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Comment Re:Not just them... (Score 1) 424

World record doesn't have much to do with everyday use for a normal person.

I use Swype now and I assume I will eventually be faster than I was on my 5 years worth of Blackberrys, but the Blackberry has the advantage of being stupid proof and 100% accurate. This (arguably) makes it frustration free. Speed isn't everything.

Comment Re:What the hell (Score 1) 321

That is retarded.

Dial 911, simply do not SAY anything but do not hang up. cops will be on the way.

What moron thinks the 911 dispatcher will go "hello? hello? Nobody there, I'll hang up and ignore it....."

Due to a design flaw with one of my past phones I made approx. 20 calls over a 2 years to 911 with knowing it. I never once received a call back. So no you're wrong.

Comment Re:Happened in one of my CompSci classes a decade (Score 1) 693

That makes me think the hype about ethics in this is overdone. There is almost no consequence for turning yourself in (in their case a 4 hour ethics lecture/nap time). Combine that with false positives on the innocent group and you might turn yourself in even if your innocent. Ethically wrong but possibly the easiest path.
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Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison 417

netbuzz writes "David Kernell, whose prying into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, was today sentenced to a year and a day by a judge in Knoxville, Tenn. Kernell was convicted of misdemeanor computer fraud and felony obstruction of justice back in April. His attorney had argued for probation on the grounds that what Kernell did amounted to a prank that spun out of control."

Comment Re:Quick Canada Lesson (Score 1) 282

I have the opposite experience.

I download my favorite shows 2 hours earlier then they are on TV. Granted I'm on the west coast and they are popular shows, but they're ready for me when I get home from work (fully automated), 720p, and commercial free. I really wouldn't mind paying for a similar service from one of these cable companies, but nothing exists and apparently I can finagle something much better myself.

Comment Re:More broadly... TFA is just plain dumb (Score 1) 483

I read the article with increasing amazement the farther into it I got. Among the six reasons why OMG we'll all die if we can't keep flash:

....That's funny. I could have sworn this article was about why we should WANT Flash, not about why Adobe should burn in hell for 10,000 years.

The other three, while not quite as egregious, are still not exactly compelling arguments for why web users should be very, very sad if Flash dies. What the hell was the author thinking here?

I don't think you really understood TFA, or the TFS or even the damn title. The article is not about why we should want flash, it was about why it's not going away anytime soon.

Comment Re:Sold! (Score 1) 1184

Except that Telus, Rogers and Bell all carry the iPhone currently. I assume this will remain true for iPhone 4 and have no reason to think otherwise. Also, you can get a Wind SIM card and pop it in your iPhone and go from there.

I'm not saying that the above companies are great, but it's very different than being stuck with only one option, AT&T.

Comment Re:But they just got more reasonable!!! (Score 1) 670

I have been waiting for data plan prices to become more reasonable

Well then here you go! The plan is $5/month cheaper now over what it was! Don't you have WiFi in your home at all to avoid using only the data network? Have you ever looked at your ACTUAL monthly data usage on a smart phone? Mine is not even close to 2GB/month, even using tethering.

In fact if you do have WiFi and are mostly doing stuff around WiFi, you might well opt for the even CHEAPER DataPlus plan -just 200MB/month on the cell network, but it's also only $15 instead of $25 (and remember the current plan was $30). For those who mostly use WiFi, isn't it nice to have a choice? I mean, Slashdot in general seems to say they are about choice, but when an actual choice is presented they growl like a rabid ferret.

Speak for yourself. I regularly go over 6gigs/mo.

And by the way, I pay $15/mo for unlimited data WITH tethering. I don't consider any of these special iShit plans reasonable.

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