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Comment: Arbitration Package (Score 2) 147

by colesw (#41996195) Attached to: Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language To Terms of Service
Maybe I'm missing something, since I've never had to go through arbitration (or small claims court). But couldn't a lawyer/firm put together a kit to show you what you needed to do to take these cases to small claims court, or even requesting arbitration? Do companies have a time limit for arbitration? I could only imagine if a law firm did a "class" action style sign up for these kits, and charged people a small amount of money for it (generic kit, couple hours, sell it for like $10 even) that it would cost these companies a large sum of money to respond to all of them.

Comment: Re:Change the assignment (Score 1) 284

by colesw (#41973589) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism?
This is so true, I'm taking some college courses online and I've picked up the solutions manuals for the courses. I'm not using these for the assignments, but I do use it to see what I've done wrong when my teachers provides no feedback. The one "awesome" teacher just attaches a word document for his marks, and this is just a copy and paste from the solutions manual. This is probably the teacher I've hated the most while doing courses online, he'll give you a mark like 5.74 out of 6, and then just the word document with no idea why the one number you got wrong was worth .26 of the assignment.

Comment: Re:Heh, I remember them (Score 1) 110

by colesw (#41549295) Attached to: Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation

I never did understand why someone would trust their computer, with all their pics and docs and private stuff, to some guy halfway across the planet.

And on that note I use to have a co-worker with a strong Indian accent, even though he had lived here in Canada for about 20 years, and he would have people hang up on him because they didn't want to speak to someone in India.

Comment: Re:Difference between adding and subtracting (Score 1) 85

by colesw (#41399065) Attached to: The Rise of Paid Wikipedia Consulting

And who is to say what is an important fact?

Someone interested in geological formations would obviously find those facts important. Someone interested in the wild life of the area could be very interested to know what type of moose your country has while doing a project.

This is the problem with a bias free publication, because just by omitting unimportant facts you are generating bias no matter what you would like the internet to believe.

Comment: Re:Not the TSA (Score 1) 826

by colesw (#41096249) Attached to: Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt
You mean where the TSA passed cleared him through security and then at Delta's insistence had to then re-review him, clear him again (this time with some harassment of course), and then have Delta's pilot throw him off the plane? Clearly sounds like that is ALL the TSA's fault! Neither Delta or the pilot did anything wrong at all!

Comment: Algonquin College (Score 1) 168

by colesw (#40295047) Attached to: Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy
At the moment I've been taking 3-4 classes as part of distance education online (which the college is horrible at). In the 4 semesters I've had so far I've had 5 courses that required a access code, or the book (usually it was cheaper for me to buy used, and then by the access code directly from the publisher).

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