To get away from the Slashdot front page.

Interesting. How much do you think Slashdot is worth?

I'm tired of them "curating" the user experience...

Type up your comment in notepad and then paste it in. This is nice for longer posts in case you accidentally switch pages or something.

The Enter key works for me (I use the non-javascript version of Slashdot).

Bad form, I know, but here is the link to their membership:

https://www.iata.org/about/mem...

I copied it into Excel and there were 256 records, 2^8.

The IATA is asking for change. Can they make it happen?

They are, at first, a considerable global consortium of airlines, possibly in the realm of super-villians (given the global nature).

But, they only charge $15,000 USD per airline annually ($30,000 USD to join).

https://www.iata.org/about/mem...

Further, they have 256 member airlines from all around the globe (US based majors included).

So, they have a guaranteed annual revenue of $3.84M USD (excluding application and acceptance fees, non-recurring).

And that means they cannot be super-villians. It's a global organization, and they don't make enough money to buy a single US politician.

Per Open Secrets, US based airlines spent over $30M USD on lobbying and Federal election's in 2014.

http://www.opensecrets.org/ind...

I wish the IATA luck with the changes it wants.

But they are not super-villians.

I'm just UXing here, but point #6 was terribly confusing as it seemed to be part of point #5.

Otherwise spot on. Slashdot should have the community comment/vote on changes and then have a true "beta" (not the shit we had before of course) that people could comment on.

Actually, they should just leave it all alone. There's enough change in the real world, can I have a consistent, expected Slashdot experience?

Really?

We're actively working on that, specifically on older systems where habit is more common than good practice ("this is how we have always done it").

I believe you didn't read the link. It was written by PVS staff, and states very clearly that the effort was to promote their product:

As a way of promoting our PVS-Studio static code analyzer, we've thought of an interesting format for our articles: We analyze open-source projects and write about the bugs we manage to find there.

They made it to Slashdot, so the effort was a success on some level. And maybe more people need to be aware of code analyzers (we just enforce code conventions and obvious bad practices).

Born and been here most of my life, living in Soulard is fun. I couldn't care less about the Rams (the almost $1 billion stadium plan with about $400m of public funding has to be against the law without a public vote, thus the lawsuit), but I would like to see the Blues be more successful. And I like MLB playoff games, so I'm usually watching the Cardinals...

Shoot, it sounds like the Cardinals folk who left took a database copy when they moved to the Astros.

The article says they used the same passwords as when they worked for the Cardinals (and user names I would assume).

That makes absolutely no sense. I can't think of a more idiotic security approach (on both teams parts to be honest). I would bet the Astros system was internet exposed. Otherwise, the article would have mentioned VPN access breach or something, they took the time to point out the access was easily gained.

Full Disclosure: I live in St. Louis but don't pay attention to sports much. I do like attending a game then and again, and we took our twins to their first game earlier this month (the Cards hit a home run on the first received pitch and my kids now think there will always be fireworks...).

Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't actually interested in knowing and the sentence seemed like it needed more structure in the form of a comma or two.

Been there, avoid that. I have enough hearing loss for at least a couple of people... Music at a restaurant can be awesome, another example is some light Dean Martin or other Rat Pack members with some Italian food.

I am older now (40+, but not much +), but I have never understood the point of turning a bar or restaurant into a club with regards to volume. Unless there is a live band, then it is going to be loud (I live in a blues neighborhood, but with kids our blues nights have dried up, which is fine, as I like to hear...).