User: Moderatbastard

Re:Dell sucks until they offer an AMD

On: Dell Founder Dropped $100M Onto Red Hat

Note to the guy above: You can't metamod 'overrated'.

Re:encrypted?

On: DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera

Gordon H Bennet, who keeps modding this 'tard up?

Re:It's all relative...

On: Indian Call Center Employees Hack US Bank Accounts

If the person had meant 350,000 Turkish twatting lira, then he wouldn't have written "$350,000", would he? You know, as in 350,000 with a frickin' dollar sign in front.

Informative my ass.

Re:Not to be pedantic..

On: Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End

This is mis informative. Metamods, read TFA. Whoever modded this up, be ashamed.

Sorry, but you fail it

On: Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days

In Korea, only old people put all the lame jokes in one comment.

Re:So did I

On: How the Spam Industry is Sustained

it's not stupidity, it's lack of knowledge and experience.

The saying "if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't" has been around much longer than intarwebs.

Just like you and me lack knowledge and experience in *some* field.

In the case of spam buyers and yourself, that field would appear to be common sense.

P.S. Whoever modded the parent insightful is on crack.

Re:Hey (non-)fucker

On: How the Spam Industry is Sustained

Grammer Nazi's

Maybe you would do well to be apprehended by the punctuation Nazis.

Or the Spelling Nazis. Unless Grammer Nazis are some kind of right wing group affiliated to a balding actor with a Bostonian accent.

Re:A little intrusive if you ask me

On: Online Purchases Can Give You Away

Not insightful at all, poster has totally missed the point. See reply #11961894 by A/C below.

Re:Women...

On: Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse

reasons i have not gone on 2nd dates with people that only nerds will understand

I wouldn't even go on a first date with someone that only nerds would understand.

It took me a while to get that. It's one of those "depends where you put the brackets" cases, right?

Mod parent funny.

Re:Squid...

On: Of Ants and Robots

This was mentioned here a few weeks back. Now the comments are dupes too, not just the stories!

Re:The whole idea of a missing link

On: Hobbit Is A New Species

Sadly Dawkins is such a rabid atheist he alienates a lot of people with religious beliefs from actually beginning to read and understand the text

s/Dawkins/wide receivers/ and s/creationists/cornerbacks/. That's to say, if he wasn't pissing them off, he wouldn't be doing his job properly. Oh, and did I see a little ad-hominem there?

Re:The whole idea of a missing link

On: Hobbit Is A New Species

is it not possible that we are an experiment, or a recreational activity or some such thing without a specific intent?

So God is RMS, and we are the hurd?

Re:How is this news?

On: Mitnick: Security Not about Technology

You can say your IQ is X, but that gives no insight to anything about you.

That post gives me some insight - you're one of those people who score slower than you feel you should.

Re:A Similarly Cool...

On: Sim Epidemic

And here's a HTML tutorial about how to do links.

Re:Moderators: GET A CLUE!

On: Sim Epidemic

Funny doesn't increase your /. karma, but Insightful does? Like the mods rewarding the poster?

Maybe you read it in my sig?

Re:Oversight

On: British Goverment to Reshape BBC Governance

I resent paying for things like Radio 4 and BBC2. Most of it is high brow psuedo- intelectual crap designed to make the viewer feel warm in the glow of their own self-importantance.

Do also you resent paying for schools, on the quite believable grounds that you didn't go to one?

Re:Anyone Else?

On: Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram

In summary, the kilogram is the basic metric unit of weight, not the gram.

Neither the gram nor the kilogram is a unit of weight in any system.

Re:British Pint != American Pint

On: Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram

The sizes of the pints pretty much cancles out the 16/20, so the fluid ozis near enough the same. Different parts of England had different gallons, it wasn't standardised (as the volume of 10 pounds of water) until Queen Anne's time.

Re:Why Greek / Roman names?

On: Saturn's New Moons Named

Starbuck is a character in Melvill's Moby Dick.

And Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride. He sharpens his harpoon.

Re:Fun with Newton & Lagrange

On: Saturn's New Moons Named

The L1 point (in between the two large bodies), L4 and L5 points (60 deg ahead and behind the orbiting large body) are stable

Misinformative, the L1 point is not stable. Yes, satellites orbit the L1, but orbiting it != at it.

Re:Oh please!

On: Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued...

Actually in java, since it doesn't support operator overloading, if you use the "!=" operator on any two objects you get exactly the IsNot behavior being discussed. That is it tests for pointer equality.

I'm a newbie at java and even I knew that.

Grandparent is not informative.

Re:Any ideas?

On: Always-On Internet For Cheapskates?

Yeah, I got an idea: tell us where you fucking live, imbecile.

Now that's a tough one.

# select name from countries where inhabitantsThinkItsEntireWorld = true
USA returned.

ob Canuck accent joke

On: Canadian Privacy Law v. E-Mail Harvesting

It's the "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act". So shouldn't the acronym be PIPEDAA, not PIPEDA?

Re:Data on vinyl done before

On: Software Distribution By Vinyl

Apparently the game wasn't very good.

And the songs on the A-sides were?!?

Re:Yo MODS! How can...

On: Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2

If there is no valid reason (such as flamebait, offtopic) to reduce its score (and if there were, the appropriate one should be used), then it is already rated correctly.

Overrated is just an ad-hominem, it means "there's nothing wrong with the post, but I don't like the poster".