Teens don't drive because cars today suck. They look like cockroaches and the driveline is a tangle of wires and sensors that makes affordable tinkering a thing of the past. You won't be bolting a spread bore Holly on or swapping the auto transmission for a 4 speed.
Cars and driving used to be fun. Now it's a necessary evil.
>protecting us from getting screwed by gigantic corporations
We're already protected - just don't have a cell phone. The problem is that people would rather sic government on big, bad corporations than inconvenience themselves by not patronizing companies they don't like. If enough of us voted with our feet it'd fix these kinds of issues. A temporary inconvenience for a permanent improvement.
>..as well as annoying the crap out of any driver with a radar detector you happen to be driving behind;-)
Whatever moron modded the parent down ought to have their mod points taken away and get their weiner slapped. Clearly the poster was going for a laugh (and succeeded). Modding him/her down just discourages people from posting.
If you knew much about the history of compelled schooling, you would realize that a high school education was never meant to prevent you from menial, mind-numbing and stressful jobs. Quite the opposite. It was meant to prepare you for it.
And me without a mod point. Well, maybe someone else will mod it up.
No, moderating is designed to make a post "more visible" to the casual reader. If person X mods a post "insightful" or some other positive mod, it rises to the surface (so to speak). Person Y meta-modding the original moderation "unfair" doesn't erase the original positive moderation and doesn't cause the original post to drop back down, in terms of visibility (as far as I know). I believe it just effects the original moderators odds of getting more mod points.
I used to meta-mod most days but now I only do so infrequently. I don't think I need to be "voting up or down" some casual comment or joke. The whole thing is exacerbated by the fact that most posters don't bother quoting what they're responding to, so there's no context to judge the post against.
Oh, well. It's not my website and I guess the power that be will run it how they see fit. I'm still here so must not be too aggravated by it all.
I understand that meta moderation is moderating the moderator. My problem is that when I go to meta-moderate, none of the posts I'm given have been moderated. Go re-read the paragraph at the top of the meta-moderation page. It's changed in the last few months.
>That is exactly why we must meta moderate like crazy these days
Except that Metamoderation these days doesn't present you with already-moderated posts. At least, not for me. All I get is a selection of 10 random posts and I have to decide if you, the average Slashdotter, would benefit. Nearly every post I'm given to "meta-moderate" us not previously moderated.
> I can see why the Internet would have increased literacy in the short term.
Don't forget the study looks only at writing produces by college students. I did not RTFA yet, but I have to wonder about the rest of the world at large.
>Not to be a troll, but pointing out the particular logical fallacies in use like that gives you a real air of 'douchebag'
>>Not a troll - that's an ad hominem.
In my view, we should now preface everything we say with "I think" or "In my opinion". I think. In my opinion, we would then be immune from such lawsuits, which I think are idiotic. At least that's my opinion. Hereby released into the public domain, in my view.
Legacy Locker is another one http://legacylocker.com/. There was also one a while back specifically for online gamers. If you failed to login in a certain period of time, your guild (or whatever) was notified of your apparent demise.
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Teens don't drive because cars today suck. They look like cockroaches and the driveline is a tangle of wires and sensors that makes affordable tinkering a thing of the past. You won't be bolting a spread bore Holly on or swapping the auto transmission for a 4 speed.
Cars and driving used to be fun. Now it's a necessary evil.
>Target dumps toxic waste off the Ivory Coast
What do you base this claim on?
>protecting us from getting screwed by gigantic corporations
We're already protected - just don't have a cell phone. The problem is that people would rather sic government on big, bad corporations than inconvenience themselves by not patronizing companies they don't like. If enough of us voted with our feet it'd fix these kinds of issues. A temporary inconvenience for a permanent improvement.
> ..as well as annoying the crap out of any driver with a radar detector you happen to be driving behind ;-)
Whatever moron modded the parent down ought to have their mod points taken away and get their weiner slapped. Clearly the poster was going for a laugh (and succeeded). Modding him/her down just discourages people from posting.
Somebody fix this, please.
And me without a mod point. Well, maybe someone else will mod it up.
No, moderating is designed to make a post "more visible" to the casual reader. If person X mods a post "insightful" or some other positive mod, it rises to the surface (so to speak). Person Y meta-modding the original moderation "unfair" doesn't erase the original positive moderation and doesn't cause the original post to drop back down, in terms of visibility (as far as I know). I believe it just effects the original moderators odds of getting more mod points.
I used to meta-mod most days but now I only do so infrequently. I don't think I need to be "voting up or down" some casual comment or joke. The whole thing is exacerbated by the fact that most posters don't bother quoting what they're responding to, so there's no context to judge the post against.
Oh, well. It's not my website and I guess the power that be will run it how they see fit. I'm still here so must not be too aggravated by it all.
As a real estate agent, I'd be the perfect candidate. I'll set up the first interplanetary real estate brokerage. Now, where was that gold jacket ...?
I understand that meta moderation is moderating the moderator. My problem is that when I go to meta-moderate, none of the posts I'm given have been moderated. Go re-read the paragraph at the top of the meta-moderation page. It's changed in the last few months.
>That is exactly why we must meta moderate like crazy these days
Except that Metamoderation these days doesn't present you with already-moderated posts. At least, not for me. All I get is a selection of 10 random posts and I have to decide if you, the average Slashdotter, would benefit. Nearly every post I'm given to "meta-moderate" us not previously moderated.
Now, someone mod me down.
It doesn't take much to see the Overton Window at work on both sides of the pond. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
>No, my point was kind of that there is an implicit trust between all employees and their IT personnel.
Gotcha. I thought you were defending the $5M bail.
> You can have all the redundancy and safety protocols you want, but at some level, it comes down to a decision of trust.
Even that doesn't justify the uber-excessive bail in this case. If he's found not guilty are they going to keep him in jail, "just in case"?
> Prosecutors have argued that the bail is appropriate because, if released, Childs could cause damage to San Francisco's network.
It sounds like they have zero confidence in whoever is now in charge of securing their network.
If your email is that important, you'd better have some kind of redundancy and a backup plan in case the redundancy fails.
> I can see why the Internet would have increased literacy in the short term.
Don't forget the study looks only at writing produces by college students. I did not RTFA yet, but I have to wonder about the rest of the world at large.
Maybe, but you should leave sexuality out of it.
>The radio, book and movie versions of HHGTTG were all supposed to be different in their own way.
Mission accomplished.
In my view, we should now preface everything we say with "I think" or "In my opinion". I think. In my opinion, we would then be immune from such lawsuits, which I think are idiotic. At least that's my opinion. Hereby released into the public domain, in my view.
Legacy Locker is another one http://legacylocker.com/. There was also one a while back specifically for online gamers. If you failed to login in a certain period of time, your guild (or whatever) was notified of your apparent demise.
>Isn't this a case where the US Government should be sued since ...
Sovereign immunity makes that pretty difficult.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
>There really needs to be some way to administer a small electric shock to both the submitter and the editor
Why "small"? I say give'em a Dr Emmett Brown 1.21 jiggowatt sized shock.
Going back to the mid-90's increasing numbers of cars and trucks have have some sort of "black box" tech. Why not your phone?
http://www.crashforensics.com/automobiledatarecorders.cfm
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/Cars/Problems/studies/record/chidester.htm
>any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
I'll do it.
No, really, you can totally trust me.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
>> trawling our private information on Facebook
"advertised" on a social networking site hardly qualifies as "private information".