Heck, I would even pay a small monthly fee, maybe a buck or two a month to port my existing cell phone number. This is a number I have had since cell phones became popular. I would gladly port it, cancel my current Verizon phone, and then shop for the best plan out there regardless of carrier. Google voice would free me to have a device and plan morph with the changes in my lifestyle over time.
That feature isn't available when using your own number, only when using a number assigned to you from Google.
...Then right before April 1st.
Yes, the DMCA is stupid.
Now, can I ask WHY people buy T-Shirts, undies, etc from big designers?
I just don't see why you would buy something for $100 from a designer label when you can buy something without a name on it for $4. I mean, the amount of marketing that has to go into this must be insane! It would be one thing if the big fancy labels used legitimate, well-paid, non-sweatshop labor to make these things, but I don't see that happening.
Amen. Did you know 100% of criminals were children once? Childhood leads to criminal activity! Where's my multi-million dollar grant?
Do propel actually find such a figure attractive?
I'm asking because I'm disgusted by it more than anything. It's right smack dab in the middle of the uncanny valley in my eyes.
If Apple's and Microsoft's market shares were reversed, it wouldn't be different at all. But Apple by no means has a monopoly on PCs. This is about IBM abusing its mainframe monopoly. If Sun, etc were as big as IBM it would be ok, but it's not.
But Apple does have a monopoly on Mac hardware - just as IBM has on IBM hardware. the fact that there are other platforms that run other OS's is irrelevant
One rule for all.
Ever since multiplayer PC gaming, I have been surprised that I have not heard about phishing mods or virus mods. When you connect to a modded server, most multiplayer PC games will automatically download and execute scripts that run within the game engine. It shocks me that nobody has found a way to break out of the game engine sandbox and compromise a machine.
Now, consoles don't (AFAIK) support downloading mods. But I imagine that there would be similar attacks based on sending garbage data to the server as a way to compromise it. From there, you should be able to access a lot of information or launch more serious attacks.
Does anyone know of this happening?
But what has changed that so many people's lives would seemingly fall apart if they had to put down the phone for 10 minutes?
Egos.
It is solved, it's just that USA is held back by a braindead telecom-structure, this is political barrier not a technological one.
Here in Norway, I've got 4-5 different technologies to choose from, that all trump what you've got. First there's ADSL and ADSL2, the former ain't much better than what you've got, stopping at around 2M/512kbit, but ADSL2 is available up to something like 10M/1M, which is already a significant improvement.
With similar speed, there's mobile broadband, 2-3Mbps download and 500kbps upload, it's got worse latency though so no good for gaming. (but nice in working also when you're traveling)
Then there's internet-over-coax, i.e. alongside cable-tv, this offers speeds up to 50Mbps, though the most popular offering is 3.5 or 7Mbps.
And if none of that will satisfy you, get fibre-to-the-basement with physical capacity for several Gbit/s, but actually offering internet-speeds of up to 100M/100M (i.e. symetrical) to private homes at the moment, the lack of higher speeds offerings if from lack of demand though, not because of any technological restrictions on the last mile.
Most people settle for something in the 3M to 10M range, though, I've got fibre, and that's the most popular solution, but even a 2-nerd household like mine don't really have a reason for more than 25M/25M, so that's what we have.
The same technologies would work fine in USA too -- if only the political barriers of the entrenched telecom-monopolies where removed.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
