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Americans Don't Understand The Meaning of The Word "Vacation"
Americans Don't Understand The Meaning of The Word "Vacation"
The Clapper is only two decades old. The X10 System is four decades old and much more useful. It's the original electronic home automation system.
I still use X10 to control more than a dozen lights with timers, day/night detectors, motion sensors, and manual controls. I control a few fail-safe appliances with it too. The modules and controllers are cheap and plentiful, you can still buy them new if you wish. The protocol is completely open and there are myriad computer interfaces. Most Free/free HA software will readily use X10 modules.
X10 lamp modules were a little wonky with CFL bulbs, but the massive shift to LEDs has solved that problem. LED bulbs work 100% with 30+ year-old X10 modules including dimming. The only real downside is no two-way verification (with standard modules), and the vampire draw is higher than modern stuff. (I think. Could be wrong there.)
The best parts? 100% Under my complete control with no mandatory "cloud" connection or privacy leaks or Internet-exposed firmware that will never be updated. You don't need a EULA to use it or read a Privacy Statement to see what they are stealing.
First, it's not my site.
Second, I've never been burned by the new host. But I have been burned twice by Bruce. Why should I give Bruce a third chance to burn me?
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It will be for the Nerds, by the Nerds, focusing on the Stuff That Really Matters: The community that makes the comments the best part of Slashdot.
The name will change to avoid any trademark problems.
Some have suggested encouraging Bruce Perens to resurrect Technocrat.net for the third time. With all due respect to Bruce, the problem with that is he has shown he is not a reliable host. He has twice deleted that site, the second time without warning. I don't think we want to get burned a third time.
Will soon be hosted at AltSlashdot.org or a site linked through that domain.
It will be for the Nerds, by the Nerds, focusing on the Stuff That Really Matters: The community that makes the comments the best part of Slashdot.
The name will change to avoid any trademark problems.
Some have suggested encouraging Bruce Perens to resurrect Technocrat.net for the third time. With all due respect to Bruce, the problem with that is he has shown he is not a reliable host. He has twice deleted that site without warning and without providing access to the archives. I don't think we want to get burned a third time.
That's what he says, but it's not the truth. I was on it the first time he shut it down. When that happened, he posted on the replacement page that he didn't like the direction the discussions were going (there was no moderation or meta-moderation and some debates got heated).
That subjective, unilateral, unannounced decision to take his ball and bat and go home is why I didn't participate the second time around.
Will soon be hosted at AltSlashdot.org or a site linked through that domain.
It will be for the Nerds, by the Nerds, focusing on the Stuff That Really Matters: The community that makes the comments the best part of Slashdot.
The name will change to avoid any trademark problems. The new domain will be linked through AltSlashdot.org for as long as practical.
Some have suggested encouraging Bruce Perens to resurrect Technocrat.net for the third time. With all due respect to Bruce, the problem with that is he has shown he is not a reliable host. He has twice deleted that site without warning and without providing access to the archives. I don't think we want to get burned a third time.
Because Bruce has shown he is an unreliable host for a tech site.
He has twice started that site and twice deleted it without warning, taking all the content and comments offline with no way to recover them.
Bruce has done great things for the Libre Software community, but hosting a tech site is not one of his brighter moments.
Because of the comments! Duh!
I don't know. It does look like you will be able to preserve your ID and nobody will be able to steal it.
Migration of users from Slashdot
Buck Feta!
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It will be for the commenters, by the commenters.
It will be like the old days when Slashdot at least spell-checked the summaries and made sure the links actually worked.
If Beta stays and "classic" goes away, the Nerds That Matter will have so much free time practical cold fusion will be a reality within a week.
Fuck this court. Fuck Jim Lahey. Fuck Randy. Fuck those two idiot cops right there. Fuck suit dummies. As a matter of fact fuck legal aid. Fuck Danny and Terry's Buffalo Chicken Wings. Fuck all the old wood in here. Fuck the moon. Fuck corn on the cob. Fuck squirrels. Fuck me, fuck you, FUCK BETA!
And fuck you, Dice
Reposting logged-in to get it ranked higher.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
