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Comment Re:How Amusing (Score 1) 195

Oh how I find this quite amusing. (Snapshot from when I was at the payment page)

  • Total payments: $92,658.36
  • Number of purchases: 17,728
  • Average purchase: $5.23
  • Average Windows: $4.13
  • Average Mac: $6.55
  • Average Linux: $12.15

Anybody care to run the figures and find out the % breakdown for each OS category?

( 4.13w + 6.55m + 12.15l ) / 17728 = 5.23

for some numbers w, m, l.

Comment Re:and in the usa you pay up to $0.25 per text for (Score 1) 573

AFAIK, It's pretty much always been free to block SMS. I've done it on all cell plans I've had (various carriers over the past 10-12 years). They don't like to advertise / push it - but if you ask how they'll certainly tell you and it's not complicated.

After all, you should be in charge of your bill - not somebody spamming you w/ SMS texts.

My wife and I use google talk to get around lack of SMS, which ironically probably costs the telco more but costs us less.

Comment Re:Absolutely spot on (Score 1) 419

I'd become evil in an eye blink. Deep within my lair I would tie people to by horrendously over engineered table and unfold my nefarious plots to educate people about how bad their sense of editing, spelling, grammar and story selection are.

"No Mr Samzenpus, I expect you to learn"

...tie people to my horrendously...

There - fixed that for you since you're doing such a good job as a villain.

Comment Finally!! (Score 1) 77

This will allow me to call my hot girlfriend who is just waiting for me on the other end of the line. Now I can do it via VOIP.

When I tell her about she'll be so enthused - I can just imagine her response now.

[ insert response below ]

Comment Re:That is the modus operandi (Score 1) 373

Actually 2 bit encryption has 4 keys : 00, 01, 10, and 11. I believe you're thinking of 1 bit encryption.

Depending upon your function to encrypt and what it does, having a 1 bit key doesn't make things necessarily any easier or harder. There may be additional values associated with the encryption algorithm which adds to the encryption complexity (eg: prior lookup on the past x+key bits that have been encrypted ).

Submission + - Summer IT Soap Season: AAPL vs GOOG vs MSFT (takethe5th.com)

An anonymous reader writes: This is a great set of reference links to the ongoing Soap Opera that is Apple vs Google vs Microsoft. There is humor, there is drama, and there are some great must read articles — for example, see the widely varying latest reviews of Windows Phone 7.
Media

Submission + - Journalists plot to kill stories critical of Obama (dailycaller.com)

Third Position writes: Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists."

Submission + - Pirate ISP for Sweden (torrentfreak.com)

Fireking300 writes: The Pirate Party of Sweden has announced the creation of 'Pirate ISP'. Which will be a broadband provider to offer anonymity and protection to its Swedish residents from 'Big Brother'. They plan to uphold against the Swedish Government which set a law for ISPs to monitor all traffic of it's users.
Piracy

US Pirate Movie Site DNS Seizure Fail 343

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, the US government in a highly publicized copyright protection frenzy took the extraordinary step of seizing domain names from foreign movie sites like NinjaVideo.net and TVshack.net. While the seizure raises confusing Internet legal / jurisdiction questions (the US and perhaps the state of Kentucky can seize domain names for foreign companies?), this study shows the legal issues may be moot — the raids mostly failed. Within hours of domain name seizure, tvshack.cc was back up and running (but this time using a Chinese registrar and a Cocos Islands ccTLD)."
Image

Judge Orders Wall For Fighting Brooklyn Couple 1

A Brooklyn judge decided to invoke some Solomon-like wisdom and ordered a divorcing couple to install a wall down the middle of their house. Pinchs and Nechama Gold were married 21 years ago, but they've lost that loving feeling, and both refuse to move from the family home. From the article: "'They've been living like there was a wall up for two years now,' said Abe Konstam, an attorney for Pinchs. 'This just helps them completely avoid each other.'" No word on when the couple will cut their 5 children in half.

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