Haertchen - Slashdot User

Comment Re:You're missing the point (Score 1) 499

by Haertchen on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @09:17PM (#18090788) Attached to: IT Departments Fear Growing Expertise of Users

I so wish I had mod points and that you could go higher.

This point has been missed by 90% of the posters here on slashdot. The article was well-reasoned and balanced. The response here has been almost exclusively "But we need those controls! Bad, stupid users!"

Of course, an awful lot of them haven't actually read the article...

Google Responds to AdWords Accusations 149

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 08, 2006 @03:43PM from the sorry-should-have-thought-of-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has issued a statement on the Inside AdWords Blog. Based on the thoroughness of the statement and the use of the word 'precedent' in the second sentence, it appears that the Google PR team huddled with the legal team to get their point across." From the post: "Being rather proud of AdWords as a means to effectively advertise one's products or services, it seems natural to use it ourselves. Since it's a common practice across the industry for companies to promote their own products and services through their own web presence, there is much precedent to do this. It's important to note, however, that our ads are created and managed under the exact same guidelines, principles, practices and algorithms as the ads of any other advertiser. Likewise, we use the very same tools and account interface."

Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered 280

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @06:36PM from the met-with-a-neutral-response dept.

ZonkerWilliam writes to mention PhysOrg is reporting that a tiny particle with no charge, called an 'axion' has been discovered. From the article: "The finding caps nearly three decades of research both by Piyare Jain, Ph.D., UB professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and lead investigator on the research, who works independently -- an anomaly in the field -- and by large groups of well-funded physicists who have, for three decades, unsuccessfully sought the recreation and detection of axions in the laboratory, using high-energy particle accelerators."

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