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Comment Re:No left menu on user page: (Score 1) 86

by zidium (#49151241) Attached to: The Only Constant is Change

Compared to how god awful Beta was and how forcing it on me would force me to become a literal Slashdot Refugee, I have to say, I will gladly sacrifice these missing links for the possibility of being able to use Slashdot for 10 more years!!

I wish they could have told us about this decision to jettison it MONTHS ago when they started working on it!! I've been living with a very real spectre of not being able to daily visit a site I absolutely love and is a big part of my entire adult life (17+ years) at ANY POSSIBLE DAY, and every time they announced planned outages, I shuddered inside and would start visiting other sites in preparation for the worst (nothing *but* Beta).

Hallelujah!

Comment Victory, Motherfrackers!! (Score 1) 86

by zidium (#49151225) Attached to: The Only Constant is Change

It's been EXACTLY a year since Beta was forced down our throats and we staged the 2014 Valentines Day Slashcott!

WE WON!!!!!! The new interface is *really* nice, too! So win/win after we convinced Upper Management to jettison their ill-conceived desires?

WOOHOO!!!! As a 15+ year member of Slashdot, I look forward to the next 10 years now!!!

Submission + - Fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by zidium
zidium writes: New data has come out that suggests climate researchers have been systematically altering temperature data up for decades.

When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records ... were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

I see a lot of Slashdotters who are convinced Man-made Global Warming (AGW) is an absolute certainty, but when I analyzed the data myself, I saw how concrete jungles have expanded while temperature testing stations have stayed fixed (and concrete is warmer than grass). So now with even more evidence that biased scientists with clear motives have been altering the data for years, do you still want to believe?

Submission + - New Multi-Purpose Backdoor Targets Linux Servers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A new multi-purpose Linux Trojan that opens a backdoor on the target machine and can make it participate in DDoS attacks has been discovered and analyzed by Dr. Web researchers, who believe that the Chinese hacker group ChinaZ might be behind it. "First, Linux.BackDoor.Xnote.1 sends information about the infected system to the server. It then goes into standby mode and awaits further instructions. If the command involves carrying out some task, the backdoor creates a separate process that establishes its own connection to the server through which it gets all the necessary configuration data and sends the results of the executed task," the researchers explained.

Submission + - Official - Big Brother really is listening (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by gbjbaanb
gbjbaanb writes: When even the manufacturer of your TV tells you not to discuss personal information in listening distance of your TV, you know our technology has gone crazy, but that's exactly what Samsung is telling its customers of its own smart TVs.

[Samsung's] policy explains that the TV set will be listening to people in the same room to try to spot when commands are issued. It goes on to warn: "If your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."

Submission + - The bizarre and complex story of a failed Wikipedia software extension

Submitted by metasonix
metasonix writes: Originally developed by Wikia coders, "Liquid Threads" was intended to be a better comment system for use on MediaWiki talkpages. When applied to Wikipedia, then each Wikipedia talkpage or noticeboard would become something resembling a more modernized bulletin board, hopefully easier to use.

Unfortunately, the project was renamed "Flow" and taken over by the Wikimedia Foundation's developers. And as documented in this very long Wikipediocracy post, the result was "less than optimal". After seven years and millions of dollars spent, even WMF Director Lila Tretikov admits "As such it is not ready for “prime time” for us."

Thus, like almost every other large software project undertaken by the WMF in recent years (for example), "Flow" didn't flow, it crashed and burned. Remember this story the next time Wikipedia runs more fundraising banners on its articles; now you have some idea of where the money actually goes.

Comment Re:Ripple Effect (Score 0) 119

by zidium (#49003115) Attached to: TurboTax Halts E-filing of State Tax Returns Because of Potential Fraud

http://news.investors.com/ibd-...

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, an unindicted co-conspirator in the cover-up of the IRS Tea Party targeting by Lois Lerner, confirmed Tuesday in a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee that an illegal alien who filed tax returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) will be eligible to amend the returns for the three prior years to collect the EITC once he or she obtains a valid Social Security number.

He's on the opposite side of the political spectrum as the source you have issues with, and is an authority in places ot know such things, *and* he said this stuff under oath to Congress.

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