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by afxgrin on Friday July 25, @02:03AM (#24328609)
Attached to: How To Deal With Internet Bullies?

FUCK OFF!!!

It's not hard to say (or type), gets the point across you do not like said person or their argument, and helps end the debate.

People seriously need to make more use of profane language.

At first I was doubting this article as News for Nerds, but no - it really is - since enough nerds are awkward about dealing with things like this.

Fuck off works quite well, try it sometime.

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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24, @03:03PM (#24321525)
Attached to: Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist
"God is dead" - Nietzsche, 1882

"Nietzsche is dead" - God, 1900


This is just plain stupid.
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by RaguMS on Tuesday July 15, @09:36PM (#24206735)
Attached to: Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?

Rob from Cockeyed.com made his own Archimedes Death Ray and it worked:
http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/solardish/dish01.shtml

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  Comment: Finally (Score 4, Funny) 2008-07-14 23:03

by xpro42 on Monday July 14, @11:03PM (#24190595)
Attached to: IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip
Some vista capable hardware.
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by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04, @05:03AM (#24054269)
Attached to: What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?

It's kind of a sad day and age when this gets modded insightful. Don't you agree? Nothing against the poster - its a reflection of society these days.

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by Tim99 on Friday July 04, @04:03AM (#24053931)
Attached to: What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?
Er, no. Everyone knows that Apple's don't get viruses. Oh this is slashdot, let the flaming begin.

I have mod points, and I am not afraid to use them.
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by darkmeridian on Monday June 23, @05:03PM (#23907037)
Attached to: DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development

We can hate Microsoft but as a libertarian, I find this development scary. Getting the federal government involved in the design and manufacture of a product is unwarranted and is akin to precrime. The US Government should leave Microsoft's development of Windows 7 alone. If it turns out to have anti-competitive effects, then the government can punish Microsoft for it. Everyone may say that would be too little, too late, but preemptive strikes are un-American. (And besides, we can always break MS up if it keeps pushing out monopolistic products.)

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by genner on Wednesday June 04, @12:03AM (#23643905)
Attached to: Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old
Have another reason to point and laugh.
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by Moraelin on Monday May 26, @06:03AM (#23539015)
Attached to: Scientists Image an HIV Particle Being Born
Dude, let's put it like this:

Any company which discovers a cure gets a monopoly (patent) on it for 20 years. Which is a lot.

Now picture having this choice:

A. You get the existing anti-virals which tend to do a lot of damage. (There's a reason you don't get them for a cold or even a flu: they do more damage than the flu.) And they might or might not work. In fact, you'll probably just buy you some time. And everyone makes them, so while there's some money milking potential in the "but mine work better" factor, you're still just getting a slice of the pie.

B. You get the miracle cure from Company X, which actually works and presumably with a lot less side effects.

Choice B is a no-brainer. The company which would get a 20 year monopoly on B, is going to sit on a freaking huge fortune at the end of those 20 years. Not only they'd get the lion's share of the existing pie, they'd get a whole merry bunch of retards who'd rather buy the cure later than use a condom. Again.

So basically, you're telling me that a whole lot of CEOs, doctors, their investors, etc:

1. Would rather work for the general benefit of their competitors in preserving a status quo, instead of making a metric buttload of money for themselves.

2. A lot of rich and powerful people, and some of those same CEOs, doctors, etc, would rather die themselves or watch friends and family die a slow death, than just use that supposed miracle cure.

3. Thousands to millions of underlings, who otherwise can't seem to keep much else secret, just toe the line on this one. And again, would rather be loyal to some cartel than save themselves or their friends and family in some cases. And all the retards who lose laptops, or get internal corporate networks virused, etc, lose everything _except_ this apparently. They lose customer files, they leak that their network has blank admin passwords, etc, but somehow they never manage to leak _that_.

4. Somehow the Chinese, Russians, and a fucking buttload of other governments just itching for a pretext to one-up the West, and thumb their nose at the West, also toe that line peacefully. And, you know, all the retards like those in South Africa and various other countries, peddling sweet potato juice and other local snake oil as cures for HIV and as a substitute for paying to the big pharma for a cure, don't just go ahead and and make that miracle cure.

Remember: if it's secret, then it's also not patented. Patents tell everyone that it exists, so they don't work well for a conspiracy.

Etc, etc, etc.

And the same goes for diabetes, cancer, and all the other poster cases used by such conspiracy theories. In fact, for a lot of them half the points above go double. (E.g., insulin is out of patent, and it's a commodity produced by everyone, so profit margins are tiny. Plus you have local factories which don't pay big pharma a cent. So patenting a cure would make a lot of people very very rich. E.g., cancer doesn't really have as easy a defense as using a condom, and as other diseases go down and life expectancy rises, so does the chance that you'll live enough to get a cancer. So that one requires literally believing that the millions of doctors, researchers, pharma bigwigs, etc, would rather die of it and do something as brutal as radiotherapy or chemotherapy, instead of using the miracle cure. Etc.)

So here's an idea: noone understands that conspiracy theory, because it's fucking stupid even as conspiracy theories usually go. It doesn't require even just delusions and or building whole rationales on silly suppositions instead of facts. It requires genuine inability to follow even elementary logic.
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by cynicsreport on Wednesday May 21, @08:03AM (#23488022)
Attached to: UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult"

Whats the difference between religions and cults? As far as I can tell they really are the same thing.

A religious cult, to the best of my understanding, shows the following features:
1) Is widely accepted to be a cult by those not involved. [like Scientology]
2) Is secretive regarding the beliefs of its members. [like Scientology]
3) Is secretive regarding the hierarchical organization of its members. [like Scientology]

To me, #3 is most concerning, and the best way to be labeled as a religious cult. Notice that almost all 'mainstream' religions are not guilty of #3 (e.g., the Catholic buck stops at the Pope), and rarely guilty of #2 (e.g., Muslims can point to the Koran), and also rarely guilty of #1.
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  EverQuest 2 developer leaks exploits to guild[->] 2008-03-21 13:33 Sage Gaspar

Submitted by Sage Gaspar on Friday March 21, @01:33PM
Sage Gaspar writes "An EverQuest 2 developer was caught forwarding a player-submitted bug report containing an exploit to his personal guild and offering to "look the other way". The exploit made one of the hardest raid encounters in the game into a relative pushover, granting easy access to epic weapons, one of this expansion's most-hyped features. This comes on the heels of another scandal involving developers inside a top raiding guild providing detailed information about the final encounter of this expansion, enabling that guild to bring the encounter down first, within hours of when it was patched to be killable.

Also of controversy is the method by which the developer abuse was revealed: the administrator of the EQ2Flames message board digging through the developer's private messages, a violation of his own policies. This comes in reaction to the EQ2 Community Manager's decision to completely withdraw from interaction with EQ2Flames, the largest EQ2 fansite and a rough-and-tumble free speech zone. The admin claims that the community team participated in slander and reneged on an agreement for an exclusive preview of upcoming content, leading him to engage in the Wild West-style community justice for which the website is infamous."

http://www.eq2flames.com/
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Submitted by iamhassi on Friday February 02 2007, @01:59PM
iamhassi writes "from consumeraffairs: ""When my car is on any kind of slick surface that causes one of the front wheels to slip, ALL power to the drive system is stopped," wrote Christopher of Reston, Virginia", and he had to push his car up a hill because the wheels refused to budge. The dealership was able replicate the problem, and a Toyota spokeswoman calls it a "safety feature"."
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