The way to not get modded offtopic is to ridicule whoever made that aliterate (not illiterate) mistake in a way that's genuinely funny. And hint: funny is dangeroud to karma, too.
Actually, adding a bit if venom seems to have got the message across.
Anyway as the saying goes "I have karma to burn". So sometimes I do.
And it is "illiterate". Or maybe "ungrammatical" to be more charitable and precise. "Aliterate" is someone who doesn't like to read. Some overlap, but not the same.
The whole thread is offtopic. Kudos to the moderators.
The comment was 100% on the topic. Unlike 90% of highly modded comments on Slashdot which a half page down are usually about politics or cars or jokes.
So why did you even post a complaint about being modded down?
I wasn't surprised at my comment going down, but the speed, and the entire thread was gone in a few minutes was notable. You could post racist bigotry or pro-Al-Qaeda paeans here all day and not get modded down so fast. And it happened at the same time that the headline was fixed. So there's a suspicion that it wasn't individual mods.
Who could have done that?
That was a rhetorical question.
I used to make polite posts pointing out such mistakes. After a few years of seeing the same errors repeated, I have no patience left.
So, I just let rip. If they are going to be petty and vindictive, it just reflects on them.
Signing in at the door then requires someone to enter that data. Now the school has to run two parallel systems and that will cost more money.
The school must have a manual system regardless. Are they going to cancel a class if the RFID reader breaks down? Turn away students if they've lost their card or it doesn't work? Same as at a supermarket, if a product doesn't scan the operator has to type it in. Just means the system has to have a keyboard or touchscreen as well, which it probably needs anyway.
In fact this kid is being given an education. For free. At taxpayer expense. I
The parents are taxpayers. It's not "free".
the badges are there to minimize the possibility of an intruder on campus.
How does the possession or otherwise of a badge stop anyone from going on campus? It doesn't. It just records the presence of students. "Intruders" are invisible to the system. Humans have to check, and so the RFID is irrelevant to "security". Anyway, student killings, which is what guess is the bogeyman, are almost always committed by students with full legal access. Any determined violent intruder could just mug a student and take his card outside anyway. So it's lucky they aren't using a fingerprint system.
Hmm, not only my original post of a few minutes ago, but the whole thread modded to zero or lower. Who could have done that? But at least it's been fixed now to "its". Is it so hard to read articles before you publish them?
If you do not have a visible school ID card then you shouldn't be there. It happens every day in most secure businesses and no one complains. Why should a school be any less secure than your office?
You have a choice where to work and what conditions you accept in return for your salary. And this is the government doing it and withholding your education if you refuse. And what does this have to do with "security"? It's just about simplifying taking the roll call so the school can collect the per diem from the government. It's not for the students' benefit.
The school could simply make it optional. Anyone who opted out could just sign a roll at the door or be counted absent. 99% of students would use RFID to avoid the hassle, so the overhead would be trivial.
Yeah, the guy who invented it wanted to make a pun about peanut butter. Too bad, even inventors of words can't force everyone to go along with their sense of humour.
They can just as easily mess up the article with the regular editor. At least they can make sense of what is going on with the visual editor.
No, they won't make sense of it. They'll just keep clicking random buttons till they think it looks nice, or they get bored, and won't know or care how it appears to anyone else, who isn't using exactly the same screen and browser they are.
Anyone who is too dumb to work out how to edit Wikipedia is too dumb to do it at all. Thank God for rollback.
new, inexperienced editors can get started editing easily with the visual editor.
And make a big unstructured mess that no one else can make sense of, so they just delete it wholesale and start again.
There's nothing wrong with just editing plain text as it is. Paragraphs of text display as paragraphs of text. If you don't know how to use the formatting codes, don't try. The important thing is the text. If someone wants to pretty it up they can learn how to do it.
Styles worked great in Word 5 for DOS or Mac. Since they found that few users bothered to read how to use them, they dumbed them down, tried to second guess every formatting change the user made and randomly change the styles; or not. If you use styles the defaults are such that it's hard to stop Word fucking up the entire document if you make one change to one paragraph that it interprets as a change to a basic style.
I deal with a lot of documents from professional writers, professors, CEOs; educated, smart people. None of them has ever used styles in any rational way. Best I can hope is that they do everything in "Normal" style and apply local formatting. Then I spend at least a half hour converting that to styles so I can make it look the way I need before I start editing it.
So I'm very skeptical that it's actually an art project. Rather, he tried to troll the TSA
I doubt that's what he was doing, but why can't trolling the TSA be a valid form of art?
Art can have a political point. Making a political point can be done in an artistic way.
First off, the poster said "her hobbies" so that rules Grandpa out.
I meant that the PC was logged in as him, and he could have changed the account preference.
not unthinkable that the same could happen to a naive child.
If you're naive enough to believe the "child" is that naive.
Any boy who can use Google -- what is he going to look for? (And I don't exclude girls, just know more about how males think.)
And if you read TFA you see comments there about how awful it is that all the kiddie porn sites aren't blocked -- though I haven't seen anything remotely like kiddie porn in years on any website, and I frequent some pretty sleazy sites. That's really underground and you don't just "find" it.
One of my kids, visiting their grandparents, managed to conjure up some pretty sordid images of bestiality in no time by just googling one of her hobbies
He did it on purpose. Google by default has "safe search" and you have to uncheck it to get porn results. Unless grandpa did it.
Again, where's the money? I see a claim that this group scoops in $7 million a year, That's less than the US branch of Greenpeace ($10 million a year). There are some huge climate change advocacy groups out there. There's no similarly huge anti-AGW advocacy group out there.
Well, the Republican Party for one. When Bush was in power he was pretty successful in putting a lid on anything to do with AGW. Bush was an oil guy. In case someone got lucky they had a spare, Dick "Halliburton" Cheney.
Taiwan is China? Same way that Japan is China and Vietnam is China and Korea (all of it) is China. Ethnically, Han; culturally not.
For fuck's sake, try reading a post before replying to it. I never said any of that. Just that formally and according to its own government, Taiwan is the "Republic of China".. (While according to to Beijing, it's part of the PRC, as shown on any official map. )
Taiwan was administered as... blah blah blah
I know what its history is. I used to live in Tainan. I'm in no way agreeing with or justifying the beliefs of either government. What you or I think isn't the point.
And, while I'm white... I live in Taiwan
How convenient, so have a look at any official government document, such as your visa. It will say "Republic of China". That's where you live. It'll probably have the year, 101, counting from the founding of the ROC in 1911.
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The way to not get modded offtopic is to ridicule whoever made that aliterate (not illiterate) mistake in a way that's genuinely funny. And hint: funny is dangeroud to karma, too.
Actually, adding a bit if venom seems to have got the message across. Anyway as the saying goes "I have karma to burn". So sometimes I do.
And it is "illiterate". Or maybe "ungrammatical" to be more charitable and precise. "Aliterate" is someone who doesn't like to read. Some overlap, but not the same.
The whole thread is offtopic. Kudos to the moderators.
The comment was 100% on the topic. Unlike 90% of highly modded comments on Slashdot which a half page down are usually about politics or cars or jokes.
So why did you even post a complaint about being modded down?
I wasn't surprised at my comment going down, but the speed, and the entire thread was gone in a few minutes was notable. You could post racist bigotry or pro-Al-Qaeda paeans here all day and not get modded down so fast. And it happened at the same time that the headline was fixed. So there's a suspicion that it wasn't individual mods.
Who could have done that?
That was a rhetorical question.
I used to make polite posts pointing out such mistakes. After a few years of seeing the same errors repeated, I have no patience left. So, I just let rip. If they are going to be petty and vindictive, it just reflects on them.
Signing in at the door then requires someone to enter that data. Now the school has to run two parallel systems and that will cost more money.
The school must have a manual system regardless. Are they going to cancel a class if the RFID reader breaks down? Turn away students if they've lost their card or it doesn't work? Same as at a supermarket, if a product doesn't scan the operator has to type it in. Just means the system has to have a keyboard or touchscreen as well, which it probably needs anyway.
In fact this kid is being given an education. For free. At taxpayer expense. I
The parents are taxpayers. It's not "free".
the badges are there to minimize the possibility of an intruder on campus.
How does the possession or otherwise of a badge stop anyone from going on campus? It doesn't. It just records the presence of students. "Intruders" are invisible to the system. Humans have to check, and so the RFID is irrelevant to "security". Anyway, student killings, which is what guess is the bogeyman, are almost always committed by students with full legal access. Any determined violent intruder could just mug a student and take his card outside anyway. So it's lucky they aren't using a fingerprint system.
Hmm, not only my original post of a few minutes ago, but the whole thread modded to zero or lower. Who could have done that? But at least it's been fixed now to "its". Is it so hard to read articles before you publish them?
English, Motherfucker, do you speak it?
See eg http://garyes.stormloader.com/its.html Or ask any elementary school teacher. How does one get to be a fucking editor and not know this?
If you do not have a visible school ID card then you shouldn't be there. It happens every day in most secure businesses and no one complains. Why should a school be any less secure than your office?
You have a choice where to work and what conditions you accept in return for your salary. And this is the government doing it and withholding your education if you refuse. And what does this have to do with "security"? It's just about simplifying taking the roll call so the school can collect the per diem from the government. It's not for the students' benefit.
The school could simply make it optional. Anyone who opted out could just sign a roll at the door or be counted absent. 99% of students would use RFID to avoid the hassle, so the overhead would be trivial.
This is "reality"? it will be just as scripted as WWF. Probably completely pre-programmed while the "jockeys" just roleplay and mug for the cameras.
Anyway, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, both pronunciations are valid, the hard g being preferred in the USA. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/267439?rskey=uvtY4B&result=1#eid
GIFt
Hmm...more important that pronounciation... Does anyone actually even USE gifs anymore??
If OED found enough recent references to make it word of the year; of course.
e.g: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=tumblr+gif About 3,970,000,000 results for "tumbler + gif"
They can just as easily mess up the article with the regular editor. At least they can make sense of what is going on with the visual editor.
No, they won't make sense of it. They'll just keep clicking random buttons till they think it looks nice, or they get bored, and won't know or care how it appears to anyone else, who isn't using exactly the same screen and browser they are.
Anyone who is too dumb to work out how to edit Wikipedia is too dumb to do it at all. Thank God for rollback.
Just go to a binary blob you can only edit visually if you're going to insist on that kind of coding.
At least in Word there's an option after you paste to remove the extra formatting. It shows up as a dropdown at the end of your pasted text.
Control-space to remove formatting.
Ctrl+Shift+F9 to remove fields, including hyperlinks.
Ctrl-Q to remove paragraph formatting
I spend more time undoing Word formatting that I never wanted to begin with than actually applying formatting.
If we can't have drag and drop uploads, a least an easier way to upload and place images into a page.
No. Because there is a necessary rigmarole to verifying the copyright status of any image you want to use on Wikipedia.
new, inexperienced editors can get started editing easily with the visual editor.
And make a big unstructured mess that no one else can make sense of, so they just delete it wholesale and start again.
There's nothing wrong with just editing plain text as it is. Paragraphs of text display as paragraphs of text. If you don't know how to use the formatting codes, don't try. The important thing is the text. If someone wants to pretty it up they can learn how to do it.
I deal with a lot of documents from professional writers, professors, CEOs; educated, smart people. None of them has ever used styles in any rational way. Best I can hope is that they do everything in "Normal" style and apply local formatting. Then I spend at least a half hour converting that to styles so I can make it look the way I need before I start editing it.
He carefully unlatched it, and held it out *as far as he could* as he opened it, turning his head away and looking through the corners of his eyes.
Well, if there was a risk of seeing any images from "Big Momma's House 2" that was only sensible.
So I'm very skeptical that it's actually an art project. Rather, he tried to troll the TSA
I doubt that's what he was doing, but why can't trolling the TSA be a valid form of art? Art can have a political point. Making a political point can be done in an artistic way.
First off, the poster said "her hobbies" so that rules Grandpa out. I meant that the PC was logged in as him, and he could have changed the account preference.
not unthinkable that the same could happen to a naive child.
If you're naive enough to believe the "child" is that naive.
Any boy who can use Google -- what is he going to look for? (And I don't exclude girls, just know more about how males think.)
And if you read TFA you see comments there about how awful it is that all the kiddie porn sites aren't blocked -- though I haven't seen anything remotely like kiddie porn in years on any website, and I frequent some pretty sleazy sites. That's really underground and you don't just "find" it.
One of my kids, visiting their grandparents, managed to conjure up some pretty sordid images of bestiality in no time by just googling one of her hobbies
He did it on purpose. Google by default has "safe search" and you have to uncheck it to get porn results. Unless grandpa did it.
the Democrats, the advocacy group for AGW,
Idiot.
Again, where's the money? I see a claim that this group scoops in $7 million a year, That's less than the US branch of Greenpeace ($10 million a year). There are some huge climate change advocacy groups out there. There's no similarly huge anti-AGW advocacy group out there.
Well, the Republican Party for one. When Bush was in power he was pretty successful in putting a lid on anything to do with AGW. Bush was an oil guy. In case someone got lucky they had a spare, Dick "Halliburton" Cheney.
Taiwan is China? Same way that Japan is China and Vietnam is China and Korea (all of it) is China. Ethnically, Han; culturally not.
For fuck's sake, try reading a post before replying to it. I never said any of that. Just that formally and according to its own government, Taiwan is the "Republic of China".. (While according to to Beijing, it's part of the PRC, as shown on any official map. )
Taiwan was administered as ... blah blah blah
I know what its history is. I used to live in Tainan. I'm in no way agreeing with or justifying the beliefs of either government. What you or I think isn't the point.
And, while I'm white ... I live in Taiwan
How convenient, so have a look at any official government document, such as your visa. It will say "Republic of China". That's where you live. It'll probably have the year, 101, counting from the founding of the ROC in 1911.