They search for an old post, reword it, start a discussion, and days later edit the post to include off-topic commercial links. A user who isn't paying close attention is unlikely to see this karma whoring for what it is.
It has always bothered me that Slashdot doesn't allow posted to be edited once they are posted. But now I see that this prevents this type of "karma whoring" from happening. You can't add off-topic junk to a post if you can't edit it.
I am curious... are there any cameras on the lunar surface that are still operational? It would be interesting to have them take pictures of the Earth during an eclipse. I expect the earth would look like a dark disk with small lights scattered around on it (assuming they are visible from the moon?), and perhaps a sort of "coronal" ring where the light diffuses through the atmosphere.
The ads show up as an article within a particular feed. There are certain ones that show up over and over. One example is "You've got this. Wow your presentation audience with Prezi." Of course now that I'm looking for other examples, I can't find one. Maybe it's because I accidentally clicked on it so now they are suppressing more ads for X hours.
I've been using Feedly for quite a while now. I originally was a Google Reader user, but that was shuttered a long time ago. Anyway, I have been mostly happy with the free version of Feedly, except that recently they've started injecting "fake" articles in my various feeds, presumably as a source of ad revenue. So, a couple weeks ago I finally got fed up and decided to see what other free readers there were out there. Digg Reader seems to be the best of the bunch, so I exported/imported my feeds and gave it a whirl. The user interface was not quite as nice, but at least there weren't fake articles to skip over. Then, yesterday I got the message about it going away on the 26th. Sigh
I suppose I could try the pay version of Feedly and ditch the ads, but for some reason, an RSS reader isn't worth 1/2 of the monthly price of Netflix to me (that's just an example). I suppose it's only "pennies a day" but a penny saved is a penny earned, as they say.
is what I should do if I am in a hotel room, and I look out the window and observe a driverless pizza delivery colliding with someone. Will I be required by law to submit to testimony?
Of course, it is time travelers from the future, cashing out before the inevitable collapse in 2 weeks. Of course this needs to be done in a careful and coordinated fashion, to avoid the inevitable positive feedback. Now the trick is whether they will be able to return to the future, since the early decline in the price might affect the funding that created their time machines.
My apologies for the broken link - I should have confirmed it before I posted, but I trusted the artist's own blog wouldn't have a dead link...
If someone has an official link, I would appreciate if they could post it. Otherwise I'll assume people know how to find this stuff on their own.
Drove from south central Wisconsin to St. Clair, MO (a small town of 5000 which was on the center line). Friendly folks there, who set aside 7 different areas to view the eclipse (baseball and soccer fields, church properties, or just along the streets.) A police officer stopped by a few times to hand out free glasses to anyone who didn't have them, and there was an EMT vehicle nearby to make sure people were okay (it was 95 most of the day, until the sun went away for a bit...)
We had a fantastic time, and met a number of folks from as far away as Albuquerque and somewhere in Texas. Viewing was also great.
Maybe there can be a separate directive/section added inside robots.txt that gives direction to sites like archive.org on these matters. So both search engines and archival systems can behave honorably. If someone really does not want their site archived for the ages, archive.org should clearly respect that.
Yes! If you watch a streaming version of a movie on Netflix, it is usually different than the same movie on DVD or Blu-ray. That is because the streaming version has been cropped to 16:9, while the disc version may have been 2.35:1 or something different. It's one reason I usually opt for discs on recent movies, instead of streaming.
It means when the robot uprising comes, those countries with the greatest robot population will be taken over, while we in the USA will escape relatively unharmed. We will be the headquarters for the resistance, which slowly takes the world back.
Robot overlords indeed...
I'm sorry he doesn't like being identified with the Game of Life, but it has a special place in my personal software development history. It was one of the first computer programs I wrote in 1971 after graduating from high school, after reading the original articles about it in Scientific American.
The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today? A seven cent nickel. Yes siree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near 100 years daylight saving. Now why not give the seven cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we can have an eight cent nickel. Think what that would mean? You could go to a newsstand, buy a three cent newspaper, and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a life-time.
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They search for an old post, reword it, start a discussion, and days later edit the post to include off-topic commercial links. A user who isn't paying close attention is unlikely to see this karma whoring for what it is.
It has always bothered me that Slashdot doesn't allow posted to be edited once they are posted. But now I see that this prevents this type of "karma whoring" from happening. You can't add off-topic junk to a post if you can't edit it.
"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do..."
I am curious... are there any cameras on the lunar surface that are still operational? It would be interesting to have them take pictures of the Earth during an eclipse. I expect the earth would look like a dark disk with small lights scattered around on it (assuming they are visible from the moon?), and perhaps a sort of "coronal" ring where the light diffuses through the atmosphere.
The ads show up as an article within a particular feed. There are certain ones that show up over and over. One example is "You've got this. Wow your presentation audience with Prezi." Of course now that I'm looking for other examples, I can't find one. Maybe it's because I accidentally clicked on it so now they are suppressing more ads for X hours.
I've been using Feedly for quite a while now. I originally was a Google Reader user, but that was shuttered a long time ago. Anyway, I have been mostly happy with the free version of Feedly, except that recently they've started injecting "fake" articles in my various feeds, presumably as a source of ad revenue. So, a couple weeks ago I finally got fed up and decided to see what other free readers there were out there. Digg Reader seems to be the best of the bunch, so I exported/imported my feeds and gave it a whirl. The user interface was not quite as nice, but at least there weren't fake articles to skip over. Then, yesterday I got the message about it going away on the 26th. Sigh
I suppose I could try the pay version of Feedly and ditch the ads, but for some reason, an RSS reader isn't worth 1/2 of the monthly price of Netflix to me (that's just an example). I suppose it's only "pennies a day" but a penny saved is a penny earned, as they say.
is what I should do if I am in a hotel room, and I look out the window and observe a driverless pizza delivery colliding with someone. Will I be required by law to submit to testimony?
Of course, it is time travelers from the future, cashing out before the inevitable collapse in 2 weeks. Of course this needs to be done in a careful and coordinated fashion, to avoid the inevitable positive feedback. Now the trick is whether they will be able to return to the future, since the early decline in the price might affect the funding that created their time machines.
My apologies for the broken link - I should have confirmed it before I posted, but I trusted the artist's own blog wouldn't have a dead link... If someone has an official link, I would appreciate if they could post it. Otherwise I'll assume people know how to find this stuff on their own.
Space Doggity
Sortir would probably be the better word. (Except you can't spell it with a C and get the correct pronunciation)
Drove from south central Wisconsin to St. Clair, MO (a small town of 5000 which was on the center line). Friendly folks there, who set aside 7 different areas to view the eclipse (baseball and soccer fields, church properties, or just along the streets.) A police officer stopped by a few times to hand out free glasses to anyone who didn't have them, and there was an EMT vehicle nearby to make sure people were okay (it was 95 most of the day, until the sun went away for a bit...) We had a fantastic time, and met a number of folks from as far away as Albuquerque and somewhere in Texas. Viewing was also great.
(repeat at least 2 more times) Knock knock ... Who's there?
Orange ... Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say Banana again?
It's the status of the horse until it is approved, at which time it becomes a final horse.
Maybe there can be a separate directive/section added inside robots.txt that gives direction to sites like archive.org on these matters. So both search engines and archival systems can behave honorably. If someone really does not want their site archived for the ages, archive.org should clearly respect that.
No comment needed, but it won't let me post without one.
Yes! If you watch a streaming version of a movie on Netflix, it is usually different than the same movie on DVD or Blu-ray. That is because the streaming version has been cropped to 16:9, while the disc version may have been 2.35:1 or something different. It's one reason I usually opt for discs on recent movies, instead of streaming.
It means when the robot uprising comes, those countries with the greatest robot population will be taken over, while we in the USA will escape relatively unharmed. We will be the headquarters for the resistance, which slowly takes the world back. Robot overlords indeed...
I'm sorry he doesn't like being identified with the Game of Life, but it has a special place in my personal software development history. It was one of the first computer programs I wrote in 1971 after graduating from high school, after reading the original articles about it in Scientific American.
... but yes, it's "that" John Conway.
When I saw there was an ESR branch, my first thought is that they had renamed it to GNU/Firefox.
Be careful asking for that. They may require a shrubbery.
But what happens if they read your fingerprints in the reflection from your glasses? :)
One is never too old to play with toys.
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
(Sorry for the paradigm shift, but it seemed appropriate.)
I predict the top vote getter in the poll will be Botty McBotFace.
The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today? A seven cent nickel. Yes siree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near 100 years daylight saving. Now why not give the seven cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we can have an eight cent nickel. Think what that would mean? You could go to a newsstand, buy a three cent newspaper, and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a life-time.