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  1. Re:Cost of billing? on Verizon Wireless To Issue $90 Million In Refunds · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I may say so, thats (jitterbug) a complete rip off, you will much better of with a pay as you go t-mobile prepaid plan. Its $100 buys $1000 minutes thats valid for 1 year. You can top-up when you want to and be billed exactly for the minutes you have used.

  2. Re:The known problem wth asymmetrical DSL on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    If you suffer from this, get a bt client (any decent and recent one) that can automatically throttle down upload speed, so that you still have enough b/w for acks and other control traffic that help with your downloads.

    And dont forget to set your max peers, max connections appropriately.

  3. Re:19 miles isn't "space" on Brooklyn Father And Son Launch Homemade Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Look closer, its the blue (actually sky blue) coloured thing in the sky.

  4. Re:Yawn... on Masterpieces Online — High Culture At High Resolution · · Score: 1

    +1! I would mod you up, if I had not posted else where.

  5. Re:Links to the actual images... on Masterpieces Online — High Culture At High Resolution · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mmm looks like you could open one of the above links and navigate to other images within the flash app.

  6. Links to the actual images... on Masterpieces Online — High Culture At High Resolution · · Score: 4, Informative
  7. Re:What a load a crap on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    Do read the last link in TFS. They compress to the same image size and still WebP performs better. I for one would prefer a better compression algorithm that includes more detail for the same image size (Even if it is a 2MB file, I would prefer WebP to JPEG). Buts thats just me.
     

  8. Re:For those like me who don't know what ACS:Law i on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 3, Informative

    British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law

    Mmm, I read it as British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off [Ties with/Cooperation with] ACS:Law. Now that I have RTFAed, it seems they actually did mean it both literally (cut access to the website) and figuratively (cooperation with ACS:Law).

  9. Re:For those like me who don't know what ACS:Law i on British ISP Sky Broadband Cuts Off ACS:Law · · Score: 4, Informative

    A small correction. Their homepage is http://www.acs-law.org.uk/ . Anyway they seem to have been slashdotted (and 4channed probably), so it doesnt matter what their website is.

  10. Re:the last time this issue came up here on UK's Two Biggest ISPs Rip Up Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Would it also be fine if someone paid to slow certain packets (and may be even drop certain packets)?

  11. Re:So I guess on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about the inability to change passwords (compromised passwords for example)? Isnt that a big security risk too?

  12. Re:Super Sweet on Bloomberg Reports Facebook Building Android Smartphones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good, now I could easily identify whom to stay away from.

  13. Re:I would much rather they use AM Stereo on Digital Radio Mondiale, a Better Standard Than US-Adopted IBOC? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you would be interested in my Noise Generator cum Equalizer that can turn any good quality FM/MP3/FLAC audio into AM quality audio.

  14. Re:Interesting Ideas on Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if a bunch of people refuse to pedal; say 9/10 refuse to pedal, would the system still work?

  15. Re:Floppy drives anyone? on The Surprising Statistics Behind Flash and Apple · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apple did not provide the mouse right click button either. Has the right click button disappeared too? Apple just wanted (and still wants) to be different and cares about the aesthetics more than the functionality.

    And eventually the right click button will be replaced by something better. And some fanbois will claim that this was exactly why Apple did not ship the button at all.

  16. Re:Why is there anything 32 bit on a 64 bit server on Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights · · Score: 1

    Java may be, but flash?

  17. Re:Well they aren't spam on T-Mobile Facing Lawsuit Over Text Message Censorship · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dont we already have telephone neutrality?

  18. Re:It should go both ways. on UK ISPs To Pay 25% of Copyright Enforcement Costs · · Score: 1

    ha.. haha.. The artist themselves wont get a penny out these and you expect the ISPs to get a cut?

  19. Re:4 != for on Stuxnet Attacks Used 4 Windows Zero-Day Exploits · · Score: 1

    Undoing Informative mod. Actually, it seems he pissed off for using 4 instead of Four in the title.

  20. Re:Families? on Wal-Mart To Launch Unlimited Wireless Family Plan · · Score: 4, Informative

    I dont want made you associate Family with Censorship. Family refers to purchasing in packs of more than 1. There used be a pepsi family 4-pack. Publix used to have a family pack bread. And all wireless providers offer family plans (none of which currently censor anything)

  21. Re:I'm suffering more from overload than anything on How Good Software Makes Us Stupid · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you would not go wrong in choosing any of these. Choose one and go with it.

  22. Re:Two Words on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    Guess what? You could use more than one payment processor on your website. You could even add a note that you recommend that US customers use Google Checkout instead of Paypal.

  23. Re:What can they hope for on DARPA Wants Extreme Wireless Interference Buster · · Score: 1

    Not if they EMP it!

  24. Re:Science != Statistics on The Real 'Stuff White People Like' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually Subset(Science)=Subset(Statistics). Would you also like some venn diagrams with that?

  25. Re:Duplicate names and birthday do not serve well on Biometric IDs For Every Indian Citizen · · Score: 1

    India has a much less uniform naming system, with a lot more duplicate birthdays + names, and much less variance in traits. How many Amrish Patels exist with the same name, color hair, color eyes, and same birthday in India?

    How many Amrish Patels exist with the same name, fathers name, mother name and birthdate? I am assuming not many.

    PS: if you still believe many, add pincode (Indian equivalent of zipcode) to the list.