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Topic: Society |
1:53 am EST, Nov 3, 2003 |
] let me just say that, as a slashdot troll, i have a ] firewall which allows me to dynamically modify my o/s ] fingerprint, a highly adaptive cookie manager/poisoner ] that can decode many cookies in realtime (stop using ] urlencode!), a browser plugin that lets me modify my ] entire http header including user agent, a ] database-driven transparent proxy tracker which harvests ] new proxies 24/7, scripts to generate free email accounts ] by the 100's, good web scripting skills, and on a good ] day around 500 moderation points on slashdot from over ] 1,000 monitored accounts. This is a really great discussion between a troll and a sysop. It really speaks to the fact that governance of an internet community is a very complex problem that shares many of the social dynamics of governance of a IRL community. Trolls vs. Sysops... |
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Skeptic's Annotated Bible |
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Topic: Society |
12:51 am EDT, May 3, 2003 |
The King James Version presented from a skeptic's point of view. Very interesting website... whether you "have religion" or you don't.. it's an interesting read about the discrepancies and whatnot found throughout the Bible. Skeptic's Annotated Bible |
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Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding |
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Topic: Society |
11:07 pm EDT, May 2, 2003 |
] Spinal muscular atrophy and the gene that causes it, ] along with several other serious genetic disorders, are ] common in Saudi Arabia, where women have an average of ] six children and where in some regions more than half of ] the marriages are between close relatives. ] ] Across the Arab world today an average of 45 percent of ] married couples are related, according to Dr. Nadia ] Sakati, a pediatrician and senior consultant for the ] genetics research center at King Faisal Specialist ] Hospital in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding |
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