I can sympathize with the comments moderation teams at Yelp, Amazon
They must be getting better at automating this - my reviews at Amazon are usually (but not always) getting posted in about 5 minutes these days, vs. days to hours in the past. My guess is they have an automated grading system with a worker who merely sanity checks the results.
... until all the fake reviewers are in prison for 10 years, and the executives of the businesses doing this in prison for 30 years.
'Cause seeking vengeance with rape cages is so much better than implementing a reputation system that review sites could use to delegitimize fake reviewers.
There is one problem: for historic reasons, most distributions install Gnome by default. This needs to be fixed, badly.
I suspect as soon as one of the big ones does (my bet is SuSE as soon as the Qt5 and Wayland work is complete in KDE), GNOME will start to behave. Until one does, it has little reason to do so.
It's currently $84B per month, but if you look at the numbers Sen. Lahey's office uncovered, that pales in comparison to the $16T+ in new dollar creation that the Fed secretly engaged in.
If you mean prices, you can look here for the pre-political CPI-U calculations (no basket substitutions, etc.) or you could look at any commodities index over the time period, or, heck, just go to the grocery store. If you buy food for a family, try pricing ground beef, peanut butter, or a sack of flour, both now and 5 years ago. They're up over 50%.
You said 'eligible voters'. I said 'Americans'. The distinction is purposeful, because we were talking about people who just refuse to vote (and secondarily all those who are ruled by those who do).
You weren't trying to imply 80% was against Obama, were you
It's not entirely clear from the abstract, so just for some background (of what I assume is behind the paywall) the main problem with severe flu is cytokine storms. Basically, your immune system can get into a positive feedback loop trying to kill the virus and wind up killing most of the body's cells instead. In the Pandemic Flu of 1918, a great number of the dead were the healthiest ones with great immune systems.
So I'm assuming what's going on here is that they've isolated the parts of the immune system that actually kill the flu, and have a plan to prime them for action. That would be super-awesome. The annual flu deaths, just in the US is in the 3000-49000 per year range. If you have to use government terms, that's at least a 9/11 every year, and if you have to spend a trillion dollars on something, this would be a much better target.
Does that $4.7 billion balance sheet include the $1 billion worth of unsold phones that Blackberry is stuck with?
Is that $1B MSRP or $1B in cost? If it's $1B in cost, they can release their Android port (CM preferably), put an unlocked bootloader on it, and offer them for sale at cost, and they will sell out and recover their $1B.
RIM (and Nokia) made the biggest mistake possible by ignoring the iPhone and what it represented to the entire mobile industry. Their complacency killed the company. They changed far too little, faaaaaar too late.
It's hubris. In their book The Innovator's Solution, the authors describe the problem with Blackberry and outline the iPhone strategy as the way to solve it. It's literally the textbook example and they ignored it.
But I think Steve Jobs read it - "great artists steal".
I'm kinda surprised that there's anyone that actually wants to buy RIM.
It still has cache' in business and government. If they released an Android device with good e-mail navigation and "enterprise" management bolt-ons, they'd do quite well.
You're right - I noticed that. But while your point is grammatically correct (and correct from a set theory perspective), if it's semantically correct then it doesn't have a meaning in this context.
The Keynesian School (along with some Monetarists), which controls The Fed, claims to not believe that printing money ("quantitative easing") can in, in fact, create price inflation (they contend it should get the economy roaring and the opposite should happen). Now Keynes himself didn't believe this, but his disciples think he was mistaken on that particular count.
Meanwhile, the Austrian School economists contend that the money creation is itself the monetary inflation (by definition...) and that price inflation is just an inevitable consequence of monetary inflation (more dollars in the pool means each dollar has less value).
The trouble is, the Austrians take that consequence to say that it means that ultimately the central banks are harmful to the economy, since they're constantly interfering in the transfer of information across the economy by interfering with pricing and interest signals. If you're a central banker, the idea that central bankers are harmful can't be true, so if anything happens that indicates the the Austrians might be right after all, it's going to be a a bit unsettling.
Could you whip up a little tool that would scan the barcode, query the item on Amazon, and see what the sales rank is? There you'd have market telling you what is in demand and what is not. I'd bet (not looking now) the Knuth books have a decent used sales rank while "Learning Filemaker 2.1" does not.
Find your threshold(s) and have the tool tell the clerk [shelve,sell,recycle].
blanket references to unconstitutionality can only refer to the USSC
They'd like you to think that, but the Bill of Rights was intended to be read and understood by the common man. Go read the Federalist Papers if you don't believe me.
The 4th Amendment is quite clear in its meaning, and moreover, the Federal Government has no legitimate power other than that delegated to it by the States in its enumerated powers. There are no Constitution free zones or any rights that only apply to "citizens".
Slashdot Mirror
Lying out of your ass about products your are selling has nothing to do with free speech.
Well, the speech should be free, but the fraud should be punished (through the market IMO, though others prefer flogging).
I can sympathize with the comments moderation teams at Yelp, Amazon
They must be getting better at automating this - my reviews at Amazon are usually (but not always) getting posted in about 5 minutes these days, vs. days to hours in the past. My guess is they have an automated grading system with a worker who merely sanity checks the results.
This Yogurt Shop only appears to those who are worthy of its awesome flavors.
... until all the fake reviewers are in prison for 10 years, and the executives of the businesses doing this in prison for 30 years.
'Cause seeking vengeance with rape cages is so much better than implementing a reputation system that review sites could use to delegitimize fake reviewers.
There is one problem: for historic reasons, most distributions install Gnome by default. This needs to be fixed, badly.
I suspect as soon as one of the big ones does (my bet is SuSE as soon as the Qt5 and Wayland work is complete in KDE), GNOME will start to behave. Until one does, it has little reason to do so.
Why do people go around saying stupid shit?
They don't read the kwin developer's blog?
Okay. I'll bite. Where is the inflation?
It's currently $84B per month, but if you look at the numbers Sen. Lahey's office uncovered, that pales in comparison to the $16T+ in new dollar creation that the Fed secretly engaged in.
If you mean prices, you can look here for the pre-political CPI-U calculations (no basket substitutions, etc.) or you could look at any commodities index over the time period, or, heck, just go to the grocery store. If you buy food for a family, try pricing ground beef, peanut butter, or a sack of flour, both now and 5 years ago. They're up over 50%.
57.5% of all eligible voters
You said 'eligible voters'. I said 'Americans'. The distinction is purposeful, because we were talking about people who just refuse to vote (and secondarily all those who are ruled by those who do).
You weren't trying to imply 80% was against Obama, were you
No, of course not.
It's not entirely clear from the abstract, so just for some background (of what I assume is behind the paywall) the main problem with severe flu is cytokine storms. Basically, your immune system can get into a positive feedback loop trying to kill the virus and wind up killing most of the body's cells instead. In the Pandemic Flu of 1918, a great number of the dead were the healthiest ones with great immune systems.
So I'm assuming what's going on here is that they've isolated the parts of the immune system that actually kill the flu, and have a plan to prime them for action. That would be super-awesome. The annual flu deaths, just in the US is in the 3000-49000 per year range. If you have to use government terms, that's at least a 9/11 every year, and if you have to spend a trillion dollars on something, this would be a much better target.
Does that $4.7 billion balance sheet include the $1 billion worth of unsold phones that Blackberry is stuck with?
Is that $1B MSRP or $1B in cost? If it's $1B in cost, they can release their Android port (CM preferably), put an unlocked bootloader on it, and offer them for sale at cost, and they will sell out and recover their $1B.
RIM (and Nokia) made the biggest mistake possible by ignoring the iPhone and what it represented to the entire mobile industry. Their complacency killed the company. They changed far too little, faaaaaar too late.
It's hubris. In their book The Innovator's Solution, the authors describe the problem with Blackberry and outline the iPhone strategy as the way to solve it. It's literally the textbook example and they ignored it.
But I think Steve Jobs read it - "great artists steal".
I'm kinda surprised that there's anyone that actually wants to buy RIM.
It still has cache' in business and government. If they released an Android device with good e-mail navigation and "enterprise" management bolt-ons, they'd do quite well.
corporations are amoral, yo.
You're right - I noticed that. But while your point is grammatically correct (and correct from a set theory perspective), if it's semantically correct then it doesn't have a meaning in this context.
The Keynesian School (along with some Monetarists), which controls The Fed, claims to not believe that printing money ("quantitative easing") can in, in fact, create price inflation (they contend it should get the economy roaring and the opposite should happen). Now Keynes himself didn't believe this, but his disciples think he was mistaken on that particular count.
Meanwhile, the Austrian School economists contend that the money creation is itself the monetary inflation (by definition...) and that price inflation is just an inevitable consequence of monetary inflation (more dollars in the pool means each dollar has less value).
The trouble is, the Austrians take that consequence to say that it means that ultimately the central banks are harmful to the economy, since they're constantly interfering in the transfer of information across the economy by interfering with pricing and interest signals. If you're a central banker, the idea that central bankers are harmful can't be true, so if anything happens that indicates the the Austrians might be right after all, it's going to be a a bit unsettling.
is there any legal avenue that could be persued
Depends on your jurisdiction.
Told you so. Vote third party or stay home.
Only 38% of Americans voted in the last election. Only 20% of Americans voted for the current President.
Perhaps Duverger's Law is at least felt, if not completely understood.
The more you moderate a forum, or prevent users from posting anonymously, the less honest it will be.
And dishonest too - it clips both ends of the curve.
Could you whip up a little tool that would scan the barcode, query the item on Amazon, and see what the sales rank is? There you'd have market telling you what is in demand and what is not. I'd bet (not looking now) the Knuth books have a decent used sales rank while "Learning Filemaker 2.1" does not.
Find your threshold(s) and have the tool tell the clerk [shelve,sell,recycle].
I am from Nigeria and I will use anything not made in America.
Except for Slashdot?
blanket references to unconstitutionality can only refer to the USSC
They'd like you to think that, but the Bill of Rights was intended to be read and understood by the common man. Go read the Federalist Papers if you don't believe me.
The 4th Amendment is quite clear in its meaning, and moreover, the Federal Government has no legitimate power other than that delegated to it by the States in its enumerated powers. There are no Constitution free zones or any rights that only apply to "citizens".
"slightly ahead of the current state-of-art"
Just to pick nits, it is the current state of the art, and just slightly ahead of commodity on any non-miniscule timescale.
indium, gallium, and arsenide
See, that's why tech writers have editors, who can correct 'indium and gallium arsenide' to 'indium, gallium, and arsenide'.
Well I wonder how apple users will relate to this walled garden business now.
With post-hoc rationalization (and antipathy towards those who point it out).
But it is interesting to see that the threshold for "AI" is now lowered to the level of the common idiot.
I don't know about you, but I have a much easier time understanding smart people.