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  1. Clear? as in clear.com? on IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization · · Score: 2

    I thought that was clear.com-- I have no knowledge/personal experience of them- but thought that clear.com did just that
    http://www.clear.com/packages

    $49.99 a month gets you 3-6ish mbps down and 1.5mbps up, 34.99 1.5 down, .5 up

    As I say, I have no experience- but I am familiar with their website (I'm outside their range) do they perhaps treat their customers like shit?
    their plans are strictly month to month- you can halt and resume readily. Do they not fit the scenario you describe?

  2. BULLCRAP on Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming · · Score: 1
  3. And true or not-- it provides lube on New Study Suggests Mars Viking Robots Found Life · · Score: 5, Interesting

    to loosen up a few dollars to the space program.

  4. Fyi to the above-- on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    if you don't get it? equate it to requiring a ink stamp with your legally binding signature.....

  5. Gotta love this gem from the law as written on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    "AN EMPLOYER MAY REQUIRE AN EMPLOYEE TO DISCLOSE ANY
    26 USER NAME, PASSWORD, OR OTHER MEANS FOR ACCESSING NONPERSONAL
    27 ACCOUNTS OR SERVICES THAT PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE EMPLOYER’S INTERNAL
    28 COMPUTER OR INFORMATION SYSTEMS."

    the 'terry childs' portion...

    can you enter in financially binding transactions with your account? like a stock broker? well-- good luck proving it wasn't you if your password for work accounts MUST be known...

  6. Wowsers... on Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site? · · Score: 1

    "They do wierd things like load web pages repeatedly while never loading images/running javascript/loading CSS stylesheets."

    Just saying-- so do the blind....

  7. Re:Be afraid, I am an employer on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1

    staff tracking? like around an amusement park, cruise ship, movie theater or a motel?

    if I can see staff members aren't sweeping out theater 5 each night after the middle show but hanging out tiwht the cute blonde in the office? yea.. that's valuable with this kind of tracking...

  8. Umm... which half are you in? on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1

    IQ is an average, not a median.

    therefore half the population is not necessarily under 100,

    their aggregate score on the other hand........

  9. Be afraid, I am an employer on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1

    and I really want one of these to mount to a name tag....

    and I am not the only one with these desires.

  10. here you go on Ask Slashdot: Is a Home Drone Feasible? · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.avinc.com/uas/small_uas/raven/
    10km range

    only 50k

    (this should tell you are way outta budget line)

  11. REALLY DISAGREE! on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    first you need to decide precisely how you are going to defend.. then you build the catalog of threats... for two reasons

    1- locating everything does JACK for you if you can't stop anything yet, if you can see it- but do nothing- it sucks.
    if you can deal with it, and miss seeing it-- it sucks, but at least with the latter you have a better chance of success 100% kill ratio on 10% of objects as located is better than 0% kill ration on 100% known objects

    2- knowing the method defines how encompassing your catalog of astral bodies have to be..

    if the method selected allows for getting meteors within mars orbit and moving at 1/10th lightspeed or so,-- that's all you gotta look for.
    if the method available requires having months advance notice (launch per interception, ship per interception, and sending up oil drillers with nukes) we gotta look farther out for more lead time

  12. Re:Enjoy your delusion on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 2

    http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/32gb-microsd-card/

    weight of a micro sd card :~ .5 grams

    capacity of a micro sd card:~ 64 gb
    http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332714352&sr=8-1

    MATH:~ 1000/64 = 15.6 or 16 cards
    https://www.google.com/search?q=1000%2F64&btnG=Search

    16 cards weighs 8 grams grams

    Capacity of a pigeon:~ 38 grams
    http://interbug.com/pigeon/technology/homing_pigeon_with_gps.pdf
    "Thirty-eight grams total is still a lot for a pigeon to carry, representing about ten percent of its body weight."

  13. Re:Not going to work on Can Translucency Save Privacy In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    specification/spesfikSHn/
    Noun:
    An act of describing or identifying something precisely or of stating a precise requirement.
    A detailed description of the design and materials used to make something.

  14. So could you use this 4 kids eating buckyballs? on 'Antimagnet' Cloak Hides Objects From Magnetic Fields · · Score: 0

    If a child swallows two buckyballs they have gotten stuck against different parts of the intestinal tract.
    this causes problems...

    a single passes no problem. could you use this (or some other magnetic field I suppose) to negate the attraction between two or more magnets long enough to let them pass as well?

  15. Better on Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses · · Score: 1

    Altered herpes, "that it isn't attacked by the immune system"

  16. Re:Barring? on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 1

    'cause they sell stuff designed to run on an apple OS? including powerpoint?

    including tons of apps on the itunes store?

  17. ...(quiet cough)... on Peoples' Immune Systems Can Now Be Duplicated In Mice · · Score: 1

    http://www.physorg.com/news180722781.html
    "Researchers have known for more than 20 years that a reaction by a patient’s own immune system against the artery wall can trigger a heart attack."

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/274921.stm
    "Heart failure may be caused by a malfunctioning of the body's immune system, according to new research."

    there's a lot more out there.. google it...

  18. they were all shipped from france. on A Look At One of Blizzard's Retired World of Warcraft Servers · · Score: 2

    I looked at the auctions when they originally occured

    they were shipped INDIVIDUALLY from France, so the price ain't that bad

    Now, WHY TF they weren't shipped to one point in the US (say Blizzard headquarters) and then individually shipped to buyers-- escapes me.

  19. Wanna know why you didn't get accepted? on Ask Slashdot: Finding an IT Job Without a Computer-Oriented Undergraduate Degree · · Score: 1

    "nonsensical general education" wow.. go to a cert mill school next time you pass through Samsara

    you can, without college, learn any subject on your own, even better than college can teach you.

    but the other subjects required for a degree are typically to balance you out as a functional and 'edumacated' induhvidual.

    the ability to be well rounded, and to learn new material is not the least of what college grants you-- it is that precisely that college gives you, that training schools don't.

    "nonsensical general education" indeed.. Christ.. so you attended classes in a topic other than psychology at all.. those animals... get the hell off my lawn!

  20. Re:Curveball. on Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong · · Score: 1

    And that would work rather well on a finger tracking touchscreen too... interesting indeed!

  21. Noooo! Danny, remember Bill Murray .. on Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Be the ball!"

        It's all about different perspective!

    I want a pong where game play is I'm the ball and I choose the amount of english on the spin

    I want frogger from a first person view. I want an turn based "defender" where I control a massive army against an overpowered computer AI player.
    Dammit, I want a lunar lander where I am fucking gravity......

  22. IBM had one in 1996-this'l blow your mind.... on Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/pan/pan.html

    "Scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA) are perfecting a new Personal Area Network technology that uses the natural electrical conductivity of the human body to transmit electronic data.

    Using a small prototype transmitter (roughly the size of a deck of cards) embedded with a microchip, and a slightly larger receiving device, the researchers can transmit a pre-programmed electronic business card between two people via a simple handshake. Whats more, the prototype allows data to be transmitted from sender to receiver through up to four touching bodies."

  23. Two Little Words (I think) on Ask Slashdot: How To Give IT Presentations That Aren't Boring? · · Score: 1

    I mean, it is "Booth Babes" and not "Boothbabes" right?

  24. Re:All I can say is on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    unless they are a drug mule.

  25. English perhaps, but not UK on Interview With Suren Ter From 'You Have Downloaded' · · Score: 1

    http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/31/scotland-gets-first-file-sharing-conviction

    and the article also alludes to "This is the fifth conviction in the UK for filesharing. Four of the five man team behind the BitTorrent tracker OiNK pleaded guilty to filesharing in early 2010. "