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Comment Re:Tortious Interference (Score 3, Insightful) 126

Amazon believes so strongly that buying non-fake reviews does not harm the reputation of Amazon that they setup an in-house service to help sellers buy non-fake reviews http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki... [wikipedia.org]. If tortious interference is occurring here, you've got the directionality wrong.

After reading the wikipedia, there is a different between the Amazon Vine and those 3rd party reviewing site if the 3rd party site review is to pay for good/bad review. The product owners pay Amazon so that their product would be enlisted for reviewers, not pay reviewers for good/bad review. The criticism is that the process is not transparent enough which could let to unqualified reviews (from unqualified reviewers but are still not a fake review).

Comment Re:Get over it ! (Score 1) 370

Typical Progressive thinking is being evidenced by the article. ...

I don't understand why you need to label the article to a group of people? It can be anyone. Even though many progressive people are that way, labelling doesn't make things better in a discussion but rather try to find a scape goat to be blamed on. It is easy to do so, but it helps no one and does no good. Instead, you try to sway the point of discussion to accommodate your political opposition.

Comment Re:DRTFA (Score 1) 143

So yes, I did read that, which it was exactly what led me to wonder what the breakout was of each of those things. If it's primarily natural cyclical loss that will be restored why should I freak out again?

And natural cyclical loss may not be the primary cause currently in the TFA. However, the TFA goes further and states that natural cyclical loss could become a primary cause if this deforestation process with the help of humans keeps going on.

From TFA

Scientists expect wildfires to become more frequent as warmer temperatures afflict forested regions.

In other words, yes we should concern about deforestation on natural cyclical loss even though it is currently not the primary cause if less forest causes warmer temperature.

Comment Re:More... (Score 1) 232

You, AC, should not pick and choose only a portion of what GP said. The GP point is the "misinterpretation" of the DRY meaning.

It's often misinterpreted, in the same way you so conveniently put it, which is then used to justify some pretty awful decisions regarding third-party libraries. I'm convinced that this is the leading cause of bloated software.

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Comment Re:More... (Score 1) 232

I believe 'goto' has been replaced by the 'if' statement. I believe that 'if' statements should be used very carefully.

I am not so sure about this statement. The 'goto' can be used for both conditional and unconditional branches. The 'if' statement, 'do-while' loop, and/or 'for' loop are conditional branch. If your variables are not dynamic, you may not need a branch.

Also in modern languages, you should not try to optimize or be too clever in how to style your code if the language has compiler because you don't know what and how compiler is going to modify your code. Yes, the source code may look discontinue, as long as it is clear and maintainable, it is a fair enough code.

Comment Re: Christian Theocracy (Score 1) 1168

Huh? Where are your citation links? That is a portion of the each bill that makes 2 bills look the same. They aren't the same if one has to interpret from the whole bill.

RFRA -- http://www.prop1.org/rainbow/r... -- under section 3 EXCEPTION (b)

IRFRA -- https://www.documentcloud.org/... -- under section 8

Comment Re:Modular design... (Score 1) 74

TFS says nothing about contracts, and this is slashdot so you have to assume that people will not RTFA. I blame the summary.

From TFA:

BRG is suing Facebook for theft of trade secrets and breach of contract, among other things, and asks for a jury trial. It’s seeking unspecified financial damages and an injunction to stop anyone using its technique.

It didn't say about signing, but BRG claims that they have established a contract with FB. It could be paper/verbal contract. Who knows at this point?

Comment Re:Cookie authenticated or open WiFi is insecure? (Score 2) 40

Isn't it sort of obvious that hotel networks are a free-for-all security wise?

Of course, it is obvious. If we ponder a little bit further, we would know that the main purpose of hotel is for temporarly stay, not Internet services. So can't expect the latter service quality to be secured. ;)

Comment Re: Great idea... (Score 1) 160

You do realize that by "for free" you really mean "included in your rent, which you still pay for," right?

It depends. If you could find a rental which is cheaper but you have to pay your own electric/gas for the heater, the cost could end up more expensive than the one with "for free." The landlord just help controling your spending. =))

Comment Re:Buy american only. (Score 3, Insightful) 108

Most of that information is only valuable if it's applied.

How expensive and difficult is it to apply in the USA vs China?

IBM can keep it in the USA, where it with whither in an atmosphere of economic stagnation, or sell it to China, a nation that will take it and use it in industry.

You are too optimistic about the situation. History has been shown how things go. Also, you are short sighted about the cost applied. You underestimate and assume that Chinese are too stupid to gain values from the information (or too stupid to reverse engineer) without USA? Have you ever thought of the situation could be reversed in, let say, 10 or 15 years?

Look at Trepidity post. His post nailed it. This is just for the current CEO who wants get credit right now. When shit hits the fan, the CEO is no where near by and the one in place takes all the blames.

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