Refundable micropayments. Seriously. Require people pay $1 to post a comment,
payable via paypal or whatever. Once you have checked their comment, you can
add them to a whitelist that will never be charged again and refund them their
$1. Spammers don't get their dollar back, don't get added to the whitelist, and
have their comment removed. The result over the course of a large number of blog
entries would be to significantly increase the cost of doing business for spammers,
while providing only a very minor inconvenience for legitimate users.
Then people with no payment method don't get to participate. MySpace would
shut down because the teens don't have money, and Slashdot would shut down
because 90% of the posters want everything to be free. I'd be shut out because my bank account will go negative if I post to more than two sites. It also would be the
best hope ever for reviving Passport.
How long will it be until these systems start to look at the ethnicity/gender/age
of people and use that to gauge threat level? We're on a slippery slope here...
It couldn't be any worse than the human beings who have been doing that for
many years.
At my school you'd be kicked out of class if you missed over a certain number of days. So if they really were skipping all the classes, they'd be out. Otherwise, if they've paid tuition, they're learning, and they're passing the classes, then I don't see the problem with this. It's like a video version of posting lecture notes on the teacher's website. In fact, it would probably be really good for a student who had a legitimate reason for missing a day of class.
I think the profiling creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. I mean if you only check Black people for criminal activity then you're only going to catch Black criminals. Then the majority of the recorded criminal activity will be by Black people, which is what is used to justify the racial profile. Bullshit. The terrorism issues takes it a step further because anybody of any race can commit the crime and it will still be attributed to a Muslim person or group. So they don't even have to catch one of them doing something.
I wouldn't call it a "crappy wrapper". It looks really nice. I don't know how well it works because I was running it restricted and blocked by a firewall, but it looked really nice.
So you're saying people who confuse commonly confused words should be banned from the Internet? I think that's as ridiculous as banning people over 70 from using the Internet. So I just assumed you meant it as a joke, but I see it got modded Insightful. Maybe there should be a mock Slashdot test and people should be allowed to get online based on how they mod comments. Anybody who actually takes the time to do the test gets banned from the Internet.
I think it will be very difficult to find anything good out of all the bad stuff that will probably be there. I also think most people buy music because they heard some of the music somewhere and liked it. Nobody's going to hear any of the myspace stuff unless they actually look at the artist's myspace page. I also think most myspace users don't have credit cards. So no, I don't think this will work.
Just replace the startup sound with that sound no old people can hear. The librarian will think everybody except you is crazy, even though you're the one running Vista.
I would agree that sexual harrassment policies favour women in the workplace but I am pretty sure they worked against me. I worked in a place where we have powered desks that raise and lower with the press of a button. One of my male co-workers accidentally dropped some important papers and they fell under my desk. So he asked me to raise my desk so he could get the papers. Unfortunately, my desk was broken. It would go down but it wouldn't go up. And this was a larger size man, unable to crawl under the desk. So I crawled under the desk and got the papers. And I got reprimanded for being sexually inappropriate for kneeling down and crawling under a desk in a tight skirt. I don't think a man would have gotten in trouble for retrieving the papers, tight clothes or not. Later, I and several others were fired for violating dress code and having visible tattoos.
In a previous workplace, a woman was sent home for wearing shorts to work. There was a man there also wearing shorts and nobody sent him home until the woman got very loud about the unequal treatment.
As for how to handle "gender cliques", I never saw it as a problem. The guys in my computer science classes were so happy to have a girl there who actually looked like a girl that they welcomed the three of us whenever we came up. And they didn't have any trouble getting attention from us because we needed all the help we could get to make our programs compile on GCC/GPP after writing them with Visual C++. Socialization in the workplace has been even easier. Maybe this fitting in problem is limited to lifetime Slashdotters.
Because it's more about getting certain people re-elected than actual security. Kind of like how software makers' talks of security are more about getting you to buy the software than making your computer safe. The perceived threat matters much more than the actual threat.
So maybe instead of paying to license codecs, they should be paying content providers to offer the content in "open" formats as well as the ones everybody use.
Slashdot Mirror
If they take out all those movies and put in more gameplay, they'll probably be able to fit the game on a CD, or a much better game on a DVD.
Google's mission is to make money. This Slashdot bubble is bigger than the dot.com bubble.
Then people with no payment method don't get to participate. MySpace would shut down because the teens don't have money, and Slashdot would shut down because 90% of the posters want everything to be free. I'd be shut out because my bank account will go negative if I post to more than two sites. It also would be the best hope ever for reviving Passport.
I'd bet money that they pick Bea Arthur over rosie O'Donnell.
It couldn't be any worse than the human beings who have been doing that for many years.
At my school you'd be kicked out of class if you missed over a certain number of days. So if they really were skipping all the classes, they'd be out. Otherwise, if they've paid tuition, they're learning, and they're passing the classes, then I don't see the problem with this. It's like a video version of posting lecture notes on the teacher's website. In fact, it would probably be really good for a student who had a legitimate reason for missing a day of class.
I think the profiling creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. I mean if you only check Black people for criminal activity then you're only going to catch Black criminals. Then the majority of the recorded criminal activity will be by Black people, which is what is used to justify the racial profile. Bullshit. The terrorism issues takes it a step further because anybody of any race can commit the crime and it will still be attributed to a Muslim person or group. So they don't even have to catch one of them doing something.
.If it's true, I see it as a slippery slope.
I wouldn't call it a "crappy wrapper". It looks really nice. I don't know how well it works because I was running it restricted and blocked by a firewall, but it looked really nice.
So you're saying people who confuse commonly confused words should be banned from the Internet? I think that's as ridiculous as banning people over 70 from using the Internet. So I just assumed you meant it as a joke, but I see it got modded Insightful. Maybe there should be a mock Slashdot test and people should be allowed to get online based on how they mod comments. Anybody who actually takes the time to do the test gets banned from the Internet.
Well, just take the tube with the broken page and put the lid on it. Then open up another tube with a fresh page.
People who don't like to waste time typing all that shit out by hand just to prove they can.
I think he should try it with a matrix bigger than 3x3. Maybe set it to still only have to get three in a row but have a lot more space to do it.
I think it will be very difficult to find anything good out of all the bad stuff that will probably be there. I also think most people buy music because they heard some of the music somewhere and liked it. Nobody's going to hear any of the myspace stuff unless they actually look at the artist's myspace page. I also think most myspace users don't have credit cards. So no, I don't think this will work.
Then it's settled. Apple should drop every version of the iPod except the Shuffle. We'll be fine.
This doesn't bother me as much as calling something beta forever.
Their next step will probably be to make regular DVD's more crappy so you have to buy HD or Blu-Ray to get what you used to get from a DVD.
How do you sue them over this? I know a few people who would like to. How do you prove they're doing it?
Just replace the startup sound with that sound no old people can hear. The librarian will think everybody except you is crazy, even though you're the one running Vista.
I would agree that sexual harrassment policies favour women in the workplace but I am pretty sure they worked against me. I worked in a place where we have powered desks that raise and lower with the press of a button. One of my male co-workers accidentally dropped some important papers and they fell under my desk. So he asked me to raise my desk so he could get the papers. Unfortunately, my desk was broken. It would go down but it wouldn't go up. And this was a larger size man, unable to crawl under the desk. So I crawled under the desk and got the papers. And I got reprimanded for being sexually inappropriate for kneeling down and crawling under a desk in a tight skirt. I don't think a man would have gotten in trouble for retrieving the papers, tight clothes or not. Later, I and several others were fired for violating dress code and having visible tattoos.
In a previous workplace, a woman was sent home for wearing shorts to work. There was a man there also wearing shorts and nobody sent him home until the woman got very loud about the unequal treatment.
As for how to handle "gender cliques", I never saw it as a problem. The guys in my computer science classes were so happy to have a girl there who actually looked like a girl that they welcomed the three of us whenever we came up. And they didn't have any trouble getting attention from us because we needed all the help we could get to make our programs compile on GCC/GPP after writing them with Visual C++. Socialization in the workplace has been even easier. Maybe this fitting in problem is limited to lifetime Slashdotters.
You can kill it faster if you replace your battery with a Sony one.
Because it's more about getting certain people re-elected than actual security. Kind of like how software makers' talks of security are more about getting you to buy the software than making your computer safe. The perceived threat matters much more than the actual threat.
So maybe instead of paying to license codecs, they should be paying content providers to offer the content in "open" formats as well as the ones everybody use.