So google has developed artificial intelligence that is forced to read YouTube comments all day? I wonder how many lines of code it took to keep it from commiting suicide.
I have my doubts about just how effective astroturfing on slashdot is. When I see someone consistantly attacking the same organization for reasons that are often tangentially related to the story I have to assume they have some kind of agenda. Why would I value that person's opinions?
You can always just use freeze distillation if you want to distill spirits in your kitchen. It isn't as efficient as a traditional still and it doesn't remove the fusels but freezing some of the water out of hard cider is pretty simple.
The internet community gasped collectively today when the congress of the United States of America announced a new bill: Direct Eradication of Rum-drinking Pirates. The senator who spear-headed this initiative had this to say:
It has come to our attention that some of our constituents like to use the so-called internets. That being said, we still need to protect our donors from the ravages of piracy. The Direct Eradication of Rum-drinking Pirates bill that we have proposed will make the distribution of rum in the United States illegal. When the pirates currently sailing on our internets run out of rum they will be forced to dock at an HTTP port outside of the US to resupply. At the moment we will pounce and turn off the valve that connects our internet tubes to the rest of the world, locking the pirates out of our internets. We know internets are important so we crafted this bill to protect them. When the people say they need the internet, congress says DERP.
We get a lot of fluff pieces on the front page of slashdot via Infoworld and I've always wondered what mechanism they are using to get such high returns. Do they have their employees vote up stories in the firehose, or are their articles genuinely interesting enough that they earn their place on the front page? If they are "gaming the system" somehow is that something that slashdot's staff should be policing?
I'm not trying to cry foul or call anyone out. I'm just curious about what drives some of the patterns that emerge on slashdot. If someone from either Infoworld or slashdot could weigh in that would be great.
If Jesus bought a plate of fish and chips from your restaurant and then stood out front handing copies of it away to passersby for free then you might have a point.
A description of Arch in the format you used to describe the other distributions might be:
Arch is a rolling release distribution that tries to keep its packages as close to vanilla as possible.
While I wouldn't recommend Arch in a production environment (the bleeding edge can be slippery) it works great for my personal server/media center and my netbook. Rolling release means you get to try out those great new features the day after you hear about them instead of six months later.
While I agree with you I feel I should point out that interpreting every +5 post on Slashdot as consensus in the community would be a mistake. There have been a growing number of clearly slanted first posts by a handful of users that are mysteriously modded up almost instantly. Slashdot's system of moderating is quite good but it is not tamper-proof.
I think that it is more likely that 2012 will be the year the tablet format falls back into its niche. The iPad revitalized the form factor by putting a shiny apple logo on it but I suspect people are already realizing that it's more an inconveniently over-sized phone or handicapped netbook than a revolution.
And then they will be entirely replaced by solid state drives and go out of business. The only thing keeping traditional hard drives relevant is price. Solid state drives are getting cheaper every year. Once those two lines cross there won't be a good reason to buy a traditional hard drive anymore.
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They chose continuing to live over making a pointless gesture? Pathetic.
So google has developed artificial intelligence that is forced to read YouTube comments all day? I wonder how many lines of code it took to keep it from commiting suicide.
I have my doubts about just how effective astroturfing on slashdot is. When I see someone consistantly attacking the same organization for reasons that are often tangentially related to the story I have to assume they have some kind of agenda. Why would I value that person's opinions?
Not even the government could save money by buying something at Radio Shack.
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You can always just use freeze distillation if you want to distill spirits in your kitchen. It isn't as efficient as a traditional still and it doesn't remove the fusels but freezing some of the water out of hard cider is pretty simple.
Didn't you read SOPA? That is the same as Larry Page sneaking into your house at night and injecting your children with steroids.
It has come to our attention that some of our constituents like to use the so-called internets. That being said, we still need to protect our donors from the ravages of piracy. The Direct Eradication of Rum-drinking Pirates bill that we have proposed will make the distribution of rum in the United States illegal. When the pirates currently sailing on our internets run out of rum they will be forced to dock at an HTTP port outside of the US to resupply. At the moment we will pounce and turn off the valve that connects our internet tubes to the rest of the world, locking the pirates out of our internets. We know internets are important so we crafted this bill to protect them. When the people say they need the internet, congress says DERP.
We get a lot of fluff pieces on the front page of slashdot via Infoworld and I've always wondered what mechanism they are using to get such high returns. Do they have their employees vote up stories in the firehose, or are their articles genuinely interesting enough that they earn their place on the front page? If they are "gaming the system" somehow is that something that slashdot's staff should be policing?
I'm not trying to cry foul or call anyone out. I'm just curious about what drives some of the patterns that emerge on slashdot. If someone from either Infoworld or slashdot could weigh in that would be great.
Good ol' base 36 color values, where #GREEN0 is blue and #BLUE00 is green. At least they got #RED000 right.
So a restaurant owner does not get bailed out
If Jesus bought a plate of fish and chips from your restaurant and then stood out front handing copies of it away to passersby for free then you might have a point.
If they don't affix patches to the amputation areas the horns and tail keep growing back.
A description of Arch in the format you used to describe the other distributions might be:
Arch is a rolling release distribution that tries to keep its packages as close to vanilla as possible.
While I wouldn't recommend Arch in a production environment (the bleeding edge can be slippery) it works great for my personal server/media center and my netbook. Rolling release means you get to try out those great new features the day after you hear about them instead of six months later.
While I agree with you I feel I should point out that interpreting every +5 post on Slashdot as consensus in the community would be a mistake. There have been a growing number of clearly slanted first posts by a handful of users that are mysteriously modded up almost instantly. Slashdot's system of moderating is quite good but it is not tamper-proof.
Slashdot would be much more pleasant if all the headlines that end in question marks were removed.
Why isn't fee a numeric type? Why isn't type enumerated? Maybe Verizon needed the extra money to refactor their database.
one of the most civilized sites I've come across
so fuck you
fuck everyone
Making slashdot more civilized one fuck you at a time.
It sounds more like a different way of saying API to me. Who coined this term? What makes these allegedly "open" APIs different from every other API?
Tres Equis. Brewed specifically for the discerning pervert.
Tell that to the dinosaurs.
I think that it is more likely that 2012 will be the year the tablet format falls back into its niche. The iPad revitalized the form factor by putting a shiny apple logo on it but I suspect people are already realizing that it's more an inconveniently over-sized phone or handicapped netbook than a revolution.
And then they will be entirely replaced by solid state drives and go out of business. The only thing keeping traditional hard drives relevant is price. Solid state drives are getting cheaper every year. Once those two lines cross there won't be a good reason to buy a traditional hard drive anymore.
NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs
If they can manage to invent their own chimps I say more power to them.
Don't forget to add random and tags. You should also append a guestbook to the bottom of every page.
An iDroid 7 ought to do the trick.