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Shakedowns To Fix Negative Online Reviews 179

Posted by samzenpus from the pay-up dept.
First time accepted submitter unjedai writes "A company is putting horrible reviews of small business online, and then offering to improve the company's reputation and take the reviews off for a fraction of the cost that a real reputation improvement company would charge. Sierra West received a call from a 'reputation improvement company' telling them they had a negative review online and that the company would take the review offline if Sierra West paid $500. 'Of course when someone is offering $500 the day (the bad review) goes up seemed not legitimate.'"

Comment Story doesn't make sense (Score 2) 85

by Xero (#41120271) Attached to: Power Problems Force Seattle To Throttle City Data Center For Days

McGinn had quite a few facts wrong in the press conference. The equipment is working fine now and the overheating only caused a minor amount of downtime. The major issue though was the backup generator never kicked in because as it turns out, the electric starter for the diesel generator is connected to the same bus. Labor Day weekend was then choosen to fix this majorly obvious design deficiency.

Comment Re:Goody (Score 1) 521

by Xero (#29448667) Attached to: ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold

I wouldn't quite call gma500 linux support non-existent. I have a dell mini 10 that includes the gma500 "poulsbo" chip and run ubuntu happily on it. While it didn't work out of the box, with a bit of fussing I got it working to my satisfaction. I can even play fullscreen 720p video on the 1336x768 display. The drivers aren't as polished as other chips but definitely far from non-existent.
Medicine

Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer 283

Posted by samzenpus from the drink-your-way-to-a-better-you dept.
CWmike writes "Ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer's day and thought that it simply couldn't get any better? Well, think again. A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working on helping Joe Six Pack fight aging and cancer with every swill of beer." Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness.
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Apple Admits Nvidia GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pros 89

Posted by Soulskill from the theya-culpa dept.
bigwophh writes "The brouhaha over defective Nvidia mobile graphics chips keeps rolling along, even months after the initial headlines have faded. Despite Nvidia's promises that Apple's GeForce 8600M GT-based MacBook Pros had dodged the bullet and were immune from the defect, Apple now counters that it wasn't, in fact, so lucky. 'In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, Nvidia assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected.' The units in question are the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro notebooks with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT GPUs, built between May 2007 and September 2008."
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Chaos Man

Posted by samzenpus from the nothing-to-see-here dept.
This is not how I thought the Horsemen of the Apocalypse would look.

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