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Comment Re:Discussed to death on Bruce Schneier's blog... (Score 1) 332

by Kotoku (#46803549) Attached to: Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All
I've done enough lab work that I can confidently say this: Your groundwater is not clean. It might be safe enough though. But you have a much higher risk of contamination through natural and artificial pollutants and natural fluoride levels should (hopefully) have been checked to prevent enamel damage from overexposure. Good, clean, pure water would come (in my recommendations) from a reverse osmosis filtration system, UV treatment, and chloramines (or Ozone if you can keep a residual with it) to provide a residual in the pipeline. The costs go down as the project scales up and more natural redundancies take over because of the need for maintenance applications.

Comment Re:Don't tell them that... (Score 1) 332

by Kotoku (#46803523) Attached to: Why Portland Should Have Kept Its Water, Urine and All
I'd be greatly concerned. Not only could they reduce their costs by using an enclosed reservoir (those cleaning costs of $35,000 bi-annually? We do that each decade), but they would also limit exposure to harmful bacteria, as you mentioned. Those, most likely, the crypto and giardia inactivation is high enough at the point they are at that they can skirt it and still comply with all health department regulatory requirements.

Comment Re: YUP (Score 1) 156

by Kotoku (#46176083) Attached to: Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost?
What kind of company couldn't make money off Slashdot? It requires very low effort to post 7 stories a day and run a text based site. Only difference is if you count SlashBi and the occasional video (all things we ACTUAL users hate).

Comment Slashdot Beta is an MBA Nightmare (Score 4, Informative) 127

Slashdot Beta is the worst thing I have encountered in years. It's like someone took the metrics for time on page, click through rate, and advertising sales stats for pages viewed and total hits to create this abomination which is in no way useful to the users. I can get the content of Slashdot on Reddit/TechCrunch/AndroidCentral and more. I come here for the comments and the discussion. If you insist on killing the community I will throw in the towel on this site myself. Even "Slashdot Classic" used to be better before it was rolled out. Stop making things worse! It's like common sense doesn't work on you people.

Submission + - Can I buy the Classic interface? 3

Submitted by Max Hyre
Max Hyre writes: LWN almost went under a number of years ago because its volunteer editors couldn't afford to keep it up. The readers rose up and insisted that they be allowed to pay for it.

Can we do the same for Classic?

I'm a nerd. I read. I'm the one in the museum ignoring the display and reading the description. I want text, easily accessible, clearly laid out, and plenty of it. I'll pay to keep the UI I know and love.

The Beta has none of those characteristics. The Beta site is repellent, unusable, and unneeded. I won't use it, and if ``Classic'' goes away, I won't visit /., and it'll be a pity.

How much do you actually receive in revenue for each user? I suspect I'll match it to keep the status quo. Ask us what it's worth to us. I'd certainly pay $1/month, and would think about $5/month. I bet that I'm not alone.

Submission + - Owner: Vote, your choice: Get rid of Slashdot:Beta OR everyone goes elsewhere (slashdot.org) 1

Submitted by Ying Hu
Ying Hu writes: Slashdot Beta is not Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/journal/63...
What was loved about Slashdot does not appear in the new design — those creating the latter, please fire yourself and go work for a commercial consumer site (which we never read, and never will). OUR site should work without JavaScript, and JavaScript that IS used should to do something actually desired by a reader or commenter, not waste our bandwidth and CPU, and electricity, sending CRAP onto our computers. Improvements/ plugins, http://userstyles.org/styles/9..., won't be enough.

Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted upon me, what site should I use instead? 2

Submitted by somenickname
somenickname writes: As a long time Slashdot reader, I'm wondering what website to transition to once the beta goes live. The new beta interface seems very well suited to tablets/phones but, it ignores the fact that the user base is, as one would expect, nerds sitting in front of very large LCD monitors and wasting their employers time. It's entirely possible that the browser ID information gathered by the site has indicated that they get far more hits on mobile devices where the new interface is reasonable but, I feel that no one has analyzed the browser ID (and screen resolution) against comments modded +5. I think you will find that most +5 comments are coming from devices (real fucking computers) that the new interface does not support well. Without an interface that invites the kind of users that post +5 comments, Slashdot is just a ho-hum news aggregation site that allows comments. So, my question is, once the beta is the default, where should Slashdot users go to?

Submission + - Slashdot beta sucks 9

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Maybe some of the slashdot team should start listening to its users, most of which hate the new user interface. Thanks for ruining something that wasn't broken.

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