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  1. Bass Ackwards on AT&T and Verizon LTE Networks Compared · · Score: 1

    AT&T has said the average user of its home DSL system consumes 18GB per month. At current rates, that would run $180/month for LTE wireless service.

    AT&T phone and DSL is on average $90/month. So you get two times the cost, the same amount of usage, used in a fraction of the time. Awesome! Cant wait to dodge that deal.

  2. Free? on DC Universe Online Goes F2P · · Score: 2

    Free as in; I do not have to give them any personal information, any business information, any money, and free of any chance installing their software will effect my computer? That would be the only circumstances I would involve myself with Sony.

  3. Two address minimum on When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?' · · Score: 1

    Doesn't everyone have an email address that they use for non-human communication? If your dealing directly with a human you give them your direct account sgt_scrub@. If your dealing with an online entity you give them your non-human address spamaway_beotch@.

  4. Re:Just wait on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. The procedure requires them to apply the gene therapy to stem cells before the transfusion. That will keep it illegal in the U.S. for at least 50 years.

    umbilical cord blood is a life!

  5. Re:Shocking. on Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check · · Score: 1

    everyone was encouraged to do the absolute best

    They still are. However, now it is a requirement to show that you have done above and beyond what you were hired for. If you do not, you will be replaced.

  6. Re:Stallman was right on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    The user is rarely a coder.

    The Windows user is rarely a coder. FTFY

  7. Re:Register as a developer on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    It is the same model as signed binaries. It isn't that big of a deal but can have a major annoying effect if your application needs to start up in the background. ie. If your application is supposed to start up as a service isn't signed, windows updates like to disable it.

  8. Re:Not yet well understood on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    You know that ribbon on the right side of the windows desktop with applets in it? Remove everything to the left.

  9. Re:This may be good on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    We need someone to sneak into Ballmer's room while he's sleeping and play a recording with subliminal message: "USERS USERS USERS. USERS USERS USERS! YES!"... Maybe replace it that with power users

    If you replace it with power users won't his subconscious just filter out the users? POWER POWER POWER POWER... Even more scary, what if that is what he hears in his sleep anyway!

  10. Re:Slow down and THINK on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    In a way, this sort of reminds me of the Ubuntu/Unity debate. Either you like Unity or you don't.

    Not really. In the Unity debate the software is free. You haven't payed for the pretty. If your disabling bits and pieces of something you paid for you should get a refund.

  11. Cool on Microsoft Taking Apple's Walled Garden Approach For Metro Apps · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft didn't have multiple vectors for installing applications, one being behind user's eyes, malware writers would have to brush up on installer software. It's a bitch detecting code wrapped up in an installer.

  12. Re:This can't be true! on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    You've been told to believe a Cuban hospital is a hut. You couldn't be farther from reality. http://cubamed.com/

  13. Re:This can't be true! on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    The infant mortality rate has the largest differences between the U.S. and Cuba; but, your correct. It is because 99.999% of Americans sky dive off tall buildings, play Russian roulette, and can only afford the dollar menu at McCrap.

  14. Re:This can't be true! on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    No. That quite literally IS "best per capita".

  15. +2 on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    WinSCP
    Xming

  16. Re:#1 tool on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    Ironically, now that Microsoft purchased sysinternals, it is not listed.

  17. That was a nice nap. on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    If 8% of Americans (the number of millionaires) make more in interest then most do while working all year long, they can afford to pay a larger percentage on that income. If the 100 billionaires in the U.S. can make more than 50% of the populations combined earnings in a single year, they can afford to pay more too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States

    http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/16/news/economy/millionaires/index.htm

    http://www.forbes.com/wealth/billionaires/list?country=225&industry=-1&state=

  18. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    There is nothing the "The Buffet" is doing that you can't.

    Except make $800,000 in interest while taking a nap. FTFY

  19. DWI on Breath Detector To Help Find Earthquake Survivors · · Score: 1

    In Texas they would pull you out then give you a ticket for Dying While Intoxicated.

  20. What == GTFO? on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 1

    1) Seismologists are resident to the area.

    2) The earth shakes frequently.

    3) ?

    Do you really need 3 before you realize you need to GTFO?

  21. Re:Who do I write on Seven States Pile On To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Deal · · Score: 1
  22. Re:BJs aplenty on Seven States Pile On To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Deal · · Score: 1

    If you like, I'll run. I don't care what they look like as long as all of the bits are there.

  23. Re:BJs aplenty on Seven States Pile On To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Deal · · Score: 1

    Your talking about an evangelical candidate. I'm sure he already has a little boy for that.

  24. Re:Get some integrity, guys! on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    Now apply those numbers to something useful. In CA there are 5,132,640 people living in poverty 1,846,994 of them are children. In NH 110,769 people live in poverty 31,278 of them are children. These numbers do not include illegal aliens afraid of taking the senses. I'd willing to be large sums of money NH doesn't have as many illegal aliens as CA.

    http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/saipe/saipe.cgi http://www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/data/maps/index.html

  25. Re:I've been to Seattle on Startup Flees To Seattle Amid Amazon's Tax Fight · · Score: 1

    I visited the Tri-Cities when I was a kid to visit family. We went swimming one day then drove up into the mountains and went snow skiing the next.