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  1. Re:A fancy case for a laggy phone on Google Launches Customizable 'Live Cases' For Nexus Devices (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny thing is, the Nexus phones are the least laggy Android phones on the market. The most popular phones (Samsung) are always laggy thanks to TouchWiz and bloatware.

  2. Re:Valid Action on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree. Today is all about "I don't like what you're doing so I'll start a bandwagon to censor you and shut you down."

    It's either the far left censoring stuff like Trump or the far right trying to shut-out LGBT from everyday life because they feel it's immoral and goes against their beliefs even if they never interact with a gay person in their life.

  3. I got the Nexus 6P and the USB-C port feels much more solid than all the old micro USB ports on every device I have ever owner. Wireless would be handy in the N6P but I'm ok without it.

  4. Re:To be fair on Putin Says Panama Papers Part of US Plot to Weaken Russia (go.com) · · Score: 1

    As an American, i'm sure I can speak for most of us when I say that we're not shocked. We expect politicians and big bank CEO's to be doing this. Other than a massive civil war or revolution, we can't do anything about it. The powers to be make their own rules. Newly voted in are quickly currupted if they aren't already.

    The US political tree is just one big dynasty.

  5. A lot of small businesses use Google Apps as it's a good price for the service and easy to manage. This includes hosting the email for the company on their own personal domain name.

  6. Re:Why so expensive? on Google Announces Fiber Phone, a $10/Month Home Telephone Service · · Score: 1

    http://www.vonage.com/personal...

    Looks like $9.99/month with some 12 month contract or $24.99/mon no contract.

  7. Re:$10/month plus on Google Announces Fiber Phone, a $10/Month Home Telephone Service · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should just lookup the standard teleco taxes. It's set by the government after all. Below are the taxes and other fees for my Project Fi service

    Taxes & government surcharges
    State 911 Tax: $0.19
    State Consumption Tax: $1.30

    Other fees
    Michigan Access Restructuring Mechanism Fee: $0.19
    Federal Universal Service Fund: $1.31
    Federal Regulatory Assessment Fee: $0.12

  8. Re:Why so expensive? on Google Announces Fiber Phone, a $10/Month Home Telephone Service · · Score: 1

    Expensive? Your old fashion land lines would be $35+ a month. Vonage is also $10/month for home service.

    In order to get this service, you already need to have Google's fiber service.

  9. Re: Dear boss on In Major Cloud Expansion, Google To Open 12 More Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Clouds are also very handy. You're entitled to your opinion in which you clearly hate anything that isn't stored in your basement. I on the other hand enjoy uploading anything I want or need to my Google Drive and being able to access it from anywhere I wish.

  10. Re:Live Concert Videos on Unofficial Answers: Why Does YouTube Seem So Biased? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    I uploaded a 2+ hour long stream of me playing The Division beta. Google picked up some faint background music playing on a radio in the game and my account was flagged for copyright. I can dispute it, sorta. The dispute choices you get are pathetic and were no where near what happened. I had no other options to dispute this. Now I get advertisements on the video.

  11. Re:Just what the world needs... More advertisement on Good Riddance Payphones: NYC's Free Gigabit Wi-Fi Kiosks Go Live (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize someone stood there and would hold your eye open and force you to stair at the TV screens on the sides before you could make a call.

  12. Re:This could be helpful. on Surveillance Culture Brought To the Masses, Courtesy of Verizon (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    For $15/month? You can get the same thing from free apps if you buy the OBD device. The only down side is the teen could turn their phone off and I hardly see that happening.

  13. Re:The '80s' called and on Twitter Rolls Out GIF Button (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The United States LZW patent expired on 20 June 2003. The counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expired on 18 June 2004, the Japanese counterpart patents expired on 20 June 2004, and the counterpart Canadian patent expired on 7 July 2004. Consequently, while Unisys has further patents and patent applications relating to improvements to the LZW technique, the GIF format may now be used freely.

  14. I thought the new method was to shorten the support forcing people to update or risk getting exploited from un-patched windows. Android phone manufactures (Samsung being one of the worse) have been doing it for a few years now.

  15. Re:Restore from backup on Hackers Demand $3.6 Million From Hollywood Hospital Following Cyber-Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the malware was in the systems for months just sitting dormant thus making the backups tainted as well.

  16. Re: Ok. on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Or complaining that a TV station is using your electric to show you TV commercials.

  17. Re:Image recognition on Fake Facebook Emails Deliver Malware Masquerading As Audio Message · · Score: 2

    I just checked paypal.com's SPF. They are set to SoftFail. I feel like they should have that set to HardFail. SPF isn't 100% perfect but it does help.

  18. Re:Interesting. on Fake Facebook Emails Deliver Malware Masquerading As Audio Message · · Score: 1

    Yet more and more phone calls can be placed via VoIP over wifi, which tablets can do.

  19. Re:Android security? lol! on Google Fixes Rooting Vulnerabilities In Android (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I already got them. So you want to correct yourself?

  20. Re:Anonymous reader? on Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I had Verizon since right before they ended the unlimited data. I was grandfathered in and stayed on it. I won't lie when I say they have great coverage. The speeds were also more than enough at 50+mbit. When I traveled, I always had service for the most part. Earlier this month I changed to Project Fi due to Verizon raising my data fee by $20/month. I felt it's unjust to charge me more because dick head bob over there sucks 2TB+ a month.

    Now Project Fi uses Sprint and T-Mobile networks. In my area T-Mob is pretty good until you get to the country side. Sprint is pure shit. (I live in the second largest city in my state too). For the price I pay now I'm fine with it so far. Time will tell.

    Verizon coverage is great and I praise that. The company on the other hand is one of the worse. Their tactics, how they treat their customers, delayed system updates and going out of their way to try and lock down a device as hard as possible.

  21. Re:tor? twitter? on Twitter Users Warned About Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I know Tor is pretty large in scale and has a lot of IP addresses through it's many proxies, but I've always wondered what the chances you get an IP that some spammer just used thus causing problems such as your twitter getting blocked.

  22. Re:Will somebody think of the children! on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Each day we come closer to living like those in North Korea.

  23. In the meantime, states continue to ban the selling of Tesla cars via online.

  24. Re:How can there be? on No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I know people that have the Verizon Unlimited and use over 300+ GB/month. They brag about it too and how much of that is wasted. They do it because "they can" and hate Verizon.

    I'm also still on the VZW Unlimited and only used it within my means. Some months I may only use 5GB, others while traveling I might have used 15. I think 20 is the most I have ever used and it's always while traveling. So what it comes down to is some people abused it just to be dicks. If you're legit using 300+ GB and not piping half of that to /dev/null then so be it. These abusers got my bill increased my $20/month.

    And yes I will be changing carriers. I'm willing to continue my $89/month with unlimited if VZW accepted that but I won't pay a penny more. They either get $89/month or nothing.

  25. Re:In other words on Western Digital To Buy SanDisk (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Name some? I paid $300 for my Samsung 840 EVO SSD (500GB) back in Dec 2013. Almost 2 years ago the price was under $1/GB

    You can now get the 850 model for $180.