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Comment US Robotics (Score 2, Interesting) 249

by DebianDog (#30560948) Attached to: A Brief History of Modems
I just remember US Robotic modems and BBS's and when you were lucky enough to have a USR and connect to another US Robotics modem you always seemed to get a speed just above what everyone else had. (HST mode) 16.8k back in 92-93 us laughing at the poor 14.4 guys. In retrospect... kind of sad.

Comment Re:Don't pay the fee (Score 1) 319

by DebianDog (#30499268) Attached to: Verizon Defends Doubling of Early Termination Fee
Oh please . Can I sign up, get service, and not sign and agreement? NO. Now exactly would I know how good their customer service, the network, or coverage is without signing up with them? Then once I find out how crappy the service for -my- needs I am stuck? Then they can charge -ANY- amount of $$$ to release me from crappy service? Sorry buddy there should be some level of oversight. Luckily Verizon is awesome -here- and I have been a customer for 8 years!

Comment Lazy techs don't have time and use a farmville bot (Score -1, Troll) 251

by DebianDog (#30346790) Attached to: <em>Farmville</em>, Social Gaming, and Addiction
I don't have time for all that nonsense but I want to make my friends and family feel like they can't keep up with me... and they cant. $7 well spent.

With Farming Extreme Manager you can automatically:
- Harvest, Plow and Plant your farm
- Collect from your Animals and Trees
- Accomplish Ribbons
- Level Up Really Fast using the plow/plant/destroy trick! (Up to 50,000 exp per day!)
- Automatically repeat everything indefinitely

Get it at FarmvilleBot.com
Software

Submission + - Fix Health Care? Enlist Bill Gates and Steve Jobs! (robertstevens.org)

Submitted by RobertStevens
RobertStevens writes: Wind back a century to October 1, 1908 when Henry Ford introduced to Model T. Imagine if when the horse and buggy industry saw its pending demise, they lobbied Congress to mandate every American who did not have a horse and buggy to buy one or face stiff fines or imprisonment. Where would the automobile industry be today?
Games

Submission + - Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users (consumerist.com)

Submitted by
jamie
jamie writes: "Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar which was like, I don't know, I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'"
Science

Submission + - Unknown Asteroid almost impacted on Earth (spacefellowship.com)

Submitted by xp65
xp65 writes: A previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST a 7 meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our home planet. This is the third-closest known non-impacting Earth approach on record for a cataloged asteroid. The asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey and was quickly identified by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge MA as an object that would soon pass very close to the Earth. JPL’s Near-Earth Object Program Office also computed an orbit solution for this object, and determined that it was not headed for an impact.
The Internet

Submission + - UK ISP Will Use EU Law to Prevent Customer Cut-Off (ispreview.co.uk)

Submitted by Mark.JUK
Mark.JUK writes: Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK has said that the new EU agreement on telecoms regulation will make it almost impossible for film studios and music labels to force Internet providers to cut-off users who are "suspected" of repeated involvement with illegal file sharing (P2P) without first obtaining a court order. That is apparently the view of telecoms and copyright lawyers contacted by the ISP. However it remains a matter of much debate as to whether the new European rules will play the role that TalkTalk hopes. Much as we've reported before, the wording is extremely ambiguous and governments could easily twist "fair and impartial procedure" into a kind of kangaroo court if they so wished.
Games

Submission + - Four gamers fingers on just one iPhone?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It was assumed that the future of multiplayer gaming on mobile phones would require each gamer to own a phone. Not so, says this intriguing article on CNET. But it is hard to get the technology to work. Part of the article (Step 5) takes a look at a small developer who has figured out how to get the iPhone to reliably react to four different gamer's fingers at the same time, so that only one player actually needs an iPhone. It turns out that capcitive touch-screens will get confused when more than a few different players are interacting with them, causing erratic behaviour. The trick seems to be to experiment: "We'd seen several existing apps that allowed two-player interaction, but no one had successfully implemented a four-player mode on one iPhone that worked properly. Why was this? We discovered that only if the pads were placed in very specific positions, would the screen accurately sense what the player's fingers were up to. In any other position they won't work properly. This is probably a quirk of current touchscreen technology, but it's not documented anywhere." The article goes on to explain some other revealing tips on "How to make an iPhone app or die trying."

Comment Orgainic Corn (Score 1) 921

by DebianDog (#28880387) Attached to: UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food
I paid top dollar for some "organic" corn the other day. When I got home and saw where the worms were through the top 10% of the kernels I wished they had used some "organic" pesticide.

On the other hand my chickens got feed some organic food (yum corn worms). Now nothing left to do but wait on organic eggs!

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