As I believe was pointed out in other comments, I think Alice Hill no longer has any association with Slashdot. In other words, she's an early adopter of "FUCK BETA". >:(

But your Beta abomination is the cause of most of the comments now. >:(

I think you want honest feedback as much as NCsoft wanted to hear from the City of Heroes community after they announced in 2012 August that CIty of Heroes was being shut down at the end of 2012 November. As in you aren't paying any attention at all.

Well, NCsoft sowed the wind and now they're reaping the whirlwind. Their sales are in decline. And the City of Heroes community is supporting the coming game City of Titans. Without lies and bullshit corporate politics. The same will happen to Slashdot.

I know by now there's too much face behind this change and Slashdot Beta will roll out irregardless. And what you will get in response.

Be seeing you.

Build a very big treadmill for Godzilla just outside Tokyo--or maybe Kyoto. >:)

And considering Britain today is more a match for the alternate universe fascist Britain in "Inferno"....

Don't worry. As long as they haven't found mithril yet we're safe. >:)

I agree. Unfortunately starting over from scratch usually ends up being this.

Damn, moderation mistake.

I would think that, possibly, one hundred years. In mineshafts.

But do we have enough underground mines? Or--gasp!--are we facing a mineshaft gap?!? >:)

I'm in Canada. I've not had cable television since 2005, about the time some series I was watching ended. Didn't think the vast wasteland was worth the expense for a tiny number of good shows.

Being in Canada, I've become endured to many Internet videos that are television clips being blocked here on American websites, due to someone else holding the rights to broadcast that content in Canada. For some, I tracked down the Canada rights holder to watch (eg. The Comedy Network for a lot of comedy stuff) but most often I just didn't bother with it.

A few months ago, I started watching television on the Internet, including things like "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and "The Crazy Ones". Sure, I had to find out who had the rights in Canada and where on their website, but once I had the link I bookmarked it. I was watching more television than I had in 8 years.

Then from mid-October to mid-December I had a serious health issue occupy my time, but that resolved well. So about December 19, late at night, I decided to get caught up, as best as I could. Found out I'd missed 3 new episodes of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Went to watch that.

"Sign in with your television provider." And everything else, with that and other programs, had some variant of that.

I've not had Netflicks. I've never gotten shows from a torrent site. And I wasn't about to at O-dark-stupid in the morning. But it got me to thinking.

I figured this was the signs of a sea-change in the television/cable business and like many little people I got side-swiped. Sure I was getting it for free. But all those big corporations had set it up to give it to me for free. And now, without any warning, it was gone.

But I'm not getting cable television, 'cause it's still an overpriced wasteland. I'll find another way. They can take their "television provider" and stick it where the Sun don't shine. >:(

How about we skip MySpace and go back to Livejournal. That at least was interesting. >:)

Rob Ford, is that you?

Sure, Tungsten and Gold have the same density, but that could be expected. Of course, there is this gold hack. >:)

There's a suppository for that. >:)