Comment Capsaicin does not forgive (Score 2, Funny) 1032
and the next time a cable tech rubs his brow...
"OH GAWD MY EYE"
Comment Re:Cats kill rats just fine (Score 1) 1032
Finding a mouser at the humane society is complicated by some of them refusing to let you have a cat if you just want it for a mousetrap.
Remind me again why humans domesticated them?
FTC Kills Dirty Online Check Processing Outfit 82
coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission today got a US District Court to stop permanently what it called the illegal operations of an Internet-based check creation and delivery service, and to require the group to give up over half a million dollars in ill-gotten gains. According to the FTC, Qchex.com created and sent checks drawn on any bank account that a Qchex user identified, but did not verify whether the user had authority to draw checks on that account. As a result, fraudsters worldwide used the Qchex service to draw thousands of checks on bank accounts that belonged to unwitting third parties. 'The evidence shows that the launch of Qchex.com was a "dinner bell" for fraudsters and resulted in a high number of accounts frozen for fraud...' said District Court Judge Janis Sammartino."
Comment Re:Bicycles what? (Score 1) 100
Funny you should mention Nokia, aren't they rewriting your privacy laws at the moment?
Comment saved (Score 1) 1044
clipped and quoted. mod parent +2 awesome.
Comment Re:Has there been a backlash? (Score 1) 369
True that an outright deception would bite them, but hype and adjective-littered gushing hardly seem to have done so. They still move *plenty* of books. (myself included, it's still cheaper than a college bookstore on average.) Even the mighty Newegg allows noncustomer reviews. (thankfully, they also allow you to filter them out.)
Comment Re:Has there been a backlash? (Score 2, Insightful) 369
Why would they do that? Amazon themselves don't really suffer from false positives. (and remember, years ago they accidentally disclosed the editorial reviews' authors: 50% shills or publishers.)
Positive reviews move product. If anything, they have a real incentive to screen or discourage negative reviews.
Comment Re:On the contrary (Score 1) 197
but do you have the resources to prove it in court?
Comment Re:Sorry Motorola (Score 0, Troll) 353
Cost of living varies wildly in the US, in proportion with population density. I fucking dare you to try living on 12k in a city. (which would largely remove your ability to farm, due to land / space constraints.) without going into the debt trap, that is.
Trick or Treatment
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brothke writes "The recent collapse of financial companies occurred in part because their operations were
run like a black box. For
many years, alternative medicine has similarly operated in the shadows with
its own set of black boxes. In Trick or Treatment: The
Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine, Simon Singh and
Edzard Ernst, MD, break open that box, and show with devastating clarity and
accuracy, that the box is for the most part empty." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.
Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? 983
Cyberhwk writes "I have a system with Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) installed on it, and it has 4GB of RAM. However when I've been watching system performance, my system seems to divide the work between the physical RAM and the virtual memory, so I have 2GB of data in the virtual memory and another 2GB in the physical memory. Is there a reason why my system should even be using the virtual memory anymore? I would think the computer would run better if it based everything off of RAM instead of virtual memory. Any thoughts on this matter or could you explain why the system is acting this way?"
Farmer Builds Robot Army
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46-year-old Wu Yulu has only a basic school education but has managed to build himself 26 robots from scrap materials over the past 30 years. At first his creations were simple and could barely shuffle along by themselves. The robots got more complex as time passed, and eventually he built ones capable of climbing walls, serving water, lighting cigarettes, playing musical instruments and writing calligraphy. "When I was 11, one day I was sitting on the doorstep, and while watching villagers passing by I suddenly came up with the idea of building a machine that walks like a man," he told the Beijing Times.
Comment :D (Score 1) 340
in b4 Wall Street / CDOs.
