Comment No comment (Score 1) 135
Are those the same autonomous crapvertisement drones that run slashdot now?
Comment Re:Facebookesque (Score 1) 104
I don't see a problem in this. Let them make money, as long as they deliver a good slashdot replacement. He'll, I'd even pay for premium as for arstechnica. They are also corporate owned and keep up a great community.
Comment Re:Buy It Back (Run it non-profit) (Score 1) 21
Awesome Idea. Best time to do this will be after the boycott next week when dice falls really hard and they have to bury their wet dreams about advertising revenue.
Comment Facebookesque (Score 1) 104
After looking at how dice.com sells slashdot http://slashdotmedia.com/about... it's not hard to guess that the whole redesign is just for revenue purposes. And a good looking site just sells better to media morons.
I'm doubtful that the boycott will work but it's a good way of giving dice the finger.
Also there are two options that will work of getting slashdot back. First is to build a new site, which is was OkianWarrior suggests: http://altslashdot.org/
Second is to set up a kickstarter to buy slashdot back form dice.com: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Submission + - Francois Englert And Peter W. Higgs got Nobel Prize For Physics 2013
rtoz writes: Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize For Physics.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two scientists for the “theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.”
Read more details here.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two scientists for the “theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.”
Read more details here.
Submission + - New York Subpoenaed AirBnb for Its User Data (vice.com)
Daniel_Stuckey writes: The war between New York City and Airbnb is raging on, and the future of the hospitality business hangs in the balance.
The city is fighting the startup for breaking local laws against operating an illegal hotel out of your home, worried that hustlers are abusing the online service to turn a profit. To that end, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just slapped the company with a subpoena to hand over the user data of all New Yorkers who've listed their apartment on the site, the New York Daily News reported today. That's about 225,000 users.
The city is fighting the startup for breaking local laws against operating an illegal hotel out of your home, worried that hustlers are abusing the online service to turn a profit. To that end, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just slapped the company with a subpoena to hand over the user data of all New Yorkers who've listed their apartment on the site, the New York Daily News reported today. That's about 225,000 users.
Comment Re:Recycling (Score 1) 474
>What can a school or church do with a P133? (That's >what I'm throwing out right now.)
Well, it surely would be enough for all CS need my high school has. I also know one school whose best workstation for the kids (ok, its an elementary) is a 486dx-100. There are still plenty of tasks this computer would be useful at.
Well, it surely would be enough for all CS need my high school has. I also know one school whose best workstation for the kids (ok, its an elementary) is a 486dx-100. There are still plenty of tasks this computer would be useful at.
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