Ben S’s Comments

• Jan 16th, 2013 @ 7:40am

  lol Wired

  on Didn't We Already Do This? Press Relies On Questionable Stats To Claim Instagram Lost Half Its Users
  Tried posting a link to this on the comments of that UK Wired article, but their moderators never approved it. I wonder why? ;)
• Oct 18th, 2012 @ 8:44am

  Not good enough

  on Ubuntu Users To Get To Vote With Their Wallets In Support Of New Features
  Not good enough. Would like to see kickstarter-style fundraising for individual bugs on launchpad, with Canonical giving at least half of the proceeds to whoever manages to fix the bug.
  
  There are a number of Ubuntu bug reports that I follow with little hope of ever seeing fixed, and this new fundraising scheme is not going to help their chances in any way.
• Sep 27th, 2012 @ 11:03am

  Re: Quit Claim Deed

  on What's Wrong With Just Competing In The Market? Zillow Sues Trulia For Patent Infringement
  Rachel,
  
  Thanks for at least reaching out, but I'm confused:
  
  If I need to send email to some hidden address, then what is the point of the flag button next to the erroneous entry on my house's Zillow page that is supposedly for submitting corrections?
  
  My wife and I have each used that flag icon to submit corrections several times or the past 1-2 years, and Zillow has ignored it.
• Sep 26th, 2012 @ 9:28am

  Screw Zillow

  on What's Wrong With Just Competing In The Market? Zillow Sues Trulia For Patent Infringement
  I hope Zillow burns. They incorrectly list my mom's quit claimed off the title of my first house as a low-price sale. This led prospective renters to think that we were asking for too much in monthly rent when we put it on the rental market this summer.
  
  Trulia seems to know the difference and does not show the quit claim in the sale history.
• Aug 16th, 2012 @ 2:59pm

  What about Sweden?

  on US, UK Betray Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost
  Why is Sweden not also implicated in the article title?
  
  Or are you saying that Sweden has no Basic Values to betray?
• Oct 13th, 2011 @ 5:10pm

  Re: Fail

  on Does Google Have What It Takes To Be A Platform, Rather Than A Product, Company?
  My thoughts exactly, except I noticed this years ago with poor integration of contacts in Gmail.
• Oct 12th, 2011 @ 12:28pm

  Re: Re: What else can we sue about that lies to us?

  on Woman Sues Over Misleading Movie Trailer; Wants To Make It A Class Action
  Wow. I worked at Taco Bell for a year after college, and they only put 1/3 to 1/2 as much meat in their tacos as depicted, using a special scoop for portion control. They also don't put any more cheese on top than what is fully in view in the picture.
  
  The taco on the left is therefore clearly false advertising, unless it's actually legal to pile all of the meat and cheese on one half of a taco in advertisements but not in the actual product.
• Mar 9th, 2011 @ 2:16pm

  Re: Re: Other Mints (as Ben S.)

  on GAO Suggests It's Time To Ditch Dollar Bills For Coins
  4 coins? I must be missing something: 97 = 50 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 2
• Apr 13th, 2010 @ 5:59pm

  Re: Re: Box office sets the pace

  on What Is So Special About A Movie's Theatrical Release?
  That's probably true, but it doesn't mean that Hollywood realizes it yet (much less acts on it). Things are changing so fast that big media producers are trying desperately to cling to every one of their distribution channels because they don't know which ones are going to dry up sooner or more quickly.
• Apr 13th, 2010 @ 4:38pm

  you're not thinking paranoid enough

  on What Is So Special About A Movie's Theatrical Release?
  You guys aren't thinking cynically/paranoid enough. Clearly box office sales hype is a marketing tool used to boost DVD sales. There are a lot of people that don't bother going to the box office but that still look at how well a movie did there when deciding whether to buy it on DVD.