we (many, not just me) simply do not trust your motives.

you HAVE been called out and people know you for what you are.

deal. you made your bed, now lie in it.

as for slash taking your submissions, that speaks more against slash, I guess; but I suppose they are LOOKING for contentious click-bait and so this is why they welcome your submissions.

and so, my respect for slash is lower, still. so, you hang out here, I'll go over to the Other Site(tm) and perhaps that's a good way to work it.

slashdot is now yours. enjoy yourself. you and dice are meant for each other.

and, supposedly, the russians are returning to using type-writers instead of computers, for their secret memos and spy schtuff.

let me tell you this; the pidgeons are starting to look pretty scared, at this point...

except for when there is a lie of omission.

headline says that x and y 'almost definitely' (huh?) have the snowden docs. but it leaves out that bruce believes that x and y had the docs (and not 'the docs' but info that can be found in those docs, plus probably a shitload MORE that snowden didn't get!) aside from and apart from ed snowden. ie, this is not about snowden and how x and y have more advantage now. they always had this info, according to bruce (or speculating by bruce).

therefore, the meaning is quite different between bruce's article and what CF is saying and also leaving out.

(mod parent up, please)

I think he has a valid point. I suspected something is going on here and he may have nailed it.

add to that 'disconnect' as a firefox plugin. it also filters things that you don't want (stops outbound connects that don't need to be, just to read the content).

it may now be time to deregister from slashdot.

our 'favorite' bootlicker gets a submission. this is not a good sign; but then again, dice has been ruining slashdot for quite a while, now.

why CF is wants us to read bruce's article, though, is a mystery to me. CF is NOT a fan of snowden and yet this article defends snowden.

something seems a bit off, here.

is there a pre-fondling program we could join? you know, get it all done at once, in one, uhhhh, lump sum ?

you happen to be wrong. the better rca connectors, for example, come nickel plated NOT silver or gold. I'm talking digikey and mouser, here.

the nickel plated ones have lasted many rca plug insertions and removals. I've never in my life seen a 'gold' contact last even 10 insertions without scratching and looking like a POS.

not sure why you think nickel plating is bad. the good vendors make and sell it and I doubt the tier1 manuf's would bother with the nickel plating if you were correct.

bottom line: gold is usually for looks. almost never does anyone need gold for contacts. even if silver tarnishes, the tarnish is conductive so you don't care.

'share' is one thing I have filtered on ALL sites.

'social' is another. if your url has that string in it, it gets to the dev/null device.

I have zero patience for 'social networking' whores. it sucks I have to spend the first 5 minutes on any new site filtering and adding block entries to ABP and noscript but since its war, this is what we have to do to tame the (already messed up) internet.

and if a site can't show its conent in the first few minutes of my configuring filters, I just leave and never come back.

soon, slash will be that way for me. I've been here for a long time, but I can see it will end, probably this year.

fuck you, dice. just fuck you. sad how it ends like this.

like a doomesday counter or a count that shows the number of accident free days at work.

but this would be a constant reminder and a bloody nose to disney, how evil this h1b policy is and how evil DISNEY is.

'its been X days since disney last laid off US workers'. and when they do more evil shit, that counter gets reset (or, rather, its timestamp does).

too many ignorant americans have NO IDEA how fucked up disney is. they believe the hype and drink the koolaid and continue to buy their crotchfruit more and more disney merch.

people need to realize how evil this company is and that they are NOT worth giving your money to under any circumstances at all.

a public counter that stays up (yeah, disney has lots of lawyers so not sure how you can keep it running under pressure of lawsuit, even though it would be fair to have this be told about them) would really keep this issue alive, long after disney has buried it in the news.

disney should be the poster child of what is wrong with h1b. no one but us techies realize the h1b problem. the world needs to see this (at least the US does). disney might be the proper wake-up call to finally make people realize how badly we have sold our own people out ;(

I'm not a fan of MC, but I will say this: while the MC's are overpriced at least the shielding is reasonable. hum can be a problem with poor shielding and the MC's that I used to use, years ago (car audio ones with foil wrap) were quite good for keeping hum low. dollar store cables have the thinnest shielding and usually poor molding so they break easy.

once you get to minimum quality standards, there's little diff other than being able to see numbers change in high priced test gear. but dollar store is really not what you want to compare anything to. even monster is better than that ;)

their prices are outrageous but the quality is acceptable. not worth the money but that's not the same as saying that they are made like dollar store cables. they definitely are not.

'gold' is often such a micro thin layer that it simply flakes off and makes things WORSE than they were before.

simple nickel plating is all you need. it does not flake off, it does not rust and does not tarnish very much. its cheap and it can be well made IF you use non-china designed parts. I did not say to avoid parts made in china (all parts in this type are from china) but if its switchcraft or neutrik or some truely responsible company they will ensure the metal coating is done properly. if its a china company making their own stuff under their own name, all bets are off. I have yet to see one china-designed connector last even 1/10 as long as a proper name-brand part that was sold thru proper channels (mouser, digikey, etc).

when I see gold, I usually go the other way since 99% of the time, its for looks only. I build audio gear (diy style) and the china parts I've used have always backfired on me. even very solid looking jacks have gold flaking off in weeks of use.

so, folks, don't be fooled by gold (lol). its usually a sign that they value looks and your one sale more than anything else.

exactly; if you have spare cycles and are iot, you did it wrong.

plus, iot is usually of a more realtime nature. who wants to risk timing skews or dropped events because some joker wanted to 'use' my super weak iot device for his alien space searches?

hosts are way overpowered, today. but tiny devices? no. they are not usually overpowered at all. and they are NOT your hosting platform! they are meant to do something and not work a night shift just because you college boys don't really understand what the fuck iot is really about.

this is stupid. no. just no. ok?

iot is all about low power, dedicated and it is NOT YOUR HOSTING PLATFORM for running your bullshit on.

iot has enough trouble with weak or non-existent security and the devices are just not meant to accept 'workloads' from you.

someone has been smoking from the beowulf bowl...

and when the media decays and the systems no longer work and there's nobody around to fix them, then what?

"see?! we told you there are not enough qualified amercians. we DO need more h1b's!"