The real news would be if someone as a high-profile candidate didn't get any support at all from Wall Street.
But that news wouldn't be shocking so we don't see it.
The two major political parties in the US are great targets for lobbyists and corruption. It's better to subvert party members that will work in the administration rather than the top figures.
Windows on phones was never really alive, I did some development on the 6.1 and it did suck, the API had documentation for features that didn't exist. As long as you just did simple crap like simple HMI action it was OK but when it was time to do more advanced stuff like Bluetooth interaction and network stuff it was shit.
It's like removing the salt and spices from the food you eat.
You need some level of obnoxious people to keep things alive. If everything is just banana smoothies and teletubbies all day long you would get bored pretty quickly.
I can agree on the Unicode support, but also see a problem with it since it opens up for spammers in Korean, Japanese and a kiloton of other languages as well as using unicode versions of lookalike characters that would make a word readable but hard to catch in spam filters.
But it may be good to at least review which Unicode characters that may be let through so that we may get a few fresh ones.
It's one thing to have some info about related content on the download page another to bundle it with the package you download. Most of us here are experienced enough to know what we want. And quite a few here are probably able to build unusual things out of old floppy drives or make a Raspberry Pi powered AT-walker.
Then we of course have the various groupings here that are for or against any of the following: Microsoft, Java, Oracle, Bitcoin, Trump etc. But that's not a problem, it's what makes this place alive.
Some details to consider: 1. Promote the Firehose more ( http://slashdot.org/recent ) - it seems that too few people don't realize that they can vote for stories that they have. 2. Improved spam filtering so that links to stories on questionable sites doesn't have to appear at all. Also comment spam like this APK spam that has started to appear lately should at least be slowed. (Moderation option "Spam" that can be used without mod point loss should be possible for comments that have some spam characteristics, and if a number of moderators tag it as Spam it probably is.) 3. There's no guide to what the color coding means in the Firehose.
The worst spam content I have seen in the comments have lately been that APK guy that seems to have some kind of automated poster or that dude is very persistent.
Slashvertisments seems to be worse - and sometimes dupe-stories are posted linking the original story via outfits like softpedia instead of directly to the source.
I can also agree that linking to sites like Forbes that are die-hard anti-adblock is a sour thing to take. To me Forbes is worse than 4chan these days. On 4chan you have mild ads, and you are politely asked to disable the adblocker there and when you do you actually don't get the screen taken over by 24 little green lizards. On Forbes you have a kiloton of ads that you have to wade through to get to the content - with a great risk of getting infected too.
Considering that Hubble starts to get a bit aged now but still is very useful for visible spectrum imaging it would be sad if it was taken down. Unfortunately there are no shuttles operational anymore so a new vessel is needed if it's going to be serviced.
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In some cases a colon is used as a decimal separator.
To me the date format YYYY-MM-DD is preferred.
The stupid part is the ambiguous separator.
In some countries a space is the separator.
The only one that will profit from this is Bernie Sanders.
Nope. If she gets put away, his chance to be VP does, too. If he gets the nomination, he'll be the next George McGovern.
Not necessarily a bad thing. I can think of worse labels to get.
he hasn't been touching the email issue, probably because it's contaminated.
He's treating her with kid gloves, because he wants something from her.
-jcr
You mean that Sanders would be vice president. The alternative to that - I don't want to go there, too much lemonparty association.
The real news would be if someone as a high-profile candidate didn't get any support at all from Wall Street.
But that news wouldn't be shocking so we don't see it.
The two major political parties in the US are great targets for lobbyists and corruption. It's better to subvert party members that will work in the administration rather than the top figures.
You put too much into expecting that this was pushed by the owners. Enough people finds this interesting enough to have it published.
If you want to make a difference - find crap on Trump and Cruz to counter with.
The only one that will profit from this is Bernie Sanders. So far he hasn't been touching the email issue, probably because it's contaminated.
Hillary has so far not been convincing in the denials around that - or a lot of other stuff that she did during her time as secretary of state.
Unfortunately it's not how it works - if the evidence is classified it's hard to release it.
The constant spamming of APK has caused that alternative to be considered invalid and impossible.
Spamming must be defeated.
Windows on phones was never really alive, I did some development on the 6.1 and it did suck, the API had documentation for features that didn't exist. As long as you just did simple crap like simple HMI action it was OK but when it was time to do more advanced stuff like Bluetooth interaction and network stuff it was shit.
Even a troll may have a point! Sometimes I miss the "+1 Troll" mod option!
When was the last time a site really got slashdotted?
So you like stuff like the APK spammer?
(Silently ducks and slides away)
No, you mix it up with NSA - the only agency that really listens to you.
Slashdot isn't the government though.
It's like removing the salt and spices from the food you eat.
You need some level of obnoxious people to keep things alive. If everything is just banana smoothies and teletubbies all day long you would get bored pretty quickly.
I can agree on the Unicode support, but also see a problem with it since it opens up for spammers in Korean, Japanese and a kiloton of other languages as well as using unicode versions of lookalike characters that would make a word readable but hard to catch in spam filters.
But it may be good to at least review which Unicode characters that may be let through so that we may get a few fresh ones.
*BSD developers have moved to Apple.
That's something we shouldn't touch unless you want to alienate half the world.
That's REALLY good.
It's one thing to have some info about related content on the download page another to bundle it with the package you download. Most of us here are experienced enough to know what we want. And quite a few here are probably able to build unusual things out of old floppy drives or make a Raspberry Pi powered AT-walker.
Then we of course have the various groupings here that are for or against any of the following: Microsoft, Java, Oracle, Bitcoin, Trump etc. But that's not a problem, it's what makes this place alive.
Some details to consider:
1. Promote the Firehose more ( http://slashdot.org/recent ) - it seems that too few people don't realize that they can vote for stories that they have.
2. Improved spam filtering so that links to stories on questionable sites doesn't have to appear at all. Also comment spam like this APK spam that has started to appear lately should at least be slowed. (Moderation option "Spam" that can be used without mod point loss should be possible for comments that have some spam characteristics, and if a number of moderators tag it as Spam it probably is.)
3. There's no guide to what the color coding means in the Firehose.
They look at what's voted in on this page: http://slashdot.org/recent
And if it's really badly edited they may tweak it.
Realize that many articles posted are posted due to what readers vote on in the Firehose ( http://slashdot.org/recent )
Go there now and then and do up and downvotes - it may actually change the site.
The worst spam content I have seen in the comments have lately been that APK guy that seems to have some kind of automated poster or that dude is very persistent.
Slashvertisments seems to be worse - and sometimes dupe-stories are posted linking the original story via outfits like softpedia instead of directly to the source.
I can also agree that linking to sites like Forbes that are die-hard anti-adblock is a sour thing to take. To me Forbes is worse than 4chan these days. On 4chan you have mild ads, and you are politely asked to disable the adblocker there and when you do you actually don't get the screen taken over by 24 little green lizards. On Forbes you have a kiloton of ads that you have to wade through to get to the content - with a great risk of getting infected too.
4chan is boring these days. Now /b/ is just filled with moralfags and normal people.
If they really want to bury news they release it when something big has happened. And then in a small note that's not on the economy pages.
Considering that Hubble starts to get a bit aged now but still is very useful for visible spectrum imaging it would be sad if it was taken down. Unfortunately there are no shuttles operational anymore so a new vessel is needed if it's going to be serviced.