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Comment Maybe the "phone" company should rethink (Score 1) 435

by muppetman462 on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @02:27PM (#29122337) Attached to: The Decline of the Landline

Maybe the phone company should rethink the business model and go with DSL. Hell, they have phone lines just about everywhere. Instead of going with "telephone" with the luxury of internet, they should sell DSL with the option of VOIP

Submission + - Google voice gives priority to military members

Submitted by muppetman462 on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @02:00PM

muppetman462 writes: The Google team is throwing a bone to the members of the US military. They are giving priority invites to members of the US military via https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoicemilitary/ More information can be found on http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/audio-care-packages-for-service-members.html I wonder if this is a ploy to get more members to going the Army....

Comment Re:If you are scared... (Score 1) 240

by muppetman462 on Thursday April 09, 2009 @03:24PM (#27522895) Attached to: Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd

Sure they would, that's what youtube is for :)

Comment If you are scared... (Score 1) 240

by muppetman462 on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:17PM (#27521835) Attached to: Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd

If you are so scared about eavesdropping, why not set up stunnel, or pay for a service like secure-tunnel and run everything through that.....

Comment I could see this making sense (Score 2, Interesting) 289

by muppetman462 on Thursday February 12, 2009 @12:05PM (#26828573) Attached to: Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops

I can see this from a business aspect, but I would think that people would be thinking, "why do I want to boot into Linux when I have windows right here?" Oh well, at least dell is trying.

Comment Just one more reason to use mythtv (Score 1) 417

by muppetman462 on Monday May 19, 2008 @08:58AM (#23461222) Attached to: Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command

Wow...So glad I use mythtv and don't have to worry about microcrap like that!

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