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  1. Re:Hyperlinks and Pagerank 101 on No Press Is Bad Press Even Online · · Score: 1

    Of course you'd want the 'useful info from trustworthy source', but that's not a search engine's job (to decide what's 'good' or 'bad' info), is it? Google finds it, you decide what it means.

    Successful businesses deliver something that people want. Google and others get this, you don't. You're looking at the scenario from the point of view of an employee who does only what he's obligated to do and nothing more.

    Incidentally, I personally *DO* occasionally rely on Google to identify a site's legitimacy even now. In situations where a project/organization/company's domain name is not obvious ( e.g. mplayer), googling their name will generally show the top result as the actual, legit site, instead of perhaps a scammer selling a fake.

  2. Re:Why?? on Why I Steal Movies (Even Ones I'm In) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It doesn't cost 8 euros per copy. It has a single cost, which isn't increased when you sell more copies ( not even the negligible production cost, b/c this is digital distribution ).

    If you arrived at a cost per unit of 8 euros by some division, then when you double the amount of units, your cost per unit halves.

  3. Re:Robert Ebert, former arbiter of art on Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art · · Score: 1

    You're not getting his point.

  4. Reproductive "success" is not genetic. on Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think evolutionary change is being stifled by both medicine and civilization. Reproductive "success" is not genetic anymore, its based on social factors. The goal of most humans is no longer to spawn the most progeny.

    I come from a small backwoods town and women in these areas (e.g. low income, low education) have more children, and have them at a younger age. ( This is a generalization, no anecdotes please. And no I don't feel like looking up stats, maybe someone else can post some).

    Also, regardless of the details, I hope TFA is wrong. Have you seen dwarven females?

  5. Re:Stupid on Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think cattle are kept in individual pens just large enough for them to fit in, they can't even turn around. I don't think they can get into much trouble.

    I could be wrong about this , I just saw it in a documentary.

  6. Source Control Shingle on Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Simple feature set, but none of us have ever clobbered anyone else's changes.

  7. Re:Dumb. on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 1

    Or they can be complete bullshit.

    Seconded.

    My credit report with one of the agencies has my name as ... Jr. That's my father ( I'm III). No problem, except I CAN'T change it. I can change other data, phone, address, etc. But the wrong name is permanently attached to my SSN. It specifically states in their FAQ that you cannot change the name on the account for any reason.

    I also had unpaid collections that I somehow obtained when I was 15. So they were on there rotting my score for years.

  8. Re:Word wrapping on Emacs Hits Version 23 · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/#q=emacs+word+wrap
    If you can't do that, stick to Notepad then.

    I strongly prefer vim, though I haven't been able to figure out word wrapping in it yet.

  9. Re:Its not rocket surgery... on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Also...

    regardless of how much or what I eat

    Thats bullshit. Yer doin it wrong. There is nothing magical about the metabolic process. More calories will add more weight if you don't burn them.

  10. Its not rocket surgery... on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What kind of miracle solution do you want? Its easy...

    For a given workday, after N hours work and M hours sleep, is anything left? if yes, make the decision to work out or to fuck off. If not, then wait for your days off and work out hard. Also decrease caloric intake.

    There is no other solution (aside from changing work schedule).

  11. parity on Hands-on With the Wii MotionPlus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    bring greater parity between a user's movements and the animations

    You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

  12. Re:Like my grandma is going to buy a smart phone.. on Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered · · Score: 1

    Don't take this the wrong way, but she'll die. This alone helps change and progression. Imagine how stagnant our culture would be if the same crusty old people stayed around forever, never learning or changing anything.

  13. Re:You have got to be joking on The Best Games of 2020 · · Score: 1

    ...and the second page literally begins "So let me tell you about my day."

  14. Re:Artsy on Braid, Games As Art, and Interpretation · · Score: 2, Informative

    The game was definitely 'artsy' in the writing and music. It was also artsy insofar as the gameplay was a very unique puzzle game, and it was VERY fun.

    You could run right through the poetic text blurbs between levels and not read them at all, and still enjoy the game.

  15. Some basic filtering/blacklisting should be... on Aussie Regulator Comes Down On SMS Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    standard. I've received spam texts from about 3 sources, several per day from each, since the first day I got my phone/number.

    I think its possible to call verizon (fun), and have them blacklisted for me but from what I've heard its not even free to do so (even if it is, the customer services call probably takes 30 mins).

    If I didn't have an unlimited text plan, every spam msg would cost me. For those without such aplan, the ability block a source *from the phone* is necessary.

  16. Re:amazing on Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download · · Score: 1

    what a strange mod to get 'troll' on that...

  17. Re:amazing on Higher-Order Perl Available For Free Download · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's still worth buying the dead tree version, though.

    No, its not. Maybe if you want to contribute to the author it is. Otherwise, electronic text is 100x better than paper b/c of text searching. Books are obsolete, antiques even. Flipping to the back of the book for an index, then back to a references page number, then scanning the page? for the birds, I say

  18. Re:RL: Where the women playing women are really me on Dutch Court Punishes Theft of Virtual Property · · Score: 1

    so how did she murder his character by logging into his character? shouldn't it be forced-suicide instead of murder?

  19. RL: Where the women playing women are really men on Dutch Court Punishes Theft of Virtual Property · · Score: 2, Funny

    from T2ndFA:

    The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification...

    So even the real-life woman playing as the virtual woman is a man? My head is spinning.

  20. Re:OT on Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows Subpoena · · Score: 1

    you're still not explaining why a ! appears above the tag when you mouseover the tag word (though the ! itself is not clickable).

    Its not in the faq.

  21. Re:OT on Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows Subpoena · · Score: 1

    yes... thats the reason I assumed clicking ! would be marking the tag incorrect. e.g. its tagged fud, so if i click ! that means I'm saying its not fud.

  22. OT on Oregon Judge Says RIAA Made 'Honest Mistake,' Allows Subpoena · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what is the point of tagging every story with 'story'? also, the little ! above the tags.. I thought maybe I could 'vote' a tag as incorrect with it, but I've tried so hard to coerce my pointer over the ! only to see it disappear.

  23. Re:thinking about it on Mythic GM Talks Warhammer Launch, Banning Gold Sellers · · Score: 1

    Its bad... currently. It NEEDS a LOT of polish. I decided not to pick up my preorder, but I will check it out again in a few months.

  24. nethack linux on Fast-Booting Text-Editor Operating System? · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.crash-override.net/nethacklinuxdownload.html

    boots from a floppy.

    0) generate character
    1) find magic marker
    2) scribble on the floor

  25. Java.sun.com on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 5, Informative

    just google: java X class where X is whatever you want. Top results will be sun java docs which are complete and have links to parent and descendent classes, implemented interfaces, etc.