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Comment Re:Got Poison? (Score 1) 383

"Either a product is good and doesn't need to be spotlighted because it actually has value that people will search and pay for, or a product is bad and it is necessary to lie (story-tell) extensively in order to create demand that would not otherwise be there."

This is a fantasy. People often have to be persuaded to try top-quality products. They also have to be informed that the products exist in the first place. Remember the promotional campaign for the Salk vaccine? Oh no. You don't. You're only 22.

There's still time though. Perhaps you can stop the ads for the human papilloma virus vaccine. That's a good product so it doesn't have to be advertised. We can just wait for women to "search and pay for" it. The ones who don't know about it will have a greater chance of getting genital warts and cervical cancer but that's there problem, right?

What a hateful little turd you are.
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Journal Journal: Couple Gets His and Hers RFID Implants

CTV is reporting that Jennifer Tomblin, 23, of Vancouver, Canada and Amal Graafstra, 29, of Washington state have gotten underskin RFID implants as a 'most modern declaration of their affection for each other.' Graafstra bought the chips from Phidgets USA, although the company 'strongly advise(s) against any such use of the ta

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Journal Journal: Amateur Radio Satellite in Spacesuit Set to Orbit

Later this week SuitSat is scheduled to be tossed over the side of the International Space Station during an EVA. SuitSat is a surplus Russian Orlan spacesuit fitted out with an amateur radio transceiver, a microcontroller and electronics for storing digital voice and video recordings. It was sent up to the ISS in a September cargo mission. The Kenwood TH-K

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Journal Journal: Submission: Women IM Like They Write, Men IM Like They Talk

In a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Naomi Barron of American University reports on some interesting differences in the way male and female college students write instant messages. 'The female IM looks more like a written genre, while the male IM looks more like a spoken genre,' Barron is quoted in a story about her research at

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Journal Journal: Submission: Rent the Computer Cluster That Made Middle Earth

The 1,008-processor cluster of computers used to render The Lord of the Rings movies is now up for rent on a per-processor per-hour basis. According to an article on the BBC site it runs Red Hat 9 and uses 2.8Ghz Xeon processors to perform '2.8 trillion calculations a second' making it the 104th fastest system on earth. In addition to rendering for Van Helsing, I Robot and Peter Jackson's forthcoming remake of King Kong, the syst

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Journal Journal: Submission: Put a Mac Mini in Your Car

The New York Times (bugmenot password required) is reporting on the latest car craze: Installing a Mac Mini into your ride. Melvin Benzaquen, a Sloatsburg, NY based car restoration expert who does automotive Mac Mini installations on the side says 'that his Web site had received more than a million hits on the pictures of its Mac
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Journal Journal: Submission: Forbes List of Top Corporate Hate Web Sites

windowpain writes "You've seen them. Maybe you've made one, like Walmart-blows.com or Paypalsucks.com. Now Forbes.com has a 'Special Report' devoted to what it considers the best of them. 'The following nine sites--there were ten, but one went unexpectedly dark during the editing of this story--are the crème de la crème of online rage. Note that we substantially cleaned up some of the posts, editing out odd capitulation schemes, iffy grammar and plain incoherence. Apparently blindin

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Journal Journal: What's up with Costco.com?

Costco.com has ALWAYS taken forever to load for me.Their tech support says everything is fine and it must be on my end. Huh? I've tried it from computers in two different states: Different routers, different firewalls, different browsers, different ISPs and physical locations 60 miles apart. If anyone reads this, please click on this link:

http://costco.com

and see if it loads quickly. Let me know what happens.

Thanks.

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Journal Journal: Submission: New IM Worms Hit MSN Messenger

I forgot to enter this one here in my journal. It's already been rejected. And I don't see that they accepted anyone else's submission either. I'm surprised. Anyway, the article I quoted is here:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/60407018

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