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  1. Tagging WTF on The Worst Tech of Q2 2006 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Offtopic, I know, so just answer the damn question then mod accordingly.

    Say that I hypothetically need to tag a story 'ponies'. Why when I return to the same story two hours later I discover that 'ponies' has yet to be applied, I would conclude that there is some sort of selective process at work or a minimum number of repetitions needed. Can someone explain where the niche tags go and how/if it is possible to see the entire list of every last tag for a story? Or is it subscribers only?... It would be good to be able to completely assess the entire gamut of users opinions. I'm sure we all consider how others are most likely to word their tags (e.g. vapor vs vapour), in a vain attempt to avoid redundancy.

    - I know you can read my thoughts boy. -

  2. Re:Tagging WTF on A House For One Red Paperclip · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Offtopic, I know, so just answer the damn question then mod accordingly.

    Say that I hypothetically need to tag a story 'ponies'. Why when I return to the same story two hours later I discover that 'ponies' has yet to be applied, I would conclude that there is some sort of selective process at work or a minimum number of repetitions. Can someone explain where the niche tags go and how/if it is possible to see the entire list of every last tag for a story? Or is it subscribers only?... It would be good to be able to completely assess the entire gamut of users opinions. I'm sure we all consider how others are most likely to word their tags (e.g. vapor vs vapour), in a vain attempt to avoid redundancy.

    - I know you can read my thoughts boy. -

  3. Tagging WTF on A House For One Red Paperclip · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Offtopic, I know, so please answer and then mod accordingly.

    If I tag a story as 'flamebait', and then return to the same story two hours later to discover that the 'flamebait' tag has yet to be applied, I would conclude that there is some sought of selective process at work. Can anyone intelligent shed some light onto this process and how/if it is possible to see the entire list of every last tag for a story, so as to completely asses the entire gamut of users opinions? Or is it subscribers only?...

    - I know you can read my thoughts boy. -

  4. Re:Tagging WTF on Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1 · · Score: 1
    i know i'm replying to a troll, but those are it. those are not static examples. you really think slownewsday would be an example, just because it happens a lot? /sigh.
    It would seem that your assumptions are making an ass out of you. But I will resist replying to you with a counter-troll.

    If I tag a story as 'flamebait', and then return to the same story two hours later to discover that the 'flamebait' tag has yet to be applied, I would conclude that there is some sought of selective process at work. Can anyone intelligent shed some light onto this process and how/if it is possible to see the entire list of every last tag for a story, so as to completely asses the entire gamut of users opinions?
  5. Re:Tagging WTF on Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1 · · Score: 1

    "...other than the static 'examples'..."

  6. Tagging WTF on Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pardon for being off topic, but HTF do I know what others have tagged a story, other than the static 'examples'? I'm not a nube, but maybe I must have missed something...

    - I know you can read my thoughts boy. -

  7. YES... on NSA Had Domestic Call Monitoring Before 9/11? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...Welcome to the world of ECHELON, the world-wide surveillance system.

    The EU recommends European citizens use cryptography in all communications to protect them from commercial theft and invasion of privacy, of which ECHELON is suspected of doing. But this advice really applies to everyone, as UK intercepts communications on behalf of the US, and visa versa, to avoid the constitutionally illegal act of spying on ones own citizens, although this in itself has recently emerged as a bit of a legal grey-area.

  8. Re:FYI... on A Pacemaker Made From Your Own Cells · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Umm... Yea... Basic anatomy, for the win. Artificial pacemakers (hint, artificial in the name implies that they are a copy of some organic component) are simply replication our heart's own pacemaker (the "node"), which send electrical signals telling the heart muscles to contract and so forth. I should know. I have regular heart palpitations. :(

    P.S. I didn't mean to imply that you were wrong. I was simply pointing out that your post was common information. The content of the post, however, is completely correct.

    Hint: suck balls, and may your insolence bring you a slow, painful heart-attack.
  9. FYI... on A Pacemaker Made From Your Own Cells · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...We ALL have pacemakers made from our own cells already...literally...See Cardiac pacemaker

  10. What does it all mean? on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 3, Funny

    What are the useful applications of this? Can I get a quantum computer next week!?

  11. update my arse, I'm having big multi-profile probs on Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...And now they're forcing the "mozilla has been updated" page to load on startup on my other two Firefox profiles EVERY TIME - DESPITE MY ACTUAL HOMEPAGE!! What the hell is going on!?

  12. disappointing on Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I *still* can't find text within a textbox...

  13. In an attempt to be macho... on Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up · · Score: 1

    ...their homoerotic sides are betrayed. Ouww! You hurt me! Lets make anal love. As heard at "club"//

  14. Tags on Microsoft in Talks To Acquire Ebay · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I tagged this story:

    gulp
    hugeramifications
    megamonopoly
    oddcouple
    thiscantbegood

  15. Re:I still luv u $on¥ on Sony Fakes Blu-Ray Demo? · · Score: 1

    My comment isn't about defending Sony. It is a warning about not falling into the trap of choosing sides in a perpetual battle that has no "good guys", regardless how squeaky clean Googles PR may be, or how bad Sonys & Microsofts may be. By wading into the fight you just begin to propagate *their* relative smear-work.

  16. My Philosophy on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    It is my philosophy that one positive, fulfilling life is better than ten poor, miserable lives. I, Distantbody, wish sincerely that organizations would STOP prolonging peoples lives if those lives are not likely to utter "contentment" on their deathbed.

  17. I still luv u $on¥ on Sony Fakes Blu-Ray Demo? · · Score: 1

    Don't buy the anti-Sony astroturf, Sony is no worse than the companies trying to make you believe the >CoinNewWord>astrosmear>/CoinNewWord>.

    ==Sony-raping, the fad du jour.==

  18. linear aerospike on Japan Solicits NASA's Help on Supersonic Jet · · Score: 1

    Something with an aerospike engine would be nice...Or not.

  19. Very buggy video drivers on Looking Forward, Ubuntu Linux 6.06 · · Score: 1

    Have they fixed that problem with the screensaver menu yet? When i scroll thru the screensaver menu (just for fun) the desktop goes hypercolour-screen-of-death.

  20. wind power is a disgrace on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    No matter how good a solution nuclear power is, the energy consumers across numerous nations will be left with hundreds/thousands of wind turbines. And to add insult to injury, the same greens who left us with their horrid wind farms, also got, and are getting, many essential nuclear plants closed.

    I am sick and tired of nuclear advocates who preach technological 'coexistance' with wind. Stop calling for mediocre energy solutions. Wind is an awful technology and deserves to be critisized regardless of how personally the 'green' community might take it. I have withessed other such pandering-compromises from the past. No one wins.

  21. The Japaneses go to school! on Fuel Cell Powered Japanese Trains on Trial in July · · Score: 1

    That train is nothing. The Japanese have totally been schooled by Greenpiece. Haven't you seen their wind-powered train? It gets more power the windier it gets!

  22. Hydrogen production on Fuel Cell Powered Japanese Trains on Trial in July · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hydrogen is best buddies with nuclear power. That's how it SHOULD be done too. The greenies can have their wind, and I shall watch them beg for my nuclear power. THAT'S satisfaction.

  23. cousin on Polar Bears Drowning As Globe Warms · · Score: 1

    That makes me a sad panda

  24. fap on 50% of HDTV Owners Don't Use HD · · Score: 1

    1080p m3d14 d0wn5c4|3d t0 n0n-574nd4rd r350|u710n 15 73h pwn63

  25. ancestor-simulation on First Quantum Byte Created · · Score: 1

    Make that the first *simulated* qubyte. we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html