Yup, at my Uni, and at any other SUNYs, the police are actual police.

For that matter back when I was in HS I seem to remember some changed messages on the NYC subway because some of the signs were programmed via infrared with no protection (and the port left uncovered), and you could reprogram them with a palm pilot or laptop with an IR port.

There is a big difference between "will void the warranty" and "not allowed".

/there's a reason that one of my "work on my car" shirts says "I void warranties" on it

Well, first of all, MS and Dell both have major presences in a lot of movies and TV, big and small, from Marvel through the new Tomorrow People. Second Apple logos are often blocked out *because* they didn't license, they just used the product because it was aesthetically pleasing. Third there are whole movies devoted to basically being car company product placement. The Need for Speed movie was basically a dressed up Ford ad.

But lastly, Coke is easily the most placed product. It's everywhere

Because if it tasted like Chicken I see a much better economic investment in a future Jurassic Park than as a tourist trap!

Interesting to think about actually. Using your 2 examples I would bet that MS has a much larger Janitorial and Maintenance/Physical plant staff directly on the payroll, many of whom likely make less than the average Starbucks employee

Bear in mind that investment banks and savings banks used to have huge firewalls between them, so that the one you find useful wasn't the one taking huge risks (it is, or was, also the smaller banks that typically extend credit to local businesses, not the huge investment banks)

AMD dammit, AMD ::sigh::

It comes with Linus? Is there a super efficient NVIDIA invented process that bundles a small piece of him on die in place of a core in every chip?

The beta sinkhole swallowed 8 ACs first, however one was a rare GNAA troll and due to it's recent scarcity slashdot is allowing their removal. The sinkhole is remarkable in that it has left the surrounding stories intact while decimating comments, although that assessment may change according to Soulskill

It is a good place to observe things like pack dynamics for one thing, in an easily controlled, relatively closed but still natural environment. The same with the pred/prey dynamics. Just because not everything observed is generalizable doesn't mean none of the data are.

I feel like there could be designed an app for a lot of that that would automate it easily, maybe even integrate with something like hopstop

You can still see how many times it's been modded, just click on the score and it'll give you the breakdown

Actually I seem to get them every other week almost now, actually been surprised with the frequency... odd, that

The reason for the attribution to malice, I think, is a general distrust of Dice as a newcomer to /. ownership (a worry they may not get the culture and may just want the brand) combined with the sweeping nature of the changes and the general experience a lot have in the tech industry with the all the former directly preceding the destruction of something great. People are worried that a place that really has been a haven for intelligent and technical discussion as well as one for geeks in general is being threatened. We view the place as ours more so than most sites any here comment on, and that's because slashdot's nature is and always has been different - and so, when it's threatened, people lash out. You need to rebuild trust with the users, need to show that Dice *can* be trusted to respond to the users, or they will lose the most valuable asset of slashdot - it's hordes. The brand is valuable to be sure, but this is a crowd that will make sure that that brand is burned before they allow it to be turned generic, as, I think, the recent spate of comments showed.

I, and I'm sure many here, do appreciate your taking the time to respond and consider, but I also think to actually win some trust the beta has to be slowed, and has to become more in line with what the users expect from /., not any old website.

(and I just sacrificed the 10 or so mod points I spent in this thread to post this)