With an android phone, you can cache several sections of map in advance and not have to worry about having cell service to get the maps for you. It is 100-150sq miles that you can cache if I recall properly.

Verizon does indeed have good coverage, but very restrictive data usage policies. For 3g (not 4g) I would suggest Sprint. Anyplace they have coverage (which is decent) you have unlimited data and no throttle. If you are in an area without Sprint coverage, you roam to Verizon, but there is an absurd amount of data roaming covered per month so you get the best of both services. If you go over the roaming data, they still won't charge you, just throttle and then stop roaming until the end of the month. I tried that with AT&T once and after 40 MB of allowable roaming data they threatened to cancel my service. Sprint gets a bad rap, but they were my first cell carrier, I have been on all four of the big ones in the US and am back on Sprint again.

If you start cold, the processor never gets hot enough. They don't let it heat up then start dumping it on.

I'm just curious how they are making white lights? "...laser lighting is monochromatic, which means that the light waves all have the same length." followed by "...resulting light is very bright and white"

The bigger news is that they've found a single wavelength of light that is white!

Actually, the disconnect plugin is there to specifically remove tracking from FB and other sites by default. you can enable it on specific sites if desired, but the default is block all their bs tracking. This blocks things that adblock does not (though adblock is a must either way)

SDHC cards are up to 32GB. Original ones were only up to 2GB (though some made it to 4 with a small tweak that rendered them useless in many readers). Now there are SDXC which are up to 2TB, but those are more just removing an artificial limitation in SDHC than they are an expansion of the technology that sd to SDHC was.

I had a similar experience with a car stereo at BB. I had purchased it open box so I decided to get the warranty. After a year or so it stopped playing discs at all so I took it in. A month later got it back still broken, a month later, the same. The third time it came back broken, I asked for them to replace it with a new "equivalent" model per the terms. Their manager told me that since I had gotten it open box, I would be allowed to choose another model in the $120 range as opposed to the ~$300 range that would be considered a similar product. Of course they only had an $80 stereo and a $150 stereo at that time so I was stuck with the crappiest stereo they carried. When I raised a stink about them refusing to at least refund/store credit the other $50 since I was already getting rather screwed by the deal, they had security kick me out.

Have not, and will not ever give Best Buy another penny of my money.

(On a previous trip, I was told that I could not write a check to pay for a camera. They could verify that there were funds in the account, but since they apparently don't consider a passport valid ID, they refused to accept it)

They really just need to figure out drunk vs sober.

I understand being from NYC and not knowing how to drive, but everyone drives everywhere in LA. NYC a 15 block walk is easy, in LA people drive after 2. Did you pick her up when she was still under 16?

Actually, considering cable operators require the mac of the modem to provide service, and others can simply check via ARP if they don't have it on file, An ISP can pass out your external MAC with ease. Your internal less so, but that's not the issue here is it?

Why do they need bother with #3 if they're making a shitload of cash off of the Android manufactures?

They didn't challenge Microsoft...

Indeed, *anything* Linux based is clearly utterly and completely immune to any virus. So why are some many Android phones getting infected these days?

Oh right. The more users a platform has, the more people will write malware for that platform. No system is perfect and invulnerable. I have Windows, Apple and Linux boxes at home, none of them are perfect. If one were, I wouldn't have a use for the other two.

Or run pagedefrag by sysinternals (now Microsoft). Free and if set to run with no delay at every XP boot adds a barely noticable delay.

If you were concerned about them getting slashdotted, why not provide a mirror link: http://fabfi.fablab.af.nyud.net/ instead of being the first person to post their actual page?