Unfortunately, Slashdot is slowly becoming the tabloid of the Internet world.
Oh, yes, very much so. And yet I can't seem to stay away. This must be how real tabloids make money: You know it's BS, but it's mildly amusing BS and you're bored.
Also, I read at -1 so I get the bonus of the occasional inventive troll.
That's just what I was thinking. And a picture of ET? I'm sure the submitter was joking around, but the people that think space-aliens are doing these confuse me greatly.
If I were an alien, I'd look for a more direct means of communication, myself.
I HATE this type of logic!!
What if this guy killed 6000 people?!
What if this guy raped your sister 6000 times?!
What if this guy stuck his finger in your ass all day long?!!
What if he traded 6000 images of churches or trees?!
He DIDN'T trade 1 or 6 or 600 or 6 million kiddie porn images - and probably would NEVER THINK OF IT!!
But you on the otherhand did think of it - and are equating this action with it. What the fuck are you thinking.
You are going on my friends list. That was something that DESPARATELY needed to be said.
It's called probable cause. They have a right to search you if you're trafficking in kiddy porn, even if you didn't know about it. It's hard to crack a box without leaving a trail, so you will most likely be aquitted.
That's showing an awful lot of trust in a system that is rapidly breaking down.
Did I say breaking down? Let me rephrase that: in a system being flat out ignored because that
whole bill-of-rights thing is so damn inconvient...
They've been more or less doing just that. I mean by that that cell phones and pagers are a big part of the driving force behind growing NPA exhaustion.
The problem is the real morons. The kind who are taken in by the stupidest spam tricks, like the "future spam" he describes (nonsensical but grammatical set of English text designed to slip past Bayesian filters, followed by a URL.) What kind of a moron would click on such a URL? The kind of moron with more money than brains. (Probably not much money, but clearly zero brains.)
It's curiosity. They don't know, so they click.
Even warnings that clicking on random things
in your email box is a bad idea don't stop it.
The clicker HAS TO KNOW.
You already know. You are not curious,
merely annoyed. So you don't click.
I don't see how you can educate people other
than with the 'burned fingers', like the speeder that can't keep his foot off the gas pedal... until it gets him into a major wreck. A
co-worker of mine has finally learned not to
run email attachments after getting infected
with a trojan he clicked on out of curiosity.
Despite what individuals may do, this is
just part of overall human nature.
The policy not to reveal casualties names before the families are informed (which is enacted whenever there is any kind of high-profile death of people, it happens all the time, even in car accidents) is IMHO compassionate and humane. Just put yourself in place of one of the families.
I've never understood this. Find out my family was dead from the news instead of from a government flunky wouldn't change my degree of grief, and I'd want to know as soon as possible in any case.
Couldn't you have found another source? Saying something intelligent, then following it with a link to grc.com is like buying a limo and then hacking mercilessly at the interior and paint job with a sword.
It's still a limo but you've just fucked it up
so bad that what's the point?
Here, our country is on the brink of war with another nation.
We wouldn't be, if Bush wasn't agitating everything like an off-balance load in the washing machine. 'Weapons of mass destruction' is the lamest excuse. To everyone else that is a citzen of the USA, let's not lie to ourselves about this. It's a war purely for Bush's political profit.
I have to ask you a question, since you appear to be German. How do you enjoy having all those US troups protecting your ass? If you don't like them their NOW, what about when the USSR was a threat?
The question now is if the USA ITSELF is increasingly a threat. Turn off your rabid extremist 'usa-rah-rah-rah' goggles for a moment
and look at things.
This is a guy who has special bread flow in each day for him to eat.
Offtopic, I know, but that is one really funny
typo! A special bread flow! They pipe it directly
from the bakery into his veins... and on fridays
they pipe him chocolate cake...
What the hell does his/her user ID have to do with anything? So just because you joined Slashdot earlier, you are justified in being a language pedant troll?
Am I correct in understanding that lightbulbs contain a vacuum or at least a different air pressure?
Not different air pressure, just different air... your typical light bulb is filled with argon... since it's an inert gas it helps slow down the degredation of the filament.
Actually, all I was saying is that you may be underestimating the time frame until you get the nifty stuff you were wishing for in the 70s but didn't have. As far as:
The message that you fail to understand is that problems can be solved by well developed software - but by continually chasing a percieved market demand before determining how to implement the basic functionality well is pure folly.
I've been known to play with a TinyMUCK variant, but I've never heard of Mux-In-A-Minute... on the other hand, considering the huge code-base that players expect before a M* even opens it's port for the first connection, I can appreciate that it could be a project indeed. Yet knowing how people act online, I'm not surprised if the only feedback you got was along the lines of 'LOlZ MUX-1n-Minetu suckz0r!'.
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Which I suppose explains metallica...
If other people don't, it's their loss, I say.
Oh, yes, very much so. And yet I can't seem to stay away. This must be how real tabloids make money: You know it's BS, but it's mildly amusing BS and you're bored.
Also, I read at -1 so I get the bonus of the occasional inventive troll.
For some reason, when I first read that, I thought it said 'Eek the Cat'...
If I were an alien, I'd look for a more direct means of communication, myself.
Crop circles? Slow news day, guys?
I think you took the post too literally. =p
What if this guy killed 6000 people?! What if this guy raped your sister 6000 times?! What if this guy stuck his finger in your ass all day long?!! What if he traded 6000 images of churches or trees?!
He DIDN'T trade 1 or 6 or 600 or 6 million kiddie porn images - and probably would NEVER THINK OF IT!!
But you on the otherhand did think of it - and are equating this action with it. What the fuck are you thinking.
You are going on my friends list. That was something that DESPARATELY needed to be said.
That's showing an awful lot of trust in a system that is rapidly breaking down.
Did I say breaking down? Let me rephrase that: in a system being flat out ignored because that whole bill-of-rights thing is so damn inconvient...
Take at look at the North American Numbering Plan Administration website as linked to in the write-up, there's alot of interesting information there.
It's curiosity. They don't know, so they click. Even warnings that clicking on random things in your email box is a bad idea don't stop it. The clicker HAS TO KNOW.
You already know. You are not curious, merely annoyed. So you don't click.
I don't see how you can educate people other than with the 'burned fingers', like the speeder that can't keep his foot off the gas pedal... until it gets him into a major wreck. A co-worker of mine has finally learned not to run email attachments after getting infected with a trojan he clicked on out of curiosity.
Despite what individuals may do, this is just part of overall human nature.
I've never understood this. Find out my family was dead from the news instead of from a government flunky wouldn't change my degree of grief, and I'd want to know as soon as possible in any case.
It's still a limo but you've just fucked it up so bad that what's the point?
Don't forget degaussing. Someone is going to have to make the obligatory link to Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory, so there it is.
We wouldn't be, if Bush wasn't agitating everything like an off-balance load in the washing machine. 'Weapons of mass destruction' is the lamest excuse. To everyone else that is a citzen of the USA, let's not lie to ourselves about this. It's a war purely for Bush's political profit.
And we can choose not to trust a word he says, also. I'm ashamed to have voted for him in the last election.
The question now is if the USA ITSELF is increasingly a threat. Turn off your rabid extremist 'usa-rah-rah-rah' goggles for a moment and look at things.
Hehehe. That's the best part of all. Thanks for answering.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That sent me into a laughing fit so hard I nearly coughed my lungs up! *wipes tears from eyes*
Offtopic, I know, but that is one really funny typo! A special bread flow! They pipe it directly from the bakery into his veins... and on fridays they pipe him chocolate cake...
What the hell does his/her user ID have to do with anything? So just because you joined Slashdot earlier, you are justified in being a language pedant troll?
Okay, your sig has me hooked. What's the gory details of what happened after you named a box after a pokemon?
Not different air pressure, just different air... your typical light bulb is filled with argon... since it's an inert gas it helps slow down the degredation of the filament.
The message that you fail to understand is that problems can be solved by well developed software - but by continually chasing a percieved market demand before determining how to implement the basic functionality well is pure folly.
I actually completely agree.
I've been known to play with a TinyMUCK variant, but I've never heard of Mux-In-A-Minute... on the other hand, considering the huge code-base that players expect before a M* even opens it's port for the first connection, I can appreciate that it could be a project indeed. Yet knowing how people act online, I'm not surprised if the only feedback you got was along the lines of 'LOlZ MUX-1n-Minetu suckz0r!'.