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  1. reddit how-to on Is Whitelisting the Answer To the Rise In Data Breaches? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Reddit has a text-based, list-oritented design the way we want it. It suffers from a lack of article summaries though.

    How to cuztomize reddit to replace slashdot:

    Step 1: Singup on reddit.
    Step 2: Visit these subreddits and click the "subscribe" button in each one of them:
    http://www.reddit.com/r/games
    http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
    http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/law
    http://www.reddit.com/r/space
    http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...

    Step 3: Go to your user profile and look for your personalized RSS feed, (should be in https://ssl.reddit.com/prefs/f...) it will give you a digest of the best stories accross all your subscriptions.

  2. Re:Fuck Beta: I've been here for 13 years on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 4, Informative
  3. Re:The Beta is horrible on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 3, Interesting
  4. Re:Where to go after Slashdot? on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Boycott on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Quoting myself:

    Quiting Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

    However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

    I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/games
    http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
    http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/law
    http://www.reddit.com/r/space
    http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...

    To get all of slashdot covered.

  6. Re:Beta is terrible! on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 4, Informative

    quoting myself

    Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

    However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

    I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/space
    http://www.reddit.com/r/law
    http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
    http://www.reddit.com/r/games

    To get all of slashdot covered.

    You can also get independent RSS feeds from each subreddit. sweet!

  7. Re:Beta sucks! on Designer Seeds Thought To Be Latest Target By Chinese · · Score: 1

    Yes, slashdot beta sucks, but "classic" sucks too. The previous site code was better and THAT sucked too (no unicode support whasoever remember?)

    However now that Slashdot is owned by DICE i think it's unlikely that it wil do something so uncapitalist as not targeting the unwashed masses. It's lowest common denominator or shutdown!

    I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/censor...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/biotec...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/govern...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/securi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/scienc...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/space
    http://www.reddit.com/r/law
    http://www.reddit.com/r/techno...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/openso...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/politi...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/privac...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgami...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
    http://www.reddit.com/r/games

    To get all of slashdot covered.

  8. But classic is also shit. on Former Red Hat COO Helps Health Care Providers Work Together (Video) · · Score: 1

    Almost everything about slashdot UI is unideal. Look at that top bar. Whould you click on any of that?

  9. To reddit then? on Former Red Hat COO Helps Health Care Providers Work Together (Video) · · Score: 2

    I need a new news site.

  10. Re:Obligatory on If I Had a Hammer · · Score: 2

    I remember that story, it's not that bad at first but it soon devolves into Utopian wishful thinking. I like to think that the dude overdosed on something while in the concrete block and the flight into the paradise-Australia that looks and sound communist but is totally not communist and people surrender their very brains to computers that are totally never going to go rampant or be subverted and where he marries the totally-hot chick who he just met and is the first female he ever talked to in the story is just an hallucination.

  11. Re:Oy. on Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters · · Score: 1

    So your point is that you have no point? How lame. But honestly that's bullshit. You ARE advocating for apathy here.

  12. Re:I do. on Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    However, if you are a social conformist living an entirely unthreatening life, you really have nothing to hide in the first place. People have had good reasons to hide something for as long as there have been governments. Maybe it's something as simple as enjoying a beer (once an illegal practice), or maybe it's something as heroic as protecting a Jew family from extermination, with a lot of grey areas in between, like marring a person that desperately needs to obtain citizenship or helping a girl get an abortion from a dangerous pregnancy in a state that doesn't allow.

    The government is not perfect, so it should have perfect reach. Through out history we have benefited from the inability of governments to enforce the law with absolute efficacy. The US wouldn't even exist today if England had the ability to know everything that was being discussed in their territories. And yes, sometimes social progress needs heroes. People who are upfront about their beliefs in open disobedience. Sometimes we need martyrs. But social progress doesn't actually happen there. It happens at home, at the homes of the low profile individual.

    Morality is flexible and nuanced but the law is rigid, short-minded and often manipulated by special interests. Between activism and suppression there is a valley of unenforceability. I'll dare to say that valley was the reason the US flourished while Europe fell into totalitarianism.

    You need this environment. Even if none of your current opinions are controversial. Because one day yours, or your childrens' opinion won't won't be welcomed by government.

  13. Re:it's like that and that's the way it is on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 1

    slice left-to-right? You are not making this easier...

  14. Re:At Long Last... on Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Firstly, the original Ruby example isn't a a real map but a side effects iteration so the construct you are looking for is
    for dude in users:
            welcome(dude)

    And yes, it makes more sense than
    users.each do |dude|
            welcome(dude)
    end

    So much so that even Ruby has a better way to do it with
    for dude in users
            welcome(dude)
    end

    which is the one Zuckerberg should have used.

  15. Re:it's like that and that's the way it is on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 1

    Explain me again why hidden variables are ruled out.

  16. Re:Another way to think about QM and Waves on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why they rule out hidden variables. Hidden variables are *hidden* how can you rule them out? I'm not a particle physicist but I'm sure there is no such thing as entanglement, it must be just an illusion.

  17. Re:At Long Last... on Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript · · Score: 1

    I don't blame you, Ruby syntax can be rather arcane.
    facebook_user.each do |user| ... end

    Can be translated as:
    facebook_user.map(function(user){ ... })

    Basically "each" is an array method and "do |var| ... end" is a "block"/closure/anonymous function. "|var|" can be omitted if there are no arguments, I don't know the syntax for multipel arguments. I do know that "do ... end" can be written as "{|var| ... }". I really don't know which version is considered syntactic sugar of the other. BTW Ruby blocks aren't *really* anonymous functions. You cannot save them to a variable as:
    foo = do |bar| ... end

    Blocks can only be passed to methods, but, not as arguments as so "facebook_user.each" is actually being called with no arguments like "facebook_user.each()" the method is passed the block through another channel that sets a flag inside the method which then calls the block as a closure using the "yield" keyword. Of course you can only pass 1 block this way. If a method needs two callbacks it must return some sort of delegate object that has a method that can accept the next callback as another block.

    Oh and almost forgot to mention that there is an implicit "return" at the end of all ruby blocks. This is Ruby's idea of simple. But at least the syntax for map is really compact!

  18. Re:Sorry, I don't buy that ! on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    To say that "security" does not exist in Nature is to BLIND oneself to the real nature!

    It was Helen Keller "speaking" though...

  19. Re:Why are you posting as anonymous? on Code.org: More Money For CS Instructors Who Teach More Girls · · Score: 1

    50% of people are below average. No more, no less.

    Don't be so sure. after all 90% of all people have a higher number of legs than the average.

  20. DAE remember Sonique? on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_(media_player)

    Skinned media players were awesome in the Windows 98 era. Nowadays OSs look fine enough that skins are a nuisance.

  21. Love the obvious bias in TFA. on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 1

    The BBC is reporting that Dell's Latitude 6430u Ultrabooks have an interesting characteristic you won't find in any Macbook Air

    You won't find it in a Macbook! You also won't find it in a Toshiba, Acer or an HP. But that's not the cock we are trying to suck.

  22. Re:New drug name "Wind Up" on Biological Clock Discovered That Measures Ages of Most Human Tissues · · Score: 1

    ...and tumors.

  23. Mark had the ball and dropped it. on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    As a rather assholish user already noted the thing Linux/Free software needs the most are standarization and small detail polishing. busted-shitter he called it. Unglamorous thankless tasks like translations and documentation.

    The thing is Ubuntu was way ahead on the way of becomeing The standard Linux distro, it had an army of loyal contributors eager to translate, debug and package things for Ubuntu.

    Then Mark decided to be an asshole, hired a team of Cuppertino rejects and started going his way against any input from Ubuntu's comunity. The famous "Ubuntu is not a democracy" line was uttered, and destroyed any pretence of community the project once had.

    From the begining people accepted "Canonical as the commercial consultant on all matters Ubuntu", not "Ubuntu as product of Canonical". Shuttleworth became the CEO of a company of unpaid employers that had no say in its direction. And the comunity moved on elsewhere, mostly to Mint.

    And now Shuttleworth acts shocked, shocked that nobody loves him. The man that decided he didn't have to listen to anybody complains that nobody listens to him.

  24. Re:Ads are anti-capitalist on When Opting Out of Ad Tracking Doesn't Opt You Out · · Score: 1

    I still like propaganda more.

    By my own definitions. If you are writing/producing/pushing a message to promote something you like for yourself and want to share with others, it's propaganda. If you are promoting it because you are getting paid for doing so, it's not something you necessarily want for yourself and don't really care if it hurts other people, it's advertising.

  25. Re:Debugging?? on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    No longer is this writen by an armchair programmer, it was written ofr a shitty site that can't layout a list without using 21 trackers. Damned slideshow won't load until every single webbug has been enabled. I'd rather not bother with it.