Well, at least one other person on the planet got it. Evidently I was far too good at embedding my wry, lovingly-crafted, so to speak, commentary of the, let's say, new breed of "super-troll", if you will.
Don't say I didn't warn ya, folks! One of the side-effects of trolls learning to bypass the new(ish) mod and metamod system (the "second derivative" equivalent of a posting, one might say?) is more people enrubify.
Seriously, Slashdot's "moderation" system tries to make stupid lol-trolling a thing of the past. But Life Will Find A Way, so the trollers will become more and more sophisticated, in effect evolving, a survival of the fittest honing resulting in an emergent, unpredicted behavior that doesn't dryly thrust the tongue so bulgingly into the cheek, obviously mocking the subject or some previous post. Thus trolling will continue to exist, but far better than before.
See, slipping in the line to get a "bite" has always been the ultimate goal of the troll, but it requires the fish to be completely unaware he's being set up. Do you see now? The karma moderation system is helping buff this cryptic skill! Score another one for the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Because now you, er, the evolving troller, must not only hope a rube or two will not notice the mockery, but also that the legions of noobs, who just got metamod points because they likened the Linux/Microsoft "battle" to a metaphor for nurturing sexual relations of the transgendered, won't notice either.
Certainly most won't, being flush with "power" and ready to ostracize anyone who made a simple joke that doesn't genuflect to magnificently weighty and profound gravitas of the topic, say, Microsoft's latest security, or "insecurity" patch, ha ha, you are so funny lolzomgpwn3dwft, but a few will. These we must trick.
By that, uh, I mean the evolving troller must learn to hide his incendiary remarks, humerous, brutal, or otherwise, from the more gregarious metamodders looking to feel important by keeping things "civil".
Having said that, how would one go about slyly embedding an insulting and humerous troll, which is to say funny with respect to other posters, i.e. commentators who usually have a personal stake in the topic, revealing one or another aspect of some issue the troller can yank in hopes of snagging da big one! (said in Janeane from Ghostbusters voice.)
But the best hope of all is that trollers, nay, we, yes I sway we, are still waiting for our Newton. Our Einstein, who will cleverly lead the way through this minefield of potential metamod disaster, and lovingly craft magnificent troll posts that not only pass muster superficially, avoiding downmods, but get +1 Insightful's for the effort!
Here's a novel idea: Keep your damned nose out of it. Any little stupid thing that some power-hungry idiot can latch onto becomes a potential for a law.
It's bad enough you shouldn't use a cell phone in a doctor's waiting room or a hospital. Not because you might mess up his equipment. Rather because it irritates cranky old coots.
I don't know why I have an odd fascination with this little naughty picture There are no puzzles there are no goals it's not quite a painting program but it's not quite a game either
Addressing the politicians who supported or voted for it this fall is certainly well within reason.
If we can't nail the companies for giving the Nuremberg defense (Hey, I was just following orders!) as a warning to the future, then we can nail the politicians who gave it to them, as a warning to the future, as the next best thing.
Hmmmm. I guess private organizations will just go launch, and develop, from other, hungrier countries that aren't so into lording over their own people.
So it's kind of like calling someone a "geek", when technically you mean "nerd", since geeks were the guys in the carnival that bit the head off a chicken.
In Revenge of the Nerds, Booger was the only "geek". The others were all nerds except for the effete African American.
> After I politely point out that he's mistaken and should have looked at the > documentation before posting, he changes the subject and bad mouths a different 'flaw.'
Like me, you may have a problem in always thinking people are behaving honestly.
Go look at the (open) reviews for AdAware and similar legit products on Download.com. They're clogged with spammed bad reviews by what are presumably "competitors" who create trojan loader crap.
This buffoonery even copies and pastes the came bitches into the reviews of most products of the same type.
And I wouldn't put it above legit companies to try that tactic, too. After all, it's been a few years since we learned they do things like pay bloggers, if not outright hire or make up completely fake bloggers, to tout their products, as well as sit in chat rooms and casually tout this or that product or movie. Alcohol companies pay gorgeous models to stand around in hep clubs drinking their product. Clothing and jewelry companies give expensive stuff to stars in the hopes they'll be seen wearing it on TMZ or in People, or by the Grace of God, on Jay Leno.
> Researchers from Microsoft say they've built a prototype of a display screen using a > technology that essentially mimics the optics in a telescope but at the scale of > individual display pixels.
From Microsoft's own press release:
"Our first prototypes are for a 640 x 480 screen, and will be buffed for mass production. That should be good. 640 x 480 is enough for anybody."
(Your) firemen, (your) doctors, etc. are not "the usual strangers". And all of them combined, whether yours or not, are not "the usual strangers", either.
Nor does it affect you, either, buddy. Unless every damned murder you hear about on TV every night has a deeply personal effect on you. But if that's the case I'd go see a psychiatrist.
> The law would require sites to check visitors' ages, e.g. by taking a credit card, if the site > contained any material that is "harmful to minors," whatever that means.
I'm sure there are loads of detailed, duplicated scientific studies that shows "minors" exposed to "pornography" are psychologically harmed, presumably chronically and irrepairably.
They are probably lined up on the legislator's shelves right next to the studies showing gorgeous teachers copulating with drooling 15 year olds harms the 15 year old psychologically, "akin to a mauling by a dog".
I just can't seem to find that bookshelf, though.
Our legislators wouldn't pass a law without sound, scientific evidence of harm, would they?
The King James was translated, with said translation itself being inspired, from an earlier work which was also considered inspired. This chain of inspired goes back through simple copies to translations to the original Greek or Hebrew, as necessary.
A religious person would have to conclude that this 4th century Bible was, in fact, a Satan-perverted nth copy, and that the originals, perhaps lost, reflected Jesus properly.
But this is hardly a new issue. 1500 years ago, theologians realized there were earlier works that looked as if the sacred works were derivatives evolving from them. They, quite literally, proposed the Devil set those up to make it look the True stuff merely evolved from it.
> The problem is, even after that amount of training, no one could remain on top of their game > for more than a few years. And "Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing means death -- or > at least not being able to be Batman anymore."
Not really. One of the fiew times I accidently watched that new Justice Leage crap on Cartoon, Hawk girl was walking along with someone discussing their current problem. Quoth she, "I once was disintegrated and had my molecules spread throughout the universe."
That's as dead as dead can get. Being a corpse in the dirt is a day at the beach comparatively. And she "got better"!
> After receiving instructions for a movement that would have damaged its > wrist, the robotic arm recognized the problem, tried to rectify it and > then shut down before it could damage itself
> and why you're unlikely to see the source code to the project any time soon
I can take a guess that might not even be admitted -- they have a very simple, bullet proof secret back door code that allows them to remotely reflash the whole damned thing as a last resort.
Outrageous! The government twisting the judicial branch's nuts to get a desired outcome.
Horrible!
"But FDR threatened to pack the Supreme Court with extra judges, since Congress can increase the size past 9, in order to get approval of the creation of massive welfare redistribution of wealth programs."
Well, that was Ok, I guess, part and parcel of moving to the modern state.:rollseyes
Meanwhile, over at the Atari 800 convention down the hall, Atari enthusiasts were having a party celebrating the release of the first product for the left cartridge slot: a tiny feather slot duster that folds up and fits in your wallet.
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Two points.
1. Read your own .sig
2. For some reason my mind swapped price of T-3 and OC-3.
Let's just say you can't spell OCD without OC.
Well, at least one other person on the planet got it.
Evidently I was far too good at embedding my wry,
lovingly-crafted, so to speak, commentary of the,
let's say, new breed of "super-troll", if you will.
Don't say I didn't warn ya, folks!
One of the side-effects of trolls learning to bypass the
new(ish) mod and metamod system (the "second derivative"
equivalent of a posting, one might say?) is more people enrubify.
Foosh! #1
Seriously, Slashdot's "moderation" system tries to make stupid
lol-trolling a thing of the past. But Life Will Find
A Way, so the trollers will become more and more
sophisticated, in effect evolving, a survival of the fittest
honing resulting in an emergent, unpredicted behavior that
doesn't dryly thrust the tongue so bulgingly into the cheek,
obviously mocking the subject or some previous post. Thus
trolling will continue to exist, but far better than before.
See, slipping in the line to get a "bite" has always been the
ultimate goal of the troll, but it requires the fish to be
completely unaware he's being set up. Do you see now? The
karma moderation system is helping buff this cryptic skill!
Score another one for the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Because now you, er, the evolving troller, must not only hope
a rube or two will not notice the mockery, but also that the
legions of noobs, who just got metamod points because they
likened the Linux/Microsoft "battle" to a metaphor for nurturing
sexual relations of the transgendered, won't notice either.
Certainly most won't, being flush with "power" and ready to
ostracize anyone who made a simple joke that doesn't genuflect to
magnificently weighty and profound gravitas of the topic, say,
Microsoft's latest security, or "insecurity" patch, ha ha, you
are so funny lolzomgpwn3dwft, but a few will. These we must trick.
By that, uh, I mean the evolving troller must learn to hide his
incendiary remarks, humerous, brutal, or otherwise, from the more
gregarious metamodders looking to feel important by keeping things "civil".
Having said that, how would one go about slyly embedding an insulting
and humerous troll, which is to say funny with respect to other posters,
i.e. commentators who usually have a personal stake in the topic,
revealing one or another aspect of some issue the troller can
yank in hopes of snagging da big one! (said in Janeane from Ghostbusters voice.)
But the best hope of all is that trollers, nay, we, yes I sway we,
are still waiting for our Newton. Our Einstein, who will cleverly
lead the way through this minefield of potential metamod disaster, and
lovingly craft magnificent troll posts that not only pass muster
superficially, avoiding downmods, but get +1 Insightful's for the effort!
Here's a novel idea: Keep your damned nose out of it. Any little stupid thing that some power-hungry idiot can latch onto becomes a potential for a law.
It's bad enough you shouldn't use a cell phone in a doctor's waiting room or a hospital. Not because you might mess up his equipment. Rather because it irritates cranky old coots.
I don't know why
I have an odd fascination
with this little naughty picture
There are no puzzles
there are no goals
it's not quite a painting program
but it's not quite a game either
Addressing the politicians who supported or voted for it this fall is certainly well within reason.
If we can't nail the companies for giving the Nuremberg defense (Hey, I was just following orders!) as a warning to the future, then we can nail the politicians who gave it to them, as a warning to the future, as the next best thing.
> he got an email message from Comcast apologizing for the problems
> and suggesting he might look at a guide it had posted on its web site.
Well, at least companies are learning, and this wasn't a lawsuit from Comcast threatening to SLAPP him
Hmmmm. I guess private organizations will just go launch, and develop, from other, hungrier countries that aren't so into lording over their own people.
"You are in a cave, about 10' high by 15' wide. It smells dank and is dark except for your torches.
You see this foamy looking stuff all over the floor ahead. If is fairly thick. What do you do?"
"I stick out my sword and touch it. What happens?"
"Your sword dinks against it. It is quite hard and rocky. It's actually crystals. Roll a d20."
(guy rolls a 17)
"Ohhhh, god, I'm sorry. You can't find a date for Friday or Saturday night."
So it's kind of like calling someone a "geek", when technically you mean "nerd", since geeks were the guys in the carnival that bit the head off a chicken.
In Revenge of the Nerds, Booger was the only "geek". The others were all nerds except for the effete African American.
> After I politely point out that he's mistaken and should have looked at the
> documentation before posting, he changes the subject and bad mouths a different 'flaw.'
Like me, you may have a problem in always thinking people are behaving honestly.
Go look at the (open) reviews for AdAware and similar legit products on Download.com. They're clogged with spammed bad reviews by what are presumably "competitors" who create trojan loader crap.
This buffoonery even copies and pastes the came bitches into the reviews of most products of the same type.
And I wouldn't put it above legit companies to try that tactic, too. After all, it's been a few years since we learned they do things like pay bloggers, if not outright hire or make up completely fake bloggers, to tout their products, as well as sit in chat rooms and casually tout this or that product or movie. Alcohol companies pay gorgeous models to stand around in hep clubs drinking their product. Clothing and jewelry companies give expensive stuff to stars in the hopes they'll be seen wearing it on TMZ or in People, or by the Grace of God, on Jay Leno.
> Researchers from Microsoft say they've built a prototype of a display screen using a
> technology that essentially mimics the optics in a telescope but at the scale of
> individual display pixels.
From Microsoft's own press release:
"Our first prototypes are for a 640 x 480 screen, and will be buffed for mass production. That should be good. 640 x 480 is enough for anybody."
What part of "usually" don't you understand?
(Your) firemen, (your) doctors, etc. are not "the usual strangers". And all of them combined, whether yours or not, are not "the usual strangers", either.
Nor does it affect you, either, buddy. Unless every damned murder you hear about on TV every night has a deeply personal effect on you. But if that's the case I'd go see a psychiatrist.
> He got tired of having his box filled with unsolicited male?
Ya know, it's kind of sad that +5 is the limit for upmods. There should be some kind of glowing award for mods that might make it to +100.
It's sad he killed his wife and a kid, but I guess being a rogue ALA The Riches catches up to you eventually.
> The law would require sites to check visitors' ages, e.g. by taking a credit card, if the site
> contained any material that is "harmful to minors," whatever that means.
I'm sure there are loads of detailed, duplicated scientific studies that shows "minors" exposed to "pornography" are psychologically harmed, presumably chronically and irrepairably.
They are probably lined up on the legislator's shelves right next to the studies showing gorgeous teachers copulating with drooling 15 year olds harms the 15 year old psychologically, "akin to a mauling by a dog".
I just can't seem to find that bookshelf, though.
Our legislators wouldn't pass a law without sound, scientific evidence of harm, would they?
Finally someone gets it right.
The King James was translated, with said translation itself being inspired, from an earlier work which was also considered inspired. This chain of inspired goes back through simple copies to translations to the original Greek or Hebrew, as necessary.
A religious person would have to conclude that this 4th century Bible was, in fact, a Satan-perverted nth copy, and that the originals, perhaps lost, reflected Jesus properly.
But this is hardly a new issue. 1500 years ago, theologians realized there were earlier works that looked as if the sacred works were derivatives evolving from them. They, quite literally, proposed the Devil set those up to make it look the True stuff merely evolved from it.
> How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming?
Tell him if he finishes the work, you'll get him a purple, season 11, tier 43 sword.
> The problem is, even after that amount of training, no one could remain on top of their game
> for more than a few years. And "Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing means death -- or
> at least not being able to be Batman anymore."
Not really. One of the fiew times I accidently watched that new Justice Leage crap on Cartoon, Hawk girl was walking along with someone discussing their current problem. Quoth she, "I once was disintegrated and had my molecules spread throughout the universe."
That's as dead as dead can get. Being a corpse in the dirt is a day at the beach comparatively. And she "got better"!
> After receiving instructions for a movement that would have damaged its
> wrist, the robotic arm recognized the problem, tried to rectify it and
> then shut down before it could damage itself
That puts it one up on the typical Slashdot nerd.
> and why you're unlikely to see the source code to the project any time soon
I can take a guess that might not even be admitted -- they have a very simple, bullet proof secret back door code that allows them to remotely reflash the whole damned thing as a last resort.
Oz banned too? Well, that's understandable given the Wicked Witch of the West has been spamming thousands of flying monkeys for years.
Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World
No!
Outrageous! The government twisting the judicial branch's nuts to get a desired outcome.
Horrible!
"But FDR threatened to pack the Supreme Court with extra judges, since Congress can increase the size past 9, in order to get approval of the creation of massive welfare redistribution of wealth programs."
Well, that was Ok, I guess, part and parcel of moving to the modern state. :rollseyes
Oh, have a look at my .sig before you flamemod me.
Meanwhile, over at the Atari 800 convention down the hall, Atari enthusiasts were having a party celebrating the release of the first product for the left cartridge slot: a tiny feather slot duster that folds up and fits in your wallet.