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Comment Re:Don't you know? (Score 1) 107

$8 USB stick doesn't fix email problems.
Or record keeping/attendance.
Or video calls.

Or spur of the moment media needs for that matter. Being able to go off on a tangent to answer good questions posed by your students is an effective teaching tool. Or are you one of those that believes the cold, rigid bootcamp style of reading directly from a pre-prepared lesson plan and squashing all unexpected/unapproved curiosity is the most effective means to teach children?

Comment Re:My guess? (Score 1) 106

Not always about illegal shit.

Local upstart gaining too much traction at the polls with irrelevant shit like doing what the peons want them to? Have an intern track his movements through the AP access logs and find a pattern to exploit. Take a cameraman, and an actor, and Oh My Gosh, is that your opponent groping random busty pedestrians on 42 avenue?

Yeah it's all possible without the APs, but this would be cheaper and easier. Doesn't require hiring a person to shadow them, someone who could make a mistake, get caught, or confess. And the location search is easily passed off as an effective tool for catching pedophile kidnappers.

Comment Re:Never mind that Steve Jobs was not gay (Score 2) 430

Of course it is. That's the whole basis of the secret american gay bomb, which russian intelligence reports was in development 20 years ago, so it must be completed by now.

Obviously the anti-homosexual laws are truly for the public good. Suppressing the natural background count of gayness so if the americans did cowardly attack russians with their dastardly gay bomb it would be easier to detect.

Comment Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced (Score 1) 392

Yes, we realize that. That's why he tried removing all the splitters in the first place.
Our line still has a shitty signal due to the off property wiring they refuse to even look at. But as a result of them grubbing for more cash my father decided it was finally time to see how people without cable TV live, and the net result was better internet and a better viewing experience.

Now I just have to convince him having 7 other wireless routers in the area is keeping his wifi signal in the shitter as well. So running ethernet to service the new streaming boxes he's getting will be a good idea.

Comment Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced (Score 1) 392

Wyoming or thereabouts, right?
Sounds about right. They did the tuner box switch just a month ago, but they've run commercials on it all year.

Dad has had the triple play thing for like 2 years now and has bitched constantly about the price it went up to.
We just went internet only with netflix and cell phones.

Didn't know about the lower 30 still being available, but it would explain why I found a half dozen old channel filter plugs laying in the street in laramie a month ago. Cable guys must be cleaning them off the lines since they don't need to filter the noise off channels anymore.

Comment Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced (Score 1) 392

Yes, I know what the boxes do. As I said, the local cable co. switched from decoder only for channels>100 to converter box for all channels a month ago. They turned off the signal that any flatscreen with a coax jack could read to get channels 1-100.

Even if I was completely ignorant to how cable works, they've been playing commercials explaining the change for the last half year.

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