Comment Re:I'm all for it... (Score 1) 917
How about that Anonymous Coward guy who posts on here all the time? Somehow he doesn't even have a UID!
Comment Re:Dark Tan? (Score 1) 964
Then why did they keep the Asian guy, and the black hands?
Comment Re:Dark Tan? (Score 1) 964
Only took them about 8-10 hours after it was caught and posted on Fark and /b/. I guess that's not bad.
Submission + - Ex-Pirate Bay ISP Sabotaged, Calls In Police (torrentfreak.com)
kristinuk21 writes: The ISP that supplied much of The Pirate Bay's bandwidth before cutting them off yesterday, is reporting that it has been sabotaged. Calling in experts and the police, Black Internet says the attack on them is intentional and has caused substantial damage.
Submission + - Company laptop, my data: can they co-exist?
An anonymous reader writes: I recently replaced my old laptop. The owner of my company heard about this and offered to reimburse me for it since he knows I have and will continue to do company work on my own hardware. I'd like the extra $1,250, but I think if I accept his offer that legally he has the right to any data on it (personal emails, files, blog posts, etc.) Even if I decide to put my personal stuff on a 2nd drive that even using what is now company property to save and write to separate storage still gives the company the right to it. The apps (Office, etc.) are my own licenses. We do NOT have a policy of intellectual property developed on company assets to belong to the company, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be argued if I figured out the One Great Internet Business Idea or write the Great American Novel and used the company laptop to produce it that the company now owns it. Unlikely, but scary. How many Slashdotters have been in this situation and what agreement did you and your management come up with?
Submission + - Global warming to be put on trial (latimes.com)
Mr_Blank writes: The L.A. Times reports: The nation's largest business lobby wants to put the science of global warming on trial. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific evidence for man-made climate change. Chamber officials say it would be "the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century" — complete with witnesses, cross-examinations and a judge who would rule, essentially, on whether humans are warming the planet to dangerous effect.
Comment Re:Astroturf... (Score 4, Insightful) 217
It happens to everything from hotels to restaurants to ISP's. Why not for the App Store?
Comment Re:Who is running Nielsen anyway, Leslie? (Score 1) 248
I'd love to know what percentage of people use them that way. Most people I know either don't have a DVR, or use it only for pause/rewinding purposes. Slashdot isn't the best way to gauge national demographics on this sort of thing; many of the DVR owners I know only use it so they don't miss any of a football game, or so they can rewind great plays. Think there's that many football-watching /. users?
Comment Re:Who is running Nielsen anyway, Leslie? (Score 1) 248
Even with a DVR I usually let the ads play while I use the bathroom or run to the kitchen for a beer. The advantage is that if I miss a few minutes from getting distracted, I can rewind back to the end of the ads. It's not worth the hassle of skipping them just to pause the show later.
Comment It is Poland (Score 1) 1
They seem okay to keep his black hand, and the error in the window frame anyway.
Comment Re:Who is running Nielsen anyway, Leslie? (Score 1) 248
You may want to talk to my parents, who don't have a DVR, but still use their VCR to catch shows they miss. They also don't sit in the room and watch ads typically, but rather run to the kitchen to grab another cup of coffee or something similar. Assuming every viewer sits and watches every ad has never been part of the equation, you just increase odds of someone seeing/hearing the ad with more viewers.
Comment Re:Who is running Nielsen anyway, Leslie? (Score 1) 248
Maybe I'm a rarity, but I usually don't bother fast forwarding ads unless I'm in a hurry or watching something live and had to pause it. Otherwise I just let it run, since I'm typically doing other things (like reading /. or other sites) while watching TV. It may not be what advertisers intend, but it's the same idea as my parents who without a DVR wander off from the TV during ads as well.
Submission + - Microsoft Poland photoshops black guy to white one (microsoft.com) 1
wanted writes: "If you look at Microsoft's Poland business solutions website you will probably not notice anything wrong with the main picture. However, when you compare it with the original English version, it clearly shows that someone decided showing black people in Poland is not going to be that convincing to business. They just photoshopped the head of the black guy with a white one, in an amateur style leaving his hand unchanged.
There's also a mirror just in case."
Comment Re:already (Score 1) 863
The nice bonus of these things, at least in Portland, is you're allowed to pay once and use the same sticker for multiple stops. If you have to stop 3 or 4 different places downtown it's convenient to only have to pay once for as long as you'll need to achieve all three tasks, and not need to dig up change for each stop or throw away unused time at each meter.
When they don't work, it's a pain, but the old style meters I had to deal with in San Diego didn't work frequently, and I had to get back in my car and move it to avoid a ticket. (Yes, I know they're not supposed to, but how am I supposed to prove the meter was broken?)
Comment Re:If current trends continue... (Score 1) 107
You can already get a case cover in pink.
