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  • On the post: Cash4Gold Sues Consumerist, Complaints Board Over Reports On Cash4Gold Practices

    brent ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2009 @ 08:10am

    Re: The quality of Techdirt "news" is severly plummeting

    aren't you missing the point of the entire blog post?? Mike isn't saying it is a scam or it isnt. he isnt telling anyone to use the service or not.

    He's merely pointing out that Cash4Gold is drawing more attention to it's bad PR by choosing to file suits over it rather than to just explain it on its own website and leave it at that.

  • On the post: NFL: Refs Banned From Using All Social Media; Press Can't Live Tweet

    brent ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2009 @ 02:10pm

    Re: Something worth striking over

    i completely agree with you on that one. They are the only ones who can do something about this, but if they dont play they wont get paid and i dont think they will want to go without pay. If the refs were to strike the NFL would find refs who wouldnt strike. People arent going to stop watching football so us normals out here can't really make any difference on this.

  • On the post: Lori Drew Case Officially Dropped

    brent ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2009 @ 10:44am

    Re: Re:

    I think what she did was wrong!

  • On the post: Can You Copyright Homework Titles?

    brent ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2009 @ 11:42am

    Re:

    while i completely understand and agree with you on this richard, i just wanted to play devils advocate. So say a student does use getacoder. Now hasn't he paid for that work? so wouldn't that work be his. as in he owns it. So if he owns it then he might as well turn it in. Don't some professors take the work of their understudies as their own?

  • On the post: Time For IT Guys To Unshackle Corporate Computers

    brent ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2009 @ 06:51am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    wow read that again and realized i need to put on a new nicotine patch

  • On the post: Time For IT Guys To Unshackle Corporate Computers

    brent ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2009 @ 06:46am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    IT...i laugh at IT people, wannabe execs trying to make sure that they're precious network is secure along with everything else on it. please....whenever i get a new machine from IT i always have to figure a way around the rules so that i can perform my job correctly without going through all the procedures an IT department wants me to do to make sure it goes through their system correctly which could take months. Hell last time i tried to do something with IT correctly it took 2 years for them to unregister a router i was using to test my 802.11 designs from the work network that i had taken down right away. I kept getting emails and phone calls, and of course IT is outsourced so hardly any of them speak engrish, telling me to fill out form so and so which i already had and did again and again. I don't think that router'll ever leave their system.

  • On the post: Fewer Foreigners Coming To US Grad Schools: This Is A Problem

    brent ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2009 @ 10:53am

    Re: Americans are simply naive

    you made me feel better about the future, thanks

  • On the post: Fewer Foreigners Coming To US Grad Schools: This Is A Problem

    brent ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2009 @ 10:45am

    Re: Re: Re:

    that's a ridiculous thing to say. I knew i was going to be an engineering student going into college and was faced with picking Iowa or Iowa State. I definitely chose Iowa because I knew it was a much more fun school to party at. I graduated with an electrical engineering degree and am doing just fine. even people who pick "hard" majors may still want an animal house experience.

  • On the post: Fewer Foreigners Coming To US Grad Schools: This Is A Problem

    brent ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2009 @ 10:40am

    Re: Re:

    it's not about that. Usually the case is that they want to stay here. we certainly dont force them to stay but alot would choose to stay as it wasn't difficult to get a VISA and work here. It's still relatively easy to get an education here but now it's really difficult to get the VISA to stay here to work so many just go elsewhere and use their skills in foreign countries which does not help the US. I will never understand what the reasoning is behind this other than paranoia from 9/11 and what not.

  • On the post: Are Parents Making Facebook Uncool?

    brent ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2009 @ 12:17pm

    Re: Re: Here HERE Anon Coward!

    good story to hear. Not often these days parents step up like that.

  • On the post: Are Parents Making Facebook Uncool?

    brent ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2009 @ 06:52am

    Re:

    i find gmail to be the only permanent thing (i hope) i have on the internet.

    had a aol address...lost that when i cancelled that account
    had a university address...lost that when i graduated
    had a mediacom address...lost that when i switched to DSL

    finally gmail has stayed constant and i wont have to update everything whenever i do switch services. that is what gmail is good for. I dont think it ever "said" something as there were plenty of free emails when that came out (hotmail, yahoo, etc)

  • On the post: Are Parents Making Facebook Uncool?

    brent ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2009 @ 06:47am

    Re: Re: The Arbiter

    i disagree on that sheinen

    i raise mine by 3 things:

    fear
    respect
    love

    now on to the topic: i joined facebook 4 years ago as a soph in college and thought it was great that it was a college only network. After my 13 year old brother in law tried to friend me last week i cancelled my account. It's becoming full of kids now and it isn't what it used to be. could this be the opposite of what Mike might be asking in the article? Now that kids, or teenagers, have the run of the place the older folks (me at 25) are getting out??

  • On the post: If You're Addicted To World Of Warcraft, Why Not Get Therapy For It In The Game?

    brent ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2009 @ 07:31am

    Re: Addiction??

    if you can accept that gambling can be an addiction then i would suggest that it wouldn't be much different than WoW being an addiction.

    I dont think either are much of an addiction, but just a self control issue. But then again, why would we want to hold people responsible for themselves??

  • On the post: Gamer Says Sony Violated His 1st Amendment Rights By Banning Him

    brent ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2009 @ 10:56am

    Re: Reminds me of a song....

    hey thanks, ill have to check that song out as unlike the previous replies i can appreciate country music

  • On the post: Forget Clickthrough EULAs; Are There Really Walkby EULAs For NYC Parks?

    brent ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2009 @ 07:42am

    dont these things already exist in places like ski resorts, ice rinks, baseball fields, football fields. dont those all have some sort of sign that says everyone is responsible for themselves and that whoever owns the place cant be responsible for injury? is this really that different?

  • On the post: EA To Require Internet Connection For Command & Conquer

    brent ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2009 @ 10:08am

    simple to put, i was not planning on buying this game and if the opportunity came up that on a whim i'd want to buy it (for some reason or another), after reading this article i dont think that whim will ever come.

  • On the post: But Who's Doing All That World Of Warcraft Gold Farming While WoW Is Down In China?

    brent ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2009 @ 10:56am

    Re: Vague

    from what i understood of that cracking down was not on chinese gold farmers selling to the US but chinese selling virtual items within the country itself. WoW items would certainly be included in that but i think and im not certain because i dont partake but 2nd life has its own currency and items and properties and that might be under that cracking down as well.

  • On the post: But Who's Doing All That World Of Warcraft Gold Farming While WoW Is Down In China?

    brent ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2009 @ 06:45am

    ok couple things are wrong in this article.

    1. China has it's own WoW servers and the company that was hosting them lost the deal with blizzard so everything is being transferred to another company so that it can host it. That is why wow is down in china.

    2. Chinese farmers who sell gold to players in the US play on US servers and those WoW servers are not down. And I think, i do think that the internet connects the US and china and they are still capable of playing on our US servers with their US clients

    Come on Mike, i expect much better from you!

  • On the post: Because The Mainstream Press Never Copies Stories From Bloggers Without Credit…

    brent ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2009 @ 08:26am

    Re: Because bloggers never write about someone...

    I applaud Mr. Healey for speaking up here on the comments about this and letting the conversation unfold. It takes some balls to start firing back on the internet for all the masses to take shots at him. Especially when some of the folks here can really get mean. Mad props to Jon for responding.

  • On the post: Can Someone Explain How Video Games Are Worse For Kids Than Plain TV?

    brent ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2009 @ 08:26am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Immersion factor

    it's soon to be 100% to 280% with the new patch!

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