Yahoo's directories were like gopherhole directories for html. Web searches didn't start to mean much until infoseek came around.

I picked up an insightful and a troll on the same comment at some point today. One of the insightful mods was undone (note that it doesn't tell me if it was this one or a different one) which moves the score down to (+2, insightful).

Thank you for finding this and offering your insight.

I hadn't noticed that change, thank you for pointing it out. I find it interesting that the editor who posted the story didn't notice it before letting it loose on the front page.

I respectfully disagree with that, based on two things in particular:

• The stories that make the front page, which frequently favor the American conservative viewpoint or frequently trash any other viewpoint (and the general absence of the opposite).
• The high frequency of conservative advertisements on here (even when I view the site without being logged in, or not logged in and from a computer / device that is not mine)

I have also noticed that when I post something here that is does not favor the conservative viewpoint, it is often moderated "overrated" - which everyone knows is immune to meta-moderation and hence a permanent negative mark on a comment.

I don't recall now what your internet connection situation is like at home, but hosting your own site is becoming much more viable for a lot of people now thanks to high(er) speed connections being so very cheap. I have a basic cable modem and do my domain through dyn.org (I know, a lot of people hate them but I'm happy with them for $10 per year). Then I can host as much of whatever as I want. Granted, your site probably gets a lot more traffic than mine, so that might not be as great, but you could always try it as a mirror initially and see how it goes (or even do some clever cross-site-scripting to pull files from your home host while the main page is still hosted at your current provider).

Oh, and I think you meant to say "no scripting whatsoever" in referring to your page, rather than "no scripting whatever". :)

It looks like the firing order for an 8 cylinder engine. I thought maybe the engineer tasked with that pin out was moonlighting in a garage somewhere.

Although not every Linux distro installs bash as a shell by default. AFAIK OS X always installs bash unless the user goes back an uninstalls it.

In other words I would say the two are roughly equally vulnerable. You can't compromise bash if it isn't installed (on various other *nixes) nor can you compromise bash if you can't get to it because no public services are installed that can call upon it (OS X).

The number of replies to my more recent comments suggests that others can read my posts reasonably well. A particular example of which of my comments you find not "readable" would be useful.

... really aren't Apple systems likely the *nix boxes that are least likely to be exploited by shellshock? I have a lot of Apple boxes at work (and know of lots of people who use them in other places as well) but I know of only a very short list of Apple boxes that have any public facing services. While a fair chunk of other *nix boxes are running web servers and other services that can provide avenues for exploiting shellshock, it doesn't seem particularly pressing for the Apple systems that are not.

This seems highly improbable.

I think the big question here is how many people will have the ability to make that choice. People in high density housing (apartments, condos, townhomes, duplexes, etc) generally only get a choice of one supplier for electricity and they don't have the right to get new lines installed. As more of the world's population ends up living in dense cities, the percentage of people with the ability to select alternative energy sources declines.

From my recollection of Economics 1001 a reduction in supply with static or increasing demand leads to an increase in price.

The power companies always win this game. They'll find reasons to increase rates even with demand down. Even more so, as the global population increases, fewer people will be living in their own houses - and fewer will have roofs to install rooftop solar on to.

That is debatable at the very least (although it would help if I knew for sure which call you were talking about). Regardless, the difference is between bringing attention to someone who chased down and killed an unarmed kid versus destroying the career of a politician simply because he was enthusiastic to be campaigning.

Being as the person who killed someone got off scot-free while the politician saw his entire career go up in smoke, you can't say that the after effects were in any way comparable either.

OK, so words do not have meanings. Thank you for the clarification, now I know how to read this JE as well.

Two spineless cowards hit my comment with overrated today. That puts the mod total to 34 and the apparent score at (+3, Insightful)

You stated that your new hero

Would that mean that he opposed the beloved Federalist Papers that the tea party clings so dearly to? If he was opposed to the Federalist Papers, then that wouldn't seem to make him much of a supporter of "republicanism" as we know it today, would it?