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    SAN JOSE, CA—With funding from dozens of news outlets and media companies, the groundbreaking Outkube.com launched this week, providing an online destination where pandering and incendiary content is used to lure moronic Internet commenters away from all other websites.

    The site has so far proved extremely popular with the worst fucking human beings imaginable.

    According to sources, Outkube boasts thousands of articles and forums carefully crafted to draw in dim-witted web users and effectively quarantine obtuse, uninformed comments on topics such as gay rights, Ryan Gosling, the threat of Sharia law in the U.S., health care reform, whether Kobe is better than LeBron, Jewish control of the government and media, the New York Jets, the Second Amendment, and professional wrestler John Cena.

    Most stories on the site are reportedly preloaded with several witless and profanity-laden comments specially designed to incite retaliatory remarks.

    "Outkube provides an immensely valuable public service," said YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar, one of the decoy website's founders and principal investors. "With its unparalleled expanse of sensational content and lack of filters or character limits on postings, Outkube attracts the broadest possible spectrum of jabbering halfwits—from paranoid reactionaries to know-it-all pricks to racists to plain old dumbfucks."

    "Now you can read an article or enjoy multimedia on your favorite websites without having to endure the revolting, barely coherent comments these troglodytes used to leave at the bottom of every page," Kamangar continued. "At long last, a new era has dawned for the Internet."

    Officials at Outkube explained the site relies on a set of fine-tuned algorithms to produce and continuously refresh its content. Using up-to-the-minute sports scores, trending search terms, TV viewing statistics, and key phrases from the latest scaremongering political e-mail forwards, the formulas churn out the divisive social commentary and mindless celebrity gossip upon which web-surfing morons thrive.

    In addition, sources confirmed that each day Outkube's software produces dozens of new pop-culture rankings, such as "The 10 Most Underrated Bands" or "The 15 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time," which have been shown to occupy some of the Internet's most obnoxious commenters indefinitely, freeing the remainder of the web for actual rational discourse. The new site also caters to its target demographic with a corps of full-time bloggers including Geraldo Rivera, Rosie O'Donnell, and Spencer Pratt.

    "This is a godsend," said Kenneth Estenson of CNN, which owns a major stake in Outkube. "We've seen a huge drop in the number of CNN.com commenters accusing one another of being fucking retard dipshits, and the once common practice among users of equating any viewpoint they do not personally share to the philosophy of the Taliban has almost entirely disappeared."

    Added Estenson: "It's astonishing. A group of our site's users actually had an intelligent discussion yesterday about the justice system in the Amanda Knox case without being consistently interrupted by speculation about Ms. Knox's tits or her quote-unquote 'taco.' I never could have dreamed this day would come."

    Although Outkube sources admitted the site required little oversight—with nearly all posts devolving on their own into heated exchanges over the Koran's alleged endorsement of wife-beating, whether Adam Lambert should get AIDS and die, or the government's secret plan to mentally incapacitate citizens using the HPV vaccine—the site does employ moderators to ensure threads stay as active and idiotic as possible.

    "Internet commenters are so inherently dim that, by simply responding to their ridiculous rants with an equally inflammatory statement—for example, by accusing them of engaging in homosexual acts or belittling their favored sports star or political candidate—these imbeciles can't help but react with outrage and continue to engage with our site," Outkube webmaster Sean Hawk said. "They take the bait every time."

    "Christ, they're stupid," he added.

    Hawk then demonstrated a feature that detects when a user has been idle for more than 15 seconds and automatically triggers a pop-up window containing a photograph of a woman whom the user is asked to rate on a scale of "fugly cunt" to "totally boneable," a tactic that prevents 9 of 10 idiots from leaving the website, according to internal statistics.

    Though the site has won praise for providing a much-need service and has already attracted more than 40 million registered users, Outkube has also earned its share of detractors.

    "This site sux serios dick," wrote a user known as "19brazzballz86," who left one of the more than 100,000 negative responses posted so far on Outkube's feedback page. "Fuk u!!! hahah a GO GATORS!!!!"
    It's messing with my groove because it's not real.

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    Throughout that hilarious post of yours (Steely) I was reading Oaktube until the very end.

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    Today is the last day of Scarlett being 1
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    RIP Marco Simoncelli.

    This guy was a really impressive and very talented young man that died too young.

    The following video shows the racing incident that killed Marco so if you don't care to see such things, then please don't watch.

    I was watching the race on TV when the crash happened and as soon as I saw him sprawled on the track face down without a helmet I knew it was unlikely he would survive but I still hoped. Even as I was standing there gob-smacked by what just happened there were little alarm bells ringing in my head "the helmet shouldn't come off".

    This nagging thought was still in the back of my mind all day today at work - "The helmet shouldn't come off".

    It's a simple thing really, the helmet is designed to protect your brain from significant injury(s) and it needs to be held in place by a strap, and that strap must be strong enough to survive the same impacts the helmet is intended to protect your brain from. A lot of time, money, research and development has gone into helmet design and here we are in the second decade of the 21st century and a professional competitor in the premier motorcycle championship has his helmet come off in a collision and dies.

    Yes, the collision was huge, he was struck by two bikes in quick succession and his position relative to the ground (very low) contributed to the intensity of the contact. Even with this severe double impact the helmet should have stayed on his head, the helmet remained intact (it didn't split or shatter) and it can be seen in the video rolling alongside (and under) Colin Edwards bike and if you look closely the strap can be seen flapping around.

    So did the helmet strap break? Was it not fastened correctly (or at all)? Or is there another contributing factor (such as Marco's significant "mop" of hair having an effect on the fit of his helmet)?

    It doesn't change anything as far as this young man and his family are concerned but if there is some sort of investigation (I assume there will be) then I'd be interested to know what they discover.



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    Just got an email from Xbox thanking me for purchasing $50 in Live Points.

    I didn't purchase $50 in live points. Someone managed to steal the information on my account. The xbox.com password was changed, but my email through gmail uses a different password and wasn't touched. Luckily I have my email set to forward to my dumbphone, so at least I was able to catch it before they spent the points.

    Crazy part is that Brent doesn't know the pass, the xbox auto signs in, my computer was reformatted about 2 weeks ago, and MSE hasn't reported any problems. I can't even load xbox.com at work.

    And of course Microsoft's systems are down, and will be down for most of the day, so they can't do anything yet about reversing the purchase.

    So I'm going to sit here at work and worry all day about which part of my system is compromised, and how I'm going to go about getting it all cleaned up.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    Just got an email from Xbox thanking me for purchasing $50 in Live Points.

    I didn't purchase $50 in live points. Someone managed to steal the information on my account. The xbox.com password was changed, but my email through gmail uses a different password and wasn't touched. Luckily I have my email set to forward to my dumbphone, so at least I was able to catch it before they spent the points.
    What sense does this make at all? I mean stealing an XBox Live account and purchasing points with it? The points can't be transferred, and any games or points purchased on an account are permanently linked to it, so at best they'd be able to rent whatever they purchased for $50 up until you called up Microsoft to have the password reset. Then they'd likely ban the XBox the errant purchase was made on from Live.
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Illusions View Post
    What sense does this make at all? I mean stealing an XBox Live account and purchasing points with it? The points can't be transferred, and any games or points purchased on an account are permanently linked to it, so at best they'd be able to rent whatever they purchased for $50 up until you called up Microsoft to have the password reset. Then they'd likely ban the XBox the errant purchase was made on from Live.
    I was thinking the same thing. Had Brandy plug in and boot up the xbox to see if the account had been transferred to a different machine, but it hadn't. It still signed in without issue and without having to recover it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by termite View Post
    RIP Marco Simoncelli.
    I'd read about the death but not seen the vid.

    It's a high-risk game - these guys know what they're taking on. You can't, unfortunately, protect against every eventuality.

    Safety being paramount I'd hope everything was checked properly before the race - helmet straps and all.

    He died doing what he loved I guess. RIP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    Just got an email from Xbox thanking me for purchasing $50 in Live Points.

    I didn't purchase $50 in live points. Someone managed to steal the information on my account.
    The WTF continues. The charge is still pending on my credit card, but the points are no longer on my Live account, and nothing new has been added to my purchase history.
    I'm going to call Xbox support again in a few to see what the hell is going on.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    The WTF continues. The charge is still pending on my credit card, but the points are no longer on my Live account, and nothing new has been added to my purchase history.
    I'm going to call Xbox support again in a few to see what the hell is going on.
    Sometimes it takes awhile for reversed charges to appear that way; call them, of course, but it's probably just this bizarre thing I've noticed where companies can charge you instantly, but refunds (even of their errors) take 5-7 business days.
    We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by littlelolligagged View Post
    Sometimes it takes awhile for reversed charges to appear that way; call them, of course, but it's probably just this bizarre thing I've noticed where companies can charge you instantly, but refunds (even of their errors) take 5-7 business days.
    Not to mention that money transfers over here still take up to 3 days. That may have made sense while we only had 56K modems - but in the age of abundant multicore CPUs and Gigabit connections, they simply can't convince me that there are any calculations or data transfers which need to be processed for 3 whole days. Work days, that is. Saturday and sunday don't count - they obviously turn off all their servers over the weekend.
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    Whatever the fuck happened, whoever did it wasn't very low key about it. By the time I called Xbox back, their systems were already up and the charge had been reversed by whatever fraud protection system they use. The refund for the purchase hit my account before the pending charge cleared

    I can only assume my password was brute forced some how, since my machines spent all day yesterday being scanned, before and after loading the Windows OS, and they all come up clean.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Are you sure it wasn't a glitch on XBox's part to begin with? That is so weird!

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    Thats what I wanted to blame it on too, but I couldn't log into my live account right away when I first discovered the charge. I could have been mistyping because I was slightly freaking out, but I'll never know Live doesn't have a password recovery option, only password reset.
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Oh, I didn't read that part correctly before. Well, at any rate I'm glad it's fixed. But it's scary to think how easily someone can hack in and grab stuff in a short amount of time!

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    While printing a paper (only 55 pages..) after page 7, I got a page saying 'This job requires more memory than is available in this printer'
    Keep on keepin' the beat alive!

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    So, Tintin is coming but it seems like I can't get it in both 2D and English. For fuck's sake Hollywood, I want to give you my money, WHY are you making it so fucking difficult?!
    "One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
    So, Tintin is coming but it seems like I can't get it in both 2D and English. For fuck's sake Hollywood, I want to give you my money, WHY are you making it so fucking difficult?!
    Hehe, I got it in 2D and in English It was quite good, but a bit confusing I suppose for people who know the books.

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    Thirty years on age on Saturday.

    That's not only messing with my groove, it's urinating in my favorite hat and eating all the raspberry ripple ice cream in my freezer.

    The only solution is helicopter lessons.

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    30? Been there, done that.

    Do other countries also have this ridiculous custom of 30 years old bachelors (and bachelorettes!) having to sweep the stairs to the city hall until a virgin comes along and liberates the unlucky sod with a kiss?

    Guys have been known to marry themselves off in a panic just to prevent that sort of thing!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro View Post
    until a virgin comes along and liberates the unlucky sod with a kiss?
    Where do I sign?

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    Broke up with my girlfriend of two years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tylor View Post
    Broke up with my girlfriend of two years
    That's bad, but welcome to the board anyway. No doubt we can make you feel any bit as miserable as she could.
    Congratulations America

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    Okay, our glorious leaders have decided that the development of broadband internet connections are to be left to the glorious invisible hands of the glorious free market.

    Because that worked oh-so-well until now. I have thought about it hard and I can't quite see what else the FDP could do to reduce themselves to 0% of possible votes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro View Post
    Okay, our glorious leaders have decided that the development of broadband internet connections are to be left to the glorious invisible hands of the glorious free market.
    Hey now, thats worked perfectly for us! In the ten years of having broadband my service has increased by a whole 5mb down*, with the price only doubling!


    *On paper at least, I still only get about 10% of that
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    I just realised there are like 4 billion people at least on this planet who are younger than I.
    Congratulations America

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
    I just realised there are like 4 billion people at least on this planet who are younger than I.

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/he...-fraud.html?hp

    Thank you for giving people a reason for questioning your entire field.
    Hope is the denial of reality

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    Box of Dots I just opened was only oranges and yellows Damn first world problems.

    Going have to catch up with the train wreck of a thread the parenthood thread has become to cheer myself up.
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    Loki, while that may be annoying, in the long run scandals like this will (hopefully) make the system better. If something like this can carry on for so long, and so prominently, there's a good reason to question the entire field.And the numbers of people massaging data its quite astonishing. While outright fraud may be rare, there's definitely something wrong there.

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