While I agree that increasing transaction costs reduces the overall number of submissions, its not as if there is a significant problem with spurious entries to begin with. That type of disincentive is most effective in preventing DoS-like problems, and the charge doesn't need to be large. Imagine what a $0.01 charge to place/cancel an offer would do to high frequencey trading. What you propose is more along the lines of regulatory capture, creating the type of barrier to entry we collectively like to complain about here on /.

I wonder if anyone has yet designed a task-specific cable-cutting anchor or is this an untapped market?

Well, I meant "do better than something I'd be prone to watch from the traditional producers of the televised media." I have no intention of comparing anything to either of those shows due to the fact my sense of integrity would require me to actually seek out and experience them first hand. -shudder-

The Spam problem has been somewhat annoying, and when I saw the opportunity to keep the bot from locking in the first spot I jumped on it. And then followed up with an on-topic reply to self to give the community a place to comment guaranteed to be above the bot. It appears to be working.

Thx, I may be two years late to the news but I'll be interested to see if they can do better than the traditional sources of production.

What the one story for which the robotroll subject is on-topic and it doesn't get first post? BTW: Screw the OP.

When did Netflix become a production company? What's next, becoming an ISP?

I hope.

Does not require anything other than luck. You get 50% of your genome from your father, that 50% just happens to be the 50% he got from his father (Y included) and you get 50% from your mother, that just happens to be the 50% she got from her father (his X chromosome included) and voila a grandchild with no genetic relationship (mitichodrial DNA excluded) to either of his grandmothers. 23 pairs of chromosomes gives 2^23*2^23=7.03687E+13 Dividing by approx 7 billion people currently alive gives a ~0.0095% chance that there is someone alive right now that fits this possibility.

Duh, that is why character sheets have separate spots to record them!

Yes but this is with a computer! (on the internet?)

There is plenty of Section 8 housing in D.C. just make it mandatory that they live there. Or put them up in dormitories at Ft. Myer. Communal bathrooms could only help to improve bi-partisanship.

I'm only 42 (so feel free to ask me to depart your grassy area) and can confirm the exitence of "tracks" in the 80s, however they were not meaningfully separated environments. Sure the AP calc class was full of college bounds but was the cafeteria, the bus, the locker room etc?

That could take 3 hours.

I believe that is called Münchausen syndrome.