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  1. Re:Article author is seriously uninformed. on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Well, where I'm at, I can sure do the wiring myself, but then I gotta pay some slack-jawed yokel some $50 to come check it for me and put his lil' yokel stampy that says I did it right. My township? Population 300.

  2. Re:This sounds like a fantastic business model... on Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 1

    Oh, there's definitely a ????? step in there. If he's facing a criminal contempt charge, he might go to jail. Then he ain't payin' nobody.

  3. Re:Spotify not ITunes will be the big competitor on Google To Take On iTunes? · · Score: 1

    Spotify isn't the only service that has "Huh??" moments. I use Pandora One (Yeah, I paid the $36 for a year so I can skip more than 12 songs a day.), and sometimes, I don't know what it was thinking.

    Actually, Pandora's worst offense is about the same as what you're saying about Spotify. I have a station defined as "Rob Zombie + Tool", and then about 100 songs that I've thumb-upped or down as they've played. It will do the same thing, "Now that you've enjoyed 3 hours of the station that you designed to only play this genre right now, here's some Kanye West!" The asshole DJ that would play a random pop song in the middle of a Doors marathon lives on.

  4. Re:Unlimited Data Plan Not So Unlimited on AT&T To Allow VoIP On iPhone · · Score: 1

    6GB last month right here!

    (Tethering "unlimited" is 5GB. I didn't pay the extra $10 to tether, I just share my internet connection using a adhoc wi-fi network, nothings tethered down by a cable!)

  5. Re:Want to confirm? Look at your bittorrent log. on Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed · · Score: 1

    This is off topic, but man do I got karma to burn.

    How the HELL did you make that link? I'm a Penn Stater, and any time I save a link to something I found using one of PSU's online sources, the link doesn't work as soon as my session ends. Instead, I gotta write a damn proper citation so I can use Citeseer to find it later!

  6. Re:Identity on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    You can't say every letter can be joined up next to every other letter and have it make sense. There are not 26^2 VALID pairs of letters in English. Example: Only a U can follow a Q. Nothing else.

  7. Re:Daytime bulgrary? on Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer · · Score: 1

    Well I can see the difference... daytime? You're just a fuck, but you didn't scare the fuck out of me or wake me up.

    Nighttime? I'm probably gonna shit myself when I see someone sitting at my computer on facebook, and then grab my gun. Way worse situation.

  8. Re:The stinky Europeans were right? on Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health · · Score: 1

    Another anecdote for ya: I just spent two weeks in San Sebastián, Spain, and I had to visit five stores before I found one that sold deodorant, and they only had ONE kind.

  9. Re:Shooting themselves in the foot on Placebos Are Getting More Effective · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but ya aughta see what other countries DO let them advertise. I was in Spain this summer, and they have all the same supplement/skin cream/diet pill crap we do here in the US. The BEST thing I saw was this vibrating table that you stand on that is supposed to make you lose weight like those 1950's rubberband waist-vibrator contraptions.

    The only difference is the government warning (i.e., FDA does not intend this supplement/vitamin/placebo to treat or diagnose any disease...) isn't just fine print at the bottom of the screen, its the same 2-second government blurb that says (basically) "Know what your taking. Ask your doctor. Know the facts".

    On a tangent, cigarette packs have a warning that's half the front and back of the pages, and have ridiculous warnings on them. Yet, there's more smokers.

  10. Re:Its just the app not the service blocked right? on Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice · · Score: 1

    There is one - GV Mobile =)

  11. Re:Missing the point. on Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned · · Score: 1

    Ya mean like you could always do with barcodes?

  12. Re:Yeah because it worked SO well for Pizza Hut on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    Wait, what? Ours are all called WingStreets now.

    WTFWeird.

  13. Re:Great... on Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug · · Score: 1

    Good luck with the airbags and ABS tho!

  14. Re:Overall Trends on Five Years of PC Storage Performance Compared · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That, sir, if the Comment of the Week right there.

  15. Re:Tried it on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 1

    I've never - not ONCE - heard an ad using the iPhone player, and I listen to it probably about 2 hours a day on my commute. On the web application, I've only ever heard a few between songs.

  16. Re:Hey I actually read something in TFA on Sahimo Hydrogen Vehicle Gets Over 1,300 mpg · · Score: 1

    Its incredibly cheap for sure, but did they make tooling, etc. for mass production? THAT's what makes a prototype expensive.

  17. Re:Mine's hacked and unlocked on iPhone 3GS Finally Hacked · · Score: 1

    But good luck flashing it without removing the CID lock! =)

    (I have a TyTN II and an iPhone 3G, and I love them both.)

  18. Re:It will still communicate over Lan on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    The battle.net servers might not know your internal LAN IP, but your machine (and thus the starcraft client) do. Easy 'nuf.

  19. Re:That's to be expected on Some Overheating 3GS iPhones Glow Pink · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Jailbreak
    Step 2: Install Winterboard
    Step 3: Install Backgrounder

    Instead of pressing the home button to return to the Springboard, hold it. The program will drop to the background and allow you to run another program. My biggest pet peeve (Close & stop Pandora in order to reply to a text, grr). Solved.

  20. Re:A Sony-free life is hard, but not undoable. on China Delays "Green Dam" Internet Filter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the point of a boycott. You avoid all the company's products, even if they're the best because they did something you don't like.

  21. Re:Wait, what? on 13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week · · Score: 1

    Fe2O3 vs CrO2 is all, buddy. Different equalization, IIRC. I'm only 22 and I've never seen one, and I've had every recording device in the house I grew up in since 72RPM records.

  22. Re:Tethering, AT&T, and Windows Mobile on Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the late reply. But, seriously? Better watch the "unlimited" limit. It's technically 5GB, and they won't do anything about you going over the limit most of the time, but if you're chronic about it, they'll charge you the overage.

  23. Re:Everonmentalism I can agree with on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    What's your karma, buddy? I've never had to wait more than two minutes!

  24. Re:these insane usage charges on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    Try off the continent. I was in Spain where not a spot wasn't UMTS/'3G'.... but I was expected to pay $25.95/MB there.

  25. Re:these insane usage charges on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    Many of AT&Ts phones still support CSD. I've been an "AT&T Blue" customer for years. That means I've been AT&T since it was AT&T Wireless. Never had CSD. Phones, however, always had the option.