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Comment Re:Coming very soon, world brands from China (Score 1) 151

BYD cars are knockoffs of popular cars. So much so that some BYD dealerships were switching the logos, selling them as their much more expensive originals. BYD has apologized recently, saying the behavior of the dealerships is 'embarrassing'. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0810/gallery.china_cars.fortune/index.html BYD, Geely and other big manufacturers in China are constantly lying about everything they do. I believe it's part of the culture unfortunately.

Comment OLD news (Score 1) 195

Either my memory is faulty, or this is really old. Anyhow, not worth the effort to check. It's old and unexciting. My third leg doesn't quite reach the ground, and is not articulated as far as I know. I never seen a human walk like this.

Comment Re:Hate to say it... (Score 1) 485

Agreed. your commodity hardware is gone, along with anything personal you left on it. I wonder what the chances are of the thief actually booting up and browsing porn for a few hours? I doubt anyone steals a laptop without swapping/obliterating the hard drive and re-installing the OS. The better to re-sell it that way. On Craigslist. I've had about $2500 worth of stuff stolen every year for the last few years. That includes electronics, 5 bikes, lawnmowers, tools, my truck.. Once its gone, its gone. If you don't mind paying another type of thief, buy insurance. Sometimes insurance is worth it.

Comment there is no prototype (Score 1) 195

This is just a concept, which the 'inventor' is trying to sell before any prototype exists. This came up about a month ago on BoingBoing or something. It's not a bad idea, but it's just an idea: a 3D printer ----- for kids!

Comment Re:What happens if the merger is blocked (Score 3, Interesting) 182

I've been a T-Mobile customer since waaaay back when they were VoiceStream, somewhere around 1998 I think. I've been an ATT customer a few times. The thing that stinks about this merger is that T-Mobile has good support and systems, ATT has awful support and awful systems. This is due to ATT's extremely complex integration and sourcing of their customer service systems. ATT is not very customer friendly, mostly due to the bad and complex integration of their setup, service, support and billing systems. I'm not convinced that the merger needs to happen for either party, especially not for the T-mobile customers.

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