The sidebar on the story listing is OK. Please, for the love of God, remove it for the comments. If I scroll down beyond a certain point, it's just going to be blank anyway, which means more wasted space.
Also, on the subject of wasted space: Please make it 100% width and not a center column. Everyone has widescreen monitors now. You're wasting our space. Keeping the center column design discourages people from spending significant amounts of time on the website.
That all said, I'm 99% certain that all feedback in this thread will be completely ignored because your designers say we're all dumb. When Slashdot tragically fades away as a brand in a couple of years, we'll say we told you so.
The recent Trayvon Martin shooting is a good example. Everyone had strong feelings towards one side, even though a logical person would say "there's not enough information to make a definitive judgement", and shift his mind to more productive matters.
There are plenty of people (including many Americans) who think things like that. The problem is that by definition, they aren't the ones you hear from, as they've, as you say, shifted their mind to more productive matters.
I would imagine that they hold the decryption key on the servers for the pay content, and only send it to you when you fulfill the terms of the bundle. That's not DRM, that's encryption, and it works.
I have to say that, as long as the law is crafted very carefully, I agree with this assessment of the law. Kids can be very, very stupid, and their future older, wiser selves shouldn't be shackled to their past forever.
That said, I would require some sort of time to have passed (on the order of years) before the "eraser button" could be pressed, to avoid making things confusing for others.
What if I get a scrap of wood, paint it to look like a cellphone, and get pulled over for texting because a policeman saw me glancing at it and poking at it while driving. Have I broken a law? What precisely or generally would I be charged with?
Obstruction of justice, because you intentionally wasted their time.
That'll either target you differently, or they'll just assume that you're a bot and opt you out of tracking. I prefer to just block the ads in the first place.
What? PayPal freezing accounts has nothing to do with bank regulation and everything to do with the fact that they're not a bank. Think of PayPal like a shifty uncle who offers to let you store your money in his safe. Store too much and he might decide to keep it, and there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it.
English defamation law puts the burden of proving the truth of allegedly defamatory statements on the defendant, rather than the plaintiff, and has been considered an impediment to free speech in much of the developed world.
I'm sure the law is more complicated than that (and Wikipedia isn't the greatest source in the world) but it could get hairy for the guy.
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To be fair, it was probably a mailto link, meaning you haven't set up your email client correctly.
The sidebar on the story listing is OK. Please, for the love of God, remove it for the comments. If I scroll down beyond a certain point, it's just going to be blank anyway, which means more wasted space.
Also, on the subject of wasted space: Please make it 100% width and not a center column. Everyone has widescreen monitors now. You're wasting our space. Keeping the center column design discourages people from spending significant amounts of time on the website.
That all said, I'm 99% certain that all feedback in this thread will be completely ignored because your designers say we're all dumb. When Slashdot tragically fades away as a brand in a couple of years, we'll say we told you so.
Is it? I'm doubtful. I think there's a silent majority who are getting shit done rather than loudly arguing politics.
The recent Trayvon Martin shooting is a good example. Everyone had strong feelings towards one side, even though a logical person would say "there's not enough information to make a definitive judgement", and shift his mind to more productive matters.
There are plenty of people (including many Americans) who think things like that. The problem is that by definition, they aren't the ones you hear from, as they've, as you say, shifted their mind to more productive matters.
Every time I saw that ad, I thought to myself, "Nope, I'd totally download a car. Why wouldn't you?"
Sure. Pirates are gonna pirate, after all.
I would imagine that they hold the decryption key on the servers for the pay content, and only send it to you when you fulfill the terms of the bundle. That's not DRM, that's encryption, and it works.
Or they could be stupid. Either way.
I have to say that, as long as the law is crafted very carefully, I agree with this assessment of the law. Kids can be very, very stupid, and their future older, wiser selves shouldn't be shackled to their past forever.
That said, I would require some sort of time to have passed (on the order of years) before the "eraser button" could be pressed, to avoid making things confusing for others.
What if I get a scrap of wood, paint it to look like a cellphone, and get pulled over for texting because a policeman saw me glancing at it and poking at it while driving. Have I broken a law? What precisely or generally would I be charged with?
Obstruction of justice, because you intentionally wasted their time.
You took this long to get to your mainline Gnome breaking point? You have more patience than I.
Hiding behind a blanket.
Thermal camera? Motion sensor?
Running around behind the robot to it's blind spot.
It's a robot. Who says it doesn't have "eyes in the back of its head"?
Pushing it over on its side.
It's probably both very heavy and on a tank-style turret. Good luck.
Ascending some stairs.
This has already been done; you just make the turret rotatable such that it can also climb stairs. Or, y'know, you just give the thing a helicopter.
There's no such thing as illegal to a government.
What could possibly go wrong?
where is the public API for Google+?
Right here: https://developers.google.com/+/api/
Perhaps you have a different meaning of "public" than I do.
To Americans, if you're in Canada and you're in a city, you're in Toronto.
Humans brains are at least trinary.
Citation please, and exactly how would "not being trinary" prevent effective AI?
Morphine administered.
So they'll use regulations as an excuse when it suits them, but you're still screwed when they keep your money. Got it.
That'll either target you differently, or they'll just assume that you're a bot and opt you out of tracking. I prefer to just block the ads in the first place.
What? PayPal freezing accounts has nothing to do with bank regulation and everything to do with the fact that they're not a bank. Think of PayPal like a shifty uncle who offers to let you store your money in his safe. Store too much and he might decide to keep it, and there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it.
In your sig, the term is "intents and purposes", not "intensive purposes".
This has been your Pedantry Of The Day(TM)!
You can do a general antileech script pretty easily through mod_rewrite. Just check if the referer is from your own site(s).
I'm becoming convinced that Yahoo is the secret troll branch of Google.
Indeed, according to Wikipedia:
I'm sure the law is more complicated than that (and Wikipedia isn't the greatest source in the world) but it could get hairy for the guy.
I didn't say they'd be right or prevail, I just expect a lawsuit to be filed.