YOU are correct. What I was trying to say is that "phone design" was separated from the carrier. From what I remember, I think Apple originally when to Verizon, but Verizon said "No, we want control of how the phone operates, features, etc" ATT was approached next and agreed that Apple would have 100% control of design of the device partially because Apple could bring such a highly demanded product to a carrier. I have to admit, the phone was revolutionaly from "almost" everything before it. It is similar to a situation where Apple goes to Comcast and says they want to build the next Set Top Box, but Comcast gets no control over any of the design and functional aspects for the box. It would be a win for Apple, and a win for the consumers.

I am by no means an apple fan boy, but I think the most important aspect of what Apple did was to disconnect the cell phone from the carrier. It was their way or the highway.

Why don't you work on getting my second coin shipped to me from my order 2 years ago?

...Or a hefty "Administrative Fee" of $10,000 per vehicle

I am sure this happens in other types of recycling centers as well.. In our office, we are constantly going through PC, rack servers, monitors, etc. Some of it only a few years old. While there might be value in getting money for them, it is actually a great thing that there are companies that will come in and take them away for free. Sure they have value, but the labor involved in recouping those costs are just not worth it at our pay scales. In addition, shelf space in our office has value too.

I knew some idiot who doesn't know the difference between "some idiot" and "would say something stupid like that" would say something stupid like that.

To emphasize what the previous poster stated, it is nice to get a good visual of how our spectrum is diced up and see who has the big chunks...

I present "The US Frequency Allocation Table -> https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Signatures...

X --- Here

X --- Here

X -- And Here

I would think that metallic satellites would be good targets for RADAR VS. optical tracking.

I think that there is one difference in this cycle though. I think that a lot of the ARM mortgages were eaten up in the great recession. Most of the loans nowadays are conventional, or in the case of investors, just cash.

I would love for you to expand on this...

A conservatives answer to every issue. A tax break...

Whow... Whow... Whoow... Lets be careful throwing around Rush like that...

I was specificly interested in what slashdotters carry, so browsing some other site is not going to do it for me.

Funny, my submission seems to be getting more interest than some of the the other boring posts recently... "OMG!! Clicky keyboards, what will they think of next?!?!?!"

Just think of this as a nice little diversion so that everyone can share some personality quarks with everyone.