As you note you can't get vitamin D from fruit. For vitamin D you need Dairy.
Vitamin E? Eubatus, subgenus of Rubus. (Better known as blackberries.)
Vitamin K? Kale. Vegetable, but that doesn't much matter.
<sing> A - B - C - D - E - F - G, H - I - J - K - LMNOP, Q - R - S, T - U - V, W, X, Y and Z. Now I know my Vit-A-Min-s. Next time won't you sing with me? </sing>
Business offers customers free wifi, which has the twin effects of attracting more customers and some of them staying longer. This is news? In other breaking news headlines, water is wet!
What caught my eye was the last two paragraphs of the article:
The wifi service is backed by a secure internet gateway product from wholesaler earthwave called Clean Pipes, which is there in part to apply McDonalds' Family Friendly policies to the service.
It had so far not detected any major 'red flag' sessions that had to be reported to law enforcement authorities, a representative of earthwave said.
Why isn't the news story here that McDonalds has a program in place to spy on customer's wifi usage, to get customers arrested?
If my phone company were eaves dropping on my conversations to report to the police, I would have a problem with that. If my ISP were eaves dropping on my internet phone calls or other communications to report to the police, I would have a problem with that.
If a company is offering free wifi connections, obviously the standards are somewhat different than dealing with my own phone company or my own ISP, however I still consider it outrageous and a primary news item that a company *does* have a program in place to spy on communications over their free wifi, one dedicated to having those customers arrested.
According to the article the gravity of this new planet causes about a 7 km/hour wobble in it's parent star, and that is right about at the current limit of out ability to detect.
Here's my back-of-the-envelope calculations if you were trying to detect the earth: This planet is 1.9 times the mass of the earth, so the earth would cause 1.9 times smaller wobble in the sun. Our sun is about three times heavier than this dwarf star, so the sun's wobble would be about 3 times smaller. The earth is about 13.7 times further from the sun, so the sun's wobble would be about 13.7 squared = 187.7 times smaller.
If I did that right... it means trying to detect the earth around the sun would mean trying to see a 1,070 times smaller wobble. And we were barely able to detect this planet.
This star is 20.3 light years away. The nearest star is 4.3 light years away. Even at the nearest star, we aren't even close to being able to detect the earth(*). The only reason we could detect this planet is because it was so close to it's parent star. The fact that this planet is bigger than earth and the parent star is a dwarf helped, but it's mostly about orbital distance. This planet is so close to its star that the planet's 'year' is about 75 hours long. The planet wobbles it's parent star by 7 km/hour every 75 hours. That's what we spotted. The earth wobbles our sun by about 0.007 km/h every year.
(*) Actually detecting the earth would be extremely easy because of all the radio signals we broadcast, but aside from that, no.
Equip the ship with unlimited highspeed satellite internet access and top of the line computers, crew the ship with geeks, and rip out the showerheads.
It's a 'vulnerability' in the sense that the idiots at Microsoft came up with this Trusted Computing notion that the computer is supposed to be secured against the owner'.
Trusted Computing, Digital Rights Management, the new Windows model for the operating system, it is considered a 'vulnerability' if the owner is able to take control of his own computer. Of course the Trusted Computing party line, and the way this article was written, is to to call this anti-owner system a "security" system and to spin any attack on it as evil, but as virtually everyone here has already commented, this issue is about 'attacking' and gaining control over a computer you already physically control. And in general what 'attacker' already has physical control of the computer? The owner. An owner-attacker who wants to control his own computer, and override DRM or Trusted Computing lockouts against the owner. The entire new Windows driver model is that the owner is forbidden to run unapproved drivers, because such drivers could be used to break DRM or gain control of other Trusted Windows systems. If/when Windows does permit you to run unapproved drivers, it dumps you down into an unTrusted unprivileged state. As I recall, Windows Vista even locks you out of the entire Aero mode Aero interface if you try to load an unapproved driver.
I've never considered myself much good at providing humor, or at brightening anybody's day. But if I get strong results in the poll, I may have to reconsider my overall outlook, maybe even make a career change.(Score:3, Funny)
I would not be surprised if the FSF and EFF (among others) are forcibly nationalized and destroyed/reorganized within four years.
It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians.
Aside from that, yeah, 'intellectual property' is the area where we (U.S.) have a big positive in the international balance of trade, so there is big pressure to push increasingly crazy crap in all our "free trade agreements".
I'm not sure I've ever heard people claim that "peer 2 peer file sharing promotes new music". If anything it's the opposite - you don't find music on p2p unless you go looking for it.
The majority of my MP3 collection are indie/obscure. I found it exactly because of p2p - keyword search.
I started searching on 'Techno' and 'Rave', came across the cool sub-genre 'Happy Hardcore', and many times I would find something I particularly liked and I'd re-search based on the artist or some other keyword. I also downloaded some music torrents from The Pirate Bay that were definitely obscure, and presumably non-RIAA, because they had several obscure P2p-search-discovered songs that I really liked, so I expected the rest of the torrent to have many great new discoveries. I've got an extremely promising.torrent file sitting on my desktop that I haven't downloaded yet because it's 4+ gigs and I'm already behind on sorting through what I have.... but I specifically checked some of the artists with RIAAradar and the majority are non-RIAA. In fact some of the artists don't even show up with ANY known CD releases on the riaaradar.com search.
I think the article submitter was mistaken to go by the Pirate bay top downloads list. Of course heavily promoted major label stuff is going to grab the top spots. The right question to ask is whether the total traffic - including the tons of low-to-medium traffic torrents - carries a higher percentage of indie stuff. I don't have any figures on it, but I suspect they do. Any particular indie isn't about to beat out mega-commercialized Madonna in download count, but I think the hordes of non-RIAA artists are eating away at the RIAA domination. There's an endless supply of stuff on p2p/torrents that doesn't even exist in any CD store.
A major problem for the RIAA is that the music market is fracturing - the major labels only makes a profit off of a handful of mega-promoted megahits representing a handful of genres. Rock, Pop, Country, R&B, and a few others. They have to sell a few hundred of thousand of copies of a CD just to break even. They are choking on the explosion of new genres and sub-genres of more narrowly targeted music. Wikipedia List_of_music_genres starts with 2-step garage, 2 tone, 4-beat, 4x4 Garage, 8-bit, then moves on with 27 genres starting under 'A' and 98 more starting with 'B', ending many hundreds of entries later with Zydeco. They need to sell a half million copies of an album representing a major music genre. If you've got 50,000 customers each for trance and ambient and trip-hop and intelligent-dance-music and industrial and darkcore and happy-hardcore and gabba and experimental and jungle and electronic-body-music and at least a dozen different sub-genres of house music, the major labels just can't touch any of it. They'd lose their shirts selling 50,000 units each across multiple sub-genres.
That's one of the areas that new internet technology is really killing them. They need a small number of mass-market categories of music. The fracturing music market is killing them. They can't touch non-mainstream genres or sub-genres. It's strangling the labels when people discover some non-mainstream category of music or get into some specific subcategory of music. That's a major reason they are trying to kill internet radio. They need Major Corporate Radio playing Rock channels and Pop channels and Country channels and other nice neat mass-market categories of music. The internet radio upstarts have this "annoying habit" of offering huge numbers of channels with narrow and obscure categories of music. Internet radio fractures the music market. It introduces people to the non-mainstream or sub-category of music they like best, it gets people into styles of music that the major labels just can't touch.
Absolutely. It's insane when judges or lawyers or legislators or others talk as if there is some difference between "source code" and "object code". There isn't.
The best analogy (sorry, no car), is that "source code" is like English, and "object code" is French. They are nothing but different languages. Computers generally read French, but if you fun an interpreter on a computer then the computer can directly read and run the English version... if you fun an interpreter on a computer then the computer can directly read and run the English version"source code" version. Most programmers work in English, but some programmers are bi-lingual and can read&write in English or French. In fact learned to program as a child, and I taught myself to read and write "French" when I was about 13 years old. I didn't have compiler software or anything else for working with "source code", I learned to directly read and write executable "object code" software. 00 was the Break command, 20 was the command to run a software subroutine, 60 was the command to return from that subroutine, etc etc etc. I was programming my computer, directly reading and writing software as a series of numbers.
There is no actual functional difference between "source" code and "object" code. Both can are directly functional code that can be executed on a computer. Both are languages read and written by programmers. It would be completely nonsensical and insane to ever treat them as different in any legal sense. The only difference is that fewer programmers have learned to read and write software in "French", and that a computer is slightly slower when it reads and executes software in "English". There is no functional different and no rational defensible legal difference.
Slashdot whitelists characters so that posters can't use the bidirectional characters to destroy the layout.
Obama is president, it's about time Slashdot gave up the broken whitelist and moved to a blacklist like they should have done in the first place.
And while we're at it, Slashdot is supposedly liberal and progressive. Should we really still be discriminating against bidirectional characters? Don't people have an equal right to engage bi characters if that is their choice?
I still don't understand how the hell the tags work.
That's ok. The Slashdot developers have no clue what they do or what they should do, either.
It's like when you're hanging out with your stoner friends and you get seriously toasted and someone's looking at the pot-bag and says "We should make some system for putting different tags on the different bags of pot" and you say "Yeah!! That would rock! That's a genius idea!", and you go rummage around the house and find clothes pins and you attach plastic tag-thingies to them, and you you out to the stationary store and buy some blank white sticky-paper labels, and you spend two hours rummaging through your father's attic to find his old typewriter to type stuff on the labels, and the typewriter is covered in grime and it doesn't work so you spend another two hours "fixing" it so that you can kinda sorta slide the paper left-and-right by hand and most of the letters except 'e' 'p' and 's' work ("Whoa dude that's like ESP!", and then when you're done you have no fucking clue what the hell you're going to write on the tags and you have no clue why the hell you wanted to tag your pot bags for in the first place, but heay it was a cool idea and now if while we're stoned someone figures out what it's good for now we've built it and they *will* be able to a tag on the pot bags! Yeah! Duuuude! That rocks! Cool ideas are like..... really really cool. Being able to put tags on our pot bags was really cool! That was a really smart invention we made.
Dude, I don't see any chips in the cabinet. Are there any chips? HEAY!!! I KNOW! We should make a system for tagging the snack bags, and tagging the snackshelves in the cabinet! Whoa! DUUUDE! That would totally rock!
Why do you want to tag the chip bags and the shelves? Welll duh idiot! So we can write like labels and stuff on them! What labels do you want to write on the snakes and shelves? Uhhh.... I dunno we'll figure that out after we build it. It's a really really cooool idea, it's even better invention than the pot bag tags! It'll sort like all the snacks and shelves dude! And I've seriously got the munchies man. You KNOW how important it is to have munchies in the house. There's like no fucking chips in this cabinet. We gotta have chips! Oh I just found two bags chips, but the tags will help with like other munchies and stuff. It'll be really cool like knowing what snacks we have and so we don't not have snacks. Where the fuck did the chips go? I just had the chips right. Where are the chips?
See? If we had labels on the shelves we'd know where the damn chips are.
And that's the Slashdot tag system. It's a cool idea, and when some stoner figures out a good use for it then we've already built it. Dude.
There are two reasons there are no trolling achievements, and it's the same two reasons I don't reply to 3nlArge yOUr Pen1s spam. (1) My penis is already big enough without it; and (2) I'd really rather not encourage more spam in my mailbox.
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>Got anything with A in it?
Apricots.
Oh god, Apricots?
Let me guess...
Vitamin B?
Bananas.
Vitamin C?
Anything Citrus, of course.
As you note you can't get vitamin D from fruit.
For vitamin D you need Dairy.
Vitamin E?
Eubatus, subgenus of Rubus. (Better known as blackberries.)
Vitamin K?
Kale. Vegetable, but that doesn't much matter.
<sing>
A - B - C - D - E - F - G,
H - I - J - K - LMNOP,
Q - R - S, T - U - V,
W, X, Y and Z.
Now I know my Vit-A-Min-s. Next time won't you sing with me?
</sing>
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Business offers customers free wifi, which has the twin effects of attracting more customers and some of them staying longer. This is news? In other breaking news headlines, water is wet!
What caught my eye was the last two paragraphs of the article:
The wifi service is backed by a secure internet gateway product from wholesaler earthwave called Clean Pipes, which is there in part to apply McDonalds' Family Friendly policies to the service.
It had so far not detected any major 'red flag' sessions that had to be reported to law enforcement authorities, a representative of earthwave said.
Why isn't the news story here that McDonalds has a program in place to spy on customer's wifi usage, to get customers arrested?
If my phone company were eaves dropping on my conversations to report to the police, I would have a problem with that.
If my ISP were eaves dropping on my internet phone calls or other communications to report to the police, I would have a problem with that.
If a company is offering free wifi connections, obviously the standards are somewhat different than dealing with my own phone company or my own ISP, however I still consider it outrageous and a primary news item that a company *does* have a program in place to spy on communications over their free wifi, one dedicated to having those customers arrested.
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Actually the politically correct term would be 'least plus-size'.
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Uhmmmmmm..... neat calculation, but where did you get the assumption that this planet was a big blob of water?
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According to the article the gravity of this new planet causes about a 7 km/hour wobble in it's parent star, and that is right about at the current limit of out ability to detect.
Here's my back-of-the-envelope calculations if you were trying to detect the earth:
This planet is 1.9 times the mass of the earth, so the earth would cause 1.9 times smaller wobble in the sun.
Our sun is about three times heavier than this dwarf star, so the sun's wobble would be about 3 times smaller.
The earth is about 13.7 times further from the sun, so the sun's wobble would be about 13.7 squared = 187.7 times smaller.
If I did that right... it means trying to detect the earth around the sun would mean trying to see a 1,070 times smaller wobble. And we were barely able to detect this planet.
This star is 20.3 light years away. The nearest star is 4.3 light years away. Even at the nearest star, we aren't even close to being able to detect the earth(*). The only reason we could detect this planet is because it was so close to it's parent star. The fact that this planet is bigger than earth and the parent star is a dwarf helped, but it's mostly about orbital distance. This planet is so close to its star that the planet's 'year' is about 75 hours long. The planet wobbles it's parent star by 7 km/hour every 75 hours. That's what we spotted. The earth wobbles our sun by about 0.007 km/h every year.
(*) Actually detecting the earth would be extremely easy because of all the radio signals we broadcast, but aside from that, no.
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Sweden.... that's like out west near Utah, right?
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Equip the ship with unlimited highspeed satellite internet access and top of the line computers, crew the ship with geeks, and rip out the showerheads.
Well, actually that last one was redundant.
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It's a 'vulnerability' in the sense that the idiots at Microsoft came up with this Trusted Computing notion that the computer is supposed to be secured against the owner'.
Trusted Computing, Digital Rights Management, the new Windows model for the operating system, it is considered a 'vulnerability' if the owner is able to take control of his own computer. Of course the Trusted Computing party line, and the way this article was written, is to to call this anti-owner system a "security" system and to spin any attack on it as evil, but as virtually everyone here has already commented, this issue is about 'attacking' and gaining control over a computer you already physically control. And in general what 'attacker' already has physical control of the computer? The owner. An owner-attacker who wants to control his own computer, and override DRM or Trusted Computing lockouts against the owner. The entire new Windows driver model is that the owner is forbidden to run unapproved drivers, because such drivers could be used to break DRM or gain control of other Trusted Windows systems. If/when Windows does permit you to run unapproved drivers, it dumps you down into an unTrusted unprivileged state. As I recall, Windows Vista even locks you out of the entire Aero mode Aero interface if you try to load an unapproved driver.
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First you find a bunch of clowns, steal their underwear, and show it to the judge.
Which you'll notice, is exactly what happened to the RIAA here.
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I've never considered myself much good at providing humor, or at brightening anybody's day. But if I get strong results in the poll, I may have to reconsider my overall outlook, maybe even make a career change. (Score:3, Funny)
I wouldn't quit my day job just yet.
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I would not be surprised if the FSF and EFF (among others) are forcibly nationalized and destroyed/reorganized within four years.
It's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians.
Aside from that, yeah, 'intellectual property' is the area where we (U.S.) have a big positive in the international balance of trade, so there is big pressure to push increasingly crazy crap in all our "free trade agreements".
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GPLv2 or later doesn't sound like such a good idea now, does it?
It's sound like a FANTASTIC idea to me.
I'll go with GPLv3, and check out v4 and v5.
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I'm not sure I've ever heard people claim that "peer 2 peer file sharing promotes new music". If anything it's the opposite - you don't find music on p2p unless you go looking for it.
The majority of my MP3 collection are indie/obscure. I found it exactly because of p2p - keyword search.
I started searching on 'Techno' and 'Rave', came across the cool sub-genre 'Happy Hardcore', and many times I would find something I particularly liked and I'd re-search based on the artist or some other keyword. I also downloaded some music torrents from The Pirate Bay that were definitely obscure, and presumably non-RIAA, because they had several obscure P2p-search-discovered songs that I really liked, so I expected the rest of the torrent to have many great new discoveries. I've got an extremely promising .torrent file sitting on my desktop that I haven't downloaded yet because it's 4+ gigs and I'm already behind on sorting through what I have.... but I specifically checked some of the artists with RIAAradar and the majority are non-RIAA. In fact some of the artists don't even show up with ANY known CD releases on the riaaradar.com search.
I think the article submitter was mistaken to go by the Pirate bay top downloads list. Of course heavily promoted major label stuff is going to grab the top spots. The right question to ask is whether the total traffic - including the tons of low-to-medium traffic torrents - carries a higher percentage of indie stuff. I don't have any figures on it, but I suspect they do. Any particular indie isn't about to beat out mega-commercialized Madonna in download count, but I think the hordes of non-RIAA artists are eating away at the RIAA domination. There's an endless supply of stuff on p2p/torrents that doesn't even exist in any CD store.
A major problem for the RIAA is that the music market is fracturing - the major labels only makes a profit off of a handful of mega-promoted megahits representing a handful of genres. Rock, Pop, Country, R&B, and a few others. They have to sell a few hundred of thousand of copies of a CD just to break even. They are choking on the explosion of new genres and sub-genres of more narrowly targeted music. Wikipedia List_of_music_genres starts with 2-step garage, 2 tone, 4-beat, 4x4 Garage, 8-bit, then moves on with 27 genres starting under 'A' and 98 more starting with 'B', ending many hundreds of entries later with Zydeco. They need to sell a half million copies of an album representing a major music genre. If you've got 50,000 customers each for trance and ambient and trip-hop and intelligent-dance-music and industrial and darkcore and happy-hardcore and gabba and experimental and jungle and electronic-body-music and at least a dozen different sub-genres of house music, the major labels just can't touch any of it. They'd lose their shirts selling 50,000 units each across multiple sub-genres.
That's one of the areas that new internet technology is really killing them. They need a small number of mass-market categories of music. The fracturing music market is killing them. They can't touch non-mainstream genres or sub-genres. It's strangling the labels when people discover some non-mainstream category of music or get into some specific subcategory of music. That's a major reason they are trying to kill internet radio. They need Major Corporate Radio playing Rock channels and Pop channels and Country channels and other nice neat mass-market categories of music. The internet radio upstarts have this "annoying habit" of offering huge numbers of channels with narrow and obscure categories of music. Internet radio fractures the music market. It introduces people to the non-mainstream or sub-category of music they like best, it gets people into styles of music that the major labels just can't touch.
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source/object nondichotomy
Absolutely. It's insane when judges or lawyers or legislators or others talk as if there is some difference between "source code" and "object code". There isn't.
The best analogy (sorry, no car), is that "source code" is like English, and "object code" is French. They are nothing but different languages. Computers generally read French, but if you fun an interpreter on a computer then the computer can directly read and run the English version... if you fun an interpreter on a computer then the computer can directly read and run the English version"source code" version. Most programmers work in English, but some programmers are bi-lingual and can read&write in English or French. In fact learned to program as a child, and I taught myself to read and write "French" when I was about 13 years old. I didn't have compiler software or anything else for working with "source code", I learned to directly read and write executable "object code" software. 00 was the Break command, 20 was the command to run a software subroutine, 60 was the command to return from that subroutine, etc etc etc. I was programming my computer, directly reading and writing software as a series of numbers.
There is no actual functional difference between "source" code and "object" code. Both can are directly functional code that can be executed on a computer. Both are languages read and written by programmers. It would be completely nonsensical and insane to ever treat them as different in any legal sense. The only difference is that fewer programmers have learned to read and write software in "French", and that a computer is slightly slower when it reads and executes software in "English". There is no functional different and no rational defensible legal difference.
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Slashdot whitelists characters so that posters can't use the bidirectional characters to destroy the layout.
Obama is president, it's about time Slashdot gave up the broken whitelist and moved to a blacklist like they should have done in the first place.
And while we're at it, Slashdot is supposedly liberal and progressive. Should we really still be discriminating against bidirectional characters? Don't people have an equal right to engage bi characters if that is their choice?
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I still don't understand how the hell the tags work.
That's ok. The Slashdot developers have no clue what they do or what they should do, either.
It's like when you're hanging out with your stoner friends and you get seriously toasted and someone's looking at the pot-bag and says "We should make some system for putting different tags on the different bags of pot" and you say "Yeah!! That would rock! That's a genius idea!", and you go rummage around the house and find clothes pins and you attach plastic tag-thingies to them, and you you out to the stationary store and buy some blank white sticky-paper labels, and you spend two hours rummaging through your father's attic to find his old typewriter to type stuff on the labels, and the typewriter is covered in grime and it doesn't work so you spend another two hours "fixing" it so that you can kinda sorta slide the paper left-and-right by hand and most of the letters except 'e' 'p' and 's' work ("Whoa dude that's like ESP!", and then when you're done you have no fucking clue what the hell you're going to write on the tags and you have no clue why the hell you wanted to tag your pot bags for in the first place, but heay it was a cool idea and now if while we're stoned someone figures out what it's good for now we've built it and they *will* be able to a tag on the pot bags! Yeah! Duuuude! That rocks! Cool ideas are like..... really really cool. Being able to put tags on our pot bags was really cool! That was a really smart invention we made.
Dude, I don't see any chips in the cabinet. Are there any chips?
HEAY!!! I KNOW! We should make a system for tagging the snack bags, and tagging the snackshelves in the cabinet!
Whoa! DUUUDE! That would totally rock!
Why do you want to tag the chip bags and the shelves?
Welll duh idiot! So we can write like labels and stuff on them!
What labels do you want to write on the snakes and shelves?
Uhhh.... I dunno we'll figure that out after we build it. It's a really really cooool idea, it's even better invention than the pot bag tags! It'll sort like all the snacks and shelves dude! And I've seriously got the munchies man. You KNOW how important it is to have munchies in the house. There's like no fucking chips in this cabinet. We gotta have chips! Oh I just found two bags chips, but the tags will help with like other munchies and stuff. It'll be really cool like knowing what snacks we have and so we don't not have snacks. Where the fuck did the chips go? I just had the chips right. Where are the chips?
See? If we had labels on the shelves we'd know where the damn chips are.
And that's the Slashdot tag system. It's a cool idea, and when some stoner figures out a good use for it then we've already built it. Dude.
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There are two reasons there are no trolling achievements, and it's the same two reasons I don't reply to 3nlArge yOUr Pen1s spam.
(1) My penis is already big enough without it; and
(2) I'd really rather not encourage more spam in my mailbox.
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0.001% of us will ever see it
You mean like if someone posts a video of it on YouTube and it winds up on Idle?
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Some day people around here will stop making jokes at Sarah Palin's expense.
Today is not that day.
Yes I am going to hell for this post, but that's ok. I was heading there anyway.
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No honey, I didn't get your birthday wrong, I just made a typo!
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Hell Yeah!
I'm still pissed and still boycotting the goddamn perview btton!
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Sorry to ße a spelling Nazi, but what the fuck is that 'b' doing in there?
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You missed the Übergeek Achievement: typed Unicode characters from a continental US IP address with a US keyboard.
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Humor is so hard to detect in text
Yea, I know what you mean.
I often wish Slashdot had some way to tip me off if other people spotted humor in a post.
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Report: My neighbor was spreading rumors that the King was paranoid and an evil oppressive dictator imprisoning anyone who questioned or insulted him.
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