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Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch
DrinkDr.Pepper writes "Just after the last touchdown by the Cardinals, with 3 minutes to go in the game, approximately 30 seconds of pornographic material was shown, seen by an unknown number of Comcast customers in Tucson, Arizona who were watching the game in standard definition. Comcast has apologized (they used the word 'mortified') and is issuing a $10 credit to any customer who claims to have been impacted. Various news accounts suggest that the incident was a malicious act, but no one knows how it was done or by whom."
to get my lotion from the cabinet. I am mortified.
Who the heck needs lotion to do that?!
:/
Actually- don't answer, I just figured that one out. While growing up (pre-widespread Internet), it wasn't something I'd been aware of- and having tried it with lubrication once or twice, I found it didn't add anything and certainly wasn't necessary.
Yet- even via jokey comments like this- it seemed like a lot of guys online connected the two in a way that suggested it was an everyday thing and culturally normal.
Then it clicked- if I'd had my foreskin cut off at birth, the... uh, mechanics of masturbation would be significantly less comfortable without some form of lubricant. And unlike the society I grew up in, Internet forums are dominated by Americans.
The answer- I'm guessing that the majority of men who feel the need to use lubricant are circumcised or at least grew up in a culture where that was the norm.
Sorry if I icked anyone out with that one, but it was one of those "of course!" moments of enlightenment I felt that I had to share
What were we talking about again?
In refrence to your sig: I'm in Canada, so I can decrypt it all I want! :P
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I think you should reread the parent's comment and then realize how much of an idiot you've been.
Don't worry, if I know the Slashdot mods, they'll mod you down to -1 as Flamebait and will probably mod him up using some flimsy excuse. I bet they think that the redistribution of wealth is a legitimate exercise of governmental power, too. It never occurs to them that egregious errors like those made by cp.tar are the source of most "Flamebait" and anyone who makes them should be considered fair game. That's if you're interested in an overall reduction in "Flamebait". If you just want to bitch and moan and think moderation is one good way to do that, then please don't change anything, it's already perfect for your purposes.
I see your post is at -1 Flamebait. Though you were primarily talking about the other guy, I can't help but notice that the moderators have proven your point for you. That is, if they were going to mod you down for something, Offtopic would have actually been appropriate and they refuse to do that correctly. I say refuse because I believe they are perfectly capable, they just don't care because the moment you criticized them it became a personal crusade (lesser men react this way to criticism because they don't have what it takes to handle it gracefully) and their only concern was finding a way to shut you up. It should be obvious that this is what happened here, so yes they did an excellent job of proving your point. I wish they'd bring back the old metamoderation system; it was much better at dealing with this sort of pettiness.
The "Comments and Moderation" section of the Slashdot FAQ defines it this way: "Flamebait refers to comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage." Let's put your post to the test, shall we? No, you weren't nice, but you weren't exactly malicious and frothing-at-the-mouth either and I would expect a moderator to appreciate the difference. You pointed out what you perceive to be a problem, you discussed what you believe causes that problem, and you proposed a solution, however imperfect that may be. This really fails every test of "Flamebait" that could be applied to it. I can't even come up with a half-assed excuse that would justify calling it that with a straight face.
I don't hate anyone, but even if I strongly disagreed with you and hated your guts, I would feel like pretending that you made a Flamebait post when you clearly didn't, just so I could (ab)use the Slashdot moderation system to lash out at you would be one of the more petty and infantile things I could do. I feel like if I did that, it would say a lot of bad things about me and my character and my integrity but would say nothing at all about you. Whatever happened to taking someone on, like in open debate, if you've got a problem with them or don't like what they say? Am I the only one who sees how cowardly it is to try to do the same thing by abusing a moderation system? I wonder how many moderators will now get pissed off at me for saying what I believe while conveniently ignoring that they cannot possibly do so without becoming what I just described (and some people wonder why they have inner conflict). If so, you should know that it's not nearly the first time I've seen low-quality moderation and called it what it was. It won't be the last time either, unfortunately, though that's not how I would have it.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein