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  1. Re:Try where before huge discounts on Amazon? on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    Yes, the $100 doesn't get charged sales tax.

    Amazon, I don't, I just buy. It's not hard.

  2. Re:US on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    No.

    I try in a store and order off the carrier website, verizon for one offers a $100 instant rebate online instead of a 3-4 week wait and hope you are approved rebate if you buy in store.

  3. Re:Use a real alarm clock on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 2

    these are simple errors that anyone who has written clock and alarm code should be aware of to begin with. It's not like date and time algorithms change very often or without a lot of fanfare.

  4. What's with apple and alarms in phones? on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Day light saving errors, new year errors, do they just have crappy coders at apple?

  5. Re:US on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    At a store. But it's a lot easier to not have to claim that $100 rebate by mail in and order the phone from the carrier website directly, or get huge discounts at Amazon or wherever. Plus not being charged sales tax on that extra money is nice.

  6. Re:US on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    At the stores? I haven't bought a phone at a store since my first one in the late 90s.

  7. Re:Murtazin is not a "trusted insider" on Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard · · Score: 1

    I know a read somewhere, who knows where... cite my sauces? nah

    That Apple will be held to this and provide basically and adapter dongle to use with the standard iPhone connector type.

  8. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    Sure you can, and managing that for more than a couple of PCs is a PITA.

  9. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    if you're on a home network chances are pretty high your router is acting as your DNS server or setting the DNS servers for your machine via DHCP.

    Maintaining DNS primaries, secondaries, tertiaries etc. on more than one or two machines can be a bit of a PITA too.

  10. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    Excellent question, a method that uses your actual location instead of where your DNS server is.

  11. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 2

    They resolve it to some parked site.

  12. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    Sure you can, Primary and secondary are setup to openDNS on my router...

  13. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    yeah, so using the DNS servers from comcast that are provided by DHCP never change for you, huh. Troubleshooting that mess is a pita.

  14. Re:Good advice - Always use your ISP for DNS on Beware of Using Google Or OpenDNS For iTunes · · Score: 1

    yeah, cause comcast and at&t never have DNS outages... Last month Comcast had a huge DNS outage, I didn't even notice it since I have been using openDNS for years. My MIL called me up saying her internet was down, I had her ping some IPs and they worked, but DNS didn't. Changed her over to opendns and it worked fine after that.

  15. Re:Things have changed. Get over it. on Tron: Legacy — Too Much Imagination Required? · · Score: 1

    hardly. In the original a user could actually do stuff programs couldn't and was pretty dang powerful. In this new movie the user was a puss.

    That's where the story and plotting failed, and failed miserably.

  16. Re:I loved the original, but.. on Tron: Legacy · · Score: 1

    I can't be the only one that thought ISOs was a stupid name to use, were they CD images?

  17. Re:I loved the original, but.. on Tron: Legacy · · Score: 1

    I felt there was a lot of exposition that didn't explain very much at all. The entire Tron aspect of the movie was kind of lost out there.

  18. Best buy? on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 1

    Best buy has qr codes on a lot of their price tags. How do they figure people to use those without a smartphone.

  19. Re:Observation Bias on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget which channel suspended an anchor for donating to the party he supported. It wasn't fox...

  20. Re:Sheesh on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    seconded!

  21. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    stupid, like a Fox

  22. Re:Huh? on Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes · · Score: 1

    You'll download fewer 10MB websites at 10 hours than if you download it in 10 minutes. Obviously.

  23. Re:That's a good thing. on Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Whereas email, app updates and web browsing and I hit 1.5GB without really trying... adding video and pandora and it goes above 2 easily.

  24. Re:Any user-defined throttles? on Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes · · Score: 2

    You have to watch this all the damn time to see how your monthly usage is. I do this, but it's a pain.

  25. Re:Any user-defined throttles? on Verizon LTE Can Use the Monthly Data Allotment In 32 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but it's kind of hard to estimate how much data you are downloading without some sort of meter. Automatic warnings and shutoffs should be in place to stop over charges.