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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Who/what is the /. HOSTS troll and how to get rid of him?

Submitted by globalist
globalist writes: We've all seen his AC posts, we've all known his style, we're all highly annoyed/amused/[insert your reaction here] byt this troll. My question is: Can the admins do anything about curbing this particular mythological creature? Can I do something to NOT have his posts displayed? Does anyone even care? Has anyone ever read even one full post by him? What is this all about? Thanks!

Example post: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3666269&cid=43491809

Comment My own complaint (Score 1) 749

by globalist (#43249511) Attached to: Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio?

"Major recording artists, such as Neil Young and Dave Grohl, lead singer of the band Foo Fighters, have been publicly critical of compressed file formats and the "significant loss" data, and therefore music quality, consumers are suffering..."

I, on the other hand, have been publicly critical of the crappy musical ideas and songs that Mr. Grohl has been churning out over the years since Nirvana has disbanded and, likewise, no-one will listen to me and just keep on buying Poo Fighters music like it's the second coming of Grunge... So go figure. But seriously, the older he gets, the more I feel Grohl he should just shut the hell up. Who's with me?
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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is this a weird business/customer relationship?

Submitted by
tenerbahce
tenerbahce writes: "I work for a U.S. IT company (in fact a global monopoly in the field) offering several products that are said/thought to be essential for our customers daily work, and yet there are prospects who apparently are faring well enough without any of our products for a long time now and also those who have purchased them but are barely using them.

What's worse, we are forced by management to "assess and enforce" the use of our software among the customers who've bought it, thus ensuring contract renewals. What this boils down to is we don't really know whether or not or how exactly for that matter the customers are using our software. And if we happen to find out, we must try and encourage the usage of the product among them as most times it's not so good to begin with. We are literally expected to politely ask our customers why they aren't using the software that they've purchased and then hold their hand while they gracefully appear to admit there truly might be some use to it.

Maybe I should mention that our products are not really that good-looking or intuitive or enticing to many users, it's just that as I said we're a monopoly and it's become a matter of "good manners" to have our product installed on the desktop in the industry circles.

So what we have here is a weird (but maybe not so much so, depending on Slashdot's readers own experiences?) business relationship. Instead of the end user demanding and paying for the privilege of using a truly benefitial piece of software (such as e.g. MS Windows OS, Skype, various security solutions, etc. to name just a few), the business/owner here has to constantly struggle to make a point for the usefulness and validity of their products in the eye of the end user.

My question basically is this — is it so unreasonable to expect a product to somewhat sell itself, especially if the producer is a monopoly? Do you work in similarly weird business/customer relationship? Or this relationship not so weird at all?"

Submission + - "One third of staff more productive working from home" (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward
Qedward writes: An experiment conducted by British telecoms operator O2 has found that 88% of its staff are just as productive working remotely, while one-third claimed that they actually got more work done when they aren’t in the office.

Some 3,000 employees based at O2’s head office in Slough took part in a pilot that required them to work from home for one day, as practice for problems that may occur during the summer’s Olympic Games.

In preparation, O2 upgraded its virtual private network (VPN) as well as its network infrastructure, which saw a 155% increase in users on the day, and a 110% increase in VPN data sent across the network...

Comment Wii fat (Score 1) 304

by globalist (#39174327) Attached to: Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More
About a month ago I finally got me a Wii and, being the impulse buyer I am, I got the Wii Fit Plus bundle that comes in black with a balance board. It was a great deal, but the more I use it the more I realize I should have just got the vanilla Wii and saved some money and a lot of frustration. I did not have any particular expectations from this excercise tool and instead I just kind of relied on Nintendo to not f*ck this up. Well maybe I should have watched a few videos to realize how stupid this whole concept is for somebody like me who does get some normal excercise in his life, as opposed the intended demographic of this failure. I mean is this thing intended for retards who never got off their ass until they bought a Wii? Am I really supposed to spend 5 minutes navigating thru the stupid menus just to get a minute of any excercise, then rinse and repeat? The only real excercise seems to be the jogging but then why not just put on my shoes and go take a jog outside, IRL? What am I missing here? And am I supposed to take the whole 10 minutes of the excruciating body test again just to get my current body weight taken? And am I really supposed to click A every single fricking time a sentence appears on the screen, interrupting any semblance of flow that's left in this game? And how long should I overlook the inaccuracy of the board accessory? And they are using BMI score, really? Seriously, are the Japanese this retarted or are they just too genious because they actually sell this crap to Americans? Is this some WWII revenge in disguise or wh

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