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That "Oom pah pah, oom pah pah, that's how it goes." song from Oliver!

What in the world?

I get on /. today (Wed, March 8, 2006), and see a message from Monday.

Relationship change

I like those messages, because it (usually) means that someone has read some of what I've posted, and it matters enough to them that they've made the effort to do the relationship change.

This time; however, it was weird.
The person making the change, constablefuse, is now one of my Freaks (he has named me one of his Foes). He/She has never posted anything on /. (as far as I can tell, under that name anyway) and yet has more than 60 foes already. His/Her /. ID is lower than mine, so probably they've been around for a couple of years, anyway.
Sounds like a spare name someone uses to keep track of who disturbs them, but constablefuse wants to post without people knowing that he/she doesn't like people.
I wonder if they have a separate name for people that they like?

One thing about /., you get to meet some interesting virtual fractional personalities.

wait for it

Interesting AC comment from a math major:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=179747&cid=14884503

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164218&cid=13722289

Is one right and the other wrong?
Are they both wrong?
Are their arguments inspiring and reasonable?
Are they both just dumb?

You decide.