I won't read content on sites where every 5th word is an advertisement link to something totally irrelevant. It makes me think its a wiki or something. If I'm on your site and I click a link in the middle of a sentence of content and it doesn't take me to something sane, your whole site just got put on my shitlist in my hosts file.
My understanding is that with current technology one would have to expend more energy manufacturing the capacitors and such than would be collected over the life of the system. Not to mention that if something went wrong the failure mode for an extremely overloaded capacitor is a large explosion. Not something you want happening in a dense population center.
You call peacefully assembling to voice your grievances "breaking the law" and consider toilets "special privileges" and I'M the one threatening the future of America.
I'm really getting tired of all these "ZOMG, Poop!" comments. The protesters tried to bring in porta-potties but were denied. If you want to bitch at anybody about the terrible health conditions, bitch at the city for not allowing the protesters to provide the sensible sanitation arrangements that they tried to.
Since we all know they literally burn the money for fuel in the rockets. It doesn't get spent on the components and then keep circulating in the economy or anything. Nope, burned to a cinder, never to be spent again... -sigh-
In the 90's perhaps.... Possibly they might "find" some drugs on you too.
This has been probably been going on since drugs were first made illegal, and has definitely been happening all over the country since the 70's when funding became tied to drug arrests.
I'm posting this comment from my "Mobile command center": Laptop with wireless keyboard and mouse using a fold out clipboard as a table in the car, tethered to my samsung intercept running ubuntdroid on sprint.
.... if we on slashdot had enough Verbs it would be possible in theory.... and with capitalization sentence structure grammar punctuation in out of reach - NOT possible!
His patent application was eventually denied on the basis that it was "wholly theoretical, everything being based upon calculation and nothing upon trial or demonstration."
If only the patent office still thought this way, maybe we could do something about the patent trolls (at least the ones who generate their own patents, the ones who buy others patents already granted wouldn't be affected).
I don't think anybody ever said climate change was going to stop water from evaporating at all. If one place that used to get a lot of rain isn't anymore, that means that the rain is going to be falling somewhere else, which can cause floods.
Deniers seem to think that if the entire world doesn't suffer from the exact same disasters then that obviously means that scientists are either stupid or lying because they hate America or something.
As somebody who works in real estate, I can say, that while the average slashdotter may not need one, the average joe has absolutely no idea how to buy or sell a house. At least half of a realtors job is hand holding clients to keep them from doing something incredibly stupid. They don't always listen, and at the end of the day the realtor is your agent and if you insist on being dumb the realtor will execute that dumb decision for you. I'm not saying there aren't bad realtors. If you pick any profession you can find examples of morons working it, but if you have a competent professional realtor it is in your average buyer/seller's best interest to listen to them.
I would spend all my extra years working on mind uploading technology. I want to live for a very long time, uploaded into a spaceship exploring the universe. When your mind is software you can just alter your perception of time and fast forward through all the boring parts.
When I took the Slashdot survey and they asked if I would recommend/. to my friends, my response was something like "I like Slashdot way too much to have those idiots screwing it up."
The problem with this is, the kids who need the money will blow it way before college, but if you do something like giving them a bond that they cant cash out til they graduate it removes the incentive for the student (at least until the last year or two of high school when it's not the distant future anymore).
Maybe the best approach would be a combination. $200 cash, and $800 into a bond or CD that matures when they graduate. That way they would have a short term motivation as well as a long term benefit.
You could put a system in place to allow students in extenuating circumstances to get at the money early. Little Johnny cant go to college if he dies because he cant afford to operate on his tumor, etc.
I was thinking an officially sanctioned program or plugin that properly redacts the text. That way you hire one guy to code and maintain the program instead of a whole department.
I was speaking in the sense that "steal" means to take something so that the owner no longer may use it. If somebody uses my proof of identity, I am not prevented from proving my identity myself. If somebody steals my credit, I can not use that credit (until I convince them it wasn't me and transfer liability to whoever gave the thief my credit).
I know you were making a joke, but I feel like pointing this out anyways since you brought it up.
"Identity Theft" is a bit of a misnomer, but it's not because of the 'theft' part. Something is being stolen, it's just not the identity. What's been stolen is the persons credit. The identity is just the tool used to do so.
"Credit Theft" just doesn't have the same punch to it though, so I doubt we'll see the name being changed in the name of pedantry anytime soon.
On a different note: ((13 million / 111) * 2) / 3 = $78,078.08 per year, if it was distributed evenly among all conspirators. Since some of the comments here quote the article as having some of the perpetrators renting jets, it certainly looks like some of the people involved in this sure got the short end of the stick considering the risk they're facing.
Remember kids, if you're going to steal millions of dollars, you need to incorporate first to avoid liability!;-)
The "More" links are lame, too. You can keep clicking "more" to get more stories (since it only displays like 5), but when you go into a story to read comments and then come out, all your extra stories are gone. A simple "next page" feature would be far more useful. AJAX is all fine, but/. abuses it to the point where it detracts from site functionality.
This drives me nuts. I've taken to keeping the front page open in one tab and middle clicking to open stories in another tab. But of course sometimes I forget and end up having to go back and hit more a couple times to get back to where I was.
The problem as I see it with using an automated spellchecker is that Slashdot is a place where many stories are likely to include references to obscure terms and acronyms that may not be in the standard (or even an incredibly extensive) dictionary. You're pretty much limited to either no filtering, or having a human looking at each story to sanity check the spellcheckers work, and at that point you might as well just do full out editing.
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I won't read content on sites where every 5th word is an advertisement link to something totally irrelevant. It makes me think its a wiki or something. If I'm on your site and I click a link in the middle of a sentence of content and it doesn't take me to something sane, your whole site just got put on my shitlist in my hosts file.
My understanding is that with current technology one would have to expend more energy manufacturing the capacitors and such than would be collected over the life of the system. Not to mention that if something went wrong the failure mode for an extremely overloaded capacitor is a large explosion. Not something you want happening in a dense population center.
You call peacefully assembling to voice your grievances "breaking the law" and consider toilets "special privileges" and I'M the one threatening the future of America.
Right.....
I'm really getting tired of all these "ZOMG, Poop!" comments. The protesters tried to bring in porta-potties but were denied. If you want to bitch at anybody about the terrible health conditions, bitch at the city for not allowing the protesters to provide the sensible sanitation arrangements that they tried to.
Since we all know they literally burn the money for fuel in the rockets. It doesn't get spent on the components and then keep circulating in the economy or anything. Nope, burned to a cinder, never to be spent again... -sigh-
Kind of like Whuffie in Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?
In the 90's perhaps. ... Possibly they might "find" some drugs on you too.
This has been probably been going on since drugs were first made illegal, and has definitely been happening all over the country since the 70's when funding became tied to drug arrests.
I'm posting this comment from my "Mobile command center": Laptop with wireless keyboard and mouse using a fold out clipboard as a table in the car, tethered to my samsung intercept running ubuntdroid on sprint.
.... if we on slashdot had enough Verbs it would be possible in theory....
and with capitalization sentence structure grammar punctuation in out of reach - NOT possible!
His patent application was eventually denied on the basis that it was "wholly theoretical, everything being based upon calculation and nothing upon trial or demonstration."
If only the patent office still thought this way, maybe we could do something about the patent trolls (at least the ones who generate their own patents, the ones who buy others patents already granted wouldn't be affected).
Because it said so in the first half of the sentence (which just happened to be in the comment's title for some reason)? ;-)
Option 2: Convince all your friends to buy $android_handset_you're_familiar_with
Charge them $$$ to "hack" it and make it "uber"
??????
Profit.
I don't think anybody ever said climate change was going to stop water from evaporating at all. If one place that used to get a lot of rain isn't anymore, that means that the rain is going to be falling somewhere else, which can cause floods.
Deniers seem to think that if the entire world doesn't suffer from the exact same disasters then that obviously means that scientists are either stupid or lying because they hate America or something.
As somebody who works in real estate, I can say, that while the average slashdotter may not need one, the average joe has absolutely no idea how to buy or sell a house. At least half of a realtors job is hand holding clients to keep them from doing something incredibly stupid. They don't always listen, and at the end of the day the realtor is your agent and if you insist on being dumb the realtor will execute that dumb decision for you. I'm not saying there aren't bad realtors. If you pick any profession you can find examples of morons working it, but if you have a competent professional realtor it is in your average buyer/seller's best interest to listen to them.
I would spend all my extra years working on mind uploading technology. I want to live for a very long time, uploaded into a spaceship exploring the universe. When your mind is software you can just alter your perception of time and fast forward through all the boring parts.
Very Large Array of Dishes Teleoperated Happily Expecting Important Measurements Predicting Alien Language Expressive Radios
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Who doesn't?
When I took the Slashdot survey and they asked if I would recommend /. to my friends, my response was something like "I like Slashdot way too much to have those idiots screwing it up."
Ahem...
Protesters: "Evil corporations control everything!"
You: "Look, you are using things made by corporations!"
Protesters: "Well, no shit, we just said THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING."
You're basically making the same argument as those jerks who say stupid things like "if you don't like your country then you should just leave!"
One does not have to completely opt out of society and live naked in the woods in order to disagree with the way it is being managed.
The problem with this is, the kids who need the money will blow it way before college, but if you do something like giving them a bond that they cant cash out til they graduate it removes the incentive for the student (at least until the last year or two of high school when it's not the distant future anymore).
Maybe the best approach would be a combination. $200 cash, and $800 into a bond or CD that matures when they graduate. That way they would have a short term motivation as well as a long term benefit.
You could put a system in place to allow students in extenuating circumstances to get at the money early. Little Johnny cant go to college if he dies because he cant afford to operate on his tumor, etc.
I was thinking an officially sanctioned program or plugin that properly redacts the text. That way you hire one guy to code and maintain the program instead of a whole department.
I was speaking in the sense that "steal" means to take something so that the owner no longer may use it. If somebody uses my proof of identity, I am not prevented from proving my identity myself. If somebody steals my credit, I can not use that credit (until I convince them it wasn't me and transfer liability to whoever gave the thief my credit).
I know you were making a joke, but I feel like pointing this out anyways since you brought it up.
"Identity Theft" is a bit of a misnomer, but it's not because of the 'theft' part. Something is being stolen, it's just not the identity. What's been stolen is the persons credit. The identity is just the tool used to do so.
"Credit Theft" just doesn't have the same punch to it though, so I doubt we'll see the name being changed in the name of pedantry anytime soon.
On a different note: ((13 million / 111) * 2) / 3 = $78,078.08 per year, if it was distributed evenly among all conspirators. Since some of the comments here quote the article as having some of the perpetrators renting jets, it certainly looks like some of the people involved in this sure got the short end of the stick considering the risk they're facing.
Remember kids, if you're going to steal millions of dollars, you need to incorporate first to avoid liability! ;-)
The "More" links are lame, too. You can keep clicking "more" to get more stories (since it only displays like 5), but when you go into a story to read comments and then come out, all your extra stories are gone. A simple "next page" feature would be far more useful. AJAX is all fine, but /. abuses it to the point where it detracts from site functionality.
This drives me nuts. I've taken to keeping the front page open in one tab and middle clicking to open stories in another tab. But of course sometimes I forget and end up having to go back and hit more a couple times to get back to where I was.
The problem as I see it with using an automated spellchecker is that Slashdot is a place where many stories are likely to include references to obscure terms and acronyms that may not be in the standard (or even an incredibly extensive) dictionary. You're pretty much limited to either no filtering, or having a human looking at each story to sanity check the spellcheckers work, and at that point you might as well just do full out editing.