Thousands of them!

Pulled up a story today and now all of the abbreviated comments are visible without having to open all of their parent comments. That also fixes the major issue with linking directly to a comment (you could only see the first comment in the tree and had to drill down to find the comment you were actually linking to).

Looks like someone is listening to some of the people, some of the time.

Looks like Chrome updated itself when windows updated itself last night.

Doesn't seem to make slashdot any better, but there's some interesting choices made:

• http:// disappears from the url bar. ftp:// remains, https:// stays and turns green.
• Mousing over a link to display the URL at the bottom of the screen now truncates the link after the hostname, rather than chopping off the end. After a couple of seconds, the full URL is shown.
• They got rid of the "paper" menu icon on the right, now there is only the wrench icon.

The change in the URL display is a nice deal, especially expanding to display the whole URL.

Let's say someone were to call the cops and cry about their daughter being kidnapped and they saw the guy and the car he jumped into, gave the cops the license plate number, and gets an amber alert issued. The guy gets caught and claims to have no clue what's going on, the caller confronts the kidnapper, crying "just tell me where you buried her body" and collapses in a fit of hysteria.

Would anyone think to demand proof that the daughter existed in the first place?

An interesting twist on the various recent crimes where people had made up a false attacker in order to cover up their own misdeed (or in the case of the cop who shot himself, because he's apparently crazy). Most of those eventually broke down under scrutiny or through the criminal's own guilt. But if someone made up a false victim, would the scrutiny fall in the right place?

Started using Chrome and now features on Slashdot finally Just Work. I can click on items in the firehose and the animation is displayed smoothly and completes in a fraction of a second instead of taking 3-4 seconds for the tags to jerk open and closed, leaving me to wonder if it even registered my click.

Not only that, but the resizeable textareas mean not having to put up with the tiny box I sometimes get when I reply.

Not only that, but I can open a story with more than 100 comments and it only takes 2-3 seconds to open a comment from abbreviated to full.

The only drawback is that now Google is watching me masturb^Wtroll anonymously.

Right, so on the main page we've got a story about Pat Roberts (R?-KS) extolling the virtues of the federal government buying a city in order to save its occupants from the pollution he wants to keep the federal government from regulating.

So: R or RINO?

Don't forget to write in your journals! It let's your friends know what you are thinking.

I'm thinking of something orange... something orange... give up? It's an orange!

OK, now I'm thinking of something blue. Something bluuuuuuueeeeeeee....