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  1. in my area, Verizon took millions of dollars to lay fiber. They laided very little and kept the money. You can count the number of cities and towns with fiber on one hand, and you wouldn't use all five fingers. Verizon makes Comcast look angelic.

  2. Climate Change on We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming (popsci.com) · · Score: 0

    I live in Massachusetts, and we've got a pretty large area of methane bubbling up from the sea floor. The smart money says in a few years we'll be a second Venus. Of course that means everything dies. I'm not sorry that we are finished on this planet, but the rest of the life that will die I am sorry for. We did the damage but everybody else will suffer our fate.

  3. Re: Consumer electronics on Apple's Share of PC Users Drops To A Five-Year Low (infoworld.com) · · Score: 0

    If his Mac Mini was made after 2012, it's not upgradable. Everything is soldered to the board.

  4. Re: Still better than ma bell... on Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied · · Score: 0

    I get 1.46M/s most of the time from Verizon DSL.

  5. Re: Security theater on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 0

    www.takingsenseaway.com is gone. GoDaddy is offering it for sale. Too bad. It was probably a cool site.

  6. Re:Please tell me this is satire on Use Astrology To Save Britain's Health System, Says MP · · Score: 1

    I wish someone would do likewise to some of our more notorious nitwits. an idiot in government is a bad thing.

  7. Re:McAfee? on It's Official: NSA Spying Is Hurting the US Tech Economy · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the rest of the government but the Air Force uses mostly Symantec products. They used to give out copies of antivirus/firewall software like candy.

  8. Locking USB... on Hacking USB Firmware · · Score: 1

    And either the Government would break it, or make it illegal. Never mind the other malevolent people.

  9. compact fluorescent bulbs aren't a safe substitute on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    They contain mercury which gradually leaks out. Mercury is a toxic metal. And it's almost impossible to dispose of properly even if still unbroken. You can't just throw these things in the trash. I live in Massachusetts. The only recycling center is a single Home Depot in Pittsfield. I live in Andover. If I had to properly dispose of this hazardous waste, I'd have to drive 150 miles to do it. There's a good video about how Germany phased out incandescent bulbs. In turned into a classic clusterfuck. They didn't think of safety concerns or the claims of their supposed efficiency. Here's the link: http://www.linktv.org/programs/in-focus-toxic-light-the-dark-side-of-energy-saving-light-bulbs