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Belkin's Amazon Rep Paying For Fake Online Reviews
remove office writes "I recently discovered that Belkin's lead online sales rep, Michael Bayard, has been secretly paying internet users to review his company's products favorably on Amazon.com and other websites like Newegg, whether or not they've ever used the devices. Bayard instructed the people he was paying to 'Write as if you own the product and are using it... Mark any other negative reviews as "not helpful" once you post yours.' Ironically, he was using Amazon's own Mechanical Turk service to hire his fraudsters. Did he honestly think he wouldn't get caught? Are Slashdotters aware of other examples of other such blatant astroturfing on behalf of a large tech company like Belkin?"
You forgot:
4) Many people who actually used Vista, like it, and were tired of the babies crying about it, most of whom were Nix/Mac Zealots or jealous XP users with antique hardware.
But, I wouldn't expect you to entertain the idea that someone might actually like a Microsoft product. Why, that would just be silly!
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
No, they're getting smarter. Mostly due to shows like CSI and 'Law and Order'. Seriously, these fucktards WANT the criminals to get smarter and evade capture for longer, thereby committing more criminal acts!
But then again, you get the black/coloured criminals. They balance things out a whole lot. They just plain stay stupid, no matter what. Jail doesn't teach them a lesson and fancy detective shows don't teach them fuck all. In the end, all they do is just clog up the jails.
Population control, people!! Keep people in the ghetto from fucking breeding so much! They'll start moving in legitimately into your pretty, white, green suburban neighborhoods soon if you don't do something about them!!