Iraq's infrastructure was completely in the dumps long before 2003. The UN sanctions, combined with Saddam's skimming all of the actual remaining cash flow to rebuild his military and his personal tribal palaces, saw to it that nothing was being spend to fix the craptastic power grid, refineries, and plumbing.
Actually, I seem to recall hearing that they actually did have electricity, at least in Baghdad, before we got there. Then this summer the government took the entire month of August off because "it is 130 degrees in Baghdad". That seems odd, since we can usually make buildings inhabitable against intense heat by using electricity to run air conditioning. And as for refineries, Iraq was certainly still selling oil up until the invasion. Perhaps not at 100% of their earlier capacity, but enough to still bring money into the country.
Plumbing, though, I'll have to take your word on. I never saw anything on how well that did or did not work. The fact that they had hospitals in the city that were functioning before 2003 does case me to think that they had at least some semblance of working running water.
after invading a neighboring country Didn't we invade them somewhere around 10 years after they invaded a neighboring country? I'm not sure how this fits in at all, really...
It wasn't Iran that did that, it was Saddam
While it was Saddam that wasted plenty of his countries money, and I will agree that indeed he was not nice to the people who opposed him in his own country, the current wreckage is not as much his fault as you seem to be painting it to be. Just because the US purpose there went to "bringing democracy to Iraq" once we realized the whole WMD bit was a load of crap, doesn't mean that we need to demonize every last breath of Saddam. At least under Saddam, some fraction of the population (though nowhere near a majority) had a reasonable expectation of a semi-peaceful existence. Now the country is in the middle of a civil war.
Iran's mullahs that don't want anything healthy, peaceful, and democratic thriving next door
Really? Sure, Iran has oppressed several uprisings in their own country, but what makes you so sure they are opposed to peace? Has it occurred to you that perhaps the Iranian interest is just in getting the US out so that Iraq can deal with its own problems? You should also keep in mind that Iraq was a culturally divided country even before the invasion. Geographically, about 1/3 of the country is more closely allied to Iranian culture and beliefs, 1/3 to Turkish, and 1/3 to Saudis. Have you considered that maybe some people actually want so see the Iranians in there? If there's already a civil war, it may well be in the best interest of Iran to ensure that at least their own allies in the war are protected.
Wait, Enron screwed over its employees because it didn't assist them them in illegal insider trading by dumping their stock onto some sucker before the financial weakness was public information?
Enron had been cooking the books for some time before they collapsed. The powers in charge were concerned only about their own profits. If they'd have been forthcoming with their employees that the world was not all roses, they could have had a chance to get out without needing "illegal insider trading". Hell, some of them may have even had better chances at finding better jobs for companies that weren't morally and financially bankrupt, had they had even a slight amount of notice ahead of time.
They thought they could make fast money and so ignored the boring diversification advice.
They also followed the advice and hype that came from the Enron executives. They were told that their company was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sure, they could have sought advice from outside, but why should they expect their employers to be giving them a load of BS?
Claiming that executives should say their own stock is overvalued, even if true, is unrealistic.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then on whether or not executives are morally obligated to make decisions based on morals.
They didn't offer a pension, just a retirement account match. In Enron's case, workers lost whatever they put into Enron stock, plus their match (which was given in stock).
Even if Enron didn't offer a pension, they did cheat their employees out of their retirement. I say this because the big wigs at Enron knew about their impending collapse, and did not warn the employees. The executives knew that the company was horribly overvalued and heading for ruin, and let the employees take the fall.
So while in the most strict interpretation of the term "pension", you may be correct, the power players at Enron were certainly aware that they were screwing their underlings, and seemed to have no qualms about it.
Frankly, I'm just disappointed that the biggest of the big wigs died mysteriously (and quite conveniently) not long after being found guilty by a jury of his peers. Amazing how of course that meant his money was distributed to his family rather than to those from whom he cheated it out of.
Just in case anyone should happen to not have a delicious bag of tasty doritos in their posession at this moment, I looked at one that I have. My yummy bag of doritos are made by the ever-benevolent "Frito-Lay North America" corporation.
Of course, one could also conclude the same by looking at their ever-wonderful website, which shows that their home on the intarwebs is owned by Frito-Lay.
The system is corrupt enough as it is. We don't need Pfizer/Mobil for 2012.
Yeah, because we didn't get Halliburton/Enron in 2000? Hell at least Doritos isn't stealing peoples pensions to buy enormous yachts (that we know of).
This is a link to a news source in Australia. They then link to informationweek.com, who is in the US. But I've never heard of the company who runs the survey they are talking about, so I have no way to know who was surveyed about their wages.
A U.S. pandemic would... up health insurance claims by 20%
I would expect that a pandemic would place a larger burden on the system than that. Or do they expect that so many of us will just simply die that it will average out to only a 20% increase in claims?
Of course the hyper-cynical side of me wants to point out that claims for dead people are seldom paid out, so I could see that as an explanation for the increase being at only 20%.
I'd want to be told how many reams of sheet music. Reams? No, make that furlongs of score. Sheet music? Score? Come on, most of pop music is accompanied by the same beat box noise that's been used since the late 70's. I'd bet you could write the "score" for most top 40 music on a postage stamp and have room to spare.
As much as front-running is annoying (at the very least), I think registering typo'd domains is actually worse. Considering how many domains are registered simply for the purpose of catching people who misspell the domain they want to visit, it may be a larger problem.
And from my experiences, it seems like the typo squatters usually bombard you with pop-ups and other annoying crapola on their sites when you accidentally wander into them. The front-runners at least seem kind enough to just tell you "this domain could be yours for only $1M". Bastardly, sure, but less of an annoyance than 4 pop-ups that trigger more pop-ups on being closed.
Am I the only person tired of seeing storage listed in terms of "songs"? Come on,
32,000 MP3 music files Really, that number doesn't mean squat. I have a friend who love punk music, where the songs are on average about 45 seconds long. I have another friend who listens to classical music, where many songs are 5 minutes or more. How could you possibly equate those two?
Wouldn't it just make a lot more sense to say it could hold X hours of music, instead?
Re:Will this improve windows releases?
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GIMP 2.4 Released
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· Score: 1
The Windows version should be exactly the same thing as on other OSes. It has had support for PNG and GIF formats since forever.
Take a look at what you had to do to install 2.2 in windows: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/old.html/
If this is the first time you're installing GIMP, you will also need GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment below.
Even if GIMP itself was prepared to deal with GIF and PNG, version 2.2 didn't know how to deal with them unless GTK was present. As I said, it was a problem with the windows version. It does look like 2.4 is distributed as just one download now, so it looks like they've resolved that:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html/
Did you know that once you have an account you can log in just by clicking on a URL with a token:
Ahh, don't go a burst the AC's bubble. He's riding high on who-knows-what. He's so damn sure that he's in the right and everyone else is dead wrong that at this point he wouldn't sign up for an account here even if we told him he could have Rob Malda's ID here.
We've seen the X prize for private space travel, so why isn't there an X prize for the lunar lander? Or is the X foundation saying they think it's already been done and hence not really in need of a monetary prize for doing it again?
Will this improve windows releases?
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GIMP 2.4 Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'll probably catch some flack for this one, as I suspect that GIMP is primarily by *nix people, for *nix people. Indeed, I use it primarily on my FreeBSD boxes.
However, I had to set up a windows 2000 box for myself at work, due to some specific tools that I need that I don't have time currently to get running in anything else. As I also needed image manipulation software on there, I figured why not save the $400 cost of photoshop and install GIMP instead. Being as I use it often enough in FreeBSD, I figured it should be familiar...
However, I then realized that the windows distribution of GIMP is in some ways less complete than what I got from the FreeBSD packages version. Namely, if you don't manually install the prerequisite libraries in windows, you don't get support for some common image formats (PNG and GIF, IIRC).
I suspect there is a reason why this is so, but it would be nice if they could resolve it. I have installed photoshop on windows boxes before, and never had to install anything for those formats to open.
Otherwise, I will say I very much love having GIMP 2.2 on my windows box, and I'll up it to 2.4 when I get a chance later on. But this little catch did make it exceedingly difficult to explain to a colleague how to install it on her machine (she "came up" with a copy of photoshop instead).
is a known troll
I'm not sure why you think you're relevant. But thats OK, because as I already explained, your comments as an anonymous coward will still be posted with a score of zero, and hence be largely unread. If you want to add to the conversation, please do us a favor and register. You may even manage to get a point across by doing so.
But of course you're also free to continue playing this odd game of yours where you try to use less than 1% of my postings to make a sweeping generalization about me. Has it ever occurred to you that I've made over 120 posts to slashdot this year, and yet you're the only stalker I have? Does that not mean anything at all to you?
How much energy does it take to produce the hydrogen? While not the most efficient process imaginable, electrolysis will do it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water/. Some claim 50 - 70% efficiency. Your high school physics teacher should have been able to demonstrate it easily with supplies one could buy from a local hardware store.
Though yes, ultimately it isn't the greatest solution, as of you'll never get back 100% of the energy you put in. So even once you obtain the hydrogen, and then combust it with atmospheric oxygen, there will be a net loss of energy. However, the big advantage is that its carbon-neutral with regards to the products of combustion.
Hopefully we'll see an even better solution later on. But the nuclear car (also from Ford) never seemed to take off much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_car
I have to wonder how this works. Hydrogen engines that I have heard of are supposed to carry out the reaction of
2(H2) + (O2) -> 2(H2O)
But this of course requires oxygen to happen. Is there much oxygen available at 65,000 feet? Consider even Mount Everest is in the neighborhood of 29,000 feet, and life (generally) needs supplemental oxygen at that altitude. If there is barely enough for life at less than 30,000, is there actually enough for combustion when you're more than twice as far above sea level?
I also wonder what happens to the exhaust at that altitude. What becomes of water under those conditions? I'm not a pilot of any sort, so I don't know what happens in that part of the atmosphere.
Consider how many of the IT solutions for the mass market work right now:
Your expensive OS has security flaws that you can drive a mack truck through? Patch it or buy the new version of the same.
Your mailbox is flooded with special offers on discount viagra? Install a spam filter to block the messages.
Oops, the filter isn't catching the newer offers for discount software? Update the filter or buy the newest version of the same.
Oops, the filter isn't catching the new stock offers that are flooding your inbox now? Another update, of course.
When of course, these all have much better solutions, if only people actually worked on the source of each respective problem. Hint, its not filter / firewall rules.
Are you really sure that most people browse at 1? Or is this just another fact-out-of-ass?
Your insistence to not read the slashdot FAQ is amusing, for sure. If you were to read it, you would find that the default reading level for browsing slashdot discussions is 1. Sure, even anonymous cowards like you are free to change their own viewing level, all the way down to -1 (to see all the trolls posted by other anonymous cowards) or all the way up to 5 (to see only the moderators' favorites).
Basically, the only reason someone would read at -1 is if they are incredibly bored or if they have moderator points and they have an interest in the topic and they haven't posted into this discussion. Because of course the FAQ will also tell you that you cannot assign moderator points to a discussion that you have posted to.
I'll let you speculate as to how many people on slashdot would meet those three criteria at this point, considering this is a response to a story that was posted 24 hours or more ago.
Maybe in you feel I spout lies
And all your base are belong to us?
On top of the fact that your questions don't deserve being answered, your claims are not backed up by facts. If you look at my posting history, you will see that many of my past comments in other threads have been moderated +5. Your claim of my being a troll just simply doesn't hold water
But I'll let you continue answering captchas and previewing your own typos as you try to make this odd claim. I guess if it somehow makes you feel better about yourself, feel free to keep up this charade. In the meantime, people will continue to ignore you, as your comments will all remain scored 0.
You are rather amusing. Quite libelous, and horribly uninformed, but rather amusing nonetheless. You actually are much like a third-rate bully, in the fact that your odd motives far outweigh both your capabilities and your intellect. Therefore as much as I know that the best way to shoo you off is to ignore you, I just can't help but poke back at your atrociously formed "relevant facts".
Have a good day in your curious world. Frankly, if I was hoping to see more strict controls placed on anonymous cowards and their known roles around here as trolls, I'd probably be thanking you.
Although since most people browse the threads at level 1 or higher, you're comments will pass completely below the radar. Proabably better for you, as people who see it would probably think I'm talking to myself to push an anti-AC agenda anyways, which would only further discredit whatever point you think you are making.
Neato, I have a stalker on slashdot! I don't know that I've seen any anonymous cowards do this before...
Although this person doesn't seem very original, so I suspect that someone else has done this to a different member in the past. Can anyone point me to the precedent? Maybe there's a club here on slashdot for other slashstalking victims ?:)
As of now, I will post a reply to every one of your posts from here to eternity, directing readers to this thread and asking, "is damn_registrars to be taken seriously?"
Do you really have nothing better to do with your time? You really want to try to do that? You're welcome to try, but how you would expect that to have any impact, being as better than 90% of AC posts likely go unread?
And, if and when I do get a/. account, I'll mod your posts as -1 Troll, just because you are.
I guess that shows you don't know how moderation works here. But I'll let you enjoy your fantasy at the time.
gee I'm a fuckwit,
You're too kind, really
use different passwords for each site, so if one site is compromised the crackers don't have the one magic password to everything
And what makes you think that I use the same password for every site? What makes you think you even know what other sites I use? And for that matter, why would it matter if someone figured out my password for slashdot, anyways? It's not like its tied into my SSN or something.
You need your Internet license pulled, sonny
Have you been hanging out with Sentor Ted Stevens or something? Internet license? I'm really quite entertained by your comments now.
it takes longer than two minutes to create another username/password for a site
Actually, the form takes very little time to fill out. And they'll give you a randomly generated password that you can use immediately, if you'd like. Then you can substitute in something better at a later time.
Hey, you've also now called me three different vulgar names. Impressive, you must really have a lot to say and a really important point to make that you need to swear in order to do it.
Listen, shitforbrains.
Wow, now there's a well constructed argument. I'm not even sure how I could possibly respond to that.
Why should the costs of registration be shifted onto me
Costs of registration? You mean the 2 minutes of your time? Yes, I can see that your time must be immensely valuable. But considering you've already answered three captchas, and previewed three messages, you could have registered and acquired an ID by now in that window of time.
Yet instead you choose to remain anonymous. Its OK, though. The cost of your choice is that nobody will read your comments beyond what I have highlighted in my replies to them. With your comments left scored at 0, I could just as well claim you to be using derogatory speech in them, and that comment could likely pass as credible to most readers.
But you're already doing that, so I don't even have to go to that length.
Have a nice day. And if you would ever like to have your questions answered, feel free to register like the rest of us. In case you don't already know, you can still register and not subscribe, hence paying nothing. Thats what I and many, many, others have done.
Or you can keep filling out captchas and the rest of the community will continue to not see your posts. There's a long list of slashdot people who don't read any anonymous coward postings anymore, and you're demonstrating why.
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Actually, I seem to recall hearing that they actually did have electricity, at least in Baghdad, before we got there. Then this summer the government took the entire month of August off because "it is 130 degrees in Baghdad". That seems odd, since we can usually make buildings inhabitable against intense heat by using electricity to run air conditioning. And as for refineries, Iraq was certainly still selling oil up until the invasion. Perhaps not at 100% of their earlier capacity, but enough to still bring money into the country.
Plumbing, though, I'll have to take your word on. I never saw anything on how well that did or did not work. The fact that they had hospitals in the city that were functioning before 2003 does case me to think that they had at least some semblance of working running water.
after invading a neighboring country Didn't we invade them somewhere around 10 years after they invaded a neighboring country? I'm not sure how this fits in at all, really...
It wasn't Iran that did that, it was Saddam
While it was Saddam that wasted plenty of his countries money, and I will agree that indeed he was not nice to the people who opposed him in his own country, the current wreckage is not as much his fault as you seem to be painting it to be. Just because the US purpose there went to "bringing democracy to Iraq" once we realized the whole WMD bit was a load of crap, doesn't mean that we need to demonize every last breath of Saddam. At least under Saddam, some fraction of the population (though nowhere near a majority) had a reasonable expectation of a semi-peaceful existence. Now the country is in the middle of a civil war.
Iran's mullahs that don't want anything healthy, peaceful, and democratic thriving next door
Really? Sure, Iran has oppressed several uprisings in their own country, but what makes you so sure they are opposed to peace? Has it occurred to you that perhaps the Iranian interest is just in getting the US out so that Iraq can deal with its own problems? You should also keep in mind that Iraq was a culturally divided country even before the invasion. Geographically, about 1/3 of the country is more closely allied to Iranian culture and beliefs, 1/3 to Turkish, and 1/3 to Saudis. Have you considered that maybe some people actually want so see the Iranians in there? If there's already a civil war, it may well be in the best interest of Iran to ensure that at least their own allies in the war are protected.
Enron had been cooking the books for some time before they collapsed. The powers in charge were concerned only about their own profits. If they'd have been forthcoming with their employees that the world was not all roses, they could have had a chance to get out without needing "illegal insider trading". Hell, some of them may have even had better chances at finding better jobs for companies that weren't morally and financially bankrupt, had they had even a slight amount of notice ahead of time.
They thought they could make fast money and so ignored the boring diversification advice.
They also followed the advice and hype that came from the Enron executives. They were told that their company was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sure, they could have sought advice from outside, but why should they expect their employers to be giving them a load of BS?
Claiming that executives should say their own stock is overvalued, even if true, is unrealistic.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then on whether or not executives are morally obligated to make decisions based on morals.
They didn't offer a pension, just a retirement account match. In Enron's case, workers lost whatever they put into Enron stock, plus their match (which was given in stock).
Even if Enron didn't offer a pension, they did cheat their employees out of their retirement. I say this because the big wigs at Enron knew about their impending collapse, and did not warn the employees. The executives knew that the company was horribly overvalued and heading for ruin, and let the employees take the fall.
So while in the most strict interpretation of the term "pension", you may be correct, the power players at Enron were certainly aware that they were screwing their underlings, and seemed to have no qualms about it.
Frankly, I'm just disappointed that the biggest of the big wigs died mysteriously (and quite conveniently) not long after being found guilty by a jury of his peers. Amazing how of course that meant his money was distributed to his family rather than to those from whom he cheated it out of.
Just in case anyone should happen to not have a delicious bag of tasty doritos in their posession at this moment, I looked at one that I have. My yummy bag of doritos are made by the ever-benevolent "Frito-Lay North America" corporation.
Of course, one could also conclude the same by looking at their ever-wonderful website, which shows that their home on the intarwebs is owned by Frito-Lay.
Yeah, because we didn't get Halliburton/Enron in 2000? Hell at least Doritos isn't stealing peoples pensions to buy enormous yachts (that we know of).
This is a link to a news source in Australia. They then link to informationweek.com, who is in the US. But I've never heard of the company who runs the survey they are talking about, so I have no way to know who was surveyed about their wages.
Read the headline and think it was referring to Fred Thompson, the lawyer-turned-senator-turned-actor-turned-presidential-candidate?
Not trying to support him or anything, I just saw the name, thought lawyer... Maybe I'm just too far out of the loop on this Jack Thompson guy.
I would expect that a pandemic would place a larger burden on the system than that. Or do they expect that so many of us will just simply die that it will average out to only a 20% increase in claims?
Of course the hyper-cynical side of me wants to point out that claims for dead people are seldom paid out, so I could see that as an explanation for the increase being at only 20%.
Now get off my lawn, you dang whippersnappers!
As much as front-running is annoying (at the very least), I think registering typo'd domains is actually worse. Considering how many domains are registered simply for the purpose of catching people who misspell the domain they want to visit, it may be a larger problem.
And from my experiences, it seems like the typo squatters usually bombard you with pop-ups and other annoying crapola on their sites when you accidentally wander into them. The front-runners at least seem kind enough to just tell you "this domain could be yours for only $1M". Bastardly, sure, but less of an annoyance than 4 pop-ups that trigger more pop-ups on being closed.
32,000 MP3 music files Really, that number doesn't mean squat. I have a friend who love punk music, where the songs are on average about 45 seconds long. I have another friend who listens to classical music, where many songs are 5 minutes or more. How could you possibly equate those two?
Wouldn't it just make a lot more sense to say it could hold X hours of music, instead?
Take a look at what you had to do to install 2.2 in windows:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/old.html/
If this is the first time you're installing GIMP, you will also need GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment below.
Even if GIMP itself was prepared to deal with GIF and PNG, version 2.2 didn't know how to deal with them unless GTK was present. As I said, it was a problem with the windows version. It does look like 2.4 is distributed as just one download now, so it looks like they've resolved that: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html/
Ahh, don't go a burst the AC's bubble. He's riding high on who-knows-what. He's so damn sure that he's in the right and everyone else is dead wrong that at this point he wouldn't sign up for an account here even if we told him he could have Rob Malda's ID here.
We've seen the X prize for private space travel, so why isn't there an X prize for the lunar lander? Or is the X foundation saying they think it's already been done and hence not really in need of a monetary prize for doing it again?
I'll probably catch some flack for this one, as I suspect that GIMP is primarily by *nix people, for *nix people. Indeed, I use it primarily on my FreeBSD boxes.
However, I had to set up a windows 2000 box for myself at work, due to some specific tools that I need that I don't have time currently to get running in anything else. As I also needed image manipulation software on there, I figured why not save the $400 cost of photoshop and install GIMP instead. Being as I use it often enough in FreeBSD, I figured it should be familiar...
However, I then realized that the windows distribution of GIMP is in some ways less complete than what I got from the FreeBSD packages version. Namely, if you don't manually install the prerequisite libraries in windows, you don't get support for some common image formats (PNG and GIF, IIRC).
I suspect there is a reason why this is so, but it would be nice if they could resolve it. I have installed photoshop on windows boxes before, and never had to install anything for those formats to open.
Otherwise, I will say I very much love having GIMP 2.2 on my windows box, and I'll up it to 2.4 when I get a chance later on. But this little catch did make it exceedingly difficult to explain to a colleague how to install it on her machine (she "came up" with a copy of photoshop instead).
I'm not sure why you think you're relevant. But thats OK, because as I already explained, your comments as an anonymous coward will still be posted with a score of zero, and hence be largely unread. If you want to add to the conversation, please do us a favor and register. You may even manage to get a point across by doing so.
But of course you're also free to continue playing this odd game of yours where you try to use less than 1% of my postings to make a sweeping generalization about me. Has it ever occurred to you that I've made over 120 posts to slashdot this year, and yet you're the only stalker I have? Does that not mean anything at all to you?
Though yes, ultimately it isn't the greatest solution, as of you'll never get back 100% of the energy you put in. So even once you obtain the hydrogen, and then combust it with atmospheric oxygen, there will be a net loss of energy. However, the big advantage is that its carbon-neutral with regards to the products of combustion.
Hopefully we'll see an even better solution later on. But the nuclear car (also from Ford) never seemed to take off much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_car
I have to wonder how this works. Hydrogen engines that I have heard of are supposed to carry out the reaction of
2(H2) + (O2) -> 2(H2O)
But this of course requires oxygen to happen. Is there much oxygen available at 65,000 feet? Consider even Mount Everest is in the neighborhood of 29,000 feet, and life (generally) needs supplemental oxygen at that altitude. If there is barely enough for life at less than 30,000, is there actually enough for combustion when you're more than twice as far above sea level?
I also wonder what happens to the exhaust at that altitude. What becomes of water under those conditions? I'm not a pilot of any sort, so I don't know what happens in that part of the atmosphere.
- Your expensive OS has security flaws that you can drive a mack truck through? Patch it or buy the new version of the same.
- Your mailbox is flooded with special offers on discount viagra? Install a spam filter to block the messages.
- Oops, the filter isn't catching the newer offers for discount software? Update the filter or buy the newest version of the same.
- Oops, the filter isn't catching the new stock offers that are flooding your inbox now? Another update, of course.
When of course, these all have much better solutions, if only people actually worked on the source of each respective problem. Hint, its not filter / firewall rules.Your insistence to not read the slashdot FAQ is amusing, for sure. If you were to read it, you would find that the default reading level for browsing slashdot discussions is 1. Sure, even anonymous cowards like you are free to change their own viewing level, all the way down to -1 (to see all the trolls posted by other anonymous cowards) or all the way up to 5 (to see only the moderators' favorites).
Basically, the only reason someone would read at -1 is if they are incredibly bored or if they have moderator points and they have an interest in the topic and they haven't posted into this discussion. Because of course the FAQ will also tell you that you cannot assign moderator points to a discussion that you have posted to.
I'll let you speculate as to how many people on slashdot would meet those three criteria at this point, considering this is a response to a story that was posted 24 hours or more ago.
And all your base are belong to us?
On top of the fact that your questions don't deserve being answered, your claims are not backed up by facts. If you look at my posting history, you will see that many of my past comments in other threads have been moderated +5. Your claim of my being a troll just simply doesn't hold water
But I'll let you continue answering captchas and previewing your own typos as you try to make this odd claim. I guess if it somehow makes you feel better about yourself, feel free to keep up this charade. In the meantime, people will continue to ignore you, as your comments will all remain scored 0.
You are rather amusing. Quite libelous, and horribly uninformed, but rather amusing nonetheless. You actually are much like a third-rate bully, in the fact that your odd motives far outweigh both your capabilities and your intellect. Therefore as much as I know that the best way to shoo you off is to ignore you, I just can't help but poke back at your atrociously formed "relevant facts".
Have a good day in your curious world. Frankly, if I was hoping to see more strict controls placed on anonymous cowards and their known roles around here as trolls, I'd probably be thanking you.
Although since most people browse the threads at level 1 or higher, you're comments will pass completely below the radar. Proabably better for you, as people who see it would probably think I'm talking to myself to push an anti-AC agenda anyways, which would only further discredit whatever point you think you are making.
Neato, I have a stalker on slashdot! I don't know that I've seen any anonymous cowards do this before...
:)
Although this person doesn't seem very original, so I suspect that someone else has done this to a different member in the past. Can anyone point me to the precedent? Maybe there's a club here on slashdot for other slashstalking victims ?
Do you really have nothing better to do with your time? You really want to try to do that? You're welcome to try, but how you would expect that to have any impact, being as better than 90% of AC posts likely go unread?
And, if and when I do get a
I guess that shows you don't know how moderation works here. But I'll let you enjoy your fantasy at the time.
gee I'm a fuckwit,
You're too kind, really
use different passwords for each site, so if one site is compromised the crackers don't have the one magic password to everything
And what makes you think that I use the same password for every site? What makes you think you even know what other sites I use? And for that matter, why would it matter if someone figured out my password for slashdot, anyways? It's not like its tied into my SSN or something.
You need your Internet license pulled, sonny
Have you been hanging out with Sentor Ted Stevens or something? Internet license? I'm really quite entertained by your comments now.
it takes longer than two minutes to create another username/password for a site
Actually, the form takes very little time to fill out. And they'll give you a randomly generated password that you can use immediately, if you'd like. Then you can substitute in something better at a later time.
Hey, you've also now called me three different vulgar names. Impressive, you must really have a lot to say and a really important point to make that you need to swear in order to do it.
Wow, now there's a well constructed argument. I'm not even sure how I could possibly respond to that.
Why should the costs of registration be shifted onto me
Costs of registration? You mean the 2 minutes of your time? Yes, I can see that your time must be immensely valuable. But considering you've already answered three captchas, and previewed three messages, you could have registered and acquired an ID by now in that window of time.
Yet instead you choose to remain anonymous. Its OK, though. The cost of your choice is that nobody will read your comments beyond what I have highlighted in my replies to them. With your comments left scored at 0, I could just as well claim you to be using derogatory speech in them, and that comment could likely pass as credible to most readers.
But you're already doing that, so I don't even have to go to that length.
Have a nice day. And if you would ever like to have your questions answered, feel free to register like the rest of us. In case you don't already know, you can still register and not subscribe, hence paying nothing. Thats what I and many, many, others have done.
Or you can keep filling out captchas and the rest of the community will continue to not see your posts. There's a long list of slashdot people who don't read any anonymous coward postings anymore, and you're demonstrating why.