I've seen studies showing most people when watching television cannot mentally-distinguish the fantasy from reality. They know consciously that it's not real, but their brains react as if the events are actually happening. Their brains think it's all real.
To further substantiate these claims, see the recent Monochrome Dreams headline.
if it's really flamebait, why would the mods need Emb3rz to point that out?
Some mods (though it's recommended that they don't) browse at 1 point comments and higher. As such, they wouldn't see that comment. With my Karma bonus putting my comment to 2 points it would be visible to them. This, then, serves to draw additional attention to a comment that was (at the time of my original posting) in need of moderation.
Should mods automatically carry out the requests of people who assume that they are incompetent?
No, they should simply look at what another's opinion is and reason on whether they agree.
That's why I think Emb3rz's request is off-topic -- it is completely unnecessary and contributes nothing to the discussion
The idea of community moderation in the Slashdot context is that good comments get seen by more people, poor comments don't get seen unless you want to see them. Looking at the situation in that light, then, my comment did add something to the discussion in that a community member's opinion was voiced as to the validity of another person's thoughts (in this case, an utter lack of thought and complete nonsense).
"hey, that's my guy you're making fun of! He's popular among me, you know!"
It takes neither an expert nor a fanboy to tell that the comment I asked be modded down was thoroughly useless and only detracted from the conversation.
Despite popular opinion, "Flamebait" and "he wasn't very nice" are emphatically NOT the same thing, nor should they be.
Flamebait can take the form of "not very nice." In this case, it did. When something is posted that could only possibly elicit a harsh/negative response using subtler language, it's often trolling. When it's an outright attack then it's usually flamebait.
Despite what you may think, requests for "mod up" and "mod down" are not only a regular occurrence on Slashdot, but they are often quite helpful to seeing the whole picture behind a comment. As "whoosh!" points out a joke that has been missed (thereby aiding those less in the know as to the fact that it was a joke at all), "mod parent informative" may elicit further research on a topic from someone with mod points, who then in turn may decide that it was, in fact, an informative comment. These requests have a valid place in our comment system.
There is nothing to indicate you have to recreate the environment in which the memory originally happened. It says only to 'retrieve' that memory. I can easily retrieve some bad memories in my past; having identical stimulus not required.
This should not be modded offtopic. Any cluster of said walking homes could qualify as a stampede (running may be a stretch, but still). Please mod to correct.
<Zybl0re> get up <Zybl0re> get on up <Zybl0re> get up <Zybl0re> get on up <phxl|paper> and DANCE * nmp3bot dances:D-< * nmp3bot dances:D|-< * nmp3bot dances:D/-< <[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
On the other hand, another one of my clearly brilliant ideas for a program was one that would send out party/event/meeting invitations. You could select any number of methods to contact people. In fact, one of the features would have been to use an existing address book (Outlook, Gmail, whatever) and contact them in the first most preferred fashion available. For instance, Email if they had it, or if not then IM, then telephone, then if only a postal address was available, print out a letter/card/whatever for them.
So again, this would be a useful application (probably harmless, as well) for contacting people automatically via telephone. And in this scenario, it seems unlikely you would have asked your friends/congregation/colleagues ahead of time whether it was okay for you to use this channel to contact them.
I'd like to have certain programs of mine call my cell phone to alert me to problems with pre-recorded messages. So far I've been too lazy to adapt them to do such, but my point is that this is something I would consider useful. By no stretch of the imagination do I believe it should ever be considered a felony to automatically contact a person.
Unless, of course, you're an IE user (ow, stop, the tomatos they burn!) and you get scripting errors on every Slashdot page, thereby making it impossible to tag, metamod, or participate in the new beta index article voting feature.
Joe the plumber can't afford to be green! Most small business owners making under $250,000 can't afford to be green! Won't somebody please think of the small business owners?!
I would, and shall, argue that in certain media, gagging one's mouth would be important to preserve a certain standard. Neopets, for instance, prohibits abusive speech from being posted on their messageboards. Given that a large part of their audience is under the age of 13, they have felt it necessary for the integrity of their business and the environment they've aspired to create to prevent users from using harsh words that would be objected to by a) users b) parents of users c) thinkofthechildren onlookers. Further, I would add that I support censorship in this and similar veins. There is a clear and logical reason for it and it does not appreciably harm anyone (inconvenience those who can't put a sentence together without foul language, perhaps).
I have to disagree. There are many things that I wish were censored. If, for instance, there were a filter on Slashdot that would obfuscate a standard list of words (and optionally the sentence that contained them) plus any additional words I deemed offensive to me, I would definitely make use of it. This is not so as to encroach on the rights of others, but rather to ensure that I have control/forewarning of seeing something that may be quite distasteful to me.
4C60.07 - the first of the galaxies to be discovered - came to astronomers' attention because of its bright radio emission. This radio signature is one telltale sign of a quasar - a black hole, spinning rapidly, feeding on its parent galaxy. A new image captures the moment, approximately 12 billion years ago, when this galaxy ripped a stream of dusty gas from a neighbour.
"This new image reveals two galaxies where we only expected to find one," said Professor Rob Ivison... "Remarkably, both galaxies contain super-massive black holes, each capable of powering a billion, billion, billion light bulbs. The implications are wide reaching: you can't help wondering how many other colossal black holes may be lurking unseen in the distant Universe?"
Due to the finite speed of light, we see the two galaxies as they collided in the distant past, less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang. By now the galaxies will have merged to create a football-shaped elliptical galaxy. Their black holes are likely to have merged to form a single monstrously large black hole.
"These two galaxies are fraternal twins. Both are about the size of the Milky Way, but each one is unique"
You subtract from Roman Numerals by placing the number to be subtracted prior to the number you start with. To follow the rules, though, you'd probably have to do VII (5+1+1).
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Think about it in terms of bitmasks...
Background = 00110000
UncloakedObj = 11100000
CloakedObj = 00001100
CloakShows = 11110000
Spongebob Squarepants, obviously. However, I do not see how that relates to your point!
no matter what hijinks the Windows bit got up to.
Hey, give us fair warning. You can't just rename the Evil Bit without telling us!
I've seen studies showing most people when watching television cannot mentally-distinguish the fantasy from reality. They know consciously that it's not real, but their brains react as if the events are actually happening. Their brains think it's all real.
To further substantiate these claims, see the recent Monochrome Dreams headline.
I'm feeding this troll, sorry. :(
if it's really flamebait, why would the mods need Emb3rz to point that out?
Some mods (though it's recommended that they don't) browse at 1 point comments and higher. As such, they wouldn't see that comment. With my Karma bonus putting my comment to 2 points it would be visible to them. This, then, serves to draw additional attention to a comment that was (at the time of my original posting) in need of moderation.
Should mods automatically carry out the requests of people who assume that they are incompetent?
No, they should simply look at what another's opinion is and reason on whether they agree.
That's why I think Emb3rz's request is off-topic -- it is completely unnecessary and contributes nothing to the discussion
The idea of community moderation in the Slashdot context is that good comments get seen by more people, poor comments don't get seen unless you want to see them. Looking at the situation in that light, then, my comment did add something to the discussion in that a community member's opinion was voiced as to the validity of another person's thoughts (in this case, an utter lack of thought and complete nonsense).
"hey, that's my guy you're making fun of! He's popular among me, you know!"
It takes neither an expert nor a fanboy to tell that the comment I asked be modded down was thoroughly useless and only detracted from the conversation.
Despite popular opinion, "Flamebait" and "he wasn't very nice" are emphatically NOT the same thing, nor should they be.
Flamebait can take the form of "not very nice." In this case, it did. When something is posted that could only possibly elicit a harsh/negative response using subtler language, it's often trolling. When it's an outright attack then it's usually flamebait.
Despite what you may think, requests for "mod up" and "mod down" are not only a regular occurrence on Slashdot, but they are often quite helpful to seeing the whole picture behind a comment. As "whoosh!" points out a joke that has been missed (thereby aiding those less in the know as to the fact that it was a joke at all), "mod parent informative" may elicit further research on a topic from someone with mod points, who then in turn may decide that it was, in fact, an informative comment. These requests have a valid place in our comment system.
Please mod parent flamebait..
"Gimme loots or I PK u IRL lol"
And it's my understanding that you are correct in your assumptions due to the Doctrine of First Sale.
Child's play. We could all forget Jar-Jar!
There is nothing to indicate you have to recreate the environment in which the memory originally happened. It says only to 'retrieve' that memory. I can easily retrieve some bad memories in my past; having identical stimulus not required.
This should not be modded offtopic. Any cluster of said walking homes could qualify as a stampede (running may be a stretch, but still). Please mod to correct.
Advertising + Blogs = continuance of our current model.
<Zybl0re> get up :D-< :D|-< :D/-<
;)
<Zybl0re> get on up
<Zybl0re> get up
<Zybl0re> get on up
<phxl|paper> and DANCE
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
* nmp3bot dances
<[SA]HatfulOfHollow> i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
Prior art.
Much less unreasonable.
On the other hand, another one of my clearly brilliant ideas for a program was one that would send out party/event/meeting invitations. You could select any number of methods to contact people. In fact, one of the features would have been to use an existing address book (Outlook, Gmail, whatever) and contact them in the first most preferred fashion available. For instance, Email if they had it, or if not then IM, then telephone, then if only a postal address was available, print out a letter/card/whatever for them.
So again, this would be a useful application (probably harmless, as well) for contacting people automatically via telephone. And in this scenario, it seems unlikely you would have asked your friends/congregation/colleagues ahead of time whether it was okay for you to use this channel to contact them.
Not I.
I'd like to have certain programs of mine call my cell phone to alert me to problems with pre-recorded messages. So far I've been too lazy to adapt them to do such, but my point is that this is something I would consider useful. By no stretch of the imagination do I believe it should ever be considered a felony to automatically contact a person.
Unless, of course, you're an IE user (ow, stop, the tomatos they burn!) and you get scripting errors on every Slashdot page, thereby making it impossible to tag, metamod, or participate in the new beta index article voting feature.
You sir, have the economic intelligence of a bullfrog.
Excellent! Bullfrogs are green!
Joe the plumber can't afford to be green! Most small business owners making under $250,000 can't afford to be green! Won't somebody please think of the small business owners?!
128k is a little low. At least bump them up to 640k.. cause, that should be enough for anybody.
Could have resisted, but I really didn't want do :D
I would, and shall, argue that in certain media, gagging one's mouth would be important to preserve a certain standard. Neopets, for instance, prohibits abusive speech from being posted on their messageboards. Given that a large part of their audience is under the age of 13, they have felt it necessary for the integrity of their business and the environment they've aspired to create to prevent users from using harsh words that would be objected to by a) users b) parents of users c) thinkofthechildren onlookers. Further, I would add that I support censorship in this and similar veins. There is a clear and logical reason for it and it does not appreciably harm anyone (inconvenience those who can't put a sentence together without foul language, perhaps).
Nothing should be censored, ever.
I have to disagree. There are many things that I wish were censored. If, for instance, there were a filter on Slashdot that would obfuscate a standard list of words (and optionally the sentence that contained them) plus any additional words I deemed offensive to me, I would definitely make use of it. This is not so as to encroach on the rights of others, but rather to ensure that I have control/forewarning of seeing something that may be quite distasteful to me.
Would it really be fair to say they ever approached colossal?
4C60.07 - the first of the galaxies to be discovered - came to astronomers' attention because of its bright radio emission. This radio signature is one telltale sign of a quasar - a black hole, spinning rapidly, feeding on its parent galaxy. A new image captures the moment, approximately 12 billion years ago, when this galaxy ripped a stream of dusty gas from a neighbour.
"This new image reveals two galaxies where we only expected to find one," said Professor Rob Ivison ... "Remarkably, both galaxies contain super-massive black holes, each capable of powering a billion, billion, billion light bulbs. The implications are wide reaching: you can't help wondering how many other colossal black holes may be lurking unseen in the distant Universe?"
Due to the finite speed of light, we see the two galaxies as they collided in the distant past, less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang. By now the galaxies will have merged to create a football-shaped elliptical galaxy. Their black holes are likely to have merged to form a single monstrously large black hole.
"These two galaxies are fraternal twins. Both are about the size of the Milky Way, but each one is unique"
From the thats-a-lot-of-lightbulbs department?
T'was my first thought also. Good job getting to it first!
You subtract from Roman Numerals by placing the number to be subtracted prior to the number you start with. To follow the rules, though, you'd probably have to do VII (5+1+1).