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It's been interesting and fun since 1999, but now it's not even amusing.

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Damn fine idea. Dice bought it to fuck it up and doesn't have a mission, so they should be willing to sell it.

We could return it to its former glory.

The redesign was ordered by a human.

Who is he?

Seek out the guilty!

Who is he?

A person directed the Slashdot redesign.

Who is he?

So much for going the cheap route.

That may be for the best.

The answer to a zombie infection is a headshot.

May the person who directed that it be redesigned die in a fire.

Not for the redesign itself, but for INSISTING on it instead of dropping it and admitting it was a fuckup. Their departure from this mortal coil would reduce oxygen wastage.

Which begs the question, what fuckwad insisted on doing so?

If Dicedot weren't making more money this way, then the old Slashdot would be back.

This desperation to lure fresh victims into tech doesn't really square with the MANY online complaints about the shittiness of many tech job situations.

Men trying to lure women into tech just want to change the workplace "scenery" and should admit it.

" Those who created and programmed Stuxnet needed to know the exact amount of pressure or torque needed to damage aluminum rotors within them, sabotaging the country's uranium enrichment operation."

Mechanic with machinist training here. That's no big deal. Overloading a system by running it as hard as the drive motors allow will often break it as many machines aren't built with protective mechanical safeties such as simple wasp-waist shear points on driveshafts, shear pins, or mechanical governors.

It's easier to control machinery electrically and when a targeted operator doesn't expect malicious control operation they aren't likely to have designed with it in mind.

"what about if a car came along that didn't have wheels?"

They have. It's called a "hovercraft" and proponents saw them as the wave of the future.
They are inefficient, lack positive steering or braking (good luck stopping one on a downgrade) and remain in the niche markets they suit.

If a future wheel-free car is offered, I won't need to "try" it to determine if it suits my requirements. I can infer that from what I see it do.

While encryption is desirable, hard disks, all of them, are trivially cheap compared to loss of classified into.

When in doubt, shred.

OP is right. Airliner environmental control systems move literally tons of air.