The OMG Ponies slashdot April Fools joke was better

It at least functioned.

One thing that I don't get is how the current wave of web site redesigns are actually, in any way, tablet/smart phone friendly.

On a device with a small display concise and space eficient presentation of information, without excess white space or eye candy, is necessary if you don's want to end up feeling like you are peering at the site through a soda straw. Using large fonts, wide line spacing, and lots of white space just makes a small display effectively smaller.

On a device with a low bandwidth or expensive connection reducing the number of bits that needed to render the page is desirable to get the page to render in a reasonable time and cost. This is another reason to eliminate large, eye candy, images.

On a device that may have limited computing power it is desirable to use those resources efficiently, effectively, and only when necessary to deliver the information content of the site,

And, the one sin Slashdot beta hasn't committed, why should I need an app for something that should just display in a browser if the web presence was properly designed?

Oh, and by the way, if this is supposed to make it better for tablet and smart phone users - it doesn't.

Information density and presentation is even more important on the smaller screens.

Almost got it.

There are a number of licensed gun dealers engaged in retail sales "in the greater D.C. area". They are in Maryland and Virginia, not the District of Columbia.

There are almost no licensed gun dealers in the District of Columbia itself. A D.C. resident would be crossing state lines to buy a firearm in Maryland or Virginia. Most D.C. dealers exist to support government agencies and private security organizations. They do not deal with the general public. Last I heard (a while ago) there was at least one dealer that did not stock inventory or do normal retail sales but would do interstate transfers. There was supposed to be a retail dealer looking for a place of business and having difficulty.

The D.C. dealer situation may have gotten better while I wasbt looking but it is probably still bad. Glad I don't liuve there.

A corner cube may do the trick.

Furthermore, how would they ever get the identity of the domain server your system uses during the three-way handshake? If they can, please tell us how. I'd really like to know.

Google obviously has the technical capability and facilities to handle the job.

Did they have the opportunity to bid the job? Did they submit a bid?

Did the bid evaluation process consider public benefit?

I think we would have been better off had they gotten the job.

If I remember correctly, it was cooperative, not preemptive, multitasking. When things were going well you wouldn't notice the difference. Much less effective when dealing with a non-cooperating task.

Earlier versions of Windows may have been similar.