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  1. Re:Not the best idea on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 1

    I have a bunch of issues with that article, the first "source" has att+t has client, not Verizon.

    The signal strength tests? how were they measured? using a specific signal strength device, or the cell phones? (hint: cell phones LIE very badly about your actual signal strength)

    there is no actual evidence or data, just so and so said so it must be true...

  2. Re:I'm so glad I bought a Droid on "Nexus One" Is Google's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    For the past 6 years or so I've been getting contracts w/o a phone (I buy new phones from private sellers who've gotten phones they don't want with their contracts) and my rates are about half of what they would be if I had gotten plans with a phone.

    Unless you're dissatisfied with your carrier for some other reason, why not mention the name and the method you used to get the deal?

    Shush this is the internet, proof is for the weak...

  3. Re:I for one... on LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and 10 times that number of respected scientists thought the world would end if we broke the sound barrier too...

  4. Re:How do I choose? on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    Neat! is it a feature you need to turn on? Mine doesn't do that. (I have a i760 wm6.1 also)

  5. Re:Power Steering failure? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    This is an electric vehicle. I'd imagine it'd be like having the battery in your RC car die: Steering will be the last thing to go.

    There should also be enough time for you to pull over when you start to lose power.

    Except when we use the speed controller to power the steering servo off the main battery... :( (this saves the weight of a separate radio battery)

    Not that I did that on my old Koysho Ultima or anything... only crashed it a couple times...

  6. Re:Why I chose Apple for my dev laptop on Best Developer's Laptop? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    used? second hand with 12 inch screen maybe...

    those called "netbooks" and dell sells them for 299$

  7. Re:Not like we didn't know this was coming... on Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs · · Score: 1

    Here a link to a related story about suing Google. Interestingly, I actually got the link by Googling "stupid skank got google to release user information court case". Man, I really love Google sometimes.

    Thank you kind sir, as I sit here on Labor Day working. Your post made my day :)

  8. Re:works great at first... on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 1

    If the house settles enough to damage the pipe you have MUCH bigger problems

  9. Re:Not a great idea = Copper in Concrete on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's not like they've been using copper pipes run through concrete for oil lines or anything... for like 80 years...

    reality is the copper would be fine for probably 30-40+ years.

    not that I think it's a good idea, mainly because you can't ever move your desk.

  10. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you definitely want it to return the same data every time. Basically, just take a folder and name it "seti raw data" or something, most of the files would be just garbage data files, place your important files in among them, encrypt all the files. When you enter the "correct" key your files appear, when you enter the "fake" key all the files just look like random data files.

  11. Re:GTC are cheaper on EVE Online's Fight Against Currency Farmers · · Score: 1

    plus you get into the time verse occurrences... For instance WoW only has a downtime once a week but its 5-8 hours normally...

     

  12. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    why even do that? the decrypt program wouldn't need to destroy the data, in-fact that may be illegal itself, it just needs return garbage or "fake" data.

  13. Re:Locking the machine on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    of course any smart fence these days, probably will spend at least a little time trying to get into a laptop.

    A stolen netbook/laptop is probably only worth a 100-200 dollars...

    There's enough stupid users out there that access to bank account/credit cards/ etc. could be worth 5 times that much..

    So yes at some point during the "re-distribution" process I bet someone is going to try and access the laptop...

  14. Re:Whole Disk Encryption on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    and he specifically stated he works on stuff without net access sometimes...

    p.s. you do know cell phones and by extension "netbooks" don't work well in most buildings? right?

  15. Re:earth-shattering kaboom on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    It's the only way to be sure...

  16. Re:That's a lot of patches on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    the circle is complete, now Linux users bash each other based on the version installed.

    There may be help for Linux to compete with Windows or Macs yet!

  17. Re:Call a tow truck on Spirit Stuck In Soft Soil On Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    This always baffled me. Bread, ok. But WHY would you buy milk when there could be severe weather. If you're trapped in your house, your power will likely go out, and now you have a new gallon of spoiled milk.

    yeah it's not like its COLD outside or anything...

  18. Re:Metered Service on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that's not allowed here

  19. Re:Terrible summary on Phorm "Edited and Approved" UK Government Advice · · Score: 1

    Just look for that Van driving down the road checking to see if you own a TV set...

  20. Re:Wait, what?! on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 1

    it must have been a DK...

    there so OP!

  21. Re:Can Help? on New Mega-Botnet Discovered · · Score: 0, Troll

    [quote]This is true in windows too. Remember Storm? It was created with simple .exe files, not any exploits. I believe they just mass emailed 'greetingcard.exe.' Grandma ran it. [/quote]

    wish i had mod points..
    This a thousand times over.

    Windows is MUCH less secure then Linux. But if you had 100,000 grandma's opening a self-installing virus on Linux, you'd be reading about how Linux had a 99,999 user BOTNET (the last Grandma couldn't figure out how to click "yes" to the install as root question)

  22. Re:Seems is all there is. on Game Retailers Hurting Themselves With Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    That's because they have agreements with the retailers...

    within 5 years it'll be gone and so will most game stores. Physical distribution is the way of the past it's already dead, publisher just haven't figured it out yet...

  23. Re:Gold selling is a good idea on Game Developers On Gold Selling · · Score: 1

    But gold doesn't get you everything you want, even now. MMO's almost never let you just buy the best items from gear.

    Last few months of TBC top raiding guilds were selling run. Pay your gold, put someone on follow for 3 hours, get your gear...

  24. Re:My 3 guesses on Pro Video Game Leagues — Another Economic Casualty · · Score: 1

    WoW is up to 14+ gb rith now I think

  25. Re:This is gonna cause mass hysteria.. on Diagnose Conficker With Web-Based Eye Chart · · Score: 1

    I think it's already there... I got it to actually load 1 out of 6 trys