". If someone robbed a store of $100 worth of merchandise, had an arrest warrant issued at the time, then spent nine years on the run, would it still be unreasonable for them to be arrested today?"
Sort out: Black text, white background, anything else is absurd.
Ditch the boxes round the comments they are seriously ugly and not helpful.
When I ask for the desktop version, I want the desktop version FFS, my phones screen has the same resolution as some laptop screens.
Get rid of the option to choose all insightful, all interesting etc comments - it's pointless because of the crossover between these things and it would lead to some bizarre meaningless threads being displayed. Not useful.
Bring back the user info, friend foe, userid etc, slashdot looks raped without it.
Things worth keeping: The ability to mod without scrolling to the bottom of the page and hitting the mod button (I open the post in a new page to mod it so as not to lose my place/it's quicker)
The ability to collapse threads.
But that's it, the rest is a seriously bad downgrade.
Things that should have been improved, why weren't they? The text box I'm typing in right now is tiny - why?
There is 'allowed html' It would be nice to have some buttons to put those tags around some text when you highlight it.
To any damn fool who's answer is well 'why don't you go and re-write the code yourself', I have the question - why didn't you build your own house and car?
It is Google's job to sort out the malware it hosts and now the problem is known about it really shouldn't be hard for technically proficient people to root out and report bad apps.
Why would anyone want to use the browser made by an advertising giant that puts the NSA to shame with regard to watching everything on the web (google analytics, google+ web-bugs etc).
Todays Anti-virus software is truly pathetic, I don't waste my time with this useless nagware. I haven't had AV installed for over 5 years, that's worth catching and removing 1 virus for... if/when that happens.
Bike lanes? The idiots who wasted public money painting those on the roads should be put in stocks. Cycle correctly - not where some idiot who knows nothing about cycling says you should.
No, avoid the doorzone, don't cycle in it at all, I could well be dead right now if I cycled in the door zone - I had some driver fling his door open whilst a bus was coming the other direction up the road, the door just missed my handlebars.
Watch this and tell me you have any time to react when someone opens the door at the last moment. http://youtu.be/CudJvSbS2aY Skip to 1:05
Why endanger your life? - stay out of the doorzone and show this video to anyone who cycles because I'm sick of people cycling in the door zone and confusing drivers as to the correct place a cyclist should be cycling - I end up getting harassed for staying safe because of them.
The whole helmet debate is a big red herring., the real problemb in most countries is poor driving and poor cycling infrastructure, most cyclists are woefully unaware of good cycling practices re door zone, shoulder checking, when to take the Lane etc.
My understanding is that this is a non-issue, they can make the cardboard with chemicals that cause it to be fully waterproof proof all the way through.
"Assumptions are: drivers don't suddenly start being dickheads around you because you're wearing a helmet," Your assumption is incorrect, study has shown that drivers drive worse around cyclists that wear helmets, so much so that it could well be safer not to wear one. The theory is that the safer you look, the more risk drivers take around you.
I am so sick of everything wanting to upgrade all of the time.
FFS my phone wants to constantly update a ton of crap that I'm not even interested in using, Occasionally I let it upgrade and it asks me to agree to some BS user agreement at which point I say no, fuck Samsung, why the fuck should I agree to some BS to use my phone?
Slashdot Mirror
". If someone robbed a store of $100 worth of merchandise, had an arrest warrant issued at the time, then spent nine years on the run, would it still be unreasonable for them to be arrested today?"
No, too long.
Are you using the beta? Do you actually like it?
If you don't like us talking about the site we like then piss of to somewhere else and quit your whining.
Grow the fuck up and stop spamming the comments. The grown ups want to discuss the news.
This would come from a coward.
Why should people just lie-down and get rimmed, if you don't like something and you do nothing about it then you're a fucking pussy idiot.
Real adults know when to act decisively upon something, perhaps you're not an adult yet.
So shut the fuck up and get off of our site, COWARD.
There won't be a decent place to "get back to discussing real issues?" if slashdot Beta goes ahead.
"reams of whiny butthurt "
"you crybabies"
"You're like those Hollywood cokebrains"
Yeah, fuck you too.
Sort out:
Black text, white background, anything else is absurd.
Ditch the boxes round the comments they are seriously ugly and not helpful.
When I ask for the desktop version, I want the desktop version FFS, my phones screen has the same resolution as some laptop screens.
Get rid of the option to choose all insightful, all interesting etc comments - it's pointless because of the crossover between these things and it would lead to some bizarre meaningless threads being displayed. Not useful.
Bring back the user info, friend foe, userid etc, slashdot looks raped without it.
Things worth keeping:
The ability to mod without scrolling to the bottom of the page and hitting the mod button (I open the post in a new page to mod it so as not to lose my place/it's quicker)
The ability to collapse threads.
But that's it, the rest is a seriously bad downgrade.
Things that should have been improved, why weren't they?
The text box I'm typing in right now is tiny - why?
There is 'allowed html' It would be nice to have some buttons to put those tags around some text when you highlight it.
To any damn fool who's answer is well 'why don't you go and re-write the code yourself', I have the question - why didn't you build your own house and car?
#1
Yep, don't shag monkeys.
#2
Sounds like a rotten idea to me.
Nooooo, We're all way too stupid, we can't have permission control, for instance:
Allow access to text messages [x]
WTF does that mean? I'm a retard, I can't work it out, better not let anyone have this.
Black Onyx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Looks pretty boring to me. Bards Tale - far better:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
+10 Spot on
It is Google's job to sort out the malware it hosts and now the problem is known about it really shouldn't be hard for technically proficient people to root out and report bad apps.
Why would anyone want to use the browser made by an advertising giant that puts the NSA to shame with regard to watching everything on the web (google analytics, google+ web-bugs etc).
Todays Anti-virus software is truly pathetic, I don't waste my time with this useless nagware. I haven't had AV installed for over 5 years, that's worth catching and removing 1 virus for... if/when that happens.
Fuck you too
Bike lanes? The idiots who wasted public money painting those on the roads should be put in stocks. Cycle correctly - not where some idiot who knows nothing about cycling says you should.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pillory-stocks.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_zone
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2012/jul/24/cyclists-threat-parked-cars
Watch the video.
I ride around 8,000 - 9,000 miles a year through London's roads, and I avoid the door-zone and I don't cycle on the 'sidewalk' - that's illegal here.
No, avoid the doorzone, don't cycle in it at all, I could well be dead right now if I cycled in the door zone - I had some driver fling his door open whilst a bus was coming the other direction up the road, the door just missed my handlebars.
Watch this and tell me you have any time to react when someone opens the door at the last moment.
http://youtu.be/CudJvSbS2aY
Skip to 1:05
Why endanger your life? - stay out of the doorzone and show this video to anyone who cycles because I'm sick of people cycling in the door zone and confusing drivers as to the correct place a cyclist should be cycling - I end up getting harassed for staying safe because of them.
Because they weren't going to test the cardboard helmet anyway?
The whole helmet debate is a big red herring., the real problemb in most countries is poor driving and poor cycling infrastructure, most cyclists are woefully unaware of good cycling practices re door zone, shoulder checking, when to take the Lane etc.
My understanding is that this is a non-issue, they can make the cardboard with chemicals that cause it to be fully waterproof proof all the way through.
"Assumptions are: drivers don't suddenly start being dickheads around you because you're wearing a helmet,"
Your assumption is incorrect, study has shown that drivers drive worse around cyclists that wear helmets, so much so that it could well be safer not to wear one. The theory is that the safer you look, the more risk drivers take around you.
Cardboard can be treated to make it water resistant all the way through.
Fuck war, fuck the people that start wars.
At no point did I want or attempt to create or agree to a google+ account.
The bastards gave me one and linked it to my gmail without my permission.
And I still can't post comments to youtube videos.
I am so sick of everything wanting to upgrade all of the time.
FFS my phone wants to constantly update a ton of crap that I'm not even interested in using, Occasionally I let it upgrade and it asks me to agree to some BS user agreement at which point I say no, fuck Samsung, why the fuck should I agree to some BS to use my phone?
Or proportional voting like it's done for EU MPs not some weird complicated crap that doesn't work to represent people.
1. Is hello world easier to code now? When I had an a bit the program was
(type)
print "Hello world" (hit enter)
That didn't seem hard, now - what steps to you have to go through on a modern PC you've just bought. Not as easy is it.
2. Agree with other poster, why are compilers throwing 99.999% of redundant code in to the software? Pathetic.
"and sure you can disable updates but what does that really get you exactly?"
Mod compatibility.
Hitler started WWII, are you saying he was justified?