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  1. Re:Verizon wins on Testing 3G Networks Across the US · · Score: 1

    A village? How do you figure? The county I live has ~36k.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_County,_Indiana

  2. Re:It's not the cities, it's the spaces in between on Testing 3G Networks Across the US · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with this.

    I have 3g where I work, but not where I live and rarely where I travel. At home I have a choice between at&t and verizon and both have speeds close to dial-up. This article is fine if you stay in one area most of the time, but many of us don't. I want to know if I'm going to stay connected for 300mi drive I take every couple weeks.

  3. Re:The summary is missing something... on BD+ Resealed Once Again · · Score: 1

    I can see a difference, I just don't care. Not enough to justify spending money a new player and a premium on the movies vs dvd.

  4. Re:It's not the eye color screening that bugs me on Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be fair, not everyone wants children, including myself.

    Most yes, but I know several people that have no desire for children what-so-ever.

  5. Re:that's why...for the thousandth time, we need on Congress Mulls API For Congressional Data · · Score: 1

    You will never see line-item veto again since SCOTUS ruled it was unconstitutional.

  6. Re:10 000 - 40 000 years old fossils? on Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Way to re-hash the same 'ole shit over, and over, and over. It wasn't funny a year ago, It's not funny now. Yes people think that way, everyone here knows that. You know what? The only ones I hear bringing it up every discussion I read is you guys making fun of it. The people that actually believe talk about it less.

    It's off-topic and it's annoying.

  7. Re:Grrrr on New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads · · Score: 3, Informative

    Social programs are pork as well.

  8. Re:Compared to doing what? on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    No, but I have worked all day (and knee-deep) in a shit-filled livestock stall, more than a few times.

  9. Re:Compared to doing what? on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not everyone makes the decision, take for instance whole communities relocated by lake created by the three-gorges dam. Many of them were moved to areas so they could be factory workers. They did just fine (and were happier) living off the land.

  10. Re:Compared to doing what? on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would say subsistence farming is much better than 41 cents/hour in a factory.

  11. Re:What a timely story on Gamers, EFF Speak Out Against DRM · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had that happen with The Orange Box (sealed package with in-use key). A email to Valve and a copy of receipt was all it took to get a legit key. Took about 2 days.

  12. Didn't work for me on Rabbit Ears To Stage a Comeback Thanks To DTV · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We have a small set in the kitchen with rabbit ears, after putting on the converter box I can only pick up two channels. With analog tuning I can get six. I tried the box in another room that has a jack for the outdoor antenna and it picked up everything plus new some new stations I didn't know we could get, so I decided to do a coax drop into the kitchen.

    I live about 25mi from the transmitters. Such is the life in rural America I guess.

  13. Re:hardware drivers on BeOS Successor Haiku Keeps the Faith · · Score: 1

    Completely incompatible? I have Windows 7 running a Athlon XP 2800+ w/o any problems.

    What are these issues you speak of?

  14. Re:High speed Internet trains. on WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband · · Score: 1

    The government shouldn't be in the business of making a profit. As far as the highway system goes, if they are making anything more than break-even, the taxes are too high.

  15. Re:Proprietary OSs need a unified updater. on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That requires each of the companies you listed to cooperate.

    Companies generally don't like to do that.

  16. Re:It's my computer on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    I guess you can't read either. Not installing Google Earth means the updater is never installed. You don't have to worry about removing what was never there.

    If you don't like their policy, don't use their software. Simple.

  17. Re:Reviewers for Win 7 all bribed by Microsoft? on Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    How about a link to this "study"?

    I'm running the beta. It is faster. That's all the proof I need.

  18. Re:Smart People on Confessed Botnet Master Is a Security Professional · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only person that can be blamed is him. Not his parents, not the school, not society.

    No one put a gun to his head and made him hack. Take some responsibility.

    Ridiculous.

  19. Re:Un-bundling would be better on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    Windows update in vista doesn't use IE.

  20. Re:Don't want to pay on 2/3 of Americans Without Broadband Don't Want It · · Score: 1

    My parents just got Verizon DSL. It was 29.99 if you did a 2-year contract, 39.99 if you didn't.

    So yes, there are still contracts.

  21. Re:Pure BS on Windows 7 Taskbar Not So Similar To OS X Dock After All · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have you even used OS X, let alone Windows 7?

    Obviously not.

  22. Re:WTF is up with IBM? on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 1

    Just because they were needed at one point doesn't mean they are now. Efficiency can improve, automation can replace certain jobs, etc.

  23. Re:WTF is up with IBM? on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 1

    Just because you are making money doesn't mean you don't have bloat.

    Companies don't employee people just to give them jobs, they employee people because they need them. If you have no use for part of your workforce, regardless or earnings, the wise thing to do is slim-down.

  24. Re:America, on Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We elect a president, not a king.

    I would rather he go though proper channels than show a blatant abuse of power as you propose.

  25. Re:Someday in the future on The Web Braces For Inauguration Traffic · · Score: 1