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  1. Re:Not NPR on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah I'm a shill, I've been shilling for NPR from slashdot for 15 years.

    That just means that WBEZ broadcasts some shows which were produced by NPR, such as All Things Considered. They pay NPR quite heavily for the right to broadcast NPR produced and/or distributed shows.

    My guess is that your local newspaper prints articles by UPI, AP and Reuters, that makes them an affiliate of these syndicators. However when they want to syndicate their own work, they chose one syndicator who takes care of distributing their content to newspapers around the world. Say your newspapers uses UPI, should I blame the AP when an article written by your newspaper gets it wrong?

  2. TAL has nothing to do with NPR on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 1

    It is produced by WBEZ (which itself broadcasts NPR distributed shows, such as Car Talk, but has to pay NPR for their broadcast), and distributed by PRI (Public Radio International, a direct competitor to NPR).

  3. Not NPR on This American Life Retracts Episode On Apple Factories In China · · Score: 4, Informative

    NPR (National Public Radio) doesn't have anything to do with the production or distribution of This American Life. It is produced independently by WBEZ and distributed by PRI (Public Radio International, a direct competitor to NPR)

  4. Re:Good on SFPD Breathalyzer Mistake Puts Hundreds of DUI Convictions In Doubt · · Score: 1

    It's the same in California.

      There is the portable roadside test, preliminary alcohol-screening (PAS) which is the device that was not being calibrated. Which you can refuse, this is the easiest method for the officer to have probable cause to arrest you. After they arrest you, you have the choice of a blood test, another breath test at the station with another officer on a completely different device (these were being calibrated properly), and not taking another test which makes them assume guilt.

  5. What statistics on Google's Rules of Acquisition · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the 2/3rds quote was what Google said they achieve, but there is nothing in the article which actually quantitates it, so I'm going to go with the M&A exec blowing smoke.

  6. Re:But no complaints about the count? on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    Perot did not hand the election to Clinton, however Nader did hand the election to W.

    http://mydd.com/users/diamondjay/posts/getting-the-19921996-elections-right-ross-perot-did-not-change-the-outcomes

  7. Nearly what we pay on The $443 Million Smallpox Vaccine That Nobody Needs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For Air Conditioning for one week in Afghanistan.

  8. Re:Fried Potatoes and gravy with garlic and spices on Are Google's Best Days In the Past? · · Score: 1

    Please cite a source for this big reveal.

  9. Not currently charge on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are no current formal charges against Assange in Sweden, he is being extradited only for questioning, not to face any current charges. There were charges but they were dropped before he left Sweden.

  10. Re:Sometimes competition isn't so good on Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages · · Score: 1

    Other than shutting off javascript how do you now shut off autosuggest?

  11. I liked it better as "Google Preview" on Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages · · Score: 1

    You know the firefox add on that has been around for probably 5+ years. But hopefully they can take care of the giraffa patent.

  12. Re:So they want our complete URL history? on Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8 · · Score: 1

    ERRRRR, AFTER I hit <Google Search>

    (plain old text is just that plain old text)

  13. Re:So they want our complete URL history? on Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8 · · Score: 1

    Yes AFTER I hit not every letter I type into the search field.

  14. Re:So they want our complete URL history? on Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Holy smokes, you are right. Where is EPIC and the EFF in all of this? This is far more insidious than I realized. Right now the only solution that I know of is to shut off javascript for www.google.com or use a menubar search in a non-chrome browser (with suggestions off)

  15. Big issue on Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball · · Score: 1

    Any ratings system that ranks Sergio Ramos on the same pitch as Xavi Hernandez needs work.

  16. High Bar on Google Defends Privacy Policies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Better than shitty can still be shitty

  17. Re:Not trying to be a troll here, but... on Rough Justice For Terry Childs · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the network engineer who was a juror on the case (so I am guessing that he knows far more details about it than you or I)....
    He didn't refuse to just give his "password" but to give any access at all to the core routers, removed any way of password retrieval without doing a full system reset, and would not provide the configurations to these routers.

    On top of that, there were emails and witnesses that made it appear that Childs was doing this all to make it such that only HE had access.

  18. Re:uh silverlight works in linux on Google Enhances Street View With User Photos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is B) any different than the use of Flash (which this Johnny-Come-Lately google app uses)? Especially considering Moonlight is fully open source, which no version of flash 10 is.

  19. Re:uh silverlight works in linux on Google Enhances Street View With User Photos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is a silverlight 3 beta available which works about as well for me as flash 10. (both crash all the time on my linux 64 bit box)

  20. uh silverlight works in linux on Google Enhances Street View With User Photos · · Score: 4, Informative
  21. Not a "Congressman" on Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the United States a Congressman is specifically a member of either the US Senate or US House of Representatives. This guy was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, which makes him a State Legislator or State Representative, but not a "Congressman".

  22. Re:Nothing really special on Hackers Find Home In Amazon EC2 Cloud · · Score: 1

    No, you just change your launch keys and kill the infected nodes, which can all be done in seconds.

  23. Re:Why all the paranoia over Google? on Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any intelligence service that doesn't have at least one mole in Google is worthless.

  24. With corporations on Google-Microsoft Crossfire Will Hit Consumers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You should always assume the worst. It's the only way to keep a company in check.

  25. Re:Reminds me of Amazon on Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money · · Score: 3, Informative

    That wasn't exactly it, Amazon was testing different price points for items and set a cookie to make sure once your price point was set it remained. However some people noticed if they cleared their cookies they would get a lower price sometimes. The people who got a higher price didn't really have much to say about it. In the end everyone got charged the lowest price even if they thought they were paying the higher price.