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This is news? Trimming out old cruft from a source code tree isn't a big deal.
This is news? Trimming out old cruft from a source code tree isn't a big deal.
The system consistently rakes in more money to the business of government than it does to any one if their associates in the "private" sector.)
Huh?
Their blog archive goes all the way back to July 2011!
Two words:
Oracle.
What's the second word?
Lawyers.
At least Taco remembered some of the old school Slashdot. Props to the natalieportman and grits mention.
But I have to point out that the way the slashdot summary was written is misleading.
You must be new.
In other words, Glenn Beck is a professional troll?
Yes.
Not that Slashdot itself would ever troll, what with their objective, factual headlines and article summaries...
Look at the submitter's handle, then look at the author's name of the NetworkWorld article...
Of course not. Doing useful things like adding Unicode support is apparently less important than adding more Web 2.0 junk to the site.
Eventually they will discover that Unicode is part of "Web 2.0". It's even supported in URLs now!
Unfortunately there's no provision in "Web 2.0" for "Competent editors for a news aggregator forum", so we'll still have to wait on that one.
DHH's ego is getting REAL big!
and wait for the Republicans to fight this government intervention tooth and nail.
Perhaps Slashdot, slowly accepting their continuing decline in the web forum discussion arena, is trying to reinvigorate what they perceive to be their original driving force (shitting on Microsoft) instead of trying to fix the actual problems (that the site is stale, the "editing" still is non-existent after all these years, and that other outlets on the web provide more open ideas than the stagnant masturbatory groupthink).
If "Bob Smith" is a registered sex offender in a large urban area, another Bob Smith in the same area might have some difficulty getting hired for a job. Perhaps the scrapers might see some revenue in selling "whitelist" services.
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Don't worry, the executives will pad their bank accounts with what is left of the company coffers before finally driving it into the ground. Happy ending!
The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them. -- Nicolaides
