The first time I tried the beta site, it was horribly broken in chrome (massive whitespace with random links and text everywhere), but looked much better in Firefox. Now, it looks horrible in Chrome and Firefox, yet looks marginally better when using Internet Exploder 8.0 (the corporate standard here).
I think this is very much a work in progress and mostly broken. I am assuming that the slashdot developers are hard at work on it.//It is also possible that the corporate firewall screwed something up, but judging from all the various comment in *all* the articles, it seems to be broken everywhere:(
What do you mean by "make sunbelt areas extremely expensive to live in"? They already are extremely expensive to live in, especially compared to Michigan.
I have lived in Detroit and paying an extra tax so that I have no police, no fire department, no streetlights, no security, no infrastructure and unplowed streets is just not appealing. Especially when you can live 8 or more miles north to live in a better area without the drawbacks or the extra tax.
<sarcasm>"Stones" are what the author of the complaint about units of measure used on this 'murican site has. Can also be referenced as "Big Brass Ones" </sarcasm>
Except that the article did not originate on slashdot. You should bring up your concern with networkworld, the other technical site that did originate the article. Which is where the quote of 96000 lbs came from.
So, the NSA can read my gmail. It will probably put them to sleep. I am not concerned about putting NSA agents to sleep.
Perhaps they might find out I buy stuff from newegg form time to time? or about my average bills? Sure, I could spend a lot of time (that I don't have) and effort to setup my own computer running my own SMTP server, and have to setup my own SPAM filter and maintain that, using copious amounts of time that I don't have.
Perhaps I could even use PGP to encrypt both of the personal e-mails that I have time for per year, but what would I really be accomplishing? To claim that I am being "private" and "secure".
Also, even the NSA does not have the resources to read each and every one of the 294 billion e-mails sent every day. The best they can do is to quickly scan a small percentage of them. most likely for a fairly narrow target criteria.
No thanks, I'll continue using my gmail account that filters the spam for me. Especially since 90% of the e-mail that make it past the spam filter is utility bills and the like. I am not interested in hiding the fact that I heat my house with gas from the NSA...
Public Utilities are also run by commercial companies in most of the United States. Verizon, AT&T and Comcast are good examples of that. Most of these American companies must also apply to a governmental board for rate increases. However, these governmental boards usually consist of current, future or ex-employees of said monopoly, who are usually motivated to approve and rate increases.
Also, since they are allowed to make a percentage of their fixed asset investment, they will often inflate those investments as much as possible in order to increase their costs, which increases their profits (as a dollar amount). I once knew someone who worked for the local telephone company who told me that he was instructed to throw or give away all his tools every couple of years because the company would purchase new ones (usually the same tools form the same supplier). This usually happens before a rate increase to help justify the increased cost.
Snowden should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because absolutely nobody would of even suspected the NSA of spying on the internet and requesting communications corporations to hand over their logs. Nor would anyone ever suspect said corporations from handing their logs over to a powerful government agency.
That is, until Snowden came along...
The Chinese view that as a negative, not a positive since they are an opposing force to us, They would really rather that we did not undermine their (China's) ability to maintain control of factories and production.
You need to improve your reading comprehension. You must of missed the "targeted at the consumer market" part.
Most "consumers" (such as my technically illiterate sister) have no clue about command lines, so that is a valid point. However technical savvy people, such as those found on/. (including myself) will prefer that the command line be retained.
According to Eric Raymond, there is no such thing as an ethical software job.
All software should be free, which would preclude anyone involved in the production of software of any kind from having an income!
Bullshit. I've worked with many PhD's, over the course of a 27 year career, who are more interested in "normalizing" databases down to where there is only 1 column of actual data per table and practicing other esoteric methodologies then in producing maintainable systems that actually work.
I've then been in the position of having to fixed their overly complex systems when they invariably break.
Id' put way more faith in an intelligent person with a true aptitude for computers and no degree up against a moron that managed to get a 4 year degree any day. In the end, it's the person's intelligence and abilities that count more and not what degree they have!
Slashdot Mirror
The first time I tried the beta site, it was horribly broken in chrome (massive whitespace with random links and text everywhere), but looked much better in Firefox. Now, it looks horrible in Chrome and Firefox, yet looks marginally better when using Internet Exploder 8.0 (the corporate standard here).
I think this is very much a work in progress and mostly broken. I am assuming that the slashdot developers are hard at work on it. //It is also possible that the corporate firewall screwed something up, but judging from all the various comment in *all* the articles, it seems to be broken everywhere :(
What do you mean by "make sunbelt areas extremely expensive to live in"?
They already are extremely expensive to live in, especially compared to Michigan.
I have lived in Detroit and paying an extra tax so that I have no police, no fire department, no streetlights, no security, no infrastructure and unplowed streets is just not appealing. Especially when you can live 8 or more miles north to live in a better area without the drawbacks or the extra tax.
You must of missed the "and it's currently available on the web as well as iPhones and iPads." part....
<sarcasm>"Stones" are what the author of the complaint about units of measure used on this 'murican site has. Can also be referenced as "Big Brass Ones" </sarcasm>
Except that the article did not originate on slashdot. You should bring up your concern with networkworld, the other technical site that did originate the article. Which is where the quote of 96000 lbs came from.
You know, the USA inherited those units of measure from the UK....
It is very common for large organizations, such as corporations and government, to insist that ALL content be hosted locally as part of their policy.
Why would you want a javascript library that is not going to change ever to not be cached?
So, the NSA can read my gmail. It will probably put them to sleep. I am not concerned about putting NSA agents to sleep. Perhaps they might find out I buy stuff from newegg form time to time? or about my average bills? Sure, I could spend a lot of time (that I don't have) and effort to setup my own computer running my own SMTP server, and have to setup my own SPAM filter and maintain that, using copious amounts of time that I don't have. Perhaps I could even use PGP to encrypt both of the personal e-mails that I have time for per year, but what would I really be accomplishing? To claim that I am being "private" and "secure". Also, even the NSA does not have the resources to read each and every one of the 294 billion e-mails sent every day. The best they can do is to quickly scan a small percentage of them. most likely for a fairly narrow target criteria. No thanks, I'll continue using my gmail account that filters the spam for me. Especially since 90% of the e-mail that make it past the spam filter is utility bills and the like. I am not interested in hiding the fact that I heat my house with gas from the NSA...
No, Real men don't use emacs, They use VIM!
Public Utilities are also run by commercial companies in most of the United States. Verizon, AT&T and Comcast are good examples of that. Most of these American companies must also apply to a governmental board for rate increases. However, these governmental boards usually consist of current, future or ex-employees of said monopoly, who are usually motivated to approve and rate increases. Also, since they are allowed to make a percentage of their fixed asset investment, they will often inflate those investments as much as possible in order to increase their costs, which increases their profits (as a dollar amount). I once knew someone who worked for the local telephone company who told me that he was instructed to throw or give away all his tools every couple of years because the company would purchase new ones (usually the same tools form the same supplier). This usually happens before a rate increase to help justify the increased cost.
Since HBO also complained that their own website violates their copyright, Google should honor that and remove all HBO content from search results!
Snowden should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because absolutely nobody would of even suspected the NSA of spying on the internet and requesting communications corporations to hand over their logs. Nor would anyone ever suspect said corporations from handing their logs over to a powerful government agency. That is, until Snowden came along...
OK, if you live in the U.S., why don't you ride the bus or train to work?
I live in Detroit, the Motor City...
The Chinese view that as a negative, not a positive since they are an opposing force to us, They would really rather that we did not undermine their (China's) ability to maintain control of factories and production.
You need to improve your reading comprehension. You must of missed the "targeted at the consumer market" part. Most "consumers" (such as my technically illiterate sister) have no clue about command lines, so that is a valid point. However technical savvy people, such as those found on /. (including myself) will prefer that the command line be retained.
According to Eric Raymond, there is no such thing as an ethical software job. All software should be free, which would preclude anyone involved in the production of software of any kind from having an income!
Well obviously it had to care for the baby drone it birthed...
How are they going to hold it? And are they going to hold it correctly and not by the sides?
Clams are NOT crustaceans, they are mollusks
Bullshit. I've worked with many PhD's, over the course of a 27 year career, who are more interested in "normalizing" databases down to where there is only 1 column of actual data per table and practicing other esoteric methodologies then in producing maintainable systems that actually work. I've then been in the position of having to fixed their overly complex systems when they invariably break. Id' put way more faith in an intelligent person with a true aptitude for computers and no degree up against a moron that managed to get a 4 year degree any day. In the end, it's the person's intelligence and abilities that count more and not what degree they have!
we see a lot less terrorism and unrest out of the former Soviet states than this one that "won" against them.
Such as Chechnya?
But I forgot what it was....
Especially when the security breach is due to someone reading someone else's password taped to their monitor.