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  1. Re:The more simple you make it the less complex it on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 2

    The reason programming languages are still as they are is for a simple reason, because you can't produce something complex with something simple

    You're right! Think of how much more profound Shakespeare would have been if we had 28 or 30 letters in tha alphabet, or think of the symphonies that Mozart could have written if he had twelve notes to compose with, instead of eight. Why, even the Cray Supercomputer would have been astounding in its day if AND, OR and NOT weren't the only gates we had to build with. Maybe if they weren't coding in LOGO, then beta would be worth switching to.

  2. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 2

    Millions of US tax dollars are being spent on security in Sochi?

    I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

  3. Re:Something we can agree on. on Simple Emergency Generators and Radio Receivers (Video) · · Score: 2

    Technically most of you are stuck in 1978, just completely fucking clueless. You post the same repetitive, boring as _fuck_ "memes" (what a stupid fucking word). Your personal hygiene is atrocious and women don't like you because you're ugly as shit and your personality is terrible.

    In other words, Slashdot is all we have, and they're trying to take even that away from us! Is it any wonder we're revolting?

  4. Re:Its own weight? on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 1

    Obviously it's not the mass that composes the negative energy. It is whatever makes the particle the "anti-" of the other: spin, charge, what have you.

  5. Re:Rather bizarre... on Quarks Know Their Left From Their Right · · Score: 1

    I really like the new Slashdot. It's 2014 after all - the site has to keep up with modern technology. Classic Slashdot was starting to look rather long in the tooth.

    I really like the new Slashdot. It's 2014 after all - the site has to keep up with modern hucksterism . Classic Slashdot was starting to look rather trustworthy.

    FTFY

  6. Re:Why use missiles? on Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Who needs expensive hypersonic missiles when you got religion and fanatics.

    The side without the religious fanatics.

  7. Re:Lynching's too good for him on Weird Asteroid Itokawa Has a Dual Personality · · Score: 1

    I don't think fire ants have any testicles on which to put honey.

  8. Re:Kind of like slashdot on Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command · · Score: 1

    I agree those are deficiencies, but surely they will add in this functionality as the beta develops.

    They never should have escaped alpha testing.

  9. Re:Kind of like slashdot on Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command · · Score: 1

    So what's with the the beta not being able to quote parent comment, not automatically providing a comment subject, not being able reply anonymously, not being able to see your own comment scores, not being able to see replies to your comments, or read the threads on polls? Those are some serious deficiencies.

  10. Re:Its own weight? on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 2

    Because the mass of that particle, and the particle that escaped, came from the black hole.

    No. The particle and antiparticle came from a vacuum fluctuation occurring at the event horizon.

  11. Re:Its own weight? on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 1

    But how can the black hole's mass go down when particles are being added to it?

  12. Re:Car analogy time on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 1

    Bronco's never run well

    Well, not compared to Seahawks, apparently. Kind of like how Classic runs rings around Beta.

  13. Re:Its own weight? on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't get black hole evaporation. Suppose a proton/anti-proton pair gets created at the event horizon and the proton falls in. Hasn't the mass of the black hole increased by one proton? If the anti-proton falls in, it will meet another proton and annihilate it (assuming conditions within the black hole still allow this), but with no way for the energy to escape, isn't it the same as increasing by the mass of the anti-proton (which is the same as a proton)?

    I propose we try the experiment with whomever is supporting this switch to Beta.

  14. Re:Forget the music. Use the Slashdot Beta! on Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations · · Score: 2

    Also, you can't see any comments in the polls.

  15. Re:Forget the music. Use the Slashdot Beta! on Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm still using "classic" slashdot and haven't tried the beta version. Has anyone got an opinion about the beta version?

    You can't see how your own comments are moderated without drilling down to them.
    You can't see if your message has been replied to without drilling down to it.
    You can't quote the message you're replying to.
    The comment subject is not autofilled.

  16. Re:This is missing critical information on Fracking Is Draining Water From Areas In US Suffering Major Shortages · · Score: 2

    We don't flush our toilets in Texas. We gather the contents into big bags, then elect them to congress.

    And the ones that don't get elected write beta interfaces for Slashdot?

  17. Re:It'll be alright. on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From what I've seen of Beta, there are no comment moderation scores, and no way of viewing responses to your comments other than drilling down to them.

    Also, no way to quote parent comments, and you have to put your own comment subject in.

  18. Quantifiable detriment on Now Published: Study Showing Pirate Bay Blockade Has No Effect · · Score: 1

    In that case, there is no 'quantifiable detriment to the owner'.

    Um... Zero is a quantity.

  19. Re:It'll be alright. on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From what I've seen of Beta, there are no comment moderation scores, and no way of viewing responses to your comments other than drilling down to them.

  20. Re:Joke's on all the complainers! on Weird Asteroid Itokawa Has a Dual Personality · · Score: 1

    I have no issues with Slashdot Beta's new design. It looks okay to me

    It's one of the designers! Lynch him!

  21. Re:Wikipedia on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    Try DuckDuckGo instead of Google.

    Doesn't work. Firefox can't find the server at http://www.duckduckgo.ose./

  22. Re:official court report on Now Published: Study Showing Pirate Bay Blockade Has No Effect · · Score: 1

    Very low quality pdf, and in Dutch... but it is what you asked for. :) https://blog.xs4all.nl/wp-cont...

    Um... not really. I asked not to link to slashdot inappropriately. Turns out it was the fine folks at slashdot doing it. Thanks for the link though.

    Now, to learn me some Dutch...

  23. Re:Breaks some websites on With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? · · Score: 0

    Breaks some websites

    The recent enforced java updates have already done that. I have printers that I can no longer reach the embedded web interface on.

  24. Re:Breaks some websites on With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey allaunjsilverfox2. Some kind of malware has infected your PC and is spamming Slashdot over, and over again. Perhaps you should use a malware cleaner to clean it up. Might I recommend AVG or Spybot?

  25. Re:Please don't... on Now Published: Study Showing Pirate Bay Blockade Has No Effect · · Score: 1

    This was inserted by the Slashdot editors.

    That explains a lot.