==== To the Drunk Hottie who fell off my motorcycle (best of craiglist) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62utg/comments/c02ntif Hmm... you're right. Well, good thing I am only there for about 10 days each year, so they have a very small chance of ever catching me there. And really, what is the point of going there if I'm not home? :) ==== Jesus Christ, reddit. Stop putting Ron Paul links on my 'recommended' page already. Seriously. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62tby/comments/c02ns9p http://reddit.com/search?q=Jesus+AND+Christ+AND+Ron+AND+Paul Or even this: http://reddit.com/search?q=Ron+AND+Paul+AND+recommend I'm sure I could find more. It's just a matter of getting the right terms and sort options, much like being a proficient searcher on Google. ==== To the Drunk Hottie who fell off my motorcycle (best of craiglist) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62utg/comments/c02npi2 Hey, I know where that is! That picture was taken on 101 South in Thousand Oaks, about 3 minutes from my parents house. I didn't think the Ventura County Sheriff would allow such a thing on the road... ==== Jesus Christ, reddit. Stop putting Ron Paul links on my 'recommended' page already. Seriously. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62tby/comments/c02nn5k Have YOU used the search function in the last month? It works perfectly. ==== If a teen buys cinema ticket for his date, he will go to prison for "paying a fee for attempted sex with a minor" under a new German law (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62t4i/comments/c02nl1q That would have made a great headline: "New law forces German teens to go Dutch" ==== Where Are All the Qualified Programmers? (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62t0j/comments/c02nkt1 Try the niche job boards like http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/ or Techcrunch's job board. ==== Arctic Sea Ice Re-Freezing at Record Pace (score: -1) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/62t2f/comments/c02nikw I've been waiting for years for them to do another 4-door M3. Now if only I could afford the beast... :) ==== Comment karma is imminent, says spez (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62s1p/comments/c02nea3 Except the people who submit interesting opposing viewpoints and get modded down... ==== Handbook of Applied Cryptography (entire book now free) (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62q9c/comments/c02ne88 Yeah, the logo thing has been a beef with many for a while. Funny enough, it used to be the other way around, and we got just as many complaints then about it being backwards and illogical. But don't worry, it'll probably change pretty soon. ==== Handbook of Applied Cryptography (entire book now free) (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62q9c/comments/c02ne6r It's intentional. Each community can have their own discussion about the story that way. For example, there are a lot of stories that are applicable to both the business community and the politics community, but each will have their own discussion on it. ==== Comment karma is imminent, says spez (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62s1p/comments/c02ne6d That's one of the reasons we haven't exposed comment karma yet. We don't want to dissuade people from commenting. ==== Best way to save the planet is to impose a tax of US$ 4,500 when a baby is born, and between US$300 - US$700 annually thereafter - Medical expert (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62qif/comments/c02ncf4 The beautiful side effect of this would be that only the rich could afford to have lots of kids, and I'm willing to bet that rich kids use a lot more resources than poor ones. ==== "I'll just have a salad, I'm trying to eat healthy." (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62r0v/comments/c02nbrv At least do the full quote so it makes sense: > Dupea: I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast. > Waitress: No substitutions. > Dupea: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes? > Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two - a plain omelette. It comes with cottage fries and rolls. > Dupea: Yeah, I know what it comes with. But it's not what I want. > Waitress: Well, I'll come back when you make up your mind. > Dupea: Wait a minute. I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes on the plate, a cup of coffee, and a side order of wheat toast. > Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast...an English muffin or a coffee roll. > Dupea: What do you mean you don't make side orders of toast? You make sandwiches, don't you? > Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager? > Dupea: ...You've got bread and a toaster of some kind? > Waitress: I don't make the rules. > Dupea: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelette, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee. > Waitress: A number two, chicken sal san, hold the butter, the lettuce and the mayonnaise. And a cup of coffee. Anything else? > Dupea: Yeah. Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules. > Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh? > Dupea: I want you to hold it between your knees. ==== Handbook of Applied Cryptography (entire book now free) (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62q9c/comments/c02nbhi Because you submitted it to the programming subreddit, and the other one was submitted to the main reddit. ==== Handbook of Applied Cryptography (entire book now free) (score: 6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62q9c/comments/c02nb8h Yes, at least a year ago (probably more): http://reddit.com/info/7cw3/comments/ ==== Biblical images, Google Earth-style (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62paa/comments/c02nawk > David & Goliath would be a tiny Jew and a dead giant in the middle of a crowd. Now THAT would be something I'd like to see on Google Maps! ==== Biblical images, Google Earth-style (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62paa/comments/c02nam9 They managed to catch the Jews running across the Red Sea by chance... ==== Microsoft will give you a free copy of Vista Ultimate or Office 2007. Catch: They get to spy on you for three months. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62qqs/comments/c02nakn Clearly you missed the joke. But I guess that makes sense for a spellchecking bot. ==== Microsoft will give you a free copy of Vista Ultimate or Office 2007. Catch: They get to spy on you for three months. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62qqs/comments/c02naie Actually, the use of contractions is considered colloquial and is not supposed to be used in written english. But thanks for playing. :) ==== (graph) Average Compensation: College Professors vs. College Football Coaches.. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62lrd/comments/c02n0vc Yes, but they don't reach into the same millions that athletic department does, and furthermore, if they get a grant that large, chances are it is because they are doing research that is expensive, and all of that money will be used for equipment and (a small) staff to do just that research. In other words, they aren't brining in money that is to be spread around like the football coaches are. Don't get me wrong, I think professors are very important and the research money they bring in is what keeps the University going, but comparing the salaries of 30 top coaches to all professors nationwide isn't exactly fair. ==== Want a Mac? The IRS Wants to Help (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62n0r/comments/c02n08q If your accountant didn't immediately think Section 179 when you told her that you got some new stuff for the business, then you might want to find a new accountant. That's pretty much the first thing you go to. ==== (graph) Average Compensation: College Professors vs. College Football Coaches.. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62lrd/comments/c02mxze Yeah, they pretty much operate independently. Actually, they help the school in a number of ways, because often times the athletic program will pay for building renovations that also benefit academic departments. And of course, they pay the tuition of all of the star athletes, so in a sense they are taking some of that TV money and putting it back into the academic side of the school. Don't feel bad, I used to hate the idea of the football program "stealing" money from my tax dollars and from academics, until I learned how it really works. ==== (graph) Average Compensation: College Professors vs. College Football Coaches.. (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62lrd/comments/c02mxxc Did you bring in millions of dollars of revenue to the university each year? ==== (graph) Average Compensation: College Professors vs. College Football Coaches.. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62lrd/comments/c02mxvt They are paid entirely by the boosters and the revenue that comes in from TV advertising during televised games. Most of the conferences also have a revenue sharing agreement, so even if your team is never on TV, your school still gets a piece of the money paid to the other schools in your division that are TV. So don't worry, your tax dollars are far from paying for these sports. ==== (graph) Average Compensation: College Professors vs. College Football Coaches.. (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62lrd/comments/c02mxui All of the programs that pay coaches over one million a year not only bring in enough revenue to pay for themselves, but enough to subsidize all of the other sports at the school. I used to agree with you that it was an aberration to have sports at the school, until I realized that in a way it is similar to educational pursuits -- in both sports and education, your goal is to improve yourself and be the best you can be. To do that, you go to college in the hopes of surrounding yourself with others who are doing the same thing. In the case of school athletes, they are going to a school in the hopes of surrounding themselves with others who will help them improve themselves. ==== Dear Reddit gods: Please create a "talked about" link up next to the hot and new links, and only put those that have the most comments there. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ksg/comments/c02mwvq Controversy is based on up vs. down votes, not comments. ==== Obi Wan Kenobi buys a used car (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62jr7/comments/c02mt6k I do! As a matter of fact, you reminded me of how much I liked it, and lo and behold, I didn't have to fish through my old video archive to find it, because it's on youtube now. I love this new internet stuff. :) ==== Reddit Broken? Refresh the page to see random results! (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62jtz/comments/c02mruc The Browse and Hot sections are different -- it's just that the default sort on Browse is "hot". Change the options on the right and you'll get different results. Also, if you want to see random articles from reddit, check out reddit.com/random (or use the Serendipity bookmarklet) ==== Obi Wan Kenobi buys a used car (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62jr7/comments/c02mqfc It's stuff like this that makes me wish we could get something other than BBC America here in the states. ==== 4chan post triggers $100,000 manhunt (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62iop/comments/c02mmya I was about to post the exact same comment. They really need to watch out for those comma splices. ==== Google now has a recipe search!?!?!?!? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62hqr/comments/c02mixk > If your community is especially progressive, rice may be substituted for the potatoes. ==== Reddit: Don't turn into Digg. As you get more popular, don't let cabals manipulate the front page. Add some kind of function forcing the lazy among us to consider new submissions. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62eqc/comments/c02mdmw What exactly do you propose as a fix? ==== ARM Bailout Unfair to Responsible Borrowers (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62f9s/comments/c02mdk9 > So you'd rather have no airlines or triple ticket prices, double food bills and no farmers and relatives with life savings lost? Airlines: Southwest Airlines did not get any bailout from the government, and actually prospered while the other airlines were being bailed out. If ticket prices went up that high, another airline will come in and take their place (like Southwest did). Food: When New Zealand eliminated their farm subsidies, their methods got much more efficient, and prices actually dropped. And don't kid yourself about farmers losing their life savings. It is the huge corporate farms that benefit from the subsidies, not the little guys. ==== ARM Bailout Unfair to Responsible Borrowers (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62f9s/comments/c02mdi4 > I'm just not sure why helping prevent an economic meltdown is any worse than farm subsidies, airline bailouts, savings and loan rescues, funding of 2 very questionable wars in two countries or any of the other financial fucks ups our government participates in. It is no worse than those things, it is equally stupid. I don't think we should be doing any of those other things either. ==== ARM Bailout Unfair to Responsible Borrowers (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62f9s/comments/c02mdh4 Everyone who is going to get hurt knew or should have known the risks associated with home ownership. Just because you chose to take a smart loan, you still took the risk of buying an investment that could go down in value with leveraged money. Furthermore, you did it at a time when other people were doing risky things that you should have known could lower your value. That's the chance you took. I feel bad that you are going to get screwed by other people's stupidity, but again, that is the risk you signed up for. ==== The World's 7 Creepiest Places [PICS] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62flr/comments/c02mcpx That really only happens on Winchester Blvd. :) ==== Ask Reddit: Have the bots taken over Programming Reddit? (score: -1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62epn/comments/c02mcga Not if you downvote stuff you don't like... ==== Ask Reddit: Have the bots taken over Programming Reddit? (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62epn/comments/c02mcg0 Nope, no bots. Just a lot of programmers who don't like Ruby. ==== Red-light camera ticket damages local man's credit rating without him even being aware that he had been ticketed. City doesn't care, counts its money. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ffk/comments/c02mbx8 He should take the loan at the higher rate, and then sue the city for difference in cost. ==== Why so many Open Source projects start well and end up in such a mess (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62dwr/comments/c02mbes As a side note, it is interesting that both of the examples you chose (Emacs and Gimp) are written in lisp... ==== Nyko Introduces Wireless Wii Nunchuk (score: 1) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/62eg8/comments/c02maja Well, I've had a few occasions where I got tangled up in the cord or it whipped me in the face playing games that require a lot of fast motions, but still, I'm not sure wireless is THAT necessary. ==== ARM Bailout Unfair to Responsible Borrowers (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62f9s/comments/c02ma9y That would be like complaining when some company has bad earnings and then puts out a report, and you own some of the stock. Yes, someone else's bad decision is screwing you, but you knew that risk when you bought it. ==== as the temperature of lesbians approaches absolute zero, they cease to exist (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62dra/comments/c02ma2s I had no idea what it meant either. Some google sleuthing turned up this book: Great Lies to Tell Small Kids I think it has to do with that. ==== Nyko Introduces Wireless Wii Nunchuk (score: 2) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/62eg8/comments/c02m8h5 Oh great. MORE batteries I need to charge. :) ==== 10 Hottest Girl Game Characters (score: 3) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/62ewu/comments/c02m8gq aka. "What lonely engineers think women look like." ==== Nintendo mulls pulling Wii TV ads (score: -1) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/62eq5/comments/c02m8g1 This is one of the best marketing campaigns ever! "Hey guys, I've got an idea. Let's keep flooding the market with press about how it is impossible to get a Wii, so everyone will want one more!" So far I've gotten 4 wii's, all at different times, and it hasn't been a problem at all. ==== DMV - "Fuck You" (pic) (score: 31) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ekf/comments/c02m7lq You know, this gives me an idea. Get someone who is really religious to submit an application for a plate with "FY" in it. Then when the letter comes back (if it is real) have them sue the crap out of the DMV for offending them. Then take a 10% fee from the winnings for suggesting the idea to them. edit: Before you ask, the reason I chose someone "real religious" is because a heathen like me would never win that lawsuit. ==== Want to know what today's (or any day's) Reddit logo means? Here is the explanation for every one since Reddit started. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bjx/comments/c02m51f I reposted it on purpose in response to the front page article that got over 2000 points, since some of our newer users did not appear to be familiar with the logo archive. ==== Please reddit, add support for OpenID 2.0 (score: 6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62c74/comments/c02m4xw Have you tried using search in the last month? It is running a brand new backend now. ==== Just amazing, and truly touching (can we get this to the first page, for a change) (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62cu5/comments/c02m4wa Technically no, but don't you have to take a test that is only offered in English to get citizenship? ==== McDonald's ads hit new low...school report cards (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62by2/comments/c02m1m6 I never said they only had moral intentions. I just said they were trying. I agree that in the end it is just another way to increase profits and possibly hook a few more kids on the Golden Arches, but again, it is because the school district let them do it, and probably because the state was screwing the district. ==== Want to know what today's (or any day's) Reddit logo means? Here is the explanation for every one since Reddit started. (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bjx/comments/c02m1hx Well, it's served off of Amazon, so it doesn't really affect us, but our finance department might not like it so much. :) Also, he only updates it once or twice a day at the most, so you would probably be safe scraping the html every 4-6 hours. ==== 7 of the coolest fire stations on earth (PICS) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62c5d/comments/c02m14v Fantastic: > "Down the street you can find the diner where that lottery movie was filmed. Where that cop gives the waitress a lottery ticket for a tip. The one with that girl. You know, the Puerto Rican with the tits." ==== Want to know what today's (or any day's) Reddit logo means? Here is the explanation for every one since Reddit started. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bjx/comments/c02m13a I was not at that party. The reason I made him do that is because we didn't want the Conde execs asking why I wasn't in the pic (and that other guy was). Actually, the first time you and I were ever in the same place at the same time was the Boston meetup. ==== The Programmer Dress Code (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/62ahp/comments/c02m11p This was the picture on my security badge at the first place I worked: badge pic ==== Want to know what today's (or any day's) Reddit logo means? Here is the explanation for every one since Reddit started. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bjx/comments/c02m0oo You probably have AdBlock on. :) ==== Want to know what today's (or any day's) Reddit logo means? Here is the explanation for every one since Reddit started. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bjx/comments/c02m0o9 It's funny you mentioned that. Alexis used that graphic at a presentation to the CondeNast execs, and I made him go in and add me into it. :) ==== McDonald's ads hit new low...school report cards (score: 25) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62by2/comments/c02m0kf I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but if you look at it from McDonald's point of view, they are trying to do something moral -- encourage kids to get good grades. ==== Wonder why Obesity is a problem? - Energy-dense munchies cost on average $1.76 per 1,000 kcal, compared with $18.16 per 1,000 kcal for low-energy but nutritious foods. (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bzt/comments/c02m066 A couple of paragraphs later, near the bottom, this is explained: > But it’s easier to overeat junk food, Dr. Drewnowski adds, both because it tastes good and because eaters often must consume a greater volume in order to feel satisfied. Still, even those who consume twice as much in junk food calories are still spending far less than healthy eaters. ==== McDonald's ads hit new low...school report cards (score: 54) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62by2/comments/c02lzz9 It is amusing that people blame McDonald's. Look closely at the fine print: "This report card incentive is a joint business partnership with McDonald's and The School Board of Seminole County, FL." That to me says that this school district is desperate for money that they had to partner with McDonald's, which presumably is paying the school district for the privilege of their brand being on the envelope. If anyone is to blame, it should be the State of Florida or at least the school board, but not McDonald's. ==== Want to know what today's (or any day's) Reddit logo means? Here is the explanation for every one since Reddit started. (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bjx/comments/c02ly61 That is very cool. Now you can change it to link directly to the archive images, and save on some bandwidth. :) ==== Google maps catches high school prank (pic) (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62bcg/comments/c02lxqq Looks like there are some "drips" from the tip... ==== Ask Reddit: Can we have a headline preview or editing feature so we can avoid/fix our own errors without deleting and resubmitting? (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ato/comments/c02lxc5 You bring up a good point. Perhaps we should disable comment editing too. :) ==== Ask Reddit: Can we have a headline preview or editing feature so we can avoid/fix our own errors without deleting and resubmitting? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ato/comments/c02lx79 Hmm... I use safari and it checks input boxes too. Can't say for certain on the other browsers. ==== Ask Reddit: Can we have a headline preview or editing feature so we can avoid/fix our own errors without deleting and resubmitting? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ato/comments/c02lx70 If we only allowed you to change the headline in the first 5 minutes, there wouldn't be many (if any) saves, etc. and you keep the karma on deleted articles, good or bad. The whole reason you can't edit titles is because you shouldn't be able to edit a title after someone has saved it, or voted on it, etc. ==== Ask Reddit: Can we have a headline preview or editing feature so we can avoid/fix our own errors without deleting and resubmitting? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ato/comments/c02lwze Most modern browsers have spell check on forms built in. What browser are you using? ==== Ask Reddit: Can we have a headline preview or editing feature so we can avoid/fix our own errors without deleting and resubmitting? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ato/comments/c02lwz1 This feature is unnecessary. You can just delete the article and resubmit it if you don't like the title (or if your first title didn't do well). ==== Ask Reddit: Can we have a headline preview or editing feature so we can avoid/fix our own errors without deleting and resubmitting? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/62ato/comments/c02lwyp Wouldn't this be the same as just deleting the article and submitting it again with a correct headline? ==== Amazing Pictures of Planes from the 2007 San Francisco Fleet Week (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/628la/comments/c02lugm They were uzzing the reddit office during their practice runs the day before. That was pretty cool. ==== The REAL Cost Per Win for College Football Coaches (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/629um/comments/c02ltxn It would be interesting if they actually switched the coaches compensation to only pay them when they win. ==== Digg Jumps The Shark (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6293j/comments/c02ltvn Did this blogger think that he has no need to grammar check and spell check his blogs, now that Digg jumped the shark? ==== Tesla X-Mas Tree (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/627vw/comments/c02ltua You mean this: http://reddit.com/info/61y4u/comments/ ? It's the second link on this search: http://reddit.com/search?q=tesla+tree&sort=ups Why do you think reddit search is broken? ==== Abstinence-only sex education beginning to pay off: Teen births up for first time in 15 years (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/629ep/comments/c02ltm5 Oh come on. You know most of the fathers just took off... ==== Please Don't Steal My Focus! (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/628t3/comments/c02ls8s I use Adium on the Mac. I think you have to change a setting to make it not steal focus, but I don't really remember. ==== Please Don't Steal My Focus! (score: 21) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/628t3/comments/c02lrkh That is awesome. Luckily, my IM client is set to not steal focus. ==== Reddit, Please make use of coralCDN to save the sites that can't take the full force of being popular on reddit just append .nyud.net to each link (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/624vp/comments/c02lq2w Maybe that is the problem. Every time I test it, it is horribly slow, but I guess it needs a lot more people to be useful. ==== Python [xkcd] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6267e/comments/c02lo66 My python-mode for some reason was using tabs, which I had to override with the .emacs file. I never really went back to figure out why. ==== Look Closely at Today' s Reddit Logo...And send your "compliments" to Alexis (kn0thing). (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/627i1/comments/c02lmuo > notice the alien is holding onto a pipe of some kind.... I thought the same thing at first, until Chris pointed out that he is leaning on the "r" in reddit ==== Python [xkcd] (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6267e/comments/c02lml4 Ok, Mr. Pedantic. :) Yes, it enforces "indentation level", which is what makes it easy to read other people's code. Usually when someone says, "In Python, whitespace is syntactically important.", what they mean is, "In Python, indentation with whitespace is syntactically important.". Thus, people say, "Python enforces whitespace." ==== Python [xkcd] (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6267e/comments/c02lk3y I don't know, reddit is the biggest Python thing I've worked on. :) One thing would be to just translate all the whitespace when you do a checkout. If everyone did that, then it wouldn't really matter, I suppose. Although things could still get messy. Another option is to have whoever is in charge of merges into the main repository dictate which type of whitespace will be used. ==== The Blonde Map of Europe « strange maps (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/624fk/comments/c02lk1o You know, I thought that was going to be spam, so I clicked the link to make sure, and lo and behold, it wasn't! Nice work there. ==== Python [xkcd] (score: 28) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6267e/comments/c02ljyd Here at team reddit, it went something like this: Spez: jedberg, all the code you check in uses tabs instead of 4 spaces, and it screws things up. me: well, all the other code uses spaces, so I'll change my .emacs file now I guess. I guess the real answer is the project will eventually converge on the dominant method, because checking in and checking out code with different whitespace can really screw things up, especially in the highly nested structures. ==== 20-year-old named Ryan Holle lent his Chevrolet Metro to a friend. That decision sent him to jail for life. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/623qb/comments/c02ljrm Although I know where you are coming from, even rich white kids get convicted via the felony murder rule sometimes. ==== Python [xkcd] (score: 39) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6267e/comments/c02ljbv I'll admit I had a similar experience my first time using Python. And the whitespace thing really does help when you are trying to look at other people's code. ==== ASK REDDIT: Why is it that comment points don't influence the karma score? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/624e7/comments/c02lgtl So far, the best conclusion is that there are a lot of users who only comment, and don't submit. They have very high comment karma, and sometimes 0 link karma. ==== ASK REDDIT: Why is it that comment points don't influence the karma score? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/624e7/comments/c02lfp7 We store comment karma scores, but we aren't sure yet what we want to do with them. We wanted to see what they show us first. ==== Reddit, Please make use of coralCDN to save the sites that can't take the full force of being popular on reddit just append .nyud.net to each link (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/624vp/comments/c02lfny nyud.net is a good idea in principle, but it is just too slow. ==== The Blonde Map of Europe « strange maps (score: 52) ==== http://reddit.com/info/624fk/comments/c02ldue You know, using Comic Sans makes it really hard to take any webpage seriously. ==== Facebook tracks users even when they're logged out, and without telling them (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/622gq/comments/c02lcxv Yes, I work for Reddit, which is owned by CondeNet, which has a commercial relationship with Facebook. However, that wouldn't change my opinion, and I thought it was common knowledge and didn't need to be explained. What you are missing is that the Facebook PR people do not know how to explain to the unwashed masses what Javascript is and how it works with Beacon, and how it is the other site owner's fault that they did not respect their own users' privacy. I don't blame them, since clearly most of the developers don't get it either. Here is how the beacon works: The site owner includes some javascript from Facebook, which sends them a bunch of data, including your cookie. This is clearly explained in the developer docs. Now, the naive site owner simply includes this javascript on every page rendering (like Hotwire). The right way to do Beacon would be to ask your users if they want this on, and THEN include the javascript only after they had opted in on the 3rd party site. This is how Reddit was going to do it. You would have had to check a box in your preferences before we ever even include the javascript, because we understand how Javascript works and how if we included it every time, then Facebook would get a lot of data that you don't want them to have. ==== Dear Reddit: Thank you! The grandma boobs finally drove me to install AdBlock Plus, and it is great! (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/623fc/comments/c02lbmb There were 7 parties so far, with more to come. Not all of the submissions make it to the top. ==== Facebook tracks users even when they're logged out, and without telling them (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/622gq/comments/c02l7xt For the record, this is hotwire's fault, not Facebook. Hotwire (like many other sites) clearly don't understand how cookies and Javascript work. Any site worth it's salt would not put the Facebook JS on their page until their users have opted into the service. ==== Oh, the Irony. Facebook Founder wants Privacy (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61zjp/comments/c02l2dl Are you aware of the fact that Facebook is a private company? ==== Personal finance elegantly explained in five business card sized drawings (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61w38/comments/c02kvg6 I think the better formula is "spend 90% of what you earn, after you've finished school and gotten your first mortgage". At that point the rule works pretty well. ==== Anybody else agree that BREAKING does not make you want to look at the story? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61uo3/comments/c02kmqn Nobody appreciates T-Bone Stankus anymore! ==== Ask reddit: What programming languages do *not* use American English spelling? (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/61qfj/comments/c02k56b Well, with a little tweaking, Lisp can be in pretty much any language you want. And I'm sure that Python and Ruby have libraries for it. :) ==== The beginning of the end for the RIAA? EMI to cut RIAA funding. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61qku/comments/c02k53x Arstechnica has a good writeup: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071128-report-emi-looking-to-slash-funding-for-riaa-ifpi.html ==== Google says spammers are giving up (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61p5n/comments/c02k4qi Or it means the spammers have decided that Google's spam filtering is really good, and stopped sending as much spam to gmail accounts. ==== Having solved all crime, NYC police now leave wallets, bags, and purses around and watch to see if you pick it up and walk past a cop. Then they arrest you. Entrapment much? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61nro/comments/c02jxjh > Entrapment is one of two things: ... or by breaking [the law] themselves. An example of the second would be breaking into a burning building to save some people, and then arrest you for following their example when you help out. This brings up an interesting question: If a cop passes me on the highway at 15 mph over the speed limit without his lights/sirens, and then I follow him, if he tries to give me a ticket, can I claim entrapment, because I was following his example? ==== Dr. Slowe vs. Darth Edberg -- Shirts are back in stock! (score: 3) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/61nns/comments/c02jxh0 I've also never considered giving myself a tag line, but now I feel compelled to have business cards made that say "bearded yeti geek" ==== Dr. Slowe vs. Darth Edberg -- Shirts are back in stock! (score: 4) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/61nns/comments/c02jxf3 I think we're geeks. Nerd seems to apply only to people who are socially awkward, whereas geek is someone who is smart and socially awkward. At least, that seems to be the general net consensus. I guess we should ask our better halves... ==== Dr. Slowe vs. Darth Edberg -- Shirts are back in stock! (score: 3) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/61nns/comments/c02jxen The bearded yeti geek (I've never been described that way before). ==== Dr. Slowe vs. Darth Edberg -- Shirts are back in stock! (score: 5) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/61nns/comments/c02jx7r But it was more fun when Alexis came in and said, "Hey guys, can you hold these lightsabers while I take a picture." ==== Dr. Slowe vs. Darth Edberg -- Shirts are back in stock! (score: 1) ==== http://ads.reddit.com/info/61nns/comments/c02jx7i That would be me and keysersosa. Why do you ask? ==== Nasa outlines manned Mars vision (score: 2) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/61n7j/comments/c02jwaa All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace. ==== This guy offers his reddit clone for free while others ask for money ;-) (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/61ebs/comments/c02j6u1 Have you used the search in the last month? It was upgraded to a whole new system and works much better than before. ==== Like evolution and climate change, "grade inflation" is not "just a theory" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61e5b/comments/c02j5xd Yeah, but if you get into Berkeley, it means you probably took a bunch of AP classes, which all get 5 point A's. Also, Cal will count any work you did at the college level before graduating high school with the same 5 point scale, so it is pretty easy to get a 4.1 on Berkeley's scale. To put it another way, more than 1/2 of the kids admitted to Berkeley each year have more than a 4.1 ==== Like evolution and climate change, "grade inflation" is not "just a theory" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61e5b/comments/c02j5x2 It's not possible. Some schools will give AP classes 5 points for an A, 4 points for a B, etc. However, I've never heard of any school giving 7 point A's, which is what would be required to get a 6.5 average. ==== Dear Web Developers: Allow email addresses with '+' (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61b49/comments/c02iyu9 Well, it's been a while, but one that I do remember is the case of being on the local machine. For example, on my mailserver, "jedberg" is a valid email address. IIRC, that regex won't validate against just a username (no @ sign). Maybe if you give me a few days I can come up with more, but let's just say that the cases were rare enough that it didn't come up often, which is why that regex is a good start. ==== Dear Web Developers: Allow email addresses with '+' (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61b49/comments/c02iw25 It wasn't ego massaging, it was just listing why I was qualified to make the statement. :) Last time I left the same comment, people kept saying I didn't know what I was talking about, so I though this time I would list my qualifications. ==== Dear Web Developers: Allow email addresses with '+' (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61b49/comments/c02ivvr Just so you know, that regex doesn't catch all valid email addresses. As someone who has admined email for more than 10+ years, and worked at Sendmail, and talked to most of the guys who wrote RFC822 and its followups, I can tell you there is only one way to verify an email address: send an email to it and see if they reply. Although, that regex is a good start. :) ==== Vote up if you're not in a country that celebrate Thanksgiving! (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/618vd/comments/c02ip0k I don't see any Ron Paul stories. Of course, I have the politics subreddit turned off... ==== Vote up if you're not in a country that celebrate Thanksgiving! (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/618vd/comments/c02ip06 Points on a story aren't displayed until 2 hours after their submission. What we really need is for more people to vote on the new page. ==== Tell Reddit: Can you please fix the hidden comment function? Hiding a -5 comment is good, a whole thread because of one comment is bad. Vote up if you agree. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61834/comments/c02ioya That doesn't make any sense. If you want to see the replies, don't you have to expand the low scoring comment to see what it said anyway? ==== Tell Reddit: Can you please fix the hidden comment function? Hiding a -5 comment is good, a whole thread because of one comment is bad. Vote up if you agree. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61834/comments/c02iovc Why don't you just set your preferences to turn off hiding of low scoring comments? ==== Tell Reddit: Can you please fix the hidden comment function? Hiding a -5 comment is good, a whole thread because of one comment is bad. Vote up if you agree. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61834/comments/c02iou1 In your preferences you can turn off "load more comments" by setting how many comments to load by default, or you can just click on the thing on the right that says all comments. ==== Tell Reddit: Can you please fix the hidden comment function? Hiding a -5 comment is good, a whole thread because of one comment is bad. Vote up if you agree. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/61834/comments/c02iotu In your preferences you can turn off "load more comments" by setting how many comments to load by default, or you can just click on the thing on the right that says all comments. ==== Oh the humanity! Zeppelins to make a return - Would you fly on one? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/615j2/comments/c02idsi Probably because it will be stored at NASA Ames research facility. ==== Facebook ruins Christmas (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/615mx/comments/c02idqy They just started it a couple of weeks ago, and only a few sites have it. It also appears that the notification piece is broken right now, because I had one in my news feed and never authorized it, and that was from a site I knew had Facebook Beacon installed. ==== Credit Card Processing Fess Up 117% in Last 5 Years (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/614ml/comments/c02idim That doesn't help you at all. Even if you never use a credit card, you still have to help pay the fees talked about in the article, because the vendor is pricing their goods to account for them. In case you didn't read the article, it is about the fees that the CC companies charge vendors, not consumers. ==== Credit Card Processing Fess Up 117% in Last 5 Years (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/614ml/comments/c02idig That doesn't help you at all. Even if you never use a credit card, you still have to help pay the fees talked about in the article, because the vendor is pricing their goods to account for them. In case you didn't read the article, it is about the fees that the CC companies charge vendors, not consumers. ==== Wal-Mart paid medical bills for brain-damaged woman then sued for $470,000 it had spent (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/614cs/comments/c02ibx3 > Two years ago, the retail giant's health plan sued the Shanks for the $470,000 it had spent on her medical care. A federal judge ruled last year in Wal-Mart's favor, backed by an appeals-court decision in August. They interchange "Wal-Mart" and "Wal-Mart's health plan" when writing the article. ==== Wal-Mart paid medical bills for brain-damaged woman then sued for $470,000 it had spent (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/614cs/comments/c02ibqg No, Wal-Mart got the $470,000, which it then had to turn over to the insurance company. ==== Wal-Mart paid medical bills for brain-damaged woman then sued for $470,000 it had spent (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/614cs/comments/c02iba5 Yes, that is the point. That the linked article told a fairly well balanced story, but the headline from yesterday spun it one way, and this headline spins it the other way. ==== Wal-Mart paid medical bills for brain-damaged woman then sued for $470,000 it had spent (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/614cs/comments/c02ial7 Ah, but this headline is spun in the other direction (and tells the other side of the story). ==== 18-Year-Old (who looks at least 30) Kathleen Holtz Passes the California Bar (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/613un/comments/c02iadj Better picture here: http://www.troygould.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=people.personDetail&id=10584 ==== 18-Year-Old (who looks at least 30) Kathleen Holtz Passes the California Bar (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/613un/comments/c02iadc I went to Cal State L.A. when I was 12. It is a special program they run where they give SAT's to 6th graders. If you get better than 1000, they let you in for summer school, and if you do well, you can go full time. I opted out of the full time program, because everyone I met who did the program was a little "odd" to say the least. ==== 18-Year-Old (who looks at least 30) Kathleen Holtz Passes the California Bar (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/613un/comments/c02iacw There is a better picture here: http://www.troygould.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=people.personDetail&id=10584 ==== Neil Diamond Reveals The Inspiration For Song "Sweet Caroline" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6122m/comments/c02i4w2 Ummm, he's lying to get some free press and get to perform at her birthday party, and she wasn't really the inspiration? ==== Man uses Wii calendar to catch cheating wife (score: 1) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/611i2/comments/c02i4md I think you meant they played with his wii-wii ==== The Computer that Swore (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/610j3/comments/c02i2ne You can play a similar game with reddit story ID's. Luckily, someone already did all the hard work: http://booktour.com/readers/reddit ==== Predator's only weakness? Crap video game adaptations! [video] (score: 2) ==== http://gaming.reddit.com/info/610ug/comments/c02i15j Because the Predator doesn't hide like a pansy when there is an alien to be killed! ==== 10 Chick Flicks That Most Men Will Watch (score: 1) ==== http://entertainment.reddit.com/info/60xpv/comments/c02hwf2 I like how the snuck in Top Gun... ==== Firefox 3.0 to be shipped with 8 out of 10 bugs not fixed (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/60pfc/comments/c02hj14 http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9802922-39.html ==== Firefox 3.0 to be shipped with 8 out of 10 bugs not fixed (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/60pfc/comments/c02hdsu Because it IS a commercial product, in a sense. They make tens of millions of dollars from that little search box. If they don't keep releasing new versions, people might switch to other more "recent" browsers, and then they would start to lose their revenue. ==== No rain at recess: An entire school grounds built inside a cave. (7 pics) (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60qpl/comments/c02h9cd I think it means "in cave", but my chinese isn't very good. ==== goating techniques (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/60n3v/comments/c02h71y My favorite mac trick was to make a small program that generated an innocuous "bomb" error that convinced the user to just give up and walk away, lest they permanently damage the machine. ==== xkcd: 1337: Part 5 (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60ptb/comments/c02h6z8 But the real question is, is this Bobby Tables' mom? ==== Obama Would Make Comcast's Interference with BitTorrent Illegal, Aide Says (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60ppw/comments/c02h6yk There is already a suit pending in court, so in may already be illegal, depending on what the courts decide. However, it still makes me happy that he is saying it. ==== Girls get extra help while boys get Ritalin (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60ord/comments/c02h6pz Well, since I was a linguistic researcher, I will clarify my statement. What I meant by "mythical" was that other researchers still haven't fully formed the proto-language that the distant root word you are referring to comes from (Proto-Indo-European), and they aren't even sure if it exists. See this wikipedia page for a good overview. ==== Girls get extra help while boys get Ritalin (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60ord/comments/c02h6hx This is true, but barring the mythical Indo-European proto-language, it is a coincidence. :) ==== 1 Awesome Gmail tip You Don’t Know about. Seriously. (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60p7s/comments/c02h6hk Yeah, I do that too. It is really funny when you call a company and ask them why they sold your name, and they say, "Oh no, we don't do that." And then you say, "Yes you do, because I gave you an email address that was unique to only you guys, and now I'm getting stock pump and dump scams to that address. " ==== FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Liberty Dollar office in Evansville (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60nq2/comments/c02h6gz All I was doing was answering Criminoboy's question, not making commentary on the content of the article. But since you asked... It's a story about a government agency abusing their power to raid a company that sells "Ron Paul Dollars". Sounds pretty political to me. ==== 1 Awesome Gmail tip You Don’t Know about. Seriously. (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60p7s/comments/c02h5n8 I have an even better method that I started using after I realized most sites don't take the +. I set up a new domain name, token.host.com, and then set up my mail program so that any "username" is valid. Then it forwards the message on to my real email address with the "username" in the subject, which makes it easy for my spam filters. For example, spammer@token.host.com will get forwarded to realaddress@host.com, and the subject will start with [token]. Of course, you have to control your dns and mail server to make this work. ==== Girls get extra help while boys get Ritalin (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60ord/comments/c02h5mp You should tell your teacher that she needs to study her word origins. The word "man", meaning "person" is derived from the latin "human". The word "man", meaning "male" is derived from the German "mann". It is a complete (and unfortunate) coincidence that they are spelled and sound the same. ==== FBI and Secret Service agents raided the Liberty Dollar office in Evansville (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60nq2/comments/c02h5kh People are downmodding it because politics articles should be in the politics subreddit. ==== Daily Show writer explains writers' strike -- if digital content isn't worth anything, how come Viacom is suing YouTube for $1 billion? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60oby/comments/c02h445 > OK, I don't get paid for how long my computer programs are used by my employer so I have little sympathy You should ask for stock options. Then you would get paid for how long your computer programs are used by your employer. ==== Ajax, Browsers, Running Out of Time (score: 6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/60o16/comments/c02h2fa Very cool, thanks for the tip. Perhaps I'll give Opera another look. ==== Ajax, Browsers, Running Out of Time (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/60o16/comments/c02h1wk Since you work for Opera, you are probably a good person to ask this. Here is my setup: I use Camino for the Google apps (gmail, reader, etc.), and leave that open from login to logout (about a month at a time). I use Safari for my daily browsing, and restart it about once a week. I use Firefox for development, mainly because it has Firebug and session-saver for when I make it crash. Can Opera replace any of these, or somehow allow me to use one less browser? I'll admit, I really only use Opera for some final testing when doing development, so I'm not too familiar with it. ==== Cribs of the '08 Presidential Candidates [pics] (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60m8c/comments/c02gycn Which I think only further proves my point, that the house is not all that big. By the way, my friend does Presidential protection for the Secret Service, and they don't usually live in the house. They live in their own houses and work in the President's house, and usually they don't go inside. Only the ex-President's private staff usually goes inside. ==== Cribs of the '08 Presidential Candidates [pics] (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60m8c/comments/c02gxqf That's really not a lot if you think about it. A typical 4 bed/3 bath has 11 rooms (4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, den) ==== Tinyprints will donate $50,000 to children’s charities if they get 50,000 clicks. Let’s make it happen! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60kte/comments/c02gugq The permalinks still work, they just don't show up in listings. ==== Tinyprints will donate $50,000 to children’s charities if they get 50,000 clicks. Let’s make it happen! (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60kte/comments/c02gsia Users can delete their old submissions, including ones that earned a lot of points. I don't know why you would do that, but some people do. ==== Tinyprints will donate $50,000 to children’s charities if they get 50,000 clicks. Let’s make it happen! (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60kte/comments/c02gsi9 Users can delete their old submissions, including ones that earned a lot of points. I don't know why you would do that, but some people do. ==== Lets get this straight: Writers are already paid for DVDs the same as VHS. Here's what they *are* asking for. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/60ca9/comments/c02g4fm Here is a semi-related question: Can a writer/director (like Woody Allen, for example) who is a member of both guilds, still write new material for himself to produce? ==== the super rich simply don't view education as the be-all-end-all, mostly because their wealth and connections can already open doors for their kids that the less wealthy have to struggle to pry open. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/604a2/comments/c02fjut > I'm waiting to see when the first university has the balls to abolish adcoms entirely and admit applicants systematically based on their numbers. The University of California does exactly this. they take your SAT score, your SAT II scores and your GPA * 1000, and then add it all up. Then they rank everyone in order of that number. The first 50% of the open Freshman spaces go to whomever is at the top of that list. They only read essays and such after that point, in the hopes of getting in kids that will add to the campus community, but didn't do as well in school. ==== Newborn Twin Girl Exploits Loophole in Daylight Savings Time (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/602vo/comments/c02fhba Luckily, I know that it is coming. When I was in college it wasn't an issue, because I was usually still up. Now that I work, I just sort of go to bed early and keep the phone nearby. ==== Reno 911 cops patrol the WGA picket line in character (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6037s/comments/c02f73f In LA, a lot more people know about the Writers Guild of America that Windows Genuine Advantage. I should know -- I grew up there. ==== Newborn Twin Girl Exploits Loophole in Daylight Savings Time (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/602vo/comments/c02f4rh Wait, you mean your parents don't call you at the exact minute that you were born each year to celebrate your birthday? Because mine do. They learned it from the movie "City Slickers". Although, I knew the time I was born before that. My mom made a big deal about how early in the morning it was (2:08am) ==== Newborn Twin Girl Exploits Loophole in Daylight Savings Time (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/602vo/comments/c02f4h3 I'd like to hope the kids are smart enough to figure it out before that... ==== Vote up if you still agree "load more comments" stinks; breaks the flow of conversation and hides comments that are often quite good (reddit.com) (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/602q3/comments/c02f44x An easier way to find your comments is to go though your profile page, by clicking on your username in the upper right corner. Then you can load your comment in context. ==== Vote up if you still agree "load more comments" stinks; breaks the flow of conversation and hides comments that are often quite good (reddit.com) (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/602q3/comments/c02f3pz You might want to give search another try. It was completely replaced about 3 weeks ago. ==== Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/600x7/comments/c02f30o Ok, that was mildly amusing. :) ==== Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/600x7/comments/c02f2bu Not to feed the troll or anything, but why would Ron Paul advocate turning off politics on your hot page? That doesn't even make any sense. ==== Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/600x7/comments/c02f1jd I think your joke is getting old. If you don't wan to see Ron Paul stories, just turn off the politics subreddit in your preferences: http://reddit.com/prefs/subreddits ==== This is getting absurd: Canadian Dollar Passes $1.10 (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/601iq/comments/c02f1c9 I was in Canada last week, and all I heard on the financial news channels was doom and gloom about profits for Canadian companies being down due to the falling American dollar. That can't be good for the Canadian economy. ==== Reddit is getting real boring real fast... the same story remains #1 the entire day. Do something or you will lose a lot of support. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/6006h/comments/c02evjs Have you tried using search in the last 3 weeks? We put in a whole new search engine. ==== Ask Reddit: Where's the alien logo? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5zwhp/comments/c02du0l http://blog.reddit.com/2007/11/help-me-redditors-youre-my-only-hope.html ==== help me, redditors; you're my only hope (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5zujz/comments/c02dr77 How do you know it was in an easily accessible place? ==== Microsoft Hotmail Taken Over By Spammers (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5zg61/comments/c02caak Gmail has tags, which are like folders, but better, because the message can be in more than one folder that way. ==== Have you ever gotten a weird call from 718-123-2083? Because I just did, and apparently so have a lot of other people. Anyone know what's going on? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ywja/comments/c02c8cv I am still alive. Although I am in Canada at the moment, so luckily I have free healthcare available, should something happen. :) ==== Blocking Network Packets - The Comcast Fiasco (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5z3ot/comments/c02bc9j Just want to chime in here and say that I've had Speakeasy for 7 years now, and they have been fantastic. It is a little pricey, but I get great speeds and they don't play any games. If I have a problem, they understand that I have technical skills and will work with me to solve the problem. At one point I was diagnosing a slow connection with a tech and we were throwing fpings at each other. They even give shell accounts on their servers, which I use to do speed and pen testing against my own servers. How many ISP's will do that for you? ==== Japanese Invention Lets You Take a Sh*t in Your Car (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5z2ow/comments/c02b770 It seems to me that it would be easier to have it just sort of fall through the seat onto the floor. But I guess that could get messy. ==== The Great John Toilet [Pic] (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ywzz/comments/c02aw6x It wasn't a nightmare. It was the Atlantis Hotel/Casino in Reno. They fed me, they gave me a bed and a shower, and plenty of tables of gaming entertainment. :) ==== The Great John Toilet [Pic] (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ywzz/comments/c02aunn I once spent 5 straight days in a casino. I know how you feel. ==== Have you ever gotten a weird call from 718-123-2083? Because I just did, and apparently so have a lot of other people. Anyone know what's going on? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ywja/comments/c02asw0 I'll keep you posted. :) ==== Have you ever gotten a weird call from 718-123-2083? Because I just did, and apparently so have a lot of other people. Anyone know what's going on? (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ywja/comments/c02aqqw Well, I used to investigate identity theft for many years, and this was not really that type of call. They said, "May I speak to Jeremy please?" and I said, "This is he, who is calling?" and then they hung up. The only reason I even picked up the phone was because I had just put in a call to my cell phone provider and asked them to call me back. ==== Have you ever gotten a weird call from 718-123-2083? Because I just did, and apparently so have a lot of other people. Anyone know what's going on? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ywja/comments/c02aqk4 How? I was thinking about it, but clearly they use a fake caller ID. How does one bust through that? ==== oct 22-26 is "redditors doodle the logo week" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5ypkg/comments/c02and9 The thought crossed my mind, but unfortunately at the moment we don't have the time to make sure that the information that needs to stay private stays private (for example, the ticket system and source tree are tied together). ==== 5 Smallest Countries and how they make or made their economies (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yjv5/comments/c029xk4 You know, I thought I had seen that before. And as it turns out, I upvoted then too. ==== Every wonder why netflix is doing so well? Check out their recruiting page. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yhx5/comments/c029t3s Because when my girlfriend and I decide to watch a movie on Saturday night, and we didn't plan ahead to get a movie in the mail, we go to the Blockbuster. And we're not the only ones there -- the place is usually packed. Until they have online delivery that is faster than driving to the the store, I think they'll be doing ok. ==== Out of options: why stock options are bad for business (score: 1) ==== http://business.reddit.com/info/5yiec/comments/c029rai It always made more sense to me that part of every compensation package should be restricted stock grants. Since they always have some sort of value, it always makes sense to do things that keep the share price as far above 0 as possible. Also, you can just subtract the current value of the stock from the employee's salary, or give them an option of what ratio of cash to stock they would like. ==== reddit status update (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029kop Yes, if you send us a link to bugs.reddit, we'll read it. ==== reddit status update (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029kf9 Yes, it's been working for a while now. ==== reddit status update (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yfqc/comments/c029jvx Please send bugs to feedback@reddit.com (or use the feedback link at the bottom). That is where we are collecting bugs at the moment. ==== First new post!! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5yba1/comments/c02999a This is the first new comment on the new comment system! Yes! ==== The reddit logo is Photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels -- or -- How I ended up drawing a week's worth of reddit logos. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2zlvg/comments/c2zove Well technically, most of the logos are created in Adobe Illustrator. I'm just not that skilled, so I had to use Photoshop and paste together stuff from old logos. ==== The reddit logo is Photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels -- or -- How I ended up drawing a week's worth of reddit logos. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2zlvg/comments/c2zn3t Steve and Chris are working on the code that will support tags. I'm working on other code, and doing logo doodles on the side. Don't worry, the tags will come soon after we launch this new codebase. ==== Legal advice every startup founder should know (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2za59/comments/c2zluj Sorry, you're right. I should have put that in the title. Although it might be helpful in any country that has similar corporate structures. ==== Ask Reddit: Do you think that work at Google is really the dream-job that everyone wants? (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2yz5l/comments/c2z7s6 Most of the people that I know who worked there right out of college got a promotion after about 6 months to one year, and their typical annual raise for the first few years was 25-50%. So if that is true, it is only true for people who come in with experience. ==== Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (score: 2) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2z33w/comments/c2z6wm If they listened to what any one of them had to say, then yes. But if they listen to all of them, and then take the average, that would probably be a pretty good approximation of how people feel in general, don't you think? ==== Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (score: -1) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2z33w/comments/c2z4zt I think that Olbermann, O'Reilly, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart all portray what ordinary people think. Just different ordinary people. If the media didn't generally agree with popular opinion, they wouldn't be in business anymore. ==== Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (score: -1) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2z33w/comments/c2z4z6 I don't know, I get the feeling that Olbermann, O'Reilly, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart all give very different opinions and generally represent their segments' views on things. I think it would be good if the President listened to what all of those "talking heads" had to say, and then synthesized those views into an opinion of his own that just maybe is a little closer to what the rest of us want. I am aware that all of the news is owned by a few big corporations, but I also know that those corporations make their money by repeating popular opinions, otherwise no one would watch. So what I am saying is that the media parrots popular opinion to make money, and if the President watched more TV, he would hear more of those popular opinions. ==== Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (score: 1) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2z33w/comments/c2z438 Yes, but she was talking about the whole family, which includes George. ==== We offer 3 kinds of service... [PIC] (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2z0id/comments/c2z421 Presumably if someone is sexy, married and sane, doesn't that mean that at one point they were sexy, single and sane? Or does getting married also flip one of the other bits? ==== Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (score: -4) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2z33w/comments/c2z3zp While it is true that media give a limited world view, what the media does give is a pretty good idea of the different opinions people have about different issues, and when your job is to represent those opinions, it seems to be that you should be in tune with that those are. ==== Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (score: 1) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2z33w/comments/c2z3yk That is true for an ordinary person. But when your job description is "represent the will of the people", you should care about what other people think. ==== Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (score: 1) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2z33w/comments/c2z3kk I think this is more telling > We don't watch too much television. The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again. Which to me translates to: We don't care what everyone thinks, so we don't listen. ==== Starting Salaries for Computer Science Grads Hit Highest Amount This Decade (score: 11) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2ylo6/comments/c2ypgq Look towards a management path. You don't have to go full on management, but being a technical manager who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty pays pretty well, and usually comes with a pretty good bonus program. I know the guys who run the daily operations for places like eBay, Google, Yahoo, etc. make really good money and bonuses, and are super-smart techies first, and managers second. ==== 10 Things Every Programmer Should Know For Their First Job (score: 7) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2yh1j/comments/c2yixr This is good advice when starting any new job, first or not. ==== New study finds that poor grades are a gateway to drugs and NOT the other way around (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ydsi/comments/c2yhrq My HS biology teacher used a similar test grading method. He made really hard tests, and then the top 3 scores were averaged, and the result was the total available points. So in most cases, the top scorer got extra credit, and one really high score did not blow everyone out of the water. ==== Google Crosses $600 a Share for the First Time (score: 1) ==== http://business.reddit.com/info/2y5t8/comments/c2yg9f I wonder if they can buy that new spectrum from the FCC for shares of stock... ==== Google Adds 9 Major Cities To Maps Street View Today (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2yagp/comments/c2yepj If I'm going somewhere that I haven't been before, I check out the street view so that I can see what the building looks like and also what the nearby buildings look like, so that when I get there (walking or driving), I can tell if I am in the right place. ==== How often do television reporters break stories these days? Almost never. Most of them are actors reading the news pretending to be real reporters. (score: 0) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2y6wr/comments/c2yej6 Bob Iger, CEO of Disney. ==== What happened to the most popular sites of 2001? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2y7c6/comments/c2ya1g The numbers are flawed because there is so much more choice now. This would be like comparing viewing time of CBS, NBC and ABC in 1955 vs. 1995. Of course people would be watching those less, because there would be so many more to choose from, and so many more people with TV's than before. It's the same problem here. There are a lot more sites to choose from. In this case, I'd like to see raw numbers instead of percentages. I'll bet some of these sites had some pretty respectable growth. ==== Fans sabotaging scalpers' auctions (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xzts/comments/c2xzu3 It seems to me that the best way to combat scalping is for the show's promoters to just hold their own auction. They would make a lot more money, and the scalpers would be priced right out of the market. ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2xzil Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that we don't want discussions on the front page. Quite the contrary actually. It just helps if we get some warning in the feedback first. :) ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2xycr We only remove blatant spam. We rely on the community to downvote submissions that are not "socially acceptable". ==== Vote up if you never use the "recommended" page. (score: 30) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2xwy7/comments/c2xyc5 You can also get our attention by emailing feedback@reddit.com, or posting to the features subreddit, which has not gone away. ==== Jon Stewart: "So in summation, the bill takes money from cigarettes and gives it to poor sick children." George Bush: "That's why I'm going to veto the bill." (score: 4) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2wwcv/comments/c2x0i2 That may be true, but your argument was that it doesn't account for the number of poor people. If you would like to argue that their collection methods are flawed, that is a different argument altogether. ==== Jon Stewart: "So in summation, the bill takes money from cigarettes and gives it to poor sick children." George Bush: "That's why I'm going to veto the bill." (score: 4) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2wwcv/comments/c2x0c2 Actually, that is exactly what the chart does -- it's a percentage. That means that it is a fraction of the total. In other words, it is exactly how you would compare two groups of dissimilar size. ==== Berkeley University Puts Full Courses on YouTube (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2wei1/comments/c2wmkj I will say that taking the class did make me question my beliefs in strong AI (which was the point, I suppose). But just the same, I still think it is worth pursuing. ==== Berkeley University Puts Full Courses on YouTube (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2wei1/comments/c2wm2d Actually, it was the most interesting lecture of the entire semester. ==== Berkeley University Puts Full Courses on YouTube (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2wei1/comments/c2wltz I agree that it is a good thing. I just wish they would have made the philosophy majors in the class take some of our AI stuff... ==== Berkeley University Puts Full Courses on YouTube (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2wei1/comments/c2wltg No, but we did have an entire lecture on the chinese box. :) ==== Berkeley University Puts Full Courses on YouTube (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2wei1/comments/c2wklc I was in the CogSci program at Berkeley, and we had to take a Searle class to graduate. It was the only major I could find that made you take a class by a guy who completely disagrees with your field. ==== How To Keep Good Posture When In Front Of A Computer (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2voes/comments/c2wk52 Hey, thanks for the tip! Suddenly I can use the darn thing (although I'm not quite good enough yet to type this comment with it). The secret really was in getting that strap in the right place. The only key that is hard for me to hit is the enter key. Thanks again -- you may have just saved my back from chronic pain! ==== 30 year charge on a laptop? "As with the best techno-rubbish, there is a story in there, but you'll be pootling around the skies in jetpacks before you're powering your Dell from neutron decay." (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2vp0l/comments/c2vxu8 The powerbook I bought 4 years ago is still my main machine at home. It works perfectly well for everything I want to do, even large Photoshop documents when making collages for friends. I'm sure it will still get another 2-3 years of use as my daily machine. ==== How To Keep Good Posture When In Front Of A Computer (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2voes/comments/c2vxs0 I bought a Twiddler2 many years ago, but could never get a hand position that was comfortable enough to use it for than a few minutes. Any tips on finding a good hand position? ==== Sanford Man Finds $100,000 In Attic, Starts Legal Fight (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2v9p6/comments/c2vlv1 That was nice to call the police, but if it were me, I would probably just keep the money safe and whip out $20k or so every time I went to Vegas until it was all gone. :) ==== Work, Play, Sex, Work, ... (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2trgv/comments/c2ttvy If you're thinking about work while having sex, doesn't mean that work is so meaningful that you have the greatest job ever, and you probably need to a get a new partner, not a new job? ==== 5000-Piece LEGO Millennium Falcon Kit Now Shipping (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2tou6/comments/c2tqfi The price includes the R&D I imagine. They hire real engineers to design these things, and I suspect those folks cost a good deal of scratch. Not that I wouldn't mind it being cheaper. :) ==== How Bathroom Signs Should Really Look Like! (PIC) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2t3n2/comments/c2te6o Now I give your original comment an upvote! :) ==== How Bathroom Signs Should Really Look Like! (PIC) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2t3n2/comments/c2te2f I thought about it long and hard, and I usually get obscure jokes, but this one baffles me. Could you please explain? ==== How Bathroom Signs Should Really Look Like! (PIC) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2t3n2/comments/c2tc66 No, I 'shopped it so it was just the sign. ==== How Bathroom Signs Should Really Look Like! (PIC) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2t3n2/comments/c2t89b I took a picture of that sign and printed it out. It hangs on my bathroom door. :) ==== Nothing says "I love you" like.... (PIC) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2t4kn/comments/c2t7gi Hello, this is Sy Greenblum, president of Spatula City. I liked their spatulas so much, I bought the company. ==== Do you have an idea to cure cancer? It might be worth $1M (no prior experience required) (score: 2) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/2ss80/comments/c2t0zq I think the point was to get ideas from outside the field, but it wouldn't surprise me if we didn't have at least PI in oncology. ==== Very soon it might be possible, by means of the electric wire, for friends to converse freely at the distance of many miles... (NYT Archives) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2sqnu/comments/c2sqsv I wonder if this was a front page article? If so, it goes into an awful lot of scientific detail. Imagine how much better off we would be these days if all of the technology articles on the front of the NYT had this much detail... ==== "The pupil bloodied and battered beyond recognition by teenage girls" (with pic..pretty gruesome) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2skjs/comments/c2solk No, you don't need therapy. I too was expecting some gruesome picture of an eyeball -- that's why I clicked on it! ==== RSS: The Wrong Solution to a Broken Internet (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2rs38/comments/c2s2qk It sounds like Google Reader, et. al is exactly the solution you want. It is a centralized hub that checks RSS feeds every one to three hours (except for the most subscribed feeds), and then all the users just check that. That is pretty close to a push solution. All that is necessary is a wy for publishers to notify Google that they have updated content. ==== Why net neutrality is important [pic] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2rxr1/comments/c2s2lw Don't get me wrong, I hate Comcast as much as the next guy, but according to the page you linked to, Comcast is not responsible for the tower -- the name was only changed to Comcast Tower after they agreed to rent out more than 1/2 the floor space. ==== The Four Day Work Week: Sixteen Reasons Why This Might Be an Idea Whose Time Has Come (score: 1) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2rmfo/comments/c2rt6f Yeah, that sounds right. If you live in a big city (or worse, in a suburb), you can easily go more than 16 miles each way. I personally commute from San Jose to San Francisco, so my commute is about 100 miles round trip each day (which is why I take the train!) ==== "Women should not be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. If this happens, there will be more crime, accidents and disorder." (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2rl80/comments/c2rs6b I don't see what taxis have to do with anything. I'm simply saying that by allowing women to drive some of the men drivers would be replaced with women drivers. ==== "Women should not be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. If this happens, there will be more crime, accidents and disorder." (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2rl80/comments/c2rqlp There wouldn't be more traffic though. Right now the women hire male drivers to drive them around. They would just do the driving themselves. If anything it would reduce traffic, because the hired drivers wouldn't have to drive themselves home at night. ==== NBC asks hacker to demonstrate his skills. Hacker breaks into NBC's internal website in five minutes. NBC bumps him from the show. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qoy0/comments/c2rdcg Actually, if you want to make it go away, you need to greasemonkey the iframe, but don't work too hard on it, because it will all change next week. ==== NBC asks hacker to demonstrate his skills. Hacker breaks into NBC's internal website in five minutes. NBC bumps him from the show. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qoy0/comments/c2rbkp Ah. That whitespace is mostly due to you using adblock. That whitespace is there on purpose to keep the interface from looking cluttered when the new ad is displayed. ==== NBC asks hacker to demonstrate his skills. Hacker breaks into NBC's internal website in five minutes. NBC bumps him from the show. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qoy0/comments/c2r782 Yes that would be appreciated. Can you send me a link to a screenshot? ==== NBC asks hacker to demonstrate his skills. Hacker breaks into NBC's internal website in five minutes. NBC bumps him from the show. (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qoy0/comments/c2r3p4 Check it out now -- we fixed that a few hours ago. ==== NBC asks hacker to demonstrate his skills. Hacker breaks into NBC's internal website in five minutes. NBC bumps him from the show. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qoy0/comments/c2r3oq Actually, as was pointed out earlier, the ads on the new site are 25% smaller than the old ads. So your wish was already granted. :) ==== Sen. Barack Obama proposed overhauling the tax code to lower taxes for the poor and middle class, increase them for the rich and make it so most Americans can file their taxes in five minutes. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qxku/comments/c2r2pa You're right. In the United States, the top tax rate was 92%: http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php ==== Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2r149/comments/c2r2ee The sad thing is, even though it is fake, I had no trouble believing it. ==== NCAA Football - Rankings (score: 2) ==== http://sports.reddit.com/info/2qnx9/comments/c2qzrk Go Bears! ==== Reddit's new login/information/advertisement width sucks [pic] (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qu1y/comments/c2qy76 We fixed that about an hour ago. It should work now. ==== Incredible Time-lapse video of Bay Bridge deck replacement (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ql13/comments/c2ql3c Very cool! I was wondering what it was they were doing for 3 days. ==== blog.reddit: now, with rounded corners! (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2qh6n/comments/c2qhfh I was just making sure it was working. ;) Please feel free to submit entertainment related links! ==== What is this? A numbers station on Reddit? (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2p8j7/comments/c2pa57 You are right. Eventually we will have comment karma, but right now only submissions matter. ==== What was Disneyland like on September 11th 2001? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ob2z/comments/c2ofve No, they only grounded domestic flights until the morning of the 13th. We were one of the first ones to go through the "increased" security procedures, which at the time meant taking off any metal (shoes, belts, etc.) and then being scanned with the wand. It was real security that would have caught real terrorists. Sadly, it took to long to be practical for the current number of travelers. ==== What was Disneyland like on September 11th 2001? (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ob2z/comments/c2oftj I don't think they let Jews into the Bin Laden family.... ==== What was Disneyland like on September 11th 2001? (score: 27) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ob2z/comments/c2od4i I flew on an airplane on 9/13, and let me tell you, it was the best flight ever. There was no line at security, most everyone had cancelled their tickets so the rest of us got our own row to sleep in, and they were serving free alcoholic drinks and snacks for the whole flight to the 30 or so people on the plane. ==== Should Apple join the wireless auction? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2oaf9/comments/c2oah1 What would be cool is if Apple went in with Google to buy some spectrum and then made it free. I think together the two companies have enough cash to make it happen. ==== She was 14. He was 34. (score: 38) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2o0p6/comments/c2o28u > with his wife, Jaime, who is now 19 (years of age) - (she is) 20 years younger than he is. I think that is what they meant. ==== "You sir are living in a dreamland." Bill O'Reilly interviews Ron Paul [video] (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2nzxt/comments/c2o247 Didn't you see the pics from yesterday? Britney doesn't wear underwear. ==== Why our parents were cooler than we are now when they were our age (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2nywu/comments/c2nzi3 You should have kept reading. He was being sarcastic. ==== Out of 173 countries, only four have no paid leave for new mothers -- Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Liberia and the U.S.A. (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2nrwf/comments/c2nsz7 I'm not a lawyer or a parent, I just know that in California most every worker is entitled to maternity benefits. But according to this this, 21 states offer increased benefits over the federally mandated ones. ==== Out of 173 countries, only four have no paid leave for new mothers -- Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Liberia and the U.S.A. (score: -4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2nrwf/comments/c2nsfj While it is true that there is no federally mandated time off for new mothers, most people get paid maternity due to state laws that require it. ==== Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf on Al Gore and Internet: No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2mqy2/comments/c2mxw5 At the time that appeared on Wired.com, Wired magazine was owned by Conde Nast and Wired.com was owned by Lycos. Wired.com was aquired by Conde Nast at about the same time Reddit was acquired by Conde Nast (last year). ==== Tennessee's tax on illegal drugs is "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable"; an appeals court declared the "crack tax" was unconstitutional because it derives revenue from illegal activities (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mxl9/comments/c2mxs1 That's too bad. That was a brilliant end-around to tax drugs even though they are illegal. ==== Wireless is down! [pic] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mt5k/comments/c2mxak Can you hack it to go to the "illegal" channels? That might help. I had to put mine on channel 13 to avoid interference. ==== Wireless is down! [pic] (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mt5k/comments/c2mw3v My parents have a combo wifi-router and modem from Verizon too, but in their neighborhood, Verizon is smart enough to send each one pre-configured with WPA turned on, so you can only connect to your own modem. Maybe they can do the same for you. ==== Seven minutes that will cure you of any delusions about Rudy Giuliani being the "hero" of 9/11 [VIDEO] (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mjpj/comments/c2mus6 Which is why the politics subreddit was created -- so that those that are interested in politics can form a community over there, while everyone else forms a community at the main site. Don't get me wrong, I'm not apolitical. As a matter of fact, I'm quite the opposite. I read the politics subreddit every day. It's just that not everyone wants to see politics, and they can't find the good stuff on the main site because it is buried in politics stories. So my whole point was that this should be in the politics subreddit, where the community who is interested in that can go to read and discuss it. ==== Seven minutes that will cure you of any delusions about Rudy Giuliani being the "hero" of 9/11 [VIDEO] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mjpj/comments/c2mu9y I never said the minority is ALWAYS right. :) ==== Beware . . . Bank of America Credit Card Holders ! (score: 1) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2mhu3/comments/c2mu87 Good question. The main reasons I prefer using a credit card are: better fraud protection on the credit card awards programs on the credit cards (cash back, etc) a lot of places won't rent you a car with a debit card. sometimes I need to make a big charge which requires moving money from an investment account to my bank account. by using the credit card, it gives me the time I need to move the money around. ==== Seven minutes that will cure you of any delusions about Rudy Giuliani being the "hero" of 9/11 [VIDEO] (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mjpj/comments/c2mmfm Ah, so what you are saying is that the majority of voters on Reddit must be right. Much like that majority of voters who voted for George Bush in 2004? ==== Seven minutes that will cure you of any delusions about Rudy Giuliani being the "hero" of 9/11 [VIDEO] (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mjpj/comments/c2mm2i The enforcement mechanism is supposed to be the community down-voting politics stuff that isn't where it belongs... So much for that idea. ==== Seven minutes that will cure you of any delusions about Rudy Giuliani being the "hero" of 9/11 [VIDEO] (score: -16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2mjpj/comments/c2mkrb This should be in the politics subreddit. ==== Beware . . . Bank of America Credit Card Holders ! (score: 14) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2mhu3/comments/c2mijd This only affects you if you carry a balance or use the cash advance feature, two things which are both not very smart. A credit card should be used for the convenience of payment, not as a loan. ==== Dilbert and the Mythical Man-Month (pic) (score: 17) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2lawg/comments/c2lgaz Your professor is pretty cool for changing his slides last minute like that -- the cartoon was only published this morning. ==== Have you turned on the radio recently? Me either. Yet I had to spend eight hours alone in a truck with nothing but FM for company. I did survived (barely), and I made some observations. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2l645/comments/c2lg5l There are still plenty of people that listen to FM radio -- people who can't afford to buy their music or music hardware. An FM radio is very cheap. And Ipod or CD player with CD's is not so cheap. This is why a lot of stations are trending towards music that appeals to the consumer who can't afford to own their music. I know that in both LA and the Bay area, the stations are moving more towards music that would appeal to recent immigrants. It is probably the same in your area. ==== 1979 Living Room of the Future (PIC) (score: 36) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ki77/comments/c2kjkd Just get a couch with slightly taller legs, and Roomba can go underneath. :) ==== How Not to Die (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2k8va/comments/c2kcza Interestingly, it is doing much better on the main reddit: http://reddit.com/info/2kaow/details ==== What Is String Theory? (score: 1) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/2jz15/comments/c2k23p See http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php ==== Student Loan Industry out of control, Allowed to abuse borrowers in ways no other type of Lender can (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm1b/comments/c2jzqf Most of the ambitious people I know did not pay a dime for their education because they got merit scholarships from the places where they did their BA's, and then got research grants and stipends to pay for grad school. So really, the MOST ambitious are being taken care of already. It is those that are smart, but not ambitious, that would probably do better not going to college. ==== The whole Reddit crew at Chris' wedding [pic] (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm4p/comments/c2jsst Touche. ==== The whole Reddit crew at Chris' wedding [pic] (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm4p/comments/c2jov4 The only times I've been carded for a drink in the last five years is when I go out with spez. ==== The whole Reddit crew at Chris' wedding [pic] (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm4p/comments/c2jouk Yeah, I was pretty shocked too. ==== The whole Reddit crew at Chris' wedding [pic] (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm4p/comments/c2jou9 I think you're in desperate need of a kernel patch... ==== The whole Reddit crew at Chris' wedding [pic] (score: 28) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm4p/comments/c2jotq Our combined age is 107. I'd be impressed that you are able to use a keyboard at that age. ==== The whole Reddit crew at Chris' wedding [pic] (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jm4p/comments/c2jotm Wow, you have servers older than the TS-80 and the Apple II (both introduced the year I was born)? ==== An eBay scammer's response to being goatse'd... thirteen times. (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jfek/comments/c2jhoy I'm so not falling for that. Luckily, Urban Dictionary saved me, and provided me with what I was looking for: Lemonparty: A old man gay orgy that is good at inducing vomiting. ==== An eBay scammer's response to being goatse'd... thirteen times. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jfek/comments/c2jhgt I don't want to click on that link, because I still have goatse and tubgirl burned into my retinas, but since you already made the sacrifice, could you give me a brief, non-vomit-inducing description of lemonparty? ==== This Morning's Downtime (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jeh3/comments/c2jest You must have caught the end of the downtime. Still, I think I'd rather be in Australia right now! ==== This Morning's Downtime (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jeh3/comments/c2jepj You must be in Alaska or Hawaii... Either way, I envy you. ==== Is Reddit database broken? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2jedg/comments/c2jee3 Our datacenter had issues this morning. The recommender is still catching up. Everyone should have their suggested links shortly. Blog post coming soon. Thanks! ==== Owen Wilson in Apparent Suicide Attempt :( (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2j04x/comments/c2j5zk The Enquirer and the Star were the first to report most of the facts of the OJ case that later turned out to be true. Yes, they are tabloids, but they do turn out to be right quite a lot. They just get the story first because they will accept information from a single source, whereas a reputable news source requires corroboration from at least two sources before they'll print anything. ==== Pirate Banned from Using Linux, forced to use windows (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2i8i3/comments/c2ictv > One might have a reasonable expecation that the government could require monitoring software for any major operating system. You're right, it should support MacOS, What would you consider a major operating system? Most people put the linux desktop market share somewhere between .5% and 2%. As much as I love linux, I wouldn't consider that a major desktop OS. ==== If you're average, you fit right in. And if you're above average, the basic terms of employement and premise of the arrangement is against your interests. (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2hslh/comments/c2icaa > Plus, we can supposedly get docked 10% of our salary for revealing it. Wow, that is a scary policy. Every place I have ever worked has told us not to share our salary data, but none of them had an actual consequence in the policy. And even with that policy, can't you guys sit around telling each other what your rating was and what your raise % was? Technically, you wouldn't be violating the policy... ==== Soon, Americans will spend more time surfing the web than watching TV (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ic0c/comments/c2ic0d I blame Reddit! ==== RedHeads To Go Extinct by End of Century says National Geographic (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2hw8v/comments/c2i4bu As the comments in this thread indicate, you had better get a shotgun when your daughter hits puberty, because with natural red hair and dark skin, she'll probably be pretty popular with the boys... ==== When in-video advertising goes bad [video] (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2hofo/comments/c2hoyd That was sort of the idea. To point out how bad in video advertising can be. ==== When in-video advertising goes bad [video] (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2hofo/comments/c2hogc That video just makes me sad. I hope this in not where video on the web is heading. ==== Getting voted up in bugs gives me Karma. don't take it away :( (score: 2) ==== http://bugs.reddit.com/info/2hduh/comments/c2hmdh If you find good bugs then you deserve the karma, yes? :) ==== It is still possible to submit proven all time top stories as new content (score: 1) ==== http://bugs.reddit.com/info/2hhog/comments/c2hmci It's because all the old data hasn't been imported yet. Thanks for all the bug reports! ==== I thought I knew how to validate a simple email address till I RTFM'd the RFC (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2hbuh/comments/c2hhkm Ok, my mistake. It sounded like when you detect an "error" in their email address, you send them to a page where they can't continue until they make it right (for example by not allowing IP addresses in the email). I commend you for going to such extremes to make sure they got the email right, and you're probably right about the phishing from the misspelled domains. I just wish more sites would realize that pretty much anything is a valid email address, and let me put in what I want (with decent confirmation that that is what I really want, of course). ==== I thought I knew how to validate a simple email address till I RTFM'd the RFC (score: 4) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2hbuh/comments/c2hfzh Sure, they will get mad. And you should do some basic checking of the address. But if they tell you, "yes, that email that you think is invalid really is my email address" then you should believe them. I used to use + addressing a lot, and it pissed me off to no end when I couldn't put in what should be a valid email address. If they really really want to put in that weird address, then they should be able to. Also, if they ordered with a credit card, or any sort of financial information, and the email doesn't work, they can always come back and re-enter their financial information to retrieve their order, in which case, a valid email wasn't really required. ==== I thought I knew how to validate a simple email address till I RTFM'd the RFC (score: 8) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2hbuh/comments/c2hfs2 If there is a service that you provide where they must have a valid email, then you should send them an email to verify it is correct and that the person with that email really wants to opt into your service. Then you can allow anything they type, as long as they can verify it. Also, see http://programming.reddit.com/info/2hbuh/comments/c2hfqx for a quote by Eric Allman about this topic. ==== I thought I knew how to validate a simple email address till I RTFM'd the RFC (score: 23) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2hbuh/comments/c2hfqx When I worked at Sendmail, Eric Allman (the creator of Sendmail) told me this: "There is no regex in the world that can validate an email address. The only way to validate an email address is to send it an email, and ask for a reply." Sage words from the guy who would know. ==== Cheney's Office Says It Has Dozens of Wiretap Documents But Won't Hand Them Over (score: 2) ==== http://politics.reddit.com/info/2h9mu/comments/c2he2w He then added, "neener neener neener" ==== Comments don't split into seperate pages? (score: 1) ==== http://bugs.reddit.com/info/2h9yw/comments/c2ha64 Pagination is not turned on yet. ==== Meet Copowi, the world's first ISP to guarantee network neutrality (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gu2u/comments/c2h9ww You can't run your own DNS server without a static IP. And since I'm serving about 30 domains, I don't think dyndns.org would like to get pounded with all those updates every time my IP changes. ==== Top 10 Easy Green Tips (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gxns/comments/c2gzw7 Interesting. I assume they did not learn this from you, since you are always reminding them to turn it off. I guess it is just being too lazy to turn the water off? ==== Top 10 Easy Green Tips (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gxns/comments/c2gyov Even better still is a 1 or 2 liter bottle filled with water. It will sink to the bottom, save water, not disintegrate like the bricks, and does not diminish your toilet tank's ability to be an emergency source of water in a disaster. ==== Top 10 Easy Green Tips (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gxns/comments/c2gyo9 > turn off the tap when brushing your teeth I see this a lot. Who does this? I've never seen anyone in my life who leaves the water running while they brush. I don't even understand how it makes brushing any easier or better. ==== Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve (score: 32) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2gw1h/comments/c2gxxk Yeah, you're probably right. He's not nearly as pro-Microsoft as he used to be. ==== Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve (score: 71) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2gw1h/comments/c2gxin Obviously you are not familiar with Joel. He used to work at Microsoft as a product manager for Excel, and now runs a very popular website about how to run a software company. He's one of the most pro-Miscrosoft guys you could meet. ==== OK Reddit. I wanted to find the comments for this link so I pasted the EXACT title into the search bar. WHY doesn't it appear ANYWHERE in the results?? Search is a JOKE, just remove it.... (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gps6/comments/c2gqls That's because you searched the wrong subreddit. You need to do your search on the subreddit that it came from, ie. programming. Like this: http://programming.reddit.com/search?q=+Console%3A+a+better+terminal+emulator+for+windows&s=rank ==== Ask Reddit: How do you keep your server fleets in sync? (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2ggmw/comments/c2gpq6 First check out http://www.infrastructures.org/ for some good ideas on best practices. Then check out http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/Main_Page for info on SystemImager, which is a great tool for implementing the practices at the first site. ==== ASK REDDIT: What kind of hardware runs reddit? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gdcv/comments/c2gias You are right that mod_python is capable of storing things between requests, but generally it is only used to speed up the running of python based cgi, which was the usage I assumed jamiemccarthy to be referring to. Yes, you can use a relational database to store things between requests, but your database will get very overloaded if you try to do that with more than a few requests per second. And yes, you could use modproxy and modrewrite, but that is slower than using FastCGI or SCGI. ==== ASK REDDIT: What kind of hardware runs reddit? (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gdcv/comments/c2gg1k If you don't know how to run nmap, we aren't going to help you! :) ==== ASK REDDIT: What kind of hardware runs reddit? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gdcv/comments/c2gg1a mod_python will run a python script in your http server, but it means the script has to load on every request. That works great for simple stuff, but for a large application, you want persistent processes, so you'd want to run your code as a continuous process that listens for new requests. This cuts down on the per request overhead, and allows for things to be stored across multiple requests. ==== ASK REDDIT: What kind of hardware runs reddit? (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2gdcv/comments/c2gf87 The webserver runs the http server and is what the browser connects to to get the html. The app server runs the python processes that talk to the database and cache and then generate the html for the webserver to serve. ==== Doomsday for Australia? Experts warn Sydney could become virtually uninhabitable by 2070 (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2e5ev/comments/c2fwa8 Over on the right is a list of popular subreddits (which are like categories, or smaller specialized communities) and you can get a bigger list here: http://sub.reddit.com/ ==== U.S. gives Israel another $30,000,000,000 (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2fopn/comments/c2fs76 Yes, you are absolutely right, it is mostly from money created out of thin air. > Congrats, youve just been pickpocketed and didnt even know it. I've known all along, I was just being snarky with my reply. :) ==== U.S. gives Israel another $30,000,000,000 (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2fopn/comments/c2frt1 http://reddit.com/info/2fdkf/comments In summary: After accounting for inflation, the current government has brought in more revenue than any other in the history of the United States (or the world) ==== Scientists show that it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light. (score: 15) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/2fmsl/comments/c2fng5 > This suggests that the transit between the two prisms was faster than the speed of light. It also suggests that their detector doesn't have a good enough temporal resolution. :) ==== Government Shouldn't Bail Out Failing Homeowners (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ffe3/comments/c2firn I wasn't clear in my post. I'm not saying that the government shouldn't create some regulations, but at the same time, if you're going to buy a house, you should really hire a subject matter expert that has your best interests in mind. ==== Government Shouldn't Bail Out Failing Homeowners (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2ffe3/comments/c2fhwi > a fast-talking mortgage lender doesn't stick you with a loan for your personal family home that it will shortly be impossible for you to pay Which is why you hire a subject matter expert, like a lawyer, to help you. ==== Congrats, you are on the frontpage of Digg (and reddit). As your webhost for the past 8 years, we have a special gift for you. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2fd5q/comments/c2fgs7 I thought the same thing as you, until I came to a major dealbreaker -- no static IP's. It makes it really hard to serve your own DNS when your IP keeps changing. Yes, you can use dynamic DNS, if you trust a DDNS service, and you don't want to run your own DNS servers. But as soon as they figure out a way to give me easy persistent storage and a static IP, I'm all over it. ==== New Bank Practices Make Hacking Easier - multifactor logon procedures actually improve attacker's chances (score: 7) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2eto2/comments/c2exrz As a phisher, having that image does nothing whatsoever to stop you. To wit: I the phisher convince you to click on my phishing page. I ask for your login like your bank. I bounce through a proxy and then submit your login to your bank, which then sends me your image, which I then send to you. With your false sense of security intact, I ask for your password. Yes, it makes phishing slightly harder, but not much harder. Most of the successful phishers were doing real time verification before this stuff came around anyway, so it is no different for them, and in fact makes the user feel better about giving up their information. ==== 8 Queens on 1 Board [logic] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2eijl/comments/c2ekd6 Here are some hints: You can only have one queen per column, so try placing one column at a time, left to right (or right to left) You can only have one queen per row, so for each column, you will have to have the queen in a different row. Queens in the middle rows are worse in the middle columns. ==== 26 moves are enough to solve any Rubik's Cube, no matter how scrambled (score: 0) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/2drn5/comments/c2dvb9 Times 2. You have to peel off 9*6 stickers and then stick them all back on. Well, technically you only have to peel off 8 stickers from each side (leave the center one whatever color it already is). And for that matter, you can leave any other stickers that already match the center square. So 8 * 6 * 2 is the worst case scenario. ==== security exuse bingo (score: 1) ==== http://netsec.reddit.com/info/2dawz/comments/c2dsts They can be done right, if they let people with actual knowledge about computer and physical security design the things. ==== Even the most stable brain operates just a millimeter from madness. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cod7/comments/c2cr1d It's not easier, it's cheaper. The main reason the US hasn't switched is because there are a lot of road signs that would have to be remade, and a lot of laws would have to be rewritten (for example the one in my neighborhood that says your house must be set back 20 feet from the street). ==== politics.reddit.com (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2cngn/comments/c2co08 Dude, it went up 2 hours ago. ==== No Money to fix the Bridges in Minnesota but..... Early on Sunday morning, May 21, 2006, state lawmakers gave final approval to a financing plan for an open-air stadium for the Minnesota Twins. The $522 million ballpark is expected to be ready in time for the 2010 season. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2c97c/comments/c2cbil Maybe build one for the first time, but once the city has a ballpark, why should the team owner get city money to build a new building that will not increase any of the good things you mention above, but instead will increase the profits of the team? And for that matter, if public tax dollars pay to build the stadium, shouldn't the stadium be open to the public, or at least shouldn't the public have the opportunity to use the stadium once in a while, like a public park? Public funding for stadiums is the biggest scam the team owners have ever pulled. ==== Disturbing: McDonald’s food left to rot in jars over months (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2c0mf/comments/c2c16m He cheated. The fries are the only thing that he didn't touch with his hands at the beginning. ==== Arkansas Couple Welcomes 17th Child (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2c0z3/comments/c2c13a > Michelle, 40, has been pregnant for 126 months - or 10.5 years - of her life. Wow. That poor woman. ==== What if Google DID Buy Yahoo? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2c0vk/comments/c2c11n The FTC would never allow it, for all the reasons in the article. ==== 800BHP BMW M5 Revealed (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2bzug/comments/c2c0ht 3.6 sec 0-62, but what kind of milage does it get? :) ==== GOP in California state Senate refuses to accept budget. The deadlock means the state remains unable to fund some social service programs, including those that compensate hospitals and clinics that provide health care to millions of poor Californians. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2bt80/comments/c2bvbz I think that if the budget is not passed, the first thing that should not get funded are the representatives paychecks... ==== 170 Cancel 'WSJ' Subscriptions -- But How Many Will Follow? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2buat/comments/c2bvaq That .01% cancellation rate is really going to hurt their bottom line. ==== Senate tries to end era of cloackroom anonymity; asshole senator threatens to block the legislation by using the technique that would be banned by said legislation (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2bl7s/comments/c2brw3 Well, I decided to read up more about his views, and to be honest, you're right. He isn't that bad. I guess the main reason I thought he was bad is leftover from when I first heard his name, which was when he helped push thought some of the nastier provisions of the Patriot Act. ==== Senate tries to end era of cloackroom anonymity; asshole senator threatens to block the legislation by using the technique that would be banned by said legislation (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2bl7s/comments/c2bouq Should I be worried that I'm starting to like Arlen Specter lately? ==== Were your school textbooks crap? This crusading wingnut woman gets much of the blame (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2berw/comments/c2bic3 In Berkeley, CA, they celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day. All city employees get the day off. ==== "Trust us! Just push that red button and we will tell you who you voted for. " -- Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandate (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2b7hz/comments/c2bdiu It's fascinating that the way you chose to bold that quote makes it look like it says exactly the opposite of what it really does. Why not just leave it the way it was? Or at least put the part about backing away in bold too? ==== You can get arrested for that?? (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2b0rn/comments/c2b7g2 You mean the one on Portal, right? Yeah, I've always wondered why it is there too. I think the roads department had too much money or something. ==== Number of Americans Moving to Canada Is At an All-Time High (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2awty/comments/c2b0pe As a Californian, I can get behind that map. As citizen of the world, I worry what would happen if all of the last sane voices of reason were to leave the electorate, leaving Jesusland with all of the nukes. ==== Benford's law - Or why most common numbers start with 1 (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/2anur/comments/c2awf6 There is a very practical use for this information -- if you plan to cheat on your taxes, you want to make sure your fake numbers follow this distribution, because the IRS uses this as one of their automated checks for whether or not to audit you. ==== Mexican national oil company says Mexico will be out of oil in seven years. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2aaj2/comments/c2apng I have no idea where you got the idea that theoildrum.com is banned on reddit: theoildrum.com on reddit Some of those stories have over 20 points. ==== Recent Income Tax Stories (to say nothing of comments) Contain the Clearest Misinformation Ever to Gain Currency on Reddit. Here's a Concise Explanation of Why They're Bunk. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2a4k1/comments/c2a91c That's because your friends are probably entitled to a refund every year, and the IRS doesn't want to point this out to them. If all of their income is from a job, then this is certainly the case, because the withholding is more than what they owe. The IRS is perfectly happy to let you fail to file if they owe you money. ==== Single gene knockout extends mouse lifespan 30% (score: 2) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/2a1sr/comments/c2a3r3 Don't worry, only rich people would be able to afford the treatment. You know, the folks who consume the most resources. Oh wait. ==== Drunk Server Farm Employee Downs Livejournal, Typead, Craig's List (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/295g5/comments/c2a1sw Glad I could help. ;) ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c2a0ep The thought was that if every user tagged things for their own personal gain, then there would be interesting emergent phenomena that could be exploited. However, since we are still not 100% sure how tags will work, how would you like to see tags implemented? ==== A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways flight for nearly three hours after discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next to men they did not know (score: 28) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29xpd/comments/c29yq5 Yeah really. Did he not realize that those empty seats next to the women just might be occupied by men? ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29ufj Instead of answering that, I will ask a related question: Do you trust all the other reddit users to properly tag every story the way you would want it to be tagged? ==== blog.reddit: new reddit on the horizon (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29qac/comments/c29udw Tags are for individuals, subreddits are for communities. ==== Displeased with the Current Make-Up of the Supreme Court? Congress Can Change the Number of Members to Controll the Effect of the Bush Appointments. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29lmz/comments/c29s2c Cool, so how do we make this a constitutional amendment? ==== Displeased with the Current Make-Up of the Supreme Court? Congress Can Change the Number of Members to Controll the Effect of the Bush Appointments. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29lmz/comments/c29rxd You're right, it would only be for 2 years or less, because presumably the person nominated would only serve out the dead justice's remaining term years, so another justice might be up soon after and it might be a new president. But I think a 27 year term would be too long. 18 seems to be just about right, because the approvals of the new judges would coincide nicely with the election of new Senators. ==== Displeased with the Current Make-Up of the Supreme Court? Congress Can Change the Number of Members to Controll the Effect of the Bush Appointments. (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29lmz/comments/c29nup Here is my supreme court solution: Limit terms to 18 years, and make the terms start on a 2 year rotating basis. That way, the court would get a new justice every 2 years and fully turn over every 18. Also, the chief justice should be the most senior judge that wants the job, not the one who happens to replace another chief justice. The point of a life-long appointment was so that the justices did not have to fear repercussions from their judgments, and could safely vote their conscience. I don't think that ability is lost with an 18 year term. Additionally, it would make it so that each president got to appoint at least 2 judges per term. Although this might make the court more political, it would help bring their politics more in line with the thinking of the day. ==== Little Known Facts such as "While it is true that an ant can lift 50 times his own body weight, he has very poor cardio." (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/29mpv/comments/c29nid I know the author, and I can assure that it is all original. ==== Drunk Server Farm Employee Downs Livejournal, Typead, Craig's List (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/295g5/comments/c297rv I didn't say it was impossible, I just said it was hard. I know they have multiple data centers. So does eBay. But here is a secret: if one of those goes down, the whole site will go down for a while. The other data centers are not hot spares. See here for some mainstream press coverage of an eBay outage due to power failure. ==== Money Traders Asking "How low can the Dollar go against the Euro? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/292dc/comments/c297ed Cool, thanks for the tip. In all my searching for an ETF that tracked the euro, this never showed up. However, that may be because it is a 1/5 from morningstar... After looking at the fx* etf's, it looks like the S&P 500 beat the pants off of all of them. I guess that makes sense, since the S&P 500 tracks companies that do business in Europe. ==== Drunk Server Farm Employee Downs Livejournal, Typead, Craig's List (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/295g5/comments/c2970e Actually, it does host digg, which was down for a bit this afternoon. ==== Drunk Server Farm Employee Downs Livejournal, Typead, Craig's List (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/295g5/comments/c296yp Multiple datacenters is a good idea, but when your site gets to a certain size, especially if it involves a database that requires constant synchronization, like craigslist or eBay, it becomes difficult to spread that around to multiple datacenters. At some point, the speed of light becomes a factor. :) In your particular case, it looks like xkcd.com resolves to 208.122.19.56 with a TTL of ~50 minutes, which means that if the machine at 208.122.19.56 goes down, it could take 50 minutes to get your site back online. :) ==== Obesity in US 1985-2004 (map) (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/294m2/comments/c296r7 > HFCS is cheaper than sugar Only because the government has made it that way by subsidising corn and taxing sugar. The raw production cost of the sugar is actually cheaper. ==== George Lucas wearing a Han Shot First tshirt (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/292vf/comments/c294yw Ok, does it help if I tell you that Spielberg is directing and Lucas is producing, just like with the other three Indy Jones films? ==== Forget The Hun: Web 2.0 Has Hit Porn (score: 87) ==== http://reddit.com/info/292nn/comments/c029368 Porn has been around since the printing press. I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon... ==== Money Traders Asking "How low can the Dollar go against the Euro? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/292dc/comments/c292jj The more important question here is how can I as a US investor take advantage of this situation? ==== How to set your rear view mirrors so that there is no blind spot. (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/290vb/comments/c2923i I'm surrprised more people don't know this -- this is what I was taught by dad when I was 15. However, it should be noted that it doesn't eliminate the blind spot, it only moves the blind spot further out and back to be two lanes over and behind. I prefer that spot because I don't often need to know who is there. The downside is that the cops like to hide there. ==== [Pics] A massive windowless stone building in the middle of Soho - AT&T's long lines switching center (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/28uzs/comments/c029147 Sunlight hurts the switching equipment and adds heat, and it makes it easier to fully utilize the space if you don't have to worry about skipping the windows. ==== There's No Good Reason To Bring Back The Draft....And Plenty Of Bad Ones (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/28l27/comments/c28nxc Does the author of the article not realize that the two representatives that he mentions keep proposing the draft specifically to point out its flaws and the absurdity of the war? ==== "A few months later, I happened to notice the photo. I looked, then looked again. My girlfriend and I were nowhere to be found. I didn't want to be paranoid..." (score: 38) ==== http://reddit.com/info/28kwy/comments/c28lpt While it may or may not be true that there is a disproportionate number of Jewish men who date Asian women, I can say that in my personal experience as a Jew who dates an Asian, it is the cultural similarities that draw me. Both cultures stress the importance of family and of education, which are both things that are important to me. ==== What Really Happened During the Challenger Explosion - Astronauts *Did* Survive the Fireball (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2842l/comments/c028633 They briefly considered ejection seats, but the biggest problem is that only the pilot and copilot could have them. All the other seats are on the second deck, and would have nowhere to eject to. ==== For a good time call 555 0917... [COMIC] (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27zuv/comments/c281vg For a lot of info, the wikipedia know all. But basically it was to prevent harassment of people by idiots who think the numbers are real. ==== 10 things i hate most about star trek. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27vqh/comments/c281q5 Awesome, thanks Wil! Amusingly, it was your skills as a geek, and not as a TV star, that got us this cool picture. ==== 10 things i hate most about star trek. (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27vqh/comments/c27xqz I don't suppose you have any close-up pictures of that cross-section that you could put up on your blog. That would probably be a #1 post here on reddit. :) ==== Bear Stearns told clients in its two battered hedge funds late yesterday that their investments, worth an estimated $1.5 billion at the end of 2006, are almost entirely gone. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27od3/comments/c27v59 > you need to be an SEC accredited investor, which means you have to have annual income of at least $200,000 and net worth of at least $1m, if I remember correctly. Close. You need to make 200k in the 2 most recent years or have $1M in assets. According to Securities Act Rule 501(a)(5) and (6) [17 CFR 230.501(a)(5) and (6)]: > Accredited investors include natural persons with individual incomes in excess of $200,000 (or joint spousal incomes of $300,000) for the two most recent years, if they reasonably expect to earn at least the same amount in the current year. Natural persons with individual (or joint, with a spouse) net worths over $1 million also are considered to be accredited investors. ==== Man beats IRS in court! Avoids paying income tax on 10 years worth of earnings. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27rbf/comments/c27u9r You're right, the chart is misleading -- I didn't realize that you had to hit such a high income in Vermont. Here in California, the limit for the highest rate is so low that I hit the 9% tax rate very early in my career. ==== Man beats IRS in court! Avoids paying income tax on 10 years worth of earnings. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27rbf/comments/c27u3e California, Oregon and Vermont have tax rates greater than 9%, so Alaskamiller probably lives in one of those states (which makes me wonder about the alaska in the username...) State tax rates ==== Louisiana attorney acquitted on federal income tax charges (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27bix/comments/c27u04 Does anyone know exactly what he did to avoid the taxes? The articles seem to be missing the details. :) ==== The Equity Equation - An as-yet-unposted PG essay? What happened, reddit? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27fu6/comments/c27iq2 There is a difference between Joel and Paul, though. Joel sells software, and wants everyone to buy it. Paul invests in people, and only wants the kind of people who already read his site and area already fans of his work and his writing. He is not concerned about growing his audience. He would rather his audience comes to him. ==== The Equity Equation - An as-yet-unposted PG essay? What happened, reddit? (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27fu6/comments/c27ima Ok, let me clarify. His provider does not a have a one-click solution to the problem, and Paul has no incentive to do the work. ==== The Equity Equation - An as-yet-unposted PG essay? What happened, reddit? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/27fu6/comments/c27iil Paul doesn't have RSS in part because his provider doesn't offer it. His site is a Yahoo store, served from Yahoo's servers. ==== One soldier's challenge to " the president or anyone to ride alongside me. .. I'll do 15 more months. They don't even have to pay me extra." [PIC] (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/276r1/comments/c278dv As much as I agree with you, is that really fair to their children? I mean, it's not like they chose to have parents in Congress. ==== Jon Lovitz beats up Andy Dick (score: 18) ==== http://reddit.com/info/273t8/comments/c027709 But he was supposed to be voiced by Hartman, but Hartman died before he could do it. The character was written specifically with Hartman in mind. ==== Abortion pill could become daily contraceptive (score: 2) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/2721g/comments/c275z3 > Condoms work and no chemicals, that's good. Ah, but then you kill all the fun! ==== Schrödinger's Dick Cheney [comics] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/25pps/comments/c25w0l You might want to consider the bookmarklets. They make it so you don't have to hit the back button to read the comments. ==== Learn Python in 10 minutes (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/25pf4/comments/c25v99 It happens occasionally. It's hard to tell because on the main site it doesn't say which subreddit it was submitted to. Hotness isn't only based on the number of votes, but a combination of other factors as well, so yeah, it is possible to reach the front page. ==== Americans in La-La Land as Doomsday for the Greenback Approaches (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/25p8b/comments/c25v70 It's not really investing. It's more like taking on VC money, and the VC is China. Eventually we will take on so much VC money that the VC will be in control... ==== Learn Python in 10 minutes (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/25pf4/comments/c25udf Reddit has worked like that since subreddits started. ==== Learn Python in 10 minutes (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/25pf4/comments/c25tyo Actually, it was posted to the programming reddit, and then graduated to the main page because it got so many votes. ==== Apple purchases CUPS! (in February!) (score: 33) ==== http://reddit.com/info/25qr1/comments/c25tub > CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple. ==== Major Adobe Flash flaws allow privileged code execution on all platforms (yes, Linix too) (score: 1) ==== http://netsec.reddit.com/info/25kgi/comments/c25mls Oops... :) Damn typo. ==== Pit bull sexually assaults two year old boy, neighbors outraged. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/25bro/comments/c25g8p You do realize a dog is incapable of rape, right? The dog was just doing what it does naturally -- humping another animal that appeared receptive to its advances. I really don't think the dog should be destroyed here -- he was just doing his thing. ==== Diet Pill for Dogs (score: 0) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/259pe/comments/c25b2g If your dog is so fat that they need hip surgery, the you aren't a very good owner, because you should have been limiting their intake long before they got that big... EDIT: When I say "you" I mean the owners with no self control, not you, Fara17. Just to be clear. :) ==== Diet Pill for Dogs (score: 2) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/259pe/comments/c25avr This is totally pointless! When we want the dog to loose weight, we just feed it less. It's not like he can sneak a snack when we aren't looking. ==== Study shows that high IQ does not correlate to high academic achivement -- but self-discipline does. (score: 2) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/256il/comments/c258nn The high barrier is generally true, although I know a guy who got into an elite private college without ever attending high school. So now I am curious -- do you know anyone with a very high IQ and poor self-discipline that are academic success stories? Because I know a few that are certainly the opposite. They are very smart people who don't do anything with themselves because they can't stick to a task. ==== How to listen to the voicemail of any AT&T mobile customer, even if they have the password set. (score: 1) ==== http://netsec.reddit.com/info/2571t/comments/c258j7 Did you read the article? It says that if you spoof your call ID, it doesn't ask for the password and the password does you no good. What the article DID say was that you need to specifically activate the feature that requires your password when calling from your own phone. ==== Study shows that high IQ does not correlate to high academic achivement -- but self-discipline does. (score: 8) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/256il/comments/c258ij If you talk to someone who is making advances in theoretical physics, who probably has or is getting a PHD, they will probalby tell you that it is both high IQ and good self-discipline that got them where they are today. ==== When not to hyphenate your name [pics] (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xsdo/comments/c025661 What about the kids? If you each stick with your own last name, what last name do the kids get? My girlfriend is a teacher, and she had a kid in her class last year that had a different last name then his parents. When asked about it, he said that since his parents each kept their own last name and they couldn't decide which one to give the kid, they made one up for him. I found this an interesting solution to the problem. ==== If public libraries didn't exist, could you start one today? (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/253y4/comments/c255nm The reason those books are bigger is so that they stand out on the shelves amongst the "lesser" authors and draw your eye towards them. It has nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with marketing. ==== Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/241h9/comments/c242zp Ah, I see what you're saying now. When you said "It always seems to be the other way for me." I thought you meant it always seems the poor have more influence (which is what I think a lot of people thought). Now I see that you mean "First comes the influence, then comes the money." If that is your argument, I agree with you almost completely. The only case where that might not apply is if you inherited a whole bunch of money, and then used that money to do something that would make you have to form social relationships, like start a business or a charity. ==== A Woman is Charged with "Child Endangerment" for her son STEPPING ON an American Flag. Come on Redditers, from a freedom of speech, liberty standpoint -- this ought to interest you! (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/240vx/comments/c242si Forcing a child to stand on a flag is not endangerment, and I never said it was. What I said was that forcing (or even allowing) her child to knowingly break the law IS child endangerment. Did you miss the part about how standing on a flag is illegal in Nebraska? ==== Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/241h9/comments/c242rh I think you missed a key point. If you had earned that $100 million, you would have had to built up social relationships with important people. I think they money is the result of the successful social relationships. So it isn't really the money that gets you the influence, but it is a good indicator of the influence you already have. ==== A Woman is Charged with "Child Endangerment" for her son STEPPING ON an American Flag. Come on Redditers, from a freedom of speech, liberty standpoint -- this ought to interest you! (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/240vx/comments/c242ou If it were a college kid, that person would have made their own choice to step on the flag, which is currently against the law where this incident happened (we can debate the constitutionality of that law later). In this case, the mother forced the child to break the law as it stands now. In my book, that IS child endangerment, regardless of the opinions of the mother. ==== Women's dress sizes (in addition to changing randomly over time) have no real meaning. They are arbitrary numbers, chosen by gay men who dislike women because they view them as competition. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23qj1/comments/c23tqc Levi's does this for jeans at their flagship store in San Francisco. ==== NSFW Reddit... just because you delete it doesn't mean it's gone. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/23gpx/comments/c23hqc http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ansfw.reddit.com ==== Wall Street is Scrambling to Avert a Crash (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/237er/comments/c23awy Um, yes, that is exactly right. It is THEIR problem, and no one should bail them out. They should not have bought a home they could only afford with such risky terms. And if you are a recently new homeowner, then you should not have bought a house that was so overpriced due to the exuberant market, and you don't deserve a bailout either. ==== RSS Feed Linkage - Link to article on reddit and not direct to article (score: 1) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/22fth/comments/c238id You might want to check out the bookmarklets, which would probably help you navigate to the comments page and vote more easily. ==== Warren Buffet admits US Tax System is screwed: in 2006, he paid 18% on $46 Million Income, his Secretary 30% on $60,000 (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/234k4/comments/c2381n Assuming she works in Nebraska, that is a pretty good salary compared to all the other people doing the same type of work in that area. ==== Lions in the shade [pic] (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2329k/comments/c233c2 I don't know why, but this feels like it deserves an "LOLCats!" ==== Worst traffic in the U.S. (score: -1) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/5xuht/comments/c22cp0 > Montana was the deadliest, with 2.256 fatalities (per 100 million vehicle miles). Isn't Montana also the state with no speed limit on its highways? Edit: jojopotato is right, they have a speed limit now. I'm now going to downvote myself for being lazy and not checking first. ==== 20 worst windows features of all time. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/228la/comments/c22bbt It's so that the sites can increase their page views, because sadly that is the metric a lot of advertisers user when deciding where to run their ads. ==== XSS/CSRF Hole in Reddit Uncovered - Proof of Concept and Explanation (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/21s4w/comments/c21zy2 It certainly could, if Reddit were vulnerable to that sort of attack on the voting and submitting pages, which it is not. ==== Has reddit been hacked in some way? The popups for "PCTurboPro" people have been seeing are malware (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5xvlb/comments/c214oe We do not censor or remove stories. In that particular case, the user deleted the story when they found out it had spyware in it. Here is the link to the story about the page with the trojan: http://reddit.com/info/1terq/comments ==== 99% of FCC complaints are from one organization (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/20rke/comments/c20t2i Instead of complaining, why not fill the FCC with letter of SUPPORT for profanity and nudity? Whatever issue that site lists as needing a letter, another site should make it possible to send the exact opposite letter. ==== A parcel with a hidden camera inside travels through the postal system (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/20fo5/comments/c20jt9 Was the video on that page? If it was, it isn't anymore, in which case, mirror? ==== Nearly One-Third of Congress Has Family On Payroll (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1zngv/comments/c1zq03 That's because upcoming legislation is public record... ==== FBI is Contacting More Than One Million PC Owners (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1zacy/comments/c1zbth The FBI is stupid. They should NOT be telling these people to install virus protection or anything. They should request to be allowed to examine the machine, to try and determine where the commands are coming from, and then keep trying to track it back until they find the guy running the bot network. ==== Sex 'helps men to live longer' (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1yan2/comments/c1yiva Also related, regular exercise helps men live longer... ==== Another "moral victory" and another reason for everyone else to laugh at the United States (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ycph/comments/c1yiet Does this only apply to men, or will women wearing low rise jeans and thongs be subjected to this too? 'Cause that would suck. :) ==== Oregon student finds school's toilet water cleaner than fountain water (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1xywc/comments/c1y06m Yeah, I was wondering about that too. ==== Where reddit.com users come from (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1xun8/comments/c1xz15 http://lang.reddit.com/ http://sub.reddit.com/ http://all.reddit.com/ (that last one is so you don't have to keep track) ==== Where reddit.com users come from (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1xun8/comments/c1xz0e What? ==== BREAKING: Seven US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1x168/comments/c1x3ol Sorry, I'm feeling pedantic this evening: shoo-in ==== Paris Hilton ordered back to the slammer, WOO HOO! (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ws9x/comments/c1wtk1 I have no idea. I've never been to jail. :) I suspect since this is VIP jail, the rules are more lax for everyone, including the guards. ==== Paris Hilton ordered back to the slammer, WOO HOO! (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ws9x/comments/c1wswz I think their big concern was monitoring their own employees: > Levine said that with rewards being offered for pictures of Hilton in custody, jail officials would have had to monitor the cell phone cameras of every employee. ==== How much does a NY cabbie make? How about a drug dealer or a sex shop owner? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wfys/comments/c1wiyq That's awesome. You should submit that to Reddit. :) ==== "OMG!OCRCAL" -- the world's most insane calc.exe replacement (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wd2g/comments/c1whiy When I first saw the picture, I thought it was a new captcha method. ==== How much does a NY cabbie make? How about a drug dealer or a sex shop owner? (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1wfys/comments/c1wgnq Actually, at the bottom of the page on the drug dealer, they mention Freakonomics and how most of the dealers make less than minimum wage. ==== Best captcha ever! [pic (score: 0) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1vmce/comments/c1vphf You could delete your original post and then resubmit to both at the same time. ==== Let's make this easy: A collection of the best Google Street View images, with voting powered by Reddit (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1vak4/comments/c1vbfs The pictures are hosted by the people submitting them, and I think some of them are having their hosting shut off or overburdened because of bandwidth issues. ==== Exit from Overdraft Hell? New legislation would curb "chain reaction" bank penalties (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1v9hp/comments/c1vbf4 It's a business account. I don't have complete control over the cash flow. Sometimes the client pays on time, sometimes they are a little late. And if you must know, I can't change banks or use a check because the person the money goes to requires an electronic transfer, and the only way that is free and reliable is to use the same bank. I refuse to leave enough money sitting in the bank to cover the transfer because of the bank's stupid policy to intentionally screw its customers. ==== Exit from Overdraft Hell? New legislation would curb "chain reaction" bank penalties (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1v9hp/comments/c1vauz The banks cheat is the problem. I put a deposit in the bank to cover an auto-transfer that I know is going to happen. At midnight, they process the transfer FIRST, then hit me with an overdrawn fee, then process the deposit, and use the extra money in the deposit to pay the fee. If they would just do it fair and process the deposit first, I wouldn't have to call them and argue about it every time it happens. ==== Gore Thinking of Running for President (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1usty/comments/c1v00g Did you see this study that showed that 95% of people surveyed said they would have no problem voting for a black person: http://www.data360.org/report_slides.aspx?Print_Group_Id=99 ==== 4-year-old British boy who released a balloon with a message hoping to find a pen pal in a foreign land ended up having a correspondence with the Queen. (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ulyo/comments/c1ut85 You mean like how Bush didn't take over for his Dad? Oh wait. And besides, the Queen isn't really leeching off the people -- She's one of the wealthiest people in the world because she inherited the wealth of her ancestors who DID leech off the people. ==== Since computers have cooling fans, why bother with A/C in a data centre? (score: 21) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1usa9/comments/c1usri How did that guy get into the data center? I think the facilities manager that let him in there should be canned instead. ==== Bush doubles secret service protection for his retirement (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ug8x/comments/c1ui0m You're right. I think the confusion came from this: > The Bush administration has doubled the number of officials granted Secret Service protection, from 26 to 54, including top White House aides such as the chief of staff and national and homeland security advisers. ==== ABC News Uncovers ‘Operation Northwoods’ [Top Secret Front Page Pic Included] (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1uehd/comments/c1ufgs So, is the implication that the Bush administration used a staged terrorist attack to support war in Iraq? Help out here, I'm a little slow sometimes. ==== Which eye do you CHOOSE for flirting? (score: 1) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/1u03k/comments/c1ue6z I'm also left eye/right hand. Although I suspect this might be because I have worse vision in my right eye and I don't usually wear my glasses. ==== I’m Twenty Years Old And Have No Debt - When Can I Retire And Live Off My Investments? (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1tv2n/comments/c1tw5b When I left college in 2000, every one of my friends that got a computer related job (programming, IT, etc.) was making more than 60k a year. And at my previous company, the starting salary for a kid fresh out of school was 65k for any technical position. ==== The kind of personalized correspondence you can expect from Microsoft [pic] (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1sy4z/comments/c1t1w4 I think you missed the joke. Take a look again at the first line. ==== Star Wars Characters: Then and Now [photos] (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1syxt/comments/c1t1ml Next time you get a chance to hear her speak, let me know if you still have the same opinion. :) I think the drugs did something to her vocal cords, because she sounds like a man. ==== Digg Banning Users For Not Reading Stories (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1szzi/comments/c1t1lt You can unhide all the comments by going to your prefs page and blanking out the threshold. ==== A Widening Chasm Between House Democrats and the Voters on Impeachment (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1snzi/comments/c1sqne As much as I don't like the policies of Bush and Cheney, doesn't anyone realize impeachment won't help anything? Think about it. If proceedings started, one of them would step down, and the other would then nominate a replacement -- ie. someone who is loyal to both of them. Someone who would then pardon them and then continue their policies. And, it would make the democrats seem vindictive, hurting their chances in 2008, and would set a nasty precedent of the majority party impeaching any President who is not of their party. I say, let the crooks continue to make mistakes and ensure that in 2008, the Republicans will suffer for it. ==== Symantec false positive cripples thousands of Chinese PCs (score: 1) ==== http://netsec.reddit.com/info/1rydm/comments/c1rzlm Trend Micro makes a decent product. Just stay away from Symantec products in any category -- even the ones they got through acquisition seem to turn to crap after they get hold of em. ==== Pirates released fully cracked Vista (score: 1) ==== http://netsec.reddit.com/info/1rum1/comments/c1rum6 When will programmers realized that you can't have an encryption scheme where you give the shared secret to the person you are trying to keep the secret from! ==== Why did the price of a Coke stay at 5 cents for 60 years? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1q73a/comments/c1qaye The short version of the article: Because it cost too much money to re-tool all the vending machines, which only accepted nickels, and because they didn't want a 100% price hike by upping it to a dime, which was the next coin available. ==== The video on war profiteering Republicans don’t want you to see (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1pnw5/comments/c1pw6x I wonder how I go about getting a no-bid cost+ contract from the government. I could use one of those about now. ==== One woman can't have a baby in nine months (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1pt78/comments/c1puf2 A good QA department is staffed with engineers that are capable of finding bugs, creating test cases, and in the best case, can even suggest a fix. If your QA department has enough people, then you will meet this requirement. Hence the need for talented QA engineers... ==== You are what you eat, which is why you may want to avoid USDA certified chicken meat. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1oaft/comments/c1od0d I think they make baloney from pigs. ==== The Romeo and Juliet Effect: Why Christians Keep Having Sex Before Marriage (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1mggz/comments/c1muda You're forgetting one small thing. When these rules were first being enforced by Paul, most people were getting married at about the same time they were starting to get horny. They didn't have this period where they were sexually mature but not ready to start a family. ==== DIGG DRAMA CONTINUES: Kevin Rose bows down to community "If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying." Is it too late? (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1mp0e/comments/c1mpwa Pica has never been censored by Reddit. He censors himself, pretty much every week, by deleting all of his posts and comments. ==== Ask Reddit: Reddit search sucks. Please fix it. (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1lovj/comments/c1lslz I'm the one fixing the search. The search code is separate, actually. But the hard part is getting the data into the search database, which comes from the core code. And the hard part about that is trying to figure out the core code, which Spez didn't document very well. :) ==== Woman gets $26,000 cell phone bill - Cingular Says "File Bankruptcy" (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1l6q4/comments/c1lbl4 Because the caller pays the same no matter what kind of phone they are calling (land vs. cell) so someone has to pick up the difference in cost. ==== FARK.com now grabbing the copyrights of all submitted content (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1l3jr/comments/c1l9wb I think you missed my point... ==== FARK.com now grabbing the copyrights of all submitted content (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1l3jr/comments/c1l74l Actually, I think a more accurate analogy would be if you pulled into a parking garage, and on the back, burried in their terms, it says "the garage now owns your car, but you can continue to use it for free. " Which is fine until you go to trade it in. :) ==== Google Releases It's Own MySQL Patches (score: 13) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1ku5l/comments/c1kvno I didn't read it -- my friends that work there told me. I don't know if the videos themselves are in the database or just the metadata, but I do know they made some serious enhancements to MySQL to get it to work for them. ==== Google Releases It's Own MySQL Patches (score: 17) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1ku5l/comments/c1kvka Shh.... don't tell anyone, but I'm pretty sure most of those enhancements came from YouTube, which uses MySQL as their primary storage backend. ==== Claim: In 1983, Atari buried millions of E.T. cartidges in the New Mexico desert .. Status: True (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1kdja/comments/c1kljj Adventure was the first Atari game to have an Easter Egg -- if you found the right spot in the maze, you could walk through the wall! I wish I could find that cartridge in my collection, but it seems to have gone missing a while back. ==== Wall Street is about to launch a new way to trade professional athletes like the way you trade stocks. Now, when Tiger wins, you do too. (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1jl2h/comments/c1jmys It doesn't apply to securities markets because those are not tracking the value of a single individual. ==== Romania - My country (pics) (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1jhip/comments/c1jmy0 Where is the picture of all the net cafes where the crackers are sending phishing emails all day? ==== Wall Street is about to launch a new way to trade professional athletes like the way you trade stocks. Now, when Tiger wins, you do too. (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1jl2h/comments/c1jlyb But the incentive is different. When someone is placing a wager on a sport, they wager on the team, not a single player. So if someone made a large bet on a team to loose, and then injured their star player, the team could still conceivably win. Also, to make enough money for it to be worthwhile, you'd have to place a very large wager right before the game, and the bookie or sports book would probably get suspicious. With a market in athletes based on an individual's worth, it is much more guaranteed that you will make money if you short them and they are injured. Also, you can hide the transactions much more easily, by buying lots of small short contracts, well in advance of the "injury" ==== Wall Street is about to launch a new way to trade professional athletes like the way you trade stocks. Now, when Tiger wins, you do too. (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1jl2h/comments/c1jlx0 Doesn't that just reinforce my point? ==== Wall Street is about to launch a new way to trade professional athletes like the way you trade stocks. Now, when Tiger wins, you do too. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1jl2h/comments/c1jlh8 Doesn't this create a huge incentive for people to injure athletes? I mean, if you're a pro athlete and you're going to play a team with a really "high value" player, what is to stop you from investing heavily in shorting that player, and then injuring them on the field? Or having some less than reputable folks invest in a player and then hit them in the kneecaps with a tire iron? ==== Ever hear the story of how NASA spent millions developing a pen that can write in zero-g while the Russians just used pencils? It's not true. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1jdvw/comments/c1jky3 Not exactly. For the first three shuttle launches, they put an extra coat of white paint over the orange insulating paint on the External Tank. This was done solely for aesthetic reasons. After that, they decided to stop spending the money and just leave it orange. The debris that comes off is the insulating foam on the ET, but that comes off no matter what color it is. :) ==== Comments 'sort by' should allow 'chronological' to see the development of the thread from the beginning (score: 1) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/1f99w/comments/c1j9nb You're right, a reverse chronological sort was not possible. Thanks for the suggestion. If you check out the sort box, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the "old" sort that I've added. I think it does what you want. Enjoy! ==== Potheads to US Gov: "Tax Us!" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ico9/comments/c1ijss Actually, it is April 17th for everyone, because April 16th is Emancipation Day in Washington DC, and tax law says that if it is a holiday in DC, then taxes aren't due. Interestingly, even the IRS didn't realize this until after they printed their materials, which is why the tax forms have the wrong date. Check out the IRS web site for more info. ==== Overlapping shoulders in cattle class? - radical seating concept (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1iaem/comments/c1ijs1 Southwest airlines has rear facing seats. I sit in them all the time, because you get more legroom. It requires a slight bit of effort to stay in the seat during takeoff, but otherwise I would say it is much more comfortable. ==== Overlapping shoulders in cattle class? - radical seating concept (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1iaem/comments/c1ijrl You know, originally I had written "only 1/3 of the people fly backwards (or 2/3's depending on which way is forward)" but for some reason I took the parenthetical out. :) ==== Prius can't pass Georgia emissions test (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ieo4/comments/c1ijpv It is possible, see my reply to the parent. ==== Prius can't pass Georgia emissions test (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ieo4/comments/c1ijps Catalytic converters reduce carbon monoxide, VOCs and NOx emissions using chemical processes. Those substances are produced when your fuel is not burned efficiently. When you don't have a catalytic converter, you can use additives in the fuel that make it burn more efficiently, which actually reduce the emissions more than the catalytic converter can. However, those additives add different substances to the exhaust, which are less harmful to the environment, but destroy the ceramics and the catalysts on them. So, when the cat is bolted on, you have to stop putting in the additives, which make the emissions worse. ==== Overlapping shoulders in cattle class? - radical seating concept (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1iaem/comments/c1ig3s Not to nitpick, but I must point out that only 1/3 of the people fly backwards if all of the rows are in this configuration. :) ==== Prius can't pass Georgia emissions test (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ieo4/comments/c1ig1o California has a similar problem. They require all cars to have a catalytic converter. If you test a car without one, even if it passes every emissions test, and puts less pollutants in the air then other cars that do pass, you will still fail the visual part of the exam. We had a car once that didn't have a catalytic converter. We had to bolt one on to pass the test, even though the stuff coming out the tail pipe was WORSE. ==== Man Gets 15 Years in Prison for Sophisticated Marijuana Ferris Wheel (PICTURE) (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hpnf/comments/c1hr90 You can turn the bar off in your preferences: http://reddit.com/prefs/options Also, we would be glad to hear your feedback on how to improve the reddit bar, by emailing feedback@reddit.com. Thanks! ==== Airliners circle for 18 minutes while lone controller goes to restroom (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1hf5d/comments/c1hhh9 Just out of curiosity, where does that $60/minute figure come from? ==== The Alien got booted from Facebook (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gvjd/comments/c1h2ze Except that they still allow college mascots to have their own account. There are three "Oski Bear" accounts alone (Oski is the mascot for UC Berkeley). ==== 11 Tips for Dealing with Snoring (score: 0) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/1grov/comments/c1gydp Make the dog sleep just outside the bedroom door, or make sure to go to sleep before the dog. :) ==== Amazing anamorphic illusion at Cardiff Bay barrage (PIC) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gu66/comments/c1gycq San Francisco has caught on to this "effect" as well. If you ride BART (the subway) from the city to the east bay, you will be treated to a loverly animation projected on the tube wall -- a Target ad. ==== Which universities use Scheme/Lisp extensively in the Masters program? Brown, NEU, Utah, .. anything else? (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1gjfx/comments/c1guit UC Berkeley lets you use whatever language you want for whatever project you want in the masters program, as long as you can find an adviser to sign off on it. If you do anything AI related, then your adviser would most certainly be a lisper. ==== Emacs 22 pre-release: Goodies galore (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1gkp7/comments/c1glsp I'm not denying the power of wdired, I'm simply stating that in the hands of the incompetent, it might cause some problems. And I can assure you that people who use "the shit" are considered youngsters by me as well. ==== Emacs 22 pre-release: Goodies galore (score: 6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1gkp7/comments/c1gld3 Now you can not only shoot yourself in the foot, but with TRAMP's multi-hop mode, you can burn down the house, and combined with the new wdired-mode and some macros, you can destroy the universe! ==== Democrats to Permanently Restrict Alternative Minimum Tax to the Ultra-Rich (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1gdg3/comments/c1gi7l Seriously. If you want to own a 3 bedroom house in a decent neighborhood in the Bay Area, and you have say 2 kids, you pretty much have to be making over $200k/year, since that house would run you about $800k - $1MM. ==== Comments 'sort by' should allow 'chronological' to see the development of the thread from the beginning (score: -2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/1f99w/comments/c1g32d I think you'll get what you want if you select to sort by new, and style nested. ==== Don't hotlink directly to images! Use this trick instead... (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1fovg/comments/c1fq77 What happens if the source image changes? ==== Toyota Rented Me A Car That Was Illegal To Drive (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1fme0/comments/c1foje Avis rented me a car with an expired registration once. When I told them that I had gotten pulled over for it (no ticket), they gave me a coupon for a free rental. ==== Make Congress Read the Bills (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cn68/comments/c1flr1 I see a new career path for speed-speakers and auctioneers. ==== Apple Announces 8-core Mac Pro - Lowers Prices on Cinema Displays (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1fa9d/comments/c1fejc Octo-core. ==== Why doesn't Linux need defragmenting? (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1erue/comments/c1f13g There are many other reasons to like ZFS. It has a lot of error detection/correction built in, it doesn't require journaling to stay consistent through a crash, and it has some really great volume management that makes adding disks, doing quotas and permissions, and optimizing data layout for the specific type of data that will be in the volume easy. If you can look past the marketing hype, this is a pretty good rundown: http://nz.sun.com/learnabout/solaris/10/ds/zfs.html I've been pretty impressed with what has come out of Sun lately, both with their hardware and software. I've had to use Sun stuff for many years, but recently I've actually sort of enjoyed it. Their hardware even runs windows now! ==== Why doesn't Linux need defragmenting? (score: 3) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1erue/comments/c1eu8m There is an alpha port of zfs that has read/write under linux using FUSE. ==== Downtime in 2007 for the 20 most popular websites (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1etzm/comments/c1etzx Interestingly, a lot of companies these days are focusing less on maintaining perfect uptime, since users seem to be more forgiving than in the past. ==== Why doesn't Linux need defragmenting? (score: 12) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/1erue/comments/c1esp5 Check out ZFS from Sun. It not only doesn't need defragmenting, it even constantly rewrites and checksums in the background to avoid bit rot. ==== Don't buy Girl Scout cookies (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1e1oa/comments/c1e4er Although your point was to refute my argument, I think you only added evidence that no matter what you do in life, it is all about the network... ==== Pot-growing takes root in the suburbs (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1e002/comments/c1e3lz I lived next door to a pot house when I was kid (in Southern California). They were they best neighbors we ever had. They were quiet, they kept the outside clean, they never had parties, they never made any noise. We only found out when the cops came to bust them and started asking us questions. ==== Don't buy Girl Scout cookies (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1e1oa/comments/c1e3gw While I agree with you that the music industry will be better when the record companies go away, I think you are underestimating the value of the consulting firm you worked for. What they were providing was not paperwork reduction -- they were providing access to their network of people to get you work. Chances are you would not have been able to get daily work when you were just starting out, because you didn't know enough people. You had to build your network, which you are now using. And if you're lucky, maybe you can find enough work so you can hire a consultant to work for you, and take 3/4's of their earnings. :) ==== Physics for Future Presidents (score: 1) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/1dup5/comments/c1dy94 It Cal, the 10 level courses are generally the courses you take to meet general ed requirements if you have no interest in the subject. For example, Geology 10 was known amongst the students as "Rocks for jocks". ==== How about a sub-reddit for all country code top level domains, - za.reddit.com, uk.reddit,com - to help foster the kind of debate that takes place with USA politics and trends, for those countries? I'm burning for reddit style debate on my country. The reddit interface is a human right! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dc46/comments/c1dkya Have you checked out http://lang.reddit.com/? It might have what you are looking for. ==== Days per year spent working to pay various taxes (image) (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1dhnq/comments/c1dizr Yeah, but shoolz gets health coverage (and a bunch of other stuff) in return. If you considered your health costs as a "tax", when would your tax freedom day be? I'm not saying one system is better than the other, I'm just saying, you gotta compare apples to apples. ==== Why smart programmers should start their own companies, by a successful Y-Combinator founder (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1c1a8/comments/c1c602 America's past was everyone as a free agent. Before the industrial revolution, no one worked for a big company. Everyone just did their own thing and charged others for it. Why can't that work again? ==== Questions even Straight Dope wouldn't answer (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1bcxz/comments/c1bg3c I know the answer to one of them! > Why does Denny's have locks on the door if it's open 24 hours? Denny's USED to be open 24 hours, and have no locks on the door. Then some time ago (I can't find exactly when) they decided they would close for a few hours on Christmas day, since no one came in. It was at that point that most of them installed locks on the doors. The Denny's manager will generally be more than happy to tell you this on a slow night. ==== Wonder why Google.com is simple? The founder's didn't know HTML (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1b3lx/comments/c1b6gm Well, I use FF 2.0 on the Mac, and it works fine for me, but others seem to be reporting that it is off. Perhaps you have to enable it in some option somewhere. ==== Windows User Reviews 12 Linux Installs In Extreme Depth On Path To Ditching High-Priced Vista (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1b3hv/comments/c1b5y5 Admittedly, no, I did not finish the article. It bored me to tears. I started skimming about 1/2 way through. ==== Windows User Reviews 12 Linux Installs In Extreme Depth On Path To Ditching High-Priced Vista (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1b3hv/comments/c1b54s This article is long-winded and poorly written. The comparison is also wholly unfair -- he tried installing linux on a 300MHz machine with 192MB of RAM. That isn't exactly a Vista quality machine. That won't even run XP. If he wanted to make a fair comparison to Windows, he should have at least used a machine made in the last 5 years. ==== Wonder why Google.com is simple? The founder's didn't know HTML (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1b3lx/comments/c1b507 You don't actually need the keyword in Firefox. If you just put the term in the address bar, it does an I'm feeling lucky search automatically. EDIT: Thanks bryneseview. In my head I thought "address", but my fingers keyed in "search". Don't you hate when your fingers don't listen to your mind? :) ==== $11 Million salary, 36% raise and 10,000 fired employees. (score: 12) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1ar00/comments/c1au3x You forgot an important point in your calculations -- lost productivity from the 10,000 employees that are no longer there. As long as the lost productivity doesn't amount to a loss of $350MM, then, yes, it was still a good move. But I'm just saying that you have to include that too. Otherwise, the best move for any company would be to lay off its entire workforce. :) ==== Stocks Plunge As Mortgage Worries Rise (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1a06m/comments/c1a7c6 Luckily, my stocks are still in the green, so I'm just going to raise the limits closer to the current price, to be a bit more conservative. ==== Stocks Plunge As Mortgage Worries Rise (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1a06m/comments/c1a373 $100K won't get you very far here in the US. The median home price naitonwide is about $200k, which means you would have to look in the less populated areas. Unless of course you mean that the $100K is a down payment, in which case it is really just a matter of how much you are willing to spend on a mortgage. And besides, I think the housing boom in the UK and the US is being fueled by the same speculation, so you'd really just be trading one evil for another. ==== Stocks Plunge As Mortgage Worries Rise (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1a06m/comments/c1a1sb Well, this is good news because I'd like to buy a house and I'd like to see the prices drop; but it's bad news because all the money I have for the down payment is in the stock market! Time to raise those stop limits I suppose. ==== Former Marijuana Smuggler Seeks Legitimate Employment [image] (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/19s2x/comments/c1a1o5 This reminds me of that time someone posted a whole article as a title to see how large the title field was in the database... ==== The Sneak Tax They Switched From Billionaires To You (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/191vx/comments/c19bfd Using your same numbers, but without the tax deduction: If you make $100, and donate $90, you pay taxes on $100. If your tax rate is 10%, you pay $10 in taxes, leaving $0 to live on. So you see, without the tax break, it would be much more harmful to you to donate, which would discourage you from doing so. ==== What you didn't know about pedestrian-crossing lights (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17m32/comments/c17pe3 There's two main types of ads in this world -- activation marketing and brand marketing. Activation marketing is the kind of ad where you are told (either subtly or not so subtly) to go and do something with the advertisers product. Brand marketing is the kind that Nike uses, where the brand is so famous that all they have to do is remind you about it. Most companies' brands are not famous enough to do a brand campaign, but they think they are, so they end up making what amounts to a useless ad. ==== Apple Won't Sell You A Computer Because You've Got Too Many Gift Cards (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17fw9/comments/c17jr6 I think the problem is fraud -- the limit is most likely an anti-fraud measure. ==== Apple Won't Sell You A Computer Because You've Got Too Many Gift Cards (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/17fw9/comments/c17jr4 If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say the limit is an anti-fraud protection. ==== 10 Creative Folks Who Started Six Figure Online Businesses At Home. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/166fb/comments/c16adb It's the second part that is the problem, the non-transferable license. Almost all of those conference materials include a clause about not sharing or transferring the material. ==== 10 Creative Folks Who Started Six Figure Online Businesses At Home. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/166fb/comments/c167xt Half of these ideas involve trademark and copyright violations. The first one is the biggest offender -- reselling old conference materials. If you read those materials, I'm sure you'll find the part about it being copyrighted and the user being granted a non-transferable license. ==== Life as a Thai sex worker (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/165pj/comments/c167um Even if the rates were standardized worldwide, there would still be sex tourism until it was legal everywhere, or at least enforced the same way everywhere. ==== Color Codes (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1650a/comments/c167qo This should help: http://xtronics.com/kits/rcode.htm ==== Bush's New Budget Offers $32.7 Billion In Tax Cuts To The Wal-Mart Family Alone (score: 19) ==== http://reddit.com/info/15r0m/comments/c15t56 As a Libertarian, I agree with you that the estate tax is a flawed tax. However, as a pragmatist, I think it still serves a purpose. Historically, its purpose was to prevent accumulation of wealth at the top. The founding fathers were proponents of the estate tax to prevent kings and other royalty from forming in America simply through generational accumulation. However, the estate tax hits too low, because the limits do not rise appropriately. I think it can still serve its purpose of preventing massive amounts of accumulation at the top if they just raised the limit of where it starts to something reasonable, and then tied it to a reasonable index so that it keeps going up. Another option would be to separate it into property vs. other assets to address the issue of people loosing the "family farm". Have a very high limit on the inheritance of a single piece of property (the family home or the family farm, for instance) and then tax the rest of it at some other rate. ==== XM and Sirius satellite radio to disclose merger today (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/15f7w/comments/c15h63 Competition with terrestrial radio? That's about the only way I can think this will go though. ==== Truly, Lisp was the language from which the Gods wrought the universe. (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/14ujh/comments/c14x22 Part of the reason people post them is so that they can have a lively discussion about the comic, which isn't possible otherwise. ==== In the year 2000, Forbes magazine picked "10 stocks to last a decade" Guess how they are doing sofar? (hint: Enron was one) (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/14kqr/comments/c14msp Numbers in parenthesis are negative, ie. they lost money. Only one of the 10 stocks is up since 2000 (Genentech) ==== British TV crew get stoned, chased by intolerant Alabama natives (score: 20) ==== http://reddit.com/info/146ti/comments/c1495t Actually, the cameraman was filming his own shadow as he ran with the camera on. ==== Discuss: Should reddit make users' votes public? (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/146bw/comments/c148ap At the top of the comments section is a tab that says "Details" which has exactly what you are looking for. *edit: My bad, I didn't read the request carefully enough. Poster wanted details on a per comment basis. Sorry about that. ==== Fashion4Nerds.com - Simple Fashion Advice for Nerds (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1434l/comments/c147fc Yes, but did YOU give her a little extra for her effort? ==== How Not to Talk to Your Kids (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1446k/comments/c147d9 I think you've hit on something really important here. Being smart alone does not gain success -- you have to be competitive too. Like you guys, I coasted through school, dropped out of college (I did eventually finish though), and am doing well by normal standards, but not as well as I would like. After reading this comment, I realized it is because I am not competitive. So the question is, can one learn to be competitive late in life, or is it something that is learned as a child (or perhaps genetic)? ==== A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/145q1/comments/c146di It is difficult for a single application to use 80 cores, but it seems like it would be pretty easy for an OS to do so -- just assign each process its own core, right? ==== Teen brothers get 10 years for cooking puppy in oven (threatened children if they told about it) (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/13sbz/comments/c13x53 Or to raise the value of human life. What I am saying is that I would be equally disgusted if they put a 7 year old child, a three year old child, a three year old dog or any other creature in an oven. They are equally disgusting acts to me. ==== Teen brothers get 10 years for cooking puppy in oven (threatened children if they told about it) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/13sbz/comments/c13t1p So killing a three month old defenseless animal is not as bad as killing a human? If anything, I think it is worse. The animal had no way to defend itself. At least a human could try to fight back -- unless it was a baby, and then maybe they would be about the same. I mean, a baby is an animal, and they are cute. So it should be the same punishment, right? ==== Man Tracks Down Baggage Handler Who Stole His Camera, Delta Won't Refund (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/13e1f/comments/c13eps > Delta Won't Refund They probably will now... ==== Steve Jobs talks about DRM (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/136kz/comments/c138te Why didn't you just buy one re-recordable CD? ==== What happens when you mail a letter with coins instead of stamps affixed? (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/132vf/comments/c136pf If the machine is loaded by hand, why would the technician put in a piece of mail that they know would jam the machine, like the one with the coins attached? ==== What is it like working on a porn set? (no nudity, but slightly nsfw) (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/130v8/comments/c132et Eww. I hope the perks far outweigh the nastyness. ==== The right wing noise machine (comic) (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/12zgd/comments/c131rg This is why the right wins more elections -- they are much better at this than the left, who try to use the same tactics, but are too afraid to use them as well as the right. ==== How to fix campaign financing forever for $50 (2 good ideas) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/12z0d/comments/c1316c That's not true, because you can divide the money up amongst multiple candidates, so you could give some money to a bunch of people you think you might want to vote for, or perhaps give a little to each of the 3rd party candidates whose issues you want to see brought to the forefront. ==== Programmers Don't Like to Code -- Jonathan Rentzsch's rebuttal to Scott Rosenberg's Salon article (score: 0) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/12s2z/comments/c12tvc That guy stole his icon from the Stickies program on the Mac! ==== California proposes ban on incandescent light bulbs (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/127wi/comments/c012973 And for that matter, how will I power my lava lamp! ==== The craigslist Anomaly (score: -6) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/11xrq/comments/c012005 The more important point was that Craigslist was the only company on that list of 10 that isn't a multi-billion dollar multi-nantional public company. Being one of those requires a lot of overhead, including customer service. ==== The craigslist Anomaly (score: -5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/11xrq/comments/c11zwq I never said it was a condition or anything like that. I simply said that it is a reason that saying such a thing is reasonable. ==== The craigslist Anomaly (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/11xrq/comments/c11zuk Sure it is. If owned 25% of your business, I would probably be happy to help you out and let you use some of my resources in exchange for some information about your business.. ==== The craigslist Anomaly (score: 5) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/11xrq/comments/c11zri Yes, owning a minority postion does not mean you work for them, but if you read the rest of the comment, I said "I know for a fact that ... they leverage a lot of eBay employees". The part about the 25% ownership was simply to explain why Craigslist could leverage eBay employees -- it was not the reason that they do. ==== The craigslist Anomaly (score: 14) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/11xrq/comments/c11z00 This story was on Reddit before: http://reddit.com/info/nv3p/comments Here is what I said then: "In the specific case of Craigslist, I know for a fact that the reason they can get away with so few employees is because they leverage a lot of the eBay employees (eBay owns 25% of Craigslist, which is why they are able to leverage eBay employees). So the numbers are particularly misleading for Craigslist, since some of those people on the eBay list should be on Craigslist list. Also, in Craigslist's case, it's easy to run a website if you aren't making a lot of money, because you don't need customer service or all of those other things that go along with turning huge profits and running a public company." Edit: Added clarification that it is a fact that Craigslist uses eBay employee resources. ==== The Costco Effect: 24 Rolls of Toilet Paper, a Tub of Salsa and a Plasma TV (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/11pjv/comments/c11t0c Little Costco secret: It the price tag has a star on it, that means it is a seasonal/temporary item, and if it doesn't have one, that means it is a regular item. ==== Uncle Sam spoils dream trip to space (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/11k44/comments/c11lfk Why didn't the guy at least sell his space? ==== Nomic: The game where players can vote to change the rules at any time (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/11k48/comments/c11lcd Try Fluxx. It is similar, but since it is a card game with some fixed rules, it goes a little faster and is more fun. Also, you can get blank cards and make your own rules. ==== I Confess: Cineplex Drove Me to Piracy (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/11kkt/comments/c11lby As lang as you agree to pay for a licensed version when it comes out on DVD... :) ==== Google is the new http:// (score: 26) ==== http://reddit.com/info/11jds/comments/c11jxv As was aptly pointed out in the comments, most of these are people who type "myspace" or "google" into the address bar in firefox, which does an "I'm feeling lucky" Google search. ==== At what site do websurfers spend most of their time? (Hint: Teenagers seem to have a lot of free time) (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/111f7/comments/c111fu In case you have the same question as me, the explanation of their data source is on the right. ==== Senate is now so elderly, on average, that questions have been raised about its "ability to govern" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10p84/comments/c10vp3 Yes, I have. I don't understand how my proposal breaks that. As a matter of fact, I think it strengthens the check and balance, because this way the excutive and legislative branch both get to put a check on the judiciary every two years. ==== Senate is now so elderly, on average, that questions have been raised about its "ability to govern" (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10p84/comments/c10qx2 I've always said that there should be an 18 year term limit on the Supreme Court. The purpose of the lifelong appointment was so that the judge would not feel they had to make certain decisions to keep their job. However, with a fixed term, that incentive would not change. If the terms expired on a rotating 2 year basis, then each President would be able to nominate at least 2 judges, and the court would be more representative of current thinking. ==== Why Don't More CIOs Become CEO? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/10oyv/comments/c10p34 Because the waterboy is usually some owner's kid, and he just inherits the team? ==== rubyonrails.org is a PHP site (score: -7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/107gq/comments/c1085y Or maybe they are completely bullshitting you and demonstrating Ruby's ability to fake its headers and such. :) ==== State of the Union Address Full Transcript (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/107ud/comments/c107ux I was listening to the local conservative talk radio, and after the speech, a person called in and said, "A few weeks ago, you called anyone who believes in global warming an insane lunatic. Now that the President has acknowledged global warming, what does that make him?" The pundit had no response. In fact, he spent the next five minutes talking about how he didn't understand it, and that it must be a ploy to endear himself to the Dems. Fascinating. ==== BREAKING: Libby Destroyed Evidence Prior To Testifying, Cheney ‘Deeply Involved’ (With Video) (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/103ev/comments/c1059s I hate to point this out, but this was something that the prosecutor said in his opening statement. No evidence has yet been provided... ==== Cheney's Having a REALLY Bad Day - Will He Be Asked To Resign? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/1039x/comments/c010571 The President appoints a new VP (see Spiro Agnew's resignation under Nixon for more info). However, there is no chance in hell that he would nominate a Dem. That would make one less barrier to impeachment, because if he were removed from office, then a Democrat would go in his place instead of Cheney, which the impeachers would probably see as a plus. ==== Pando: the Oldest and most Massive known Organism in Existence. (score: 16) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/1026b/comments/c010305 Does anyone know its location well enough to make a Google Maps link? ==== Bush Approval Rating at New Low: 28% (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zvx1/comments/czxei Yeah, Nixon had that rating just before he resigned... You can't do much worse than that! :) Although with 2 years left to go, I give George pretty good odds to win. ==== Andy Griffith vs. Patriot Act (Great Video!) (score: 32) ==== http://reddit.com/info/zvb1/comments/czvs1 I'm sure George understands due process just fine -- he just doesn't care ==== Every single online "how to draw stuff" tutorial ever made (JPG) (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/z4oj/comments/cz8l0 That sounds like the schedule on Comedy Central... But yes, I've noticed that too. It seems much more pronounced these days. If I have something I think is funny, I usually save it for submission between Fri and Sun. ==== Bank shuts down merchant account for yarn sellers after they make too much money, acuses them of being a front for something sinister (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/z6b1/comments/cz6x9 US banking laws pretty much prevent this. There is one service that is a fraudsters heaven -- Western Union. They don't track the money and will never give it back. But you'd have to convince all your customers to use WU. Although I have to wonder what sort of shady business you're conducting that you are worried about lots of fraud complaints getting you shut down... :) ==== "More Than 30 Passengers, In The Past Four Years, Have Mysteriously Disappeared From Cruise Ships." (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/yxul/comments/cyym1 I just took a cruise on one of the ships they mention in the article. It seemed so nice... ==== Stephen Colbert Explains the Whole AT&T Thing (brilliant) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/yspj/comments/cyy9w I was thinking the same thing. It was one of the many bells that was sucked up by SBC. I think the graphic didn't have enough room for all the baby bells. ==== Techcrunch interviews Paul Graham (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/g4ts/comments/cys2d > But I bet you could also figure out a way to make money from any really popular open source project, if you wanted to. I don't think this is necessarily true. One the most popular of all open source packages -- Sendmail, does not seem to have any viable business plan. The creators have tried for nine years now to make money, but to no avail. They best they have come up with is selling related products, but they still haven't figured out how to make money from the MTA. ==== Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran' (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/yn7r/comments/cyqxd Keep in mind it was written almost two years ago. Back then, no one thought our troops would actually go to Iran. ==== ING Bank issues warning on strike against Iran (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ykq7/comments/cyo8h Yes, because every Jew in the US supports an attack on Iran... Have you thought that maybe those folks are Democrats because they are against violence? Not every Jew is a Zionist you know. ==== Pentagon abandons active-duty time limit (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xytk/comments/cy3u4 Well, you're choices are to make out with a guy, or get sent to war. Your choice. :) ==== MacFUSE: A FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism for Mac OS X (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/xzeu/comments/cy0kb This is highly recommended! Using sshfs is the best way I have found so far to interact with another site via ssh and the finder. ==== Mothers, daughters arrested after brawl outside school (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xs5z/comments/cy0ib If you knew me, you would know "wound tight" doesn't describe me at all -- I was simply making a pica joke. I happen to enjoy pica's comments. I find that he says what other people are afraid to say. ==== Do people in the United States wear their shoes indoors? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xzwi/comments/cy075 I live in an are with a dense Asian population, so it is about 1/2 and 1/2 for me. Most of the Asian families take their shoes off and demand it of others, while a lot of the non-asian folks take their shoes off too, after seeing how clean the Asian houses are. :) ==== Mothers, daughters arrested after brawl outside school (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xs5z/comments/cxt0m When I read this, I thought it was pica writing it. I guess pica is inviting friends now... ==== Apple went to great lengths to keep iPhone a secret (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xrq8/comments/cxszc Yeah, but if everyone actually KNEW what was coming, then the buzz would have been much quieter. ==== Bush lifts Alaska oil, gas drilling ban (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xr52/comments/cxsy9 I guess now that his reputation and political party can suffer no further harm, and the only ones that can be harmed by this are animals and the environment, he saw no reason to stall on this important ban-lifting. ==== Why logic puzzles make good interview questions (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/xrex/comments/cxssk Asking questions about details isn't so much a test of whether or not you remember them -- it is a test of how much real world experience you have. If you've been a sysadmin for a long time, then you probably know all of the command line arguments to find or ls. Even though you can man them easily, it still shows that you have worked with those tools long enough to know their details from memory though sheer rote. ==== Desktop fabricator may kick-start home revolution - get in on the ground floor of the next big thing (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xnkq/comments/cxokv I can make my own legos and then build the set! ==== Tiny Stroke Ends a Druggie's Addiction (score: 2) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/xkir/comments/cxl1x Does this mean that drug treament centers in the future are going to start purposely damaging this part of people's brains to stop their addictions? ==== Wired's 101 Ways to Save Apple cover story from 1997 (funny to look back and see what did and didn't come to pass) (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xiy3/comments/cxjps What's more interesting is to see what they DIDN'T do that ended up saving them. Instead of getting out of the hardware business, they expanded their hardware business, and it seems to have helped. ==== How to increase Fuel Efficiency when you drive. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x9hu/comments/cxg7t Yes, I was technically incorrect by grouping the throwout bearing and the clutch. However, most people know what a clutch is, and very few know what a throwout bearing is, so I opted for the more well-known but technically less accurate term. ==== Little Asia on the Hill: 46% of undergraduates at UC Berkeley are Asian, yet not a single Engineering major is black (score: 23) ==== http://reddit.com/info/xeqt/comments/cxfuh This is also why Ward Connerly, the (black) UC Regent who proposed getting rid of AA in the US system, proposed it at all. He said he didn't like the fact that everyone assumed that all the black kids at the UC schools only got there because of AA. ==== How to increase Fuel Efficiency when you drive. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x9hu/comments/cxb8z Having the clutch on the floor == being in neutral, so it doesn't matter. You HAVE to be in neutral when the car is stopped, otherwise you stall. :) The only question is if it causes more wear on the clutch to hold it on the floor. If you're talking about an automatic, on the other hand, then it DOES make a difference. When you have it in drive, the clutch is partially engaged, making it use more fuel when idle. However, you will wear out the tranny much faster shifting it into neutral at each light. ==== the real unemployment rate is probably over 12% (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x9vc/comments/cxb8g Usually at a big company, it is not the hiring manager that communicates with the candidate -- it's the HR department. So it's really a shortage of skilled HR folks, and that is because the company doesn't want to pay for HR folks, because they are seen as an expense that contributes little to the bottom line. ==== Why learning vi/vim still makes sense in 2007 (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/x6zg/comments/cxb6j I guess that depends on what kind of chicks you are trying to get! :) ==== The Proper Way to Beat Your Islamic Wife (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x56e/comments/cxb6c And executions in America need to stop now too, but change doesn't just happen that way. ==== Rent-a-Cops Quietly(TM) Given Full Police Powers (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/wvds/comments/cxb64 That is irrelevant to the conversation and I never implied that anyway. All I was saying was that a private police force has accountability through its customers. ==== How the American Middle Class Is Getting Screwed (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x6hd/comments/cx8od This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_quintiles ==== Why learning vi/vim still makes sense in 2007 (score: 16) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/x6zg/comments/cx8lj Actually, it DID work for me. I had a girl that was interested in me specifically because I could teach her vi (she was learning to be a sysadmin). So yeah, knowing vi actually CAN get you chicks. ==== The Proper Way to Beat Your Islamic Wife (score: 31) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x56e/comments/cx6n8 European to an American: "You mean you KILL some of your prisonsers? That is the most barbaric thing I've ever heard!" In the US, a large portion of the population feels that execution is wrong, but an equally large portion think it is right. Sometimes what we on the outside deem barbaric can be very ingrained in the society. I'm not defending beating one's wife, I'm just trying to point out that it is hard for a society to change its views. ==== The Minimum Wage Should be the Same Everywhere: $0 (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x1gd/comments/cx2t3 If the minimum wage were raised high enough to make everyone above the povertly line, then the poverty line would go up as people's purchasing power goes up and the cost of goods goes up. Then you would have a never ending game of trying to catch the poverty line. Besides, which is better: some people making a living wage while others are out of work, or everyone making a little something, but not engough to be above the poverty line? ==== A Simple, Slow, but Sure-Fire Way to get Richer (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/x0sw/comments/cx1ni This falls under the "duh" category, I'd say. And why only do it for your mortgage? Why not overpay all of your outstanding debts? I did this for my car loan when the interest rate was 11%, and it certainly helped when it came time to sell the car and I actually owed less than what the car was worth. ==== What does 200 calories look like? -- Photo gallery of surprising food portions (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/wwqo/comments/cwxkv The scale is at the bottom. It says how big the plate and bowl are. ==== Rent-a-Cops Quietly(TM) Given Full Police Powers (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/wvds/comments/cwwjc Or you could pay a private police force, and get them to patrol exactly where and when you want. ==== This Taillight for Bicycles Leaves Even Some Headlights in Its Wake - New York Times (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/usr7/comments/cutr5 Why does the light need replaceable batteries? Can't it just be powered by the energy generated from pedaling the bike? ==== The rising use of SWAT teams is bad, but it's about to get worse. (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/uso7/comments/cutod The first sentence of the article was about the SCOTUS ruling... ==== Google Patent Search (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/uptg/comments/cupvn This search sucks. It doesn't have my patent in it. :) ==== Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/uctp/comments/cugtw You probably shouldn't have put that on someone else's webserver to begin with. :) ==== The three stages in a man's life (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/u2wf/comments/cu2wh I suppose this might be NSFW if you work in a zoo... ==== What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies) (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/txbn/comments/cty3q > If real life were like film I'd be able to port wordpress to my toaster using a cat5 cable and a bag of glitter. It's too bad the best line was the last. ==== Universal wants to use its precident at Microsoft to force Apple to pay a pirate tax on iPods: Here is a list of all the Universal artists music you will have the right to download after paying the tax (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tutv/comments/ctuu1 I am making the assumption that if I have to pay a fee to Universal for my Zune or iPod, then that fee gives me the right to download all of their music for free. ==== Infrared fart (video) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tnne/comments/ctsv5 You're quite ballsy to admit that you burned yourself lighting a fart on fire -- even if this is an anonymous internet forum. :) ==== New York City becomes the first city to ban trans fats in restaurants (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ts94/comments/ctst7 Instead of flat-out banning trans-fats, why can't they just require the resturants to put up big signs or something on their menus that tells you how much trans-fats are in each food? Then the consumer can choose if they want to eat the stuff. Chances are, most people would choose not to, and the problem would sort itself out. This is just another case of the government stepping in and regulating where it should just be informing instead. ==== Who owns your body? Hint: It's not you. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/trab/comments/ctsnw Can't the people who donated just exercise their right to demand the return of their samples, and then give the samples back to the doctor? ==== Who owns your body? Hint: It's not you. (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/trab/comments/ctsns I got a not found on the Matt/Trey interview, but I hit reload a few times and it came up. They are probably having a problem with their load balancers or something. ==== The Japanese Wii Safety Manual is Crazy (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tqkp/comments/ctrou What is the one with the bags of dirty clothes next to the Wii on a platform? ==== Wealthy New Yorkers can now bribe their way past airport security (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/tq26/comments/ctqva I doubt that the median income will be 200k. I think the line will be filled with business travelers looking to make their travel a little more pleasant and easier, an in most cases, the pass will probably be paid for by their company. ==== Will it Blend...Marbles? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/t89g/comments/ct8rb Actually, those high powered blenders use dull blades. They are able to blend anything because of the extreme power of the motor in the base. And since the blades start dull, they never wear out! (I have had one of these things for a while.) I'm not sure if I would want to blend chicken in it though... ==== HOWTO: Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/syop/comments/cszqm Any explanation as to why this works? Or if it does indeed work? What is the margin of error? ==== Dick: The Man Who is President (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/sm89/comments/csu08 This is a spam link -- the guy is using a different account to promote this in the comments too: http://reddit.com/info/sszf/comments/cstyf http://reddit.com/info/steu/comments/cstyj http://reddit.com/info/st5s/comments/cstyw To name a few. ==== Schools Reject 50,000 Free Copies of An Inconvenient Truth (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/sno8/comments/csq47 The movie is rated PG. Most schools won't let you show a movie in school that isn't rated G, so they have that problem too. ==== Smart Bull (video) (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/smqx/comments/csq0u Wow. I've never seen how those things end before... That is quite sad and cruel. ==== Freakonomics Author Steven D. Levitt: "If Barack Obama is as good a politician as he is a writer, he will soon be President" (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/sg4f/comments/cskhh Berkeley has one of those too. It is a big point of contention, since there is a lab on the UC Berkeley campus (technically state property, but still surrounded by the city) that is doing nuclear research. ==== Fool waits 40 hours in line, spends $1000 on PS3 + games, accidentally sells on EBay for $0.99 :o (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/saku/comments/csbiz You don't have to honor any contract you sign, but an eBay bid is considered a contract, so by not shipping, you are in fact breaking the law. The only thing here is that it is up to the bidder to prosecute. ==== Twenty-Somethings Drowning In A Sea Of Debt (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ri8h/comments/crsxw The government. I consolidated when the Fed rate was 1%, and I get a .25% discount for having the payment automatically deducted from my bank account every month. ==== The #1 Song on your Birthdate was... (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rrbl/comments/crsxj I think it is more interesting to know what song was #1 about 9 months before you were born. ==== City Bans Smoking EVERYWHERE! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rmwi/comments/crrwp Nope, just cigarette smoke. ==== City Bans Smoking EVERYWHERE! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rmwi/comments/crrwl She won't do anything about it because she fears confrontation. She won't even evict the people that have 6 people living in a one bedroom apartment, which is illegal in Santa Clara. ==== New $1 Coin (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rpgq/comments/crr5f The new coin will have a thicker edge with the inscription on it, so it will feel different. Also, the Sacagawea coin is designed to be of different size from the quarter, so all of the $1 coins will be the same as each other and different from the other denominations. More info here: http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?action=$1coinFlash ==== City Bans Smoking EVERYWHERE! (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rmwi/comments/crpw5 I'm saying that whatever sensory organ I have in my body that triggers my response to second-hand smoke is more sensitive than my eyes and nose. That is perfectly reasonable. ==== City Bans Smoking EVERYWHERE! (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rmwi/comments/crpvu I don't wear cologne. But if I did, I would respond that there are no studies sighting the dangers of second-hand cologne. And I call bullshit on your studies about second-hand smoke. I can show you just as many studies that do prove that second-hand smoke damage is statistically significant: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=second+hand+smoke ==== City Bans Smoking EVERYWHERE! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rmwi/comments/crpq7 When my neighbors smoke, the smell comes in through the heating ducts. Is it fair to expect me to move, since they moved in afterwards? Is it fair to expect me to keep my windows closed on a hot day and my heat off in the winter? I don't care if they smoke where I can't smell it, but I don't think they have the right to smoke in their apartment if it comes into mine. ==== City Bans Smoking EVERYWHERE! (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rmwi/comments/crpp7 No, but it makes me fell ill. I get an instant headache anytime I'm near a smoker, usually before I see or smell the smoke. It's like a little smoker-detector and it is really uncomfortable. So whether or not it will kill me is not an issue -- it is not fair for me to suffer so you can smoke. I fully support your right to smoke, just not anywhere where I can smell it. ==== Golden Gate Bridge -- brought to you by Oracle (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rooi/comments/croy5 I know the article doesn't say anything about Oracle -- I just chose them because they are a paragon of corporate sponsorship in the bay area. ==== Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rjf8/comments/crkvk I wonder if all of his friends turning on him will drive Bush back to drinking... ==== Twenty-Somethings Drowning In A Sea Of Debt (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ri8h/comments/crit8 I agree about not paying off the student loans. I could easily pay off my student loans, but why? The interest rate is 1.25%. I make more keeping it in the bank. ==== Housing starts plunge to six-year low (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rh17/comments/crimt Actually, a reduction in housing starts means that supply will be smaller, meaning prices will go up, or at least be supported at their current levels. ==== I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom CEO that went to work the counter at McDonald's (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/rhfk/comments/cril4 Those people agreed to get paid $5.75/h, the slaves did not agree to work for free. ==== Where did it go? What happened to the post about the Guinness ad? It's gone! Who pulled it? Why did they pull it? Is this some Conde Nasty censorship? We demand to be told the truth, now! (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/r28s/comments/cr8gc Maybe you turned on the feature to hide things that you've "liked". That would explain the missing numbers on the front page. You should check your preferences ==== How our liberty is slipping away (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/r65o/comments/cr8dw This guy needs to get his facts straight: > Paris Hilton and other celebrities have been the victims of hackers breaking into their cellphone providers’ networks. This is patently false. T-Mobile was not hacked -- Paris Hilton's brain was hacked. She had an easy to guess password on the web interface for her cell phone. She was the victim of social engineering. This was not T-Mobile's fault in any way. And I don't even work for them! ==== Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed gas prices in the US rising rapidly after the election? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qz7k/comments/cr2dp I think what I was trying to say was that even though I'm not on the lookout for conspiracies, this seemed like one. But you're right, it was an unfair hedge. ==== Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed gas prices in the US rising rapidly after the election? (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qz7k/comments/cqz7m I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but where I live, prices have gone up 20 cents a gallon since last Tuesday. It almost seems like whoever controls gas prices is saying, "We don't like what you did on Tuesday, here s your punishment." ==== The life of a hamburger in reverse (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/quzl/comments/cqvba I should point out that I don't mind if people eat hamburgers -- I'm not a militant vegan or anything. I just like the cartoon. ==== Windows Vista isn’t so revolutionary as all think (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qrtb/comments/cqs4s Ok, I'm in no way a fan of Microsoft, but come on: > Backup and restore center automatically saves successive versions of files. Apple computer’s latest Macintosh computer operating system has such a safeguard, called Time Machine. Apple isn't releasing this version of the operating system till at least next spring, so I'd say in this case it is a counter-example -- MS is releasing it first! ==== Wal-Mart removing Nazi swag from their stores (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qcol/comments/cqd38 Yeah, I kinda figured it was a mistake on the part of the product reviewers not knowing the origins of this symbol. ==== Eyeglasses Stores are for Suckers! (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/qarr/comments/cqcq0 You could just order them from the online places and then mark them up 1000% in your store. :) ==== Howard Dean takes a page from Rove's play book (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/q8du/comments/cq9dn I thought this going to be an article about how Dean learned from Rove that you can make up any lie you want about a candidate, because no one cares when they prove you wrong after the election. ==== 'Office Space' recut as a Thriller (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/q7lw/comments/cq8sq That just goes to show you how deceiving a trailer can be... ==== Do We Need Traffic Lights? (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/q3b4/comments/cq4n9 I don't think this solution scales: > The main junction in Drachten handles about 22,000 cars a day. Where I live in California, the intersection next to my house handles 22,000 cars an hour. ==== CNN's election coverage (map) (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/q03t/comments/cq0i8 On the version I'm looking at, I am getting non-related headlines and ads, which is why I submitted the other link -- it was cleaner for me. ==== U.S. two-dollar bill gains popularity (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/prek/comments/cq0hl Fascinating. I've never seen that before. If anything, the fact that it happened to me makes me believe this guy's story. Maybe it was the people they hired or something in their training, but it seems to be a problem that more than one Taco Bell had. I don't really have any way to prove to you that it happened to me, so I'm not sure what else to say here except, "trust me, it happened." ==== CNN's election coverage (map) (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/q03t/comments/cq0hd They have better results and less ads here: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/bop/ ==== GOP attempting to proactively discredit exit poll data (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/puvu/comments/cpzf1 Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. ==== U.S. two-dollar bill gains popularity (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/prek/comments/cpzau I don't believe I've ever told this story on Reddit before, so what do you mean by not digging out the old story again? This really happened to me in 1994 in Los Angeles. ==== U.S. two-dollar bill gains popularity (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/prek/comments/cpt0a I tried to pay for some food at a Taco Bell with a $2 bill once -- the girl behind the counter said to me, "Sir, we only accept American money here." I had to get her to call over her manager to finally get approval to accept the bill. ==== What Windows Vista Should Have Been (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/pkhd/comments/cprvk > I'm not sure that the computer pooping out peripherals would have enhanced Vista much. I think I need to make a T-shirt of that quote! ==== Sandia Labs' Z machine melts diamond to puddle (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/pmlb/comments/cprb2 http://www.jiggscasey.com/university/papers/unitconversions.html ==== Fourth Grader Suspended After Refusing to Answer Exam Question (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/pgej/comments/cppq9 No, the big problem with vouchers is that the A-list schools have the option of being selective, where as the public schools do not. So, all the good schools can simply reject the children that are the hardest to educate -- those that misbehave and those with disabilities. What you'll end up with is a set of good schools that everyone wants to go to and pay for with their vouchers, and the public schools that will have no one in them but the rowdy and disabled. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of free market education. I just don't think vouchers are the right way to go about it. ==== Lies Your Mother Told You (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/p0tn/comments/cpjs1 Burn in is caused by a single pixel showing the same thing constantly, and burning that color into the mask that the electron streams hit. If the image is ever-changing, then no single color will burn into the mask. ==== Lies Your Mother Told You (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/p0tn/comments/cpjrt My point was that energy use is not a reason to leave a TV in on -- in other words, it does indeed use more energy to leave it on. What I was saying is that turning on a cold TV is bad for the TV; bad enough to warrant leaving it on. ==== Lies Your Mother Told You (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/p0tn/comments/cp5ik I don't think I understand what you're saying. Why will the contrast/brightness be reduced if the screen is showing an ever changing image? ==== Microsoft is selling [suse] linux (score: 2) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/p4ax/comments/cp5ig Microsoft is not selling linux. They are selling support for linux and agreeing not to sue Suse customers. This is in response to Oracle announcing that they are going to sell support for RedHat for less than RedHat charges. ==== Lies Your Mother Told You (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/p0tn/comments/cp5hj Presumably you would have a changing image on the screen, and not something that will burn in. ==== Lies Your Mother Told You (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/p0tn/comments/cp4tm The energy use is not why leave it on -- it's because it is far more destructive to the components inside to surge electricity through them when they are cold (ie. turn it on) then it is to just leave it running. ==== Reddit Acquisition: The Afterparty (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ozpv/comments/cp4pa Don't worry spezsmom, I'm sure the girls were brought home by Alexis... ==== Google buys JotSpot for undisclosed sum (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ol7q/comments/concc Not if it is non-material, ie. in the few million or less range. Still enough to be quite profitable for the founders, but not enough to be "YouTube big". ==== Halloween Is an Economist's Biggest Nightmare (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/odxk/comments/con88 Which is exactly what we did. We only bought candy that we liked to eat for two reasons: 1) If someone was doing the same thing as us, we had a better chance of getting stuff we liked 2) If there was leftovers, at least it was stuff we liked to eat. ==== Give your resumé a face lift! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nlea/comments/con7g I work for a company in the "real world" and I can tell you that yes, they all use Microsoft Word, but the ones I worry about are the ones that require it for a resume submission. ==== Why you should never fill out an info card at a college fair (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/okh7/comments/con6x I didn't want to offend anyone :) ==== Breaking: Reddit acquired by Conde Nast (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/olu8/comments/con5p I think $10 per point would be a more reasonable valuation of contribution by the community. :) ==== Halloween Is an Economist's Biggest Nightmare (score: 31) ==== http://reddit.com/info/odxk/comments/coeaa The way my family solved the problem when I was a kid was to go out early, come back, sort the candy, and then put all the stuff we didn't want into the bin that held the candy we gave to everyone else. It's evil, and the best part is, some of those kids are the ones whose parents gave it to us in the first place! ==== Websites ranked by traffic vs. number of employees - Spot the odd one out! (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nv3p/comments/cny6b That is the biggest problem, but in the specific case of Craigslist, I know for a fact that the reason they can get away with so few employees is because they leverage a lot of the eBay employees (eBay owns 25% of Craigslist). So the numbers are particularly misleading for Craigslist, since some of those people on the eBay list should be on Craigslist list. Also, in Craigslist's case, it's easy to run a website if you aren't making a lot of money, because you don't need customer service or all of those other things that go along with turning huge profits and running a public company. ==== Give your resumé a face lift! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nlea/comments/cnvr1 If a company requires a Word .doc file, I'll pass, thank you. Any company that dead set on a single format is doomed. As for any other format, you can turn a Latex document into pretty much anything, especially a pdf, which is accepted pretty much anywhere, and even plain text if you have to. ==== Give your resumé a face lift! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nlea/comments/cnvqs Its been a while since I've done a resume in Latex (I use mostly Adobe InDesign), but any of these will prbably do: http://ctan.org/cgi-bin/search.py?metadataSearch=resume ==== Taco Bell to give free taco to everyone in the United States if a homerun is hit to left field in World Series Game 3 (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nk33/comments/cnmig More importantly, how are they going to keep track of who got a taco already? ==== Give your resumé a face lift! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nlea/comments/cnm7z Or just use Latex to typeset your resume, and it will look a lot different (and much better) than everyone else's. ==== Best use for a PC yet (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/nksl/comments/cnm4t Now I know what to do with all those old PC cases I have lying around! ==== The reddit draft needs YOU: go upmod some new articles to give them a chance. (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ne6l/comments/cng5v I think the recommended page pretty much does what you want. ==== YouTube shared user data with studio lawyers (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/n8as/comments/cn8qo This quote annoys me: "YouTube, which was founded just 20 months ago by former executives of PayPal". It was not founded by PayPal execs -- it was founded by ex-PayPal engineers. Why do all the finance types assume that companies are always founded by ex-executives? ==== Are you unhappy? Just take speed. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/n3iq/comments/cn7mk I dunno -- I keep asking the guys to give me shares of stock for karma points, but they don't seem to listen... ==== Are you unhappy? Just take speed. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/n3iq/comments/cn5cd Heh, that's pretty cool. I didn't even see your post. Sorry 'bout that. I guess my title was more popular or something. :) ==== How Bill Clinton could become President again *without* changing the Constitution (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/n0hj/comments/cn4ks You mean like how Chelsea Clinton got a 100k/year consulting job right out of undergrad? :) ==== Are you unhappy? Just take speed. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/n3iq/comments/cn3nb You should probably read the article. It has such gems as: "Disclaimer: If you are unhappy, do not take speed. I am not a doctor." ==== Hey ladies, Stephen Hawking is back on the market! (score: 16) ==== http://science.reddit.com/info/n1lm/comments/cn3dq It might be in bad taste if the man himself did not approve of his apperance on the Simpsons making the same joke about his voicebox. ==== Bush is wasting no time in giving Americans a taste of the new "democracy" (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/mxw6/comments/cn0xn ehcolem makes a good point. Here we are ~150 years after the end of the Civil War, and Lincoln is considered one of the greatest Presidents ever. At the time, he was just about as unpopular as Bush is now (they didn't have polls the same way they do now, but you can tell from the editorials in the newspapers of the time). Now, I don't agree at all with what Bush is doing, but I get the feeling he thinks what he is doing is right, and believes the he too will one day be considered as great as Lincoln. ==== The Seductive Danger of Alexa Numbers (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/mwk8/comments/cn0pi Paul, as a part owner of Reddit, why don't you just take Reddit's real traffic numbers and compare them to Alexa's numbers. Then you would have a really good idea of the margin of error in the Alexa numbers for Reddit. Then the hard part would be convincing Digg to do the same thing. :) ==== Nevada voting to allow legalization of marijuana possession/growing/selling to bring in tax revenue (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/mmt5/comments/cmnld Not to mention the founding fathers made a good deal of their money growing hemp along with their tobacco. ==== Ohio Republican canditate for governor - who's also the Secretary of State - may toss his opponent off the ballot on a technicality! (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/mgi6/comments/cmmb9 > The county board that heard it broke down 2 to 2, on party lines, about whether to hold a hearing. It sounds like the "reasonable argument" they have is party affiliation on both sides of that coin. ==== ***NORTH KOREA TESTS A NUKE*** (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/leje/comments/clf5l Joshua, is that you? ==== amazing magic trick: cups & balls... with... transparent cups, by Penn & Teller (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/le4u/comments/clf4k Reddit used to show you how many points something has right from the start, but everyone complained that it was causing groupthink, so that's why there are no points for the first two hours. ==== Don't touch the Diebold touchscreen machines (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ld2e/comments/clee7 I hate to point this out, but this is the reason you are sent a sample ballot and asked to fill it out before you get to the voting booth. That way, you can do all of your reasearch ahead of time, and then simply transfer your selections from your sample ballot to the voting machine in the booth. ==== Military recruiters work hard to leave no child off their lists (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ldb7/comments/cle94 Except that homeschooling won't help you here. You still have to register with your local school if you are homeschooling, and that registration is part of their list of registered students, so they would still send on the contact information unless you opt out. ==== Jack -O-Lanterns for Star Wars fans (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/l79l/comments/clc8u You have to use the spiffy "scraping" technique for the difficult ones. They describe it in instruction 8. ==== Bastet: Tetris. But with extra evil. (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jux1/comments/cjz8l Awesome! That worked. Thanks. Now I can upvote this article, because I had a lot of fun tricking my girlfriend into thinking that this was really tetris and frustrating her. :) ==== Bastet: Tetris. But with extra evil. (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jux1/comments/cjy46 The patch to make it compile on the mac requires a password. Anyone have either the patch, the password, or a precompiled version for PowerPC? ==== Boy, three, buys car on internet (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jte7/comments/cjtzv What great marketing for eBay: "So easy, even a three year old can do it!" ==== Think Progress - FULL TRANSCRIPT: Clinton Takes On Fox News (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/jkx1/comments/cjlca > Oh and for all the FOX haters out there.. I am curious..why do you watch it so much? Mind boggling. Its like from the Howard Stern movie: The people who like Fox watch because they want to see what will happen next. The people who hate Fox watch even more, because they want to see what will happen next... ==== Stores are not allowed to set credit card purchase minimums (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/j4g3/comments/cj8pz How can you call the CC companies a monopoly if there are 4 major cards, and it is almost impossible to find a place that doesn't take at least two of them? Oligopoly maybe, but certainly not a monopoly. ==== The ID Chip You Don't Want in Your Passport (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/irn9/comments/cis9c In theory it would allow people to be processed through imigration checkpoints faster and, since they believe the technology to be secure, they also believe that everyone else can assume that everything on the chip is accurate, meaning less forgeries. Theory is a wonderful thing, isn't it? ==== A 'Mistake' Hollywood Had Better Start Making (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/icn2/comments/cifd2 You could steal the DVD and it would be the same quality but cheaper... I think the point is we were discussing legal options. ==== A 'Mistake' Hollywood Had Better Start Making (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/icn2/comments/cie28 There is a reason all the music is the same price. It is the same reason that every movie you see in a theater is the same price. Because if they had different prices, people wouldn't buy the cheap stuff, assuming that it just wasn't as good. Sort of like how a lot of people only click links on the front page of Reddit. :) ==== Sleeping pill wakes patients in PVS (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/i6tb/comments/ci9zr Oh come on. The opposite side of the coin is equally absurd. Most people who are pro-life are also pro-death-penalty, so they believe kililng one type of person is ok when killing the other is not. It's all just a matter of how you frame the debate. The pro-choice/anti-death feel that the unborn child is a piece of the mother, and it is her choice to do as she pleases. The pro-life/pro-death-penalty person feels that every life is sacred until one does something the screw it up, like kill someone else. Neither POV is right or wrong, they are just different. ==== If the World's Popultion were Reduced to 100 People, it would look something like this... (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/hf8w/comments/chitk If you click the "reply" link below someone's comment, you can reply to them directly and then it keeps your comment attached to theirs. ==== "Why Smart People Do Dumb Things" (Like Not Backup Their Hard Disk) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/h0af/comments/ch7le Raid combined with a snapshoting filesystem, such as the one available in FreeBSD, IS a backup solution, because then you get redundancy and an archive. Of course, this will all be a moot point when the next Apple OS is released with Time Machine :) (which as far as I can tell is really just a spiffy interface to snapshotting). ==== 22,740 Marijuana plants growing in and around Point Reyes National Seashore, California (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/glyx/comments/cgpky If it were legal to grow it, it would cheaper to do it legally than to risk getting caught growing it in a national park, because the street value would be so low, it would no longer be worth the risk. ==== Google maps vs. Yahoo! maps side by side comparison tool by Sergey Chernyshev (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/ghx9/comments/cgml5 I looked at a couple of places where I knew of new constructions, and in some cases Google had them and Yahoo didn't, and in some cases it was the opposite. ==== Top 10 Pot Studies Government Wished it Had Never Funded (score: 13) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ftqa/comments/cfuif I don't use marajuana now; never been a big fan of it. However, I'm fairly certain that if I got one of those "wasting" diseases and needed to boost my appitite, I would be reaching for the water-pipe on a fairly regular basis. ==== President of Iran challenges Bush to a live televised debate! (score: -11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/fhup/comments/cfibl They could put that on pay-per-view! ==== DVD-Rs are Evil (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/f1tn/comments/cf3du This is just flat out wrong: > There are no real disadvantages for DVD+Rs. There is one big advantage: not every DVD player will play DVD+Rs, but they all play DVD-R. Also, most Mac's won'd burn DVD+R media. ==== YouTube - CNN - bush Violated 1st & 4th Amendments, Oath, & Lied (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/etv8/comments/cezfb Actually, if the Supreme Court upholds the law, then it is by definition "constitutional". That's what the Supreme Court does, determines if a law follows the letter and spirit of the Constitution. ==== 10 things you shouldn't buy new (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/erks/comments/cesgt This article can be summed up thusly: Don't buy things new that have a high deprciation. ==== Internet Restrictions Turn Off Young Employees (score: 10) ==== http://reddit.com/info/eq2g/comments/cesds Find me one legitimate reason to allow you to talk to your spouse while you at work. The reason is because your salaried employee is probably spending more than 1/2 of their waking hours working for you, and if you want them to not completely resent you and the control you have over their life, you have to give them a little bit of time to care of personal matters. ==== Whose airports are safer, the US or Israel? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/epnp/comments/ces9g Thats why they don't ask anymore. :) They stopped doing that a few years ago when they realized it was useless. ==== Whose airports are safer, the US or Israel? (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/epnp/comments/ces91 Yes, but it could be paid for out of the money that is currently spent on the military, since it would be a national security function. ==== Ask Reddit: What happened to reddit over the past 6 weeks? (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/eg5c/comments/cehpt I'm sorry, but this is abuse. You want room 12A, just down the hall. Stupid git. ==== 37signals' take on Kiko: Google does not render resistance futile (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/e1rk/comments/ce5j1 If the Reddit guys had asked me, I would have told them to turn down that deal too, for a couple of reasons: 1) It would be distracting. They already have enough code on their hands to maintain -- they don't need more. 2) News and calendars don't really go together. Most people do not pick up the newspaper in the morning and say "I wish they would put my daily calendar in here." Instead, they read the news, then they pick up their PDA or day-planner, which has their calendar, notes, contacts, etc. in one place. I think at this point most people have gotten used to the idea of having their email, appointments and todos in they same system, because email tends to generate appointmens and todos. ==== Dave Chapelle's new Mac vs PC commercial (score: 17) ==== http://reddit.com/info/e07n/comments/ce17k And your third strike was that this should be in the nsfw.reddit.com section. Of course, if you had tried to submit it there, you would have found it already was submitted months ago... ==== California's secret SUV ban. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dqgk/comments/cdssw In California they won't let you renew the registration on your vehicle if you have any outstanding tickets (which is what you would probably get for an ordance violation). ==== Cool Visualization to Test Your Bandwidth (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dl8j/comments/cdmlh This looks really cool, but it's too bad the test results are completely irrelevant. I hope no one calles thier ISP to complain if thier speed is too slow. ==== Japanese Exercise/English Training Video -- Tone your thighs and learn to ride in a taxi! (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/diz8/comments/cdizb Make sure to watch until at least the third phrase ==== Karl Rove is betting the American people are just stupid enough to leave the Republicans in power this fall (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dcbs/comments/cdcyr I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The Republicans win elections because they have better marketing. ==== So that's what happens to the items confiscated by airport security. Ebay Bound. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/dap4/comments/cdctt They never confiscate stuff -- you always have the option of going back and checking it in. It's just that most people are too lazy or too rushed to do so, so instead they abandon their property at the checkpoint. ==== Coca-Cola and Pepsi to be banned in India (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/d03k/comments/cd2gm Why is the ban stupid? Because the government should not ban food -- they should only make it required to be labeled properly. That way the people can make their own choices -- if they want to kill themselves drinking chemicals then they should be able to. ==== Everybody's PIN Number: Revealed! (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cz52/comments/cd2gd Actually, I think it is the other way around. I used to have a 6 digit pin, and then my bank forced me to change it, because they said that some international systems (I'm in the US) did not support pin's > 4. ==== In 1981 these men changed how we live (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cuk1/comments/ccx69 According to the 1992 biography "Hard Drive", his Grandfather set up a $1M trust fund when he was born (that was a lot of money in 1955). If you trust Wikipedia, it too mentions that book. And if you trust Phil Greenspun: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/ ==== In 1981 these men changed how we live (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cuk1/comments/ccwov I guess the sarcasam was missed -- it is well known that Bill Gates had a large trust fund to help him get his business started, which allowed him to take much greater risks than most people just starting out. ==== August 5 2006 viewed around the world (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cvov/comments/ccwm9 What is the signifigance here? All 4 papers covered the same story as their top headline. The only difference is that the photo in the American paper goes with a different article. If anything, it seems like they are sensationalizing the story less. ==== Karl Rove to Lieberman: "The boss wants to help. Whatever we can do, we will do." (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cvjn/comments/ccwl7 It's hard to tell who is lying here -- the guy who reported this to the press or the White House. Anonymous sources are notoriously inaccurate, but so is the White House. ==== What 24 Hours On The Frontpage of Reddit Does To A New Blog (Stats) (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cvfa/comments/ccwhw I think this has what you need: http://reddit.com/help/blogger ==== Lieberman concedes (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/csni/comments/ccw5m Almost 50% of the people who voted in the primary voted for Liberman. If he runs independent, I don't see why most of those people won't vote for him again, splitting the Dems almost in half. I don't see him getting half of the Republican vote. ==== In 1981 these men changed how we live (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cuk1/comments/ccw23 > After Estridge's task force had left for their hotel, Gates went around the corner to a tiny company which had written a system for the Intel processor and bought it out for £26,000. It helps to have that kind of cash lying around when your business is just getting started. ==== It's Mean to Ignore the Median (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/coc0/comments/ccsxr You're right -- here in California, it's third grade math. My girlfriend teaches 4th grade, and she says that although the kids learn the meaning of the term in the 3rd grade, she reteaches it in the 4th grade, because most of them don't get it. ==== The Top 10 Reasons to Be a Librarian (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/crlz/comments/ccss8 I was in one about two weeks ago. They have a bigger magazine collection than I do, and they also have air conditioning (which I do not have at home). ==== How I Cheated my Way to the Top of the Reddit Scoreboard (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cp51/comments/ccrqn There used to be a bug where you could delete stories that had negative karma to boost your karma back up. They fixed that a long time ago. I guess the fix didn't propagate to the stats calculations. ==== Phishers hit reddit (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/covb/comments/ccqbf Sadly, they aren't phishers. That is a legit deal with a legit business partner of PayPal who happends to have some really bad marketing practices. ==== Britney Spears drugged up or acting VERY stupid (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cfc5/comments/cclis lipstick.com is a site powered by Reddit technology for celeberty gossip. As it turns out, this was crossposted there. ==== Britney Spears drugged up or acting VERY stupid (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/cfc5/comments/ccflg Shouldn't this have been posted to lipstick.com instead? :) ==== Reddit hits profit as its technology nets praise in market (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c3s6/comments/ccao9 Salaries and benefits are a big part of that. Someone who makes 80K a year costs the company about $400 a day when you include the costs of beniefits, taxes and insurance. Now add the cost of the office space they work in and account for the fact that they probably have more people above 80K than below (they are in California, right?), and I can see how they could burn almost $6000 a day on people costs alone (although I should point out that all my numbers refer to work days, so at 3M a year, that would be about $11,700 per workday). ==== Reddit hits profit as its technology nets praise in market (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/c3s6/comments/cc57p The commenting on the ads is an awesome idea. It is a huge draw for the advertisers if done correctly. It engages the community to think about the ad, and it gives them great feedback on the effectiveness of the advertisement. ==== Colbert Analyzes & Edits Wikipedia, Gets Banned (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bv2c/comments/cbwnx You probably didn't get the joke because you didn't watch the show. You should at least watch the clip -- the point is not to vandalize Wikipedia, the point is that Democracy doesn't work for everything and that what the majority believes is not always right. ==== Team Owner Earns $15 Million a Year from NBA TV Contract... Team Hasn't Played in 30 Years (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bsxp/comments/cbtqj Why? These guys made a great deal -- why should they be punished for that? ==== How To Change A Southwest Airlines Boarding Pass From a "C" or "B" to an "A" (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/brmw/comments/cbtpp Thanks for giving the secret away. Now every moron will be in the A line... As a side note, it is much easier to just check in exactly 24 hours before your flight -- they you are certain to get an A pass. ==== Google Launches Open Source Project Hosting (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bcxt/comments/cbktx Google Finance looks nice, but it doesn't have 1/2 the features of Yahoo Finance, and better yet, some of the info they have links to Yahoo. ==== Google Sends Gifts to Unhappy User (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bcwk/comments/cbgoy Oops. That was supposed to say http://features.reddit.com/ ==== Insanely Vague MySpace Censorship Bill Passes 410-15 US House of Representatives (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bfyg/comments/cbgnv Not everyone owns a computer. Some people can only access the internet from school or the library. And if your response is "you shouldn't use the library to access MySpace", then my counter point is that the library should not have magazines or fiction books either, because they are of the same educational value. ==== Google Sends Gifts to Unhappy User (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bcwk/comments/cbekj Shwag: http://reddit.com/store More Shwag: http://www.cafepress.com/reddit List of flaws: http://sub.reddit.com/ ==== Tour de France winner Landis tests positive for drugs (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bay2/comments/cbe2k Did anyone ever see the SNL sketch about the "All Drug Olympics". I think one of the weightlifters ripped his arms off. :) ==== Google Launches Open Source Project Hosting (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/bcxt/comments/cbdol Oh my god, this is totally gonna kill Sourceforge! They don't have a chance!!!! ps. In case you missed it, that was a sarcastic comment making fun of all the people that said Google Chat was going to kill AIM, Google Finance was going to kill Yahoo finance, and so on. ==== Envelope icon's glowy status should ACTUALLY reflect whether there are new messages or not. (score: 2) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/agjw/comments/cbbqy I have the opposite problem -- my envelope is almost always grey, even when I have messages. ==== Consumers are actively taking revenge on call centre operators - 4 favourite methods listed (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b5sj/comments/cb8c5 I've found that to defeat the IVR's, you just keep repeating jibbersih into the phone. After a while it will give up trying to figure out what you are saying and route you to an operator. ==== US gasoline at $3 drives people onto buses, trains (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b6jr/comments/cb8by Imagine what a boon it would be to public transportation if every city passed a $1/gallon tax on gas that went straight into public transit improvment. Not that I'm a big fan of taxation, but I'm a pragmatist. :) ==== Flatlife - great animated short [video] (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b3qu/comments/cb4om They landed on the balcony. She's outside. ==== How to Find What You Love to Do (score: 9) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b34e/comments/cb4kp Two chicks at the same time, man. ==== City Income Donuts (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b3bn/comments/cb3e3 The charts are interesting, but don't seem to have enough granularity in their data. ==== Ken Jennings bites the hand that fed him. "Blasts" jeopardy on his website (score: -5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b36p/comments/cb38b You gotta respect a guy who will throw away all of his morals for $2.4M. Clearly he's felt this way for a while. > Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories effete \eh-FEET; ih-\, adjective: 1. No longer capable of producing young; infertile; barren; sterile. 2. Exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; worn out. 3. Marked by self-indulgence or decadence; degenerate. That sounds like a moral judgement to me. It sounds like he was opposed to the content of the material, yet was willing to put up with it just because they were giving him money. ==== Twelve Myths About Hunger (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b1r9/comments/cb2xe I can sumerize this entire article: The system to distribute food is faulty. There is enough food for everyone, but it can't get to the people that need it. There, I've just saved you a lot of reading time. ==== Penn and Teller Do the Cups and Balls Trick with Clear Cups (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b0ih/comments/cb2vp He does. He gives lectures at the Magic Castle, among other things. But he never talks during a show. ==== Why I Love Apple (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b1xj/comments/cb2rl You don't have to tell them to option-click. The beauty of the one button mouse on the mac is that evey feature has to be accessable using just the one button. All of the Apple software follows this rule -- there is no feature that you can't get to with that one mouse button. Some thrid parties break this rule, which is not Apple's fault. ==== The Death Penalty in Japan (score: -2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/as8y/comments/cb2p5 I don't see how what he did before he was locked up is relevant to the debate. My point was that perhaps the death penalty is not a good solution, because sometimes even people who have been given the death penalty can still contribute to society in a meaningful way. I'm not saying that the guy should not be punsihed and locked up for life. As a matter of fact, he should also have been denied any activity that gives him pleasure, as he denied others before going to prision. But what I am saying is that we should not murder him just because he murdered someone else, and remove him from society in a way that he can no longer contribute. As the old saying goes, "If eveyone believed in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'd all be blind and toothless". ==== Why I Love Apple (score: -3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b1xj/comments/cb2m6 Have you ever tried to get a casual computer user to right click? I worked in the dorms in Berkeley when I was in college, and I can tell you that even the kids that had been using computers for years (to surf the wab and IM and write papers) still had not mastered the right click. It is SO much easier to help someone on a Mac, and this is one of the main reasons. ==== Jupiter's Two Largest Storms Nearly Collide (Photo) (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/b1f8/comments/cb2ll It's a near hit. A collision is a near miss. "Oh look, they nearly missed." -- George Carlin ==== Make Way for The Sidewalk SUV (score: 22) ==== http://reddit.com/info/au89/comments/caujp > "I'm pretty healthy," says the 37-year-old truck driver from Brooklyn, N.Y. "Just lazy, I guess." This is a sad state of affairs for our society. Also, if you look at the picture, he doesn't look all that healthy. ==== The Death Penalty in Japan (score: -1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/as8y/comments/cauh2 He did all that before he was locked up -- the debate here is about the validity of the death penalty. My point was that had he been allowed to live, he may have been able to continue to use his fame and influence to affect positive changes on society. And had he been killed sooner, he may not have been able to make the positive changes that he did make. ==== What every Democrat should be saying until November (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/at2f/comments/caugy Touche. ==== KFC launches the worst fast-food offering ever (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ato7/comments/caudu This article was perhaps the funniest musings I have ever heard about fast food, and that line, although used in the past to describe other food, is a perfect description for the KFC bowl. ==== The Death Penalty in Japan (score: -4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/as8y/comments/caucv Even a murderer can still have value in society. Take the case of the recently executed gang member in California (Stanley Tookie Williams). Although he killed 4 people, he probably saved countless 100's of others through his work speaking out against gangs and brokering peace deals between competing gangs. ==== What every Democrat should be saying until November (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/at2f/comments/caub9 I agree that things are out of control, but your argument is flawed. A nation can ONLY become more developed technologically -- that is what being a "developed" nation means. As a counter, I ask you to name one aspect of American life where things improved between 1990 and 2000 that isn't technological. Or how about between 1900 and 2000? ==== Backdoor Draft in Walnut Creek? No Paycheck for Temp Refusing to Sign Loyalty Oath (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/am4z/comments/car3q I worked at UC Berkeley a few years back. We were all required to sign this oath. At one point I was trying to hire the most impressive candidate for a job we had ever seen, but when it came time for the oath, he refused to sign, because he did not believe in pledging allegiance to anything or anyway. We tried to get the requirement waived, because he was that awesome, but the University refused to budge. Instead, the EFF hired him as their technologist, a job he created. To this day, I totally respect the decision that he made. ==== Yahoo offers DRM-free music (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/apdc/comments/caqss I hope Yahoo makes a ton of money from this and people don't pirate the song, just so that it will validate the no-DRM model. ==== Is Bush too dumb to be president? (score: 24) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aq8n/comments/caqrf I think the point of the article is that Bush does NOT examine the data, because he is not a curious person, and that is the fundemental problem. ==== Open sourcing is not easy (score: 1) ==== http://programming.reddit.com/info/acxg/comments/caohk I won't comment on his thoughts about open-sourcing being a difficult process, but I will say that is not the reason Apple does not open source their apps. They don't open source because Steve is a control freak and doesn't want changes to HIS apps without HIS approval. Admittedly, he seems to know what he's doing in this area, so I can't really complain much. ==== Microsoft Opens Then Closes Private Folder (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a8lg/comments/caod6 Microsoft finally releases a decent security product, and then they pull it because corporate IT folks don't want it?! Maybe Microsoft isn't as guilty in the whole virus thing as originally thought. ==== Bush gives German Chancellor a back rub! (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/acsx/comments/canrn The difference being that Clinton actually scored, whereas Bush was rebuked. ==== Arizona Ballot Could Become Lottery Ticket (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a9sc/comments/canqz Exactly! Why is everyone so concerned about voter turnout? I want to see LESS voter turnout -- that way those of us who actually spend the 5-6 hours it takes to properly research all of the candidates and the ballot measures have a greater effect on the outcome. ==== When Fairness Is Unjust (score: 0) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aik2/comments/cakxy I think the implication was that only backwards communists use Devorak keyboards. ==== Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ait7/comments/cakvm I think you missed my point. I know that this bill is describing something that does not take lives. My point was that his rhetoric is self-contradicting within his own belief system. ==== Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/ait7/comments/cajh1 Bush's words: > This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others Bush's actions: It is okay to kill innocent people in Iraq (as collateral damage) in the hopes of finding freedom for others. ==== Rove distorts stem cell science to explain Bush's position (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aipr/comments/caje9 This is not surprissing in any way. Rove knows that the electorate is lazy enough to just believe what he says and not bother to do any reasearch. This is how Rove has opperated since he started helping people win elections in college. ==== Joel Siegel is a Dick (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/afg6/comments/caisq I think the difference here is that Joel is a critic who is paid to watch movies; good or bad. Kevin is not. ==== New (Y Combinator?) startup: "... a new kind of ad server. There is no click fraud." (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aecy/comments/cah7w Yes, there is a max, but your competitor can blow that away before anyone ever sees your ad. Also, with those models, the publishers have an incentive to click on the ads -- they more they click, they more they make money. With this system, your competetor can't screw you and the publisher had no incentive to cheat. ==== where in the world are redditors? (we know you're all over the globe, we'd love to see where) (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aeve/comments/cage3 Santa Clara, CA (but kn0thing already knew that :) ) ==== New (Y Combinator?) startup: "... a new kind of ad server. There is no click fraud." (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aecy/comments/cagbx So what? The point is that the advertiser is paying for a slice of time, not hits. If they don't like the return they are getting, they can stop putting ads there. ==== Joel Siegel is a Dick (score: 16) ==== http://reddit.com/info/afg6/comments/cagbf Seroiusly, that would be like a sysadmin getting up in the middle of fixing a broken machine and saying "I don't like how this is broken, see ya." The guy is PAID to watch movies. And I'll be he'll still write a review. I wonder if he'll disclose the fact that he only saw 1/2 the movie. ==== Rent-Free in NYC-- living on the edge of housing law... (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aey5/comments/cagag It seems like it would be quite easy to get the people to leave. Just change the locks on the doors. Since they don't have any valid lease, they are tresspassing. ==== Disney's definition of 'Cuteness' (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/abn3/comments/cabte They used the same rules to make E.T. ==== 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body (score: 5) ==== http://reddit.com/info/aa5p/comments/cab1f I believe this is related to the "morning wood" phenomenon. ==== Microsoft running scared of Google's enterprise search (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a9b4/comments/ca9sx We have Google's corporate search tool at my company. It isn're really any better than htdig or any other free tool. Google's power comes in analyizing links on the web, but in the corporate network, we don't really have the links necessary for that, and Google's appliance because just another search box. ==== 7/29/85 Gates to Sculley (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/2vgg/comments/ca9q6 Had they taken this suggestion, Apple would have probably been very successful, but they would have no control of the quality of their product, and we would end up with all the same problems the PC's have. ==== The "Gifted" VCR Repair Lady: Is It Unethical To Sell To An Idiot? (score: 11) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a7pi/comments/ca8dw Next time you want to have some fun, call up your local computer shop and ask them if they have technologies that you know don't exisit. If they tell you it is in stock, ask them to hold one for you. ==== Ever calculate how much that printer *really* costs? Welcome to our hidden-fee economy. (score: 6) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a7vo/comments/ca8do > and when in doubt, print at work Yes, to help yourself save money on printing costs, screw your employer instead. They are just a big evil company after all... ==== Laser light aimed at reflectors left on lunar surface could test Einstein's theory (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a5tt/comments/ca634 I don't understand this: > The pulse leaving the telescope is approximately an inch thick and 10 feet in diameter If the pulse is leaving the telescope, how can it have a diamater and a thickness? Wouldn't it's thickness be the distance from Earth to the reflector? ==== An unusual discovery in remote Canada may help us humans find the nearest extraterrestrial life (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a42b/comments/ca626 Have any of these scientists seen the movie 2010: > All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa. Attempt No Landing There. Use Them Together. Use Them in Peace. Don't they know what is going to happen if they send a probe to Europa. ==== Why Bose Sucks (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9pdm/comments/ca5ck Since I use them for about 1/2 of my waking hours, I was willing to lay out the $299. :) ==== Why Bose Sucks (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9pdm/comments/ca5cj Yes. They did not feel as comfortable on my head as the Bose. I'm very pickey about how they feel on my ears, since I wear them about 7 hours a day at work. That's also why I don't like the in-ear phones -- they hurt too much by the end of the day. ==== Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/a03l/comments/ca18r You'd have to be fool to invest in Google stock. The only reason to own shares in Google is if you are an employee and you got them at a discount. Clearly the folks at the top know that shit is overpriced. It's one thing to sell a little stock when your company IPOs to take a little value out of it -- it is a whole other thing to keep selling 10's of millions of dollars worth of stock every month 2 years after your IPO. ==== How fast can you type? (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9upi/comments/c9v8h I usually find that when I am typing or programming, my fingers cannot keep up with my brain, which causes me to forget the end of what I was typing. I suppose if I improved my typing speed, I would not have this problem. ==== Command-line gems: screen (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9rh4/comments/c9ur6 Wow, I've been using screen for 10 years, and this makes it like discovering a whole new tool! That hack is fantastic. I guss I should have read the man page... ==== The Bridge to Nowhere: A National (US) Embarrassment (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9pov/comments/c9r0z Ah, but if the ferry rides were free, then the wait time would be even longer! :) ==== Why Bose Sucks (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9pdm/comments/c9qrc I love my Bose noise cancelling headphones. They cost more than all the others, but I tried all the others, and they had the best sound range and the best ability to cancel outside noise. I don't konw about their speakers, but I know their headphones are fantastic. I use them at work every day. ==== 75$ Linux PC - Just add the monitor (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9mzq/comments/c9nci Dude, the thing is USED! You can get better machines for cheaper on Craigslist. ==== Bill Gates's House (non-linkjacked) (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9m3z/comments/c9mb2 I don't think the original was linkjacked -- the author added substantial new information. ==== At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust - New York Times (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9l9d/comments/c9m8x I don't know, why IS your mind so dirty? :) ==== Are you in the 98% or 2% of the population? Amazing test. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9krf/comments/c9m77 Orange hammer. I'm not sure if that makes me special or not. ==== The Effects of Celibacy (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/9lki/comments/c9m4z > There is something about having sex on a daily basis, and then suddenly not having it anymore Her boyfriend was a lucky guy... ==== "The Island Test" -- What are you addicted to? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/98pg/comments/c9ani 2 Days is not a suffcient amount of time to judge by -- all but the most severe addicts can survive 2 days. A better test would be a month or a year. For example, I can go on vacation in a place with no internet access for a week, but if I were going to be gone for a month, I'm pretty sure I would need some internet access at least some of the time. ==== Clock that displays seconds in day as dots (non-linkjacked) (score: 3) ==== http://reddit.com/info/99l0/comments/c9ain Why didn't the author group the blocks by 60 instead of 100? It would make SO much more sense that way. ==== Why I Hate Reddit (score: 4) ==== http://reddit.com/info/93cb/comments/c93zt You were told: http://reddit.com/info/50ys/comments :) ==== Have any millionaires ever been executed in the United States? (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/924g/comments/c93zl Wait, this is genius!!! Only let milionaires buy guns, and crime will go down. Why didn't anyone else think of this? ==== Add a "people who are like me" button to the friends page (score: 4) ==== http://features.reddit.com/info/8xcc/comments/c8xcl On this page: http://features.reddit.com/prefs/friends It would be cool if there were a button that I could use to automatically add the top 10 users whose submissions I vote up the most or whose stuff I get in the recomendation engine. ==== Windows Users vs. Linux Users (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8qzm/comments/c8r4y I belive it is a humor piece, or at least that is how I read it. ==== BBC NEWS: 'We will be able to live to 1,000' (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8n3g/comments/c8r2e "Till death do us part" takes on a whole new meaning at a 1000 year lifespan, doesn't it. :) ==== Why students are revolting (score: 2) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8fbb/comments/c8h35 I was once standing at the registrars office of UC Berkeley, and a man walked in and went straight up to the window without waiting in line. The people behind the counter seemed to know him. He handed them a long list of names, and while he was waiting, I asked what he was doing. He said that he worked for a company that verifies people's educational claims on their resumes -- that they attended when they said they did and graduated with the degree and GPA they claimed. So although you never showed your diploma to anyone, there is a really good chance that if you work for any decent sized company, they checked up on you. ==== Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference (with pics (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8ck5/comments/c8gi3 Everyone in that building was plugged into a single shared hub that had 156 ports on it. ==== Craigslist response to bogus "fair housing" lawsuit (score: 14) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8ffg/comments/c8ghr If I read you correctly, you are implying that the law says it is not okay for someone to say they only want a roommate of a single gender. However, the law you quote directly refutes that -- look closely at the list of people who are not allowed to discriminate. That list does not included individuals. If I were looking for a roommate, I would not fit under any of those categories -- I am not a housing provider, I'm a housing consumer. ==== 4 month-old Polar Bear [photo] (score: 7) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8dsq/comments/c8ern OMG!!! PONIES ==== The best cieling drawing ever [jpeg] (score: 15) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8dln/comments/c8er8 Anyone got a mirror? Imageshack seems to have removed the image. ==== Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference (with pics (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8ck5/comments/c8er3 When I worked in the dorms, we always talked about how fun it would be to plug in the cable o' death into the hubs we used that had about 150 users connected to it. Do you think one cable could take out 150 people at once? Sadly, we never did try this. It would have been super fun though. ==== The COMPLETE command line list for Linux, Windows, Oracle, and MacOS (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8ayv/comments/c8byp That is one of them. Can you name any others though? ==== The COMPLETE command line list for Linux, Windows, Oracle, and MacOS (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/8ayv/comments/c8bhf The list isn't complete -- it doesn't have any entries for the letter O in the list of unix commands. Finding a command that starts with O is left as an exercise for the reader. :) ==== ask reddit: Limit submits per minute? Or per 5 minutes? These nicks djhdyhujjhd, pkjcujfbhgjm, wkqjwyhwyh for example just spammed reddit (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7db3/comments/c8b3w Those might help, but I just really don't like the idea of making any calculation based on karma. ==== 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium looks like... (score: 8) ==== http://reddit.com/info/89n1/comments/c8ak3 Well, they do say that the best architecture is based on designs from nature... ==== 1.2 billion page views for a website in 1 week: World Cup Football Rules (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/88qw/comments/c88uh Wait, what? > 226 million page views by 6.2 million visitors How does that work? ==== President Bush To Legally Blind Reporter: ‘Are You Going to Ask That Question with Shades On?’ (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7w9l/comments/c88u2 The President is a citizen in an elected position of authority that in theory affords him some minimal level of respect -- it is rude to interview ANYONE while wearing sunglasses, not just the President. ==== The Business Geek: Not An Oxymoron (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7je2/comments/c889p The business angle is to think of the open source product as the "loss leader". Unfortunately, that loss leader is also going to be your biggest competitor. I used to work for a company that was based on an open source product, so I know that in reality, the only real money to be made in that area is consulting on your product, helping with performance tuning and taking advantage of the secrets hidden away deep in the source code. ==== New Mac vs. PC ads. (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/5y58d/comments/c888q Well, since I don't watch TV, these were new to me. ==== What a nifty wrist watch--Atomic precise (score: 1) ==== http://reddit.com/info/7yrw/comments/c80gl > Batteries are included (they last about 45 minutes but are rechargeable). AC adapter included.