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  1. Re:US telecom trailing others isn't a fair assessm on AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly · · Score: 1

    I have several coworkers who live in other states and drive to work in my state every day. How would you work it if you lived in France and worked in Spain?

  2. Re:Capitol Hill on AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Both are the party of business. Democrats love the media industry (among others) Republicans love oil and other businesses. As long as we vote for one or the other, they have us by the balls.

  3. Re:keep voting for them! on AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly · · Score: 1

    But which is which? As far as I can tell they are both sold, just to different interests.

  4. Re:How is Samsung Wrong? on Samsung Tries To Ban Import of iDevices To US · · Score: 1

    Looked or functioned? What does that have to do with being a smart phone? Smart phones that could run software and read email, browse the web, and even had touch screens. Who cares if it has the ugly iPhone UI, or the overuse of Aluminum, or the under utilization of buttons?

  5. Re:I don't buy it on Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible · · Score: 1

    I always love those types when I am reading the spam logs. So often you read through this mass of meaningless stuff, and they forgot to add the link. :)

  6. Re:What's a bus full of lawyers going off a cliff? on Lawsuit Claims LegalZoom Is Practicing Law Without a License · · Score: 1

    " I hate dangling quotes.

  7. Re:I don’t buy it on Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible · · Score: 1

    Generally what is meant by "brownskinned people" is people from the Arabian peninsula who worship Allah, not people who came over on slave ships from Africa, those are generally just called black people.

  8. Re:Hehe, so much for cooperating on Movie Industry Files Injunction Against UK ISP · · Score: 1

    Interesting trivia: The Ewoks speak nonsense Tagalog. One of my coworkers was telling me about the first time she watched that movie while still living in the Philippines, and she actually knew what they said, though it was meaningless.

  9. Re:Excellent! said the kid on Irish Judge Orders 13-Year-Old To Surrender Xbox · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those 21" CRTs were made heavy back then...You would think they used them to keep the desks from floating away.

  10. Re:Take 'em offline on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    Heck, Sprint threatened to disconnect my work's DS3 when we had an infected machine. Geekmux shouldn't kid himself, the ISPs with balls are more than happy to do this.

  11. Re:Take 'em offline on Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    You do realize that "low level format" will brick the hard drive right? I think you mean to do a non quick format, they are slightly different things.

  12. Re:How is Samsung Wrong? on Samsung Tries To Ban Import of iDevices To US · · Score: 1

    iPhone did nothing different, Apple just made it appeal to a wider audience. This is not innovation, it is marketing. Before iPhone you had Windows Mobile (which was actually very good for the time) and Palm, and Blackberry, and even more that I can't think of off the top of my head. Apple has never been about innovation, just refining an idea and making it look pretty.

  13. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    I found one, it had a resume on it, so I emailed the contents to the person. The drive was pretty ruined, so I explained that and threw it away. Got a nice thank you back too.

  14. Re:So what on ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris · · Score: 1

    Was the debris traveling several times the speed of sound (in air...) relative to your car? If so, I would recommend avoiding the ghetto when driving to work...

  15. Re:shields? Laser? Tractor Beam? on ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris · · Score: 1

    Couldn't the Daedalus have just moved in-between and caught the projectile in their shields? What do we fund SG1 for if not to protect space?

  16. Re:I get that space is big and all... on ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris · · Score: 1

    I always love it when you hear the bass kicking immediately followed by the rattle of their license plate. It makes me laugh at the stupidity of it.

  17. Re:I get that space is big and all... on ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris · · Score: 1

    The "oh shit button" would increase or decrease the orbital velocity of the station, which eventually lifts the station to a higher orbit or drops the station to a lower orbit. Apparently, it takes a couple days to compute the new orbit and verify that it is safer than the current one, as well as time for the station to actually move into the higher orbit. The button would likely just end up decelerating or accelerating the impact with the object in as short a time as 2 hours.

  18. Re:base-12 base-10 on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 1

    So, your metric time would be in seconds right? You can talk about kiloseconds all you like, doesn't matter to me.

  19. Re:Copypasta on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 1

    rlseaman writes

    Taco didn't write anything.

  20. Re:Intelligence on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    That was an entirely non geeky response. :)

  21. Re:Nothings changed on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean Swordfish?

  22. Re:Nope on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    You my good sir are obviously not an engineer, they at least would know how to spell "they're".

  23. Re:Explained in D&D terms on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    YES. (I am a geek too, no problem to me.)

  24. Re:Really? on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    That was evacuated as a precaution?

    Just because it was evacuated doesn't mean it is radioactive for the next 1000 years. Once the cleanup from the tsunami is done and the reactor is cleaned up people will be allowed back.

  25. Re:Wrong on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Which makes nuclear evil! ;)