lurkinggrue

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   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   It's all justified as long as it is funny. I guess it is easy to be a prick when you are only looking at pixels.
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   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   This is a crazy advancement of that cleché argument when the kid screams "I never asked to be born!" It's not like they would have gotten a version of her without the problem if they had better screenng.
3. 663.▲
   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   They didn't make it obvious and it comes off as they just want to rummage though all my accounts. It turned me off to them rather quickly. Right after I signed up they started Beacon.
4. 664.▲
   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   I just don't get facebook. It feels like the AOL of social media. The part that turned me off is when I tried to sign up it wouldn't let me continue without giving it the logon to my email accounts. I prefer far more open systems like frien
5. 665.▲
   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   I doubt it and as always Sturgeon's Law needs to be applied here.
6. 666.▲
   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   This is true and by 98 gave up complaining about Internet newbies.
7. 667.▲
   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   So it's a YC/Hacker slan-shack. That's cool but stuff like that has been going on in geek fandoms for decades.
8. 668.▲
   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   I was on the internet in 89 and found tons of things to do: Irc, Usenet, Mucks, Muds, Gopher, Ftp. By 1996 we were complaining about the Aol users ruining the internet.
9. 669.▲
   by lurkinggrue 18y ago

   I click on one and it wants me to run an executable, and that in no way could be a trojan or anything right?
10. 670.▲
    by lurkinggrue 18y ago

    Wow! That figure is much higher than I expected. Excuse me while I go back to refreshing slashdot every minute.
11. 671.▲
    by lurkinggrue 18y ago

    I mean, really. Executable line noise is so 90's