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  1. all plans are too pricey, $20 max should be it. on FCC To Probe Exclusive Mobile Deals · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If $10 data plan gives you 1gig, that is equal to more than 8hrs of voice talk per day for 1 month. Which is pretty much to unlimited voice (not including connection costs to LL).

    So having that as a fact, no voice plan should ever charge more than $20 per month for unlimited voice, anything higher is pure ripoffs.

    Can I get a $10 data plan for a mobile with VOIP?

    And surely having one plan for everyone would save marketing and confusing options, no more crap, just one plan, $20 = infinite voice, 1c text, 1gig data on top. Who wouldnt be happy with that besides a cheapass wanting $5 plans.

  2. Re:Sonny Bono owns you on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 1

    Why wasnt 90 enough, did they really argue some spread sheet graph to show even more profit can be gained after 90 years?

  3. Re:Nothing to worry about on Pixar's Next Three Films Will Be Sequels · · Score: 1

    I wouldnt mind seeing a Bad Santa 2, that was hillarious.

  4. Re:Great. Victoria might need this, soon on Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality · · Score: 1

    I blame that butterfly in 1995 that flapped its wings and caused rippled effects.

    or it could be those greedy farmers in brazil chopping down forrests like its going out of style.

    Then again, who knows in a few years we could turn around and get 5x rainfall each year, dont forget
    that weather also has long term 30+year cycles too.

  5. people cant change plans on Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard · · Score: 1

    People cannot choose different rates, because of arcane stupid plan systems.

    They should ban all plans except the paying of phone rate.

    Plans have wierd rates of nnn free per month for y plan, then xx free for same network, then others at b prices.

    People have no freedom to 'keep plan' but move to different price schemes.

    Two year plans should be banned, since most phones die within 18 months instead.

  6. voice is over priced too by 10x on Hackers Claim To Hit T-Mobile Hard · · Score: 1

    So they can offer 3-5gig on 3g for like $10 or $15 extra on your plan.

    Yet to get the cheapest voice rates you must pay $100+, even though unlimited voice
    if spoken 8hrs talk per 24hrs, would equal no more than 750MEGbytes of data. Thats
    about $2.50 of data.

    Can one ask for 100% data plan for flat $10pm and use 100% VOIP?

    If industry makes averate $30 per client, then if the max ever possible was to change $10, they would loose billions!! (of the over charges)

  7. Re:Capitalist flight on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 1

    when is the last time shareholders sued a ceo? shareholders arent board members, they dont have active control of day to day runnings, they can only 'buy into' the shared profits.

    isnt the smart thing to do is just sell your shares and buy something else, why waste time and effort suing? is that typical American behaviour?

  8. the missing TCO on Google vs. Microsoft On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    I guess that is one TCO component MS never mentions, the cost of being locked in, then moving to the next major version that breaks all your existing badly developed systems.

  9. Re:I'll give this much to Google on Google vs. Microsoft On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    nothing wrong with the windows api, at least you know its there, unlike 90% of linux apis which might not be there depending on the distro or version of the library which changes to often, or new releases break old things.

    One thing MS does right, is keep ALL old apis, so nothing old fails, linux or OSS guys usually dont care, and say tuff luck, N api is going away, live with it, they have less understanding of their customers, and simply think that 1000000s of people will 'adjust' their code to the new ways. Well if you coded the original properly you wouldnt need to redesign stuff would you.

  10. or browser reliabilitiy without crashing, cough FF on Google vs. Microsoft On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Pick a tab any tab, watch it suck all cpu because stupid advertising companies write bad JS that while loops forever killing all other tabs.

  11. Re:Because it doesn't look as good on New HDMI 1.4 Spec Set To Confuse · · Score: 1

    true, but also wasnt VGA 100% analogue signal, not digital, only DVI is really digital, so your explanations are fine for DVI which btw many TVs support now. Audio could have been part of DB9 ages ago if they bothered to think ahead, plenty of spare pins there. Bi-Dir audio, again hardly difficult to implement.

    Hopfully more mobiles/pdas/ebookreaders/cameras will start to use HDMI, rather than custom 1/9th composite adaptors (tho they are decent for SD)

  12. shouldnt taxes be lower for 96% on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    If the fuel you buy costs you $100, and taxes are some fixed percentage of that. Then should the taxes really be on 96% of the $100 = $96, so in effect the govt is charging you taxes for that 4% of pure h20. Is this an utter scam, farce, that worthy of class action lawsuits?

  13. thats why the swine flu was created on The Great Ethanol Scam · · Score: 1

    It just needs to spread like wildfire, and then get stronger due to anti flu drugs and mutate into a plague like killer cutting the earth population by 20%.

  14. I wonder how his dates with girls go on Wine Project Frustration and Forking · · Score: 1

    1. Err... your not pretty enough, go home.

    2. Err.. your voice is too winey, get loste.

    3. Err.. your appetite is too much for me, you pay the bill.

    4. Err.. Your moaning is too sickening, get TF outa here.

  15. thats not justice to just pull out on Last.fm User Data Was Sent To RIAA By CBS · · Score: 1

    Then anyone can make a lawsuit, and the minute they look like theyve lost, pull out and thus no loss.

    Having a no loss, 100% win court is pure fascist crap.

    Skewed systems never last, show me one that has > 300 yrs.

  16. Last post on World's Oldest Blogger Dies At 97 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    last port, and over and out.

  17. Re:WTF is RTMPE? on Clean-Room RTMPE Spec Created From rtmpdump · · Score: 1

    Maybe because half the other stories here are even more boring!!

  18. or learn basic html concepts.... on Clean-Room RTMPE Spec Created From rtmpdump · · Score: 1

    Like providing a link to what it is where it says the word RTMPE, just in the old says of 1994 html. Where people did place more active links to blocks of text. Even a tooltip cannot hurt really. Or a moreinfo icon.

    Who is lazy now? the author or the consumer?

    But I forget, we dont expect much professionalism of design or human aesthetics here, it is a techy site, where like man pages can be written poorly.

  19. Re:Go, Kiwi, Go! on Nesson & Camara Increase Attack Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    record companies used to claim the art work and physical cd were valuable and worth the high price in the 90s.

    therefore if thats still true, the music it self is a smaller portion of value of the whole cd, and if a copy in mp3 is 1/2 the quality, then it represents an even lower value.

    And no, online shops and sony dont sell 'convenience' we can create our own convenience thank you.

  20. Re:Cue postgres fan bois on Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? · · Score: 1

    nice for you, but unless you document every script and how to use it, no one knows how you run your shop or can take over.

    Sure you could use a fancy gui trigger with tk to call your scripts, or even java.

    Nothing wrong with guis either, scripts are nice, but arent the only way to automate things.

  21. Re: darn, 787 decission on HP Recalls 70,000 Laptop Batteries · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, I might reconsider to never fly routes that do a 787 in future since 90% of the parts are made in said country with cut corners tm procedures.

  22. not that easy on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 1

    Not if the hacker did write random data to each file or empty areas mutliply times.

    But surely another way to recover is to check your old harddrives, surely this guy upgraded HDs in the last 13 years, didnt he just keep a copy of the whole server on each replaced HD and just store it in the bottom drawer? Jeez, its wise to replace HDs every 12 months, and keep the old HD as a backup.

  23. australians only invest in property on An Australian Space Agency At Last? · · Score: 1

    Coz its boom boom, a market that never goes down, always 10% up, fast money, with tax deductions, its brick and mortar. Everyone should invest in housing, every person should own 5 properties. Its a win win, no chance of loosing, housing grants will protect the sellers! All investmnts are pittifull, go go housing! You know we have the largest country in the world, yet land is scarce and prices high.

  24. more simpler cores is the solution on Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs · · Score: 1

    Rather than having the main code go multi core, its probably better to have specialized long duration tasks to happen virtually in an instant. And for that to happen we need 100,000 simple cores on one die, each even at 300mhz or so but quite simple, the biggest issue is data io

  25. Re:Police state UK on The Electronic Police State · · Score: 1

    Does that include the calls/emails/smss of all the corrupt politicians and their bribary, and cona artistry? At least historical books will be a field day in discovery, unless they ofcourse freak out and emp nuke the whole country before fleeing it to Dubai