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  1. PrefBar! on How To Beat Online Price Discrimination · · Score: 1

    http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/ could do that. ;)

  2. Re:Recommend: Hard Drive Sentinel on Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Link... on Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud · · Score: 1

    Hehe. Also, you forgot to punctuate at the end of your last sentence. ;)

  4. Re:Link... on Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud · · Score: 1

    And you haven't been spelling his name for a long time? :P

  5. Re:backup for 911 on Software Glitch Caused 911 Outage For 11 Million People · · Score: 1

    What if one travels a lot in USA? 911 does local ones. Can 411 go to 911?

  6. Re:I'm betting on balloons on Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones · · Score: 1

    I'd say use all of those technologies as long as they can work together and offer the broadband Internet services.

  7. Re:Sounding another death knell for cable companie on Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices · · Score: 1

    I am curious how many people watch the commercials. Is there a Nielsen (not Neilson!) for those?

  8. Re:All the more reason to get an antenna. on Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices · · Score: 1

    I wished I could do OTA again in my new place, but the transmitters are blocked by small mountains/giant hills and trees. :(

  9. Re:Instead of the "bah" ... on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 1

    Aren't there a lot of rules and laws to to make this difficult these days though?

  10. Re:Instead of the "bah" ... on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 1

    "I'm not fat. I'm big boned."

  11. Re:and the cities are... on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 1

    Bah, none in my areas. :(

  12. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: LTE Hotspot As Sole Cellular Connection? · · Score: 1

    I used dial-up when my cable Internet went out. It was my backup Internet connection. I basically had the same symptoms you had where I lived in (not that rural though, but on small mountains/giant hills). Noisy copper phone lines (no DSL due to 20+K ft. to CO) causing my modems (even good brands) to struggle with error corrections (could see the external modem's EC(?) light blinking) and sometimes end up with disconnections. I could never get 53k (not 56k due to FCC rules) connections. My good average downloading of compressed files was only about 3 kB/sec. :(

  13. Smartwatch without phones? on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Will it be a stand alone smartwatch that doesn't require a mobile phone? I want a smartwatch like the old school Casio DataBank Calculator (150/300) watches. :(

  14. Re:Don't on Ask Slashdot: LTE Hotspot As Sole Cellular Connection? · · Score: 1

    What about dial-up, WISP, satellite, etc. for Internet over there?

  15. Re:Because studies show ... on Facebook and Apple Now Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs · · Score: 1

    Thanks and interesting. :)

  16. Re:I see another problem. on Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster · · Score: 1

    That is why you keep posting status updates. :P

  17. Re:Not at all accurate on How Whisper Tracks Users Who Don't Share Their Location · · Score: 1

    Can TOR be used with this program to make it even harder to track?

  18. Re:Desktop is dying we need a good Workstation OS on OS X 10.10 Yosemite Review · · Score: 1

    I wonder why Apple hasn't made touch screens for desktops and (laptop/notebook)s.

    I don't like the gestures for mousepads and others though. Why remove the vertical scrollbars when a mouse is not connected? I have to use two fingers to scroll up/down. :(

  19. Re:No new macbook pro on Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More · · Score: 1

    And same with MacPros. :P [grin]

  20. Re:List of Animals by number of Neurons on Scientists Find Rats Aren't Smarter Than Mice, and That's Important · · Score: 1

    I don't have a brain! :(

  21. Re:also applies to flash and acrobat on Adobe: Click-to-Play Would Have Avoided Flood of Java Zero-days · · Score: 1

    I dumped it after Mozilla added start plugin on demand options.

  22. Re:Total Isolation? on HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription · · Score: 2

    I bet this will make cable TV prices go up even more. :(

  23. Re:Don't like it? on Commerce Secretary: US Wants Multi-Stakeholder Process To Preserve Internet · · Score: 2

    Build you are own Internet? :P

  24. Re:Total Isolation? on HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription · · Score: 1

    Same here. I just found out from /.

  25. Re:Because studies show ... on Facebook and Apple Now Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs · · Score: 1

    Wow, which sporter announcer was this?