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Comment It creates invisibility! Psych! (Score 1) 96

Wow, this is sensationalist titling on par with Digg or Reddit. Title: New Earth 2.0 found 2 miles outside Earth's atmosphere! Body: No not really. What we meant to say is that a planet approximately the size of the earth with no possibility of hosting human life was found far beyond the Sloan Great Wall. Same thing, different story.

Comment Re:Judge should make Apple stop dicking around (Score 1) 189

This is bad parenting and you should feel bad.

Getting into a pissing match with your child is only going to make them escalate every challenge you present until the value of the resources you're taking away exceeds the value of winning the argument.

In the end regulation of the resources you're taking away from your child will create enough work that you won't bother and your child will win the argument by default. Then you'll lose subsequent arguments because you have no power with them.

The same applies to corporations. If you set a marker for escalation of the argument the corporation will continue to do bad things only up to the level at which they have learned they will be punished to a degree that their profit margin is impacted enough to cause a shareholder uprising, which means they will continue to do wrong in metered fashion.
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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is it morally/ethically wrong to ask people to "like" a product? 1

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: Many of the tech blogs I read will sometimes feature a sweepstakes where you can win an iPad, an Android tablet or some other toy or gadget by "liking" them on Facebook or otherwise promoting them in a way that you normally would not do if you weren't trying to win something. Is it morally or ethically wrong for those people to do so? If you're clicking a button that indicates you like something but you really don't care for it, are you lying for personal gain? If so, is the company behind the sweepstakes asking you to lie to promote their product?

Comment I'm kind of over incremental upgrades (Score 1) 341

I don't really need to see TV in any higher resolution. Really it's just an incremental spec bump so Sony can release a new TV that everyone is supposed to buy, then they can release a new media standard which everyone is supposed to buy, then Sony makes a gobfuck of money and I die a little bit more inside.

Comment Netfli-- (Score 1) 479

The problem I have with Netflix is that nearly every show I want to watch doesn't have all the seasons. I like to watch serial programs, so I get about half or two-thirds through the program and find that the last one or two seasons is missing, so I'm stuck with pirating the last episodes if I want to see the rest of the show.

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