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Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either 232

fermion writes "The Register is reporting that Palm has sent a note to the Pre Dev Wiki asking it to stop discussing tethering. Palm is worried that its US carrier partner, Sprint, is none too eager to have users tether the game-changing tetherable smart phone. While the communication was informal, not legal, the development forum is evidently eager to avoid any possibility of lawsuits, so has rapidly agreed. Perhaps, like the iPhone, the Pre is going have a vigorous underground. What is interesting is that the Pre, like the iPhone (allegedly), can be tethered outside of the US; but even those customers are being denied apparently lawful information to satisfy the US exclusive agents."

Comment Re:Solution to the problem (Score 2, Insightful) 511

I've experienced a sense of extreme bitterness in my life. That feeling is very much accompanied by a sense of helplessness. Some recover and some do not recover.

It is, however, disingenuous to suggest that some people are just being whiny. Don't fool yourself. These people aren't happy being this way. They are miserable. They're probably depressed. Severely depressed. If you have ever been truly depressed you know these feelings well. They can ruin your life if you don't get help.

Being overly bitter is indicative of something. That person believes beyond a shadow of a doubt that they got screwed on the dice roll in life. If classifying extreme bitterness helps medical professionals make better decisions in how to help people in that situation, I applaud it.

Comment Re:Mostly just for cars (Score 1) 1186

This is actually a common misconception. I stand 6'7" and I drive a Honda Civic. The secret? I bought a coupe. The seat goes way back.

I also have driven literally 6 hours without getting up from that seat without knee cramps, which is something I get often.

It's very, very difficult to justify vehicle size based on physical stature.

Comment Re:MSFT Icon is stale. (Score 2, Interesting) 388

Since you're being off-topic, I'll make the situation worse and ask a question that has been plaguing me for a while now.

Is referring to companies by their stock symbol some new trend, or do people who frequently do that actually trade stocks a significant amount and have a reason to feel more comfortable with "MSFT" than "Microsoft"?

Is it just shorter?

Comment Useful! (Score 5, Insightful) 324

Twitter using new-and-fancy programming languages has a way of load testing them for all of us.

I'm not sure I'd have the balls to take a 5 year old development platform/framework and drop it into something that sees so much traffic. Hopefully they share their experiences in some form.

Comment Re:who cares? (Score 0, Troll) 649

While I realize it's important to discuss all aspects of international diplomacy, it's slightly ridiculous to compare this blunder with that of the Bush administration's illustrious catalog of them.

I'd rather be known as the nation of inept gift givers than the nation of torturers, violators of international law, war mongers and science haters.

We can certainly discuss the things Obama has done wrong (and there are plenty), but it's a fucking order of magnitude below that of the Bush administration's.

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