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  1. Re:Oh come on on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you ever played WoW and been on trade chat?

  2. I don't unfriend, I just use Hide on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can always click in the top right of each newsfeed link, or assign people to lists.

    For example, I have different lists for each game, and have special ones for Family, the city I grew up in, the city I live in, people who go to film festivals with me, and people who have specific activities I do with them. Then I change the order of the lists so I mostly see the ones I want.

    And then, if someone posts a lot of useless stuff, I just Hide PERSON on the newsfeed from them - they're still friends, I can still see if they specifically refer to me, but I don't hear the useless blather. If they post about some game or app I don't care about, I just click Hide and select HIDE NAMEOFGAME or HIDE NAMEOFAPP and poof it's gone.

    What will get you dropped is spam posts. Or Tagging me in pictures that I'm not in. That is an automatic Defriend.

  3. Re:Why not just cut of China and Russia fm Net? on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    No, those we can go after on a county by county basis.

  4. Re:Why not just cut of China and Russia fm Net? on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    Just as not all of the people who have botnets using their wireless connections in their neighborhood are botnet controllers.

    They're a lot more guilty than we are.

  5. All we need to do is communicate with them on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    If we can communicate with them, and send over our DNA sequences, then they can grow copies of humans, bring them up in their own society, and train them for the invasion force to conquer Earth.

  6. Why not just cut of China and Russia fm Net? on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A more serious question should be, why don't we just cut off China and Russia, the botnet controllers, from the Net?

    That would make more sense.

  7. Of course we use WinXP on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    you'll force me to go Win7 when I buy my next laptop and reimage it with a MacOS/Linux dual boot overlay.

    As in, for about two days.

    Friends don't let friends run Windows.

  8. Re:Expect a Worgen Crush during December on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, certain classes use LW for armor. I predict an uptick in that, and an increase in BASE skinning low-level mats, but NOT in the supplementary mats for LW - so look at the crafting requirements for LW and if it isn't a result of skinning, stockpile it (those will be in high demand).

    Markets are not uniform. It's the friction points that have the greatest profit, so expect skinning/LW demand for non-skinning mats for LW crafting to increase.

  9. Re:Blizzard and the sorry state of privacy on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what you're talking about.

    Do you mean Trade Chat and Barrens Chat?

  10. Re:OCD? or Heirlooms for alts on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    Have to agree, while I hate the RealID (very pervy), the Heirlooms are a nice thing - use them to level up my lower chars and since they're BOA you can send them around between chars without the usual one-hour wait for mail.

  11. Re:Blizzard and the sorry state of privacy on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    No, they thought it would be a great marketing tool, allowing them to market more things to customers, and not being women, didn't realize how pervy it was.

    A lot of players in Seattle are women, and expectations of privacy are there.

  12. Expect a Worgen Crush during December on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    There will be a lot of n00bz running around doing Worgens so spec for taking them down.

    I'd concentrate on leveling Archeology with your existing chars instead, or if on Mok'Nathal, joining Fang and Claw, a pre-Worgen guild.

    You'll have to respec everyone anyway, so lag will be highest in UC (close to the Worgen) and Ironforge (same) - this is a great time to do a Stormwind/Darnassus quest - or if Horde you should be lag-free except in Ogrimmar (starting quests).

    I'd expect LW mats will be at a premium, given racial characteristics and new classes, so stockpile those for the AH - many starting chars so stockpile basic mats before 12/7.

  13. Re:Got a pound of flesh? Like it being ripped out? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    No, your point was to obfuscate your desire to achieve a goal beyond that of explanation.

    Do you have a pound of flesh you'd like ripped out painfully from your gut?

    I thought not.

  14. Re:Why not just switch .mil over to IPv6? on Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue · · Score: 1

    But if they're using the full secure IPvSec extensions for .mil, IPv6 is still more secure than IPv4 is.

  15. Re:Paywalls and people who live far from alma mate on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    usually - most colleges will honor an alumni card from another university for research library journal usage

  16. Re:Got a pound of flesh? Like it being ripped out? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    It's a very long answer. And it's actually in the paper.

    You're new to this, aren't you?

  17. Re:Got a pound of flesh? Like it being ripped out? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    go into your college/university library then. Use the terminals there.

  18. Re:Got a pound of flesh? Like it being ripped out? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    Like I said, the research goes on anyway.

    No matter how the fundies try to shut it down.

  19. Re:Got a pound of flesh? Like it being ripped out? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: 1

    read . the. actual. scientific. paper . on . which . this . is . based.

    There's your answer. I did - on ScienceDirect. If you're an alumni of anywhere you can get similar access.

  20. Got a pound of flesh? Like it being ripped out? on Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From Skin Cells · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Then you'll love this new technique.

    These are not as good as stem cells from embryos.

    The funny thing about all the anti-science religious freaks is no matter what solution you come up with, they'll find something to object about it - and the work will still be done somewhere in the world because scientists collaborate, so you're not "stopping" stem cell research using embryonic stem cells no matter how much you think it stops that.

  21. Too little, still feels very pro-stalker on Blizzard Rolls Out Real ID Privacy Options · · Score: 1

    I would hate to be a woman or girl playing WoW with this.

    Very very stalkerish.

    Not good.

  22. When do they have the time for that? on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 1

    I mean, most of them never get to see the wife and kids ...

  23. Re:Translation: Big Pharma is bleeding on White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites · · Score: 1

    I think Adam Smith said it best in Wealth of Nations - those who trust the shopkeepers to deliver efficient markets when they can take food from the mouths of the poor are amongst the fools of the world.

    Socialism is what Red States do. Like Alaska.

  24. Re:Translation: Big Pharma is bleeding on White House Pressuring Registrars To Block Sites · · Score: 1

    Socialism?

    You mean like what the GOP does?

    Where the red states get federal welfare from us blue states?

    Look, I'm just a guy who buys direct shares in companies. Companies like Amgen and various big pharma companies. You know. Like Pfizer.

  25. Kind of humorous, actually on Exploits Propagated Via Social Media Increase · · Score: 1

    Today the guys trying to force Seattle to give away public park land to a Chihulhy museum hacked the social media SLOG site poll to "fix" a poll that was going heavily against them.

    Link as follows: Chihulhy.com hacks SLOG poll as they lose to Tiger Breeding option

    Very sad.

    But the Android OS holes and exploits are more likely due to it's popularity amongst tech geeks.

    In my personal experience, most people prefer the iPhone, but I always say if you're a tech geek, you should opt for the Android instead, cause it's what YOU want.