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Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites?

Posted by Zonk on from the my-dog-is-LOOKING-at-me dept.

marksilverman writes "Steven Levy at Newsweek is reporting that his iPod Shuffle seems to favor certain songs. Is Apple receiving kickbacks to promote certain artists? Apple denies it, of course, and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none." Less neurotically, both CNet and PCWorld have discussions of the Shuffle's interior spaces.

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  1. Re:[meta/ot] Us, the editors by tekrat · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Forget it, the editors don't read the comments, hell the editors don't read SLASHDOT...

    Just look at the number of story dupes, the opinion pieces submitted as news stories, and the "worse than awful" (if I may quote Starbuck), sentence structure, grammar, spelling and general mangling of the English language that comes FROM the so-called "editors".

    You might as well ask a religious fanatic to have a logical and thoughtful discussion regarding the non-existence of God.

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