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since certain individual might look at it as porn and not art, it seems legit to at least discuss what is ok.

Look, *anything* at all will be looked at as porn by someone somewhere! Are we letting our society be restrained by what some weird people think?

How about we play "credit the original source"? http://www.ubersite.com/m/29438

We all remember the tense few days tracking down the sulphur leak that lead to the conspicuous posting of
this sign.

Egghead professor-type gets sucked into something Really Important To the World (tm) with the help of a very intelligent woman who happens to be an expert in the Really Important Thing (tm) but STILL needs him to explain everything to her anyway. While they try to make it to the end of the book they are pursued by a merciless killer who wants to bump them off before they discover the Big Secret (tm). Did I forget anything?

... is make another campy movie like from the 60s. I mean, first, you've got the bomb. Then, you've got the costumes. And if that's not enough, you've got the quotes. Here's a quick taste of what you'd expect:

Gordon: Penguin, Joker, Riddler... and Catwoman, too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!
Batman: We've been given the plainest warning! They're working together to take over...
O'Hara: To take over what, Batman? Gotham City?
Batman: Any two of them might try that!
Gordon: The whole... country?
Batman: If it were three of them, I would say yes, but four? Their minimum objective must be... the entire... world.

Note how angles apparantly vary from rectangle to rectangle, and the startling synergy achieved when all 4 supervillians team up as opposed to 2 or 3. Oh, and if you're curious about the "plainest warning" that the supervillians sent to Batman, go look up the full quote!

Ok, I know if they actually tried to make it campy, it would be boring and it would suck. And this whole post is just an excuse for me to bring up the 60s Batman. So......

Bring on Batman Begins :D

One uninformed, irrelevant and gratuitous knock against Slashdot - check

One uninformed (+$2k cables are common), irrelevant and gratuitous knock against audiophiles - check

Let me finish off with "teh gimp sux 'case it's not like Photoshop!" Now we have closure.

You fool. Don't you know that there's no closure on a /. topic until we have the following:

An "In Soviet Russia" post. In this case "In Soviet Russia carbon nanotubes conduct you"

An "I for one welcome our new overlords post". In this case "I for one welcome our new carbon nanotube superconducting overlords

A "Netcraft confirms, BSD is still dying" post.

And a link to either tubgirl or goatse guy (although I think that this little video might become a classic to replace tubgirl and goatse guy.)

TERRI SHIAVOWNED!!

"Legollas"? More like a minifig.

my theory: Schwartz works for Slashdot and is a genius in creating material on days when Amazon.com failures, apple/IBM partnerships, and Google Groups conspiracies are relatively rare. may the Schwartz be with you!

respek. http://www.ubersite.com/m/19993/

Sure, some of it was *thought* to be disproved but McDonald proved it was a reality

Yes, I hear McDonald can be defensive about his work...

http://www.ubersite.com/m/27633


For the single men.

There is no valid legal reason to take a camcorder into a movie theater and post the video for download. It might fun. It might be easy. But, it's not defensible as a liberty.

Except only ONE person took that camcorder into the theatre. It was posted and shared and the act of sharing it is different than the act of camming it - again, even the law says so. Your argument in this case is moot, as sharing those files is the issue here, not creating them. As in child molestation images, the creation of the material represents the real crime - what comes of the material after that creation should, quite arguably, not be a crime at all.

Here's a story titled Exploiting Peer to Peer Networking.

It's presented as a funny story, but it's a real world example of what could happen.

What photo should I put up?

this one (SFW)

Pick your belly button and then smell it.

My belly button smells very slightly of the soap I showered with this morning. There isn't anything to pick out.

Thats what uncut unwashed dick smells like.

Unwashed bodies are going to get pretty smelly whether you cut bits off or not. So?

How far are you going to take this? Are you going to bifurcate your penis because of the risk of infection in the urethra? That would probably happen too if you never washed. Why not cut it off altogether and avoid the whole issue?

My favorite self-adaptive site is definitely Ubersite, but since I created it, I'm also biased ;)

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Think about it... Imagine you are a semi-responsible web developer trying to make a "standards compliant" page. Right now, you could design the page and test it with either Netscape or MSIE 4/5 and be pretty well assured that it would look pretty much the same in the other browser with a couple minor changes.

HOWEVER, if it becomes a well known fact that MSIE 5.5 is completely incompatible with Netscape (and even MSIE 5.0 for that matter), then development will turn towards Netscape. Responsible developers will never use the MSIE tags, and instead will develop their pages using Netscape because they can feel assured that the page will look pretty much the same in MSIE.

The fact is that no good website is going to use the proprietary tags. When I am developing my site (ahem... ubersite.com), I do all of my development in linux/netscape because then when I go to windows, it looks pretty much the same in either netscape or MSIE (with the big exception of font sizes).

So, much like VBScript, MSIE 5.5 proprietary tags will never catch on.