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  1. Re:5 GB is also... on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    and Virgin Mobile is saying that they can't handle a lot of people doing about one hour of Netflix streaming, every day for a week. Or A Steam purchase of BioShock 2. I sympathize with you are so rural you have to do this to have any internet but none of the companies will. This will continue. Your choice will eventually be move or be the lowest level of internet.

  2. Re:English translation on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    To make sure we can keep offering our $40 Unlimited Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting a speed limit in place for anyone on that plan who uses over 5GB in a month

    Translation: To make sure we can keep offering our $40 "Unlimited" Broadband2Go Plan at such a great price, we're putting limitations on it, but still calling it unlimited. Simple, really.

    $40.00 per month for unlimited mobile Internet (but not unlimited downloaded content) there are saying that access is unlimited connection is unlimited but the actual moving of bytes isn't. fair and reputable.

  3. Re:Not a big deal on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    Move to the city. If the city is over priced, you can move to the cheapest part of this country, Oklahoma, Kansas Arkansas. People are welcomed here, Otherwise, would you like some Merlot with your Swiss?

  4. Re:Paraphrasing Jay and Silent Bob SB on Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot · · Score: 1

    I am that way too.

  5. Re:People always focus on the "how" on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 1

    You need to watch some good scifi. Earth orbit has given us numerous things that we wouldn't have otherwise. Mars will be the same. As for the investors, it will more than likely be a billionaire who doesn't care who will fund it.

  6. Re:Baen Books on Book Piracy — Less DRM, More Data · · Score: 1

    While you are true, its fascinating that none of those Journey bands made them any money. yet they left them alone. So when they were approached By Ryan Murphy to use "Don't Stop believing' in his pilot that he was doing they said yes, What did they have to lose? They now say they have made more money of that song thanks to Glee that they ever did what it under industry control. And it took a female broadway star and an unknown actor who never sang before to do it right. So you are half right. People pirate to deprive the industry money, that's why the wolverine work print appeared. What the industry doesn't get is that there is a max amount that can be made on piece of entertainment.

  7. Re:Baen Books on Book Piracy — Less DRM, More Data · · Score: 1

    Honestly? This is a list of authors who have Published with Baen from their web page: Aaron Allston Catherine Asaro Isaac Asimov Margaret Ball Nigel Bennett C. Dale Brittain Clyde Caldwell Paul Chafe C J Cherryh Hal Colebatch Chris Dolley L. Warren Douglas David Drake Bob Eggleton P.N. Elrod Esther Friesner Doranna Durgin Rosemary Edghill Eric Flint Dave Freer David D. Friedman Roberta Gellis James C. Glass Robert A. Heinlein James P Hogan Sarah Hoyt Tom Kidd Tom Kratman Mercedes Lackey Edward M. Lerner Holly Lisle Anne McCaffrey David Mattingly Kurt Miller Elizabeth Moon Jody Lynn Nye Jerry Pournelle John Ringo Spider & Jeanne Robinson Fred Saberhagen Martin Scott Michael Shea Mark Shepherd Josepha Sherman Wm. Mark Simmons Wen Spencer Harry Turtledove's Lars Walker David Weber K.D. Wentworth Michael Z. Williamson These people make enough money to live off their writing and several are the who's who of the Sci fi community. Major movies have been made from their works. Baen simply believes that DRM is unworkable.

  8. Re:Don't try too hard to crush piracy. on Book Piracy — Less DRM, More Data · · Score: 2

    However as an author, ebooks do get old and die quickly unlike bound print. In an old book story I can find Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany or Dayworld by Jose Louis farmer or After the Fact by Fred Saberhagen or the Stand by Stephen King or 'the life of Olaudah equiano' which was his autobiography written in the early 19th century during the fight to end slavery in Britain. Unlike other media, Books in bound form are enduring and quantitative. I perfer to have my book bound because a nook, kindle etc won't function in 2050. However, a bound copy of 'Summon the Heroes' will. We need to move in all forms of media to the concept of shared space and acceptable loses. Until them, this insanity will continue and good books will vanish just like they did when the Library of Alexandria burned millenia ago.

  9. Re:I you belive some random dude on UK Targets Twitter and Blog Endorsements · · Score: 1

    That's the most true thing I have seen on /.

  10. Re:It's Because of the Phone Calls on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    Two brothers... One speaks no English, the other learned English from watching "The Wide World of Sports." So you tell me... Which is better, speaking no English at all, or speaking Howard Cosell?

  11. Re:BT stands for British Communications PLC on BT Content Connect May Impact Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Well you should. Those positively charged fishing nets attracted more fish than the standard hemp ones and when the King favored them, things got bad.

  12. Re:NASA modernization program? on NASA To Continue Funding Canceled Ares Project Until March · · Score: 1

    all workers and no capital will product nothing as well. With capital there is no way to get resources and no incentive for the workers to work. Unless you are suggesting slavery?

  13. Re:NASA modernization program? on NASA To Continue Funding Canceled Ares Project Until March · · Score: 1

    Oh really? So you believe that a country that has no one wealthy would work. OK, Venezuela is for you.

  14. Re:NASA modernization program? on NASA To Continue Funding Canceled Ares Project Until March · · Score: 1

    You know what amuses me? That people assume that if they wasn't a wealth disparity, they would have some. That's BS. For better or worse our system is based on who you know, who you are and what skills you have. Czarist Russia had that until the Bolsheviks lead by Lenin crushed it. What did it gain? 70 years of abject poverty for the country. Its a pipe dream people. Socialism hasn't worked yet. We have a guy trying it NOW! His name is Chavez. And he is destroying the once prosperous country of Venezuela. Our system is simple: Everyone pays taxes. But the government has a set amount. If your work doesn't reach that set amount you owe them. For the people who make under $40000 our pay is more than enough to pass that and we get some back. So we really don't pay any. So when you whine about tax cuts for the wealthy, you are referring to the people who the govt is demanding they give 30% of what they earn. Can you afford that right now? Poor people pay nothing because they have nothing. So yes while it sucks that on 5% pay for everyone, I am thankful they do and I want to cut them a break. So play the game and if you are insane like Olberman or our senators from California and Nevada who seem to think that money just appears (they want the people who actually pay to give it to those who don't, which doesn't work. Handouts never do) please give your money to a homeless or low income person.

  15. Re:Turing test? on Structure In Brain Linked To Varied Social Life · · Score: 1

    Although making a computer solve that would be awesome in its own right. Then again having it produce and original timely joke or song is actually harder then Fermat.

  16. Re:Maybe we will know in the future. on Did Stuxnet Take Out 1,000 Centrifuges At Natanz? · · Score: 1

    Stuxnet isn't ours its the israeli who did this.

  17. Re:Linking != publishing on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    Bieber's a fairly hot chick. Even with sucky music I reckon she can get by on her looks alone.

    Thanks for making my Christmas. I am laughing, now. By the way,, Justin Beiber is a guy. At least he has a penis. I doubt he has a scrotum, all things considered.

  18. Re:For Realz, Player? on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    Removal of appromoxity 150,000 people and two cities.

  19. Re:Linking != publishing on Crookes, RIAA, MPAA, ICE — 'Linking Is Publishing' · · Score: 1

    Accually the best thing for them all is to let go. Stop with the clients and everything. Let everyone promote themselves. A collapse would happen and the industry would reset and real musicians would resurface. Awww, Justin beiber would.be forced to go back to Youtube.

  20. Re:Oh wow. on UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default · · Score: 1

    I am curious how you know about the second one.

  21. Re:To be expected on Stargate Universe Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Its sad, but then the owners of the network don't want the expense of science fiction. They should just cancel the entire network. They can have a separate channel for wrestling.

    The only channel that has science fiction on now is the BBC America. They also have reruns of ST:TNG (I am not sure what the connection to Britain is in that show except for Patrick Stewart.

    Say did "The Event" on NBC get canceled too?

    And they can call that channel: Ghost Hunters Wrestling Channel. And it can be sponsored by Brawndo: Its got electrolytes!

  22. Re:I, for one... on Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice · · Score: 1

    Actually the solution is for TATA and every other fat pipe supplier to cut them off unless they buy enough to decongest.

  23. Re:Not this s**t again on Angles On Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Honestly? http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Anonymous You are not them.

  24. Re:If no one is in charge on Angles On Anonymous · · Score: 1

    "Sometimes flayers are made to advertise a raid." Those never work. The screams of the bloody victims never carry far, and cleaning the whips is a tedious task. So they generally make fliers to advertise the raids.

  25. Re:Seriously Don't Call Them a Group! on Angles On Anonymous · · Score: 1

    No that's actually a misquote. the first rule is you don't talk about /b. if you are making a joke you failed. It references raids. 4chan is on its way out anyway. Moot wants real money so he cut a deal with the founder of tumblr. That's why the ddos of them failed.