You just need *more* internet!

Apparently the law says you cannot be billed more than a certain amount for going over your data for the month (I believe the overage amount is $50). So once you meet this threshold the tel-cos just nuke your access and send you a SMS asking you to waive your rights granted by said law. Not sure if this tactic is ongoing or just a month by month waiver but it's just another hollow law that had the loophole built in.

Basically business as usual.

"Consume less than you burn" please do the math. This could win you a Nobel.

Just because currently 3% of people pay money for this particular gaming template doesn't mean none of the remaining 97% will never pay for anything. You are looking for a plate at a table that is getting smaller, quicker. The games that have attracted the payments of those 3% have been basically created, soliciting the remainder is the latest and greatest.

Mistake on my math that would have been 2.5 / second, the real number would be:

40,000 x (60x24x2.5) = 144,000,000 rows per day (still quite a bit).

According to Google Play Store this app has about 40K installs. We are saying that 40K x (60x60x24) x 2.5 = 8,640,000,000 rows added per day is something that not even the DBA noticed?

That's a bit of a stretch.

From the mailing list:

The firmware can be built with what we have provided, and will run on
> the WRT1900AC successfully. It is true that it would lack wireless
> support, but that would not stop the firmware from actually working. We
> are actively working on the package to support the wireless hardware,
> this will not be overlooked.

So basically they are saying since the firmware they are providing will compile (even though it doesn't contain any wireless support) is still a firmware so they are technically holding up on their end of the bargain. This is just really obtuse.

So nerd or not there is no amount of compiling that will actually make this WIFI router actually connect any WIFI devices.

$500K for R&D? To integrate an electric motor into a design that was already established many years ago?

WOW

So how much R&D would it cost to put an electric motor into a Model T? It must be in the millions!

And Zmodem :)

It's not like an actual terrorist would be searching the net on directions of use and lab reports.

The QR code has really nothing to do with smartphones. You could take a picture of it with any camera and upload it. QR Codes are just a software library that evaluates based on white and black marks within the picture.

Your human rights are defined by your country's laws. If 50%+1% go one way and your not cool with that then your pretty much stuck, that is democracy. Then you have the option of looking for a place that you fit into the societal norm.

That is all.

Why not? If I start a campaign saying everyone should do %X then why should I not be able to? In reality most people have a common set of beliefs, whether it be about sex, violence or rock and roll. If someone starts a fund or other wise attempts to gather people into a strict belief more times than not they just come to the sad realization they are doing this because of their own short comings. Look at Westboro Baptist Church, they have fewer than 100 members, with all the media they get they should get more right? No! Because they are nut jobs, out of 9 Billion people only 100 show up and put something in the collection plate.

Sometimes people try to justify themselves by influencing those around them, when that is not enough they usually just huddle up with the few that have similar issues and recluse themselves. Now with all the government surveillance the chances of one of these groups coming back and messing it up for the rest of us isn't likely, they just go pound sand.

My belief is just that people with similar delusions will eventually find each other so let them, it's likely therapeutic.

You wouldn't download peanut butter, would you?

Facebook won't last that long. I know they have cash in the bank but even they see it. They buy WhatsApp not because they never thought of making a SMS like app or integrate it into their stuff, they want the head count. Facebook was cool to my generation because you could check out all the people you knew from years gone by but it is like any popular hangout or bar, eventually people will buy their beer somewhere else.

When you or anyone else here was younger how many would go to hangout somewhere where their parents used to hangout? The newer netizens don't want to chat up with their friends where their baby pictures are posted, it becomes, well just lame.

They know this but for them to look strong to their share holders they need page views and a monstrous head count, the second that starts going south people will sell that paper all day long. Facebook doesn't have the legs that Microsoft does because Microsoft still has huge on going contracts to sell and support Windows. The workplace isn't going to Android / IOS anytime soon and Linux is making some slow progress but Microsoft can afford for people to hate them. Facebook just doesn't have that luxury. When their users go so will their share holders and the barrier to entry is damn low, look at WhatsApp, they have like 20 employees and a simple infrastructure.

Facebook is like the post grad that came back for extra credits and started hanging around the freshmen trying to be cool, they burn through cash trying to show off how cool they are but rarely get to re-achieve their previous self proclaimed brilliance.