Best new stamp for 2016? (view)
"I shall expect a chemical cure for psychopathic behavior by 10 A.M. tomorrow, or I'll have your guts for spaghetti." -- a comic panel by Cotham
"I shall expect a chemical cure for psychopathic behavior by 10 A.M. tomorrow, or I'll have your guts for spaghetti." -- a comic panel by Cotham
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I guess you should try exploring Pluto next time.
missing option (Score:2)
"Pluto, Exploded."
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In fairness, on a site that claims to be for nerds it's hard to excuse omitting the stamp which Hong Kong will emit [hongkongpoststamps.hk] for the 2016 International Mathematics Olympiad, featuring Ceva's theorem [hongkongpoststamps.hk].
Can I post in polls? (Score:3)
Why does any access of my account, JE, comments, or messages log me out?
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its benn happening to me too for 3 or 4 days now.. Must be a site error.
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Because you never click any ads!
How can you be so selfish as to only provide the site contents. How is that supposed to pay for another executive raise?!
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I'm posting to let you (and the others) know that this has *not* happened here. I've seen a variety of complaints from people. One person mentioned that viewing your comments page (not just your profile page) logged them out. I could not replicate this here.
Environment: Lubuntu v. 15.10, Opera 35 (beta or stable, beta at the moment), most scripts blocked except for those needed for watching videos and using the AJAX elements.
Other than that, I've no idea. I've not seen any indication, at all, of this and I
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Why do you assume a problem can't exist just because you aren't seeing it?
Quite a few years ago, I had a problem logging into Slashdot - a problem that lasted a couple months, if I remember correctly. Devices where I was already logged in were fine; but if I logged out on one of them, I was unable to log back in again there.
The Slashdot folks identified the problem (and were very up front about it, which I appreciated). It seemed a code update had broken the ability of anyone with spaces in their username t
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Are you retarded or drunk?
How did you read my post and come to the conclusion that I was assuming that the problem didn't exist? You should probably continue to post as an AC, else you're just looking stupid.
I mention that I don't see the problem, that someone else has specified where they saw the problem, what my setup is and why that might be why I'm not seeing the problem, and the steps that I'd personally try first if I were to try to diagnose the problem. How in the fuck did you read that and come to t
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Then they should have read past the first sentence. I know, this is Slashdot and that's a lot to ask but...
Well, it probably doesn't help that I tend to be, shall we say, a little verbose.
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Yeah, still not seeing it. Man, I always miss the fun stuff. That'd give me a reason to bitch and it'd actually be justified! Alas, damned thing is working fine.
I just tried the various subdomains. I use http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org] by default. Hmm... Meh, I just started with a fresh browser instance at the www subdomain, logged in, and meandered around. That, too, has the same configuration with script blocking and ad blocking.
Another poster mentioned using the classic and a combination of that and mobile. I'd hav
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My default is classic.slashdot.org. This brings up slashdot in the old site layout. My preferences also select the old site layout.
The new site has lots of quirks including logging out. I can't stay logged into mobile.slashdot.org at all. every page refresh logs me out. I get so annoyed with it. I scroll to the bottom switch from mobile to desktop version, and then log in. Slashdot then works as intended but with the classic version. If I switch back to the new layout I am immediately logged out, an
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I don't usually log in on the mobile site at all - I just comment that it is me. Maybe the people getting logged out are using the mobile site? For whatever reason, using the setup listed above, I've had nary a problem. I could, probably, get off my comfy couch and go find my phone and test it there but I suspect that's about as helpful as saying that it works in BeOS with Lynx. (I have a Windows phone. I actually kind of like it.)
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I get pretty much the same problems on IE/Win7 as on Centos with Firefox.
Seems unlikely it's a browser issue, but if I can pry it out of his hands I'll try the kid's tablet tomorrow,
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I've read a bunch of the comments and, as near as I can tell, it's multiple browsers across multiple platforms. Yet it's not happening to everyone. That tells me that it's probably not browser specific and that it probably isn't something specific on the server side - which leads me to think that it might be something like one of the scripts.
If you use something like uMatrix you can see that this page in particular is trying to load some 51 disparate elements and quite a few of those are scripts. Where the
Re: Can I post in polls? (Score:2)
Probably it comes across as similar to "works4me". Now I wonder if you're onto something with all the 97 adbots and trackers, but can I be arsed to systematically debug it? And if that's actually interfering with the control flow in the host page then somebody is totally incompetent.
Thing is, it was working ten days ago, and now it isn't. And I'm pretty sure a similar problem occurred before.
I had a friend many years ago who had to take a four hour flight to fix a server where they swore they hadn't chan
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I like the anecdote! And I stumbled across another comment that may be some indicator...
It seems that, "since some days ago" (their verbiage, not mine), they've enabled HTTPS for the login. I only got about four hours of sleep, it's 0600, and I'm going to call in LaborReady to clean up my lawn, put stuff away, and clean up the beach. I'm gonna be way too lazy to debug shit today.
Heh... I'm gonna mentally save that. "They should try not changing it back." Priceless.
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Fixed now for me, it's been a few days since I logged in.
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I think that's a different problem, I've always had that. Clearing the cookies solves it. It does bugger all for this.
Plus now you get errors about not matching captchas when it isn't showing one.
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Happens to me too, using Firefox 42.0 on Linux. But it works just fine (no logouts) if I access Slashdot in a private browsing window.
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My local water utility is a private company and their accounting system must be ancient.
The only kind of electronic payment they accept is Visa and MC or a direct bank account number.
My bank and card is all AMEX so they will not accept payment from me, not even checks (which are pre-paid and therefor guaranteed not to bounce).
Because of this I am forced to get a money order and mail it to them (which is what I do).
Needless to say, the situation is very annoying and they don't always get a payment from me ev
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Why waste time and money on a money order ?
Have you never heard of a personal check ? Oh I see you mention AMEX, they must not be a real bank if their checks aren't accepted... Something is fishy here.
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Is your bill for service rendered or for services yet completed? If it is for the former they have no choice but to accept cash - it's a debt. This is assuming that you're an American... Cash is legal tender for all debts.
Of course, they could just "lose" your payment or shut you off because they're jerks. So, pay with cash at your own peril. However, they *must* accept cash though I think there are specific rules that allow them to refuse certain volumes of coinage.
I mention that to mention this: I've been
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No, that is only if they have to sue you for it. Then they have to accept cash to settle the legal debt. The word "legal" in "legal tender for all debts" has meaning. If they didn't sue you yet, you just need to provide them with appropriate consideration, which may or may not include cash. After they sue you, then they can insist that you pay in "legal tender" and not chickens, or whatever units you were supposed to pay in had your agreement not needed to be resolved in court.
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Hmm... Are you sure? "All debts public and private."
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Hmm... Are you sure? "All debts public and private."
Yep, I'm sure, at least for the USA. A company you do business with can refuse to accept cash from you if they wish and some do for security and/or logistical reasons. Businesses can usually refuse some forms of Legal Tender (Say large bills) but accept another. (Convenience stores refusing bills over $20 or vending machines which only accept coins are all legal.)
However, I doubt the courts would consider a judgment as having not been paid if you showed up with US currency, assuming you didn't go out of yo
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Sending Cash in the mail to pay a bill is STUPID... Don't do it.
It is way too easy for cash to disappear in route or at the destination and if that happens you will have a nearly zero chance that the receiver will just consider the bill paid...
Re:"what's a stamp?" (Score:5, Insightful)
Who mails anything anymore? All my bills are paid online and I email everyone instead of writing letters...
To the extent possible, I don't put ANY of my financial data on the
Internet in any forn (absent end-to-end-encryption that I control, such as phone-home encrypted tunneling). That means lots of paper mail and stamps for me when it's bill paying time.
I also don't sign electronic signature capture devices. (Why put my signature in a vendor's database, for the next cracker to grab and use?)
I assume that government-level attackers can break in if they want to, since they have armies of specialists on that task. But I'm mostly concerned with free-market identity thieves and scammers: If the government wants to ruin my life, it doesn't have to break my encryption to do it - they can just fabricate an excuse and grab me.
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Yup. I don't even check account balances online and, at my request and with my added costs, nor does my accountant. As I usually just move money into specific debit accounts and use a debit card, she moves the money in manually and in person. I will (or she can) call and get my account balance from a human and on a phone but I don't even have a password/username for the online system.
They *did* have an online system that only allowed me to check balances and nothing more. (This was ages ago.) They changed t
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Just this morning, I was outside and doing a little pruning when I stopped, looked up, saw some white fluffy things that were turning gray and yelled at them!
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It was recalled, but... (Score:1)
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Pluto! (Score:1)
Jaime Escalante is another good one (Score:1)
NFA Tax stamp (Score:2)
Subject says it all.
"Things killed by the Internet" for $1000, Alex (Score:2)
A: The best new stamp of 2016
Q: What is a desperate attempt by the USPS to rekindle the public's rapidly waning interests in an increasingly irrelevant mode of communication?
2016 | The year of the Linux desktop! (Score:1)
Tux all the way! :P
Which one(s)? (Score:2)
Eid Greetings... (Score:1)
Uranus (Score:3)
Glad Uranus is not an option. Wouldn't lick that...
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How about Tom's anus? :)
http://hs13.snstatic.fi/webkuv... [snstatic.fi]
They made that stamp self-adhesive, thou. No need to lick it
Francien's cat (Score:2)
https://postkantoor.postnl.nl/... [postnl.nl]
What happened to Cowboy Neil? (Score:1)
Or however it was spelled. At least it was obvious what the escape answer was.
Really, who is using stamps these days? Okay, I admit I still remember what they are, and I even see them sometimes on incoming snail mail (but increasingly rarely), but I really can't recall the last time I bought one. (That's the Japanese situation, but your local mileage may vary. Here the biggest profit source (AKA loss reduction plan) for the post office is new years cards, but almost all of them are printed postage, not stam
What's a STAMP? (Score:2)
Sticky
Tariff
Aware
Mailing
Protocol
Postcard stamps are really dwarf stamps (Score:1)
Pluto -- Explored! (Score:2)
Hermit Crabs?!? Really??!! (Score:2)