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  1. Re:Cellphones without GPS on FTC Lobbies To Be Top Cop For Geolocation · · Score: 1

    There has to be a way to determine coordinates in order for modern phone tech to work. If GPS is down, tower locations come out to what should be a similar answer.

  2. Re:I'm here from the government and I'm here to he on FTC Lobbies To Be Top Cop For Geolocation · · Score: 0

    Uhm, "Interstate Commerce" for why this must be Federal!

  3. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    Yep, he seems to have been on the "No data" plan for Canada... then he used data so he had to pay the "overage rate" from the start.

  4. Re:Ting allows setting usage caps on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    Yep.... and Ting is the phone company out of Canadian company TuCows, the current leader in domain wholesaling.

  5. Re:Congratulations, Slashdot on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    We're just an Okay Business Bureau around here... BBB is somebody else's trademark.

  6. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    Yep... that's the plan he should have signed up for BEFORE he went to Canada. They most likely moved him to that after he called.

  7. Re:Never use the wifi at an airport on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    It creates workplace-must-suck error "Your home cell phone is better than your work cell phone!"

  8. Re:Never use the wifi at an airport on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    Because your work number and contact list goes to your employer when you leave, while the home stuff should be yours.

  9. Re:RAZR fro the win! on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    So you pay your "roaming charge" by changing the SIM... that's one way to say "Uh, AT&T, I'm not in my home zone!" by taking their SIM offline.

  10. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    Seems like he used the "No plan" rate for that first session as we discussed earlier you're supposed to tell AT&T somehow you're in another zone!

  11. Re:Or call your credit card company ... on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Miswired cared system then... "I've got the customer online!" translated into "I've got the customer with me!" That's separate modes on all credit card networks for exactly this situation!

  12. Re:Buying a new phone on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Not quite... if you charge the phone to the same account the bill goes to... they notice "Old phone offline... same card purchased a new one, let's follow that move!"

  13. Re:nice idea but radio waves on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Well, even if you left your phone at home, there's ways to tell that you moved from A to B successfully. This is why transit records, even if they show up too late to alert a cashier, can be called up and say "You didn't do that, we'll figure out who did!"

  14. Re:Why cant you pick by regions on a map on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Too many ways to contact sound fun... and if your parents hit a button on an interface you said "I don't use that screen!" uh, oh... fraud charge!

  15. Re:Or call your credit card company ... on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Yep... lots of ways to transmit "Uh, I'm in motion!" and as long as the devises that usually move with you move, they know uh... he didn't go from Moscow to LA that fast... one of these charges must be bogus!

  16. Re:We seem to be missing a command here... on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Uhm... this doesn't sound like Visual Basic or Objective C here! Listening for "Did my user say a command recently?" Doesn't need 10% of a processor chip.

  17. Re:McDonald's loves people who travel.... on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    1. Food is cheaper than you think some times... if you fund the production seasons, you know where to put it in your pipelines.
    2. Too many people love this stuff, so it sells predictably within tolerances of randomness.
    3. It doesn't take much more than your home cooking to make these things, just a few specialized machines that work better when serving 40 than 4.. get that?
    4. Nobody doesn't like when it's overcrowded there, but if it happens enough new ones spring up!

  18. Re:Never use the wifi at an airport on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    I really wish somebody would develop the work/home cell phone where it indicates if they're calling you at your work number or sending to your work e-mail address at the company's expense, or home info to reach you at your home numbers. Yeah, work can interrupt you at home... but you should be able to move that call to the other rate plan within one cell phone minute.

  19. Re:Used to be billed to the boss... on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    Atlanta's airport used to have lots of vending machines, and lots of Atari-era (which was right for the time) video game machines. Yep, to a kid it was the good parts of the mall. Then, add the newsstand for the out of town adults, and some TVs tuned to CNN.

  20. Re:McDonald's loves people who travel.... on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, you're confused... McDonald's is not part of "Yum Brands".

  21. We seem to be missing a command here... on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Where's "Option Iginore Kinect" or whatever it should be in the programming language they use there? Is this saying Kinect is always on, even if it isn't running anything for the game?

  22. McDonald's loves people who travel.... on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    There's something odd about a hand-made Big Mac coming out just like the one you get at the hometown location no matter where you are. There's a lot of people making them right now... must be lunchtime.

  23. Re:Never use the wifi at an airport on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 1

    Why do you say that? There's nowhere to hide your screen there, so you're going to be watched by analog hole tech.

  24. Used to be billed to the boss... on Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Those who keep good records used to get the $5 back from their boss, just charging it to the card they charge the rest of the trip expenses to. Who did this suck for? The kids who were traveling on vacation... yep, WiFi is the entertainment system that keeps you from getting bored at the airport.

  25. Re:Two different tech on Big Telecom: Terms Set For Sprint To Buy T-Mobile For $32B · · Score: 2

    CDMA is a protocol, LTE is a catchphrase that says "When a better protocol is found, we'll send you the program to make it happen over the air!"

    This was all planned about 10 years ago... when new things happen, there's new ways to compress.

    If bowling ever becomes popular as a TV sport, there's going to have to be changes in MPEG standards. If you're watching the show on an iPhone... oh boy do we need to get ready. Get that?