YeaIh, I know: your strategy wasn't "how the hell can we get water-and-sewer to come back to slashdot?" But thought I'd say thanks: your changes to the site, but moreover, your APPROACH to the site, makes Slashdot the kind of place I'm excited to come back to.
Really glad to have a new team behind the steering wheel. This was my most-visited site on the Internet for many years, but over the past two I've probably visited a handful or so, and mostly to post snarky comments inviting people to check out other sites. Now, I'm back.... and very impressed. Let me help you get the word out.
I live in Africa, where none of those shows are broadcast anyway. I buy shows one series at a time, rip them to a NAS, and watch them on Roku. I haven't seen a commercial in many years, and don't intend to. I also watch what I want when I want it. Downside: I'm a year or two behind, but that doesn't bother me. Upside: I can wait until the ratings in and let the rest of the world decide for me which shows are worth watching and which are crap (exception: the public sometimes gives high marks to stupid shows). Cost to me one a full season of one show: just less than one dollar.
I'll never watch over-the-air or cable television again. Never.
I'm running 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) (posting from it, in fact), so this decision affects me.
I realize software companies have to pull the plug sometime, but this decision is a hassle for me. Already Apple has stopped updating Safari. I moved to Firefox which was so buggy and crash-prone I got frustrated. Moved to Chrome, which has worked well. This puts me one step closer to no browser.
My gripe is that my hardware is working perfectly well. I have no REAL reason to buy a new computer except for the fact that software companies force me to. This machine (a Mac mini) is working absolutely perfectly.
I face the same issue with Itunes, which I can't update because the new version requires a version of OSX I'm not running. Furthermore, not only has the latest version of OSX gotten pretty 'meh' reviews, it's pretty clear installing it on older hardware takes a working machine and turns it into a deadweight - the latest OSX works terribly on a Mac Mini purchased in 2010. (The charts show it is possible, but the user reviews all say "this was a mistake").
Not sure what I'll do with this machine - make it into a media box or something, or flash it and install FreeBSD or something. But I'm annoyed - this hardware works just fine; I have no reason to go out and splash down another thousand bucks just because software companies decide to give up on it.
Finally, connect the dots, people: each year software companies give up on old hardware a bit faster. In another decade they won't bother supporting anything other than machines sold that year, and we'll have moved computing hardware into something disposable, which is ecologically ridiculous. Already they've got you throwing out your old iphone every two years so you can have the latest and greatest - imagine how rich you'd make the magnates if you threw out your desktop every two years, too.
FreeBSD has not chosen to incorporate Systemd and is doing just fine, thankyaverymuch. They also have more than enough resources to keep it in the shape they'd like it.
Caveat: the FreeBSD team admits something better than init scripts will soon be necessary. But they're taking the time to figure out what and why and how. In the meantime, install FreeBSD or the desktop version that installs easily: PC-BSD, and enjoy a nice systemd-free experience. Oh no, it doesn't boot in 3 seconds! But it also doesn't make a mess of your system.
This is going to affect me and I'm not sure yet what I think about it. I use both Android and ChomeOS. I bought the Chromebook expecting to wipe it and put Linux on it, but found instead that it was a decent little laptop with spectacular battery life and a simple interface. Basically the chrome browser plus a keyboard, and I find myself putting down the Android tablet and reaching for it whenever I have some serious typing to do (like a Slashdot post for example). It's got a terminal extension that allows me to SSH into remote boxes and that plus the browser cover 85% of my use cases (no good Usenet client is its biggest shortcoming for me). Wish it had more apps, but for the things I use a computer/keyboard for, it's basically good enough.
In my pocket the Android phone (Samsung Note 3) is my daily workhorse. Love it, but it's not as simple as ChromeOS, no doubt about it.
I think we all knew this day was coming. ChromeOS needs a better app ecosystem and Android will provide it. And Android will be good on a laptop with a keyboard. But I'm somewhat leery about this. Just wish they'd provided a couple more things with ChromeOS.
Guess we'll find out soon enough. Point is: I expected not to like ChromeOS and found out I liked it quite a bit: terminal client, easy networking, dead simple peripheral configuration, file manager, and a great browser: these days I don't need a hell of a lot more than that in a secondary machine (meaning, I do my graphics, scanning, etc. on the desktop).
Was just reading where astronomers have seen a supernova event twice now due to gravitational lensing which allows the same image to take four different routes to our eyes.
This must be the same thing happening then, because I first read about the Kinshasa traffic robots on http://pipedot.org/ a full freaking year ago.
I'd like to scream "Dupe" but rather I'll scream "Missed it by a mile." WTF, Slashdot, this is like archeology these days. This news dates back to March 2014.
This is great news. I'd be thrilled to support something that breaks the current duopoly in smartphone OSes. And I don't have high hopes for Mozilla's Firefox OS - I figure, if that team can't make sense of their browser, they don't belong in the OS business, much less the smartphone OS business, as far as I'm concerned.
This is a good article and a good post, but the "Czar" thing isn't reflected in the article itself, so it's a bit of creativity on the part of the submitter.
The issue here is the mainstream media, which have seized on this and are whipping up people's emotions. No one expected anything else from tv "journalism" these days, but still, it's pathetic to see how it is playing out. I live in West Africa in a country that until recently was exposed to ebola. There was a patient living not more than 5 miles from my house. But life here is surprisingly calm and people are not panicking in any way, shape, or form.
Back in the States it's panic and mayhem, and as seen from abroad it looks like a big joke, which is exactly what news media have become. It's too bad.
On Reddit they had a contest to complete the sentence, "than have gotten ebola in the United States." One of the winners was, "More people have married Kim Kardashian..."
This technology has infinite uses. Say for example, there are some politicians in my country to whom I'd like to mail a bag of soggy dog poop. That might be a problem using traditional mail systems, but thanks to drone technology, you can just attach the bag of poop to a drone and pilot it over them as they're walking to work. Then, because the drone is probably busy with other demands, it's probably most efficient if, rather than landing, it just releases the attach hooks and drops that bag from its normal hovering altitude.
See, this is progress, thanks to technological advancement!
It was probably, intellectually, an interesting and challenging project. But that guy has just wasted his summer - and his code - building something no one actually wants. Have a look here - http://pipedot.org/story/2014-... where there's reporting about a growing systemd boycott taking place.
People don't like or want systemd and are increasingly organizing to avoid it. Non systemd distros - gentoo, slackware - plus FreeBSD, where I'll be migrating my home computer tonight after work - are starting to look pretty darned good to people again.
It's true there is a need for something more dynamic and responsive than the old init script system, but systemd is not it.
It's obvious American kids aren't reading enough, and the impact and consequences of not reading are pretty well known. But this is a cultural problem, not a technical problem, and proposing a hardware solution is not the right way forward and therefore won't work.
If kids wanted to read, they could do so basically for free already by getting a free library card and going from there. New hardware won't fix this.
Let's see. And by preface, I'll say I'm in my 40s, so I'm not quite yet a dinosaur. Still:
Old fashioned "safety razor" with double edged blades, fountain pen, pocket watch.
I converted all my cassettes and DVDs and stuff, so I'm modern in that aspect. But on the protocol side: I still use FTP, telnet, IRC, and Usenet pretty extensively. I'm happiest at a text console, and not just because most Linux desktops piss me off something fierce.
Other old tech: eye glasses? A sailboat? Camping gear?
Ha! Come join some other Slashcott refugees at comp.misc then. It's a pretty cool group. I also run a news server (with difficulty; INND is a royal pain in the arse): it runs the dictator.* hierarchy from http://dictatorshandbook.net/ (on Usenet you can connect to dictatorshandbook.net for Usenet access to that hierarchy).
I don't know why there's so much hatred about this being a slashvertisement. I actually like articles about new hardware - it's one of the reasons I still visit sites like this.
I dig the new machine, and totally support people looking into alternative and hopefully improved/innovative designs. This thing looks cool.
You guys will figure that out when you calm down a bit.
Conversely, maybe we can now take snide, fucking smart-alecks and swap them into the body of a lardass so they can experience the humiliation and despair of being obese, so people like you can have a little more empathy for the human condition.
Meanwhile, every tranny on earth just got serious wood thinking about the potential of this technology.
It exists - sort of - and it's pretty cool. Check out www.squte.com. It's a web overlay to Usenet, permitting modding up and down and a lot more. Written by a guy who really loves Usenet but recognizes that it needs a web interface that provides the functionality people coming from systems like Reddit or Slashdot would expect.
It's ridiculous one company can just 'sell' its customers. Customers should have the choice. This is ridiculous and unfair and shows any semblance of 'regulation' of the field is a joke. Regulation in name only.
How about if I just sell a couple of 'bought' Congressmen? Because they weren't doing much anyway, other than pissing me off.
The fact that there are no "Fuck Beta" articles at Soylent is irrelevant. There are none on the "Daring Fireball" blog either, for obvious reasons - that's not where you'd expect to find them.
Furthermore, while Soylent doesn't yet have a huge number of comments it's clear there is a committed community of interested readers that like the site. So it's got lots of hope and lots of promise. I think it's early to boast "Soylent has better comments" but there's certainly proof the gang is heading in that direction.
A bunch of us defected to Usenet too, and are hanging out at comp.misc where there has to date been some really interesting conversation.
In sum, there are now several competing forums run by different groups in different ways. Let the best site win! And to win, you need good articles, healthy commentary, and a committed community hoping to keep "their" place a good one to visit. I think that's kind of the way it should be.
I've read a lot of those old "doomsaying" articles and in general they're interesting. But the Malthusians have been preaching the same apocalypses for a long time now and they've generally failed to come true.
I agree resource scarcity is essentially at the root of most of our problems, and over at http://www.dictatorshandbook.n... the discussion basically revolves around the idea that religious wars are a proxy for resource grabs, while bad governments either prevent more violence or promote it to achieve short-term political gains.
Bring on the world war and let's get back out of everyone's face. And let the MiddleEast burn, so we can do something nice on the ashes.
Hey speaking of predicting uprisings, I'll bet Dice's models never predicted so many Slashdotters would bail out in disgust their commentary on the new Beta was ignored! See you on Usenet at comp.misc.
I've been reading Slashdot since 2000, so going on 14 years now. But I'll be stopping next week in support of the boycott, and maybe after that, if the interface catastrophe called "Beta" goes live.
See you on Usenet at comp.misc where old school commenting is happening: no mods, no karma, no whitespace, and no advertising. Just a lot of old geeks with killfiles and a keyboard.
Thunderbird is a good cross-platform solution, though its competences are basic by the standards of people who love Usenet. But it's easy to get for Mac, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
On the Mac, though you have to pay for it, there's Unison, which is nice. Otherwise you can google MT-Newsreader or Pineapple Newsreader, both of which have been updated from the old Mac OS9 days and are useful and good software.
There are a ton of newsreaders for Windows. A lot of people like Gravity or Forte, but I'm not on Windows so don't use either. At work, where I am not allowed to install software on my Windows box I use Sylpheed from a pendrive, and you can get it at pendriveapps.com
Finally, Usenet on a smartphone or tablet is awesome! If you have an Android phone, check out Phonews or NNTP Newsreader, both of which have free and paid versions. It's the number one thing I do with my smartphone. And on the Ipad there's Newstap, which provides a better UI but which I find a bit slow if you have a long list of groups that you read.
See you on comp.misc at Usenet.
If you need a newsgroup/usenet provider I recommend newsgroupreviews.com. It's a site that takes advertising but it's run by guys who love Usenet. I personally pay for a provider, as it's better quality. I got a great deal at Blocknews. Individual.net is better quality because they keep it spam-free, but they don't carry all the groups, and comp.misc is one they don't carry. There are free providers out there, but I find they are often choked with spam and occasionally drop posts. That was the case for AIOE a while ago. Albasani.net is better, and eternal-september is also good.
You're also ruining the one good thing about this site: the discussion system and the comments of the people who use and like it.
Ever heard the story about killing the golden goose?
Uck-Fay Eta-Bay. Let's see what your corporate statement over at slashdotmedia.com has to say when your page views drop to single digits. I for one won't be visiting.
Going to be a quiet week, Timothy. Use that silence to reflect deeply on the asshatted-decision that led you to this situation.
On behalf of a lot of people, let me just say: if you build it, we will come. I just bookmarked your site. Give us a place to call home and we'll make it a place worth coming to.
Meanwhile, I support the boycott, and am hanging out on Usenet at comp.misc in the meantime.
The beta sucks donkey balls, so this "excellent karma" reader says to Dice: "Fuck Beta!" I'm outta here.
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YeaIh, I know: your strategy wasn't "how the hell can we get water-and-sewer to come back to slashdot?" But thought I'd say thanks: your changes to the site, but moreover, your APPROACH to the site, makes Slashdot the kind of place I'm excited to come back to.
Really glad to have a new team behind the steering wheel. This was my most-visited site on the Internet for many years, but over the past two I've probably visited a handful or so, and mostly to post snarky comments inviting people to check out other sites. Now, I'm back. ... and very impressed. Let me help you get the word out.
I live in Africa, where none of those shows are broadcast anyway. I buy shows one series at a time, rip them to a NAS, and watch them on Roku. I haven't seen a commercial in many years, and don't intend to. I also watch what I want when I want it. Downside: I'm a year or two behind, but that doesn't bother me. Upside: I can wait until the ratings in and let the rest of the world decide for me which shows are worth watching and which are crap (exception: the public sometimes gives high marks to stupid shows). Cost to me one a full season of one show: just less than one dollar.
I'll never watch over-the-air or cable television again. Never.
I'm running 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) (posting from it, in fact), so this decision affects me.
I realize software companies have to pull the plug sometime, but this decision is a hassle for me. Already Apple has stopped updating Safari. I moved to Firefox which was so buggy and crash-prone I got frustrated. Moved to Chrome, which has worked well. This puts me one step closer to no browser.
My gripe is that my hardware is working perfectly well. I have no REAL reason to buy a new computer except for the fact that software companies force me to. This machine (a Mac mini) is working absolutely perfectly.
I face the same issue with Itunes, which I can't update because the new version requires a version of OSX I'm not running. Furthermore, not only has the latest version of OSX gotten pretty 'meh' reviews, it's pretty clear installing it on older hardware takes a working machine and turns it into a deadweight - the latest OSX works terribly on a Mac Mini purchased in 2010. (The charts show it is possible, but the user reviews all say "this was a mistake").
Not sure what I'll do with this machine - make it into a media box or something, or flash it and install FreeBSD or something. But I'm annoyed - this hardware works just fine; I have no reason to go out and splash down another thousand bucks just because software companies decide to give up on it.
Finally, connect the dots, people: each year software companies give up on old hardware a bit faster. In another decade they won't bother supporting anything other than machines sold that year, and we'll have moved computing hardware into something disposable, which is ecologically ridiculous. Already they've got you throwing out your old iphone every two years so you can have the latest and greatest - imagine how rich you'd make the magnates if you threw out your desktop every two years, too.
This sucks.
FreeBSD has not chosen to incorporate Systemd and is doing just fine, thankyaverymuch. They also have more than enough resources to keep it in the shape they'd like it.
Caveat: the FreeBSD team admits something better than init scripts will soon be necessary. But they're taking the time to figure out what and why and how. In the meantime, install FreeBSD or the desktop version that installs easily: PC-BSD, and enjoy a nice systemd-free experience. Oh no, it doesn't boot in 3 seconds! But it also doesn't make a mess of your system.
This is going to affect me and I'm not sure yet what I think about it. I use both Android and ChomeOS. I bought the Chromebook expecting to wipe it and put Linux on it, but found instead that it was a decent little laptop with spectacular battery life and a simple interface. Basically the chrome browser plus a keyboard, and I find myself putting down the Android tablet and reaching for it whenever I have some serious typing to do (like a Slashdot post for example). It's got a terminal extension that allows me to SSH into remote boxes and that plus the browser cover 85% of my use cases (no good Usenet client is its biggest shortcoming for me). Wish it had more apps, but for the things I use a computer/keyboard for, it's basically good enough.
In my pocket the Android phone (Samsung Note 3) is my daily workhorse. Love it, but it's not as simple as ChromeOS, no doubt about it.
I think we all knew this day was coming. ChromeOS needs a better app ecosystem and Android will provide it. And Android will be good on a laptop with a keyboard. But I'm somewhat leery about this. Just wish they'd provided a couple more things with ChromeOS.
Guess we'll find out soon enough. Point is: I expected not to like ChromeOS and found out I liked it quite a bit: terminal client, easy networking, dead simple peripheral configuration, file manager, and a great browser: these days I don't need a hell of a lot more than that in a secondary machine (meaning, I do my graphics, scanning, etc. on the desktop).
Was just reading where astronomers have seen a supernova event twice now due to gravitational lensing which allows the same image to take four different routes to our eyes.
This must be the same thing happening then, because I first read about the Kinshasa traffic robots on http://pipedot.org/ a full freaking year ago.
http://pipedot.org/story/2014-...
I'd like to scream "Dupe" but rather I'll scream "Missed it by a mile." WTF, Slashdot, this is like archeology these days. This news dates back to March 2014.
This is great news. I'd be thrilled to support something that breaks the current duopoly in smartphone OSes. And I don't have high hopes for Mozilla's Firefox OS - I figure, if that team can't make sense of their browser, they don't belong in the OS business, much less the smartphone OS business, as far as I'm concerned.
Go Jolla, you punky bastard, you!
This is a good article and a good post, but the "Czar" thing isn't reflected in the article itself, so it's a bit of creativity on the part of the submitter.
The issue here is the mainstream media, which have seized on this and are whipping up people's emotions. No one expected anything else from tv "journalism" these days, but still, it's pathetic to see how it is playing out. I live in West Africa in a country that until recently was exposed to ebola. There was a patient living not more than 5 miles from my house. But life here is surprisingly calm and people are not panicking in any way, shape, or form.
Back in the States it's panic and mayhem, and as seen from abroad it looks like a big joke, which is exactly what news media have become. It's too bad.
On Reddit they had a contest to complete the sentence, "than have gotten ebola in the United States." One of the winners was, "More people have married Kim Kardashian ..."
Keep it perspective, people.
This technology has infinite uses. Say for example, there are some politicians in my country to whom I'd like to mail a bag of soggy dog poop. That might be a problem using traditional mail systems, but thanks to drone technology, you can just attach the bag of poop to a drone and pilot it over them as they're walking to work. Then, because the drone is probably busy with other demands, it's probably most efficient if, rather than landing, it just releases the attach hooks and drops that bag from its normal hovering altitude.
See, this is progress, thanks to technological advancement!
Not sure what you mean, but if you're talking about chromeos, that already happened. ChromeOS windows do everything Redmond windows do.
It was probably, intellectually, an interesting and challenging project. But that guy has just wasted his summer - and his code - building something no one actually wants. Have a look here - http://pipedot.org/story/2014-... where there's reporting about a growing systemd boycott taking place.
People don't like or want systemd and are increasingly organizing to avoid it. Non systemd distros - gentoo, slackware - plus FreeBSD, where I'll be migrating my home computer tonight after work - are starting to look pretty darned good to people again.
It's true there is a need for something more dynamic and responsive than the old init script system, but systemd is not it.
It's obvious American kids aren't reading enough, and the impact and consequences of not reading are pretty well known. But this is a cultural problem, not a technical problem, and proposing a hardware solution is not the right way forward and therefore won't work.
If kids wanted to read, they could do so basically for free already by getting a free library card and going from there. New hardware won't fix this.
Let's see. And by preface, I'll say I'm in my 40s, so I'm not quite yet a dinosaur. Still:
Old fashioned "safety razor" with double edged blades, fountain pen, pocket watch.
I converted all my cassettes and DVDs and stuff, so I'm modern in that aspect. But on the protocol side: I still use FTP, telnet, IRC, and Usenet pretty extensively. I'm happiest at a text console, and not just because most Linux desktops piss me off something fierce.
Other old tech: eye glasses? A sailboat? Camping gear?
Ha! Come join some other Slashcott refugees at comp.misc then. It's a pretty cool group. I also run a news server (with difficulty; INND is a royal pain in the arse): it runs the dictator.* hierarchy from http://dictatorshandbook.net/ (on Usenet you can connect to dictatorshandbook.net for Usenet access to that hierarchy).
No regrets - I love that tech!
I don't know why there's so much hatred about this being a slashvertisement. I actually like articles about new hardware - it's one of the reasons I still visit sites like this.
I dig the new machine, and totally support people looking into alternative and hopefully improved/innovative designs. This thing looks cool.
You guys will figure that out when you calm down a bit.
Conversely, maybe we can now take snide, fucking smart-alecks and swap them into the body of a lardass so they can experience the humiliation and despair of being obese, so people like you can have a little more empathy for the human condition.
Meanwhile, every tranny on earth just got serious wood thinking about the potential of this technology.
It exists - sort of - and it's pretty cool. Check out www.squte.com. It's a web overlay to Usenet, permitting modding up and down and a lot more. Written by a guy who really loves Usenet but recognizes that it needs a web interface that provides the functionality people coming from systems like Reddit or Slashdot would expect.
It's pretty commendable, really. GIve it a look.
It's ridiculous one company can just 'sell' its customers. Customers should have the choice. This is ridiculous and unfair and shows any semblance of 'regulation' of the field is a joke. Regulation in name only.
How about if I just sell a couple of 'bought' Congressmen? Because they weren't doing much anyway, other than pissing me off.
The fact that there are no "Fuck Beta" articles at Soylent is irrelevant. There are none on the "Daring Fireball" blog either, for obvious reasons - that's not where you'd expect to find them.
Furthermore, while Soylent doesn't yet have a huge number of comments it's clear there is a committed community of interested readers that like the site. So it's got lots of hope and lots of promise. I think it's early to boast "Soylent has better comments" but there's certainly proof the gang is heading in that direction.
A bunch of us defected to Usenet too, and are hanging out at comp.misc where there has to date been some really interesting conversation.
In sum, there are now several competing forums run by different groups in different ways. Let the best site win! And to win, you need good articles, healthy commentary, and a committed community hoping to keep "their" place a good one to visit. I think that's kind of the way it should be.
I've read a lot of those old "doomsaying" articles and in general they're interesting. But the Malthusians have been preaching the same apocalypses for a long time now and they've generally failed to come true.
I agree resource scarcity is essentially at the root of most of our problems, and over at http://www.dictatorshandbook.n... the discussion basically revolves around the idea that religious wars are a proxy for resource grabs, while bad governments either prevent more violence or promote it to achieve short-term political gains.
Bring on the world war and let's get back out of everyone's face. And let the MiddleEast burn, so we can do something nice on the ashes.
Hey speaking of predicting uprisings, I'll bet Dice's models never predicted so many Slashdotters would bail out in disgust their commentary on the new Beta was ignored! See you on Usenet at comp.misc.
I've been reading Slashdot since 2000, so going on 14 years now. But I'll be stopping next week in support of the boycott, and maybe after that, if the interface catastrophe called "Beta" goes live.
See you on Usenet at comp.misc where old school commenting is happening: no mods, no karma, no whitespace, and no advertising. Just a lot of old geeks with killfiles and a keyboard.
Uck fay Eta bay!
Thunderbird is a good cross-platform solution, though its competences are basic by the standards of people who love Usenet. But it's easy to get for Mac, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
On the Mac, though you have to pay for it, there's Unison, which is nice. Otherwise you can google MT-Newsreader or Pineapple Newsreader, both of which have been updated from the old Mac OS9 days and are useful and good software.
There are a ton of newsreaders for Windows. A lot of people like Gravity or Forte, but I'm not on Windows so don't use either. At work, where I am not allowed to install software on my Windows box I use Sylpheed from a pendrive, and you can get it at pendriveapps.com
Finally, Usenet on a smartphone or tablet is awesome! If you have an Android phone, check out Phonews or NNTP Newsreader, both of which have free and paid versions. It's the number one thing I do with my smartphone. And on the Ipad there's Newstap, which provides a better UI but which I find a bit slow if you have a long list of groups that you read.
See you on comp.misc at Usenet.
If you need a newsgroup/usenet provider I recommend newsgroupreviews.com. It's a site that takes advertising but it's run by guys who love Usenet. I personally pay for a provider, as it's better quality. I got a great deal at Blocknews. Individual.net is better quality because they keep it spam-free, but they don't carry all the groups, and comp.misc is one they don't carry. There are free providers out there, but I find they are often choked with spam and occasionally drop posts. That was the case for AIOE a while ago. Albasani.net is better, and eternal-september is also good.
You're also ruining the one good thing about this site: the discussion system and the comments of the people who use and like it.
Ever heard the story about killing the golden goose?
Uck-Fay Eta-Bay. Let's see what your corporate statement over at slashdotmedia.com has to say when your page views drop to single digits. I for one won't be visiting.
Going to be a quiet week, Timothy. Use that silence to reflect deeply on the asshatted-decision that led you to this situation.
On behalf of a lot of people, let me just say: if you build it, we will come. I just bookmarked your site. Give us a place to call home and we'll make it a place worth coming to.
Meanwhile, I support the boycott, and am hanging out on Usenet at comp.misc in the meantime.
The beta sucks donkey balls, so this "excellent karma" reader says to Dice: "Fuck Beta!" I'm outta here.
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