Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 3, Insightful) 163
You mean other than the fact they're a complete joke?
Even if you believe that the be the case, how does another complete joke of a law fix anything?
Comment Re:Also available for UK, Canada, France ... (Score 1) 95
If you consider that you are willing to stand behind your edits, get an account.
I have an account. I have for the last 10 years. But often times I don't feel like being abused by editors / admin with "WP:OWN" and God Syndrome issues.
Comment Maybe, maybe not. (Score 4, Interesting) 749
Microsoft is based in the United States, so there may be some valid argument here that as an American company, Microsoft data regardless of where "in the cloud" it is stored is subject to American legal rulings.
The *real* question is what about companies that do business here but are based in other countries?
Comment Correction (Score 1) 131
Apparently it's not "unthinkable".
Comment Re:Also available for UK, Canada, France ... (Score 1) 95
If it really is by "junior IT staff," then it's more likely that they're doing it under orders from their higher-ups rather than wasting office hours on topics they're personally interested in.
I work at a major US Air Force base as a civilian in a middle level management capacity. I edit Wikipedia "articles" related to the military several times a week from work (possibly on my lunch hour, it's a grey area).
Does this mean I'm editing on the orders of my superiors?
Comment Re:Why the assumption.... (Score 1) 309
I don't think you understand what "voting with your wallet" means, because it's exactly what you are doing when you choose to order online rather than buy locally for any reason. It doesn't matter if that reason is price, convenience, merchandise selection, political views, or anything else. You are choosing which business receives your financial support, and will therefore be more successful. That is fundamentally what voting with your wallet is.
And if you don't think that people choosing to spend their money online rather than at a local retailer is a problem, then why are you complaining about it?
Comment Re:Why the assumption.... (Score 1) 309
You missed my point. Ordering online is voting with your wallet. Your real problem is that people are voting with their wallets -- but they're voting the wrong way.
Comment Re:Maybe he *IS* the con... (Score 2) 110
2. trying to scrub his reputation to get a $60k/year raise
3. just happens to 'fall' for a con that gets $120k worth of materials
About point 2: $119,000, not $60,000
About point 3: The stolen material was recovered.
Comment Re:Why the assumption.... (Score 1) 309
Yeah! Voting with your wallet will never happen, because it's far to easy to vote with your wallet.
Utility Wants $17,500 Refund After Failure To Scrub Negative Search Results 110
mpicpp Points out this story about Seattle City Light's anger over negative search results and its inability to get them removed. Seattle's publicly-owned electrical utility, City Light, is now demanding a refund for the $17,500 that it paid to Brand.com in a botched effort to boost the online reputation of its highly-paid chief executive, Jorge Carrasco. Brand.com "enhances online branding and clears negatives by blanketing search results with positive content" in an attempt to counteract unwanted search engine results. City Light signed a contract with the company in October 2013 and extended it in February 2014. The contracts authorized payments of up to $47,500. Hamilton said that he first raised the issue of the utility's online reputation when he was interviewing for the chief of staff job in early 2013. "All I saw were negative stories about storms, outages and pay increases and I raised it as a concern during that interview," he said. "And then after I started, [CEO Jorge Carrasco] and I discussed what we could do to more accurately represent the utility and what the utility is all about, because we didn't feel it was well represented online." Thus, the Brand.com contract. City Light says that it only ever thought Brand.com would help it place legitimate material in legitimate outlets—talking up some of the positive changes that have taken place at City Light during Carrasco's tenure. Instead, it appears to have received mostly bogus blog posts.
Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 129
If the average human eye can't tell the slightest difference, what's the point of making displays that dense?
Maybe eagles want to watch TV too.
Comment Re:Not France vs US (Score 2) 309
Fuck you and your aspie world.
What he said has fuck all to do with being (or not being) aspie.
Incidentally, your post breaks UK law - stop fucking discriminating against a learning disability you cunt.
Comment Re:The forecast for Gaza today is.... (Score -1, Troll) 42
Would you guys mind taking this argument to somewhere where it's relevant?
Comment Weather Rules (Score 4, Funny) 42
Turns out that it's easy to measure the weather with a cell phone tower.
- If cell phone tower casts a shadow, the sun is shining.
- If tower is wet, it is raining.
- If tower is white, it is snowing
- If tower is swaying back and forth, there is a high wind.
Comment Re:Rural Washington needs internet access. (Score 1) 70
So many schools, librarys and entire towns have no Internet access here in Rural Washington.
I think what you may mean is many rural Washington towns have no cable or DSL. If you have a phone line, dial-up is still (yes) available, and both Hughes and Dish offer down and up link to the Intertubes. Expensive, yes, but if there is a cell tower nearby... there is Internet.
