Slashdot obviously has strict requirements for submission lengths. </sarcasm>

Who gave Bennett unlimited mod points?

Let's take a look at comments modded as Troll in past Bennett articles:

2014 Geek Gift Guide 2 comments marked Troll, both of them by Bennett

An Algorithm To Prevent Twitter Hashtag Degeneration 5 comments marked Troll, 3 of them by Bennett

Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case 1 comment marked Troll

Big Talk About Small Samples 2 comments marked Troll, both of them by Bennett

Debunking a Viral Internet Post About Breastfeeding Racism 0 comments marked Troll

We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello 0 comments marked Troll

An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man 0 comments marked Troll

Now look at the mods on comments in this article - 40 comments have been marked as Troll. And most of them are comments badmouthing Bennett. Slashdot, you have some 'splainin' to do.

I visited London over the summer, and went on a tour of Fuller's brewery. It was amazing. I wish that cask ale was more popular here in the States. I'm not aware of a place within 150 miles that I can get it. At least I still have a bottle of Fuller's Vintage Ale (bottle conditioned) that I brought home to save for a special occasion.

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I see what you did there!

See: Dice buying Slashdot.

Yep, I clicked on Nerval's Lobster's profile link after a few of his submissions and saw the "Works for Slashdot" badge.

Why doesn't this badge show up next to a submitter's username, instead of only when they post comments? This should really be changed.

What I do when I'm in a hurry is have my card ready before the server brings the bill.

When they bring it, don't let them set it down, just hand them your card.

Of course, this requires you to trust that the bill will be correct.

I imagine the intent is to make people who currently use the other social media sites comfortable with migrating to Ello. This way a user could start using it even though none of their friends are on it yet.

If Ello catches on and becomes popular, then users could stop doing the auto-push to other networks.

I haven't looked at their site, but hopefully they allow easily toggling that option. And hopefully they make signing up easy without tying it to your existing accounts.

To be fair, he did say "yadda yadda yadda".

I should update my password to incorrecthorsebatterystaple?

Default on student loans? How do you do that?

I was under the impression that it was practically impossible to get rid of that debt.

This may have been added after the story originally came out, but I found this.

Is there a reason why ports still exist in IPv6?

If your ISP gives you a /64 for your house of 0:0:dead:beef::/64, then you could assign a /112 to a server in your house (say 0:0:dead:beef:0:0:1:0/128). So your server listens on multiple IP addresses instead of multiple ports on one IP address. A web server on that server would handle HTTP requests on 0:0:dead:beef:0:0:1:50, HTTPS would be 0:0:dead:beef:0:0:1:1bb, etc.

Give this man a mod point—on the double!

So what we really need is cellular neutrality. The towers should be public infrastructure, and the cellular providers should become just like ISPs would be if there was net neutrality.