growingtedium - Slashdot User

Comment It may well be automatic (Score 1) 299

by growingtedium on Thursday January 15, 2015 @02:00AM (#48817287) Attached to: Uber Suspends Australian Transport Inspector Accounts To Block Stings

Don't Uber riders get rated by the drivers after the trip? Presumably after a couple of very negative reviews from drivers (who collected $1700 dollar fines), Uber would automatically block these undesirable riders. Seems a more likely explanation than a conspiracy to obstruct a police action. Then again, Uber doesn't have a great moral track record.

Comment Re:Problem? (Score 2) 186

by growingtedium on Monday November 24, 2014 @12:46AM (#48447037) Attached to: How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles

It's an academic problem. The problem is: our models don't explain the variation in the CO2 cycles that we were seeing. The solution to the problem is to include this research and adjust the models.

Comment Re:Send the American icebreaker! (Score 3, Interesting) 188

by growingtedium on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:03PM (#45813841) Attached to: Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship

I do wonder who is going to be paying for these rescue attempts.

Comment Not anatomically correct (Score 1) 39

by growingtedium on Thursday October 24, 2013 @06:33PM (#45229503) Attached to: Patent Filing Reveals Samsung's Designs For Google Glass Competitor

Judging from the drawings, I don't see how the earphones would actually connect to ones ears.

Comment CO2 emissions (Score 1) 387

by growingtedium on Monday March 18, 2013 @11:06PM (#43210421) Attached to: Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve

It's actually related to the amount of CO2 in the air - atmosphere volume has increased via burning liquid fuels, which increased the air density at the surface, which allowed shorter wings to provide the same lift as the larger historical wings. Or the car thing.

Comment Add new cables (Score 1) 242

by growingtedium on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @04:25PM (#41898619) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management?

It's likely not worth your time to untangle cables when cables are cheap and your time is not. Just keep a couple spare cables around and add new ones as needed and let the old ones lie. When you do a major computer swap, throw out/recycle the old cable bundle.

Slashdot Launches Re-Design 2254

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @11:49PM from the lookit-all-that-shiny dept.

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the third major re-design in our 13.5 year history, and I don't think it looks half bad. The new theme represents a serious gutting of the underlying HTML and CSS, as well as all-new graphics. There will be many design wiggles, bug squashes, and compatibility glitches that survived testing, so bear with us for a bit. Please direct your bug reports and feedback (good and bad!) to Garrett Woodworth who is currently in charge of such things. Thanks to him, Wes, Vlad, Dean, Phil and Tim, who have each worked hard to get this out the door. Juggling the needs of users, editors, and various business functions is a hard job, and you guys did good.

Comment Re:FP (Score 1) 465

by growingtedium on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @06:50AM (#30580594) Attached to: Graphic Novelist Calls For Better Game Violence

Oddly enough - I read FP as "first person", which as opposed to FPS, is basically what we're left with once bullets become deadly. An astute comment.

Comment Easylist lite? (Score 1) 1

by growingtedium on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:07PM (#27913211) Attached to: Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites

This is a step toward appeasing advertisers, but as the article says, I'd want to know what I was getting myself into. The trust issue is a real one. How about an Easylist lite filter set which focuses on obtrusive ads? That's what most adblock consumers are looking for anyway. This would be rather subjective, of course, but there is already someone deciding where the line is between ad and useful offer. And this would also encourage content providers to be more careful in the types of advertisements they allowed on their site, the same way movie producers can be careful to get their movies on the PG-13 side of the ratings line to expand the audience.

Submission + - Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites (informationweek.com) 1

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Dotnaught

on Monday May 11, 2009 @04:15PM

Dotnaught writes: "Wladimir Palant, maker of the Firefox extension Adblock Plus, on Monday proposed a change in his software that would allow publishers, with the consent of Adblock Plus users, to prevent their ads from being blocked. Palant suggested altering his software to recognize a specific meta tag as a signal to bring up an in-line dialog box noting the site publisher's desire to prevent ad blocking. The user would then have to choose to respect that wish or not."

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