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  1. Re:personally on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    I guess they need to change the "World Rejects Obama" headlines I just read last week...

  2. Re:white balance and racial implications on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Erik Paulsen made a attack ad where he darkened the skin of Ashwin Madia, apparently to make sure nobody mistook him for a white person.

  3. Re:If they could just get it right... on T-Mobile Backs Off Plan To Charge $1.50 For Paper Bills · · Score: 1

    Because launching that sort of data all over the Internet in an unsecure channel isn't necessarily a good thing?

    Opposed to the security of a paper bill sitting in your unlocked mailbox all day?

  4. Re:What about their business plan? on British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know (i didn't rtfa either) but it's amazing that things that we have the means to do, wouldn't be particularly expensive, and which could save the human race some day, we don't do simply because it's not profitable (like killing Arabs).

  5. Re:Addendum on TwIP - An IP Stack In a Tweet · · Score: 1

    where are you seeing these "rating colors"?

  6. Re:The System on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 1

    Corruption in Chicago? Say it ain't so!

  7. Re:tagged: !change on $18M Contract For Transparency Website Released — But Blacked Out · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It may be, but seriously, what kind of website costs $18 million? I've been designing and programming websites for 10 years full time, hundreds and hundreds of them, put them all together and they're not worth $1million much less $18 million. I'll be interested to see the final product, because I can't fathom what an $18m website looks like.

  8. Re:How Exactly Does This Fight Spam? on Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Let them profit if they want, it sounds like a good idea to me. If I send 10 emails a day, which is probably much more than your average computer user, that's $3.00 a month. I can handle that, but a spammer who sends millions of messages a month cannot pay $10k per million messages.

    It's essentially a way to guarantee to recipients of my email that it is not spam.

    Also, when customers with zombiefied computers get a six figure bill from their ISP, maybe they'll spend a few bucks to get their system cleaned up and secured, which benefits everyone.

  9. Re:IE7 - no hijacking here on Reports of IE Hijacking NXDOMAINs, Routing To Bing · · Score: 1

    Some fatass peddling t-shirts is apparently hijacking that site for me.

  10. Re:Wow, so that is what delusion looks like on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 1

    About a 50/50 mix of mayo and catchup with a dash of mustard, then covered in a thick layer of salt makes the perfect french fry dip. But i'm on a diet, damn my diet...

  11. Re:Let it die. on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 1

    That's great, let me know when your buddy's garage band has albums in every Best Buy, Wal Mart, Target and Sam Goody in the country.

  12. Re:Solution on Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    What does it matter, anyway? I use slashdot from work, and there are certainly racist pricks around here. Should my employer be open to a lawsuit because of racist trolls at slashdot?

  13. Re:Unfortunate on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    Make an offer below what you feel is reasonable, but not an insulting lowball offer, so you can negotiate up to your target price. You can get a general idea of what it's worth at estibot.com. If you leave it open and don't let them know up front what your price range is, they're going to get $$$ in their eyes and come back with some ridiculous figure. Make it clear you have other options and are not set on this particular domain, and be willing to follow through and walk away if you need to. These people sit on hundreds or thousands of domains, and they've never had an interested buyer for the vast majority of them. They want to sell the domain to you, even if it's for less than they want, because if they don't sell it to you now chances are they'll never sell it, unless it's some great single word premium .com domain. Also, the domain business intersects with the porno, gambling, spam, and affiliate businesses, these are not nice people. Use escrow and don't take them at their word on anything.

  14. Re:Shame on Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes" · · Score: 1

    So, say after a 16 hour day when your boss says "go home, we'll pick this up tomorrow" I guess you stick around anyway, since the work isn't done?

  15. Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 1

    I would imagine they gave him a copy of his own album, why would he have to go to the store an buy it again? Of course he never would have paid for it, he probably has crates of them in his closet.

  16. Re:Options on Microsoft.com Makes IE8 Incompatibility List · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe that's exactly what they're doing, you will be able to add a tag to your website to use a compatibility mode which is supposed to fix pages that don't work correctly in IE8.

  17. Re:"and it will be rolled out free of charge. " on "Live Expansion" Announced for Warhammer Online · · Score: 1

    The last two expansions are almost entirely geared at casuals. Remember how much commitment it took back in the old vanilla days of 40 man raids to get any epic gear at all? Very very few people ever saw BWL much less AQ or Nax, nowadays even the most casual player can see at least some of the endgame content...

  18. Re:You all are making this too hard on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    Operates on either LP gas or natural gas.

    so presumably it runs indefinitely....

  19. Re:15 minutes? on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 1

    So why don't you punch in beforehand?

  20. Re:Yes. on Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't understand how the policy would work that says they're not paid. I mean boot their pc before punching the clock? Why wouldn't you punch the clock before even sitting down at your desk?

    If it really takes employees 15 mins to boot all the crap they use, and they have a policy that says you can't punch in until your pc is ready to go, they yeah they should be sued.

  21. Re:Anti-White Racism in the Afro Community on Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid · · Score: 1

    Yeah because there's so many black republicans. Blacks overwhelmingly vote democrat poindexter, regardless of the candidates skin color.

  22. Re:SUSE laptops on HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's the emails the story mentions but fails to link

  23. scam on US State Sues Web/SEO Firm For Deceiving Mom-and-Pops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The SEO industry in general is such a scam, it's amazing how many people fall for it.

  24. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Also you want a prime example of disingenuous, biased reporting? How about how Fox News scrambled to throw McCain under the bus the second the election ended, after months of extreme ass kissing. You want to complain about media bias, there's a nice starting point.

  25. Re:Duh. on Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign · · Score: 1, Troll

    Exactly. Why would they give McCain a prominent section just to cover whatever his new smear of the day is?

    The whole "liberal media" thing is so bogus, here's a clue righties, give something positive to report and the media will report it. 8 years of GWB of course the news is going to appear biased when there's hardly anything positive to report.

    Yeah but I guess the liberal media did go way too easy on Clinton, oh wait no they didn't it was a feeding frenzy. Selective memory I guess...