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  1. Re:Already illegal on The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com · · Score: 1

    There's an advert on Facebook I keep seeing which is using the picture of a particular porn star whose work I'm aware of... I'm fairly sure she doesn't live in my area :)

  2. Re:Closure on Multiple Upcoming Games, Movies Based On Jordan's Wheel of Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes it will - RJ had already written the ending and several other key elements before he died, as well as dictate the overall plot of the book.

  3. Re:Jeez you people... on International Spam Ring Shut Down · · Score: 1

    It's also partly that companies hire an agency to deal with advertising their product, and the agency then uses a sub-contractor, which uses a different sub-contractor, and ends up with some spammer who the original company has no idea about.

  4. Re:Bring out the smug bastards! on Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat · · Score: 1

    Best post EVAR!

  5. Re:Ockham's Razor tells me.... on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    In C#:


    var sortedPeople =
        from p in unsortedPeople
        where Regex.IsMatch(p.Location, "Wyoming")
        orderby p.Age, p.Location
        select Frobnicate(p);

    Hmm, not so difficult eh?

  6. The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth on NYT Explores the World of Internet Trolls · · Score: 4, Funny

    It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

    Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

    Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

    Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

  7. Re:Once again the dead tree press screws ups a... on NYT Explores the World of Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    http://www.geocities.com/spiralxuk/trolls.html

    From the heyday of /. trolling when we had our own hidden sids and community. I still meet up with a couple of guys I met here through trolling almost 8 years on :)

  8. Re:What's the difference? on NYT Explores the World of Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    A troll should contain enough clues that anyone who stops to think should be able to spot its nature, whilst still eliciting frothing at the mouth from the gullible and/or easily annoyed. The more ridiculous the troll is while still getting responses (especially the classic point-by-point rebuttal), the better a troll it is. It's almost a spectator sport - if you spot a troll, you can then laugh at the idiots who have responded to something like this:

    http://www.geocities.com/spiralxuk/texts/troll4.html :D

  9. Re:You're a Troll If You Disagree With the Crowd on NYT Explores the World of Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember writing something on this some years ago... :)

    http://www.geocities.com/spiralxuk/howto.html

    Ah, happy memories...

  10. Re:Easy backup, for everybody. on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 1

    It's in Vista Home Premium...

  11. Re:I've done it since Win3.1 on Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked · · Score: 1

    Try MS Powershell, you can do ls hklm:/software perfectly fine.

  12. Re:Private Lives Private on The Implications of a Facebook Society · · Score: 1

    David Brin has written a lot about the "transparent society" on his website as well.

  13. Re:A modern day fairy tale on String Theory in Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    MOND is wrong - or at least dark matter does exist, so if it's correct, then it still needs to account for dark matter. See here.

  14. Re:I actually like version control on History of Slashdot Part 3- Going Corporate · · Score: 1

    Ha, I used that in my first job 9/10 years ago... and yes, it sucks. Then again, the ancient version of Surround I'm using at my current place isn't much better :(

  15. Re:Not news on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 1

    That'd be OOG, the open source caveman.

  16. Re:Don't get this one... on Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954 · · Score: 1

    But still that's just corruption imposed from an outside source. That hardly counts as character development does it?

  17. Re:I'll say it on Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954 · · Score: 1

    Well said! As a fantasy-loving teenager who read voraciously the LotR trilogy was one of the few things I never bothered to finish. I plodded through the first two books and then gave up about a third of the way through the third after endless pages of tedious non-action.

  18. Re:DXM!!! on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1

    Bah, ketamine is better and far less dangerous than DXM. If you can get hold of it, it's a much better option.

  19. Vacuoles on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1

    Actually ketamine doesn't cause Olney's lesions most likely. While it has been observed to do so in rats it doesn't cause them in primates at all. Not sure about DXM but I know it's a lot more dangerous than ketamine is.

  20. Re:Psychedelics on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1

    Mmmm, delicious :)

  21. Re:Slashdot and Drugs? on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1
    Best comment EVER. I love all kinds of drugs but "hippies" piss me off, especially the trustafarian types. Gah.

    However I've found a great way to piss them off it to start snorting fat lines of ketamine. For some reason they just don't like it ;)

  22. Re:LSD advertisement? on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1
    I've probably done at least as much as you over the last 10 years or so and still drop regularly. Can't say I've ever had more than mild tracers at rare points over the years. Pity really ;)

    But then again I have a healthy attitude to taking LSD and I can't say that it would be in anyway worrying. As you say, free drugs ;)

  23. Hardly on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1
    As someone that's been taking acid and other hallucinogens and chemicals for almost 10 years now I completely disagree with what you've said. Taking acid will change your perception of reality, but that's it. Everything you've described can be attributed to the fact that hallucinogens give you an enhanced ability to notice patterns and connections - even between things that aren't there normally.

    You're noticing an increase in unlikely events occuring because your brain is capable of fitting a pattern to something that would normally be discarded, not because anything has actually changed.

  24. Re:More information... on Lysergically Yours · · Score: 1
    I've been taking acid for almost 10 years now (along with various other hallucinogens like 2-CB, 2-CI, DMT, TMA-2 and so on when I have them) and I don't get any visuals effects at all... despite having taken hundreds in that time, including at least one 1200+ug dose and several 400+ug trips.

    I've had mild tracers for a couple of months in the past after doing it most weekends for a while, they faded though and now I don't get anything at all even though I do it a couple of times a month on average.

    Tracers are not uncommon, but full on HPPD is very unusual and most likely a symptom of an already existing underlying problem rather than just being the acid.

  25. Re:Last??? on Inside One Of the Last Vinyl Record Manufacturers · · Score: 2

    The company that owns Kinetec Records is called BangingTunes.com and they do acid trance and ship to the US...