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  1. GoDaddy Reversal on Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA · · Score: -1

    So, even though GoDaddy reversed their stance on SOPA after all the grief customers and the internet community at large gave them, clients are still leaving? I am amazed people and businesses are following suit in leaving GoDaddy even after the change in opinion. Not that I mind that at all given that the next SOPA-Similar-Clone comes out GoDaddy will more-than-likely back that as well..

  2. Re:HATE AMERICA WEEK on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 1

    I have been pondering for a long while on whether America is a Fatherland or an Motherland but you certainly make justice with your case in that it is a Homeland. All this Homeland "this" and Homeland "that." I think it's safe to say, we are at home, when we are in America.

  3. Re:Danger for which democracy? on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    This almost makes a case for the Bible's Adam and Eve. You know, the whole, "everyone came from Adam and Eve" thing.

  4. Re:Danger for which democracy? on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    Well, I like to think to myself that Pro-Military is Pro-tech, which makes it almost, pro-science.

  5. Re:Eating a Big Mac takes more concentration on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I was trying to think how hands-free talking can truly be any harder than singing along to songs in the car. Both remove the occupants attention from driving but you can still be aware enough to function correctly behind the wheel.

  6. Re:Now these guys have some balls on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 0

    Actually...Profit!

  7. Re:"Security" on Discouraging Playstation Vita Details · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The difference with Gillette is that they sold you a product that did exactly what you wanted it to. Sony seems to keep selling things that do something one day, then as if it was a game, take away features to make it less-usable then the previous day.

  8. Re:Wow... on South Africa Passes Secrecy Bill, Makes Whistleblowing a Dangerous Act · · Score: 2

    4. Kill Pedo-bear.

  9. slashdotted on Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High · · Score: 0

    Coincidentally that seems to be about the amount of unique annual visitors to Slashdot these days.

  10. Re:SMS at Hubble data rates on Messaging Apps, VoIP Already Eating Into Carrier Revenue · · Score: 4, Informative
  11. Re:What is going on down there? on DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    They got pissed off about being a Pro-Communist administration...So they decided to go off the deep-end in the opposite direction.

  12. To bad it isn't 3.x on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 2

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 Firefox/3.6.23 - Enough said. The latest version/series that actually matters.

  13. Re:First Hand Experience... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 2

    You should be familiar with MAAWG then. I am a committee member and one major point that comes up with is Vetting. For the most part, we are attempting to have ESPs have an open network of communication regarding business that are known as bad or corrupt in some form and literally BAN them from sending from a MAAWG member. This of course isn't live or current yet but eventually it could work to promote much better sending via known, good ESPs, not the fly-by-sender ESPs that exist everywhere.

  14. First Hand Experience... on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can speak on this company from a first hand account. I work for an ESP, I actually manage all our mail servers and work closely with ISPs and mail vendors to help out GOOD CLIENTS. I say this because Compu-Finder (although they have an official name that is different) was a client of ours. They were a BAD-CLIENT. We have many tools that are in place to help our clients ensure that best practices are followed as well as easily available to contacts of the client, e.g opt-outs and suppressing those contacts from future emails. Compu-Finder did everything they could to get around built in mechanisms to keep "contacts" subscribed. Well Finally after battling with them on changing their practices we finally fired them. They are the kind of company that makes me cringe because I know there are real, legitimate, marketers out there that do use email to engage clients and keep them up-to-date but they are the ones that make it bad for any sender.

  15. Re:No (fission) Nukes on Spontaneous Fission In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 · · Score: 1

    You are just affirming that it's all Politics and zero facts. Most people seem to go with what they are told and don't care to research anything for their own.

  16. Philip Morris Co on Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers · · Score: 0

    Maybe someone else on here can help me understand why the government apparently paid out $460MM to a tobacco company? Perhaps this was all for helping government workers quit the habit or payouts for the healthcare costs? In any case, wouldn't this be off the bill for B-2-G contracts?

  17. Re:Block access to highways on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, piracy never killed anyone. Freeway's certainly aren't made to kill anyone directly but why shouldn't they be to blame for the thousands of deaths that happen on them every year.

  18. Re:Another term for "nuclear winter" on Public Supports Geo-Engineering · · Score: 2

    Yeah there is nothing like having longer winters and colder winters. Winter/cold months are always harder to weather. Ha, just think of all the extra coal and oil that will have to be burnt to keep people warmer for those longer periods of time. OTOH, we could let some ice melt and millions live on "new" beach front properly a couple miles back from their current boundaries and learn to be more efficient and our resource usages.

  19. Always has been on Behind the Scenes: How Conflict Photographs Come To Be · · Score: 1

    This has been true since the days of the Johnstown Flood in PA. Many of the "horrific images" were actually staged. Sounds absurd but it was that the event was of a magnitude most of the world was not able to easily comprehend at that time. The photo's made it much easier for the public to really grasp and feel for the victims of the flood.

  20. Re:the free energy machine is already here... on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    That is only true if humans never find the cure to death...

  21. Re:Passcode on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 2

    Hopefully this law didn't try to rewrite The 5th while giving the officer the ability to throw you into jail if you fail to comply.

  22. News on MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Perhaps some of these New Submitter's need to do some look-ups before trying to post new information, AKA News.

  23. Re:Lobbyists on Congress May Permit Robot Calls To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    +1

  24. Re:Sounds like what most people would want on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    If that is true, I'm sure that's much higher than a lot of the other "news" outlets on the cable market.

  25. Re:Lack of news on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1

    Don't worry Canada, here in America, I haven't seen or heard about this until today. If this really has been going on for "ten days" I am certainly surprised. I'm even on the East Coast, about 3 hours from NY and there is nothing on the radar about it around here.