I had a feeling this was coming because of site changes recently. I'm not going to allow your crap load of third party JavaScripts just to read stories copied from other sites. If this is the only way to keep Slashdot going, just let it die already. I'm done.
Letting the community police itself is probably a better idea. Hell... we do it here, and it usually seems to work OK?
You must be new here.
Community moderating never worked well and even saying it works OK is generous IMO. What it mostly did was save CmdrTaco time doing it all himself (and the other editors). These days, I don't believe the Slashdot editors spend much if any time looking for moderation abuse. And yet, there's significantly less posts to examine for abuse.
Here's one of my favorite quotes from Slashdot moderation. https://slashdot.org/moderatio...
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down.
Political beliefs have been tainting Slashdot moderation significantly for years now. I have my personal score modifiers for Troll, Flamebait and off-topic set to +1 (instead of the default -1) because moderation abuse is so rampant.
TLDR; Is Slashdot moderation better than Facebook fact checking? I think it depends on the story.
You said you will never buy from them again. I am guessing even if they do something 'good' tomorrow, you will not end your boycott?
It's not D-Link that needs to learn, it's a lesson for all the other vendors. Let D-link go out of business, they're not too big to fail.
Seems like the govt funding is doing what was intended.
You'd have to prove that a meaningful number of the EVs were purchased because of the credits and wouldn't have been purchased otherwise. Since EVs lose value even faster, the adoption rate maybe a wash that's only compensating for the lost value to borderline or fully luxury vehicles. Maybe you think that's living up to the spirit of these credits, I don't.
And why are we trying to speed the adoption of EVs? For the environment. That would be much for meaningful if we were subsidizing the kinds of cars that would replace the worst polluters on the street. Cars that are 10 and 20 years old. Cars that weren't even $20,000 new. Cars that would have owners who need charging ports where they live to be subsidized almost as much as the car itself.
Every time I'm behind some clunker spewing toxic fumes, I'm reminded that this is the kind of vehicle that needs to be replaced thanks to EV subsidies, not some 1%'ers $50,000 SUV.
The long term solution is to lower the population. We have too many people and too few resources.
I've heard this many times. Remind me again, what's the right population?
We are vastly overpopulated
So that's what, 1/10th the population, 1/100th is the right amount to you?
I believe survival of the next extinction level event is going to depend on people, both brain power and labor. If you don't care about such things then yeah, lets clear cut the world population and build bunkers.
Beyond that, I also believe more people means more interesting things in life. As long as people are housed, fed and educated, I think we're doing just fine where we're at.
As someone who was already a full time desktop Linux user when Ubuntu came into the scene, I'm still amazed that Mark Shuttleworth was able to buy his way into the Linux ecosystem. I consider Ubuntu to not be a Linux success story but proof that advertising can work.
If the US is so "frail" when it comes to surviving the worst of Mother Nature, please direct me to those "strong" countries that build Cat-5 rated houses, complete with manufacturer guarantees and warranties.
I thought your challenge was interesting, so I accepted. Here's what I found quite easily. https://www.attainablehome.com...
My favorite was shipping container homes. The thought of adding a new room by ordering another shipping containing was quite amusing to me.
Not sure why it was posted anonymously, which is unfortunate because it is valuable info more people might need to see.
I'm fairly harsh toward many of Slashdot's frequent commenters and I use the AC post limiter as a sort of guard rail to tell myself to shut up.
I'll never understand why BEVs and green tech is so polarized on Slashdot. I would expect those who don't understand to get drowned out by those who do.
It's not hard to double minimal numbers. Doubling the piddling bit we had before Biden doesn't sound all that impressive when the promises were for so much more.
You think doubling 96,000 stations is piddling? You know there's only a bit more than 100,000 gas stations in the US, right? https://247wallst.com/energy/2...
Unlike the mandatory need for gas stations, people with BEVs can charge at home, work, hotels or pretty much any place where someone wants to put a charger. The idea and need to visit a place dedicated to charging should eventually go the way of the dodo.
if you wanted an Xbox, most people already bought one, and/or people just don't have as much extra money to spend...this is just one of the symptoms.
The following post is sarcastic and is clearly identified as such for the sarcasm detection impaired.
This proves Microsoft was right and that they need to acquire more game companies. Once these titles are exclusive to the Xbox, players will be forced to buy an Xbox.
Expansions in themselves are not good; however, not assessing why there is expansion leads to binary conclusions of everything is bad or good.
Saying that these expansions are because they're not buying oil from Russia leaves out something important. Much of the oil they're not buying from Russia is now being sold in India and China (much more so by India). Would India and China still be significantly ramping up oil usage otherwise? I have my doubts.
I approve of the EU cutting off oil purchases from Russia while they invade Ukraine but lets not pretend everything is fine by them not buying Russian oil and using their own.
Pixels are part of images and might even sound harmless. This code is likely JavaScript and it can be far from harmless. https://developers.facebook.co...
The Meta Pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that loads a small library of functions you can use to track Facebook ad-driven visitor activity on your website.
Needing an app to use hardware is the modern day winmodem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Softmodems are also sometimes called winmodems due to limited support for platforms other than Windows.
Turn off the news completely and you'll find yourself in a better mood.
Turn off all the Social Media and you might even be happy again . . .
This used to be a selling point for Slashdot. You could read stories without political slant because they were tech stories, not political stories. There was a time I would have said this story doesn't belong on Slashdot because its only intent is to inflame readers.
And now the obvious question; under this new proposed system, who exactly would valid or invalid fraudulent charges be the responsibility of?
I disagree with your Flamebait mod. You have a valid concern and it's not a new one. There are always going to be financial institutions that want to put the burden of fraud on end users. You don't have to believe me, believe Citibank. https://www.consumerfinance.go...
And New York alleges that instead of complying with the Electronic Fund Transfer Act's protections in circumstances like these, Citibank looked to a law that was intended to govern transactions between commercial entities which does not provide the same level of consumer protection to victims of scams.
As of next Tuesday, C will be flushed in favor of COBOL. Please update your programs.
