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  1. Re:IRL raids on Scientology Injunction Denied Against "Anonymous" · · Score: 1

    All I want to do is respond with tl;dr, but that was actually interesting so thanks.

  2. Re:Easy solution on Anonymity of Netflix Prize Dataset Broken · · Score: 1

    10/10 for Glitter? If a member of my imaginary family-of-four rated Glitter that highly it would become an imaginary family-of-three.

  3. Re:Let's hope it's cancelled after 15 eps on Joss Whedon Back on TV · · Score: 1

    You point out season 3 Evil Willow in a post where you say season 6 wasn't any good? What alternate reality do you come from and what happens from episode 19 on?

  4. Re:You Never Know on Joss Whedon Back on TV · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately like a few others have stated his shows often teeter out. I don't really understand this. Buffy's best season was either the fifth or the sixth, and Angel's best was easily the fifth. If anything the shows seem to get stronger the longer they go on.

  5. Re:Just extrapolate on Joss Whedon Back on TV · · Score: 1

    Joking aside, Fox has already put more into this than one might expect from them.

    According to an interview with Michael Ausiello, Whedon originally said he was interested in writing just a pilot and Fox went ahead and bought seven episodes. Also, the network side of things (as far as personnel go) is significantly different from when Firefly got canceled.

  6. Re:Funny on Leopard Upgraders Getting "Blue Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    I'm a fan of swuh-verz, but to each their own.

  7. Re:Psychology == Geek? on Geek Stars From Atkinson to Zappa · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same "scientific" field that once labeled homosexuality as a mental illness? That once advocated lobotomies for women who slept around? That invented electro-shock therapy, among other horrors? That produced "scientists" like Timothy Leary? Yes and of course we know that there are four humors in our bodies and that imbalances in them cause sickness and disease. Also, gold is worthless since we've had incredible luck turning lead into it. How's that leeching working out for you?

    Science is basically being wrong in new and interesting ways until we find something that we can't yet disprove. You can hardly blame psychology for its missteps without dragging every other field of scientific inquiry through the mud as well.
  8. Re:Society lost on Internet Archive Challenges Google · · Score: 1

    It was also common sense that killing a woman was a good test of whether or not she was a witch... It should be noted that if the person died during an ordeal by water (which I am assuming you are referring to here) he or she was considered a witch. Surviving meant the person was not a witch. So, killing someone in this fashion did not, in fact, prove "whether or not" the person was a witch but instead proved that they were.

    Also, there were a lot of other ways of "proving" the guilt of an accused witch. Wikipedia is knowledgeable about such things.
  9. Re:Low UID? on Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF · · Score: 1

    And exclude those of us in the high 5-digits? Bastard. We feel just as inferior as you do.

  10. Re:The size will be the limiting factor not DRM. on The First HD DVD Movie Hits BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I always took it to mean that the file started out on Usenet, where, if I understand it correctly, there is a size limit on each post, so large files must be broken up. That's correct on a per message basis. However, binary posts to Usenet are broken up into many, many messages and then reassembled. So the 15MB RAR file is actually 60 or so individual messages. As far as I understand it, there is no reason why you can't post a 700MB file as 3000 parts, but it generally isn't done.

  11. Re:Low Tech on Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving · · Score: 1

    This would work assuming he's not in a major radio market where the FM band is saturated with stations.