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Comment Re:Yes! (Score 1) 681

I also recommend walking in and setting the interviewer's desk and chair on fire. After all you need a way to distinguish yourself from other candidates. If you still aren't sure you'vet made an impression you can poke them in the eye just to be absolutely certain.

I followed your advice. I didn't get hired, but they gave me a great letter of recommendation when I mentioned I had an interview with a competitor of them later that day.

Comment Re:Many fake reviews are easy to spot (Score 1) 197

So suppose I start a company in which manufacturers pay me to give good ratings and write positive reviews of their products and negative reviews of their competitors. Now assume I have around a hundred costumers with very diverse products and I construct a few dozen ids for the important sites like Amazon.

Is it possible to detect this?

The way I see it, this would be only detectable if I would use one or only a few IP-adresses. Or if someone would analyse my writings either manual (time consuming and expensive) or automaticaly (if that's already possible)

And considering I thought this up in a few minutes, how many people are doing this already?

Comment Re:Magnetic fields = bad (Score 1) 187

The idea that all sorts of little children playing video games will endure hours of magnetic field influence on their bodies should scare the Slashdot population. There are numerous cases where magnetic fields emminating from electric lines are blamed for increases in cancer rates, especially amongst children. Exposing children to more magnetic fields is probably a really bad idea.

Ever heard of natural selection? Expose the population to as many magnetic fields as you can power. Then in a decade of 3 everyone left will be immume. It's the same advice I gave to the lead-paint producers and they would still be in business if they had followed it. But hey, PR said that massive deaths would create a negative image for the company. I told them that's what the marketing departement is for, but they wouldn't listen.

Education

Submission + - Learning on the road.

Patrik_AKA_RedX writes: "Since I spend considerable amounts of time on the bus each day, I want to use that time productively. I combine a fulltime dayjob with evening classes, so reclaiming my time on the bus as study time would be very valuable to me.
Using books and binders or a laptop is not very practical, since I don't always have a seat and occationaly busses tend to be quite crowded.
My idea involves using an ebookreader like the Sony Reader, since most of my course notes are electronic. This solves the issue with thick books and large binders. But this still leaves the problem of taking notes.
A paper notebook requires two hands, a voice recorder gets me strange looks and writting on the sides of the bus has the problem of not always having the same bus.

My question is: what do you do to learn on the road? How do you take notes, what experiences do you have with Ebook readers (dedicated devices, PDA or other) in real life situations? Is it practical to use a PDA both as reader and notebook? Do you know of any sites or forums specific about this?"

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