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Re: Off Topic (Score: 3, Insightful)

by scott@pipedot.org in Autism Rate Rises in US, May Begin In Utero on 2014-03-29 01:32 (#VQ)

Thanks for publishing it. I'd like to see Pipedot evolve a different mission, since both Soylent News and Pipedot are basically trying to do the same thing, and the audience seems to be with Soylent by a significant share. Maybe Pipedot could be a more intelligent version of Reddit, without the pr0n?

Re: Steady incremental changes good! (Score: 5, Interesting)

by scott@pipedot.org in Pipedot Status Update on 2014-03-25 06:36 (#SW)

My understanding is Bryan wants the code to look less like wet spaghetti before he shares it. Hopefully it will be out under AGPL3.

Re: Approval Voting (Score: 3, Informative)

by scott@pipedot.org in Which features are the most important? on 2014-03-17 08:08 (#M3)

Could you explain why you want Unicode support as a high-priority item over other features?

Re: Approval Voting is Under-Rated (Score: 2)

by scott@pipedot.org in Approval voting on 2014-03-17 08:02 (#M2)

What kind of stuff would you like to see on Pipedot?

Re: Approval Voting (Score: 5, Insightful)

by scott@pipedot.org in Which features are the most important? on 2014-03-16 07:05 (#KG)

Reach feature parity with Slashcode first, then make this better than that Perl-hell.

Hypocrite Quotes (Score: 5, Informative)

by scott@pipedot.org in Dianne Feinstein Charges CIA With Spying on US Senate on 2014-03-11 22:30 (#GD)

Feinstein had given firm support for the NSA's phone call tracking program just last month while criticizing Snowden for being a runaway whistle-blower who could have instead turned his documents to Congress.

"What keeps me up at night, candidly, is another attack against the United States. And I see enough of the threat stream to know that is possible," Feinstein said at a Pacific Council on International Policy dinner in Century City.

"But the way we prevent another attack - and this is tricky - is intelligence," she said. "You have to know what's going to happen, because it's too late otherwise."

"There are all kinds of things that are going on. And for some reason, the fear of our government for a bona fide reason, which is to prevent a terrorist attack, raising this kind of concern, when there are only 22 people in our country who have access to this database and every one of them is vetted,"

Re: DDoS (Score: 5, Insightful)

by scott@pipedot.org in SoylentNews.org Temporarily Offline? on 2014-03-11 19:08 (#FV)

Both sites are powered by the community, so submit your stories here.

Re: First Post (Score: 2, Funny)

by scott@pipedot.org in Scientists Create LEDs Only Three Atoms Thick on 2014-03-11 16:32 (#EV)

How can we worship single-digit UIDs when you do things like that? You've shattered my faith.

Sony = Run Away (Score: 4, Insightful)

by scott@pipedot.org in Sony and Panasonic Teaming Up For New Optical Disk Format on 2014-03-11 03:32 (#EA)

Whenever I see a 'standard' coming from Sony, my first instinct is to run. If they didn't have Playstation, even Blu-Ray would be in the long list of dead proprietary formats from Sony.

Central Point of Failure (Score: 4, Informative)

by scott@pipedot.org in Corporate World excited about desktops in the cloud on 2014-03-03 06:19 (#8W)

I'd rather not have a huge central point of failure. The mail server is enough, thank you!

Notepad++ (Score: 3, Insightful)

by scott@pipedot.org in New Text Editor from GitHub on 2014-02-28 02:43 (#7R)

Why would I want to use this over Notepad++?

iPhones are for the new and shiny opinion drivers (Score: 2)

by scott@pipedot.org in Time Magazine thinks iOS won the app war on 2014-02-26 15:06 (#6X)

iPhones are still the must-have devices for the new-and-shiny loving opinion drivers. It makes sense to target an app at them first, and Android second.

Love my Bold (Score: 1)

by scott@pipedot.org in Blackberry to bring back trackpads for its loyal fanbase on 2014-02-26 15:02 (#6V)

Sure, the BB Bold is old as a moldy Model M, but I love it just the same. It's good to see BB is being its own style again and not a copycat, me-too producer.

Re: Off topic, but... (Score: 1)

by scott@pipedot.org in Netflix bows under to Verizon, too on 2014-02-25 03:47 (#5Z)

They didn't, but can you post them in the comments?

No SD Card Slot = No Buy (Score: 1)

by scott@pipedot.org in "Best Windows Phone Ever"; but Nokia Lumia Icon receives lukewarm reviews on 2014-02-24 22:38 (#5V)

I may be in the minority of consumers, but not having the ability to use SD cards is a killer. Most of my music listening is MP3s and FLACs, not streaming since that cuts into battery life.
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