Comment Just sue CBS (Score 4, Funny) 152
If Canonical sues or gets sued by CBS, they'll just get disqualified.
Comment First Nobel auctioned? (Score 2) 179
Did the submitter even read the article? It clearly said that Aage Bohr's medal was sold last year.
Comment Too many "friends"? (Score 2) 128
If you've got to perform a search to know which of your friends live in San Francisco, they're not really your "friends".
Submission + - Vietnamese court forces casino to pay US$55.5 million in winnings to gambler (vietnamnet.vn)
D H NG writes: A court in Vietnam had ruled in favor of a gambler who won US$55,542,256.70 from a slot machine in 2009. The casino claimed that the machine malfunctioned and offerred to pay back only the US$300 he spent gambling. The man sued, claiming that it is the casino's responsibility to ensure the integrity of the machines and that their regulations were vague as to what constituted a malfunction. The court sided with the plaintiff, since the defendants unilaterally took out the circuit board of the machine to investigate, rendering the evidence inadmissible. The defendants planned to appeal, claiming that 'no one would program a slot machine to pay $55 million from 10 cents.'
Comment Re:Off Topic: Facebook?! Really?! (Score 1) 342
It's actually a typo in the blurb. Facebook was in second place, not Microsoft.
Comment Facebook (Score 1) 1
The company in second place is Facebook, not Microsoft.
Submission + - Google pays its Engineers Highest Among Tech Companies (wsj.com) 1
D H NG writes: According to a study by the career site Glassdoor, Google tops the list of tech companies in the salaries it pays to software engineers. Google paid its engineers an average base salary of $128,336, with Microsoft coming in second at $123,626. Apple, eBay, and Zynga rounded off the top 5.
Comment Re:Buy cheap Viagra? (Score 1) 134
Google cache is seeing the same thing I'm seeing here.
Comment Buy cheap Viagra? (Score 1) 134
Is it just me or is their about page infested with spam?
Comment Curbing Nationalism (Score 1) 144
The Vietnamese government has a fine line to tread. Due to the current territorial disputes with China, there is a resurgence of Sinophobia among the populace in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government doesn't want to antagonize the Chinese government and jeopardize a huge trading relationship, but it also doesn't want to appear to be caving to the Chinese. It had shown remarkable restraints in allowing anti-China protests to proceed, but recently it had been curbing them because the protestors attention is now focussing on the government itself.
Submission + - Google's Marissa Mayer becomes Yahoo CEO (nytimes.com)
D H NG writes: Marissa Mayer, Google's employee #20 and Vice President of Local, was appointed CEO of Yahoo. She was Google's public face for years, famously being responsible for the look and feel of Google’s most popular products: the famously unadorned white search homepage, Gmail, Google News and Google Images. Mayer resigned from Google Monday afternoon and will begin her new job on Tuesday.
Submission + - Software engineers remain top US job (wsj.com)
D H NG writes: In a study by Careercast.com, software engineers retain their position as having the top jobs in 2012. The #1 and #2 positions remain the same from last year. One surprise entry was human resources manager in the #3 position. The worst job was lumberjack, beating out last year's roustabout.
Comment Cheap cellular cost? (Score 1) 851
Where did you get such a cheap cellular plan? I hardly make any calls, but my bare-bones prepaid phone plan costs more than $4 a month. In the US, the cheapest I found is T-Mobile To Go, which charges about 10 cents a minute if you buy $100. Since the minutes last at most a year, the minimum you have to pay is about more than $8 a month.
Comment Rebuttal from Danny Sullivan (Score 1) 315
Here's an informed opinion on the subject.
Submission + - Juror's Tweets Overturns Trial Verdict (bbc.co.uk) 1
D H NG writes: The Arkansas Supreme Court had overturned a murder conviction due to a juror tweeting during the trial. Erickson Dimas-Martinez was convicted in 2010 of killing a teenager and was sentenced to death. His lawyers appealed the case on account of a juror tweeting his musings during the trial. Tweets sent include "The coffee here sucks" and "Court. Day 5. here we go again". In an opinion, Associate Justice Donald Corbin wrote "because of the very nature of Twitter as an... online social media site, Juror 2's tweets about the trial were very much public discussions." Dimas-Martinez is to be given a new trial.
