I've been a Verizon customer for about 8 years now and have never had to wait longer than 5 minutes at their absolute busiest to speak with customer support. Usually it's more like 30 seconds if there's a wait at all. I know there are cheaper ways to get cell service, but honestly I've never had anything but great service and support from Verizon.

Yeah, it wasn't bugging me too much until I realised that three stories have timestamps later than this one, yet this is still number two in my feed. Came here to see if anyone else was experiencing the same thing. Do not want :(

Where I work, they actually switched the whole department (about 600 people) back to non-exempt/hourly about a year ago. Something about labour laws, I'm not sure. At any rate, this would affect quite a few people for us if passes. What a load of nonsense.

Just a guess, and perhaps an incorrect one, but it'll probably play nicely with existing BES setups. Our large (>35k people) company is still probably 90% BB, and upper management has been very reluctant to move away. We do currently use the McAfee EMM product (shoot me, I know) to sync iPhones with our Exchange servers, but there seems to be an extremely strong anti-Android movement upstairs so no love for us yet. Even though this is a RIM product, I'm all for adopting it here if it will streamline the administering of mobile devices on our network and allow us to use Android devices.

The whole "chain of authority" thing is a huge problem in our group. Our manager and two team leads are all vets, so this is very much the way things are expected to run. You don't dare ask why you're being told to suddenly drop all current projects and work on mindless data collection for a week. And if you have a problem which our manager doesn't deem important enough to actually address, there will be hell to pay for going above his head to the director. Stopping now before this turns into a full-out I-hate-my-management rant, but yeah, I know alllll about working with vets in an IT environment. I'd rather not, thanks.

I have a Linksys WRT310n at home running DDWRT serving as a bridge for my desktop. Setup was fine, no issues for me at least.

On a related note, the reason I ended up setting it up as a bridge for my desktop is that the Linksys AE1000 USB wireless n adapter I bought is an absolute piece of junk. Almost every time I would reboot my computer or come back from sleep mode, the connection speed would drop to a crawl - usually around 30 kbps. It was easily fixed by unplugging the adapter and plugging it back in, but that got old really quickly. My boyfriend has the same adapter and never has any issues with his, but a quick jaunt over to google revealed that I'm far from being the only one with this problem. I'd recommend steering clear of that particular adapter.

Agreed 100%! When I was in elementary school, some of my favourite computer games were the Magic School Bus series. I learned about geology, space, the human body, and all kinds of stuff all while having a blast. By no means should things like this be used to replace teachers and classrooms, but even with a good teacher, these can be great supplements to vary the types of experiences kids have in school.

This just in: Michael Seringhaus has had his grade in Constitutional Law retroactively changed from a B- to an F because of an Opinion Piece he wrote in The New York Times last Sunday. When contacted, his former teacher called him a complete idiot and thinks he probably cheated on his final exam. Mr. Seringhaus was not available for comment.

Gamers are getting shafted more and more these days.

I think we should bond together and form some kind of consumer advocacy group, maybe offer some kind of "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" type trade mark for compliant games.

Here's what I would put in my own bill of rights:

1)Right to resell games - either on virtual games or real, at a price that I set.

2)Ability to play my game at a friend's house without having to redownload (there are broadband caps, you know-and the next generation of consoles probably won't even have a disc player).

3)No DLC that is on the physical disk.

4)No DRM. That is not to be confused with copy protection measures as it so often is on Slashdot. I mean actual DRM, where the OS enforces whether or not a game is "pirated."

These are my rules, what do you think?

If this content was already on the disc, didn't they fail at the new EA model? It should have been "DLC" that was free to owners of purchased versions of the game (via an unlock code) and $5 to owners of used copies of the game (via $5 unlock code). To charge everybody for something already on the disc is greedy and lazy. What's amusing is that people would apparently be less outraged if only greed were involved -- that is, if the content were withheld and you had to download it.

The elections are not pretend. They are real elections. The government need not fear real elections as it has already brainwashed the voters into voting for the establishment every time.

Yes, it is human nature to abuse absolute and arbitrary power (because it does not have a basis in a reality that a human can relate to). Critics of organizations like the NSA are not critics of security, they are critics of individual schmutzes making decisions on the behalf of a nation of people. It is not the place of government to protect the public from an imaginary threat. This article talks about the US planning to take down wikileaks, not for any concrete reason but only because the practice does not suit them!

Once something has been fully documented and around long enough to be successfully leaked, chances are it's not going to hurt national security (but will certainly hurt people in positions of power). Additionally, wikileaks exposes fraud and criminality above all -- it does not list security checkpoints and schedules of all airports or some such actual security-related issue.

As per your jab at simplicity - the principles of this situation are plain and clear, the interpretations can get as muddy as you would like.

PS: Governments DO keep secrets for the hell of it (just not all the time)-- because they can

Wouldn't it be nice if they would toot their horn about all the really important secrets they held back in the 50's and 60's. Stuff that's so old, everyone who would be compromised is dead or old enough not to give a fuck.

That way we would have some sense of how badly the "national secrecy" is being abused. Because right now we have no idea how many secrets are bosses with blow and hookers and how many are keeping militants at bay.

At first I was confused how you couldn't get it and then I realized the browser wars were more than 10 years ago now. Basically the point is that there is a reason almost all browsers are now based on open source, the one thing Microsoft can't destroy financially or snuff out. You could rightfully say the intervention comes too late but that's just the EU's way of saying they may be slow but they don't forget (unlike the US DOJ.)

Hmm, do you work where I work? As part of an IT department in an international corporation, this is something we've had to tell users. IE8 doesn't work for a lot of the things our sales department uses, and when asked about it, we have been instructed by corporate to encourage everyone to use IE6 only as that is the native environment still for most web-based apps we use. Oh, the joys of having detached corporate leadership... It gets better, too. We've also been encouraged to start rolling out Windows 7 for the users who are willing, but they haven't even bothered yet to upgrade major systems past IE6 compatibility. I don't know what they think we do down here.