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  1. What if RoboCall industry creates jobs? on T-Mobile Kicks Off Industry Robocall War With Network-Level Blocking and ID Tools (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1
    What if RoboCall industry creates jobs? .. Could that be a justification to permit robocalls?

    "With Republicans now in charge across the government, AT&T and Comcast are also poised to benefit from further deregulation. Since the presidential election, the companies have pushed the new Republican-led F.C.C., lawmakers and the White House to roll back net neutrality, the requirement that broadband providers give equal access to all content on the internet, saying the rules hamper their ability to invest in new networks and jobs."

  2. Similar behaviour as other free Software on Since-Pulled Cyanogen Update For Oneplus Changes Default Home Page To Bing · · Score: 1

    muTorrent does the same and changes default search engine
    "We are among many products that support the production and distribution of our free software through advertising..." http://forum.utorrent.com/topi...
    That's one way developers of free software get paid ...

  3. Re:FIghting the system is a mental health issue on Clay Shirky On Hackers and Depression: Where's the Love? · · Score: 2
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

    Andrews found a significant correlation between depressed affect and individual performance on the intelligence test, at least once the subjects were distracted from their pain: lower moods were associated with higher scores. “The results were clear,” Andrews says. “Depressed affect made people think better.”

  4. Re:Actually, no on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 1
  5. Re:I thought they were already doing this... on Amazon Patents Bad Service For Bad Customers · · Score: 1

    One of the reps told me on the phone that if you choose free shipping, your order goes through a delivery tar pit (Delivery is deliberately delayed).