http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/04/1946231/plantronics-helps-make-remote-workers-lives-easier-video
Yep. It's come to this. Slashdot is now serving undisguised advertisements in place of stories.
Well, it appears that you can use Adblock-Plus to kill the tag block on articles here.
Fire up Adblock-Plus and add the following as a filter. You may need to have the Adblock-Plus Element Hiding Helper installed, I'm not sure....
slashdot.org#DIV(class=tag-widget body-widget)
It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment
It's been 2 minute since you last successfully posted a comment
It's been 3 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
It's been 5 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
My karma has been maxed for god-knows how long. This is ridiculous.
UPDATE: a new record!
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 8 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
WTF!!!
UPDATE: It's getting worse. At least it only happens vs anonymous posts, but still...
It's been 15 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment.
Did you know that if you took all the economists in the world and lined them up end to end, they'd still point in the wrong direction?
