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  1. Re:Donate it on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    to underpriviled inner city orphans in a homeless shelter.

    No one underprivileged would be able to afford the AT&T iPhone plan.

  2. Re:"The flaw" not really much of a flaw on T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be a resident. I have friends from the UK and Brazil who own T-Mobile prepay SIMs and use them each time they come to the US for business every 6-10 months. Very convient to get off the plane and have a working number.

    They use the prepay plan where you buy the SIM and $100 of credit and that number/SIM is good for a year. Each time you add any credit, it extends the life for another year. They use the $1talk/day, $2talk/2G/day or $3talk/4G/day options since their visits are usually around 7-10 days.

    T-Mobile also offers prepay monthly plans, so don't get confused with pay by the day options.

  3. Re:A Better Measure of Apple's Power on Apple Is Now the Most Valuable Company In History · · Score: 1

    In May I stopped by the Sunnyvale Main Post Office...

    The "main" Sunnyvale Post Office is in downtown Sunnyvale.

    You're complaining about a warehouse sorting center.

  4. Re:I predict, for the moment, only.... on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And what happened with iOS is going to happen again with MacOSX.

    Continued increasing sales year after year?

  5. Re:In unrelated news... on Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens To Contain H7N3 Virus · · Score: 2

    Oh, I doubt if anyone would have handled any of it outside of containment, likely the bodies will be cremated, if they ain't already, aside from samples.

    Of course there is no reason to fear that the Mexican govt wouldn't follow process.

    Or the workers hauling all of it away.

  6. Re:In unrelated news... on Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens To Contain H7N3 Virus · · Score: 1

    I guess you aren't aware of the El Pollo Loco chain or restaurants. ;-)

  7. Re:In unrelated news... on Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens To Contain H7N3 Virus · · Score: 1

    Actually it will be sold through the El Pollo Loco chain.

  8. Re:Here is my experience: Italy to the US on How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders · · Score: 1

    You might want to check out TunnelBear.com too.

  9. Re:Flowers for Algernon on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Flowers for Algernon was a gut ripper if you get invested in the character.

  10. Re:Speed! on Amazon Expanding Delivery Locker Service · · Score: 1

    If I could get stuff a day earlier by stopping at one of the UPS or Fedex stores on my way home from work, I probably would do it.

    You can call FedEx and have any delivery redirected to your preferred FedEx-Kinkos location for pickup.

  11. Re:The P.O. Box reinvented? on Amazon Expanding Delivery Locker Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh... nice... I'd just as soon see FedEX and UPS do something similar.

    You can have any FedEx delivery being shipped to your home held at the nearest FedEx-Kinko's location for pickup.

  12. Re:Why i is different than WiFi on Carriers Blame the iPhone For Data Caps and Increased Upgrade Fees · · Score: 1

    Can the WiFi handle calls from GSM handsets as-is?.

    Yes.

    The Android OS supports SIP calls.

  13. Re:Careful with this one... on Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account · · Score: 0

    Seriously?

    After calling out Tim Cook personally, getting Gawker Media involved,Gizmodo also carrying the story written by a different editor

    Multiple articles from a single source is still a single source.

    you are still going with the denial angle?

    Independent confirmation would be nice.

  14. Re:Careful with this one... on Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Read all the way to the end of the article: Apple already fessed up.

    The article written by the someone who could be making it all up?

  15. Re:Weak security questions on Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account · · Score: 2

    And this report is coming from someone associated with Gizmodo.

    This whole report could be staged.

  16. Re:Awesome! on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    How can you go wrong with Sun SPARC systems?

  17. Re:Ms. Moneypenny, compose a letter to Bart Sibrel on Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing · · Score: 1

    As an aside, I've never really heard from the conspiracy theorists on this one: Were Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 faked? Apollo 8 was the mission that flew around the Moon.

    After the crew of Apollo 1 died a horrible death, all of the later Apollo missions were unmanned.

    Those capsules weren't ready to support humans until just before the Skylab missions.

  18. Re:Look for other sources on Why You Should Be More Interested In Mars Than the Olympics · · Score: 1

    Also there is an NBC Olympics app that lets you watch live feeds (I think that will mean no commentary).

    So you are making recommendations you haven't tried.

  19. Re:Seems like a tremendous waste on NASA Considers Apollo-Era F1 Engine For Space Launch System · · Score: 1

    Money for a study on a stone age rocket design* seems like a federal handout, nothing more.

    Exactly. NASA's future is paying companies like SpaceX to handle payloads.

    This is nothing more than gov't pork expenses.

  20. Re:Tor Discussion Forums !!! on NASA Considers Apollo-Era F1 Engine For Space Launch System · · Score: 1

    2) That was a lot of work just to get a couple of suckers to click on Goatse links.

    You make a habit of clicking on spam links?

  21. Re:Routing problem? on Google Scrambles To Restore Google Talk From Outage · · Score: 1

    Google Voice didn't go down. Did you even read the article?

  22. Re:What I'll pay on Canadians To Get Unbundled Cable TV Channels · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm willing to pay $15/month for HBO, SyFy, and the Food Network.

    Remember when the SyFy channel actually showed SciFi programming?

  23. Re:Saves nothing, really. on AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans · · Score: 1

    On the home page, yes. But not in the "plans" page.

    In general, their entire site is quite vague on specifics of anything except how to give them money.

  24. Re:Two steps forward, one step back on Dell To Offer Ubuntu Laptops Again · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dell is the fourth largest PC vendor in ...

    a declining PC market.

  25. Re:Saves nothing, really. on AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Their site makes no mention of providing SMS or data.