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  1. Not so public on Twitter To Appeal Turning Over Protester's Messages · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The comment may be public, but clearly his identity isn't, or they'd know it.

  2. There's a group of former astronauts trying on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    to do something about this. Check out the B612 foundation, or watch Ed Lu's TED talk at TEDxNASA

  3. Re:So let me get this straight. on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 1

    Well.. Almost.

  4. Re:Another Kink on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    When you say AT&T resellers, what do you mean? Are they ISPs using AT&Ts lines? If so, that still gets you around the bandwidth caps.

  5. Re:Another Kink on Senate Set To Vote On the Repeal of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Sonic is expensive? I beg to differ.

  6. Xcode ... on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 1

    How about making it so I don't have re-download 3+GB every time a minor dot-release of Xcode is released?

  7. Re:No install media, no deal on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 1

    From the macrumors live updates:

    10:37 am Lion available only on Mac App Store

    We'll see ...

  8. Re:itunes match: 25 dollar insurance..??? on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 1

    Well, if you think about it. You were pretty unlikely to spend *anything* on those songs again. So now they get $25 out of you that they otherwise were unlikely to get. Not a bad deal.

  9. Re:What competition? on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 2

    I know that moderators have a soft spot for cynical comments, but I disagree. I think there IS competition in the US mobile market. This merger, however, will be another big blow to it, as T-Mobile has recently been an innovator in the space. T-Mobile brought European-style contract-free plans to the US, encouraging the use of unlocked phones. It also was the most vocal and earliest adopter of Android.

    What the US mobile competition has shown me over the years is that consumers are not solely concerned with price. If they were: Sprint, T-Mobile, MetroPCS, etc would dominate the market. Instead, what's happened is the carriers instead compete on exclusive rights to the shiniest new phones, and consumers are willing to pay a premium to get their hands on them. So if you want to blame anyone for the lack of price competition with AT&T and Verizon, blame the consumers. The competition is alive; carriers have just found something to make consumers care about other than price.

  10. Re:This sucks on Why the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Is Bad For Consumers · · Score: 1

    Just to make sure you understood: T-Mobile is the opposite, the contract-free plan costs less.

  11. SIP on Gingerbread on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Phone, Voice Over WiFi? · · Score: 2

    Menu->Settings->Call Settings->Internet Call Settings.

    Just get a SIP provider and Android will use it as if it's a cell network, I assume. I'm not sure how the quality will be over a mobile network, but I'd be curious to hear how it works out for you.

  12. Re:I haven't watched the video but... on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I don't think they've done it yet, but FreeBSD is supposedly planning to get rid of a.out support, which would end that ;-)

  13. Re:What is up with Android malware? on Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market · · Score: 1

    What's funny is on Android people would be questioning in the comments why a flashlight app needs network permissions

  14. Re:Exchange on Google Pulls 21 Malware Apps From Android Market · · Score: 1

    I don't think I'd care if they did announce a curated market as long as it wasn't the only way to obtain apps.

  15. Re:Thank your neighborhood republican on House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Possibly all of them depending on how much competition existed. I wouldn't mind an absence of net neutrality if there was a thriving competitive marketplace for ISPs.

  16. Re:Open Platform? on Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo? · · Score: 1

    There are some gingerbread ROMs available. Google has claimed the official one is coming soon. We'll see.

  17. Re:Open Platform? on Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo? · · Score: 1

    Oops.. Sorry. My eyes saw one thing and my brain perceived another :-)

  18. Re:Open Platform? on Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo? · · Score: 0

    You "upgraded" from gingerbread to froyo? ;)

  19. Re:Open Platform? on Is Samsung Blocking Updates To Froyo? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find that I'm free to install whatever I want on my Nexus One. I suppose it depends which vendor you decide to get into bed with.

  20. Re:Summary sucks. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    "humans." ?

    Maybe you meant ^H ;)

  21. Re:I dropped Chrome and went back to Firefox 4 on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    Assuming your comment is intended to be relevant to the subject at hand, I have news for you. Firefox does not support H.264 either. Safari or IE should work for you though.

  22. Re:How long will IPv6 last? on Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6 · · Score: 2

    ASNs+BGP for every home!!!

  23. Re:france sucks on The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    How DARE you leave out Greenland!

  24. Are these just simple SHA-1 hashes? on Cracking Passwords With Amazon EC2 GPU Instances · · Score: 1

    Those password hashes are just SHA-1 hashes. Hashes coming from something like unix's crypt()-like functions use many rounds of hashing and therefore take that much longer to crack.

  25. Re:T-Mobile has exclusivity of iPhone in Germany on Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network? · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile USA uses UMTS, but I'm sure typing that diatribe was fun for you.