But can you upgrade the ram? Put in a bigger SSD? If so then it could be an interesting device.

"A merchant has to be able to make money to keep the lights on and pay the rent. A merchant is subject to physical constraints. A merchant is PAYING for the things they present to you."

A website has to pay to host, to maintain the system. If you have never been involved with even a medium sized website you would not dismiss those costs.

That is where things go pearshaped.
A website that does not allow you to post x is not stopping your freedom of speech. You can post on other websites or start your own.
Your freedom of speech is not being infringed on.
You are allowed to say whatever you want "within reason aka slander, fraud, and so on" you have no right to say it everywhere.

So any store that only carries Organic foods is censoring?
Yours is a definition with difference.
We do not carry x because our customer base does not want it.
If you do not carry it of course people do not go there to buy it.

By your definition CVS is censoring the tobacco companies by not selling tobacco products in the future.
They sold them for years and we know people want them so CVS is being evil and censoring?

1. Censorship only applies to governments.

A website or a store deciding that they do to carry a product is not.
Whole Foods does not sell Coke.
A tee shirt stop may not want to carry a KKK or Hitler tee shirt.
A website may not want posts that are offensive.
The nice thing is you can always start your own Website or store or go to different store or website.

That being said, why is this offensive speech worthy of protection and not, anti-semitic, anti-christian, anti-islamic, anti-gay, pro-abortion, anti-abortion,.....

" it will be full of people accusing the women involved of attacking them personally and of being whiney bitches."
Well.
1. The first part may be true. I have had men attack me personally on Slashdot and women could do the very same thing.
2. The second part is simple bigotry.

Misogyny is the hate or strong dislike of women. That is simply a lack of respect for or bias of women. Still not okay but actual Misogyny usually is reserved from much more extreme actions.

It is also not even bias to say that a women is personally attacking you if you feel that is what is happening anymore than it is bias to say a male is attacking you personally if you feel that way.
 

Ummm... Not according to Charity Navigator.
http://www.charitynavigator.or...
They get 4 stars.
Or give.org
http://www.give.org/charity-re...
Or the Christian Science monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Busin...

Correct it would be exploitable. Some people might only be jerks when they are posting as an AC while reasonable when not. If they are universal jerks that would be found out soon enough. Frankly I do not like the blocking terminology on slashdot since it sound combative plus it shows who you have blocked to the world as well as who had blocked you.

Frankly I can put up with most of the posts on Slashdot even the vile ones but I just can not recommend it to some younger people that I know. I would love an option to auto moderate down profanity or obscure it at the readers option but these are all just suggestions and I can in no way force these on anyone. For some reason people get bent when people say things like this.

I never had an issue with Ubuntu server but I would suggest looking at CentOS for servers.
A lot will depend on APT vs RPM but I found that CentOS tended to get stable releases of most server software before most other OSs because it could use RHEL RPMs to update.

ProE used to have a Linux version. I loved Soldworks. This is a classic FOSS fail. Nobody makes a FOSS 3D CAD program as good as SolidWorks, ProE, Inventor, or even TurboCad.

What kills Linux in the office space is Microsoft Office. Bloody DocX is a de facto default file format docs and Excel is just a really good tool. Until you can get most people to move to GoogleDocs or Microsoft Office online it will be a hard fight. Of course when that happens it will probably be Chromebooks that takes over from Windows. It is already good enough for most students and home users.

Since people use a handle on Slashdot how would a an HR search find you?
Plus if you read my suggestion you could still post as an AC if you wanted. You just might take a Karam hit for being a jerk if you acted like a jerk.
There is a checkbox right now on this post that allows me to post as an AC.

I use the same Handle most places because I want to stand by what I post.

If you think must posting as an AC makes you anonymous then you are a bit naive.

I agree that Slashdot's moderation system works better than most places.
I do not see how you could work out the id.

If I was to post as an AC and post a a troll and you block me it would only block me when I was posting as an AC.
It would not block me when posting as myself.
As to stopping ACs without a log in. Yes it would I do not see the issue with that. If you are posting something so sensitive that you do not want it tracked by a government level threat you should have be using a VPN/Tor/ so having a fake login on Slashdot that you only use for those posts seems like a no brainer.
After all you do not have to give any id info to get a slashdot ID.

Slashdot could significantly reduce trolls by just making everyone login to comment.
Keep the ability to post as an AC but make these changes.
1. You still take the karma hit to your real name when you post a troll and get the good karma for good posts.
2. The ability to block the person when they are posting as an AC. The person blocking would still not know who they are blocking as it would just say AC on the blocked list.
It would not stop all the trolls but it seems like a good compromise solution for Slashdot.
BTW I do not block Slashdot ads since I want them to get paid and they have not put up any annoying video ads lately.

"warning, mild misogyny ahead:"

God freaking grief.....
I heard that same joke a few years ago from an friend of mine that was an engineer. I will tell you one thing, she is a very smart person.