Straight up the ass. Seriously, you think I should pay $100+ a month for a service that has about a 90/10 crap to quality ratio, AND THEN I should pay another $8 a month for the privilege to watch it online? Many times at a decrease in quality and convenience?

I'm sure they'll look to fuck over Netflix again somehow as well. Pull more of their shows or whatever. Go to hell, the lot of you. What a joke, "prove that I subscribe to cable". Like this is a requirement for being an American citizen or something.

While I appreciate the desire for timely news, there are also up sides to the delay.
One big up side is that the story has somewhat settled down and there's more facts going around than speculation and knee-jerk reactions.

True, but at the the same time, doing this also removes a lot of input from people who aren't necessarily going to be interested in the topic still. Which may not be a bad thing, but at the same time it removes a lot of the momentum from the conversation, and potentially results in a lot of "dead" topics.

If you're going to try for something like this, doing it sort of like Ars tries to do with their "feature stories" seems like the way to go. Let an expert/writer try to offer their own take initially, perhaps come at it with a different angle, and then let a new conversation spring from that. Of course then the problem is that you have to have people who can generate unique content of some length, rather than just reposting articles with maybe a short blurb.

And let me be clear: I'm not suggesting that Slashdot has to "Go Giz" on us, rushing to get stories up so quickly that half the time it looks like a second grader wrote it, but I do think there's benefit in putting up submissions for most stories earlier. SlashCode is pretty good for allowing long, detailed discussions on topics, and most of us have plenty of practice doing so. The community here used to be epic, and it's still pretty good, but I'm convinced that a lot of quality commenters don't show up here any longer mostly because they've gotten used to offering their comments/opinions on other sites. When something interesting happens, you naturally want to discuss it, and it's just frustrating knowing that you might have to wait a significant amount of time for Slashdot to put up an article on it.

Slashdot right now is the place to go when you want to read about 2 day old news. These days there's very little I see here that I haven't already seen on Ars, Engadget, Giz, TechDirt, BSG, etc.

I know the mission statement probably doesn't care all that much about Slashdot being a news breaker, it's always been more about the discussion, but the discussion becomes a bit stale when the story goes up 18 hours after the rest of the world posted about it. If you want the quality of commenting to rise again, make a concerted effort to get articles up in a more timely manner.

"More than 250 companies declared their intention to deliver OS/2 apps, including biggies such as Lotus, WordPerfect, Borland and Novell."

OK, that made me smile.

Some problems I see. Disclaimer: I know there's a margin of error here as the author said, and I know my observations will be based largely on anecdotal evidence, making it inferior. But if sports were so easy to predict there would be no sports gambling.

- That's probably too far for Belmont; a #14 has only ever gotten as far as the Sweet 16, twice (Cleveland State '86, Chattanooga '97). Lowest seed to make an Elite 8 is Missouri in 2002 as a #12 . Belmont is actually going to be one of the more popular upset picks, but they would have to upset two far superior teams twice in 3 days.

- It's a bit too "chalk". #1 seeds generally survive the first two games (undefeated against #16's, 55-14 v. #8's, 59-6 v. #9's), but the #2's have it worse (only four losses v. #15's, but 58-21 v. #7's and 29-21 v. #10's). I know two #12's, a #13 and a #14 doesn't seem like "chalk" but historically it's much more likely that we'll see more #5-7 or #10-11's. To have only one #2 not make the Elite 8 and all the #1's would be almost unheard of.

- A #12 always beats a #5, but three of them doing so in one year would seem unlikely, as they're only 39-89 overall.

- Some of the other first round matchups seem a bit improbably. It has every #6 and every #7 winning, for example.

Certainly possible, but even so, you have to get all that steel plating up there somehow. We're not at the point yet where we could just mine asteroids or whatever.

...Assuming current level of technology. Like "fire a handful of small rocks at the enemy from a torpedo tube" or "launch several unmanned drones on a collision course". Without any kind of energy shielding tech, you either make your ships incredibly fragile, or cost prohibitive to get into space.

If Mozilla was doing half this to test their bloated piece of crap, you'd all be shitting your pants with glee.

"16 Marketing Managers,HR Directors, and First-Level Help Desk Technicians have decided that routinely testing backups is a waste of effort and not needed at all".

If the attackers place a network sniffer on a customer's internal network...

You've got a hell of a lot bigger problems than pcAnywhere.