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zamboni1138 writes: Anybody familiar with the technology news web forum known as Slashdot have known about the recent decline in quality of stories and comments. Recently Slashdot decided to "upgrade" their advertisement experience resulting in an almost broken user experience for users that implement any kind of ad-blocking technology. Over the last week visitors to the site using ad blockers have noticed a unique experience with javascript alerts explaining "This page could not be loaded properly due to incorrect / bad filtering rule(s) of adblockers in use. Please disable all adblockers to continue using the website. (click OK if you'd like to learn more)". These notices are almost non-stop while trying to load/read a page making the site unusable.

Comment Re:Not records here but... (Score 1) 185

by waibati (#64622951) Attached to: Across the US, Heat Keeps Breaking Records

It was always going to be difficult.
NOW it's going to be painful...

Here in PA, We've had 2 heat waves already, and night temperatures often don't go below 77F (25C) this spring and summer.

And yes, the use of Bunker fuel temporarily held off the increases, and no, resorting to purposely harming the earth by returning to its use is not a fix. It will make things worse in the end.

We shoulda listened to the people who said this was going to happen a long, long time ago. But we didn't and now we have to put up with what we all caused.

Best bet now is to go as green as possible, and encourage people and companies to stop de-sequestering carbon. But this is still going to be painful.

Comment Re:Says more about Wells Fargo than the Employees (Score 1) 115

Someone can be employed there and literally do nothing without being fired. If they were surfing the web instead of using a mouse mover they would still have a job.

Not necessarily, they probably just haven't gotten there yet. Anyone WFH connects through an employer portal, which can (and IMHO, usually does) log all URLs accessed, traceable back to an emloyee's provided or allowed devices. To look busy, the employee is going through that portal.

Caveat enduser!

Comment Re:I feel sorry for russians (Score 1) 132

by waibati (#64090803) Attached to: Documents Reveal Hidden Problems at Russia's Nuclear Powerhouse

So much potential in that country destroyed by Putin and his corrupt bunch of cronies living in some "glorious" past that never really existed. If ever there was a country and population consistently ruined over the centuries by useless and/or evil leaders whether now or the communists or even the Czars then Russia is it. Whatever you may think of Xi's China, at least he's brought prosperity and is looking forwards, not backwards.

Xi's earlier on the curve than Putin, but it's the same arc.

Comment Why the device anyway? (Score 1) 141

by waibati (#64050845) Attached to: Lucid Dream Startup Says Engineers Can Write Code In Their Sleep

Back in my days of writing software, I'd often have days when I'd hit the wall for ideas how to solve programming problems. After hours, it was my time and I let it go. Frequently, after a good night's sleep, I'd come in in the morning and as soon as I got back to work on whatever it was, a new way to approach - or even solve - the problem would just pop into the old brain.

It's like trying to remember something on the tip of your tongue. Let it go, do something else, it ususally pops up by itself after a while.

Your brain is constantly doing stuff you're not really aware of. Lucid dreaming may sound cool (not to me, really) but it may interfere with other things your brain should be doing when you're asleep.

Comment Except... (Score 2) 274

It does not take into account how much of a product a person can safely consume.

That's...kind of important? Even water can be deadly, if you drink too much of it in too short a period of time.

Digesting aspartame produces some dangerous chemicals, such as methanol and formaldehyde. Sounds horrible, until you realize that these same chemicals occur continuosly in your body, from digestion and ordinary metabolism. Your body is perfectly capable of handling minor amounts of these chemicals. It's the quantity that matters.

Current guidance says that you shouldn't consume more than 40mg (EU) or 40mg (US) of aspartame for each kilogram of body weight. This amounts to around 12 liters of diet sodas for an average person, per day.

for the potentially millions of people like me for whom aspartame causes debilitating illness in significantly smaller doses than outlined above. Who knows how many others are affected more subtly? Cancer or other ailments seem like a very probable outcome.

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