Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Fuck Beta!

Somehow I bet the investment fund will do better job building laptops than Dice keeping Slashdot alive. FUCK BETA!

Let's be honest - at this point you're much better off scrapping this garbage, taking the classic (recoding the classic if you want) and adding only incremental improvements to it.

Right on! It would be a terrible thing to disband this community by curtailing the comment functionalities. The discussions are by far .. by FAR the valuable thing on Slashdot, and it's as much due to a balanced moderation system as to the community itself. You don't see many other sites allowing or handling anonymous posts any more. Please don't ruin it!

Yes ... we need a good window manager development for this next version of Oculus Rift and things just might take off in the right direction.

Sure. But you need a Facebook account to send Netflix any feedback _after_ you've logged into your Netflix account.

Yes, I remember. That was a looong time ago. And ever since they stopped being an underdog and hopped onto the corporate "A" list things have been going steadily downhill. The menu is utter shit! It mixes in movies I watched, it mixes in TV series with movies, it doesn't show anything (like star rating) but big dumb pictures, it fakes the star rating to feed me some crap I they just bought, etc.. It's as if they're trying to make it difficult to find something on purpose. Just tried to find something to watch yesterday. Wasted 20 minutes, walked away with a headache. And it didn't used to be this way - the interface was informative, you could sort by ratings, you could see what your friends rated and watched. I also think there were movies. That went out of the window, though now there's an annoying bar inviting me to share info with friends. Of course I need to sign in with a facebook account to do so.

Which brings me to my final point. What kind of a half-assed company requires a third party sign in to provide customer feedback?! I don't have a facebook account, and so I can't even send Netflix a message explaining how much they're messing up. The only way I can send a message is leave.

But it's not like they'd read it anyway - evidently they're too busy enjoying their "A"-list corporate circlejerk.

That's because you have a populace that gives a shit.

Agree. In fact, I really wish Snowden has limited his revelations to domestic programs. The foreign intelligence is the direct mission of the NSA, and while they might've done too much in some cases you can hardly blame them for being successful at it.

She's 80, and her current term doesn't run out until 2016. So she probably couldn't care less as to how the public opinion swings by these types of coverup attempts.

Why exactly do they get to have a say in this? Why are we even listening to them?
Feinstein and Rogers are the two key figures responsible for most of these violations in the first place. They are the ones who tacitly sanctioned wholesale violation of the constitutional right against unreasonable searches. Yet their opinion on Snowden's guilt is somehow all over the news. It's amazing that the press is quoting Rogers' preaches on how Snowden has broken the law and needs to be persecuted, when both of these bozos voted to grant retroactive immunity for warrantless wiretaps they've sanctioned under earlier administration. As far as I am concerned, asking for their opinion is like asking a robber on what to do with a good Samaritan who stopped the robbery.

Sure, but my point is that they had a chance to add two top-level domains in cyrillic and they chose to transliterate two english words.

Actually, the second one is "site", not "sale". The ludicrous thing is that neither word is actually russian - they are simply transliterations of the english "online" and "site" words in cyrillic.

You're missing the aim here - it's not to pick one, two or three "best" comments, it's to discount things that are not worth reading. In a article, you end up with hundreds of posts that are moderated as high as they can be (+5). As long as you have that minimal number of moderators who appreciated that comment, it will rise. That's as much input from the moderators as one should want - reduce noise, but don't shape the conversation.

Speaking of that, can it run Netflix and Skype (through Android or otherwise) ?