any less precisely normal.
One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
That must be a pretty sturdy bed.
It seems to me that if Sony goes with Blu-Ray and all the PC's out in the wild won't have it, it will be harder to copy their games.
In other news, Pioneeer officially announced their BRD-101A Blu-ray burner today.
Physical media is so 20th century
Does your Internet connection have the bandwidth to stream HD video in real time?
Mine doesn't.
Someone said this almost 2 weeks ago in the Blu-ray topic.
No. Blu-ray won.
The format war would be over, but Microsoft is keeping the format war alive to sell Windows Mobile and the Xbox 360.
Two talk show hosts were ruled to have provided "in-kind" political contributions by supporting a gas-tax repeal.
More here.
Free-speech has been repealed by John McCain and the courts.
For example, if you hurt yourself gaming, should health insurance pay?
What does my policy say? If it says yes, then the answer is yes. If no, then no. The policy is a voluntary agreement between myself and the insurance company.
If so, then you are costing everyone in the plan.
What does their policy say? It's what they agreed to. They're welcome to find a policy with different exclusions.
If you die, life insurance pays out,
Depending on the policy.
as does Social Security death benefits.
Oops. Here we found the involuntary one. That's a problem. But since death is cheaper than retirement, Social Security is getting a bargain. The real solution is private accounts, but the press consistently lies about them, so we're stuck with the crappy system we have now until it collapses in a few years.
And since these pay out to the survivors, I find it harder to deny them this because their loved one was some sort of addict.
Then it's a good thing the policy covers it, or it's a bad thing the policy doesn't cover it. Whichever.
And then there's the question of what choices we penalize people for. Drugs? Drinking? Smoking? Skiing? Heli-skiing?
None of the above. Or, it depends on how much I want to pay in insurance premiums. Maybe I'll live a safer life to save myself insurance payments.
Whatever the solution, government and the lawyers and the anti-[insert behavior here] activists should butt-out and stop making the world a safer place for a longer and more-and-more pointless existence. Because that's what we're getting.
let's see how easy it is to fix your problem .
There you go. Easy. That's the key word. Nevermind fixing any problem that isn't easy.
If you're addicted to something, it may not be your fault ... but it's your problem. And you're responsible to get the problem fixed. No one is required to help you or make it easier for you.
Our society of no responsibility (created by lawyers, so they can make money off of every single thing that harms a person, every time it happens) allows addicts a whole range of excuses they can use instead of fixing the problem.
The longer you live, the more likely you are to die of something new. The newer it is, the more likely it gets your dead self in the newspaper.
The more hype it gets in the news, the more people think it's more significant than getting hit by a car or falling out of a tree.
Someone cries on TV. Lawyers get involved. New laws are passed that prohibit things. Life becomes a little less worth living. People resort to videogames to escape. And then...
Maybe someday, we'll wise up and just allow people to make their own choices.
What are you, the accuracy police?
... [said] ... "...I think we'll have [the PS3's HDD] preinstalled with Linux..."
Ken Kutaragi
"and it runs Linux"
That's a pretty confident statement. You talk as if it is already out and have it running right now
it runs Linux.
Better?
HP wants to support HD-DVD because Windows Vista will have support for HD-DVD, but add-ons like Java will be required for Blu-ray. Microsoft won't ship Java with Windows Vista.
This only matters for PCs and laptops, not stand-alone Blu-ray players. The makers of stand-alone players are happy to ship Java.
I plan on buying the PS3 as my high-def disc player. It will support Blu-ray and it runs Linux. Plus I can play games on it.
It is widely known they they almost never turn down warrants.
Um, "widely known" doesn't mean the same thing as "true".
Also, presumably, the court has somewhat simple criteria for turning down requests for warrants. Why would you seek a warrant if you thought you were unlikely to get one? The fact that warrant requests tend to lead to warrants would seem to indicate little more than a lack of spontaneity in the process.
Wrong. Read today's NY Times.
It's in paragraph 36 or 37. The FISC judge resisted wiretaps based on where certain information came from.
After 9/11 they said "the government failed to connect the dots".
Now, 4 years later, we've decided we don't even care to try to connect the dots any more. I guess it's a good thing terrorism doesn't exist any more and we'll never again be threatened by it.
Hide the dots. Mod them away.
There are curently legal ways to do everything in the Patriot Act
Not true. Read #3 on the list. Tell me where I can find the provision in federal law that allows grand jury information to be shared.