Well, after being a daily user of this website for almost 15 years I have to give it up. I took a break during the heat of the election season because the comment sections had gotten over heated and partisan. ... came back today to give it another chance and see the first comment in this thread...Oh well.

Thanks for the memories slashdot. Truely.

The intelligent discussions seem to have disappeared. Best wishes.

I am a tech professional and major nerd. When I was growing up and teaching myself different software and operating system, I had the tendency to find them on "sharing" websites. (only because I was dirt poor and only looking to learn the tools)

Could this kind of severe punishment have an unintended consequence of causing a potential younger tech professional from wanting to move to the UK? I know a lot of tech people who "share" movies and such (I have since grown out of it, but I don't begrudge someone who does). I think it is kind of part of the millennial culture. I could be wrong.

What about speaker and microphone? It seems like that could still be a way to soak in water.

The "landmarks" come from a game called Ingress. It was the precursor to pokemon go.

In that game users could submit ideas for the spots that would become portals(now pokemon stops). They are supposed to be places of interest, sculptures, murials, historic or interesting buildings. I'm proud (or sad) to say that many of the spots in my area were submitted by me a couple years ago. :)

I was recently looking for a cheap oscilloscope kit and eventually came across a comment on Amazon that led to this website. http://www.jyetech.com/Products/LcdScope/e138.php

I guess this would be one way to try and combat the counterfeiters; call them out.

Fine; I will complain about the 1 mouse button. It's so abnormal. I feel like i'm wearing a mitten when I try to use their mice.
:)

I don't know the last time you were at a McDonald's, but I don't see any of those workers taking up a class on robotics or embedded systems programming any time soon.
Maybe you mean it will open up eventual programming and repair jobs for their children? The replaced workers will just have to resort to society supporting them financially for the next few decades until they die off.

I have used t-mobile for about 5 or 6 years. I have never had a problem with the service. Contrary to what that airhead customer thinks, I don't live in a ghetto.

I love to see the look on the faces of my ATT friends when I tell them I only pay $50/month for unlimited text/calls/data (up to 2GB at 4g then throttled back after that). I also have rollover data, so what I don't use gets put on the next month's "allowance". They just sent me a text the other day showing I have about 6GB of 4g-speed data to use. :)

And recently they mentioned something about certain kinds of streaming traffic not counting towards your monthly allotment. I haven't really looked into it yet.

On a personal note, the attitude of that customer makes me sick. I have friends and family of different races. I know people who live "in the ghetto". They are not subhumans you can look down your nose at...what a bitch.

Mr. Trump, is that you?

This was a nice article, but if you read to the end you will find the update that states this analog device wasn't used until after the manhattan project was over. ... So the summary should probably be updated as well.

I have to agree. I am a little let down by the seemingly lack of interest on Jackson's part. Still a big fan though.

And there is the problem. Have we sunk so low that it should be expected that our society will not be civil? The robot made it safely across canada and parts of europe. It spent a week with a heavy metal band, people respected it.
Two weeks in america and its defiled. Makes me emberrased.

This is way off topic, but what the fuck is happening to slashdot. I just now noticed something blaring from my headphones on the floor. Apparently it was some kind of audio ad and for the life of me I didn't know which part of the webpage was playing it.!??!

Then I happen to notice that the 'busy circle' at the top of the chrome tab has been spinning for at least 5minutes. Are you fucking kidding me?

Here are two of them that I noticed. God only knows how many others were busy doing god knows what. (liverail.com and advertising.com) (I wont post actual links)

I can't stand the "slashdot is dying" meme, but I think I am close to moving on to another news aggregate. -Slashdot reader since ~2000AD

If you are broadcasting your code live to millions (or hundreds) of people, can you still claim copyright? If you performed it in public it would seem anyone could use it.

I would assume you wouldn't use this service to flesh out your world changing video encryption code (you know, that 'middle out' idea you had)...

I think that might be a liberal estimate. That number is 100% for me. I have been conditioned to immediately click the close button for every add that pops up. I don't even bother to notice what product is being advertised. I learned LONG ago that clicking on the flashy ad usually got me in trouble...followed by a format/reinstall.

I would like to know who does click on ads though. Someone has to be doing it on purpose. Curious minds want to know.