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  1. OP How would you improve the online review system? on Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books · · Score: 1

    The most valid reviews remain those that experts are getting assigned and paid to write by the senior editors of the best-respected online journals. By definition, if a site is a bookseller like Amazon that offers readers the opportunity to share views publicly, others reading these views will consider them in the spirit in which they're offered up by the site owner - to sell books.

  2. Re:MS doing what it does best ... on IE7 To Support XMLHTTP Requests · · Score: 1

    I figure Mozilla got the clue. They did incorporate as a for-profit company for a reason a few months ago. All they need to do is get the show on road and sell the damn thing to Google. Til then, the suspense is killin us.

  3. i thought president bush already took care of this on Is SETI a Security Risk? · · Score: 1

    by erecting a fourteen mile fence south of san diego to staunch the flow of illegal aliens.

  4. Re:Thats because this virus was nasty as hell. on Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit · · Score: 1

    one is obliged to wonder if there isn't a bigger story here having to do with all of the major oem's using sony's hardware. many of them like dell are big fans of sony's cd/dvd drives. well hell on toast - if sony'll load their cd's with a rootkit, wouldn't it be equally effective to do so on the drives they sell to dell and the others?

  5. start of a good trend as long as... on AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies · · Score: 1

    ...ISP's are providing total security suites to protect their customers against internet plagues. If an ISP customer is protected by his ISP's security suite, he can't be blamed for it's not working properly.

  6. Terms of Abuse on BBC Tells World About The Warden · · Score: 1

    yeesh we're gettin sick a' this. you, he, she, it and they cannot ever "shall" anything. only i and we can shall. attornies you dickwads! my bill is in the mail. :)

  7. from our merchandising-the-greenhouse dept on Use of Student Plants to Pitch Products Rising · · Score: 2, Funny

    they're usin' greenery to sell this crap on campus nowadays? sounds damn healthy to me. i'd buy stuff from some co-ed who wanted to give me a flowering plant.

  8. Ma Bell Never Left on Ma Bell is Back · · Score: 1

    So we've got the RBOC's now. Same difference, except today's RBOC's are far wealthier telecomm monopolies than the old AT&T ever was, and we have an obsolete government agency called the FCC that we're trying to figure out what to do with.

  9. Re:An explanation of the movie on Looking Back On Looking Forward · · Score: 1

    We saw it when it came out in 68 and reckoned it was about evolution. Specifically that - just as humans had evolved from apes by adoptation of new tool sets - humans were now nearing the end of their evolutionary limit as a species. And that, without evolving new tool sets to accomodate life off earth, humans were destined for extinction. As opposed to today, space travel back in 68 was still very much in vogue, so this was pretty heady stuff. Nowadays, I wonder if they'd have trouble showing the film in American public schools.

  10. You can ask for a cost of living decrease... on Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    ...why not ask to be outsourced from the US to India at the same salary? Hell, you could live like a king in Bangalore.

  11. Re:100 oldest .com domains... on Email Turns 34 · · Score: 1

    from our hmmm...we-can't-find-that-page dept: didja notice that alla the usual suspects are in that list with one notable exception - microsoft?!?