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  1. Re:More people will notice now... on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    Facebook blocks a lot of the reasonably public part of its site from google.

  2. Re:Well, that's one way to advertise.... on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    The blog fell afoul of google's anti-spam algorithm and was down for a few days.

    Considering how much of the blog is one or two sentences about political news followed by lots of comments, I can see how this erroneously received a spam flag.

  3. Re:Job-killing Tax Hikes on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 0

    That is almost never a talking point, fairness and other ideals tend to make it into the talking points, especially the talking points of West Coast US Union leaders.

  4. Re:Job-killing Tax Hikes on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 0
    Some of the other money went to things like cement, lumber, gravel, steel and other construction materials.

    You can't just line up a bunch of people and tell them to fix a road, you have to provide them with the supplies to repair the road.

    The 278k figure is for jobs directly created by the spending program, it does not include private sector jobs that were indirectly created by orders of raw goods, as you cannot easily directly correlate when surplus capacity was exceeded and more labor was required.

    The stimulus program was not as successful as hoped because the people who got the jobs spent a much greater percentage of their money on paying off debts and retirement accounts than expected by the economists.

  5. Re:Job-killing Tax Hikes on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Note to mods.

    This could be considered a -1 redundant.

    If there was a -1 overly obvious flag that would also be a candidate, Being as there is not a minus -1 overly obvious flag, overrated was probably the way to go.

    However this does not count as flame bait as nobody is likely to argue with it.

  6. Re:Money on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 1

    However I have frequently seen the judge cross things off of orders, and make additions before signing it.

  7. Re:Curiosity on Ask Slashdot: Best Connect Scheme For a 2-ISP Household? · · Score: 1

    If you are using voip you might find that a second internet connection might be nice./

    For a lot of things it is much easier to deal with your ISP (especially trouble tickets) if you have internet access.

    If you have comcast/xfinity or some other ISP that disconnects users for TOS violations without enough warning to get another service, a hot spare might be useful.

    I am sure there are other reasons.

  8. Re:Google+ on Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications · · Score: 1

    The majority of websites that run ads, run google ads.

    Doubleclick, and adsense cover a large portion of the online ad real estate. Turn off add-block and notice that slashdot runs google ads. Then notice the percentage of websites that you regularly visit that show google ads on them. It is kind of staggering.

    Google's purchase of Doubleclick was viewed as something that probably should not have been approved, but the Bush administration was not particularly assertive in anti trust enforcement.

  9. Re:Google+ on Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications · · Score: 1

    Adsense. When combined with double click Google had about a 90% share of the internet advertising market.a couple years ago.

    Facebook has probably made a huge dent in that percentage though.

  10. Re:Safety. on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    The Attix 30 is the cheapest hepa vac I know of.

  11. Re:Treat it like fiberglass or asbestos on Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Thank god on Apple Hits 15b App Store Downloads, But Loses "App Store" Name Skirmish · · Score: 1

    I would think that Windows would count as a generic term for a computer windowing system, but that's just me.

  13. Re:It's a mess :( on Microsoft Pays University $250K To Use Office 365 · · Score: 2

    And how many court filings have been missed because Microsoft Word ate the pleading?

    And how many times has Microsoft been sued for it?

    Software that makes sure to not lose your work like lyx is very rare.

  14. Re:Going to throw stones? on Military and Government E-mails Compromised · · Score: 1

    One has to wonder what you thought about Palin's emails being hacked. Or, what you would think is Bachman's emails were hacked. I suspect you would be overjoyed.

    It made me wonder exactly how many of my clients have accounts that can be reset based on information in their wikipedia entry.

  15. Re:Those awarding the grants on Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies · · Score: 1

    Except that those billions collected from the oil companies are more than spent on hiring and equipping troops to enforce their contracts to extract oil from various places around the world, and making sure that their tankers (flagged in an off shore tax haven like the Cayman Islands that has essentially no Navy.) are not taken buy pirates.

    Exxon probably gets more than 5x what it pays in taxes in the form of military assistance alone, not to mention R&D and other small perks.

    Strictly domestic oil companies are probably getting the shaft as far as their tax bill, but the multinationals are more than getting what they pay for.

    If Obama would refuse to send us war ships to rescue foreign flagged ships from Somali pirates I would be a little happier about the situation. (and our national debt would be a little lower.)

  16. Re:No on Lawsuit Claims LegalZoom Is Practicing Law Without a License · · Score: 1

    Most states have free versions of about 50% of what legal zoom does available for free.

    The questions of practicing without a license, and partial representation (a lawyer that only does one thing on the case not the entire case.) are based on the fact that there is a real problem with the law, and most of the proposed solutions have very deep flaws, that will at some point lead to massive abuses.

    The person that would most want LegalZoom to be found to be practicing law without a license is someone that wants out of a contract that they used legal zoom to create for them.

    In California you need to have passed evidence in law school in order to get permission to represent people in court. (you have to make it clear you are not a lawyer as well, and your client has to agree to not appeal based on the fact that you are not an attorney.)

  17. Re:Taxpayer Information on Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals · · Score: 0

    Small corporations, and oil companies generally pay taxes.

    Tech and agro companies in the US with at least ten figure revenue streams generally pay almost nothing in taxes.

  18. Re:I had a feeling this was going to happen on StartSSL Suspends Services After Security Breach · · Score: 1

    That was Comodo that worked with the browser manufacturers to void the ad/forged certificates for seven addresses, Google mail, www.google.com, login.yahoo.com, login.skype.com, addons.mozilla.com, login.live.com. and one other domain that they had issued

    Verisign issued the bad/forged ssl cert for microsoft.com that was created for the purposed of digitally signing windows malware.

    This was an attempt to get those same certificates recreated.

    It appears that there was a serious data breach, but that the root and chain certificates were not compromised, and the goal was the same domains as the Comodo compromise.

    rennerik's comment about identity theft is sounding like the best guess at the current situation, but not the attackers goal, which seams to be getting certificates to enable eavesdropping.

  19. Re:Ethically and intellectually challenged... on Court Case To Test GNU GPL · · Score: 1

    If you disobey/do not accept the GPL license then the license is void and the fallback is copyright law.

    This is a rock and a hard place to negotiate from.

    The most common ways to try circumventing the GPL is to claim:

    • that the terms are vague enough that despite what the copyright holder thinks, you are complying with the GPL
    • That the material in question is not copyrightable, and therefor a license is unnecessary
    • Claim that the copyright holder has not proven that they are the copyright holder and have no standing to sue.
  20. Re:Obligatory on Oracle Thinks Google Owes $6.1 Billion In Damages · · Score: 4, Informative

    The former head of RedHat's legal team took over groklaw.

  21. Re:Lack of XP support isn't news anymore on Want iCloud With Windows? Ditch the XP · · Score: 2

    I would guess that the problem is the TCP/IP stack in windows XP that doesn't support some features of ssl, such as SNI.

  22. Re:Well Duh! That was expected on Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    If you ask me, the only good things Microsoft makes (considering their wealth and influence) are keyboard, mouse and xbox.

    Their headsets are pretty nice, even though they are not the most durable.

  23. Re:No big secret here on Wikileaks Cables Say No Bloodshed Inside Tiananmen Square · · Score: 1

    Although that seems to be a fate mostly reserved for African heads of state.

  24. Re:excellent PR by Google on Google Uncovers China-Based Password Collection Campaign · · Score: 1

    Ergo, chromeOS.

  25. Re:OO Base on Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator · · Score: 1

    IIRC libreoffice in FreeBSD ports builds without the java dependencies. (actually, last I heard the java dependencies didn't build on FreeBSD).

    You lose the database connector and the edit a wiki page functionality. You might also lose mail merge in writer.