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  1. I actually know this on Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Rogers will let you register your iPad using the on-device provisioning with a US credit card so long as you give it a valid Canadian address. It doesn't seem to do any authentication of your address during that transaction. I haven't had much luck doing the same via a store or their website. The iPad is likely your best choice for this. If you have an unlocked phone, you can get a pre-paid Rogers SIM for about $10 at a FutureShop and pay $7-10 for a week of data or $2 for a day of data for your smart phone. If you have a "dumb" phone, data plans are about $10 a month for their pre-paid options.
    You'll have to go into a 7-11 and use your credit card to purchase some credit for the Rogers pay-go plans, but that's relatively simple. Don't load more than you are going to use each month, as it doesn't roll into the next month unless you spend over $100.

  2. Misleading Title on Mickos Says MySQL Code Better Than Ever Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    This article is an advert for the guy's cloud computing company, that's probably highly reliant on MySQL. One quote about the current state of MySQL became the leading headline how and why, exactly?

  3. Re:It's all about entropy on Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Secure Empty Trash overwrites your data with digital gibberish"
    From apple's site about Secure Empty Trash feature @ http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/empty_trash.html

  4. Re:Fake windows on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 1

    At least my office has a window.

  5. Re:Fake windows on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 1

    Clearly you have no friends.

  6. The Deal Never Closed on Pirate Bay Buyer Sued For Bankruptcy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They never completed the deal. TPB continues to be operated by the founders. This only affects the sale, which everyone was against anyway.

  7. Re:Verizon... on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 1

    You just have to refuse the credit. Once you accept the credit they have made their concession on the contract and you can no longer attempt for the ETF.

  8. Yay! I'm free! on Get Out of Sprint Free · · Score: 1

    I'm finally free from that awful Sprint Data plan with my PC Card.
    The first month was great. 2+ Mbps.
    After I was unable to cancel my contract within the "trial balloon", speeds dropped to 100Kbps--on a good day!
    I've been shelling out money for this UNTIL NOW.
    I called them up, had to bark at the customer retention rep as he claimed that they couldn't waive it because they can do what they want neener-neener-neener take this $10 line item discount and be happy! And finally, after must protest, they cut me loose.

    Just be forceful and adamant about it!

  9. Re:Going... on Balancing Performance and Convention · · Score: 1

    Stay away from Drupal.
    I think there is a huge conspiracy going on between Drupal "press" and Drupal "consultants".

  10. Re:Global Warning on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    I, for one, am worried most about global temperature stability.

  11. Re:I don't think it's quite as they tell it on How Sony's Development of the Cell Processor Benefited Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ...do you really believe the hype when absolutely nothing has come out on ps3 that blows the 360's capabilities away? Haven't they had enough time? Where is the practical proof?

    Metal Gear.

    'nuff said.

  12. Re:Wait.. on Google Apps Gets a 99.9% Guarantee · · Score: 1

    I just completed a report on this subject for a class that I've posted online. I discuss the specifics of Google's clustering technology.
    http://googlepleasehireme.com/

  13. Known about this for years on Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole · · Score: 3, Funny

    My friends and I have known about this hole since high school. Every version of Windows with SMB has underlying, invisible, "root" accounts which cannot be removed without a great deal of diligence. These accounts have no password and give full access to the SMB share. I'm shocked that it has taken Microsoft this long to address the issue.

  14. Re:I know why... on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points.
    I'll use Chrome when it supports FreeBSD and comes bundled with a Flash player that's compatible with FreeBSD. I.e. never.

  15. don't bother on Learning Drupal 6 Module Development · · Score: 1

    Don't spend your time learning Drupal.

    It is by far one of the most poorly organized CMS products out there.
    If 6 is anything like previous versions, be prepared for lacking documentation, security holes, incompatible plug-ins, spaghetti and meatballs code, and a PHP 3/4-esque procedural coding style totally devoid of objects.

    If that suits your fancy and you are a consultant looking to charge your clients ever-increasing rates, then by all means--go for it.

  16. Re:Politically incorrect and I don't care on US Outlaws Online Gambling · · Score: 1

    Historically incorrect, not politically incorrect.

    America was started because of unjust Taxation without representation on the colonies that were started by privateers with charters to incorporate from England.

  17. Flash animation on Microsoft Sues and Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    How much you want to bet their Flash animation was made on a pirated copy of Flash?

  18. Re:I use it for my business on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 1

    I have no respect for you whatsoever.

  19. Check garnishing on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is more likely to do with the new bankruptcy laws. Now that the credit card companies can garnish your wages post-chapter-11 it's likely to become company policy across the board.

  20. economics on Why the iPod is Losing its Cool · · Score: 1

    The economy is going through a bubble, not just the iPod. The decline in sales is indicative of an economy in turmoil and it only stands to get worse.

    This Christmas I'll be holding sign outside the mall entrances that say "How in debt are you?"

    At this point I don't think there's any turning back. We might as well let the bankers brand our asses and round us up together in the back-40 somewhere.

  21. Specialized Bikes on Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    My Specialized bike was engineered on a Sun computer. All the Specialized bikes I've owned have had a little sticker declaring it. I don't know if that qualifies as "super-computing" but the use of tech in sporting isn't new.

  22. Re:Message for Captain Obvious on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 1

    Because we can't own nuclear weapons. In effect: fear.

  23. Re:Playing catch up on The New Japan 360 Plan · · Score: -1

    Clearly there's a Nintendo bias on Slashdot "mod points", skewing obvious "flamebait" material into "insightful". What sort of process-of-elimination is involved in delivering Pro-Nintendo comments (and subsequent mod-points) to Non-Nintendo parent-subjects?

    Simply put: Mod parent down.

  24. Re:I'm sorry on Ask.Com's New Look Competes Well With Google · · Score: 1

    No, you're right. I don't search with anyone else. I told a guy the other day that if you aren't a search result on Google, then you don't exist.

  25. Re:One step at a time... on Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    That's why Kellog Brown and Root are working on building several million+ person prisons here in the states. It's for people unwilling to live as endentured servants and people trying to get away from the draft.
    Just watch. We'll be heaping bodies on the fire faster than Hitler can light a match.