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Except there are no girls on Slashdot.
Except there are no girls on Slashdot.
I'm not Catholic, so I can't say I paid particular attention to the Pope's Encyclical. But I am also not particularly interested in what some atomic scientist has to say about the encyclical, or Catholicism, or climate change for that matter.
Seriously, was putting the share button where the "read more..." link used to be designed to make people accidentally click on it?
I am reasonably certain you are exactly correct.
Someone who actually is known to have purchased the item, yea, their review should be worth more than random Internet person #4827341
It will depend how it's implemented. Amazon's current system is better than nothing, but some of their recent policy changes make it harder to find unbiased information - and this latest change could take it further down the rabbit hole, depending on the details.
I always look at the reviews before purchasing, and lately I've seen a LOT of reviews flagged as "Verified Purchase" - always at the very top of the list - which state, more or less, "I received this product at a discount in exchange for agreeing to write a review, but I'm not letting that discount bias my opinion". I make it a point to flag those as "unhelpful" and then go hunting for the reviews from people who actually purchased the product the same way I will be, should I purchase the product - at full price.
I'm at UW. There have been several recent occasions where we've ended up firewalling blocks of Chinese IP addresses from accessing our department's servers. It will be interesting to see what happens if we run into a new bad actor who's on the same network as one of these new collaborators from over there.
We're getting all worked until over a summary that doesn't actually explain what's going on.
This is specific to Amazon's subscription services (e.g. Kindle Unlimited), and only affects how Amazon divvies up the fixed pool of money Amazon already allocates to reimburse authors whose works are being read as well art of those subscription systems. It used to be per-book; now it's per-page.
This is the dumbest post I've seen on Dicedot.
You must be new her... oh.
I understand the desire to change things, but putting some social media Share link in place of the Read More link goes against the kind of website Slashdot is.
Not only that, but even though they've added a new numeric post count inside of a little speech bubble... if you click on that, you don't get taken to the comments! You still get taken to the top of the page, and have to scroll down to get to the comments.
I realize Taco and the others are long gone, but doesn't anyone on the Slashdot staff even bother to look at the pages after a design change has been made?
The ITU-R has outlined 4 methods for the future of UTC. Methods A1, A2, B, C1, C2, and D are from various delegations of the international assembly, and they are in serious disagreement with each other.
That's silly. There's no reason for it. Let's just sit down and come up with a new standardized method that covers all of these use cases.
What, was his MySpace account unavailable or something?
Sadly, this joke would've worked better last season... says this guy here in Seattle.
That's nice and all. But the bottom line is: using all of that intellect to perform an activity that is stupid and pointless is still a waste. That's another one of those things you just have to be bright enough to notice.
It's rather ironic that you posted this on Slashdot.
Snowden's revelations have either hurt or in some cases come close to ruining the business of many US companies.
No, in reality it is the NSA's formerly-hidden behavior that has hurt these businesses.
If you are stealing from your employer, and I provide documentation of that fact which results in your getting fired - I'm not to blame for the loss of your job, you are.
It's still an open question how much we should trust companies like Google and Apple... with regards to their internal motivation and plans. However (anecdotally, at least) it seems pretty obvious these companies learned from Snowden's leaked documents just how much the government was screwing them, and they've seen how it's hit their bottom line - any trust that might've previously existed is gone.
Remember the (anecdotal) reaction of the Google engineers when they heard how the NSA was tapping their unencrypted intra-datacenter communications?
The number of lanes is irrelevant, unless you want to run multiple wagons simultaneously, and if you try to squeeze in too many you're going to slow them down.
... or if your station wagon gets stuck behind a slow-moving white Ford Bronco.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.