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  1. Re:Is he likely to have privileged knowledge? on FTC Attorney Joins Microsoft · · Score: 1

    not only is it possible, it's almost certain that he saw privileged info, and the only thing stopping him from sharing that info with MS is the threat of a lawsuit from Google (which would get quietly settled out of court)

  2. Re:Graft on FTC Attorney Joins Microsoft · · Score: 1

    How one feeds himself and is family during this three years is not explained.

    Simple, you just live off all the bribes and free dinner coupons you collected during your time as a government employee.

  3. Re:Dangerous Denial Of Brutality on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 1

    I think you misread (it wasn't worded that well). She was accusing the police of taunting the crowd until one of the crowd members is provoked into attacking a police officer, at which point the police feel justified in beating and teargassing the crowd, because it was someone from the crowd that "threw the first punch"

  4. Re:This applies to ALL textbooks on Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks · · Score: 1

    From my experience going through public education in the US, preparing people for the workforce is that ONLY purpose of public education. They don't want you to know TOO much math, otherwise you might notice that your employer is only paying you 20% of what you are worth, and that the government is taking 30% of what you make, but only 5% of what your boss is making. An uneducated populace is a controllable populace.

  5. Re:get over it on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    $800 per semester just for the technology fee? is that in US dollars and if so, does that price include a free laptop? At the college I'm currently going to, $800 would cover a full 3rd of my full-time tuition.

  6. Re:get over it on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    students are not staff, and universities are not corporations or government offices Too many schools nowadays are forgetting that the students are the customers. If the school charges a "technology" fee separate from tuition, then the school is operating a separate "technology" service. Why are the students not allowed to have full access to a service that they are forced to pay upwards of $75/semester for?

  7. Re:Scam. on T-Mobile Announces LTE Network · · Score: 1

    I wish they only throttled down to edge speeds, but its actually SLOWER than edge. When t-mobile first implemented 3g/4g throttling, you could manually switch the phone to 2g and get somewhat faster speeds from unthrottled edge. About a month later they started throttling edge too. When you hit your monthly limit, you can't stream anything, unless you are willing to wait 2 minutes between songs on pandora.

  8. Re:Scam. on T-Mobile Announces LTE Network · · Score: 1

    For t-mobile, this would mean that you would have blazing fast internet for exactly 9 minutes and 13 seconds before you hit the 5gb "unlimited" cap, at which point you would spend the rest of the month reliving the year 1994 with a 48kbps (dialup!) speed limit.

  9. Re:LTE iPhone? on T-Mobile Announces LTE Network · · Score: 1

    Ironically, I left at&t and switched to t-mobile a year and a half ago because I thought at&t's selection of phones sucked compared to t-mobile. Android phone that I can't even sideload apps onto, let alone root? no way!