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  1. couples with joint accounts? on Facebook Tweaks Its "Real Names" Policy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    everyone's getting excited about outing some LGBTQs, but i'm guessing there are many more couples sharing joint accounts with names like John Jane Doe. and then you have all the completely fake accounts that do nothing but spam. my guess is that if someone wants to use a fake name, the only way facebook is going to know about it and take some action is if some of their friends are jerks and turn them in.

  2. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    probably mom wouldn't let dad kick him out.

  3. 2 things on Newspaper Articles Not Copyrightable In Slovakia · · Score: 1

    articles that are simplistic reporting of daily news are what has been ruled on. completely original investigative reporting is not affected. there is really very little creativity in slovak journalism. a lot of it is only one-sided rehashing of press releases.

    slovakia does not have diversity in the journalism market. that is why piano media was able to get a foothold. hopefully, this will begin to eat away at the paywall and collusion piano media has created.

  4. hillbilly redux on Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i am my own grandma?

  5. stopping the money by targetting the banks on Explaining The Business of Spam · · Score: 1

    since there are nearly 40 comments already and no one is talking about the banks, i'll assume no one is reading the article.

    the main conclusion is that spam could grind to a halt if credit card companies blocked all transactions to the dozen suspicious banks. it takes the spammers long enough to set up a new bank account that the new accounts could be blocked faster than they could be set up.

  6. Re:Effective... on The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK · · Score: 1

    except it's not. the correct word is specious.

  7. for *planaria* not humans on How To Grow a Head · · Score: 2, Interesting

    unless you belong to Planariidae, you don't have much hope of this benefiting you.

  8. it's good at detecting OBVIOUS vandalism on Developing a Vandalism Detector For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    there is a subset of vandalism that a bot can be very good at detecting. this bot can never handle every kind of vandalism. for example, adding some subtly false statement to a biographical article, but spelling everything correctly, using correct grammar and adding something that looks like it could be a legitimate source is difficult for even human editors to recognize as vandalism.

    adding 1s everywhere or deleting the entire article is very easy to detect.

  9. i'm already set. on Lithium In Water "Curbs Suicide" · · Score: 1

    the bottled water i usually buy already has 0.07mg/L of lithium.

  10. steps on How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work? · · Score: 1

    first step should be cataloging what you have: properly documented license, cracked/definitely illegal and uncertain legality (owner claims it's legal but can't find the license or the purchase receipt). everything without a properly documented license should be elevated along the proper management chain, but you should probably treat the uncertain legality cases different than the definitely illegal. maybe for the uncertain cases, you should give a deadline to produce proper documentation or some signed letter from the appropriate level of management that the software is legal even though they can't document it.

  11. bad browser detection on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    it marked me as "user of Firefox on WinXP" even though i'm using iceape on debian.

  12. if nader runs on Ralph Nader Might Announce Run For President · · Score: 0, Troll

    if nader runs, watch out -- more republican madness.

  13. Re:They are bad teachers on Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Informative
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_source_examples#Are_USENET_postings_reliable_sources.3F

    Are USENET postings reliable sources?

    Posts on USENET are rarely regarded as reliable sources, because they are easily forged or misrepresented, and many are anonymous or pseudonymous.

    One exception is that some authorities on certain topics have written extensively on USENET, and their writings there are vouched for by them or by other reliable sources. A canonical example is J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the television series Babylon 5, who discussed the show at length on Usenet. His postings are archived and authenticated on his website, and may be an acceptable source on the topic of Babylon 5 under the self-publication provision of WP:ATT.
  14. Re:i'm confused on the timeline on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    it mostly comes from many scholarly interpretations of genealogies and other timelines. the most famous is the ussher chronology, but there are many others.

  15. mmm! tasty! on Verisign To Sell DNS Root Server Lookup Data? · · Score: 1

    so what does a domain taste like? chocolate or vanilla?

  16. it's not just about "thou shalt not kill" on Churches Use Halo To Spread the Word, Raise Eyebrows · · Score: 1
    it's not just about "thou shalt not kill", the major objections also surround the idea of promoting the enjoyment of violence. psalm 11:5

    The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.
  17. measuring nanoseconds on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 2, Interesting

    does anyone know how these scientists measured time for this experiment? what sort of equipment do you use to measure picoseconds

  18. expensive whore with stds on What Vista Is Really Like · · Score: 4, Funny

    so vista is like an expensive whore with STDs?

  19. in other words on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    poorly performing people get stuck in unsatisfying and frustrating jobs, while the strong performers find satisfying and fufilling ones.

  20. misspellings on How Do You Know Your Code is Secure? · · Score: 1
    "Marucs Ranum notes taht 'It's really hard to tell the difference between a program that works and one that just appears to work.'
    it's hard to tell the difference between being human, and appearing to be human... oh, wait -- there's a misspelling. i think he's real... or maybe just a robot with bad programming.
  21. laziness on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 3, Informative

    it really doesn't take that long to find out the candidate's positions. the league of women voters does a good job of consolidating all the information i needed.

  22. stupid question on Do Gamers Really Need HDTV? · · Score: 1

    asking "do gamers really need..." is really stupid. gamers don't even really need games! shock! shock! they won't die without them. i imagine though that gamers make up a higher fraction of hd owners than the general population.

  23. solution in search of a problem on Could a Reputation System Improve Wikipedia? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this is a solution in search of a problem. wikipedia does not have a problem with ordinary vandalism that could result in a reasonable measure of a user's reliability. wikipedia's biggest problem is with unfounded but believable information. in this case, the measure of reliability of a user would be nearly useless because the reliability of their edits is unknown.

  24. Re:Most Managers have to be teachs to... on Engineers Working Harder for Their Paycheck · · Score: 2, Interesting

    i'm a mechanical engineer. i would not want any job that required me to use autocad as the primary cadd tool. 3d parametric cadd systems are much better. you actually end up designing something instead of just moving lines around.

    now if your design is truly 2d, then autocad is a good tool, but most useful things are not 2d.

  25. editors of what?? on Project OpenSky Takes Off · · Score: 1, Redundant

    heroinEEEEEEEE!!!!!! there's an E!!.

    else it's under the jurisdiction of the ATF.

    on second thought, maybe the editors purposefully insert egregiouss errors to troll readers into commenting, thus increasing ad revenue.