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LouCypher shared an item on Google Reader
March 25, 2010 8:05 AM - Sign in to comment - Link
A loathsome computer scam crippled my laptop, and I wanted revenge.

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March 21, 2010 7:43 AM - Sign in to comment - Link
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February 26, 2010 9:28 AM - Sign in to comment - Link
Over the years, we've seen plenty of people get mad and sue Google over getting either dropped from Google's index, or simply ranked really low on certain searches. And, of course, for some there are always totally unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Google purposely "punishing" a company or individual it doesn't like. To date, however, there's been no evidence at all that Google acts in such a capricious manner when it comes to rankings. If the company did so, and it ever came out, the hit to Google's reputation would be something fierce. It's even more ridiculous when you consider that all of the accusations of such personal attacks seem to come from tiny companies -- hardly any kind of threat to Google, anyway.

That said, if you want even more evidence that Google's ranking decisions aren't personal, but actually are based on what its system feels will give the best possible results, witness the story of Google employee Jason Morrison, who recently discovered that his own personal site had be delisted from Google. It actually took him a few weeks to notice this, but once he did, and dug into the issue (using Google's public tool and his own site's admin tools) he quickly realized that he had made a mistake that caused Google's crawlers to believe that his site was no longer up.

Now, that certainly doesn't preclude the possibility that Google takes revenge on sites it doesn't like, but it's at least more evidence that the ranking system really is pretty algorithmically focused -- and even Google employees aren't immune to being delisted for screwing up. If your site gets delisted from Google, it's not personal.

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February 20, 2010 2:24 PM - Sign in to comment - Link

There's a lot of hostility swirling around Foxconn these days. First, Foxconn security dudes assaulted a photograph-snapping reporterin China. Now there's a report that workers at a Mexican Foxconn factory burned the joint down after being forced to work overtime.

Apparently at the end of the work day on Friday, supervisors at the Foxconn factory in Juarez, Mexico weren't quite ready to wrap up for the weekend, so they told the workers that the transportation trucks that take them home everyday were being held up at a military checkpoint. In the meantime, the workers were forced to keep toiling away without any extra compensation.

Well, that bit about the military checkpoint wasn't entirely true, and when the workers found out that the trucks were just being blocked-in in the parking lot, they expressed their anger by burning down the factory's gymnasium, the area of the building in which the factory's finished computers and cell phones are stored.

This reportedly isn't the first time the slimy managers at the Juarez plant had tried to strong arm their employees into staying overtime without extra pay, so the explosive reaction is not entirely surprising. Sometimes you just gotta fight fire with arson. [El Norte (sub. required) - Thanks Wilibaldo]



Foxconn Workers Don't Get Mad, They Get Even (By Burning Their Factory Down) [Revenge]

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February 19, 2010 5:26 PM - Sign in to comment - Link

"without any effort to engage social media, without any kind of 24/7 pop cultural presence, Sade released a new album, Soldier of Love, her first in 10 years, and it sold 502,000 copies in its first week. The band's last album, Lovers Rock, sold 370,000 copies in its first week in 2000. The fact that album sales in general have declined 50 percent since then makes Sade's feat all the more striking. At a time when music futurists are insisting that success involves engaging true fans, Sade has come along with an army of casual fans and has reaffirmed, at least for a passing moment, the power and possibility of large-scale appeal."

- Miguel Caetano

Huh. The album was first announced on Facebook. The single debuted on the official website. The promotional machine is Sony's. I'm not saying the article doesn't say some truths, but it's also not all "old times' release" as the article tries to make you believe.

- Marcos Marado
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February 15, 2010 1:18 PM - Sign in to comment - Link

"Wow, you certainly seem very proud of having the emotional maturity of a three year old. It takes a *lot* of work to make me sympathetic to a cheater, but you actually managed to convince me that she's better off without you by the end of that tale. Well done."

- Avdi Grimm
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