Yeah, because everybody has free wifi in their home. Internet connections are so 2010.

People have been able to do that since around 1980 with the VCR.

There's a "dirty little secret" in ham radio that skews these numbers, though. When the morse code requirements were lowered and eventually dropped, many of the "old order" of radio operators literally drove the new hams off the air. There was vile hatred towards the new hams, and they were told they were not "real hams", or that they held a "general lite" or "extra lite" license. They wouldn't speak to the new hams on the air, and in many cases they would deliberately interfere with them on the air. It got so bad that many new hams would work to get their license, spend $1,000 or more on equipment, get on the air, then sell their equipment again a few months later. They had lowered the code requirement to 5 words per minute by the time I got my Extra, and there were people in my own local club trying to belittle me. I did eventually give it up totally about 5 years ago, selling my own gear as well.

The average age at our local club is between 30 and 40. I've been a ham for over 10 years, and I'm 39.

There's no way fracking could have caused an earthquake. Captain Crunch fracked long distance lines for years and never caused an earthquake.

I have zero reason NOT to be with Microsoft, that's why. Win7 is stable, doesn't slow my computer down, runs all the programs I could ever need, and I haven't actually "caught" a virus on Windows in the last 15 years, so why on earth would I switch to something else other than just for the sake of switching? That would just be stupid. Learn a brand new operating system and lose 95% of the programs that I use now? Fuck that, that makes no sense.

Agreed. Speed hasn't been a problem since they broke 75 miles per hour. We need the charge to at least last long enough to get you BACK from where you are going. Actually I guess what we really need is a way to charge while you are away from home, same as I may drive to a neighboring city now yet need to buy fuel to get home.

My sure fire plan is not to fucking worry about it. FB only posts what I tell it to post. So they know I went to a certain website? Honestly, it doesn't matter. I've never noticed it make a single change in my life other than giving me ads about stuff I'm interested in as opposed to ads I couldn't give a damn less about. Oooo, big bad facebook.

Inferring other sites DON'T do this. OMG, facebook knows that I visited CNN.com and slashdot. There goes my private life.

Apparently. Personally, I've NEVER ONCE clicked on a link on Google thinking it was a normal link and been directed to a sponsored ad. Evidently this is to protect those that repeatedly click on the ads and never actually learn the difference between the ads and the regular search results - you know, the ones with their fingerprints missing because they never learned not to dip your fingers in boiling water when cooking even though it hurts like hell every time they've done it.

It means you're very sheltered.

Yeah, but that still means were down to 5 billion years from the previous 25 billion years, right?

It's not a matter of just being ok with it, it's a matter of not being able to do anything about it. Where I live, your choices are Time Warner or dial-up. No matter how bad Time Warner can be (although it hasn't been that bad for me), there's no other game in town. They own the only infrastructure we have.

Since this is Slashdot, I have to assume the orange goo comes from either a Microsoft security flaw, or a privacy issue with facebook.

I'm really looking forward to the required power supply that will be the approximate size and weight of a cinder block.