Do you actually pay to use slashdot or are you complaining about a service you use freely that is no longer up to your high standards?
Well, I provide content by commenting, and I improve the quality of content by moderating. For nothing. Without people like me doing that, Slashdot ceases to exist.
The main thing we want is a site that doesn't look old and stale, because that will slowly drive readers and contributors away.
Driving readers and contributors away quickly is a much better strategy, huh?
Wait. There are little news blurbs?
Right above "FR1ST P0ST!"
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!
Maybe it is time to head back to USENET, or maybe someone should make something functionally identical to USENET/NNTP except architected with anti-spam provisions and the fact that if a site gets known for uncontrolled spamming, other sites just won't forward that site's stuff.
Sigh. I do miss Kibo and Ludwig Plutonium.
..the Beta wars.
I initially found the protest against annoying and juvenile, but I'm changing my mind. Slashdot is its contributors. Look what happens when they cease to contribute.
Power to the people, motherfuckers!
I don't really see how you could fill a whole class, or even an hour to teach how evolution works.
Please tell me you're kidding.
From Google's point of view, they could easily disconnect from the electric grid, stop paying for police and fire protection, etc. etc. You could build a walled enclave for yourself totally disconnected from society. They'd probably save money by doing it.
This happens in the 3rd world all the time: the rich have generators, private security, cars with suspension for roads with potholes, private planes, private wells, sewers, whatever. The 3rd world rich have a standard of living not much different from the equivalent 1st world rich.
Mod parent insightful.
But it isn't Google's fault. It's the fault of generations of neglect of the common good by the American people. Google is doing this because the public transit that would support their enterprise doesn't exist. Want to change that? Don't demonize Google for running buses: Tax the wealthy more -- a lot more -- to fund things like basic infrastucture, medical care, public safety, and the rest. American's don't have to live in a country of walled enclaves like Brazil or India or South Africa, but we are choosing to head in precisely that direction, because way too many morons think that means "freedom".
Take 25 coins and 25 people. What's the most natural way of distributing the wealth?
Usual answer: given them one each. But swap any two people, and you've got the same distribution. There's only one configuration.
Now give all 25 coins to just one person. There are 25 possible configurations. This is a much more likely outcome.
Wow. You really don't understand entropy, do you?
Hint: If you select a random recipient for each coins, the highest entropy configuration is not for one recipient to get all the coins.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
