You have to admit that the capability is still impressive.

Consider: something that just a few short years ago was only possible with a news van and a satellite dish is now in the hands of millions. (okay, maybe Skype installations on iPhones is 2,000,000, but it's gotta be pretty close, right?)

Botnets have been (and continue to be) used in mafia-style "protection" rackets, threatening with DDoS attacks. If you ran a server that was threatened with or subjected to one, you'd probably change your tune pretty quickly.

Oh, and even if you're using an email client with good spam filtering, it still has to download the spam before it can sort through it and throw it away, wasting bandwidth.

Botnets are a scourge, and harmful to many, not only ISPs! (although I do agree with your assertion that ISPs ought to disconnect users with pwned machine :)

Well, practically everybody. Some acquaintances of mine have had ridiculous phone bills after enabling data roaming for an "emergency"... ridiculous on the order of > €1,000 for less than an hour's usage.

It's enough to make me wonder: why don't they lower their prices, so more people would be willing to utilize data roaming? Couldn't they actually make more profit that way? I suppose studies on that subject have already been conducted, and the results doom all of us to suffer on account of a few suckers/idiots: perhaps the same ones that are responsible for spam, due to responding to unsolicited commercial email.

Off-topic, out of curiosity, are you in France, Netherlands, or Germany?

That was my first thought, too...

I wrote a pretty long blog post about this very subject (and the iPhone 4's antenna problem, too). On the "cripped iPhone 3G" topic, Apple is either a)incompetent, b)dishonest, c)all of the above.

I hate advertisements.

Thanks a lot, pal.

The Facetime and MMS issues were due to a permissions problem, which has already been sorted out, per planetbeing's Twitter feed.

Not if you renounce your US citizenship. By the way, that used to be free of charge, but I think it'll cost you >$400 nowadays...

Buy a new iPhone. Not that big of a deal.

Steve

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I've deposited quite a few rebate checks over the past few years using Deposit@Home without any problems. Even deposited a USPS money order (purchased on base), as a last-resort way to get cash from my wallet in Germany into my USAA bank account.

If memory serves, there may have been one rebate check (out of dozens) that the system couldn't handle. Might be worth your while to give it another shot...

My brother pilots a DC-3 for Missionary Flights International out of Fort Pierce, Florida, and recently posted this status update on Facebook:

The relevant link is here, but it looks like supply donations have to be dropped off locally, so that may only make sense for people who live in the area. I'm sure monetary donations would be happily accepted from everyone, though, regardless of where you live!

Definitely interested here... I nearly paid for a commercial VPN service, but they required that you pre-pay for a year, and made no allowance for the possibility of being blocked in the future by Hulu, et al. Guess my fear was justified.

By the way, any old proxy won't do. It's gotta be VPN.