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They are claiming he violated their terms of use. I just scanned it and the only seemingly relevant text I can find is

Here.

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Considering some (all?) were using Wordpress the hacking may have been trivial depending on what plugins were in use. (or perhaps there is an unknown issue with Wordpress it's self)
There may not have been that much expertise needed in this "hacking".

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:0KLjk6HUgUQJ:www.en-hrana.com/+EN-HRANA.COM&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Considering some (all?) were using Wordpress the hacking may have been trivial depending on what plugins were in use. (or perhaps there is an unknown issue with Wordpress it's self)
There may not have been that much expertise needed in this "hacking".

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The article that was removed is available here.

The mention of Ms. Vonn's name is in the following sentence:

They just posted a good rundown of the Woman's field disguised as story about the rivalry between top skiers (and best friends!) Lindsey Vonn and Maria Reisch.

That's it. No claim of her endorsing anything, just a summary of an article on another website.

Higher concentrations of ethanol have bad effects on fiberglass, aluminum, and rubber. cite

It's perfectly possible to make an engine that works great on ethanol (It is wonderful (both in efficiency and power) with forced induction and high compression ratios thanks to the incredible octane rating.), but you need to design for it and that's not cheap.

"I'd go for this instead of a business jet. Far more fun and you don't have to worry if the engines fail - you can always use the ejection seat."

Sure, but of course it's your 5 million dollar jet you're ejecting from and not tax-payers, not to mention the bill the US gov't might hit you with for having to clean up the jet scattered over 10 acres.

Of course this is a good deal for drug traffickers. With a 4,000 kg normal payload capacity and cocaine selling for $23,000 per kg you'd make almost 100 million in one trip, and who's going to try stopping a jet traveling Mach 2?

Good god, that’s hard to follow. There are so many links I can’t tell which one is the main article, there are acronyms that I don’t recognise, and it’s not tied together at all. The flow of information just jumps from one thing to another with little apparent connection between them. It’s also incorrect.

Let me see if I’m understanding this, and make it easier to follow...

To power the Tools for America's Job Seekers Challenge, the US Department of Labor tapped IdeaScale, a subsidiary of Survey Analytics, which is headquartered in Seattle with satellite offices in Nasik, India and Auckland, NZ.

According to the Federal Register (PDF), an OMB (Office of Management and Budget) Emergency Review was requested to launch the “Jobs for America’s Job Seekers Challenge”, a joint initiative by the DOL, White House, and IdeaScale to help out unemployed US workers.

Now we hit the first non sequitur... how is the development and maintenance of ideascale.com related to the Jobs for America’s Job Seekers Challenge?

A Monster.com ad (cached) seeks candidates to work on the development and maintenance of ideascale.com — in India at an annual salary of Rs. 200,000 to 300,000 ($4,4000 to $6,600 US).

The connection is – apparently – that the same people developing and maintaining the IdeaScale website will presumably also be designing the platform to “allow toolmakers and developers to present their free online job tools to workforce development experts and jobseekers for discussion, rating, and voting”. That’s a bit of a stretch, but okay. (As kdawson correctly pointed out, “There’s no guarantee that Indian workers recruited by that Monster.com ad would work on US Department of Labor projects.” Wait a second... did kdawson actually get something right? At any rate that still doesn’t make up for posting this atrocity to begin with.)

Now we hit the second non sequitur... what does IdeaScale’s other contest/survey have to do with this one, other than being hosted by the same company? Does the results of a previous survey on how to “strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness” have anything to do with this contest? They have no control over the results of the project: they’re just designing the system to take submissions and allow people to vote on them...

Last May, in a similar White House-sponsored, IdeaScale-powered Open Government Brainstorm to “strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness”, legalizing marijuana was one of the highest-voted ideas.

Dunno about that.

* While being interrogated, a detainee has to
                    o Answer all questions
                    o Provide all information or material requested of them
                    o Prove that they do not have the material requested—if they are unable to do so and do not provide the material they can be imprisoned for up to 5 years

Yes, it was you, but no, it is still not legitimate for you to assume you know what I was trying to say, when obviously you don't. You are saying that it is legitimate for you to try to read my mind, and tell me what I meant? I don't think so.

I’m actually quite confused as to what you’re trying to say, so I’m falling back to explaining what I was saying, under the assumption that you misunderstood me, or don’t understand BCD, or both.

Your BCD above is fine if you are referring to simple unsigned BCD, but packed BCD uses the lowest nibble to indicate sign, not to contain a number value. If you don't believe me, read about it here

That entire section is in severe need of a [Citation needed]. Everything I did in college with BCD referred to “packed” BCD as 2 digits per byte with no sign nibble of any sort, and “unpacked” BCD as 1 digit per byte.

If you want to allow for signed packed BCD, fine, but don’t tell me that my unsigned form of packed BCD isn’t packed BCD! Look at any of the google results other than that one Wikipedia article:

Here, here, here, here (pdf), here.

This gem is even entitled “Packed BCD to 16 bit binary conversion”... when of course I’m sure they meant “2’s complement”, not “binary”, since that was the whole problem from the beginning of this discussion! You should e-mail them and tell them to fix it!

What I was writing about was your confusing way of trying to explain it.

You seem to be one of a very small group of people who thought it was confusing. Is that my fault?

But here is what I was talking about: if you input 0x36 into a C program or most other languages that support that number format, and do not do any explicit conversion, that number will be interpreted as 54 decimal, NOT as 0011 0110 (BCD) or 36 decimal. That was my point. You might prefer to write that BCD number as 0x36, but that is not how a compiler will interpret it.

The compiler doesn’t “interpret” anything. The programmer does. The compiler just creates a binary executable that does whatever the programmer designed it to do.

And for that matter, unless you explicitly label that in code as some kind of BCD representation, any programmer to come along later will also assume it is hexadecimal. So you are introducing confusion into the issue.

Yes, which is why we have standards to tell programmers how stuff is supposed to be written.

0x10 is a HEXADECIMAL representation of the decimal number 16.

It is also a BCD representation of the decimal number 36.

I have nothing more to say to you. I have explained this more than once and in about 3 different ways. As Wikipedia (and other sources if you would care to look them up) clearly show, you have been wrong about some of these things. If you still don't understand the rest, I don't feel like spending more time to help you.

And the Wikipedia warrior throws up his hands!

I, on the other hand, didn’t learn everything I know from Wikipedia.

This sounds kind of great, actually. If the site wasn't slashdotted.

I've been waiting for a netbook to come out that meets my stringent standards. (price < $200USD, standard keyboard layout, decent battery life, pocket-size/not much bigger than a paperback book) Maybe cutting that price in half will loosen my ideals on some other parts. Unlikely, but possible.

Go go Google Cache!

If only GM would sell a decent Opel here.

Rejoice! ;-) It is coming. Buick regal 2010 is actually the Opel Insignia with swapped grille and logo. Initially it will be even built in Germany moving later to Canada.

The article seems to be inaccessible, so here's a link to the Google Cache (text-only version)

My response to what people have said here so far (and I haven't read any of the article yet) is that this is not social theory, it's business theory. It's not supposed to define how you relate to people or how you perceive them. It's intended as an analysis of business dynamics, which is to say it's about how workers in different positions respond to their position and the position of those around them. From what I remember about the earlier article, I would say that even just among the "Losers," their goal is to focus energy into other parts of their lives, parts that have nothing to do with business or their job. When the characters leave the office, this entire analysis falls apart, and this does not invalidate the analysis because it's not intended to reflect each person's entire life.

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A very insightful question. Mod parent up.

In short, yes: Wiki see also (with more math than I can handle) Berkley article

So, yeah. Quantum computers of reasonable size get us discrete logarithms. This means that the Diffie Hellman key exchange can be reversed after the exchange if the attacker has a powerful enough quantum computer. The computer to break DH key exchanges would be powerful enough to also break the encapsulating RSA or similar exchange (even assuming RSA encryption AND signatures was used).

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Their webserver is a smoldering pile of rubbish right now, but the google cache shows that they used a first-generation Honda Insight. While today's Insight is a dead ringer for a Prius, the first generation of the same was a small 2-seater coupe on 13 inch wheels.

So while it is impressive that they shoehorned in a small diesel (or really any other engine than the original Honda) into that engine bay, the fuel economy numbers they report aren't really that impressive.

I can't see the MS blog page, it's /.ed, but from the summary I felt that this solution seems to imply that browsers are mutually exclusive?

I'd hope that MS would not even go that far but you can never rule anything out with them.

For your viewing pleasure:
Google Cached version.
Yahoo Cached version.
.
For those that just want to see the mockup vote screen, here you go..

I don't know how CAFOs are run in the EU, but in the US antibiotics in feed are common in poultry CAFOs, at least according to Purdue, and these pork folks lobbying to keep them in use.

And here is the New York Time on the matter. Purdue again. Some probably biased special interest group. Virginia Department of Health. And here is an EPA ruling where I conveniently highlighted the word Antibiotic to make it easier for you to find.

Let us just hope that thses guys aren't right, or we are wasting billions on nothing. Sorry about the cache link, but the site appears to be down ATM. For those that don't like to RTFL, it is a new study that looks at temp data from 58-08 and says that a full 80% of the changes in temp is NOT man made, but rather the result of natural environmental cycles, similar to how Greenland was upon a time was warm enough to be farm land.

I'm not saying I believe one way or another, not that it matters when there is so much money to be made on scams like "carbon credits" but you do have to admit it would suck to blow all the billions and trillions of dollars only to find out there ain't a damned thing you can do, it is just good old mama nature screwing with us.

We are trying to build a world-class modern media performance and streaming framework, and that excludes limitting ourselves to the lowest common denominator of all operating systems. I am sure we will get our share of whining with this proposal, especially if it is implemented. Let it be known that I do not care. When millions of people use your software, whining users are a more often than daily occurence, no matter how excellent/crappy your software may be. You simply cannot satisfy everyone, especially when your project is constrained by the time and motivation of a few core open-source developpers.

I don't know about you, but when I see attitude like this from a developer, my reaction isn't "Gee, this is a project which I hope succeeds, and which I want to support." Which is a shame, because VLC is a good project, but has been undermined on more than one occasion by tactless developers. Why needlessly alienate people? One could just as easily have said --

"Unfortunately, we don't have any resources to continue supporting 10.4.x, so the only way to reinstate Tiger support would be working, user-contributed patches to bring the Tiger version up to speed."

But I guess that wouldn't have put the hungry, grasping, whining lusers in their place, eh?

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Which reminds me. They could always use the WayBack Machine to (help in) retrieving their archives:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.avsim.com/

Google Cache seems to archive only the most recent pages:
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read thisor the full document's google cache.

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From google cache:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:d3NzsFRIiU4J:english.peopledaily.com.cn/200103/20/eng20010320_65533.html+falun+gong+suicides&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

IMHO Some things should be outlawed.

Search for "oil rig security"-- first page.

http://www.rzdmpa.com/index.php/oil-rig-security

The current situation is bleak at best, Maritime attacks are on the increase. Pirates are more aggressive. The financial impact is significant and increasing. Military solutions are weak- they can't be everywhere at the same time and private sector solutions are non-existent...

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:JLjTVfGFIkIJ:bondpapers.blogspot.com/2006/11/oil-rig-security-gains-national.html+oil+rig+security&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Possible national security threats to offshore oil installations is prompting the federal natural resources department to legislation governing the offshore, according to the Ottawa Citizen. The changes would give greater say in offshore physical security to the two joint federal-provincial regulatory boards.

Bond Papers reported in April 2006 on the offshore security issue. At the time, the commander of Canadian Forces in the Atlantic region said DND was making the security issue a top priority. A former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) also described the offshore rigs as a potentially "high value target" for terrorists. Attacking the rigs could cause severe environmental harm and disrupt local economies. ...
Byline: Graham Grant AN ALBANIAN immigrant who sparked a massive North Sea security alert waslast night receiving psychiatric care. Dana Rusa, 23, who. ...
An oil rig in the North Sea has been evacuated after a security alert. Up to 539 oil workers are being moved off the affected rig in an operation that began ... ...
Nigeria: The Implications of the Latest Oil Rig Attack | STRATFOR
Despite an expanded and refurbished navy, Nigeria cannot guarantee the security of oil rigs in the Gulf of Guinea. And despite presidential and foreign ...

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And on land we have the multiple trillions (and thousands of lives) spent on oil field security. Oil companies have managed to externalize their security costs to the military. The true cost of oil is probably $400 to $800 more per family per year. Ignoring ongoing cost for mangled veterans.

First, the obligatory Google Cache link.
http://74.125.95.132/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A//www.casmobot.dk/

There's not much on the main page except a link to the YouTube video, here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMl7a3wJvQ

Anyway, I wonder how easy it really is to control this thing. Holding a WiiMote level for a long time is harder than it sounds.

The GPS-autonomous mode is really cool, though. Last time I checked the progress of robo-mowers, many of them required a buried cable, fence, or other tangible barrier. This thing is orders of magnitude more convenient.

Early DRAMs had problems with bit flips due to alpha particles coming from contamination in the packaging. (Here's the original Google search in case that cache link breaks.)

Not exactly a DMCA counter-notice, but pretty funny nonetheless:

Blue Jeans Cable's response to Monster Cable (google pdf > html)

If that doesn't work then here's a reprinting:
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/blue-jeans-strikes-back

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fantipolygraph.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fforums%2FYaBB.pl%3Faction%3Dprint%3Bnum%3D1109032158&submit2=Google

This was first mentioned on Whirlpool, I was reading the thread. It appears to be deleted now however

Ironically, the Whirlpool page is still available in the google cache of the thread.

What I want to know is why the CVV numbers were there and for what merchants, as they are not supposed to be cached according to the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS).

While I agree with you re. Sony (my Sony ES receiver is a champ, and my 2-year-old Sony ES DVD player is solid so far), I have to disagree with "Have you ever been to Japan? Apple looks like shit. Any laptop sold in Japan looks infinitely better than even the slickest apple product sold in the US."

A quick trip to CNET Japan's PC section (via Google Translation) reveals some very plain-looking laptops, with a mostly positive-sounding review of the Macbook Air prominently featured in the top section, in which I'm pretty sure the writer praises the design (can't be totally sure, Google's translation leaves much to be desired).

The overall CNET Japan front page has a link to Onkyo's new Sotec C103 netbook, which looks fairly nondescript & doesn't have very exciting specs.

I'm sure the Japanese market used to be flooded with products that we Americans could only imagined (or had only seen on TV shows that take place in the future and/or in space), but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.

While I agree with you re. Sony (my Sony ES receiver is a champ, and my 2-year-old Sony ES DVD player is solid so far), I have to disagree with "Have you ever been to Japan? Apple looks like shit. Any laptop sold in Japan looks infinitely better than even the slickest apple product sold in the US."

A quick trip to CNET Japan's PC section (via Google Translation) reveals some very plain-looking laptops, with a mostly positive-sounding review of the Macbook Air prominently featured in the top section, in which I'm pretty sure the writer praises the design (can't be totally sure, Google's translation leaves much to be desired).

The overall CNET Japan front page has a link to Onkyo's new Sotec C103 netbook, which looks fairly nondescript & doesn't have very exciting specs.

I'm sure the Japanese market used to be flooded with products that we Americans could only imagined (or had only seen on TV shows that take place in the future and/or in space), but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.

Hint: He was misled when he was approached about the film, and it was a "guerilla" style interview that will put anyone on the defensive.

What speaks more to me is how they treated the people they asked to be in the movie. Bunch of fucking hypocrites if you ask me.

You are correct, sir/ma'am. In fact just the opposite appears to be true. It seems times have changed since NASA held an exclusive monopoly.

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For ideas:

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/wop.htm

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(He had our attention when he rolled into the lecture hall on a liquid-nitrogen propelled tricycle..)

[Prof. Sprott -- sorry about the Slashdotting...]

This article indicates that it's based on Gentoo.

Google cache of the uci.cu site, which isn't responding.

if you use the goolge cache text-only version:
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Unj2yZYm0pUJ:wire.ggl.com/2009/02/09/the-doom-4-mo-cap-interview-first-production-shots-revealed/&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1

you can see the shots are flickr links. they seem to be motion capture work. no in-game shots.

I computer can only spit out facts.

Ah, but they can spit out useful facts that nobody told them, like this bizzare shape makes a very good antenna.

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Contains:

This is the html version of the file http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/iafpa2006/Abstracts/Eriksson_IAFPA%202006.pdf.
Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web.
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Proceedings, IAFPA 2006, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University
Charlatanry and fraud - an increasing problem for forensic
phonetics?
Anders Eriksson
Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University, Sweden
anders.eriksson@ling.gu.se
In my talk I will describe one case of charlatanry and one case of fraud in forensic phonetics.
Charlatanry can take different forms. One type is when someone appears as an expert without
having the necessary qualifications or no qualifications at all. Another form is when some kind of
physical device is used or marketed which is based on principles for which there is no scientific
support. This is nothing new. The use of voiceprints is a classical case of this type. Charlatans often
exploit the fact that people are easily impressed by advanced technology. Today the methods are
often claimed to have been made possible only because of recent advances in computer technology.
The following two quotes may serve to illustrate my point: "enhanced by the rapid advancements in
personal computer technology", "the worlds most advanced application of this core frequency
based technology". This is how both products I will present here are described by those who market
them although in reality they are very unsophisticated products from a technological point of view.
By fraud I will refer to methods or devices based on principles which are so obviously false that
there can be no doubt that the people who produce them or use them must be aware of it. The
second example is of this kind.
A lie detector which can reveal lie and deception in some automatic and perfectly reliable way is an
old idea we have often met with in science fiction books and comic strips. This is all very well. It is
when machines claimed to be lie detectors appear in the context of criminal investigations that we
need to be concerned. Both examples presented here belong in this category. They are of particular
interest for forensic phonetics because they are both said to be based on analysis of the human
voice. The basic idea behind "lie detectors" based on voice analysis is that there are properties in
the voice signal that may be reliably correlated with lie or deception.
A gadget called Voice Stress Analyzer (VSA) or Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) has a history
that goes back to the seventies. In the sixties it was discovered that in larger muscles like the biceps
there is involuntary tremor, called micro tremor, with a frequency in the 8 to 12 Hz range. This
gave rise to speculations that the same phenomenon might be present in the larynx muscles and that
it may affect the voice source frequency. In particular it was suggested that the tremor might vary
as a function of stress in the speaker. Before anybody had a chance to investigate the possible
occurrence of micro tremor in the voice, the first "lie detector" based micro tremor in the voice
source appeared. (See. Rice, 1978). In the years to follow, many researchers tested voice stress
analyzers based on these ideas, but with largely negative results. Hollien surveyed the literature in
1987 and concluded that: "the ability of voice analyzers to detect stress from speech-or to identify
spoken deception-have been negative or "mixed" in nature". He a

What FUD. We will see these kinds of stories until M$ finishes building it's "cloud" and then Web apps will be the rage. M$ won't get there anytime soon, but Google and others have been reliable for years. Expect M$ to recycle their "thin client" and Network Computing FUD for another decade.

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Seriously - can anyone point to the actual data (I am still hoping to find it)?

January 21, 2009 | Posted by: The YouTube Team | Permalink
Watch it on YouTube, then Click-to-Buy

We're happy when we can help YouTube users enjoy the content they love, and we're happy when we can help our partners build their businesses online â" but we're happiest when we can do both.

That's why last year we launched our eCommerce platform for YouTube, which allows users to easily "click-to-buy" products -- like songs and movies -- related to the content they're watching on the site. The past few months have demonstrated that great content on YouTube leads to increased sales. For example, when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their YouTube videos shoot to the top of the most viewed lists, but their DVDs also quickly climbed to No. 2 on Amazon's Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.

Today we're expanding the program beyond the US and the UK. Links to songs from the iTunes Store will now appear in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, so users from those countries who are drawn to a particular song can easily purchase it. And it's not limited to tracks on videos uploaded directly by our partners â" partners can add these links to videos uploaded by users by using our our Content ID tools to claim videos that match their content.

We're also expanding and improving the ways in which these links are displayed. You may start to see click-to-buy links appearing as semi-transparent overlays that appear in the bottom of the video for a short period of time. This increased visibility should help even more people take advantage of this program.

As we said when we first launched click-to-buy links, this is just the beginning â" over time, we're aiming to open up the program to cover many types of content beyond music. We've already experimented with links to purchase DVDs and video games, and we intend to experiment with links to additional types of products soon.

Happy shopping,
The YouTube Team

Some Integrated Circuits have a shelf life.

They can actually go bad just sitting in an ESD tube
on a shelf.

So keep that in mind.

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Anonymoose Coward strikes again! =^ )

I have a feeling that you'll be seeing another slashdot story about Belkin tomorrow...

Here's some more detective work. The plot thickens!

At first I dismissed the R. Wood account as a sock puppet for Bayard. But digging deeper, I found that R. Wood is a real person, and he's not Mike Bayard. R. Wood's real name is Rudy Magna. He's a National Account Manager for Belkin.

My first suspicion was the fact that the B. Ekim Amazon account had his location correctly defined as California. The R. Wood account location was Denver.

The more compelling evidence is the wish lists that were associated with these accounts. The wish lists for B. Ekim and R. Wood appeared to be actual personal wish lists, and they were distinctly different. Mr. Bayard already wiped his wish list. But Google cache didn't:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:amkRP7Q27REJ:www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AC5CHSQTK8O9Z

It's a long list of kid toys.

The wish list for R. Wood is 3 very different items, also from Google cache:

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:pvx-pvzUk5sJ:72.21.203.1/gp/pdp/profile/A3U7TFAPHTIHZM

A woman's cap, a book about football, and a DVD of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (ouch.) Also note that the cached page includes 1 of the 3 reviews that this user submitted.

When I was looking at Mike Bayard's cached wish list page, I happened to click on the "see all 25 items" link. It goes to the Amazon wish list page, which displays the person's full name. (!!)

As soon as I noticed this, I went back to the R. Wood account, clicked on his wish list, and it went straight to the Amazon wish list for someone named Rudolph Magna.

So then I did a Google search for Rudolph Magna Belkin, and I get this site:

http://www.spoke.com/info/index-person/ma-ma-478

Which includes a link for Rudy Magna, National Account Manager of Belkin Logistics:

http://www.spoke.com/info/p5msepL/RudyMagna

This suggests there may be a pattern of Belkin sales reps tampering with the reviews of their products.