I don't know how I feel about antidepressants for dogs, or any other non-human animal for that matter. Can dogs be demonstrably depressed to a degree that they require medication rather than love and exercise? Or is this something that people who got a dog too big for their yard give to placate their pet when it spends 90% of its miserable life in a tiny kennel in the basement so it doesn't shed fur all over the sofa?

Precisely, so why should NBC have to pay for the bandwidth when there's already a well-established method of distribution in place which will cost them the same regardless of how many people consume that resource?

It's silly since it's still available over-the-air for free anyway. Do these "cord cutter" people not have antennas?

Well, yes it did destroy the universe, but only after creating a new tiny universe which, incidentally, contained a tiny LHC to scale which was also creating a tinier universe which contained yet another tinier LHC and so on...

Matter of fact, I think our universe is one of those tiny ones somewhere on the line and our perception of time just hasn't caught up yet.

This is probably the one time in the history of slashdot I can see why the editor got the link wrong:

1. The submitter failed to include a link in the original submission.
4. And everything on slashdot seems to be out of order lately.
2. The editors are probably, uhh, preoccupied.
3. Soulskill probably still had the wrong link in the copy+paste buffer and didn't bother to check before posting.

Great idea! We can tie the kites to bridges. And power lines!

S/he broke slashdot. Clicking on that username gives this:

I guess whoever implemented the facebook integration feature failed to properly validate usernames when they come from facebook. That gives me an idea...

Burn baby, burn!!

It's not a mere redesign, it's a fundamental change in the way slashdot works by changing what slashdot is all about. They should have waited until things actually worked before revealing the beta, but as it is, by forcing users to the fundamentally broken beta site they've shown that they no longer care about the community.

Forcing users to a completely unusable site shows nothing but contempt for the users.

I can assure you it's not the same AC over and over because AC comments are throttled by IP address.

Why should we have to adapt to garbage? I don't think anyone would refuse to adapt to a new paint scheme, it's the fact that the new site is fundamentally and functionally broken by design. The fact that dice felt now was a good time to start forcing users to something so broken shows that they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what this place is about. It's not that the beta site is a little buggy, it's that it is completely broken.

At the very least they should have waited until commenting was at functional parity before revealing their hand but now it's too late, they have revealed the direction of things to come and it does not bode well for the future of the slashdot.org domain.

I think you may be one of the few people getting "news" from slashdot. The rest of us come here *specifically* for the commentary, and yes, that makes us NOT an audience but a community. The "news" submissions are nothing more than a vehicle for things to discuss and that's how it has always been.

To be honest I'm surprised someone with a 6-digit UID such as yourself wouldn't have realized this by now.

Your point is moot: there won't even *be* a slashdot in 2018. Slashdot had a good run but the beginning of the end was when Malda left, and dice is *entirely clueless* about what slashdot really is.

Dice can certainly *try* to market the slashdot brand in this fashion since they own it now, but this strategy will fail. There is absolutely no doubt about that.

Unfortunately something like 15 years worth of usernames and comments, because although the comments are still owned by each respective user I doubt the database is.

Oh, and CowboyNeal.

It's eye candy as much as Spring Surprise is a nice bit of chockie.