He's just stopped reading at -1, I believe. There's a lot of good stuff left out at +5, but it also leaves out the people bitching about moderation and how awful it is here.
And, hey, if no one's complainin', it must be working well.
You know, I've recently begun to think of trolling as more than just trying to get a rise out of people. The truly successful trolls get people to betray their principles. This is why they're so often found in places like this, where folks have hoity-toity principles just waiting to be popped.
Klerck was a successful troll, even though all he did was crapflood with that stupid "page widening" stuff. But it was because of him that the lameness filter was added.
The Wikipedia article on the GNAA (which mentions the structural changes the GNAA made to Slashdot by their trolling) has been put up for deletion more than any other article. If the article is deleted, they "win" by making Wikipedia betray its principles. If the article stays, they "win" by being advertised on Wikipedia.
At least, that's what trolling seems like to me. As a troll, what's your take?
Look, in countries with real ethnic tensions---Yugoslavia, Iraq---a large proportion of the people will, every so often, get up and kill their neighbors, who've lived next to them for centuries.
In America, once a group of funny-speaking immigrants (Bosnians, Irish, whatever) has been here for two generations or so, they're just as white as everyone else. Our remnant bigotry comes from the notion of race, which is sort of like "ethnicity for dummies", as it depends on being able to identify someone from fifty paces.
And I should point out that we have racial tensions in big cities which are thickly developed, and which are frequently (Los Angeles) terribly segregated. Note that Los Angeles was the site of the most recent significant civil unrest in America.
America may have bigotry, but we do not have bigotry like they have in other places. It's more dumbed-down. How predictable.
$250,000 is an upper bound, a limit. It's not like they just go to court, do some simple multiplication and demand your life savings. They actually have to show damages.
Well, they show damages via an incredibly sketchy system of inference, but they're huge corporations and can get away with that.
Doesn't Canon offer, with their newer models (EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-20D, I think), a system by which the images are signed by some sort of cryptographically secure method? There's a whole verification kit involved in it, and I'm not entirely sure how it works, but it sounds like it would be quite useful for making digital pictures stand out in court.
if these things would be legal to view, some capitalist would find a way to profit from it, and the market demand would go up.
Because heaven knows, the best way to stop people from profiting from something is to make it illegal. And the people who do profit from illegal things, well, they're invariably of the highest moral character. Worked wonders for booze and weed!
or something like it. Sometimes it needed a rotatebox around it, but usually not.
The entire size of my teTeX installation is 83M. 41M of that is fonts, but if one were to use only the cm fonts, it would be a lot smaller. And a lot of what remains is stylesheets and packages which I never, ever use.
It could be a lot smaller, but it's easier just to put the whole kaboodle in the install, since space is so cheap. Which, really, is the point of this whole article...... but remember, a version of TeX extremely similar to the engine that runs today was running in the early 1980s. Back then, typesetting a two hundred page book was a significant task. Now it happens in a blink. In terms of code... that's pretty slim.
Yeah, well, these things get stuck in peoples' minds.
Reminds me of a discussion I had in a Women's Studies course I took. (It was mostly a very interesting class, but this part stuck in my craw.) "Snuff" movies were mentioned. I raised my hand, and pointed out that despite all the hand-wringing and so forth, snuff films are nothing but an urban legend.
She paused, said that okay, that's an opinion, and went on with her point, as if I hadn't said a damn thing, as if there were snuff distributors under every rock, and that they're wildly popular, and wealthy. Mmm-hmm.
I read "The Hot House". A friend of mine was in the process of becoming a lawyer, and that was part of his required reading. Fascinating story, but I didn't get the idea that prison society is anything more than middle school, for all eternity, but with more rape. I mean that there's this weird, constant demand for "fairness" from the prisoners. It really is like they're a bunch of children.
You know, this reminds me of a conversation I had recently with a professor who taught a queueing theory course.
He explained that in infectious diseases, like AIDS, there are three populations---the uninfected, the infected, and the dead. There are rates at which populations move from uninfected to infected to dead, and these define whether or not the epidemic will continue to rage.
For instance, if the new-infection rate is smaller than the death rate, the epidemic will die off. So it's a damn good public health idea to stave off new infections by a variety of means, like needle exchanges.
I then pointed out that it also follows that, in this simple model, treating the infected is a terrible idea, because if they live longer, the epidemic will not die out.
Yeah, those Ordinary Decent Criminals for whom a regular afternoon consists of tea, weightlifting and rape.
"Honor among thieves" is utter bullshit. Prisoners treat each other like animals; any morality they pretent to have is about as advanced as that of a five year old.
Don't a lot of cameras encode their serial number onto the image. (The Canon Digital Rebel I have provides a way of tagging them all with your name, too, if you want.) I wonder if retailers or warranty service places can track that sort of thing.
It seems sort of obvious. They probably already do this sort of thing.
FBI: *knock* Jackass: Yes? FBI: We found your punk ass! Jackass: What? FBI: We know about that shit you said on Slashdot! Jackass: Oh, damn. FBI: You're goin' down, sicko. Jackass: What am I being charged with? FBI:... Well, crap.
I know it's real hard to understand, but it's actually not illegal to talk a lot of offensive smack on the internet. Shocking, I know. I'm sure your local Congresscritter is working real hard on it. Worry not thine pretty little head.
Also, the FBI'd have a real hard time getting in touch with him if he's posting from Middle-Earth, I mean New Zealand. Way to be all US-centric, you insensitive clod!
I doubt it. Communities have been suspended in the past for that sort of thing (though since a suspended account leaves a smoking crater and no explanation, the story is hard to come by). As someone who co-moderates a porn community (kaizersoze125, one of the largest), believe me, it'd be pretty impossible to set one up with obviously underage kids. Seventeen year olds, I suppose, may have gotten away with it, because who would know?
But I tell you, there's enough community consensus against underage nudity that it's just not frickin' possible.
But, hey, if you post yourself nekkid in one of the show_your_ communities, you'll get guaranteed positive feedback. Folks're real nice.
What the heck does "in fruition" mean? Bearing jam-faced sprogs?
I'm never sure if my finding sixteen to eighteen year olds sometimes hot is a sign that I'm normal, or a sign that I'm a disgusting perv on my way to a short but painful stay behind bars before being violently raped to death.
I suppose it doesn't matter, since I can't fucking stand teenagers. Annoying little buggers, all of 'em.
Where does that fit in on your grand scale of evil?
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He's just stopped reading at -1, I believe. There's a lot of good stuff left out at +5, but it also leaves out the people bitching about moderation and how awful it is here.
And, hey, if no one's complainin', it must be working well.
--grendel drago
You know, I've recently begun to think of trolling as more than just trying to get a rise out of people. The truly successful trolls get people to betray their principles. This is why they're so often found in places like this, where folks have hoity-toity principles just waiting to be popped.
Klerck was a successful troll, even though all he did was crapflood with that stupid "page widening" stuff. But it was because of him that the lameness filter was added.
The Wikipedia article on the GNAA (which mentions the structural changes the GNAA made to Slashdot by their trolling) has been put up for deletion more than any other article. If the article is deleted, they "win" by making Wikipedia betray its principles. If the article stays, they "win" by being advertised on Wikipedia.
At least, that's what trolling seems like to me. As a troll, what's your take?
--grendel drago
Are you insane, or just provincial?
Look, in countries with real ethnic tensions---Yugoslavia, Iraq---a large proportion of the people will, every so often, get up and kill their neighbors, who've lived next to them for centuries.
In America, once a group of funny-speaking immigrants (Bosnians, Irish, whatever) has been here for two generations or so, they're just as white as everyone else. Our remnant bigotry comes from the notion of race, which is sort of like "ethnicity for dummies", as it depends on being able to identify someone from fifty paces.
And I should point out that we have racial tensions in big cities which are thickly developed, and which are frequently (Los Angeles) terribly segregated. Note that Los Angeles was the site of the most recent significant civil unrest in America.
America may have bigotry, but we do not have bigotry like they have in other places. It's more dumbed-down. How predictable.
--grendel drago
$250,000 is an upper bound, a limit. It's not like they just go to court, do some simple multiplication and demand your life savings. They actually have to show damages.
Well, they show damages via an incredibly sketchy system of inference, but they're huge corporations and can get away with that.
--grendel drago
If you ever need to get a sigmoidoscopy, you will thank the seven gods of chaos for K-Y. Trust me.
'Course, nothing really helps that incredibly unsettling feeling you get from having your intestines inflated. Ugh.
--grendel drago
Doesn't Canon offer, with their newer models (EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-20D, I think), a system by which the images are signed by some sort of cryptographically secure method? There's a whole verification kit involved in it, and I'm not entirely sure how it works, but it sounds like it would be quite useful for making digital pictures stand out in court.
--grendel drago
if these things would be legal to view, some capitalist would find a way to profit from it, and the market demand would go up.
Because heaven knows, the best way to stop people from profiting from something is to make it illegal. And the people who do profit from illegal things, well, they're invariably of the highest moral character. Worked wonders for booze and weed!
--grendel drago
This has been a most edifying Slashdot discussion to read through. Thanks for giving your opinion---it's given me a lot to think about.
--grendel drago
A guy named Edouard Levé did something like that. It's fallen off the internet, from what I can see, but some of it remains around.
It's like porn, but with clothes on.
The entire size of my teTeX installation is 83M. 41M of that is fonts, but if one were to use only the cm fonts, it would be a lot smaller. And a lot of what remains is stylesheets and packages which I never, ever use.
It could be a lot smaller, but it's easier just to put the whole kaboodle in the install, since space is so cheap. Which, really, is the point of this whole article...
--grendel drago
What's a "COPINE Level 1 image"? The word sounds faintly familiar, but I can't place it.
--grendel drago
Yeah, well, these things get stuck in peoples' minds.
Reminds me of a discussion I had in a Women's Studies course I took. (It was mostly a very interesting class, but this part stuck in my craw.) "Snuff" movies were mentioned. I raised my hand, and pointed out that despite all the hand-wringing and so forth, snuff films are nothing but an urban legend.
She paused, said that okay, that's an opinion, and went on with her point, as if I hadn't said a damn thing, as if there were snuff distributors under every rock, and that they're wildly popular, and wealthy. Mmm-hmm.
Damn, that pissed me off.
--grendel drago
You know, every little brown-paper-bag "man, that was stupid" mistake I've ever, ever made seems not nearly as bad now. Thank you for the perspective.
--grendel drago
I read "The Hot House". A friend of mine was in the process of becoming a lawyer, and that was part of his required reading. Fascinating story, but I didn't get the idea that prison society is anything more than middle school, for all eternity, but with more rape. I mean that there's this weird, constant demand for "fairness" from the prisoners. It really is like they're a bunch of children.
--grendel drago
Don't you fucking talk to me about morality in the prisons. In prisons, the highest of the high is the rapist.
Do you still want to point to the prisons as a heroic example of morality that we should emulate?
--grendel drago
You know, this reminds me of a conversation I had recently with a professor who taught a queueing theory course.
He explained that in infectious diseases, like AIDS, there are three populations---the uninfected, the infected, and the dead. There are rates at which populations move from uninfected to infected to dead, and these define whether or not the epidemic will continue to rage.
For instance, if the new-infection rate is smaller than the death rate, the epidemic will die off. So it's a damn good public health idea to stave off new infections by a variety of means, like needle exchanges.
I then pointed out that it also follows that, in this simple model, treating the infected is a terrible idea, because if they live longer, the epidemic will not die out.
It was a depressing afternoon.
--grendel drago
Yeah, those Ordinary Decent Criminals for whom a regular afternoon consists of tea, weightlifting and rape.
"Honor among thieves" is utter bullshit. Prisoners treat each other like animals; any morality they pretent to have is about as advanced as that of a five year old.
--grendel drago
This is some kind of apples-to-oranges joke, right?
--grendel drago
Don't a lot of cameras encode their serial number onto the image. (The Canon Digital Rebel I have provides a way of tagging them all with your name, too, if you want.) I wonder if retailers or warranty service places can track that sort of thing.
It seems sort of obvious. They probably already do this sort of thing.
--grendel drago
9/11 jokes, the first of which I heard just one day later...
You kidding? A friend of mine got a phone call saying "DUDE, TURN ON YOUR TV---SOMEONE SET UP US THE BOMB!"...
--grendel drago
FBI: *knock* ... Well, crap.
Jackass: Yes?
FBI: We found your punk ass!
Jackass: What?
FBI: We know about that shit you said on Slashdot!
Jackass: Oh, damn.
FBI: You're goin' down, sicko.
Jackass: What am I being charged with?
FBI:
I know it's real hard to understand, but it's actually not illegal to talk a lot of offensive smack on the internet. Shocking, I know. I'm sure your local Congresscritter is working real hard on it. Worry not thine pretty little head.
Also, the FBI'd have a real hard time getting in touch with him if he's posting from Middle-Earth, I mean New Zealand. Way to be all US-centric, you insensitive clod!
--grendel drago
I doubt it. Communities have been suspended in the past for that sort of thing (though since a suspended account leaves a smoking crater and no explanation, the story is hard to come by). As someone who co-moderates a porn community (kaizersoze125, one of the largest), believe me, it'd be pretty impossible to set one up with obviously underage kids. Seventeen year olds, I suppose, may have gotten away with it, because who would know?
But I tell you, there's enough community consensus against underage nudity that it's just not frickin' possible.
But, hey, if you post yourself nekkid in one of the show_your_ communities, you'll get guaranteed positive feedback. Folks're real nice.
--grendel drago
Thing was, I couldn't find any autosave, and the app didn't pop up any sort of recovery option dialog. I suppose it must have been turned off.
Ah, well, live and learn. Thanks!
--grendel drago
Why does Michael Jackson like twenty nine year olds? ...
Because there are twenty of them!
See, I can make a joke about abusing nine year olds. And it's a pretty funny one. Neener.
--grendel drago
What the heck does "in fruition" mean? Bearing jam-faced sprogs?
I'm never sure if my finding sixteen to eighteen year olds sometimes hot is a sign that I'm normal, or a sign that I'm a disgusting perv on my way to a short but painful stay behind bars before being violently raped to death.
I suppose it doesn't matter, since I can't fucking stand teenagers. Annoying little buggers, all of 'em.
Where does that fit in on your grand scale of evil?
--grendel drago