Maybe not dual-boot, but look into Open iBoot. Android on iPhone hardware has been done before.

I was kinda using the "Good luck, I'm behind seven proxies!" meme with the subject line there, not necessarily trying to be technologically accurate, heh.

After Operation Payback (the widespread use of LOIC against Bank of America, PayPal, and other entities that refused to process payments to Wikileaks), the FBI got involved. Raids were made. A freshman student at my own college was raided and had all his electronics taken away, and that was just for passively being an operator in an IRC channel that coordinated the attacks, not even running the tool himself.

As an above poster said, LOIC is not anonymous. I hope these script kiddies aren't so foolish as to make the same mistakes twice.

That's... honestly surprising. I mean wow. I guess you're right in saying that it depends on where you live. My fellow scouts may have failed out of college like I did or passed with flying colors, with or without drugs. But I would never believe them to be future KKK members or leaders. Mind == blown.

Reposting while logged in since my AC comment was virtually ignored.

See the subject line. I'm an Eagle Scout and I'll acknowledge that that badge doesn't really account to much in the technical world, but I must protest to the idea that Boy Scout badges are worthless. At least the merit badge booklets can provide a decent crash-course session on many subjects for less than $5.

Being an Eagle Scout got me my first few jobs. The First Aid and knot-tying skills I learned have continued to be useful throughout my adult life. Your "playfull riff" is offensive, sir anonymous reader.

I think most here would agree that lobbying in and of itself is corruption to begin with. A congressional aide becoming a lobbyist to influence his or her former colleagues? Even moreso. Yeah yeah, they have a one-year "cooling off" period in which they can't directly lobby them, but that's hardly the point. All that does is remove the issue from the public eye long enough that the corruption is forgotten by the time it can legally begin.

The Politico article linked above notes that this [...] may not be directly corrupt

The Politico article only states that this act is completely legal, not that it isn't directly corrupt. There's a difference between the two.

Mod parent up.

"Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? It is the sound of... inevitability."

Simple solution: don't buy Apple.

(I honestly don't even know if I'm trolling with this statement or not anymore)

If you weren't already at +5 Insightful, I would mod you up.

Here's an interesting thread from last week arguing the exact opposite: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2541284&cid=38150514

As someone who's been following this merger bid for the past ~6 months, I must say, woot! Even if you disagree with the outcome here, the fact that there's finally been some sort of conclusion to this case is reassuring.

Obligatory XKCD link. #915: Connoisseur

Opting out of that was one of the first things I did to my BoA account, though granted this was a few years ago. They might have made it more difficult to do since then; I wouldn't know.

I forgot where I read it, but I vaguely remember hearing that Verizon and AT&T are likely to somehow use incompatible forms of LTE. It might be related to the operating frequency. If that's the case, then we're stuck with the same "locked into a single carrier" issue you're describing.

The whole thing, as you've aptly described, is ridiculous. When I was in high school, our entire marching band traveled to London to march in a parade. All of the chaperones were shocked to learn that their cell phones didn't work even on "roaming" and I didn't know nearly enough technical details at the time to warn any of them otherwise. But more importantly, I doubt it would have helped even if I did have the knowledge and could advise them about about needing a different SIM card because it's unlikely that any of their phones would have supported the right frequencies anyway!

Funny anecdote about the girlfriend though. Thanks for the chuckle.

To be fair, from what I hear it was a condition that Comcast themselves offered. Of course, one could then go ahead and say that they had no choice but to offer such a program in order to gain approval for the deal in the first place, so I guess in the end it's a moot point.