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  • Aug 30, 2019 @ 03:39pm

    And we need this why?

    In the IOT there are a lot of security problems. Now we are supposed to want to have a vacuum that can leak a layout of our house to potential hackers?

    Pretty odd choice of an item to push on the Daily Deal, considering the coverage of IOT problems you provide.

  • Mar 25, 2019 @ 12:07pm

    New Billing Opportunities

    With the name change, the need for new business cards, stationery, vehicle and building signage, and other such items will produce a new way to overcharge the customers.

    Look for the line item appearing near the bottom of your bills in the near future!

  • Feb 26, 2015 @ 06:29am

    Too Sensitive to Release?

    Maybe they are upset because the report shows exactly what they have given us: NOTHING has been compromised by Snowden's revelations, except the people who have been spying on everyone.

  • Aug 29, 2011 @ 12:56pm

    Who has the ethical problem?

    The ACs who are proponents of the law remind me of the Congress Critters who go for the "Family Values" platform while screwing around themselves.

    I believe that if you want to read something inappropriate into a FB Friendship, it is very possible. One can read something inappropriate into Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Little Women, and Peter Pan.

    I think the scandal is all in the minds of those who would act inappropriately if they had a chance, and rather than allowing other people to figure that out, they go on the offense to deflect scrutiny of their own perverted little minds.

    They will also be the ones making personal attacks against me in 3....2....1...

  • Apr 18, 2011 @ 09:37am

    Re: Interpret the Law?

    Righthaven is simply showing their disdain for activist judges who legislate from the bench. The proper ways to legislate are to 1) Buy the lawmakers or 2) Have the lawyers make it up as they go along and keep fighting until they persevere somewhere.

    Seems to work for the MafIAAs, so why not?

  • Jun 25, 2008 @ 05:44pm

    Re: stupid NY times

    Try visiting http://www.bugmenot.com/ for logins that will get you into a LOT of registration sites.

  • Jul 28, 2007 @ 05:47am

    Re: Why?

    The proximity to Crawford.

  • Apr 23, 2007 @ 04:08pm

    Re: Commercial Free

    EWWWWW! They not only got rid of the commercials, they switched to a rock and country format.

    What a rip off - now Willie Nelson is their "spokesperson", and the format change sucks!

  • Dec 15, 2006 @ 03:55pm

    Re: uhm...

    For long term investing, the buy and hold idea makes sense. But there is a lot of money to be made by buying and selling stocks several times a day, if the timing is right.

    If you buy a stock as it starts to go up and sell it just before the price peaks, then you can make money. If you short (sell) a stock you can do the same thing in the other direction.

    The problem, as mentioned, is that the timing to grab the stock at the price you want - and reverse the position when you want - is very limited and a few seconds can be the difference between making a lot of money or losing even more.

    Most of these kinds of trades are done automatically, rather than by someone sitting at a keyboard, in order to take advantage of the speed that the computer can "decide" when to buy and sell. It is not for the average trader!

  • Dec 11, 2006 @ 04:21pm

    When I was a boy...

    ...there was a guy who would buy huge blocks of ad time and sell them to local advertisers in smaller blocks. He got a discount on the ad rate and passed along some of that to the advertiser - they paid less for a 30 second spot through him than they would if they went directly to the station. Part of the way he made his money was to be the face / voice of the advertiser, and his rates were less than the station's production costs because, again, he bought major amounts of time in the studio and passed some of the savings along.

    The only problem with him was that he thought he was a lot better at TV and radio than he was, and after a few years he couldn't get any advertisers to go with him since he had become a laughingstock in the area.

    Maybe this is part of Google's strategy for making money, and unless they use Jess DuBoy (legally changed from DuBois so people would know how to pronounce it), they may have a winner!