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Comment Re:Souds like a dick move (Score 1) 158

I can imagine anyone would get a bit tired of receiving unrelated support requests after a while, especially when the responsible party won't fix it. It's hard to blame him for trying to at least have some upside in the form of funny replies.

he COULD have suggested things that would harm the users or their computers. That would be a dick move. He could also have suggested things so that the users end up attacking Zynga servers.

Comment Re:meh! (Score 2) 158

That's the initial error (which may or may not have been a corporate fuckup). The corporate fuckup was their inability to route due notification of the problem to the correct people in order to get it fixed or even to acknowledge they had received the notice.

Comment Re:Summary misses a small detail. (Score 1) 117

In the case of a cancer where marrow transplant is curative, there would be no way to be sure, but it will tend to be everywhere.

Note that this is distinct from stem cell rescue where the patient receives a drastic treatment for a non-marrow cancer that would destroy their marrow as a secondary effect. In those cases, they do donate stem cells to themselves.

Comment Re:Enough (Score 1) 147

The manufacturer is Samsung and they have a significant presence in the U.S.

In the theoretical case where the manufacturer chooses to ignore the suit and has no presence in the U.S. the court might bar future imports of the infringing component but innocent 3rd parties would need to be given the opportunity to switch vendors or come to an agreement outside of court. However, they should not be parties to a suit unless/until the courts have found that actual infringement is taking place and 3rd parties should not be at all liable.

Submission + - Companies Turn to Switzerland for Cloud Storage Following NSA Spying Revelation (ibtimes.co.uk)

DavidGilbert99 writes: The NSA spying revelations are having a huge impact on governments across the globe, as well as seeing people becoming more and more worried about their privacy. But a so-far unseen impact is happening in the background. The services which could be affected by NSA spying — such as Dropbox, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure cloud platform — are now seen as unsafe. This however is good news for one company, with Swiss-based ultra-secret hosting company Artmotion recording a 45% rise in revenue since Edward Snowden blew the whistle last month.

Comment Re:Not a troll on the surface. (Score 1) 147

In that case, BU should sue Toyo and Continental. Audi and Honda should not be part of the action (other than perhaps a heads up) at that point. Iff the suits against the manufacturer determine that there is infringement, future imports may be barred by the court but without liability to Audi and Honda.

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Journal Journal: I need a new browser 7

At least until I put Linux on this notebook. FireFox 21.0 is wierding out like IE6 on a lot of sites, including slashdot. I can't even change my sig.

What browser are you using?

Comment Re:Boycott VISA MASTERCARD. Start using BITCOIN. (Score 1) 353

Bitcoin, the first world digital currency exists.

So do paper checks (cheques for you Brits), envelopes, postage stamps, and physical addresses. Back when I had web sites, I paid my Canadian registrar and web host that way. And there's electronic banking as well.

This is just an inconvenience, not a catastrophe. That said, it's one more thing our corporo-governmental overlords have done lately to piss everyone off.

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