So you're against absentee ballots? That excludes many elderly, and a huge portion of the armed services. Oh, and anyone who's scheduled to work for the duration that the polls are open. Like me, this past presidential election. I made my voice heard through an absentee ballot provided by my township.
And how can you verify that an absentee ballot was made without undue influence?
Here in America, that'd be a significan percentage of the people who bother to vote at all.
Actually, it'd probably be pretty neat if people could access a website with their cell phones to vote. Send a huge SMS message wave, and see all those kids actually bother to vote.
Good ideas, but I wouldn't want to bet on a legal system backing that argument. If there's one topic Slashdot revisits over and over, it's how disputes over copyright have continually gotten more unreasonable and damaging, and all of it backed by law.
You can't fault the Slashdot editors for thinking along the lines of their own medicine.
This is just a ruse. If they really cared about their site and had interest in the stories they posted, they would remember them. This is a relatively new problem. They didn't have dupes a few years back, yet they had the same amount of stories flowing through. Also, what planet are you living on? While there are a few followups, there are TONS of other dupes as well.
Nuh uh. There've been dupes (and gripes about dupes) for years. There was one April Fools where they intentionally posted something like five or six stories in a row, all the same subject, but by different submitters. I think it was two or three years ago. (And if that's "recent" to you, you don't live on Internet time.:)
What is he, a trained-chimp? He's COMPLETELY ineffective. I could call myself a nuclear physicist and have the same career batting average.
Next April Fools', I'd like to see them give him the day off. Who knows what kind of crap the editors see every day.
They don't originate much content, but they do select from a virtually infinite variety of available content, and DO originate the front page story itself. And the fact that they ONLY have to write a blip for the front page should make fact checking a lot EASIER.
Give them more staff, maybe they'd have the time to wade through hundreds of submissions per hour, pick out the most interesting ones, and find time to do their own phone and email interviews to verify the facts of the story. That's why Slashdot is a metanews site. They link to other people, who have the responsibility to do those things. Or they link to sites that hold a general interest for the Slashdot crowd, in which case the rule is caveat emptor.
Ok, and Stalin was worst than Hitler, I guess Hitler is excused. Ok, seriously though, I hate the "comparitive" excuse. Standards should be objective.
Yeah, that was a stupid argument.
Once again what planet are you on? The only reason these types of posts are getting through now is because the dyke has too many holes, and Taco and crew don't have enough fingers for the holes anymore.
If you really wanted to get your message out, you'd post it in your journal or off-site blog, and link to it in your sig. Journals aren't subject to moderation. Try that, and see how many follow suit.
Yes, there's occasional abuse of editor moderation priviledges. Live with it or move on.
Why are you such a sycophant?
Definition of a sycophant: "a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage"
Not trying to please anyone but myself, for my own motives. And without any hope or expectation of reward. (Not even karma; my karma's been "Exceptional" since they started using the term.) Heck, I wouldn't want a reward for these posts. It'd probably vilify me in the eyes of people like yourself.
it seems crazy that a software solution should be necessary when the publishing system requires a personal ok.
That personal OK depends on a memory of whether or not an article has been posted...Unless your editors have superhuman memory (and they have the time to go over all the previous solutions), then you need a non-human aid.
while you're right that a lot of the dupes are followups and revisits, an alarming number of them are stories that were published (and sometimes already duped) less than 24 hours previously.
Did you notice that it's usually the new editors who make these mistakes? As it is now, I guess it takes time to get used to the system.
They give a valid reason for not caching all the links. Your UID is low enough that I expect you know about the FAQ. Did you know that they address this?
Lack of basic story duplication review.
There's an open invitation to solutions. As it is, though, a lot of "dupes" are really followups, or revists to old subjects from years past.
Slashdot is a meta-news site; They don't originate much content. However, they do (usually?) follow links before posting a story, weighing it against what they know. At the very least, that's "basic."
Besides, I've seen worse out of "respectable" news media.
Troubling comments that charge karma backlash to those who defy the editors.
Obviously you don't really care, or you wouldn't have posted.
Lack of awareness that Slashdot is expected by its subscribers and would-be subscribers to behave like the professional corporate concern which it is, and not an unpaid hobby blog which it may have been in the distant past.
You're right, it's no longer an unpaid hobby blog. It's now a paid hobby blog. Slashdot was most likely bought to provide additional customers for commercial services.
Personally, I think you're taking it too seriously. Slashdot was bought because of what it was: A popular tech community with a huge potential audience for tech ads. Changing the community risks alienating the audience, regardless of whether you think the changes are for good or ill.
I converted "Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers" to MP3 for my mom to listen to in her car. At 64kbps mono, you can comfortably fit all 15 CDs of either book to fit on one CD.
It reduces disc switching, which is a potentially serious issue when she's driving.
I know people who choose where they shop based on where the store gets their goods, trying to only buy from stores that buy their goods from local farmers and other local businesses. In a sense, they're low-key activists.
But, in a statistical sense, their being activists at all makes them more likely to commit crimes that fall under that "terrorism" term. If food purchasing patterns were to be fed into a program like CAPPS II, they would be more likely to be singled out for harassment at checkpoints such as those in airports.
Even thoroughly-tracked lot IDs would serve to illuminate a connection between these people and the locality of the purchases they make.
...with an analogy that's got a flamewar of its own.
How about chemical explosives? Used all the time in legal, safe construction and demolition, yet it's often used by terrorists to destroy occupied buildings.
You know, RAC-style websites and pay scales might be a neat way for OSS projects to get coding done, particularly those coding projects that receive donations.
The PIM apps more closely resemble Microsoft Outlook for better compatibility.
Right...how much something looks like Microsoft Outlook is directly proportional to how well-formed its email messages will be. Unless, of course, they're referring to ease-of-transition.
I know you can use Bluetooth to transfer photos between Zire 72s...I don't know about mainstreem wifi, though. I'd imagine that working with MP3s would depend on the application you used to manage them.
I wish they made portable players that would play things like IT, MOD and XM files. I've got more hours of music in those formats than I can listen to in a week of 24/7 playing.
IT's virtual channels slowed my old 166MHz laptop to a crawl, though, so it might require some tweaking. Heck, that file skips on my 750MHz desktop machine!/me ponders a hardware implementation of a module-format player.
Actually, a nuclear reactor sinking to the bottom of a sea is a pretty safe place for it. Water does a very decent job catching the radiation, but not of carrying it around--one of the reasons they use it as a coolant.
If the hot material from a reactor somehow escapes the sub and falls to the ocean floor, the worst that can happen is you get a tiny area of radioactive sea bed. You won't get enough fish swimming close enough to carry off much radiation. And thanks to the slow activity of plate tectonics, your irradiated sea bed should peter out long before it gets close to land.
Minor correction...A whale is more important than the men on subs. US Navy is still male-only for submarines, so no women, 'cept any pictures you smuggle in.
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So you're against absentee ballots? That excludes many elderly, and a huge portion of the armed services. Oh, and anyone who's scheduled to work for the duration that the polls are open. Like me, this past presidential election. I made my voice heard through an absentee ballot provided by my township.
And how can you verify that an absentee ballot was made without undue influence?
Here in America, that'd be a significan percentage of the people who bother to vote at all.
Actually, it'd probably be pretty neat if people could access a website with their cell phones to vote. Send a huge SMS message wave, and see all those kids actually bother to vote.
Good ideas, but I wouldn't want to bet on a legal system backing that argument. If there's one topic Slashdot revisits over and over, it's how disputes over copyright have continually gotten more unreasonable and damaging, and all of it backed by law.
You can't fault the Slashdot editors for thinking along the lines of their own medicine.
This is just a ruse. If they really cared about their site and had interest in the stories they posted, they would remember them. This is a relatively new problem. They didn't have dupes a few years back, yet they had the same amount of stories flowing through. Also, what planet are you living on? While there are a few followups, there are TONS of other dupes as well.
:)
Nuh uh. There've been dupes (and gripes about dupes) for years. There was one April Fools where they intentionally posted something like five or six stories in a row, all the same subject, but by different submitters. I think it was two or three years ago. (And if that's "recent" to you, you don't live on Internet time.
What is he, a trained-chimp? He's COMPLETELY ineffective. I could call myself a nuclear physicist and have the same career batting average.
Next April Fools', I'd like to see them give him the day off. Who knows what kind of crap the editors see every day.
They don't originate much content, but they do select from a virtually infinite variety of available content, and DO originate the front page story itself. And the fact that they ONLY have to write a blip for the front page should make fact checking a lot EASIER.
Give them more staff, maybe they'd have the time to wade through hundreds of submissions per hour, pick out the most interesting ones, and find time to do their own phone and email interviews to verify the facts of the story. That's why Slashdot is a metanews site. They link to other people, who have the responsibility to do those things. Or they link to sites that hold a general interest for the Slashdot crowd, in which case the rule is caveat emptor.
Ok, and Stalin was worst than Hitler, I guess Hitler is excused. Ok, seriously though, I hate the "comparitive" excuse. Standards should be objective.
Yeah, that was a stupid argument.
Once again what planet are you on? The only reason these types of posts are getting through now is because the dyke has too many holes, and Taco and crew don't have enough fingers for the holes anymore.
If you really wanted to get your message out, you'd post it in your journal or off-site blog, and link to it in your sig. Journals aren't subject to moderation. Try that, and see how many follow suit.
Yes, there's occasional abuse of editor moderation priviledges. Live with it or move on.
Why are you such a sycophant?
Definition of a sycophant: "a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage"
Not trying to please anyone but myself, for my own motives. And without any hope or expectation of reward. (Not even karma; my karma's been "Exceptional" since they started using the term.) Heck, I wouldn't want a reward for these posts. It'd probably vilify me in the eyes of people like yourself.
...if locally-generated magnetic fields would be useful as a radiation shield.
You'd need a shell or netting of high permeability to keep the magnetic field from screwing up local electronics, though.
it seems crazy that a software solution should be necessary when the publishing system requires a personal ok.
That personal OK depends on a memory of whether or not an article has been posted...Unless your editors have superhuman memory (and they have the time to go over all the previous solutions), then you need a non-human aid.
while you're right that a lot of the dupes are followups and revisits, an alarming number of them are stories that were published (and sometimes already duped) less than 24 hours previously.
Did you notice that it's usually the new editors who make these mistakes? As it is now, I guess it takes time to get used to the system.
Yah. Yah. Just hoping...
Lack of ethical caching of small sites.
They give a valid reason for not caching all the links. Your UID is low enough that I expect you know about the FAQ. Did you know that they address this?
Lack of basic story duplication review.
There's an open invitation to solutions. As it is, though, a lot of "dupes" are really followups, or revists to old subjects from years past.
Lack of basic grammar review.
They have a copy editor. At the very least, that's "basic."
Lack of basic journalistic fact-checking.
Slashdot is a meta-news site; They don't originate much content. However, they do (usually?) follow links before posting a story, weighing it against what they know. At the very least, that's "basic."
Besides, I've seen worse out of "respectable" news media.
Troubling comments that charge karma backlash to those who defy the editors.
Obviously you don't really care, or you wouldn't have posted.
Lack of awareness that Slashdot is expected by its subscribers and would-be subscribers to behave like the professional corporate concern which it is, and not an unpaid hobby blog which it may have been in the distant past.
You're right, it's no longer an unpaid hobby blog. It's now a paid hobby blog. Slashdot was most likely bought to provide additional customers for commercial services.
Personally, I think you're taking it too seriously. Slashdot was bought because of what it was: A popular tech community with a huge potential audience for tech ads. Changing the community risks alienating the audience, regardless of whether you think the changes are for good or ill.
Mind showing off your work-in-progress?
I converted "Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers" to MP3 for my mom to listen to in her car. At 64kbps mono, you can comfortably fit all 15 CDs of either book to fit on one CD.
It reduces disc switching, which is a potentially serious issue when she's driving.
Apparently not. ;)
I know people who choose where they shop based on where the store gets their goods, trying to only buy from stores that buy their goods from local farmers and other local businesses. In a sense, they're low-key activists.
But, in a statistical sense, their being activists at all makes them more likely to commit crimes that fall under that "terrorism" term. If food purchasing patterns were to be fed into a program like CAPPS II, they would be more likely to be singled out for harassment at checkpoints such as those in airports.
Even thoroughly-tracked lot IDs would serve to illuminate a connection between these people and the locality of the purchases they make.
...with an analogy that's got a flamewar of its own.
How about chemical explosives? Used all the time in legal, safe construction and demolition, yet it's often used by terrorists to destroy occupied buildings.
...transcoded to computer technology.
You know, RAC-style websites and pay scales might be a neat way for OSS projects to get coding done, particularly those coding projects that receive donations.
I heard about a guy who sat on his roof painting the outside of his house in his underwear.
And that there's the problem.
Now go add it to the list of strange units of measurement.
...to joke about milk. But, after reading the other posts, that topic's already soured.
That's what they said about iPods.
The PIM apps more closely resemble Microsoft Outlook for better compatibility.
Right...how much something looks like Microsoft Outlook is directly proportional to how well-formed its email messages will be. Unless, of course, they're referring to ease-of-transition.
I wouldn't care which OS they used on their hardware, so long as you could transfer data between the devices.
I know you can use Bluetooth to transfer photos between Zire 72s...I don't know about mainstreem wifi, though. I'd imagine that working with MP3s would depend on the application you used to manage them.
I wish they made portable players that would play things like IT, MOD and XM files. I've got more hours of music in those formats than I can listen to in a week of 24/7 playing.
/me ponders a hardware implementation of a module-format player.
IT's virtual channels slowed my old 166MHz laptop to a crawl, though, so it might require some tweaking. Heck, that file skips on my 750MHz desktop machine!
Actually, a nuclear reactor sinking to the bottom of a sea is a pretty safe place for it. Water does a very decent job catching the radiation, but not of carrying it around--one of the reasons they use it as a coolant.
If the hot material from a reactor somehow escapes the sub and falls to the ocean floor, the worst that can happen is you get a tiny area of radioactive sea bed. You won't get enough fish swimming close enough to carry off much radiation. And thanks to the slow activity of plate tectonics, your irradiated sea bed should peter out long before it gets close to land.
Minor correction...A whale is more important than the men on subs. US Navy is still male-only for submarines, so no women, 'cept any pictures you smuggle in.