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Comment Micro USB (Score 1) 405

Most if not all cell phone manufactures utilize the industry standard micro USB for charging. If I ever decide to purchase an iPhone I'll have to "throw away" my old charging accessories that work with 99% of phones on the market today and "buy new Apple approved charging accessories".

Comment Do the ends justify the means? (Score 1) 828

At what point do you decide that gun related violence and crime outweigh the cost of liberty? The gun related deaths are a necessary evil that come along with having the means to rise up and overthrow an oppressive government. You might say it'll never happen. If history is any indication I'm not willing to gamble.

Comment Re:Congratulations, Verizon (Score 1) 331

I tether often, and I don't notice this on pages loaded on the tethered PC. It must be a forced proxy they have set up in the stock browser?

It doesn't matter if you're using the stock browser or not. In the past you used to be able to switch to a different APN (internet2.voicestream.com, internet3.voicestream.com) and avoid the compression. I've heard that modifying the headers with a Firefox addon get's around the issue but I haven't tried it. I personally connect to my router at home via PPTP on my android to get around the compression. If you're curious if your carrier is molesting your images, download the same image over cellular and wifi and compare the size of the two.

BSD

Submission + - pfSense 2.0-RC1 released (pfsense.org) 1

imcdona writes: "Started in 2004 as a fork of the m0n0wall project, pfSense has reached a major milestone. Years and many thousands of hours in the making, pfSense 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available!"

Submission + - Are you thinking of moving to low-power servers?

An anonymous reader writes: PCWorld has a nice piece talking about low-energy server computing, and how the era of traditional high-energy servers, supported by racks of air conditioning, might be coming to an end. What do you think? Could you use a server made from Atom chips, or even ARM chips (bearing in mind Windows is coming to ARM soon)? Has your company looked into it?
Google

Submission + - Google fixes Gmail issues, provides explanation (vr-zone.com)

tincat7788 writes: Remember the little freak accident caused by Google by some users woke up on Monday only to find their Gmail accounts emptied of all their messages? Well, it seems that Google has managed to identify the culprit responsible for the little incident, and has issued a statement describing what actually happened that day. On the plus side, the search giant has also assured users that no data was permanently wiped off the face of the virtual world.

Read on to find out more.

The Internet

VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China 181

ironfrost writes "A recent ruling by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has declared that VoIP services are illegal, except for the ones operated by state-owned telecom operators China Telecom and China Unicom. According to the article, 'the decision is expected to make Skype, UUCall and other similar services unavailable in China,' and is widely seen as a way to protect the traditional telecom operators' profits. Here's a more in-depth story in Chinese (Google Translate version)."
Iphone

Skype For iPhone Now Makes Video Calls 102

tekgoblin writes "Today Skype has released an update that allows iPhone users to make video calls from their device. There had been rumors that this update was in the works and now they have been made fact. So, was the Skype outage the other day part of this internal update? Possibly. But Skype has proven to be one of the most important communication tools in the world and now has gotten even better."

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