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  1. No Sales Data on Most Amazon Brands Are Duds, Not Disrupters, Study Finds (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And the biggest thing missing from this entire study is sales data. How many units of Amazon owned brands have been sold? Who cares how often someone searched for an Amazon product or what the average review score is. How many units did Amazon and the companies selling the same product sale?

  2. Can't cut into that profit margin on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 1

    God forbid anything cut into that $500,000,000 profit margin. How else would they be able to pay the CEO $20,000,000 a year?

  3. It would be illegal on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 2

    In the United States if a border agent asks for your cellphone and you wipe it right there, you've just broken the law. You can now be charged with an obstruction of justice charge. Now if you wipe your phone on the flight or before you're interacting with the border agent, then you've done nothing. But once they ask for it, any actions you do to delete the information on that device is illegal.

  4. Apple Long Game - Cut of everyone's pie on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is all apart of Apple's long term strategy of making sure they get a piece of everything sold that runs on or connects to their devices. This started with forcing all apps to be installed and bought through their market place, no side loading allowed without rooting. Then it continued when they moved to a proprietary connector so that they got a cut of the pie from all of the manufacturers who made accessories/devices that connected to their bottom port. Now you'll have to buy a lightning to 3.5mm adapter or headphones that connect to their lightning port if you want wired headphones. Either way Apple makes money. In a couple of years they'll phase out audio over Bluetooth for a new proprietary standard that'll improve audio quality, use less battery, blah, blah, blah. So that Apple will get a cut of that pie as well. Wouldn't surprise me then after that, they'll phase out Bluetooth all together because their new proprietary standard is just so awesome.

  5. Re:Kill it with fire! on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Funny, I don't see Republican's going against this new trade deal. Last I checked they have majority in both houses. They could vote no and stop this, but they'll all vote yes. But yeah, it's all Obama's fault right? Republican's just have to vote yes right?

  6. Still waiting for a realistic solution on Applying Pavlovian Psychology to Password Management · · Score: 1

    According to "security experts" a human being is supposed to remember 100+ unique passwords with no English dictionary words that's rotated every x days and absolutely never ever make a password list. I'd like to meet and test the "security expert" who lives by this rule, because for the vast majority of human beings, this isn't possible. So maybe they should try to figure out a realistic solution. Solutions like this will only cause more centralized password lists which really defeats the purpose of these hard to crack passwords, if one password gets them all.

  7. GlobecommSystems on Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? · · Score: 1

    This is the company I work for and we provide global satellite access. Honestly you'd have to talk to our sales department for prices, but we do have coverage in South America and Alaska. We're a NASDAQ traded company that's been in the satellite business for a while.
    http://www.globecommsystems.com/
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GCOM

  8. Wasn't used to out J. K. Rowling on Project Anonymizes Your Writing Style To Hide Your Identity · · Score: 2

    Sounds like some company is trying to toot their own horn here or something, but AI didn't out J.K. Rowling. Her lawyers friend did. http://www.businessinsider.com/russells-apologizes-to-jk-rowling-2013-7

  9. Highly Suspect Article on GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales · · Score: 1

    I'd take what that article says with a grain of salt. Some BBC UK writers have made up stuff before to put Obama and his administration in a bad light. They have no source for the claim that the NHTSA knew about the defect for 5 months and withheld that information. Joan Claybrook was head of the NHSTA from 1977 to 1981. So not exactly someone who knows details of a current NHSTA investigations. They link to a autoguide article that mentions the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety having an incident on the 2nd test, but they're not a government agency and don't report to government agencies. Lots of leaps being made with no evidence to back it up.

  10. GOG not the only place to get The Witcher 2 on Witcher 2 Torrents Could Net You a Fine · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can also get it on Steam and D2D also with the 10% pre-order discount. The big deal about GOG having it was that it's the first time they've had a brand new game available first day in their store. Although CD Projekt owning GOG helped that. http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/ http://www.direct2drive.com/10030/product/Buy-The-Witcher-2:-Assassins-of-Kings-Digital-Premium-Download

  11. motionbox on Best Way To Distribute Video Online? · · Score: 1

    One good place to go is http://www.motionbox.com/. They do have a pay option that give you more storage and a HD option for your video. You can upload 1280x720. It still uses flash player and has a download option. People viewing don't need to signup or subscribe to watch HD content. You can see an example of one of my videos at http://www.motionbox.com/videos/7c9adfb61d1fe2f4?quality=hd&type=progressive