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I think that posting something on an anonymous FTP server and not expecting something like this happen, and that people will be respectful is about like setting a stack of 50 cds on the sidewalk, and expecting only the people who run mirrors to pick them up. They should have a private FTP for mirrors to grab the package from if they were that concerned about it. Don't most places do that anyway?
It's not really slashdotted, just all the anon slots on their ftp server are full, so they really won't be using any more bandwidth than they wanted to.
YMCANAL (you most certainly are not a lawyer). Whoever told you that is wrong. Examples that come to mind that are pretty similar to this case are AT&T including a clause in a contract for Long Distance that stated that you could arbitrate against them. Also see the section here about legality.
Actually, I think it just displays a random mod done to the comment, here is the sum of all moderation to the comment: Moderation Totals: Troll=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Funny=1, Underrated=1, Total=5. I just need overrated, informative, offtopic, and whatever else and I'll have them all.
You can't sign a contract agreeing to something that is illegal though. Sort of like the mafia trying to sue me because I agreed to whack someone for them and didn't follow through.
You missed the point. They do it to annoy the hell out of all of you. They get to post a bunch of crap, which is so obviously not true that you all will flame it and whine and complain like little babies, which, will make it all the more likely to happen in the future. It might have been dumb to you, but I'm sure they were all laughing their asses off at you.
I think the article is pretty beleivable too, but the Orcs are a pretty integral part of the story line of the Warcraft series, which is something Blizzard prides itself in (elaborate story lines). Anyway, it's the only article I've found written by 'Staff' as opposed to a real editor =]
That's why you need to learn the secret of browsing at +3 or +4, so many people have had the +1 bonus for so long that I feel it became useless. Maybe the scale needs to be adjusted though, everyone posts at 1 or 2, then the top end could be 6 or 7, low end should be -1 or -2.
Maybe they aren't supposed to be funny? Some of them are amusing, but I think the funny part lies in the fact that they get to read through all these comments and listen to all of us complain about how stupid slashdot is and how april fools stories suck. If I worked up there, I'd be laughing so hard all day my entire cube would be filled with my own urine. Actually, I'll take that back, I find it amusing here too. Amusing that so many people take/. so seriously that a day of crap news and they're lives are going to end. Now THAT is hilarious.
That this post got a +5 interesting is proof moderation is in bad shape, it should have been -365 redundant, since it was redundant as of last year, and many years before that, when they posted nothing but 20-30 april fools jokes on april 1st. Big deal. Slashdot is only a silly website, I certainly hope nobody thinks it is anything else.
You have to wonder about this though. I also can't believe they would do something like this unannounced or w/o feedback from all of us. Anyway, until I hear otherwise from the people running/., I'm going to assume this is a silly April fools joke.
I agree, but I'm still suspicious of it coinciding with the first april fools story of the day. Anyway, most of the comments on that crapflood were by logged in users, so I don't see the point.
What will the karma whores do when they want to flame and not lose their karam points?
Your post reminds me of what I read in Bill Gates' biography (Hard Drive). Himself and others at Harvard would skip class all semester, and then spend the weekend before finals reading the book and studying to see who could get the best grade without ever going to class. I think he still did pretty good too.
Hmm, instead of a toilet-cam why not hookup the infrared things on the automatic toilets in my dorm hall to a system that can provide information via a web page (or a console in the bathroom) as to which stalls/urinals are available for use, to avoid needless trips to the can. Also, you could hook up an odor meter to each john so that you know which one to use if you don't want to pass out.
Yellow urine can also indicate dehydration, not necessarily large amounts of vitamins. You could take plenty of vitamin C, but if you drank a ton of water, your urine would be mostly clear.
I bet my wife would never let me get one of these, I already spend too much time on the john, this would make it all the more comfortable, I might never leave the room.
Hunting is actually quite a dilemna for me. (Qualifier = I am a vegetarian and animal activist or whatever you want to call me). Anyway, where I live (Indiana), there is a tremendous deer overpopulation. Numerous studies have been done, and if they were left to their own (and we didn't hunt them), they would continue to overpopulate and spread, and would be a serious problem to the environment, as well as many farms across the midwest. (It's our fault it got this way anyway.). So, I think killing an animal is wrong, but in this case, what other options do we have? So it is hard for me to say that I am entirely against hunting, when I recognize that it needs to exist in some cases.
Also, I'm all for the entire bill of rights of the United States Constitution, 1-10, every one of them. People that think we should get rid of the 2nd amendment need to really think about it. Because then you probably still have firepower in the hands of the police and the government, but not 99% of private citizens. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Yeah, exactly like I said, "I'm not sure if it applies to government." That specific law applies to public offices & employees, or people employed by the government. It's also just south carolina from what you showed, anyone know if this applies on a federal level?
You know, I'm an Animal Rights activist, but I'll agree with this. Compared to some ways that animals are killed, a properly placed bullet could be a lot less painful than some alternatives.
I'm not sure if it applies to government or not, but there are no laws against nepotism, and quite frankly, would you complain if you were offered a job by your rich and powerful grandfather? (yeah it would depend what the job was, but hey..)
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I think that posting something on an anonymous FTP server and not expecting something like this happen, and that people will be respectful is about like setting a stack of 50 cds on the sidewalk, and expecting only the people who run mirrors to pick them up. They should have a private FTP for mirrors to grab the package from if they were that concerned about it. Don't most places do that anyway?
It's not really slashdotted, just all the anon slots on their ftp server are full, so they really won't be using any more bandwidth than they wanted to.
YMCANAL (you most certainly are not a lawyer). Whoever told you that is wrong. Examples that come to mind that are pretty similar to this case are AT&T including a clause in a contract for Long Distance that stated that you could arbitrate against them. Also see the section here about legality.
Actually, I think it just displays a random mod done to the comment, here is the sum of all moderation to the comment: Moderation Totals: Troll=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Funny=1, Underrated=1, Total=5. I just need overrated, informative, offtopic, and whatever else and I'll have them all.
You can't sign a contract agreeing to something that is illegal though. Sort of like the mafia trying to sue me because I agreed to whack someone for them and didn't follow through.
You missed the point. They do it to annoy the hell out of all of you. They get to post a bunch of crap, which is so obviously not true that you all will flame it and whine and complain like little babies, which, will make it all the more likely to happen in the future. It might have been dumb to you, but I'm sure they were all laughing their asses off at you.
I think the article is pretty beleivable too, but the Orcs are a pretty integral part of the story line of the Warcraft series, which is something Blizzard prides itself in (elaborate story lines). Anyway, it's the only article I've found written by 'Staff' as opposed to a real editor =]
That's why you need to learn the secret of browsing at +3 or +4, so many people have had the +1 bonus for so long that I feel it became useless. Maybe the scale needs to be adjusted though, everyone posts at 1 or 2, then the top end could be 6 or 7, low end should be -1 or -2.
Maybe they aren't supposed to be funny? Some of them are amusing, but I think the funny part lies in the fact that they get to read through all these comments and listen to all of us complain about how stupid slashdot is and how april fools stories suck. If I worked up there, I'd be laughing so hard all day my entire cube would be filled with my own urine. Actually, I'll take that back, I find it amusing here too. Amusing that so many people take /. so seriously that a day of crap news and they're lives are going to end. Now THAT is hilarious.
That this post got a +5 interesting is proof moderation is in bad shape, it should have been -365 redundant, since it was redundant as of last year, and many years before that, when they posted nothing but 20-30 april fools jokes on april 1st. Big deal. Slashdot is only a silly website, I certainly hope nobody thinks it is anything else.
You have to wonder about this though. I also can't believe they would do something like this unannounced or w/o feedback from all of us. Anyway, until I hear otherwise from the people running /., I'm going to assume this is a silly April fools joke.
I agree, but I'm still suspicious of it coinciding with the first april fools story of the day. Anyway, most of the comments on that crapflood were by logged in users, so I don't see the point.
What will the karma whores do when they want to flame and not lose their karam points?
So they can track down anyone who says they don't like april fools and beat the shit out of them.
I don't think penguins are hung at all, since they're birds.
Your post reminds me of what I read in Bill Gates' biography (Hard Drive). Himself and others at Harvard would skip class all semester, and then spend the weekend before finals reading the book and studying to see who could get the best grade without ever going to class. I think he still did pretty good too.
Hmm, instead of a toilet-cam why not hookup the infrared things on the automatic toilets in my dorm hall to a system that can provide information via a web page (or a console in the bathroom) as to which stalls/urinals are available for use, to avoid needless trips to the can. Also, you could hook up an odor meter to each john so that you know which one to use if you don't want to pass out.
Yellow urine can also indicate dehydration, not necessarily large amounts of vitamins. You could take plenty of vitamin C, but if you drank a ton of water, your urine would be mostly clear.
I bet my wife would never let me get one of these, I already spend too much time on the john, this would make it all the more comfortable, I might never leave the room.
Hunting is actually quite a dilemna for me. (Qualifier = I am a vegetarian and animal activist or whatever you want to call me). Anyway, where I live (Indiana), there is a tremendous deer overpopulation. Numerous studies have been done, and if they were left to their own (and we didn't hunt them), they would continue to overpopulate and spread, and would be a serious problem to the environment, as well as many farms across the midwest. (It's our fault it got this way anyway.). So, I think killing an animal is wrong, but in this case, what other options do we have? So it is hard for me to say that I am entirely against hunting, when I recognize that it needs to exist in some cases.
Also, I'm all for the entire bill of rights of the United States Constitution, 1-10, every one of them. People that think we should get rid of the 2nd amendment need to really think about it. Because then you probably still have firepower in the hands of the police and the government, but not 99% of private citizens. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Yeah, exactly like I said, "I'm not sure if it applies to government." That specific law applies to public offices & employees, or people employed by the government. It's also just south carolina from what you showed, anyone know if this applies on a federal level?
You know, I'm an Animal Rights activist, but I'll agree with this. Compared to some ways that animals are killed, a properly placed bullet could be a lot less painful than some alternatives.
They need the detective from Conan O'Brien who actually finds the proof in the pudding.
honk if you drive peterbilt
I'm not sure if it applies to government or not, but there are no laws against nepotism, and quite frankly, would you complain if you were offered a job by your rich and powerful grandfather? (yeah it would depend what the job was, but hey..)
Last I checked guns were used for hunting, and sporting activities apart from killing other people.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.