Thanks for the link, Rob. I definitely will enjoy seeing his final lecture. Randy is a sort of a 'young Carl Sagan' if I dare say as much and his inevitable death will leave us all a little more alone. One more brilliant candle snuffed out.
You're bringing a tear to my eye as I type this. My hat's off to you, Rob Malda, wherever you are. Say hi to Kathleen Fent, for me. I hear she's quite a peach.
Take care and best wishes to you, funny man.
*snuffles*
Can you read your iPAQ when the battery is dead? I can't. And as good as my iPAQ is for some things, that screen is just too damned small for reading.
I much prefer books. You can annotate the hell out of them. Books don't crash. Books don't have issues with "alternate" operating systems. Books aren't subject to the whims of some funky piece of software that might just decide to stop working.
And most importantly, when was the last time you replaced the missing leg on that old couch with an iPAQ? -- "It's just this little chromium switch here..."
Q: How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
A: A wood chuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:
More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever [slashdot.org], funny [slashdot.org], etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel [slashdot.org], they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread [slashdot.org] to see what I mean.
Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll [slashdot.org], which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.
Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time. Fucker.
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It's in your ass. Here. Let me dig it out for you.
Er, the phrase is "going down" or "going on." Going up? What is this an elevator?
They may have merely neglected to factor in mid-operative transsexuals. You have to think about ALL the possibilities before posting, sir.
Even Nana Visitor counts as a woman. /fixed
Thanks for the link, Rob. I definitely will enjoy seeing his final lecture. Randy is a sort of a 'young Carl Sagan' if I dare say as much and his inevitable death will leave us all a little more alone. One more brilliant candle snuffed out. You're bringing a tear to my eye as I type this. My hat's off to you, Rob Malda, wherever you are. Say hi to Kathleen Fent, for me. I hear she's quite a peach. Take care and best wishes to you, funny man. *snuffles*
Ummm...this time around the lies are true? Wait...that didn't come out quite right.
With a pipe, there are TWO ends to it, you know. /there, fixed it for ya!
Dear sir: can we meet in person? An insight like that should be rewarded with a donkey punch.
Can you read your iPAQ when the battery is dead? I can't. And as good as my iPAQ is for some things, that screen is just too damned small for reading.
I much prefer books. You can annotate the hell out of them. Books don't crash. Books don't have issues with "alternate" operating systems. Books aren't subject to the whims of some funky piece of software that might just decide to stop working.
And most importantly, when was the last time you replaced the missing leg on that old couch with an iPAQ?
-- "It's just this little chromium switch here..."
Oh, golly, I hope the digital bathrooms have some type of robot to wipe my ass for me! ;-)
THIS is SUCH bullshit.
Yes, cum-master, drugs are baaaddddd.
Q: How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
A: A wood chuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
Q: How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? A: A wood chuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
My penis is 12" long, and I have never run out of laser toner. Surely this proves it!?
CM, I agree, in theory, *but* my penis is 12" long, and I have never run out of laser toner. Surely this proves it!?
My penis is 12" long, and I have never run out of laser toner. Surely this proves it!?
The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:
More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever [slashdot.org], funny [slashdot.org], etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel [slashdot.org], they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread [slashdot.org] to see what I mean. Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll [slashdot.org], which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said. Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time. Fucker.
I resent the implication. As a Web Content Engineer, I make it my Holy Mission in life to write IE-only code (ie, it only works on IE...not NN).
~Danny, who bothers people on the Internet 24/7/365.
Mod this parent up. His is the Way.