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  1. Is it? on Italian Court Throws Out TripAdvisor Fine Over Bad Reviews · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But the problem was not the reviews, but that in advertisement tripadvisor said that reviews are verified, and of course they are not.

  2. Re:Why is this dribble on the front page? on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Please mod up parent post. The problem is that when you have to deal with infinite most of you think should be obvious, it's not. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

  3. Re:Energy balance over temperature on Experts: Aim of 2 Degrees Climate Goal Insufficient · · Score: 1
    Funny, because the conclusion of the cited article looks a bit different:

    We find a reduction of 0.31±0.21 Wm2 in No between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s which may have contributed to the recent slowdown in global surface warming. This is consistent with minor volcanoes [Solomon et al., 2011; Fyfe et al., 2013; Haywood et al., 2014; Santer et al., 2014], an extended and deeper solar minimum [Lean, 2009; Kaufmann et al., 2011], and possible nitrate and indirect aerosol effects

    Slowdown in global surface warming, it's not reduction. If you look at the graphics you see that temperature, except for some minor exception, is always growing. So instead of worrying about the climate, we can just hope in some major vulcan activity....

  4. Re:a little brighter on What Happens When Betelgeuse Explodes? · · Score: 1

    Yes, nothing special. Every night I see in the sky a star bright as a quarter moon. Just because, they not forecast the end of the civilization, it does'nt mean that is nothing special.

  5. Re:Statistical Magic on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 4, Informative
    Read again:

    As it happens, males and young drivers have higher crash rates than females and older drivers; they're also more likely to be marijuana users. And once these factors are corrected for, "the significant increased risk of crash involvement associated with THC...is not found."

  6. Re:Devil's Advocate says... on TripAdvisor Fined In Italy For Fake Reviews · · Score: 5, Informative

    The regulator complained that people reading TripAdvisor Italy were unable to distinguish between genuine and fake reviews posted on the site.

    So how is TripAdvisor supposed to do it?

    By stopping advertising that every reviews are genuine. The complaint is about false advertisment (the review on our site are all genuine and verified), not about fake review. http://www.agcm.it/stampa/comu... :

    In particolare, TripAdvisor pubblicizza la propria attività mediante claim commerciali che, in maniera particolarmente assertiva, enfatizzano il carattere autentico e genuino delle recensioni, inducendo così i consumatori a ritenere che le informazioni siano sempre attendibili in quanto espressione di reali esperienze turistiche.

  7. Re:NOTHING IS LEAKED on AMI Firmware Source Code, Private Key Leaked · · Score: 1

    Would you be so kind to elaborate? Thanks.

  8. Re:Serious Hardware in 1997... on DreamPlug ARM Box Brings Power To Plug Computing · · Score: 0

    Good. I wonder why Steve jobs don't ask you first. He should use a Pentium II for the iPhone. Doh. And nobody expect to use a sheeva plug for number crunching. Expecially becouse it comes without a floating point unit ...

  9. Re:No real increase for firefox... on Microsoft IE Browser Share Dips Below 50% · · Score: 1

    of course you mean:

    shall be spoken of with ncurses forever

  10. Re:Incredible horrifying bloat on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    Mono is required by other programs too?

  11. Re:Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    1) Tomboy don't require MS.net at all.
    2) Mono is gpl, while qt was not. Qt had a commercial license that was free (no pay required) only for linux. You had to pay for every other OS.

    So the question is quite misleading.

  12. Re:Uhm, Intel makes ARM chips too on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    IOP and IXP are arm based, and still produced by Intel. Ownership never was in discussion, a lot of arm based cpu use ARM IP.

  13. Re:Uhm, Intel makes ARM chips too on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xscale:

    "Intel is expected to continue manufacturing XScale processors until Marvell secures other manufacturing facilities, and will continue manufacturing and selling the IXP and IOP processors, as they were not part of the deal."

    So Intel is still producing xscale processor.

  14. Re:Yes on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    So which language do you need to learn to program in assembler? You don't really need to learn English, when all you need are just an handfull of keywords. And at the end, is quite irrelevant.

  15. Re:Damn on Google Can Predict the Flu · · Score: 1

    It works until now, because it was a "secret" research. Now that we know that it exists there are many way to see it fail: - google bombing. It's not hard to imagine pharmacological industries try to manipulate data - simple histerya: people read about a new flu is coming, and look on google for more news.

  16. Re:Why would you buy this? on Pandora Console Ready For Pre-Orders · · Score: 1

    The problem is that a Atom processor is going to consume 5x-10x more power than a Arm Cortex. So battery life would be 1-2h. And a bigger battery means a bigger handheld. So no, a netbook would not be better.

  17. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It just makes sense. He's talking about some microsoft department and the mail is addressed to a different manager. So "they" totaly makes sense. And the mail is real: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/2003Jangatesmoviemaker.pdf And Microsoft have aknowledged it...