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Evolution of the Netflix Envelope
An anonymous reader wrote to mention an article over on CNN Money. They go into some detail on what seven years of tinkering has done for the simple red Netflix envelope. From the article: "Years of experimentation went into creating the perfect DVD envelope. In 1999, Netflix started out with a heavy cardboard mailer. With only 100,000 subscribers, costs weren't a concern yet. Then the company experimented with plastic envelopes, which proved not to be recyclable, and padding, which added too much to postage costs. Both top-loading and side-loading envelopes made an appearance."
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extremely off topic, somone needs to submit a story to slashdot about this, my writing sucks to much to do so
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forum operators are liable for comments
First-instance district court of Hamburg says forum operators are liable for comments
After more than four months, the first-instance district court of Hamburg has handed down its written statement on its widely reported ruling of December 02, 2005 on liability for forums. The statements refers to web forums as an "especially dangerous feature." Those who operate such a source of trouble, the court argued, must be held especially liable.
The previous legislation held that forum providers were only liable for illegal content that they had knowledge of and were not obligated to actively search for such; now, the judges in Hamburg have overruled that interpretation. Providing Internet forums is, they argued, a type of business operation. Operators therefore have to be able to hire enough staff with legal training to be able to handle such operations. "If the number of forums and comments in them is so great that the opposing party does not have the staff or technical means to review comments before they are published, they either have to expand their in-house resources or [...] reduce the scope of their business operations," the first-instance district court of Hamburg argued.
Crap nonstandard HTML that didin't validate to crap nonstandard HTML that now they block the W3C validator from accessing the site directly.
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Not since Marie-Antoinette played milkmaid has looking simple and honest been so fake and complicated.
Imagine making 1 billion slashdot posts at -1. Oh that was me before I got an account.
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I vote we change poster's name from Anonymous Coward to Federal Whistleblower.
Take off every 'SIG'!!
I'm glad that we are past the 80s bit where we were constantly being bombarded with the 'Housewife is a career' garbage. No doubt that pre 1950s being a house wife was a full time job, but in this day and age with no wax floors, vacume cleaners, boxed cakes, pre-sliced bread, dish washers, washing machines, dryers, and all the other modern convinences we have, being a housewife is about an 8 hour a week job.
Even with all of these modern convienences, I still know a few 'housewifes' that as soon as dad comes home from work, they drop the kids in his lap, and take 'me time' because plunking their kids down in front of the TV is SOOOOOO much work.