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  1. Re:Background checks are awful and stupid on The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors · · Score: 1

    So, it was a crime so rare that it has only been committed by a few people? I seriously doubt that naming the statute you violated could be enough to identify you. Considering the only other detail I know about you as that you may occasionally read Slashdot, it would be very hard for myself or anyone else to string together enough data to make a positive ID. I am starting to smell a rat on this one.

    Unless - OMG are you that guy from my junior high who got caught skull-fucking that dead sheep wearing a prom dress???

  2. Re:Background checks are awful and stupid on The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors · · Score: 1

    So, you are posting anonymously. Why don't you just tell us what the crime is, so we don't have to wonder?

  3. Re:Bwahahaha! on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    No, just that that approach has been tried before and has failed. As I said the thing that works best is neutering. Look up info on it yourself if you don't care to believe me. Here is a start. Unless you are just one of those type who hates cats, and will look for any reason to get rid of them, TNR makes the most sense becasue it is the cheapest and most effective way to deal with feral cat populations. The numbers from the studies done on other feral cat populations don't lie.

  4. Re:Bwahahaha! on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    So trap and neuter the cats, it is the only real way to reduce a wild cat population. Killing them or moving them somewhere else does not work, and has been tried repeatedly in other areas. TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) is the only thing that has been proven to work.

  5. Re:Bwahahaha! on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    Sadly, this I cannot deny.

  6. Re:Bwahahaha! on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    Really? Where are you from? All the Aussie I have ever known have never used that term.

  7. Re:Bwahahaha! on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Australia, they are called "prawns" and not "shrimps", and I have never heard and actual Aussie ever say "barbie". So for the record, "shrimps on the barbie" is something you would never actually hear in Australia. (At least from a real Australian.) They also think Fosters beer is piss, and Crocodile Dundee is crap.

    And saying something damaging about someone you have a political axe to grind, without any proof, is pretty much the definition of "slander". Thankfully he reduced it back down to "hearsay and bullshit rumors".

  8. Re:Bwahahaha! on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    I would be afraid of the ones who will do more than make idle threats - the bikers. They don't usually make vague anonymous threats. They wont warn you what they are going to do, someday you will just wake up dead. An anonymous note slipped under your door? Probably a 13 year old who left it.

  9. Re:Hugs My Gorgeous Android Nexus One on Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Again, why I bought a G1. Why anybody that knows what they are doing would want to be locked down like that is beyond me.

  10. Re:Hugs My Gorgeous Android Nexus One on Apple Bans Jailbreakers From the App Store · · Score: 0, Troll

    To be honest, I would rather have the choice of installing malware on a phone I own, than not having any choice at all. Guess that is why I have a G1. Do you really want a company to assume you are a moron, and hold you hand every time you want to use your device? If so, buy Apple.

  11. Re:Houraaaay!!!! on The Wii Laptop · · Score: 1

    Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing. The Wii as a console is pretty damn portable already.

  12. Re:Yeah, it's called blissful ignorance on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well a little bit of bible in the morning won't cure too much bible the night before, so take away those 4 or 5 points.

    And what is the most common beverage mentioned in the bible again, oh yes - wine. So you can read about alcohol in the bible, but thankfully, there are no bible passages on my booze bottles. Another score for alcohol!

  13. Re:Yeah, it's called blissful ignorance on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    And when new discoveries are made, I can add the information to what is there already, and change my way of thinking if necessary. It isn't that difficult unless you have a bunch of religious dogma stopping you from doing that. And like in your quick example, discovering a new particle doesn't negate everything we currently know about particles up to this point. It just adds a new dimension to theories on particles. I don't think there are too many absolutes in science where anything can be 100% - but that shouldn't cause you to discount ALL science.

  14. Re:What a doorknob on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    No, just that if you have a busy site it doesn't automatically mean it is an advertising cash cow like it used to. I realize advertising is an insane business, and I doubt the industry will stop doing silly things any time soon, so the potential is always there.

  15. Re:What a doorknob on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wasn't trying to invalidate anything you say, just pointing out that the whole "if you build it they will come" model of advertising is changing online. 10 years ago if you had any type of site that was getting 10,000 plus unique visitors a day, you could have made a lot of money selling all types of ads. The same cannot be guaranteed today, although it is still possible, it just doesn't happen on the scale it used to.

  16. Re:What a doorknob on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    I wasn't talking about ads per page either, that was an just an example I used. Advertiser used to pay out big money to high volume sites that had the most hits, but they realized that targeting people who may actually be interested (like Google ads) were generating more sales than the "just get it out there" model they were previously using. Sure the high traffic sites can charge more, but the advertising folks are realizing that if you show an ad to 10,000 who don't care they will not get as many sales as showing the ad to 100 people that are interested.

  17. Re:What a doorknob on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    I think that was the strategy 10 years ago. Advertisers eventually realized that putting stupid annoying ads on every page did not equal automatic sales. Hell, remember the guy who had the "Million Dollar Page" and all it consisted of was a ton of small ads? Do you think that sort of model would be successful today?

  18. Re:Ah, well, that lets Microsoft off the hook then on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, I live in a world where it is possible to exist between the two extremes in the middle ground. I have already chosen. I have 2 locked down Windows boxes, a Mac, and a Linux box at home, all of which are malware free with 100% of the hardware being functional. Life is great when you don't live all the way out to the extreme edges. It also helps that I look at operating systems as a means to an end, and not like a religion. An OS is just a tool in the toolbox. Arguing which is superior is akin to arguing whether a hammer or screwdriver is the better tool.

  19. Re:Impossible! on Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks · · Score: 1

    Mega-WHOOSH!

  20. Re:Ah, well, that lets Microsoft off the hook then on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know, but when has reality ever stopped anyone from beating a dead horse on Slashdot? I mean what is really the point of this whole site if you take away the saying half-truths to annoy people part??

  21. Re:Ah, well, that lets Microsoft off the hook then on Rootkit May Be Behind Windows Blue Screen · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And Linux fanbois remind me of a battered woman who cannot get her damn wireless card working for the life of her.

  22. Re:This is my favourite on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    For the record, I never said "spiritual". And I am also not talking about pills, I am talking about pure MDMA in it's molecular form (Molly) - little crystalline like wafers. Pills are generally rubbish and you never know what or how much of anything is in them. I am also not talking about being ripped off your tits so much you don't know which way is up - I am talking about feeling something bigger than yourself, and being wrapped in a warm, happy, euphoric glow. "Trooming" while doing nitrous hits will definitely get you discombobulated, but it also could cause some confusion and possible paranoia.

  23. Re:Yeah, it's called blissful ignorance on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1
    If you honestly believe the man with "God Spoke to me" and a link to faithclub.net in his signature is spiritual, but not religious, I think it is YOU who are confusing the definitions. He may be both, but he is definitely religious. (See how I demonstrated that the two are not mutually exclusive?) Why don't you ask CrazyJim himself if he is a religious man? Care to put some money on his answer? (That is, if your religion or spirituality doesn't prohibit gambling.)

    And are you actually saying that since science is "changing all the time" and nothing is 100% proven that zero scientific theories are valid? Whoa. Well, they never will be (at least to folks like you) but to me being 99.99999999% certain of something is good enough.

    It's ignorant because you've stopped thinking/feeling for your self and has accepted what 'someone' else says is so...

    Hey, that sound like a great definition for religion!

  24. Re:Yeah, it's called blissful ignorance on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 2, Funny

    If alcohol does not give you the same effect as deep spiritual practice, then you are drinking the wrong kind of gin. And cheap gin is not the same as fine spirits. You sir sound like you may be ignorant of this very important and beneficial part of life. I say this as someone with a sense of humor, who understands things like satire and tongue-in-cheek humor.

  25. Re:This is my favourite on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 3, Informative

    They already have it. It is called MDMA, which you already seem to be aware of. Get some of the pure crystalline form and I guarantee you a religious experience. (Not just some random pill that could contain any number of substances.) Listening to the first Stone Roses album also helps.