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from the the-old-ball-and-chain dept.
It seems to me that the simple fix for this guy is to make a new account and get the guts to tell his wife to stop calling work.
On Wed June 25, 2008 ********* wrote:
"Is it possible to take all of my account information and insert it into a new account? I ask because my wife has started to check on me through Slashdot while I'm at work. She doesn't think I am working if I post during the day. It has reached the point where she will call work if she sees that I have posted. My boss doesn't like it and I can't get her to stop. I'd hate to have to get my karma back up to where it is now or have my posts (which are very good mostly) not associated with a new account. I know I could just start posting anonymous coward but I have a problem with having what I write linked to the word coward. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance."
On Sat July 7, 2007 ******** wrote:
"If I become someone's friend can I see everything they post even if they post anonymously? I think my wife is having an affair with one of your users. I have no direct proof but she doesn't talk to me when I get home like she used to, she doesn't seem interested in what I have to say or planning trips. Worst of all she gets upset at me when I try to touch her. I know she is very attracted to geek types (I can be a bit of a nerd) and she shuts off the screen when I come in. I thought at first she was talking to someone on a singles site or was looking at something inappropriate but when I made her show me one night it was Slashdot. I asked why she didn't want me to know she was looking at Slashdot and her excuse was ridiculous. I assume she's been talking to someone on your site and It would be a great help if you could let me know how to find out what she has been doing. I would be willing to get a subscription if you could help."
I think the obvious solution is that he should leave his wife and marry the first guy. That way there wouldn't be any question as to why anyone was reading Slashdot. They could live the rest of their lives commenting together. It's kind of romantic. Finally, we have a guy who should shut off his machine and play with his damn kids before they come home wearing black mascara and sporting a new face tattoo. His wife is right. They are a lot more fun when they are not telling you how you ruined their lives.
On Sun Jan 20, 2008 ****** wrote:
"I have 2 young kids and it would be great if you made a Slashdot kids section. Your readers are getting older and most are going to have kids soon if they don't already. I'm not sure if you have children but in case you don't let me tell you how hard it is to get anything done in your free-time that doesn't involve yelling at them and putting them in timeout. My wife is always complaining that the kids just want to play with me and that I should be grateful, when they get older they may want nothing to do with us. It would be awesome if I could plop them down in front of a computer next to me and look at kids stuff on Slashdot. That way we would be doing something together. Just a thought. I love the site but would really love it if I could use it to spend time with the kids."
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Moving account info (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Moving account info (Score:4, Funny)
Hell, you can game it and get max in less then a week.
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Twitter? Is that you?
*couldn't resist*
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596213 is considered a low number now?
Jeeze I feel old.
Re:Moving account info (Score:5, Funny)
You rang?
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You may get your karma back after a little while but you'll never get your low UID back.
Woot, more disagree mail! (Score:5, Funny)
Since this thread will soon be filled with the tortured whining of socially stunted geeks who can't figure out how to set up their preferences to not display "idle" submissions, let me be the first to celebrate this week's episode of the best thing about /.
Bring it, haters: I have karma to burn.
Re:Woot, more disagree mail! (Score:5, Informative)
I agree, and these emails have been the best yet. Not only were they interesting, but they were written by people that could form complete sentences. I will admit that I feel a little bad for the second guy. He's clearly got a serious problem. It's just funny that he would write the Slashdot editors for help tracking his wife.
And honey, if you are reading this... I Love You.
Nerd psychology (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought this batch of disagree mail was an interesting look into nerd psychology.
#1) Terrible irony: you don't want to post as a "coward" but you appear afraid to stand up to your overbearing stalker wife. Or maybe you're not afraid and have stood up, but you're stuck with an unreasonable spouse.
#2) Sorry dude, she hasn't been fooling around on Slashdot. She's fooling around alright, or at least looking at sites that she doesn't think you'll approve of. But you know how you leave an Excel window open all day so you can quickly hide Slashdot if your boss comes by? Well she opened a Slashdot window to hide what she was really doing.
#3) Some people aren't meant to have kids, at least not yet. Unfortunately you have kids you don't want. And anyways, would having your kid reading kids.slashdot.com next to you really be any better than having them surf pbskids.org next to you?
ALL) Not only do Slashdot readers have girlfriends, but they have wives and kids (you insensitive clod)!
Re:Nerd psychology (Score:4, Interesting)
I thought this batch of disagree mail was an interesting look into nerd psychology.
Indeed. By inventing these emails and composing them, samzenpus has shown us how he thinks of the typical Slashdot reader.
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80% of my class acts like freshmen high school students in a study hall.
As the only mature student a while ago (doing an RPL course) I totally agree. It was so difficult to concentrate on coursework with a bunch of high-school rejects. Also it seems that even the older gals (especially) who found themselves 'back at school' after an absence of 20 years suddenly start acting like 15yr olds is not only funny and embarrassing, but I had to protect my 'virginity' for the 2nd time in my life! I've never met a bu
Re:Woot, more disagree mail! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Woot, more disagree mail! (Score:5, Funny)
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The internet should have a giant fence with a giant sign that reads, "danger, do not cross".
On one side would be the internet, on the other 4chan.
Divorce Rates (Score:5, Interesting)
"Being in a relationship is not easy, more than half of all first marriages fail in this country. That statistic doesn't improve if you spend most of your time reading your favorite website and not tending to the needs of your family."
A coworker & I were discussing the alarming amount of people around us who are divorced. It's really crazy.
... probably New York or California I had thought. We decided to look up the annual divorce rates by state [statemaster.com] and were shocked to see that some states in the bible belt [wikipedia.org] states are relatively high. One of our most cherished institutions indeed!
:)
... but as the decay continues for--say Ohio with 4%--you have a group of 100 couples over ten years ending up (exponential decay formula) with 33 divorced couples
Our conversation continued to speculate what the hell has changed. We were wondering if it had to do with the fact that the world is getting smaller. I come into contact with way more people today than 20 years ago. Do I find a suitable mate and then find a more suitable mate later? Is it ebbing morals? Is it growing equality of the sexes? Is divorce rewarded in some way? Most importantly, I thought, there is less of a social stigma associated with it. Most likely it's influenced by all of these things.
We bagan betting which state would have the highest divorce rate
We both had forgotten about Vegas!
These numbers look really low because it's yearly
Personally I think it's a shame but there's not a lot to be done about it.
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The one about the guy who wants a "Slashdot for kids" is especially disturbing so he can "plop" his children in front of a computer and have them leave him alone is especially disturbing.
I hope that's the exception rather than the rule for geeks who are starting to have families.
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm sure it's the exception.
Now I would love some sort of slashdot for kids just so my kids have their own avenue for geek news. Not to keep them busy, but to allow them to grow an interest.
Unfortunately to do that would need a very agressive moderator enforcing strict rules.
Oh, and when I say 'for kids' I mean kids under 13.
While kids will get exposed to a lot of stuff, I prefer to protect my 8 year old from some of the crap that goes on in public forums.
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"I prefer to protect my 8 year old from some of the crap that goes on in public forums."
Yeah, those libertarians here creep me out on occasions.
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:4, Insightful)
Pesky libertarians. They should just move to a country where freedom is encouraged.
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:5, Funny)
While kids will get exposed to a lot of stuff, I prefer to protect my 8 year old from some of the crap that goes on in public forums.
"Daddy, why doesn't my butt stretch out like that?"
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:4, Insightful)
Folks in the Bible Belt marry younger due to greater inhibitions about premarital sex. Then surprise, lots of married people in their mid 20s decide they made a bad life decision when they were 18-20.
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My personal theory is that since there's less social stigma against divorce now, people are more willing to actually get divorced when they realize they're not in a functional relationship. It used to be that people (especially women, due to their relative social status) would stay in an entirely unhappy marriage simply because being divorced was worse.
I don't see what the big "concern" is over divorce rates anyhow, unless your brand of morality includes the idea that people shouldn't get divorced. From a
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Their kids probably care.
Yes, because the kids would be so much better off with parents who are unhappy, no longer in love, but lack the gonads to admit it and move on with their lives.
Kids are better off having divorced parents than having married parents in an unstable relationship.
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Re:Divorce Rates (Score:4, Interesting)
When my mom divorced my dad she had been the only one working for a long time, and had to take care of two kids while he pretty much drank.
He couldn't even stay home and take care of us--when she asked him to do that he locked us in our room by tying a rope from the doorknob to something across the hall and went to "play golf". The only egress, a window, was too high to get out of.
It wasn't like we were being tortured or anything, but we were a good deal better off without him.
Yes, the kids care!
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:5, Funny)
Shotgun marriages from knocking up governors' daughters is at least one thing that drives those divorce rates up.
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For the record my wife and I just celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. She has been married once before first marriage lasted 13 days before annulment, I have not been married before.
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:4, Informative)
It isn't laziness. The truth is that people change. Who you are and what you're willing to put up with is different at 35 (45, 55) than it is at 18.
Sometimes a relationship can grow and adapt and weather the changes that come with the years, and sometimes it can't. The difference is that in my parent's generation, you just sucked it up and resigned yourself to being miserable for the rest of your life, no matter how often your husband was beating you up, how many affairs he had, and how much he treated you like shit after you gained a few pounds and he started drinking every night. You just sucked it up.
Sometimes marrying someone is a terrible mistake that only becomes apparent years later. As a child of parents who hated each other's guts for pretty much my entire lifetime, couldn't hide it, and didn't get divorced until I turned 18, let me assure you that divorce when I was a little kid would have been far preferable to what I went through.
Now I'm married, and I'm seven years into it. It isn't always easy, but I'm in it for the long haul. I will guarantee to you that if I ever start acting like my parents did for my entire childhood and adolescence, I will do something about it. Immediately. Life is way too short.
Re:Divorce Rates (Score:4, Interesting)
To believers, this is akin to how the Son answers to the Father; but because they are one God (just like a man clings to his wife and they become one flesh in Genesis 1), the Son is not lesser than the Father: the Father is just in charge.
This is just my humble interpretation; feel free to disagree.
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23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle,
She has time to call you at work? (Score:2, Funny)
Christ. Tell her to stop calling and get back in the goddamn kitchen and make you a sandwich.
Tag it: setyourfuckingsettings (Score:2)
That way the whiners don't have to see idle.slashdot.org stories anymore.
hahaah (Score:2)
Dear slashdot (Score:2, Informative)
Please ban the iups the guy with the kids posts from. Maybe he will start playing with his kids out of sheer boredom.
Hint:
"that doesn't involve yelling at them and putting them in timeout"
You are not doing it correcetly.
A) You should be yelling at your kids.
B) If you are yelling at them and then putting themin timeout, you are doing it wrong.
Not to be surprised becasue most Americans don't seem to understand how to do timeuts.
When done right, they are a great tools.
I know becasue I was doing it wrong. When
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Hey - hitting your kids is fine. Heck, I didn't turn out to bad!
Shoot - gotta go - the prison guard says my weekly computer time is up.
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After learning good techniques, I don't get nearly as frustrated as I used to, but yeah, some days.
What I do when I get frustrated is stop doing what I am doing, and focus 100% on doing something with my kids. I don't get done what I was working on, but i'm not frustrated anymore. The odd time when I really can't stop what I am doing. I simply explain to my kids what I am doing, why it must be done right now and apologize for not having the time. They seem to understand that.
Besides, in 6 years there not go
One, two and three (Score:2, Interesting)
Two and three-- Looks like the obvious train doesn't stop in their town.
Seriously-- web usage is a perfect mirror of who we are inasmuch as it shows what's important to us. Don't blame the mirror for the image it shows because you don't like it. Fix the subject. Or (if you're into short-term solutions) get rid of the mirror. In the latter case, though, don't be surprised if what's in the mirror doesn't go away.
Okay-- I'm into seriously over-extended
Slashdot for cats? (Score:5, Funny)
With the high divorce rate, I have given up on my wife and instead have cats. It would be great if you could add a section for cats. Sometimes my cat wants to play, but I want to read /., so she sits on my keyboard and meows at me. It would be awesome if I could plop her down in front of a computer, so we could be doing something together.
Also, when I am at work she monitors me on slashdot. This is why I have to post AC. Sometimes she even responds. You know all the comments that seem like the poster couldn't type at all? That's her.
Kids' Section (Score:5, Funny)
"On Sun Jan 20, 2008 ****** wrote: "I have 2 young kids and it would be great if you made a Slashdot kids section."
"Slashdot Announces Idle Section"
- CmdrTaco, Aug 14, 2008
Ask, and you shall receive. Took a while, though. His wife probably took the kids and left already. Way to put family first, Slashdot.
Can't believe it (Score:4, Insightful)
1 - Didn't your wife told you not to post?!? Get back to work bitch! Just kidding. C'mon man, talk to her!
2 - Why don't you ask her directly instead of trying to caught her in the act? You know, some relationships actually benefit from being honest to each other... some even are based on that!
3 - You should have thought about that BEFORE having kids! Put your sh1t toghether, act like the father you are supposed to be and spend time with your kids. And you better enjoy it.
I admit it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I admit it (Score:4, Funny)
Next up on the Slashdot poll.... who isn't sleeping with that guy's wife?
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I admire your moral stance. Hopefully others will follow your example and perhaps we can help these poor unfortunates to improve their relationship with their spouses through meaningful and insightful advice gleaned from the collective years of experience that makes the Slashdot community what it is.
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There was a story that showed up around the time idle started: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2246235&from=rss [slashdot.org]
He set his password to "Lloyds is pants." It's a British thing.
Some whiner suggested to use it as a tag for all idle stories.