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  1. Re:And anyone was surprised by this? on Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC · · Score: 1

    Something like 2/3 of the production in America is consumed by the proletariat.

    So sure, there is a they that has a lot, but it becomes a little histrionic to claim that there is a we that has nothing.

  2. Re:Where's my cheque? on Goldman Sachs Says No Facebook Shares For US Investors · · Score: 1

    They sent it to the government. No, seriously, they are among the many large banks that paid the government loans back.

    You need to complain about the terms Goldman Sachs got from AIG while AIG was in de facto government receivership.

  3. Re:Fucking stupid on Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence · · Score: 1

    It is valued to perfect (or perhaps better) future performance. Makes people twitchy.

  4. Re:Did they fix Firefox's memory gobbling problem? on Firefox 4 Beta 9 Out, Now With IndexedDB and Tabs On Titlebar · · Score: 1

    Try running Flashblock. I have a couple dozen tabs open in 1 window and Firefox is not allocating memory. After about 6 days, the process is using 300 MB.

    I have the usual assortment of plugins and add ons running.

  5. Re:Just started with Virgin Mobile last week on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    I only pay sales tax (which is at least somewhat different than telecommunications taxes and fees). Some people get around it by purchasing fillup cards over the internet (but that's a lot of work to save ~$20 or $30 a year).

  6. Re:Bait and switch? on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    Virgin Mobile has been selling a USB dongle and the Mifi for use with computers. They offer a couple of plans, a silly 100 MB one and a $40 one that currently offers unlimited use with no caps or throttling and is switching to being throttled after 5 GB. The devices come with Virgin Mobile branded software that allows you to activate them on the Virgin Mobile network (which is really just the towers that Sprint owns rather than buys time on).

    They also have plans for cell phones that offer unlimited cell phone data (last I looked, starting at $25).

  7. Re:Bait and switch? on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    They sell the plan for personal use. Business users are probably pointed at Sprint.

  8. Re:Not a big deal on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of people that just do email/web stuff and don't download isos and movies.

    For them, a plan that is $40 a month with no contract and faster than a modem isn't so bad. Of course, the cap won't hit those users very hard either.

  9. Re:A lot of data? on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    Sprint is 100% owner of Virgin Mobile USA, they bought the company and the right to use the name several years ago.

  10. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 1

    They aren't going to be using it to develop a profile of people that are at risk for committing similar crimes (he is an obvious outlier), they will be using it to figure out what charges to bring against him and how to argue those charges.

  11. Re:Pretty soon... on Google To Drop Support For H.264 In Chrome · · Score: 1

    There is no royalty involved in deploying a flash client. So Google can argue that they don't feel justified in paying to distribute h264 support in Chrome, but the distribution of flash doesn't cost them anything (not beyond any development costs anyway).

  12. Re:I love my Kindle on Book Piracy — Less DRM, More Data · · Score: 1

    It isn't that revisionist, Apple obviously wanted music from the record companies more than they wanted to keep DRM out of their store.

  13. Re:No support contract is a crime? on EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time · · Score: 1

    If he implied that there was a support contract, probably.

  14. Re:Executable SMS? on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    They are executing binary data. User messages are supposed to be text, but the carriers also use the SMS infrastructure for other things.

  15. Re:Happens all the time on Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport · · Score: 1

    Why is all that better than the airport having some paint handy and using it every few years?

  16. Re:Also, certificate support on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 1

    ConnectBot seems to, but I haven't actually used it.

  17. Re:NaNoWriMo is your friend on Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods · · Score: 1

    If you are going to murder somebody, the trick is to make sure that you are not a suspect.

    Having them classified as a missing person (rather than showing up as a corpse) is probably a good way to do this.

    Fretting over the contents of your computer is probably not a winning move.

  18. Re:Rule number one for breaking any law on Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods · · Score: 1

    There is some abstraction on your shirt there.

    The url is transmitted to the server inside of the encrypted packet(s), no one but the server sees the url, whether it is a get or post.

    Of course, your ISP is still going to have decent idea of the servers that you are communicating with.

  19. Re:Interesting reply to excelent article on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    That's a terrible characterization of the effect described in the article, it does not describe the effectiveness of drugs diminishing within a group of patients, it describes the measured impact of a drug being smaller in a later, entirely different group of patients, in an entirely separate study (or perhaps in a meta-study, which is not then separate).

    So the issue is not that the drug works less well for a patient over time, but that the current methodologies result in situations where early studies overestimate the effectiveness of the drug.

  20. Re:in-equity on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 1

    The flesh and bone market makers noted the glitch and temporarily halted floor trading. The reversed trades were all on electronic markets.

  21. Re:Fiat Lucri... on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 1

    Well, Harry Potter did crap a lot of money right into J.K. Rowling's bank accounts.

  22. Re:short term skimming on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 1

    The mortgage companies were more than stupid, they were corrupt. And they were writing bad mortgages so they could sell them, in many cases they weren't missing the lies being told by loan seekers, they were encouraging the lies.

  23. Re:Why have that in colleges at all? on Will Patents Make NCAA Football Playoffs Impossible? · · Score: 1

    The second report there details that the high spending successful programs generally don't put much tuition towards sports.

  24. Re:Security Questions Are The Weakest Link on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    So setup an encrypted store (Keepass, Passwordsafe, TrueCrypt, whatever).

    A text file inside a TrueCrypt volume has the advantage of being completely free form, a password manager has the advantage of not being completely free form, you get the idea.

  25. Re:WRONG on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    There's probably gub'ment dollars in OpenSSH.