Even my '72 Ford Pinto was better for my health than Slashdot Beta!

I dug out my old 4 digit UID from an ancient yahoo mail account because of this crap.

Interesting idea. I also propose that it should have a posting system that allows selected users to increase or decrease the visibility of posts that the community finds interesting, funny, off topic, etc. To ensure that system is not abused, I would propose a second system that rates the validity of scoring given to user posts. This would provide the community an effective way to communicate during the boycott.

Oh wait that sounds like Slashdot Classic...

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Like you, I signed up for my account and then was happy to lurk for years... After this beta stuff popped up I decided I should voice my opinion. If Beta is the direction they intend to go then I do not intend to follow.

As another poster has stated, we submit the news, we comment on the news, we moderate the comments. We are the community and we are the product that DICE has been selling to advertisers. DICE should pay attention because without the community they do not have a product. At this point, they cannot say the community did not give them fair warning.

It is a sad day that Intel's big news is having to slash prices to compete with the likes of MediaTek. I'm surprised no one has complained to the ITC yet if they are effectively "dumping" these chip. While I recognize mobile's importance, the nerd in me yearns for the good ol' days when AMD and Intel were fighting it out in the x86 space. Kinda like Slashdot...

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Bitcoin mining is a boat I missed and I have no intention of trying to swim halfway across the channel to catch it. If KnC can actually over deliver and under promise then the more power to them. It would sure beat the Butterfly Labs debacle. Like any gold rush, I wonder if the only people getting rich are the ones selling the shovels.

Speaking of shovels... can someone help me bury Slashdot Beta?

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+1 for pedantry... I stand corrected! ;)

lol. I would completely agree with you but the Feds always think the rules apply to us and not them. I doubt we will see a precedent shift here since the band's request for remuneration obviously has political tones to the damage "calculation." Plus, I don't know if I would *want* people to know the Feds considered my music so horrendous that it would induce severe mental stress.

All Amazon needs to do is look at Ouya. It basically targeted the same space. Perhaps Amazon thinks their marketing and distribution engines will make it successful where Ouya has struggled but I doubt it. The problem with these "consoles" is that they target casual gamers and casual gamers are more than happy with their cell phones and tablets. Up selling them to an Android console would be an interesting sales job.

Almost forgot... fuck beta.

So are they considering interrogations a "performance" that needs to be licensed? I'm sure the guys in black vans will show up shortly to assist them.

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I fully agree with you. I have been a member of /. since at least 1998. Hard to believe I was here for almost the entire life cycle of Slashdot. If they push through Beta like they seem intent on doing then all I have to say is, "Slashdot is dead. Long live Slashdot!"

I don't know who this new site is for but it was not designed for the community that made /. successful in the first place. It is too bad because it was always interesting to read the musings of influential people in the tech community who posted here. It looks like I will likely have to find a new place to lurk... tech news aggregation sites are a dime a dozen but none were quite like Slashdot. Oh well all good things must come to an end.

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Fuck Beta... I've been on this site for over 16 years I thought you guys were on something until I went and viewed it. It is an unholy abomination. I even took the time to dig up my Slashdot account instead of lurking because of how horrendous the new site is to use.

P.S. Do I get bonus points for hating Beta with a 4 digit UID or does that just make me old? Of course you can't see that if you are using beta. ;)

Unfortunately, I have to strongly disagree with you. The future importance of Geo Cities cannot be discounted. One of the most prized finds in archaeology is the ancient human garbage dump... Geo Cities is the largest garbage dump of our generation!! The reason for this is because the knowledge behind many historical items of significance DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE!!!

Researching even the detritus of Geo Cities would provide a great deal of insight into our culture to those researching it hundreds of years from now. Given the difficulties our civilization has had in researching the construction of the pyramids, Stone Henge, and the Mayan calendar, no reasonable person should be okay with destroying our history... even if it is "garbage." These instances, and many others, demonstrate the vast quantities of knowledge that have been lost throughout the ages. The sad part is that it probably derived from the people of that time having an attitude similar to yours.

As a result, we have people producing documentaries on the History Channel proclaiming ALIENS had to help build the Pyramids and create the Mayan calendar.. because, you know, humans back then had to be too stupid and simple to do it themselves. Heck, we cannot even recover some knowledge from the 1960's and 70's because of our blatant disregard of the potential need for the information in the future!!! Perhaps you may not care, but I would prefer people knowing how we built the Hoover Damn or developed atomic energy. It would be highly insulting for future generations to have create a hypothesis about alien life allowing us to build our great achievements because your attitude resulted in the information being destroyed.

In short, I'd rather future civilizations know too much about us rather than too little.

I see your Bill O'Reilly and raise Keith Olbermann (MSNBC), Rachel Maddow (MSNBC), Campbell Brown (CNN), and Glenn Beck (FOX).

Face it, MSNBC, FOX, and CNN and the rest of our news media are filled with tools... It's like pointing out horse crap at the Kentucky Derby.

It is sad that comedians like John Stewart and Steven Colbert are more informative and balanced than the "real" news media.