When the likes of Jon Stewart are the finest investigative political journalists that your country has then you know you are in trouble.
There's a big difference between an investigative journalist and a talking head.
There are lots of good journalists in the US... they just don't get TV time. And since Americans can't be bothered to digest any news not provided to them in an ADD-friendly 2 minute TV blurb (or a scrolling text bar at the bottom of their TV screen), the good journalists are ignored by the public. Since they're mostly ignored, those journalists aren't paying the bills at their place of employment, so they get laid off.
Seriously... VERY few investigative journalists are recognized by name in the US, Seymour Hirsch being probably the only prominent counter-example. Since the US culture is largely dominated by celebrity, having no reporters who are celebrities means that no one cares about investigative journalism.
I think it's great the the HuffPo will be employing some of these reporters... I just hope that the editorialization at HuffPo doesn't get in the way of good journalism.
well, then among the many "cool" updates on the way you will appreciate the work that is currently being expended to make low-bandwidth, small screen, iphone, etc, interfaces much less buggy and faster-loading.:)
Not to be cynical/snarky, but is there an expected timeline for this?
I mean, it's not that I don't appreciate the work expended, but I'd appreciate the finished product much more:)
Even a tentative schedule (while probably a bad idea to commit to showing to users) posted somewhere might give us a better idea of where we're heading on slashdot, and why we have to put up with so many strange UI tweaks (like most of us, I prefer to stick with what I know).
Algae --> Copepod --> Amphipod --> Whale blubber/exhaled CO2
Note that the whale blubber is eventually converted into CO2 as well.
Even if the whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor, only a small portion of the 'sequestered' carbon would not make it back into the atmosphere eventually (plenty of deep-sea animals consume whale carcasses, all the while converting the 'sequestered' carbon into CO2.
Maybe a tiny bit would be converted to Ca2CO3 by molluscs, but AFAIK, no shell-forming molluscs feed on deep-sea whale carcasses.
As we know,
There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know
Of all people, I didn't expect YOU to channel Donald Rumsfeld.
He could as well end up with a +5 troll, but I'm uncertain about that.
AFAIK, that's no longer possible.
It's been tried, but the + moderation will change the label from troll to whatever label is used for the + mod... and if (underrated) is used to mod the post up, the troll label disappears.
Last time I saw a high net positive mod (+4 or +5) with a troll label was at least 4-5 years ago.
Ah, I see our viral marketing campaign is working... Jamie, go "accidentally" blow up a gas station or something, we'll issue a press rele^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hletter of apology next week.
There are other reasons why you'd want to recall a message sent to your boss.
Say, you forgot to attach the required document. Or you realized you made a typo in dollar amount. Or you forgot to copy someone important on the message (and because of CYA or whatever, your boss needs to see that you cc:ed the person).
At least once a month I send an email I wish I could recall, because I would have liked to have made a small change... and instead I end up sending a followup email, which is just unwieldy and annoying.
"Swing states" are a media fabrication to enforce the belief in the two-party system.
No, "swing states" are the natural result of a two-party, winner-take-all system.
The media did not create the two-party system, the election mechanism did. It was obvious to many observers that a two-party system was the most likely outcome of the US electoral process, even in the dawn of the country (hence people like John Adams railing against the formation of political parties).
You know, the article read like a press release. Hasn't slashdot whored itself out enough lately on these kinds of things?
YMBNH.
This has been happening since as long as I've been lurking slashdot (2000?), and didn't go away once I set up an account (2002? maybe 2003). And from the YMBNH posts I saw when I began lurking, this has apparently been an issue since the beginning (or shortly thereafter).
At any rate, complaining about it won't do much good. There's a saying maybe it might help you to repeat:
Give me the strength to change the things I can, the humility to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Could this cost the RIAA enough to really act as a deterrent? Also, if at all how is this relevant in future cases?
If you read the motion (especially the conclusion), it will help answer these questions. It's a pretty quick read and isn't very difficult to understand (just a few terms that may cause someone to stumble if they don't have a legal background).
The researchers plan to connect several chips to create a circuit with a billion neurons and 10^13 synapses (about a tenth of the complexity of the human brain).
I know i can easily plan and navigate a route to the bathroom in the dark while drunk off my ass. Nothing special there.
Congratulations. You have provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate you may be smarter than a chimp.
Which has nothing to do with the subject of TFA (regardless of misuse of terms in TFA in order to get attention, which is a separate matter -- and is so common that it really shouldn't be cause for anything more than a quick roll of the eyes).
The human race can do so much, and can have so good live. We don't need a world with poverty, wars and disease. The human race is on the technological point that those things can be abolished all together.
I disagree, because I think human nature impels us to better our personal situation. Sometimes this is achieved most effectively by bettering the situation of our community. Sometimes it's all about personal gain. But I think this facet of human nature transcends religion and culture, so abolishment of religion wouldn't help. If anything, religion done properly[1] provides a framework that can be used to better the world.
That said, I'm an atheist as well... and I want out world to be a better place for as many people as possible. But I believe it is not possible to elevate the human condition across all of humanity without causing suffering among some (even if those people are the ones who are disproportionately rewarded in the current state of affairs).
[1] Still not sure if this is possible... I'm too cynical to believe that a group of people given authority over others can resist the temptation to enrich themselves.
They're using technical measures to take advantage of the global market with none of the potential costs
Implemtation costs of those tecnhical measures ARE the costs of taking advantage of the global market. What other costs of global markets would you have them assume?
They have also effectively destroyed the second-hand market for their games.
Are you still considering their product to be a good? It's not -- it's a service. Reconsider your opinions in that light, and it will come clear to you.
You want a copy, you're going to have to pay exactly what they ask, basically taking market forces out of the equation.
Hruh? What market forces are they taking out of the equation? This is how economic transactions work -- if you deem the value of what they are selling to be equal or higher to the price they offer, you buy.
If Steam sales suck, then game producers will use a different distribution channel. If Steam sales are good, then obviously the value they provide for the price they are charging is not a problem.
People just need to factor in everything when they make a purchase decision. I prefer not to buy games via Steam, first because I don't play enough to warrant their prices... But also because when I do buy games, it's more important to me that they are unencumbered by an activation protocol. The pain of dealing with an activation protocol (and the risk it involves) decreases the value (to me) of games sold via Steam. So if a game was $10 cheaper on Steam, I'd still rather buy it elsewhere... and if the game isn't offered elsewhere, I'll buy a different game.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a big difference between an investigative journalist and a talking head.
There are lots of good journalists in the US... they just don't get TV time. And since Americans can't be bothered to digest any news not provided to them in an ADD-friendly 2 minute TV blurb (or a scrolling text bar at the bottom of their TV screen), the good journalists are ignored by the public. Since they're mostly ignored, those journalists aren't paying the bills at their place of employment, so they get laid off.
Seriously... VERY few investigative journalists are recognized by name in the US, Seymour Hirsch being probably the only prominent counter-example. Since the US culture is largely dominated by celebrity, having no reporters who are celebrities means that no one cares about investigative journalism.
I think it's great the the HuffPo will be employing some of these reporters... I just hope that the editorialization at HuffPo doesn't get in the way of good journalism.
By that criteria, you can't take ANY site seriously.
The trick is to sample a large number of sites across the political spectrum, and try to distill the most truthy explanation of current events.
In other words:
You take the good
You take the bad
You have 'em both
And there ya have...
The facts (of life).
Not to be cynical/snarky, but is there an expected timeline for this?
:)
I mean, it's not that I don't appreciate the work expended, but I'd appreciate the finished product much more
Even a tentative schedule (while probably a bad idea to commit to showing to users) posted somewhere might give us a better idea of where we're heading on slashdot, and why we have to put up with so many strange UI tweaks (like most of us, I prefer to stick with what I know).
Algae --> Copepod --> Amphipod --> Whale blubber/exhaled CO2
Note that the whale blubber is eventually converted into CO2 as well.
Even if the whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor, only a small portion of the 'sequestered' carbon would not make it back into the atmosphere eventually (plenty of deep-sea animals consume whale carcasses, all the while converting the 'sequestered' carbon into CO2.
Maybe a tiny bit would be converted to Ca2CO3 by molluscs, but AFAIK, no shell-forming molluscs feed on deep-sea whale carcasses.
Ooooh! And Time Crysis!
And imagine a beow... oh fuck it.
/ties noose. inserts neck. kicks stool.
//Forgot to tie rope to rafter. Can't do ANYTHING right today.
Maybe even a philosopher poet...
Perhaps you've read this link?
Of all people, I didn't expect YOU to channel Donald Rumsfeld.
Only on slashdot does this refer to server hardware.
(At Hooters, it refers to server software).
AFAIK, that's no longer possible.
It's been tried, but the + moderation will change the label from troll to whatever label is used for the + mod... and if (underrated) is used to mod the post up, the troll label disappears.
Last time I saw a high net positive mod (+4 or +5) with a troll label was at least 4-5 years ago.
On the plus side, it does prevent crapflooding, which is a big problem on some forums.
And from some of the posters here, I think there would be unintentional as well as intentional crapfloods.
I'll gladly put up with 'slow down cowboy' in lieu of crapfloods... it avoids inflation of mod points in order to deal with them.
EOL user? God, I wish end-of-life was the status of AOL users back then... the internet would be a much happoer place by now.
Note the past tense. Is Mr. Wizard even allowed to be shown now? Have the networks been 'encouraged' to drop programming like that?
Now please excuse me while I test whether an explosion can literally knock my tinfoil hat off.
Ah, I see our viral marketing campaign is working... Jamie, go "accidentally" blow up a gas station or something, we'll issue a press rele^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hletter of apology next week.
Fixed that for me.
Unrelated I know, but is anyone else currently experiencing problems with Gmail? I can't seem to send any mail.
Sis? I'm a man, baby.
And even if I was a girl, I'd actually be a 40-year-old man.
FYI the 2 minute delays was the "slow down cowboy" period for posting a successive message.
There are other reasons why you'd want to recall a message sent to your boss.
Say, you forgot to attach the required document. Or you realized you made a typo in dollar amount. Or you forgot to copy someone important on the message (and because of CYA or whatever, your boss needs to see that you cc:ed the person).
At least once a month I send an email I wish I could recall, because I would have liked to have made a small change... and instead I end up sending a followup email, which is just unwieldy and annoying.
Oops, wrong channel.
Dammit. When is slashdot going to implement the five second rule?
a/s/l?
I want you to tweak my nipples with a grapefruit spoon.
No, "swing states" are the natural result of a two-party, winner-take-all system.
The media did not create the two-party system, the election mechanism did. It was obvious to many observers that a two-party system was the most likely outcome of the US electoral process, even in the dawn of the country (hence people like John Adams railing against the formation of political parties).
YMBNH.
This has been happening since as long as I've been lurking slashdot (2000?), and didn't go away once I set up an account (2002? maybe 2003). And from the YMBNH posts I saw when I began lurking, this has apparently been an issue since the beginning (or shortly thereafter).
At any rate, complaining about it won't do much good. There's a saying maybe it might help you to repeat:
If you read the motion (especially the conclusion), it will help answer these questions. It's a pretty quick read and isn't very difficult to understand (just a few terms that may cause someone to stumble if they don't have a legal background).
Oh wait. The researchers already did.
Bastards stole my thunder.
Congratulations. You have provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate you may be smarter than a chimp.
Which has nothing to do with the subject of TFA (regardless of misuse of terms in TFA in order to get attention, which is a separate matter -- and is so common that it really shouldn't be cause for anything more than a quick roll of the eyes).
I disagree, because I think human nature impels us to better our personal situation. Sometimes this is achieved most effectively by bettering the situation of our community. Sometimes it's all about personal gain. But I think this facet of human nature transcends religion and culture, so abolishment of religion wouldn't help. If anything, religion done properly[1] provides a framework that can be used to better the world.
That said, I'm an atheist as well... and I want out world to be a better place for as many people as possible. But I believe it is not possible to elevate the human condition across all of humanity without causing suffering among some (even if those people are the ones who are disproportionately rewarded in the current state of affairs).
[1] Still not sure if this is possible... I'm too cynical to believe that a group of people given authority over others can resist the temptation to enrich themselves.
Implemtation costs of those tecnhical measures ARE the costs of taking advantage of the global market. What other costs of global markets would you have them assume?
Are you still considering their product to be a good? It's not -- it's a service. Reconsider your opinions in that light, and it will come clear to you.
Hruh? What market forces are they taking out of the equation? This is how economic transactions work -- if you deem the value of what they are selling to be equal or higher to the price they offer, you buy.
If Steam sales suck, then game producers will use a different distribution channel. If Steam sales are good, then obviously the value they provide for the price they are charging is not a problem.
People just need to factor in everything when they make a purchase decision. I prefer not to buy games via Steam, first because I don't play enough to warrant their prices... But also because when I do buy games, it's more important to me that they are unencumbered by an activation protocol. The pain of dealing with an activation protocol (and the risk it involves) decreases the value (to me) of games sold via Steam. So if a game was $10 cheaper on Steam, I'd still rather buy it elsewhere... and if the game isn't offered elsewhere, I'll buy a different game.