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  1. Re:Amazon Reviews can't be trusted all the time on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, astroturfers and reverse-astroturfers will still be posting, because they have a substantial marketing budget. It costs you no more than the tax and shipping to buy your own product, and the cost to buy your competitor's product is a small price to pay to leave them a negative horror story review.

  2. Re:it USED to be true, but no longer on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    I do sometimes wonder how those people sleep at night. Probably on a comfortable mattress stuffed with money I guess.

  3. Re:Article is Clueless -- Reviews are Jokes on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 2

    You understand that a lot of those negative reviews are reverse astroturfing right? The competitor is going onto amazon and leaving detailed negative reviews about their competitor's products.

  4. Re:Article is Clueless -- Reviews are Jokes on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    What about the DLink router for $139 with over a hundred astroturfed positive reviews?

  5. Re:How easy it was to apparently fake product revi on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even more shocking is how easy it is to fake penthouse letters.

    A lot of people joke about this, but penthouse actually sends fact finders out to verify all penthouse letters. They talk to all the parties involved, and require a reenactment before publishing.

  6. Re:Worth every penny on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    Cool, I see a new business opportunity. I'd like to hire you for 100K to write a review on amazon ....

  7. Re:Maybe fake reviews only for fake products? on Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    It's unlikely the article author is making an assumption. It is trivially easy to verify that illegitimate reviews are allowed on legitimate products.

  8. Re:Vietnam war exposer on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Wow ... just wow. Reading comprehension fail.

  9. Re:Vietnam war exposer on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Vietnam war exposer on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Look it up yourself, then reread the thread.

  11. Re:Vietnam war exposer on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Exactly my point.

  12. Re:Vietnam war exposer on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how that's relevant to the definition of a war being won or lost being based on how many soldiers died?

  13. Re:Does this mean... on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    He's accused of having non-consensual sex. The claim is that there was consensual sex up to a point, but the woman asked him to stop and he failed to do so, at which point it became non-consensual.

  14. Re:Vietnam war exposer on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 2

    War lives lost:
    Vietnam War: 58,209
    WWII: 405,399

    Clearly, we lost WWII 8 times as badly as we lost Vietnam.

  15. Re:Does this mean... on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    It could just mean that he's been smeared as a rapist to try to discredit him, which he has.

  16. Re:Sanity, at last! on Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor · · Score: 1

    Not everything runs better on more cores, but so many things scale close to linearly with cores that it has become what the majority rightly want. Basically every business function that has to support N users can be partitioned over up to N cores, the more cores you pack per chip, the less chips and sockets and boxes you have to buy.

  17. Re:Keep the Cores; Make Them Faster on Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor · · Score: 1

    An increasing number of cores tends to be a challenge to keep clocked at a high speed. Every CPU developer struggles with this, and they all market higher clocked lower core count parts. Choosing to go for a lower core count in your design phase makes a lot of sense if you are single thread bound.

  18. Re:Concentrate on ST perf? What does this mean? on Oracle To Halve Core Count In Next Sparc Processor · · Score: 2

    I assume they're talking about improving their multiple dispatch, so that they can go from 3 - 4 (or is it 4-5) ops in parallel on a single core. And probably bring up the clock speed. 8 cores at 2ghz beats 16 cores at 1.5 ghz for a lot of applications.

  19. Re:Information wants to be free. on Why Money Doesn't Motivate File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I'm pretty sure there is only one more downfall into fascism ahead of us. This time the technology is really up to the task of making it last forever.

  20. Re:Bullshit economist is full of shit. on Why Money Doesn't Motivate File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    He agrees with you, for the leechers. Do you think the same motivations apply to seeders? If so, how, since they get neither free stuff, nor a hoard out of it?

  21. incorrect summary on Why Money Doesn't Motivate File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    The article clearly states that they don't see what they are doing as immoral, not that they don't see what they are doing as illegal. They are altruists, not just stupid. This is a pretty important distinction. If they didn't think they were doing something illegal, that's a whole different story.

  22. Re:MODS: stop polluting my thread with noise on WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets · · Score: 1

    1 is true.

    Is not, nuh-huh! Don't you know that childish replies give you cooties?

    So now you're arguing against yourself? I'm confused.

    2 is incorrect. 2 happened.

    I replied to a +3 message, you retard: q. e. fucking d.

    Yes ... but for me.

    3 is the incorrect label for what I did.

    [...] trolled [...] very well.

    Ok, so you were trolling, but you were trolling through a "great one" strawman. And now you're just denying the evidence, like a troll. STFU and DIAF already.

    No, you misunderstood me again. I wasn't trolling, you just missed the point of both my original post and subsequent hint entirely. Now you have one more hint to work with.

  23. Re:So? on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 1

    Unless of course punishment is also genetically determined, obviously. ;-)

  24. Re:Wrong accent on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1
  25. Re:So? on One Night Stands May Be Genetic · · Score: 1

    Some would argue that there is a memetic component not determined by genes.

    And most would argue that if a behavior is truly genetically determined, such that you literally cannot choose otherwise, it would in fact make infidelity less despicable.