I have less than 20 friends on Facebook. Why? Because I only added my friends. Sure, I know a lot more than 20 people, but I wouldn't call them friends, so I didn't add them as friends on Facebook.

I realize it's pointless to reply to this as I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but eventually any true random generator would come up with a string of nines, so I still think it's pretty funny. The more nines he comes up with, the more likely you are to be right that he's not generating truly random numbers, but the closest you could ever get would be to say: "It's extremely unlikely that these numbers are truly random." and then someone would say: "So it's possible?" and you would have to say: "Yes, it's possible."

(And a true random number generator will have exactly the same chances of coming up with 99999999999999 as 65345608315823, the last one just looks a lot more random to us.)

That's my favorite episode. :)

Much better analogy than the others.

The short version is that the word "piracy" has been used for unauthorized copying for hundreds of years, the long version is... well, Google it. :)

Well, in that case this should be pretty easy to fix for the spammers, assuming they care.

This is probably obvious, since no one is talking about it, but how is he taking over the email addresses? Surely the bots aren't registrering on his honeypot forums with the same password as is used for the e-mail they use to register.

True, but I wouldn't do that. If I start to watch a movie, I will finish watching it, no matter how bored I am, because for me the ending and the final impressions left by movie can change it into something that was definitely worth watching, even if it was two hours of boredom at the time.

So what does this mean? It probably just means that in a perfect world, there would be different ratings for "hated it, so I turned it off" and "finished watching it, hated it". Imagine an extreme example where a movie was rated like this:

95% of the viewers: Hated it, turned it off
5% of the viewers: Hated it, but finished watching it, eventually loved it

Assuming I also fall into one of those two categories, it obviously wouldn't be the first one, as I would always finish watching even a terrible movie. That means that I would end up in the group of people who eventually love the movie and would be really glad I sat through it.

However, these are probably the only ratings I can see:

95% of the viewers: Hated it
5% of the viewers: Loved it

So I probably wouldn't bother with that movie, because I would think I would be unlikely to love it when 95% hate it.

Alright, this is an extreme and contrived example, but my point is that you should be able to decide whether you want to see only reviews from people who finish watching the movie or everyone who's sat down to see it, even if they only watched the first 15 minutes. The first option would be for me, the last option would be for someone who still thinks an hour and a half is wasted if you're bored to death, even if it's the kind of ending you can't stop thinking about for the next two weeks.

Dicks being people? WTF does that mean?

It feels like I have seen hundreds of movies where a brilliant ending changed my impression of the movie from "huge waste of time" to "OMG, that was very clever, I'm going to be thinking about that for a long time!".

I have a six year old son myself and my friends on facebook are still, well, my friends. I believe that's why they call it "friends", not "people you kinda met once, but don't really know". I can honestly say that I don't have a single friend on facebook that I wouldn't trust with a key to my apartment, so I certainly don't mind any of them knowing if I'm going on vacation. Then again, I only have like 10 friends on facebook, including my closest family (mother, father and sister).

So is your English. :)

Wow, thanks for that, I remember reading those guidelines years ago, but have since forgotten all about them. I should probably read them again next time I get mod points. :)

To me Interesting is: "I hadn't thought of that, good point." and Insightful is: "Yeah, you nailed it, my thoughts exactly."

So I would personally mod this Insightful, not Interesting, but I guess we all have our own definitions for the moderation options. :)

Doesn't matter, that post will surely get modded up to the maximum as Insightful in no time.