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  1. Re:Required on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: 1

    There was a case early last year when More Everything customers on a 1Gb plan were bumped up to a 2Gb plan at the same cost when another round of price cutting came through. No consent needed.

    Source: I work for Verizon Wireless.

  2. Re:Verizon isn't waiting for you to call ... on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: 2

    Verizon does not start a contract when you change your plan unless you are changing to some promotional loyalty plan. The More Everything plans are normal plans. So no contract changes at all. Sorry.

    Source: I work for Verizon Wireless.

  3. Password managers on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 2

    After Heartbleed I brought up my password manager and changed 140 passwords in a few hours. If it wasn't for my password manager I would have never even known I had 140 passwords to change.
    These things are amazing. Randomized passwords for all my accounts. In the event of a catastrophic failure all I have to do is remember three passwords to get everything back. My email password. my cloud password and the password to the encrypted db of passwords. As a person who deals every day with people who "don't even remember setting a password for that" I wish more people used these.

  4. My first computer on End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 1

    My first computer, a 286 with a 4Mb harddrive and 4Mb of ram, had Lotus 1-2-3 on it. I'm not saying we ran the local betting pool off of it and ran into issues with how much money could be pulled out of a bank at one time. Just saying. Not saying.

  5. Thought crime on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    Today they are in "Think of the children" mode. Tomorrow mission creep will kick in and it will be "Everyone is guilty of something."

  6. Legacy issues on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 1

    We have about 80 years worth of recipes based on the current oven standards.
    All of them would need revisions and people who don't cook that often wouldn't be aware of why their recipe failed if they used a new style oven.
    Convection is great for crispy skin, not so great for custards.

  7. Give the man a medal on Scientist Quits Effort To Live-Blog Stem Cell Generation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People (science deniers) are always talking about how scientists are only interested in their grants and saying what the popular opinion is to get more grants. The truth is that you can't make a name for yourself in science (and thus get money) by supporting the popular opinion. You only win a Nobel Prize by challenging the status quo and messing up everyone's preconceived notions.

    This guy is a hero despite not being able to do what he wanted because he looked at the data and said "Wait, what? This is BS."
    "This is BS." is how you get things done in science.

  8. Pictures on Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model · · Score: 1

    Is there a source of pictures of it that actually show some detail and aren't messed up by a filter?

  9. correct word on Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs · · Score: 1

    I believe that should be cathelicidin-AM. I also believe we have found another excuse to hasten the extinction of the panda.

  10. rss on Slashdot Mobile: Now For Tablets As Well As Phones · · Score: 1

    I browse topics through Google reader on my phone and on my pc. Is there a way for the site to detect the browser and launch the right version? I dint want to have to have two feeds for the same site.

  11. Re:newsgroups on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 1

    Killfile. The ability to use regex to score anything in any direction. The sweet sweet Killfile.

  12. newsgroups on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? · · Score: 1

    Every time I see a forum all I find is web interfaces that are trying to imitate newsgroups. But they do it so poorly. I would give anything to have half the functionality of newsgroups in a forum. I totally understand that a web interface for nntp would cause its own problems but I have to wonder if a web interface on a nntp backend might be easier to develop than these forums that are trying to replace it's functionality.

    I have wanted Slashdot to offer up a NNTP server for more than 12 years. If they did I would gladly pay them a monthly fee.

  13. Re:Star Star Me? on Sprint Now Offering Vanity Phone Numbers Aliases With **Me Service · · Score: 1

    ## is used on a lot of phones (especially Motorolas) for manual programing so it would cause conflicts.

  14. Re:Innovation? on Sprint Now Offering Vanity Phone Numbers Aliases With **Me Service · · Score: 1

    They can just call it Tee-niss for telephone. I know I am killing your joke. Sorry.

  15. That is one advanced system if it can detect gender. I would have been happy if it could just identify the sex of each person. Gender identity is complicated stuff for humans. ~

  16. Re:So what if there's more than one in one place? on Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos · · Score: 1

    In 2nd Edition we called it Color Spray.

  17. Re:Verizon and Alltel was OK on AT&T/T-Mobile Merger 'Not In the Public Interest' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Alltel wasn't "regional". Rural would be more accurate. Can't really call something that was licensed in states from OR to CT "regional". While they only had 800,000 customers they also were the number one CDMA roaming partner for the carriers. I don't know for sure but I think they may have made more off their roaming agreements than their customer base. That was a major reason that VZW bought them.

    Sprint buying T-Mobile would earn Sprint the title as dumbest company ever. Their networks aren't compatible. It would be Sprint Nextel all over again.

  18. Re:Hill Valley 2015 Scorecard on Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes? · · Score: 1

    you forgot bundles of compacted compact disks littering the alleyways. = close enough

  19. Evidence on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    The pictures had to be shared with the cops. Doing otherwise would have been destroying or withholding evidence.
    Don't you see, the cops /had/ to look at those pictures. If they didn't we would accuse them of being incompetent.

  20. HHGTTG on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 2

    he is correct. The Hitchhikers Guide shows us there is no mone, no people, no sex and therfore no users.

  21. Re:Reactions from other Android Manufacturers on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 2

    For a second I thought I was watching Jon Stewart do another montage of politicians doing the "stay on message, offer the same sound bite they gave us in our talking points memo" shtick. Then I remembered these were future competitors of Google.

  22. Re:Will any investors care? on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A lot do look up the ratings. Institutional investors (aka the 401k investors spending billions on your and my behalf) are required by law to only buy AAA rated investments. So now there will be a lot of them scrambling to find another investment to put their billions into so that they don't go to jail.

  23. shop on Get Your Own Action Figure (In Japan) · · Score: 1

    Some of those look really good, like uncanny valley good. But when you get to the last few and especially the second to last one a few look shopped, not printed.

    Now I would love to see this kind of tech become so cheap that it was available at any mall. Most of the 3d printers I see don't offer that kind of fine grain resolution. I would love to be able to build something that detailed on my computer and then go have it printed out without having to spend 10s of thousands of yen.

  24. Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    There was a case where a guy was imprisoned in...either Arizona or New Mexico. For months. He was forced to work for $1/day to earn the money to purchase a copy of his birth certificate from the federal government to prove he was a legal citizen.[citation needed]

    Last time I checked the Federal Government had no ability to sell you a copy of your birth certificate. That is a state issue.

  25. Autopen on Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman · · Score: 1

    NPR did a nice little story about this today. Talks about what the Constitution says vs what it means. http://www.npr.org/2011/05/27/136717719/obama-wields-his-autopen