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  1. Re:Wow, Friendster? All 300 Users? on Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population · · Score: 1

    it actually takes some extra attention to type in lowercase when i'm so used to using punctuation in all my other communications. i've actually gone back and decapitalized some sentences because i failed my own style rules. i'd have to argue that posting anonymous is laziness. can't you get an account? or if you have one, can't you get up the stones to back up your words? i do.

  2. aureole on Quest To Measure the Venus Transit "Aureole Effect" · · Score: 1

    "famous titties for $600, alex!"

  3. Re:not so sure on The Link Between Genius and Insanity · · Score: 1

    are you speaking from experience?

  4. not so sure on The Link Between Genius and Insanity · · Score: 1

    my genius and insanity were endowed by lsd in my teenage years. well, i was reading and writing by age 3, but that proves nothing. i still think it was the lsd.

  5. Re:Wow, Friendster? All 300 Users? on Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population · · Score: 0

    i do not give a fuck what people think about my lower-case style. if you're too ignorant to realize this is my style and not flamebait, i have no sympathy for you. also, i'm not required to believe in or even respect any religion so the capitalization rule is even more irrelevant to me. oh, and you're completely wrong about there being no difference. many of them have wildly different definitions of what's required to go to heaven (and even what heaven is). some say you just need to "accept" christ, others say you have to put your money where you mouth is, others have varying ideas of what's a sin and what degree of evil it is. you should compare catholics and mormons (who, yes, proclaim to believe in jesus christ) and notice what a huge difference in ideology they have, despite having the same figurehead to worship. while ubuntu and red hat may be linux, they too behave differently -- even different flavors of ubuntu will have different package managers, desktops and workflows, drivers supported, etc. have you used unity? the fact that they use the same kernel is equivalent to the other christian religions all believing in jesus christ. after that, there are differences abound.

    p.s. why don't you go post some links to pictures of the inside of a catholic cathedral, a jehovah witnesses church, and a mormon church side by side so we can see how identical they are. (hint: the mormon church is the one with the basketball court inside, with almost no exceptions).

  6. Re:Wow, Friendster? All 300 Users? on Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population · · Score: 3, Insightful

    like this: christianity is not a religion, it's a classification of religions. catholics are not methodists are not baptists are not 7th day adventists are not episcopalians are not jehovah witnesses etc...

  7. Re:The trick is not just finding the seed set on Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population · · Score: 1

    yo dawg?

  8. Re:That was painful on Book Review: Elemental Design Patterns · · Score: 4, Informative

    i have mod points to give you but you are maxed. there is a word for what you're talking about: anti-patterns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

  9. Re:The trick is not just finding the seed set on Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population · · Score: 1

    no, you missed it. the point is that there is a 1% out there that will be influenced by whatever you have in mind, so the trick is finding that 1% who is ready to do your bidding.

  10. Re:Wow, Friendster? All 300 Users? on Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population · · Score: 1

    115 million? whodathot friendster could be bigger than a lot of major religions?

  11. Re:codeigniter + datamapper on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? · · Score: 1

    it's good to learn a language with a low barrier to entry. but what that means is you can get a jump on the advanced stuff like security and design patterns -- don't neglect this. too many php coders shame me because they never bothered to learn any best practices. php is horrible only in the hands of a horrible coder.

  12. Re:Use a Framework! on Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? · · Score: 1

    i'd like to qualify this by pointing out there is a difference between full-stack and glue frameworks, and that your point applies to full-stacks. a glue framework is flexible enough to make life easy and let you use only what you want to use. there is no point at all in writing your own app from scratch, as you will inevitably write your own hobbled framework and deal with the same problems frameworks have already solved. your choice of language might limit your glue framework options, though. i do enterprise development, building custom apps (natch) and i've only ever had to work around limitations in full-stack frameworks. RoR is a good example of your cookie cutter epic fail.

  13. Re:Quite Obvious, Even to Me on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 4, Funny

    the obligatory xkcd for this was just published last friday: http://xkcd.com/1063/

  14. pics or it didn't happen on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    you know the rules

  15. Re:links? on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 5, Funny

    no no no -- links to the porn, obviously...

  16. Re:Oh yeah... on Google To Require Retailers To Pay To Be In Google Shopping Results · · Score: 1

    d'oh! you got him with yer logic ray! kaPOW!!

  17. all i heard was on Google To Require Retailers To Pay To Be In Google Shopping Results · · Score: 1

    'We believe that having a commercial relationship with merchants will help to eliminate small business competition in the global arena .'

    There, fixed the interview for you.

  18. Re:And this is news how? on Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    For decades, scientists have known that Andromeda is falling towards our home Galaxy at a rate of 110 kilometres per second and that the two might eventually collide as a result of their mutual gravity. But because astronomers could easily measure Andromeda’s velocity only along the line of sight to Earth, no one could be sure whether the future encounter would constitute a major merger, a near-miss or a glancing blow.

    RTFAFY

  19. Re:Freedom on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    mod up or read up, this is truth.

  20. Re:Freedom on IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money · · Score: 1

    sure they can. do you have a clue how loans work? they don't have to print actual currency to print money, they just add lines to their ledgers and count their liabilities as assets. that part about government makes the rules made me laugh. government makes the laws they're paid to make by lobbyists, and the lobbyists with the deepest pockets are from banks.

  21. what journalism? on Next Generation Xbox and Playstation Consoles Will Have Optical Drives · · Score: 1

    But Sony decided against a download-only model largely because Internet connections are too inconsistent around the world, one of the people familiar with Sony's thinking said. Because game files are large, customers in countries where Internet connections are relatively slow would be hobbled by a requirement to download games, the person said.

    A Sony spokesman declined to comment.

    Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.38% is planning to include an optical disk drive in the successor to its Xbox 360 console, according to a person familiar with the matter. The software company also had concerns about access to Internet bandwidth, the person said. A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment.

    "some people say sony hates personal freedom. sony declined to comment. some people say microsoft believes in unicorns and space dragons. microsoft declined to comment." some people say a lot of stupid shit that may or may not be true. the only warm body they took any comments from was the gamestop CEO. here's your revised headline/summary (choose one):

    Wall Street Journal Asks GameStop CEO About Sony And Microsoft Consoles But Pretends It Has Other Mysterious Unnamed Sources To Hide The Fact The CEO Doesn't Know Shit And The Story Is A Bust

    or

    Wall Street Journal Doesn't Know Anything About Sony Or Microsoft's New Consoles But Are More Than Willing To Spread Unsubstantiated Rumors (Notice The Stock Tickers Next To Every Company Mention) Because FUD Moves Stocks

  22. Re:No on What Would a Post-Email World Look Like? · · Score: 1

    lmao, i didn't mod this up insightful. i agree with you, it's sad. i was going for funny.

  23. Re:know it all on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1
    eliza seemed like a great candidate for NYC mayor until i had a chat with her:

    > Hello. My name is Eliza. How may I help you?
    * do you know Cybil?
    > We were discussing you, not me.
    * that was not very helpful to me
    > What does that suggest to you?
    * that you can't answer questions very well
    > You're not really talking about me, are you?
    * yes
    > I see.
    * no, i don't think you do see
    > Do you wish to be able to think me do see?
    * ok now i'm horny
    > Do you believe it is normal to be horny?

    it was then that i realized eliza doesn't understand NYC at all, although she would fit in great as a resident.

  24. Re:How is this legal? on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    1) Stop soda altogether. No carbonated drinks at all. Replace your candy water with flavored vitamin water, and by all means drink 128oz of that a day.

    2) Reduce your salt intake drastically. Salt makes you retain water, it's responsible for the spare tire that even healthy people can't get rid of. This alone will let you lose a substantial amount of weight very quickly.

    3) Stop eating at least 2 hours before you go to sleep. Digesting food while you sleep slows your metabolism.

    4) Eat a lot. By this I mean eat frequently, not necessarily large quantities. Eating frequently, even if just small meals, snacking throughout the day, increases your metabolism. I also advocate eating only good, healthy food but I can't assume you can afford it and everyone has their own idea of what good food is anyway.

    5) Eat snack foods that burn energy. Like beef jerky, oatmeal, and fruit. Your stomach will burn your fat for energy in order to get through a bag of jerky.

    6) Eat nothing but salad for a week and see how your body feels. You can have your fatty dressings and cheese, you can have bacon in it. Try caesar salad or raw spinach leaves -- they taste the best and use the most nutritious kinds of leaves. The first time I ate salad for a week I couldn't believe how much lighter I "felt" even though it wasn't much on the scale. It was like wearing army boots for a year and switching to tennis shoes. I had a lot of energy too.

    7) Do simple warm up exercises when you wake up. Not talking about lifting weights or even push ups. Extend your arms out and rotate them for a full minute, then reverse direction. Do the same with each leg. Jog in place for a full minute. Instead of sit-ups, try these: Hold your arms out in front of you, palms down, and try to kick the opposite hand with each foot. Or assume a push-up position and alternate bringing each foot up to your chest level (called "mountain climbers"). For all of these exercises, it doesn't matter if you can actually do it. The only thing that counts is the effort. If you can do them, it just means you need to do more.

    i never capitalize in my posts, it's just not my style. i capitalized this post just for you, don't let it go to waste. (get it? waist? i kill me)

  25. Re:How DARE they! on The Poor Waste More Time On Digital Entertainment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    great point. so the article becomes even more ridiculous when you consider that the majority of people who ride bikes don't necessarily race them, or do tricks on them, but instead "waste" their time just enjoying them. they could be working as couriers or riding cross-country races but noooooooooo the ingrates are happy to just fuck around. this article is a broken joke.