If this Slashdot article had been a static page, not only would it have been cheaper to serve, but you wouldn't have had the opportunity to post your asinine comment.

You know, I'd rather not have some male vet on the tail end of a fourteen hour day looking after my cat. I'll take a female vet working short hours.

Twitter is SOCIAL, Engineers are ANTI-SOCIAL

Twitter is not social. Twitter is a medium explicitly designed for people who don't give a shit whether or not anyone is interested in the crap they're saying, because they're going to say it anyway. That's not social.

(Yeah it's spammy, but check my account ID - it's not like I just signed up recently or anything)

Hey noob, stop spamming!

Then again, there are so few Indian athletes

lolwut. You can tell this story is American. If you played cricket in the USA you'd soon see how many Indian athletes there were.

Why on earth would they? Most companies like having customers, and aren't actually looking for an opportunity to get rid of them. Anyway, as an aside, the terms of service of my (Australian) ISP state that they may "immediately suspend, cancel or restrict the supply of the Service" if they "reasonably suspect fraud or other illegal conduct by you or any other person in connection with the Service", or "reasonably believe a threat or risk exists to the security of the Service or the integrity of our Network or a Supplier's Network and that threat or risk is caused directly or indirectly by you". Pretty broad terms, and pretty standard, as far as I know?

In my country this would constitute a "considerable change of contract"..

I guarantee you that the current contract contains some nebulous terms stating that they may cancel your connection based on unspecified abuse of the network, which this new rule would fit nicely into.

What sort of retarded library are you using that doesn't let you parametrize your SQL input?

Try re-reading the second paragraph of his comment, about "inherited code". Just because you can paramaterize your SQL input doesn't mean that there isn't one feature buried deep in the web app where some foolish/lazy/whatever developer heedlessly pasted together a few GET parameters to hack up a quick and dirty SQL SELECT.

. I once wrote a very complete article on Metz, France, one of the largest cities in France, and it got deleted for being "obscure" and because "Wikipedia can't have an article on every no name city nobody has every heard of"

I'm afraid I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one, Anonymous Coward. The Metz article was first created in June 2002 (content: "Metz is an industrial city in northern France. It is represented in la Ligue Nationale, the French premier football division by F.C. Metz."), and has never been deleted at any time.

Not to mention that every part of this particular jellyfish contains toxins. Every touching the top of the jellyfish will result in temporary numbness.

So, it's no good for food, but it sounds like it could be great for getting high!

The fact that MMORPGs are descended from MUDs which are descended from pen & paper RPGs does not mean that MMORPGs are not a new gaming style. It just means that they are a new gaming style which has a chain of ancestry back to other gaming styles which were themselves new at one time (despite having ancestry of their own).

I'm tempted to just say "who cares 4th edition sucked" since I don't personally like it

I'm personally reserving judgement on the 4th edition for the moment, since I haven't actually played or DM'ed a session, I've only read the books after torrenting PDFs of them via The Pirate Bay.

I hardly ever program in my spare time these days, and I still think I'm pretty damn good at my (programming) job, and eminently employable.

But that's because I'm older now, settled down in a long term relationship, with hobbies that don't involve my computer, a cat, etc. I certainly programmed a lot in my spare time when I was younger (back in the Amiga demoscene days), and I'd be worried about a programmer (like the original blogger) who not only does not program as a hobby, but quite proudly asserts that he never has done.

What I discovered was that the majority of the reviews were negative on practically everything I looked at.

Probably an accurate reflection of the low, low quality of most consumer products, then.

I believe the other favoured epithet was "litigious motherfuckers". A title which the British Chiropractic Association have clearly earned through this affair.