I've looked through several other articles, and I'm not seeing any actual mention of that. However, I would wager that the EU/Asia is getting their first glimpses of it right about now. Look for a pinpoint of light in the sky that doesn't flash or twinkle, and you'll have either Jupiter or that asteroid, most likely.
Anyone with a 4-6" telescope should be able to see this if they're in a good viewing location. Tracking it might be a bit more difficult without computer assistance, but it shouldn't be prohibitive. Even at the speeds it's traveling, the distance alone makes the movement seem a bit slow.
It's like people don't know what the fuck geography and physics do to signal propagation.
OTA isn't an option and I'm right outside of Los Angeles. There are these things called MOUNTAINS that like to block signal. I can receive only two TV station channels, both Korean.
I'm surrounded by mountains, and inputting my address into tvfool.com's signal strength tester shows that I can only receive two Korean stations.
And that's exactly all I can receive. If I wanted NBC, I'd have to move to the top of the nearby mountain to even get the header signal, and move another 10 miles further if I wanted any actual usable video and audio.
"But it does take engineering resources to maintain."
As if your new EXTREMELY WASTEFUL (check it yourself, bandwidth usage is up) beta will do any better in resource usage.
"eventually, something about the old site will break, and we'll have to dedicate engineering time to fixing it. "
You're already doing that to the beta. This is how I know you're not engineers - you fail to follow the motto - 'Make it work, then make it work better.' Forcing beta is BROKEN and doesn't work, quit trying it.
"Whenever we roll out a new features on the new version, we'll have to think (read:test) to make sure it doesn't screw anything up on the old site."
Quit trying to be new. Seriously. It's like playing catch-up with the Johnsons. Not only is it fucking annoying, but it's a waste of time, resources, engineering (ha) skills, and money.
DID YOU HEAR THAT, DICE? YOU ARE WASTING MONEY. SHIT IS LEAPING OUT OF YOUR POCKETS.
"Our engineering team is small."
I'm the ONLY engineer on my team, and I handle over six hundred food production sites (including programming, monitoring, maintenance, crop checking, website development and maintenance, etc.) ACROSS THE GLOBE. I do that on a budget so infinitesimally small as to make you guys look fucking rich in comparison. What's your excuse, now?
"We're going to leave the classic site up for some period of time, but it's a non-zero drain on limited resources."
Hey, here's an idea from a REAL ENGINEER - quit wasting limited resources on a failing design, dump it, and divert those resources into improving what works.
"And as time goes by, that drain only gets bigger, as the codebases diverge."
Yea, so quit diverging codebases, stick with what works. You call yourselves engineers, start acting like them.
"Regardless, I'll bring it up again with the engineering team and see if we can at least extend classic site some more."
How about you fire your engineering team and just hire me on?
Looks like I can do all of their jobs, plus mine, plus work at a warehouse running one of the most expensive and difficult forklifts on the planet, plus ensure that hundreds of stores remain stocked with inventory, without a problem. Sounds like your engineers don't know how to do jack with limited resources. One person is essentially running three companies at once. How many are you using to run ONE?
Whomever modded this flamebait must not realize that the law prohibiting the US from making propaganda has lapsed, and not been renewed. Thus the gov't is running full-scale propaganda right now.
" Since it is well known in study after study that disk drives last about 5 years and no other drive is that old,"
Shit son, I still have 20MB HDDs half the size of a full ATX tower and they work flawlessly. You fuckers can't seem to pick reliable hardware, can you?
Slashdot Mirror
We've caught DICE deleting posts and submissions in the firehose that are red and have 90+ comments with regards to the new site.
Yes, DICE or /. editors are actively wiping posts mentioning Soylent News.
And one thing they get on right away is alcohol.
Get ready for heavy fines, it's within the gov't right to do this.
Like calling us commenters/submitters an audience when we provide the content, you assholes?
We're just as strange as soylentnews.org as far as quirky stories goes!
Bet the mods figured out what happens if they filter me by word/sig. Almost 1/300th of the site goes away.
Bring it boys.
I've looked through several other articles, and I'm not seeing any actual mention of that. However, I would wager that the EU/Asia is getting their first glimpses of it right about now. Look for a pinpoint of light in the sky that doesn't flash or twinkle, and you'll have either Jupiter or that asteroid, most likely.
Anyone with a 4-6" telescope should be able to see this if they're in a good viewing location. Tracking it might be a bit more difficult without computer assistance, but it shouldn't be prohibitive. Even at the speeds it's traveling, the distance alone makes the movement seem a bit slow.
Correct. You should try soylentnews.org for your news instead!
Indonesia's phone system is fairly meh in the first place. This isn't something terribly difficult to achieve.
The stations are within the mountains, moron.
Try using something like TVFool.com, which will let you know which channels you should be able t receive.
My area only has two listed. And that is exactly what I'm receiving OTA with a digital antenna facing towards those transmitters.
"China is a common destination."
The sheer irony of that...
I've found four rather critical vulnerabilities in your new beta site.
I'm trying to decide whether to use them myself, or sell them and watch someone else wipe out the entirety of Slashdot.
You'd think a site for geeks would know better than to use insecure javascript.
It's like people don't know what the fuck geography and physics do to signal propagation.
OTA isn't an option and I'm right outside of Los Angeles. There are these things called MOUNTAINS that like to block signal. I can receive only two TV station channels, both Korean.
Umm, because geography and physics, you fucking idiot.
Signals don't propagate through mountains very well.
"Plug in your antenna and watch it for free."
I'm surrounded by mountains, and inputting my address into tvfool.com's signal strength tester shows that I can only receive two Korean stations.
And that's exactly all I can receive. If I wanted NBC, I'd have to move to the top of the nearby mountain to even get the header signal, and move another 10 miles further if I wanted any actual usable video and audio.
"Do these "cord cutter" people not have antennas?"
I have an antenna. I can only receive TWO KOREAN STATIONS. I'm surrounded by mountains.
Typical idiot autist geek, incapable of thinking of the most simple and logical issues.
"Beta rules, I'd never go back to classic"
Try the same site when you're stuck on 1024x768. It's fucking unusable.
Even more so on mobile phones.
Paid shill much?
http://slashdot.org/firehose.p...
Time to support this guy and take the ad money away from DICE, gentlemen.
"But it does take engineering resources to maintain."
As if your new EXTREMELY WASTEFUL (check it yourself, bandwidth usage is up) beta will do any better in resource usage.
"eventually, something about the old site will break, and we'll have to dedicate engineering time to fixing it. "
You're already doing that to the beta. This is how I know you're not engineers - you fail to follow the motto - 'Make it work, then make it work better.' Forcing beta is BROKEN and doesn't work, quit trying it.
"Whenever we roll out a new features on the new version, we'll have to think (read:test) to make sure it doesn't screw anything up on the old site."
Quit trying to be new. Seriously. It's like playing catch-up with the Johnsons. Not only is it fucking annoying, but it's a waste of time, resources, engineering (ha) skills, and money.
DID YOU HEAR THAT, DICE? YOU ARE WASTING MONEY. SHIT IS LEAPING OUT OF YOUR POCKETS.
"Our engineering team is small."
I'm the ONLY engineer on my team, and I handle over six hundred food production sites (including programming, monitoring, maintenance, crop checking, website development and maintenance, etc.) ACROSS THE GLOBE. I do that on a budget so infinitesimally small as to make you guys look fucking rich in comparison. What's your excuse, now?
"We're going to leave the classic site up for some period of time, but it's a non-zero drain on limited resources."
Hey, here's an idea from a REAL ENGINEER - quit wasting limited resources on a failing design, dump it, and divert those resources into improving what works.
"And as time goes by, that drain only gets bigger, as the codebases diverge."
Yea, so quit diverging codebases, stick with what works. You call yourselves engineers, start acting like them.
"Regardless, I'll bring it up again with the engineering team and see if we can at least extend classic site some more."
How about you fire your engineering team and just hire me on?
Looks like I can do all of their jobs, plus mine, plus work at a warehouse running one of the most expensive and difficult forklifts on the planet, plus ensure that hundreds of stores remain stocked with inventory, without a problem. Sounds like your engineers don't know how to do jack with limited resources. One person is essentially running three companies at once. How many are you using to run ONE?
That way we don't have you sick people harassing our women, going 'Opyn tyts plz' and 'Show vagyna bby'
Fucking annoying Turks. Most servers have a blocklist that bans most Turkish IPs, but a few good ones don't, and they're ripe for picking.
Add yet another vulnerability to our military.
Wait until some enterprising hacker from the other side figures out how to trigger the self-destruct.
And then our shit becomes useless, from operator-recognizing rifles to vehicles.
Motherfucking morons.
Whomever modded this flamebait must not realize that the law prohibiting the US from making propaganda has lapsed, and not been renewed. Thus the gov't is running full-scale propaganda right now.
Fucking morons.
" but you must admit they have good quality."
When a driver update kills the fan and thus kills the GPU by failing to cool it (320.18) you call that good quality?
Really?
"Until we prove it doesn't work, we have a moral obligation to try it."
50+ years isn't enough fucking proof for you? What are you, 12?
" Since it is well known in study after study that disk drives last about 5 years and no other drive is that old,"
Shit son, I still have 20MB HDDs half the size of a full ATX tower and they work flawlessly. You fuckers can't seem to pick reliable hardware, can you?
I have it, you obviously don't. Deal with it n00b.