Is it really leaded gas, or just gas with a lead substitute?

I actually did a science fair project once testing whether the moon's gravity led to Earth getting hit with fewer asteroids. The effect was statistically insignificant.

Yeah. It's a CPU-less Arcade Game Emulator. It emulates a box with a lot of wires. They should have called it CAGE.

I still play Unreal Tournament from 1999. Its graphics are simple, but sufficient, and it has so many mods.

As I was making a large post farther down this story, I just noticed a big thing I wish Slashdot had: A better editor for comment posting. Entering things - particularly URLs - as HTML is jarring for me somehow. Even though I work with HTML every day, here with the limited vocabulary it's different.

Take vBulletin's editor - please! On Slashdot, to link to someplace, I have to do <a href="http://slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a>. The ends of the tags require the shift key, and the URL has to be preceded by "href" and in quotes. In BBCode, that would be [url=http://slashdot.org/]Slashdot[/url]. "url" is bigger than "a", but 2x"url" is smaller than 2x"a" plus " href". Plus, BBCode has an option for WYSIWYG post creation too. Some people - maybe many people - would like that.

Oh, yes, and one other thing BBCode has that /. doesn't: Emoticons. You don't even have to get a real set of images anymore: You can just use Emoji - if you allow Unicode.

On the other hand, I have to contrast this with the current Beta. I see a big blank title field with no indication it's a title field, a big body field, but no indication of allowed codes (HTML, BBCode, or otherwise), and no option to switch to a WYSIWYG editor (or if it is a WYSIWYG, no buttons for links and such, no emoticons, and no option to switch away.) You can do better.

I'll be honest here too. I actually could have probably lived with Beta as it is now. But it would have taken a whole lot of work with user styles.

Hm, I actually hadn't noticed that as a problem. But it should be easy to fix in Stylish CSS.

I was working on this when the good news came down that Beta is delayed. It turns out that when displaying only, say, level 2 and higher comments, all the comments are there - just hidden. Furthermore, if I forced displaying of all comment headers:

...the bodies were hidden, but clicking the header would show the body. The main problems being that the formatting was all messed up and the little arrow on the left was backwards. But these things could be fixed in time.

On the current Slashdot, there's a moderate-sized chunk of space on the left lost. On the Beta, there's a somewhat larger chunk lost on the right...and on the right of the comments...and on the borders on both sides of the page. I'd say the two best one-liners in my user style were to fix the borders:

and to fix the post padding - particularly on the right side:

Could the beta be better? Absolutely. But it's not the end of the world from my perspective.

This is different how?

The F22 and F35 also seem like impractical boondoggles.

So does this mean Greasemonkey and Stylish won't work on pages using this technique? I hope it doesn't spread widely.

Actually, I guess Greasemonkey scripts could be written to tease out what they need anyway, but it would be much harder.

I have unlimited 3G internet with T-Mobile, which I think includes unlimited tethering (I've never tried it to be sure), for $50/month. It's only 1.5Mbps, but unlimited slow is better than limited fast IMHO.

The heat was just moving to locations where it's hard to put a ground-based weather station. Add satellite measurements and the "pause" disappears.

TigerDirect does. And I hate them for it. (Example link to a TV.)

First, force companies to pay H-1B workers a lot more - unless they pay for training of an American for the entire duration that the H-1B worker works for them. Then, if the American they trained does not work for that same company at least as long as the training period, penalize the company the salary difference they saved. This forces the company to pay the American what they're worth, or lose a lot of money otherwise.

And how many schools even have an AP computer science class? Mine had a programming class, but not an APCS class. Of course, this was 15 years ago; things may have changed.

I did take the APCS test, but I had to specially request it. I was the only one in the room taking the test, though there might have been one other person in my whole class who took it. Many students may not know it's available, even if you don't take an APCS class - or they may just not want to bother getting a test set up just for themselves.

From The Zen of Python:

From TFS:

This is one of the main reasons I hate Python: It's Guido's way or the highway. But, furthermore, Python 3.0 violates this principle as well: If there was one way to do it in 2.x, that way should continue to be the only way to do it in 3.0.