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Comment I don't think they can afford to charge for this (Score 1) 240

A colleague has an iPad, which he carries with him almost everywhere. He tethers it to his non AT&T phone for free.Why would anyone buy an iPad and an iPhone if it requires either two data plans or one expensive one given the cheaper alternatives. ATT will keep me as an iPhone customer once I own an IPad by allowing me to tether the iPad to it,

Comment Re:checks and balances, sue and cash in (Score 1) 1590

So there's perception, and there's reality. Maybe the reality is the police won't ask a victim to prove they're in the country legally. If an illegal immigrant's perception is the local police will deport them if they report a crime, do you think that they would report it. Likewise, if an illegal immigrant witnessed a crime, would they come forward if they believed doing so would get them deported?

Comment Toll Free Call (Score 1) 171

I hate it when this comes up on caller ID, 95% of the time it's a telemarketer, the other 5% it's my credit card company telling me there's a problem with my card. I don't know why anyone would want to be confused for a telemarketer, but inexplicably my credit card company does.

Comment Re:Ob-Titans (Score 1) 126

The original movie sucked. Watch it again, its only merits are its campiness. I can't understand why they're remaking it either. Even as a kid the huge divergence from the original story annoyed me. Perseus never rode the Pegasus (though he aided in its creation). The writing was terrible "Gifts from the gods must never be questioned."

Comment Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this (Score 1) 839

Huh?

If I get to the intersection at the same time as someone else, I go first in they're on my left, yield if they're on my right. If there's a car to my left and right, I yield to the car on the right. If they're coming from the opposite direction and I'm going straight, they yield to me if they're turning left. It only gets confusing if four cars arrive at the same time.

Regardless, you should never assume the other driver knows the rules, caution is your best guide.

Comment Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this (Score 2, Interesting) 839

I agree, I haven't taken a written driving test in over 15 years. When I did take the test, one of the questions was (paraphrasing) "How often do you have to get your license replaced." What a ridiculous question (give me my license and I'll read the answer off of the front). I wonder what real question got crowded out by this irrelevant question (If it's not obvious, I missed the question).

It's funny.  Laugh.

Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money 420

mario.m7 writes "Poste Italiane, the Italian postal service, suffered yesterday from an abnormal computation in ATM and credit card operations, since the decimal comma was not taken into account. The whole sum was therefore multiplied by 100, resulting in a 115,00 Euro transaction being debited as 11.500 Euro! Thousands of accounts are deep in the red and locked (link pumped through translator), so that no more operations are possible. Poste Italiane is gradually recovering the problem, fixing the error and re-crediting the sum debited in excess. Consumer associations have offered support to clients in case this lasts longer and causes damage."

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