His OP was (to use your words) "so blatantly stupid" that if he can't figure out why he got a bad mod, well, too bad. He should realize the moderation system is imperfect, as explained here. Specifically:
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
Lemme know and I'll look at it. Sometimes I might agree and revoke access to a moderator. Usually I disagree and let it go. Its difficult to be the judge on this stuff since it is so subjective.
His OP was (to use your words) "so blatantly stupid" that my response was too. Tough.
Nobody invented graphene. It was discovered, rendering it basically unpatentable,...
While I do not wish to debate about "discover" vs. "invention," I suggest you take a look at this Slashdot post.
From TFS:
'We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, "We've got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?" It's quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, "We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us." That's a direct quote.'"
Old sk00l. When was the last MBR infector seen in the wild? 2002? Most of this class are from the DOS era, fercryingoutloud.
From the second paragraph of the fine article (emphasis added):
TDSS has been causing serious trouble for users for more than two years now, and is an example of a particularly pernicious type of rootkit that infects the master boot record of a PC. This type of malware often is referred to as a bootkit and can be extremely difficult to remove once it's detected. The older versions of TDSS--TDL1, TDL2 and TDL3--are detected by most antimalware suites now, but it's TDL4 that's the most problematic right now.
Dittos! Ha ha. When I posted, I wondered if anyone would reply like you did. Fortunately I work from home so I get to listen to Rush, read/., and code. (Having three monitors helps too.)
Then there's the rarer stuff, like the original edition of Johannes Trithemius' 1518 book "Polygraphie," the first work ever published on cryptology, and a framed letter from Napoleon to his son, Eugene, that asks the prince in June 1806 to continue "sending me letters [by] the archbishop of Silesia from Rome to Dresden" because "the [deciphering] key has been found so that they can be read just like ordinary writing."
Wow! I hope all these rare works eventually become freely available on Project Gutenberg (for instance).
What's with this price from The Fine Article? (Emphasis added.)
Priced at $666.66, the first Apple-1s were despatched from the garage of Steve Jobs' parents' house - the return address on the original packaging present here.
Hmm. Maybe Jobs (like O'Donnell) was dabbing in witchcraft?
Slashdot Mirror
His OP was (to use your words) "so blatantly stupid" that if he can't figure out why he got a bad mod, well, too bad. He should realize the moderation system is imperfect, as explained here. Specifically:
I found a comment that was unfairly moderated!
Lemme know and I'll look at it. Sometimes I might agree and revoke access to a moderator. Usually I disagree and let it go. Its difficult to be the judge on this stuff since it is so subjective.
His OP was (to use your words) "so blatantly stupid" that my response was too. Tough.
Your last paragraph is undeserving of comment.
Oh, ha ha, I was just being, you know, sarcastic. Here, try this instead.
I just don't get the "Twitter is for idiot jokes". Part of my brain must be missing.
That's okay; here's help: Twitter For Dummies.
You definitely need re-education, specifically regarding sarcasm.
Anyone using Twitter should be sentenced to a year of 're-education' in a labour camp.
I can't recall a /. story that has this many ignorant replies.
Aside from the usual lack of RTFS and not reading TFA, I wonder if it's due to ignorance of hardware?
I try not to post about bad moderation but how the fuck is that a troll?
Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'
If there's anything I've learned from calculus - it's that a whole lot of trivial values can add up to something significant.
That's a good summary.
Try this URL instead.
"Researchers ... have been able to quickly and accurately locate and count the myriad connections between nerve cells in unprecedented detail, ..."
Zuckerberg is working on an API for this right now.
Those can be useful mnemonics (especially for young/old users).
What happens when it comes into contact with a smart phone?
You'll hear a busy signal.
I also like the idea of being listed in the White Pages as "John Doe"
Oh, wait--
The Iceman Cometh (IMDB; Wikipedia) has incredibly long scenes.
Contains both. :) (and is widely regarded as one of the best long cuts in cinematic history)
tl;dw
When my .cgi takes too long I just use FastCGI;
Nobody invented graphene. It was discovered, rendering it basically unpatentable, ...
While I do not wish to debate about "discover" vs. "invention," I suggest you take a look at this Slashdot post.
From TFS:
'We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, "We've got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?" It's quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, "We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us." That's a direct quote.'"
We are all served by having everybody in the world get online.
FTFY: We are all served more ads by Google by having everybody in the world get online.
Y'all?
Old sk00l. When was the last MBR infector seen in the wild? 2002? Most of this class are from the DOS era, fercryingoutloud.
From the second paragraph of the fine article (emphasis added):
TDSS has been causing serious trouble for users for more than two years now, and is an example of a particularly pernicious type of rootkit that infects the master boot record of a PC. This type of malware often is referred to as a bootkit and can be extremely difficult to remove once it's detected. The older versions of TDSS--TDL1, TDL2 and TDL3--are detected by most antimalware suites now, but it's TDL4 that's the most problematic right now.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - Rizzini
And you fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is incorrectly attributing this quote to someone besides "Vizzini."
Dittos! Ha ha. When I posted, I wondered if anyone would reply like you did. Fortunately I work from home so I get to listen to Rush, read /., and code. (Having three monitors helps too.)
And George Soros since it will require a billionaire to fund it.
Then there's the rarer stuff, like the original edition of Johannes Trithemius' 1518 book "Polygraphie," the first work ever published on cryptology, and a framed letter from Napoleon to his son, Eugene, that asks the prince in June 1806 to continue "sending me letters [by] the archbishop of Silesia from Rome to Dresden" because "the [deciphering] key has been found so that they can be read just like ordinary writing."
Wow! I hope all these rare works eventually become freely available on Project Gutenberg (for instance).
Priced at $666.66, the first Apple-1s were despatched from the garage of Steve Jobs' parents' house - the return address on the original packaging present here.
Hmm. Maybe Jobs (like O'Donnell) was dabbing in witchcraft?