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  1. Re:SMS on a land line? on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    I can get unlimited web/data/sms for about 40 USD (a bit less then 30 euros)

    Where, and which carrier?

    T-Mobile, MetroPCS.

    Why is it everything thinks american communications are terrible?

    Because not everybody lives in a major city, and not everybody chooses where to live.

    I suppose, but the vast spaces between our cities are never taken into account.

  2. Re:Hiding in plain sight on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  3. Re:In 1.5 Million Years... on Nearby Star Forecast To Skirt Solar System · · Score: 1

    "A lot" is two words.

  4. Re:are they even legal? on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 1

    You've clearly never seen one of those machines work.

  5. Re:Hiding in plain sight on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 1

    How would one do that?

  6. Re:Internet cafe's on Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? · · Score: 1

    What do they call vlans?

  7. Re:SMS on a land line? on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    You didn't say that they had to be an iPhone provider. I am fairly sure that it is Sprint that does the conversion on their end, and then transmits to the land line as a voice call.

  8. Re:So, the Rich got richer this year... on Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man · · Score: 1

    Absolutely correct. And it bothers me that people that think like this are so common.

  9. Re:SMS on a land line? on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    I can get unlimited web/data/sms for about 40 USD (a bit less then 30 euros) Why is it everything thinks american communications are terrible?

  10. Re:Two words on A Sad Day For the New Zealand Internet · · Score: 1

    That's not true. SSH and HTTPS look different.

  11. Re:A minor point... on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    It ensures there are no daemons running, making it nearly impossible to have a botnet of iPhones.

    I have seen a working, functional botnet of hundreds of jailbroken iPhones. It's an interesting thing to watch. Change your root passwords!

    With multitasking, how do you know that a thread doesn't get spawned off that now runs and listens on an arbitrary port for incoming connections?

    Very few mobile providers give phones public addresses.

  12. Re:SMS on a land line? on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    You have no unlimited SMS options?

  13. Re:SMS on a land line? on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    Can you name any of these operators that operate in the United States, home of Apple, Slashdot, and myself? I'd like to see citations about this so that I can understand the limitations of SMS-to-speech.

    Sprint.

  14. Re:So, the Rich got richer this year... on Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man · · Score: 1

    I personally know people who think it should be.

  15. Re:This is why I'll never own anything apple. on Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone · · Score: 1

    They're not doing that with OS X, lol

  16. Re:Isn't this anti-trust / tying / anti-competitiv on Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone · · Score: 1

    It's not true. They offer and unlimted data + text package, but it's just one of many choices, and it costs the same as the two options separately. And they do offer an "android" data plan, but it costs the same as the "blackberry" data plan, and the "smartphone" data plan. Why they're separate I don't know, but they're the same price.

  17. Re:Well... on Why Broadband In North America Is Not That Slow · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't that all our ISPs suck, it's that the good ones are few and far between. Honestly I am glad I live where nothing is filtered, shaped, blocked, etc. (For now)

  18. Re:Well... on Why Broadband In North America Is Not That Slow · · Score: 1

    In some areas Brighthouse Networks sells RR service. I have had nothing but A+ service from them. A few offices I do IT for have Verizon FiOS. The price is a bit higher, but the speed and reliability is unmatched in this area. (Though dealing with their people is always a massive pain in the ass.)

  19. Re:Honest question? on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    Ok, I wasn't quite sure how that worked, but that makes sense. Thank you.

  20. Re:Well... on Why Broadband In North America Is Not That Slow · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have 40Mbit/s with no caps for $60USD/month. I live in a small town about an hour north of tampa, in florida. My ISP is Brighthouse networks/roadrunner.

  21. Re:Gay rights are civil rights. on Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression · · Score: 1

    And if you install unix!

  22. Re:As long as they don't use GVoice Tech. on YouTube Makes Captioning Available To All · · Score: 1

    Let's see what this causes... 828 565 1337

  23. Re:Honest question? on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    Not from everything, antiiron could only react with iron, for example. I am not sure if simply the particles making up the material (neutron/antineutron etc) could annihilate each other...

  24. Re:Huh? on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there.

  25. Re:On units and their prefixes on Why PyCon 2010's Conference Wi-Fi Didn't Melt Down · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I suppose that would be really important if the summery were not in english.