That's not true. I didn't say don't do anything, I just said the lawsuit seems pointless. The payout from the lawsuit could be effectively zero for the consumer. They could find more useful ways to exert pressure on the company than this (and when one considers that Lenovo is Chinese, which severely reduces the likelihood of getting a verdict against them enforced).

All that the class action suit would do is line the pockets of some opportunistic attorneys (who get paid regardless of the outcome).

I thought the first playstation came about when Nintendo decided not to have Sony make a CD drive for their console. Did Sega really have a chance to make the same mistake?

We've seen how much energy is wasted when customers try to sue to get refunded for the Windows license they don't use on their PC. Why would this turn out better? Yeah, it sucks that they did it but the big difference here is someone caught them doing it.

I will suspect that much like smitty (and, as best I have seen, every conservative to ever write on slashdot), you also have not read the Communist Manifesto, and hence have no clue what the ideals of Communism actually are.

There is no joke there.

But yet now the crusades and the Inquisition weren't Christian, Reagan wasn't conservative, etc... Funny reality some people like to project.

You are describing someone who was themselves lying about studying a communist society. A vastly more correct term for what your buddy is describing would be totalitarian, which is not compatible with the ideals of communism. It is no more fair to look at the USSR as an example of communism than it is to look at the US or Somalia as examples of free-market libertarianism.

The article says that his previous post went viral. This is not nearly the same as being slashdotted - at least, not any more. We don't have enough users on slashdot any more to bring down even a hobbyist website, let alone a hosted blog. How many years has it been since slashdot users last successfully slashdotted a website (at least, one that wasn't hosted on an intentionally low-powered system?)?

Why? The ThinkPads are the business level laptops, which are what you should be buying if you are buying for a business. The ThinkPads did not have superfish installed.

Really? I have used both IBM and Lenovo ThinkPads and while the Lenovo ones aren't quite as great as what IBM made, they are still vastly superior to any consumer laptop on the market today. You might be thinking of the IdeaPad line, which looks like a ThinkPad to a small degree but isn't nearly the same thing. The ThinkPads are still solid - and someone else pointed out they don't have Superfish on the, either.

Isn't that the case with pretty much every consumer-level laptop on the market today? This was a particularly bad case of pre-installed crapware, but I can't think of a laptop sold at any American retailer today that isn't guilty of the same.

If you want to do real work, skip windows and put an OS on your laptop that is useful for real work.

... then you have been gone for a while. By current slashdot standards you were pretty cordial.

Your question did not seem as serious as your statement, so I replied to the latter. It appeared you came here to bitch and moan rather than to actually seek an answer to your question.

There is no shortage of birthers out there who are still dedicated to "answering" that question.

However, based on what many slashdot conservatives write, it appears that Obama's biggest failure is in the fact that he has the wrong consonant after his last name. His actual decisions and policies are demonstrably more conservative than their hero Reagan but he happens to be a democrat so he is automatically the antichrist.

You're joking, right? Many of the slashdotters who dedicate themselves to blaming everything wrong in the world on Obama barely even know who Putin is. The likelihood that they would blame anything on him is quite nearly zero, especially as the official slashdot narrative remains that Obama is a closet communist/fascist/Islamist/anarchist/socialist/martian/illuminati who is femtoseconds from launching a new plan for world domination.

So far as I know, nobody forces you to read them. You are free to ignore the journal entries to your heart's content, and it is all but certain that nothing bad would happen to you as a result.

Not on this site, it isn't. Here on slashdot it's all Obama's fault.