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  1. Re:Home servers? on ArkOS: Building the Anti-Cloud (on a Raspberry Pi) · · Score: 2

    Comcast stop capping their customers a while ago. I still double check every time Steam has one of their holiday sales though. :)

  2. I've been on Comcast's low-speed for years on Comcast Launches Program For Low-Income Families · · Score: 1

    I'm paying way more than $10 a month for it though.

  3. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Those who use less of it should be rewarded and those who use more of it punished. There definitely needs to be petrol excise taxes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#United_States

    Fuel taxes in the United States vary by state. The United States federal excise tax on gasoline, as of February 2011, is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. In January 2011, motor gasoline taxes averaged 48.1 cents per gallon and diesel fuel taxes averaged 53.1 cents per gallon.[7] For the first quarter of 2009, the mean state gasoline tax is 27.2 cents per US gallon, plus 18.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 45.6 cents per US gallon (12.0 /L). For diesel, the mean state tax is 26.6 cents per US gallon plus an additional 24.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 50.8 cents US per gallon (13.4 /L).[8] There are also a few states that charge sales tax on top of the excise taxes and the retail price.

  4. Re:PC Decrapifier on An Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch Bloatware, Now! · · Score: 2

    Then you can go here http://ninite.com/ to batch install the useful stuff you do want.

  5. Re:Fantasyland on An Open Letter To PC Makers: Ditch Bloatware, Now! · · Score: 1

    I have purchased several machines from Dell, Toshiba and HP at various price levels. The uninstallers work perfectly fine. Even for things you ought not remove if you want OSD and hot buttons and the like to continue working.

    On behalf of those of us who know better, I'd like to offer your 'fuck you' right back to you.

  6. ZeusBot on Facebook Introduces One-Time Passwords · · Score: 1

    "Man in the Mobile"

    Smartphone variant already set to harvest OTP.

  7. Re:Great idea. on Facebook Introduces One-Time Passwords · · Score: 1

    Discover also does this.

  8. Prior Art on Sony Patents Game Demos With Feature Erosion · · Score: 1

    Infamous, Prototype and Bioshock2 all got progressively less fun to play as they wore on...

    Or does the patent only apply to demos?

  9. Purchase the Dead Tree Version on Amazon Pulls Book Publisher's Listings; Ebook Wars Underway? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Until all of this crap blows over and the industry pulls its collective head out of its collective ass I'll continue to do it the way I have for years now...

    Buy the dead tree version so the author gets paid and then download the ebook from a torrent site.

  10. Re:Price is the problem. on Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books · · Score: 1

    Sorry, near me in the US, the paperbacks usually go for $7.

    That makes the $10 nearly 50% more.

  11. Re:Price is the problem. on Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's my point exactly.

    If the physical paperback is $7, why is the ebook $10?

    Yeah, it's only a couple of bucks, but if the ebooks actually cost $3 more apiece to produce, I'll eat my hat.

     

  12. Price is the problem. on Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I got a Sony PR-505 last year and have yet to purchase a single ebook.

    The DRM bothers me, but there are enough python scripts running around that will strip it out of the epub/pdf formats that it's not that much of a concern.

    Price is why I don't buy them. While there are a handful of public domain books worth reading (opinion) the real content is only for sale.

    I just flat-out refuse to pay 50% more for the same content in basically the same format that the publisher already has filed away somewhere. When do you think the last time that a major popular author wrote out a manuscript on a typewriter was? Or longhand? You know it's already in an electronic document format somewhere.

    No printing, no binding, no shipping, no stocking, no returns. No fuel, no toxic waste from the paper making process, no toxins from the inks.

    Yet I get to pay 50% more?

  13. Re:What it really sounds like on Calling Video Professor a Scam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Calling Farmville a game is like calling Mattel (Hot-Wheels) a car company. :)

  14. Re:Why Windows XP? on Amazon Expands Kindle To the PC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Extended Support period until April 8, 2014.[2]
    Only critical security updates will be provided unpaid. Paid support is still available.
    Service Pack 2 supported until July 13, 2010.

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

    Want to try again?

  15. Re:Why all the dissin'? on New Wheel of Time Book — Chapter One Online, Released Oct 27 · · Score: 1

    Well, those people could respond too.

    Like almost all the others posting here, I tried, I really did. I made it through the first 6 before I stopped.

    Hell I even continued to buy them until the prequel came out just in case he ever finished them, but at some point nearly everyone I know who has tried to read them noticed that "nothing was happening", it looked like "nothing was ever going to happen", and when long-dead characters keep reappearing that meant "nothing had actually happened."

  16. Re:Nobody likes ELF. Not even their "allies." on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm really not trolling here, but PETA has been funding ELF for years.

    http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/general/columns/story?columnist=guest_columnist&page=g_col_PETA_ELF_NYPost has a reprinted article from the NY Post.

    I don't see many stories that are very recent, outside of what seem like blogs and bash-fests, but since PETA has denied ties all along, it doesn't make much difference to me whether they claim to have stopped or not.

  17. Re:Does it... on Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yup. You're missing something. They hide those kind of details in the article.

    Go ahead. Read it. I won't tell anyone.

  18. Why not store them Internally? on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 0

    I got nothin.

  19. Re:Oblig. on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wish I had mod points, I literally laughed out loud.

    Well played. :)

  20. "Byte-Compling EMACS" on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    For about 11 hours, iirc.

    Then the installer continued...

  21. Virtualization on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    This thread was finished on the third post.

  22. Re:And what's to stop pirates... on Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat · · Score: 1

    They already do that. It's called a TeleSync release.

  23. Re:did you not see on Zero-Day Excel Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 1

    The exploit is made of Tar?

  24. Re:I, for one, am thrilled! on The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming · · Score: 1

    You have to love the kits they use too... I saw a "Sendmail WIZ" exploit attempt a couple months ago. :)

  25. Re:What driver issues? on Which Distro For an Eee PC? · · Score: 1

    It's been my experience that Atheros chipsets have "some issues" (like they don't ever work) "out of the box" on the *.10 releases of Ubuntu. I thought I read somewhere that the *.10 are *secretly experimental* releases. That's certainly been my experience. Maybe he should try 8.04.