At least the interesting part of the article is the references to three different large telescopes.
What REALLY would be interesting is if someone could put such a large telescope into space. That way we could avoid all atmospheric interference. Of course there would be other problems involved instead.
I think that eye movement tracking have been studied for a long time as an input method, mostly for handicapped people that lacks movement in a major part of their body.
However cookies are also used to store login session on some forums, which means that either having to log in each time or accept the plethora of unwanted cookies.
What's posted on the front page is as far as I see primarily provided by what's going on in the Firehose.
Some of what I suggest may actually already exist, so bear with what I propose.
But I think that using some algorithm to filter out spam there would make more people appreciate and be present there for up and downvotes of reasonable stories. Look at for example the spam filter that Mozilla Thunderbird has and do something similar so we don't even need to see spam posts like "Latest Jobs in Chhattisgarh " in the Firehose - that's obvious spam.
The Feed articles seems to be somewhat interesting, but the really interesting articles aren't usually scraped from the feed sources, they are submissions by real users.
Submissions by registered users with a good history should get a bit higher ranking than those by ACs and newly registered users.
Maybe also put in some filtering so that upvotes for stories in the Firehose aren't possible from same IP address series as the submission and possibly domain on reverse-lookup.
When editing submissions I have seen that text quoted from the linked site is sometimes mixed up with text manually entered causing the summary to be confusing or misleading. I have suffered that myself recently.
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We are all Doomed now!
And nothing of value would be lost.
Unfortunately you need to block a lot more too, Google, Yahoo etc.
Unfortunately some of us has to due to various reasons, often called work.
I think that I'll look into something with just a pure Linux kernel and Busybox.
The "Out Of Box Experience" is in my opinion one of the most annoying things ever. I hate that it connects and starts to tarnish my clean install.
You need to get a list on all the IP addresses that Microsoft uses for collection and use a firewall to block them.
Or have a firewall that only permits the IP addresses you need to access and block everything else.
The OS itself ran OK with the specs, but add Anti-virus and Office and you went to the tar pit.
At least the interesting part of the article is the references to three different large telescopes.
What REALLY would be interesting is if someone could put such a large telescope into space. That way we could avoid all atmospheric interference. Of course there would be other problems involved instead.
I think that eye movement tracking have been studied for a long time as an input method, mostly for handicapped people that lacks movement in a major part of their body.
What about the system Stephen Hawking uses?
To make big money it's a combination of being at the right place at the right time and step on quite a few toes.
And who trusts Financial "Advisors" - regardless of if they are human or AI?
Acronym Hell. People love them and hate them!
If I don't own the device, then I want my money back when I don't need it anymore.
SU? Soviet Union?
If Apple gets away with this we may see more vendors doing the same thing to the stuff we own.
Which browser alternatives are there that aren't IE/edge, Chrome, firefox then that have good privacy?
And session keys in links opens a different can of worms.
However cookies are also used to store login session on some forums, which means that either having to log in each time or accept the plethora of unwanted cookies.
So you are the kind of guy that eats two cakes at the same time and get surprised by the chocolate lemon taste mix.
Porsche Posers are so 80's that it's cheesy.
Assange is not really of interest anymore. The credibility is damaged. His 15 minutes of fame is over unless he pulls someting really big.
And the CIA and FBI would probably do best by leaving him alone. If they hunt him then they prove his credibility.
What's posted on the front page is as far as I see primarily provided by what's going on in the Firehose.
Some of what I suggest may actually already exist, so bear with what I propose.
But I think that using some algorithm to filter out spam there would make more people appreciate and be present there for up and downvotes of reasonable stories. Look at for example the spam filter that Mozilla Thunderbird has and do something similar so we don't even need to see spam posts like "Latest Jobs in Chhattisgarh " in the Firehose - that's obvious spam.
The Feed articles seems to be somewhat interesting, but the really interesting articles aren't usually scraped from the feed sources, they are submissions by real users.
Submissions by registered users with a good history should get a bit higher ranking than those by ACs and newly registered users.
Maybe also put in some filtering so that upvotes for stories in the Firehose aren't possible from same IP address series as the submission and possibly domain on reverse-lookup.
When editing submissions I have seen that text quoted from the linked site is sometimes mixed up with text manually entered causing the summary to be confusing or misleading. I have suffered that myself recently.
As it is stated elsewhere - Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so find worthy stuff and submit it.
It's actually not impossible at all, just a 1 in 64 probability that it could happen.
It just shows how close it actually was. I think that Hillary should be very worried about what will happen.
Well, just relevant enough to make some consider to cut the cable.