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  1. Re:Keep Dreaming on Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but there was no regulatory mechanism in place to resolve the situation where AIG would be in default on contracts that they were not legally allowed to default on (insurance).

    Giving a few banks $80 billion was a lot cheaper than having the government stand behind every AIG insurance policy (The government is doing that, but the current legal fiction is better than the one where they put the U.S. government on the contracts).

  2. Re:Not a fun conclusion... on Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape · · Score: 1
  3. Re:A naive question on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    Sprint owns Boost outright and still sells iDEN devices under that brand.

  4. Re:It depends on what you want and how you use it on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    Since they switched over to a focus on 'Minute Packs', they have been charging $0.20 per minute for basic airtime. Do you have some kind of holdover keeping you at $0.18?

  5. Re:Picture on Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan · · Score: 1

    This paper doesn't split the performance characteristics out for the different environments (page 6):

    http://esto.nasa.gov/conferences/nstc2007/papers/Shaltens_Richard_D2P1_NSTC-07-0138.pdf

    Given the operating temperatures of 650 and 850 F, it may be that the heat sink is not a particularly limiting factor.

  6. Re:How is this Different from WinMobile? on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more about the customer service experience (where the customer is pretty much regarded as a revenue stream that occasionally complains about stuff; the Android operating system hasn't had much impact on that side of things).

  7. Re:Carriers are a real problem. on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    'Contract phone' would probably be better.

  8. Re:How is this Different from WinMobile? on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It isn't fear mongering, it is "Hey, Android still sucks right now, it didn't solve all the old problems and buy me a pony like I thought it would."

    The U.S. carriers all treat their customers like shit, it's too bad that the customers put up with it.

  9. Re:All these suits and money changing hands on Vimeo Sued For Audio Infringement · · Score: 2, Funny

    The big winner in the wtf app-space was the even more imaginatively named iFart.

    I guess if the purchase of an iPhone made you wonder if maybe your friend was a douche-bag, their purchase of something like iFart takes the question off the table for you.

  10. Re:It's a problem with the whole industry on Verizon Defends Doubling of Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    If 200 million people started voting with their dollars instead of just complaining, nationalization might start to look like the shitty option.

  11. Re:So what if you have a basic phone? on Verizon Defends Doubling of Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    You are just more profitable, no way are they (regularly) making individual agreements that they lose money on.

  12. Re:Where is government now that we need them? on Verizon Defends Doubling of Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    Motorola has been using USB for a long time. I think they are the only significant cell phone manufacturer based in the U.S.

    Sure, they still play gimmicks with special cables and chargers, but the most recent one I messed with worked with a standard USB cable (it was even a Verizon branded phone).

  13. Re:Good for Chase. on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1, Troll

    I often masturbate instead of thinking of the hungry.

  14. Re:Nothing outrageous... on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 0, Troll

    I care very little.

  15. Re:Charities? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's simpler to refer to 501c as a tax status and leave the charity part off.

  16. Re:WTF? on Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you insinuating that he may be in reasonable physical condition?

  17. Re:Is $500 too high for a Netbook? on First Look At Latest Ion-Infused Asus Eee PC · · Score: 1

    You mean except for the keyboard and screen hinge right?

  18. Re:Sorry, but this is stupid on Google In Talks To Buy Yelp · · Score: 1

    But Google is so incompetent that they are wasting $500 million dollars, surely they can't stand up to a more efficient competitor.

  19. Re:Sorry, but this is stupid on Google In Talks To Buy Yelp · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "yeah exactly"? A little ways up the page you are ranting about how stupid it is.

  20. Re:Sorry, but this is stupid on Google In Talks To Buy Yelp · · Score: 1

    I have no idea. I'm happy to concede that the people involved in this at Google have a better picture of the situation than I do.

  21. Re:Make sense on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    It is my hope that my ancestors fought for freedom, and conceded that democracy was the best way to compromise it.

  22. Re:Sorry, but this is stupid on Google In Talks To Buy Yelp · · Score: 1

    If you are better than Google at estimating the value of Yelp and costs of replicating it, you should be able cream them.

  23. Re:Reminds me of a college friend on $25,000 of Communications Gear In a $500 Car · · Score: 1

    That's common behavior when the radio looks removable, the make and model of the car don't matter.

  24. Re:Timebombware on DECAF Was Just a Stunt, Now Over · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps most of us are Windows users that did not download and install the program?

  25. Re:Disabled? How? on DECAF Was Just a Stunt, Now Over · · Score: 1

    Why would you?

    Have you evaluated it and figured out that it does anything useful?