Yes. Linux prevents it. Right. And what software do these routers run as their firmware? That's right, a customized version of Linux.

Speaking purely from a look perspective, there are a mess of problems.

• Huge amounts of whitespace on either side. This is 2014, and there are a million tutorials on how to make a fluid design.
• Complete lack of contrast. I have no problem with the text contrast, but there's so little difference between comments, and between stories, no delineation or separation.
• Basic problems - Some fonts in the CSS are defined as "Helvetica sans-serif". There needs to be a comma in there, Chris!
• In slashdot comments, there are 3 levels of display: Open, summarized and hidden. In the new beta, there are again 3 options: Open, closed and hidden. "Closed" is not as versatile as "summarized".
• Using JQuery to get the comments I have little-to-no problem with. But slashdot's main point is the long list of comments. The current AJAX system is limiting, at the very least (only grabbing 100 comments), and while it does have some options, it seems that none of those are available here. I had some issues with sorting this out with pure CSS (the Javascript was interfering with it), but I believe it is possible to implement this comment folding properly.

I've done a fair amount with pure CSS (Userstyle for Stylish here), including fixing the acres-of-whitespace width issue (Though I could do more if the source was in a better order), and bringing back the nicely contrasting bars to comments. I'm sure there is more that could also be done, and I'm seriously considering playing with GreaseMonkey to sort out some of the more egregious Javascript problems, but that's going to remain something on the back burner for now. This is obviously a beta site, and a work-in-progress, and I'm only doing this as a personal amusement in my spare time. I'll gladly answer any questions on this, and I'm certainly more than willing to lend a hand to make one of my favourite sites better.

There is much potential here. Unfortunately, a cannonball at the top of the Eiffel Tower also has much potential. Only time will tell how this is going to work out. But for the moment, it seems, SlashDot Beta is not ready for prime time. Heck, at this stage I'd barely call it a beta.

No, you're not missing anything. What I can do (with CSS) is make it so that items that are "Removed" by the filter are instead collapsed down to their titles. I might be able to do even more than that, but that's all I've come up with so far. I'll let you know if I manage any more.

If the stock images have a common server (or url start) then you could. Or you could use an ad blocker for this.

No, I'm afraid not. But if you wanted to do such a thing, you could configure yourself a squid proxy to do that kind of thing.

No, those are Javascript events, and CSS can't touch them. However, if this (and the second request above) is the kind of thing you want to do, you can use GreaseMonkey to inject your own custom Javascript, which could do all those funky things you want.

Doing some supplemental testing, I'm not sure what your beef is. On my machine (Running current FireFox Nightly), When you set your preferred threshold (using the dropdown above the comments), the value you specify gets set in a cookie, which then gets re-loaded on each subsequent page view. So I'm not sure where these issues are coming from. The code is there (and working) to do it.

No, because it's just CSS. However, I'm thinking this could be solved with a little greasemonkey tweaking.

Again, no. It's just CSS.

I believe it will work without Javascript enabled. Of course, you won't HAVE any comments then, as they're loaded with Javascript. But these days, a vast majority of the web requires Javascript to function.

Again, no. But I'm spotting a theme here...

So, your problem seems to be that the new site isn't using your saved preference for what comments to display. This is something that is (at the moment) beyond the capabilities of my little stylesheet tweaks.

Got Stylish for FireFox or Chrome? Have a userstyle that does it's best to fix most of the problems with Slashdot beta. I haven't got everything the same, but I'm doing what I can. Making the web a better place, one stylesheet at a time...

There's so many things wrong here, so I tried to fix it. My fixes are published in a Userstyle for Stylish and Chrome here

If the side rail was in the source code before the main content, I could float it properly so the article and comments expand to use the empty space underneath. Unfortunately, it's not, so you'll have to make do with the dead space. Sorry.

If you want to contact me about this fix, feel free to do so. I should be contactable through here, or you can find my e-mail address in the linked userstyle.

Microsoft has always attempted to follow an "Every 3 years" release schedule for new consumer operating systems, and they've pretty much kept to that schedule, apart from skipping a release in 2004:

• 1995: Windows 95
• 1998: Windows '98
• 2001: Windows XP
• 2004: Skipped
• 2006: Windows Vista
• 2009: Windows 7
• 2012: Windows 8
• 2015: Windows 9

So why is everyone acting so surprised when they keep following this trend?

Well, it works for Apple...

I'm sorry. You were complaining about a news (Yes, news) story about a talk from CCC (Which is highly popular with, and immensely relevant for, nerds), posted on Phoronix (A website that devotes itself almost entirely to information, news and reviews on hardware and software from a Linux-based perspective), about a lot (120+) of security holes (Things that matter) in the X11/X.org servers (Which are the basis for (almost) all GUI-driven applications in Linux, *BSD and some of OSX).

By my count, that makes this story "News", "For Nerds", and "Stuff that matters". Oh, and the irony in posting that Phoronix is a "Link Farm" on /. is almost entirely palpable.

Probably one of these: http://www.realtruck.com/images/products/curt-trailer-hitch-multi-ball-mounts-class-iii/thumbs-480x360/curt-trailer-hitch-multi-ball-mounts-class-iii.jpg The aforementioned "Three Prongs" are to accomodate the 3 different sizes of trailer ball receiver there currently are on the market with a single unit.

How on earth did this get +2 "Interesting"? The ravings of a madman (Really! No mixed-fibre clothing! No shellfish! No shaving of any part of the head! And Heathens are perfectly fine to buy as slaves. And let's not forget "An eye for an eye") whose ideas of morality and correctness were way out of line when the "Good Book" was written (4-legged insects are unclean! As is pretty much everything else, ever!) has precisely what bearing on our lives?

If you want to live by the rules Leviticus (and most of the rest of the Old Testament) dictates, do feel free. I'm sure such draconian dictates will ensure you die an early death as you struggle to deal with impossible to live up to standards, "Original Sin", and pre-medieval healthcare (Really! Even Obamacare is better than the crap in Leviticus for dealing with illness!).

Of course, there is always the possibility that you are merely trying to force your ideals down everyone else's throat, and grabbing the very first passage from the very worst parts of John's Book of Ravings that enables you to take a supposedly pious and "Enlightened" stance on something that has been socially acceptable since at least 800BC.

Or you're a troll, using a quasi-religious stance to get a rise out of the /. community. In which case, well done. You got me.

Well, I knew it was one way round. And I also know that 1/3rd of mine aren't working properly.

And it depends on what part of the eye you're talking about. The Rods (The detail-oriented parts of the eye) see at around 30Hz. The Cones (The black-and-white but higher light sensitivity and faster responding parts) see at around 70Hz. This is why CRT monitors were recommended to be set at 72Hz or higher to avoid eyestrain - at 60Hz the Rods couldn't see the flickering of the display, but the Cones could, and the disparity caused headaches (You could also see the effect if you looked at a 60Hz monitor through your peripheral vision - it appears to shimmer).