These kind of posts seem to be popping up a lot and off topic the last day or so. Are they always this bad or did I just not notice them till I was trying to burn off my mod points?

I don't see a link... so not an advertisement.

This is Slashdot where the cool-aid has already been drank, urinated, recycled through open sourced urine recycling hardware/software pirated from NASA, and drank again. Not astro-turfing unless it is of the 2-minute hate variety. Of course it could be trojan-astro-turfing by coming off as so vitriolic and annoying to drive people away from that mentality.

Just trolling maybe?

Under current precedent and what not it is more along the lines it belongs to FaceBook to lease out who whoever. The German company merely requested it first.

Reminds me about accusations that part of the UAV software was either pirated or incorrectly used open source. Looks like this is nothing new.

Well, I hope jokes.

For years we have been joking that 1984 is not a guide. Now it seems either someone being paid to develop this has a sense of humor or has decided to up their game. No longer will 1984 be the guide, they are out to outdo the Dark Lord Sauron himself. Though, Tolkien was trying to recreate the lost myths of Britain, and by that reasoning LotR would be our past... Has anyone noticed any recent appointees or elected officials seemingly always wearing a plain gold ring?

Well, I guess if you want to pick a beef you might as well go for it. One more question, am I the only person who never had Windows 95 blow up on them? I mean, going to 98 was a heck of a lot smoother, but I never had any problems with '95.

Uhm, no. An idealist is only good if you agree with their ideals.

To paraphrase Jack Sparrow: "Me? I'm a politician, and a politician you can always trust to be political. Honestly. It's the idealists you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."

The Republicans elected a bunch of idealists. We now have presidential candidates who effectively want to disband the federal government, stating air pollution might cure asthma, vaccines cause autism, there is no unemployment just laziness and the best way to show this is to repeal child labor laws and force nine-year-olds to have jobs, etc., are now talking points.

These didn't come out of no where. The candidates are either idealists themselves or trying to appeal to the idealist part of their party in these tight primary races.

Anyone else find all that South Park stuff being on there is somewhat ironic? Maybe they just need to pitch more that all the episodes save some of the more recent ones (after the first week and then they pop back on) and two taken down for censorship are online for free?

I say Ironic was Trey and Matt stated they pushed for all the episodes being online for free because they were tired of having to pirate their own series whenever they easily wanted to rewatch an episode easily?

So your ideal interface would be a movie?

Wants to get high, justifies possible aid to global climate change.

Quite similar to a person with a vested interest in ethanol once told me. Ethanol is carbon negative! Take the corn kernels and make ethanol. What do you do with the cob and stalks? He didn't know, but you could do something with them as they are made from carbon pulled from the air. There you go, more carbon stored than burned. Therefore, make and burn more ethanol by building plants made by the company he works for.

Devil's advocate. Irene was NYC Region's Katrina. The storm that everyone who didn't have their head in a hole had been expecting. It was one of the reasons I was hesitant to seriously consider moving there after college. NYC gets an Irene like storm every 60-75 years and I knew it was due from past statistical records.

Everything else? I'll have to take your word on. Not all weirdness is weird, but sometimes weirdness is just weirdness.

I wish I could go back in time and patent, copyright and trademark the concept of "First Post!".

Of course it would be useless here. The volume on /. would triple just out of spite that such a thing was patented in protest.

Well, it is going to lead to evolution, but you are overlooking horizontal gene transfer among bacteria that could be accelerating the problem. This isn't pure mutation and reproduction, but the bacteria equivalent of developing their own anti-anti-biotic and spreading it among their own kind too.

It is evolution + developed.

Alchohol based and similar antibiotics don't have a drug to build a resistance to. It is just deadly in a high enough dose. Those that live are through dumb luck. So these products are safe to use without fear of adding to drug resistance.

Only the cheap/poor timid ones or ones with stubborn doctors. You can be surprised how far "samples" can be stretched and how often handed out.

Yes, I'm one of them. I am actually supporting this in hopes I can convince them to transport this bridge in Brooklyn I bought up there as a lawn decoration.