Comment: Re:What sort of guarantee backs up the 20 year lif (Score 1) 743
Same. $3 per year is reasonable to save on energy costs. Unfortunately my "7-year" CFL bulbs died in 1 - 2 years.
Comment: If you want to get nitpicky... (Score 1) 663
Multiple choice questions are invalid. Students select the answer they were predetermined to choose by the big bang.
Comment: Re:distractions are bad (Score 2) 480
Agreed. Distractions are the biggest problem. Stay away from the TV. When work gets tough, even the most boring TV show can be tempting. Stay off of youtube as well.
Comment: Designer's Facial Hair (Score 1) 232
Does the designer of the language have facial hair? No point in learning it if he doesn't. (And if it's a woman and she's not the bearded lady, forget it.) http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/computer-languages-and-facial-hair-take-two.aspx
Comment: Stuxnet (Score 5, Funny) 164
Stuxnet 2.0 bundled free.
Comment: Re:old news (Score 1) 1105
Global warming? I'm still waiting for the ozone hole to kill us. That was supposed to happen almost 12 years ago.
Comment: Re:Thanks for all the Fish Wrapper (Score -1, Offtopic) 1521
Sorry, I missed it. How did you eventually remove the virus?
Comment: Re:I can't fault them for doing so.. (Score 1) 1040
Exactly. To eliminate the trillion dollar deficit with taxes, the average family would have to pay an extra $10,000 every year and there is no guarantee that spending won't simply increase along with the taxes like it has before. The only solution is for the government to live within its means.
Comment: Re:J/MW? (Score 1) 410
More like a measure of inefficiency. Reminds me of the broken glass fallacy
Could Amazon Reviews Be Corrupt?
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adeelarshad82 writes "In the first academic study of its kind, Trevor Pinch, Cornell University professor of sociology and of science and technology studies, independently surveyed 166 of Amazon's top 1,000 reviewers, examining everything from demographics to motives. What he discovered was 85 percent of those surveyed had been approached with free merchandise from authors, agents or publishers. Amazon is encouraging reviewers to receive free products through Amazon Vine, an invitation-only program in which the top 1,000 reviewers are offered a catalog of free products to review. John Dvorak puts up an argument which hints that some of these Amazon reviews may be corrupt."