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Comment Re:"while operating a taxicab" (Score 1) 264

You cant call for a yellow cab in NYC, unless they come from a large private garage. But no one I know has ever done it.

This app wont work well in Manhattan anyways, since there are so many cabs. And in the outer boroughs, most people know which street to go to to hail a cab trying to go back to Manhattan.

Verizon

Submission + - Gov't approves parts of Verizon-Cable spectrum sale, co-marketing agreements (buffalonews.com)

fistfullast33l writes: Buffalo News is reporting that the Justice Department, FCC, and New York State Attorney General approved portions of a deal between Verizon Wireless and Cable companies Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Cox to sell parts of the wireless spectrum to Verizon for $3.9bn. It rejected the agreement between the two groups to allow Verizon to market cable services in its stores in markets where it also offers FIOS service. The spectrum will be used to increase Verizon's 4G LTE network coverage. Verizon will also sell some spectrum to T-Mobile. Consumer groups were very concerned about the cross-marketing by Verizon:

When it comes to home broadband, Verizon Communication Inc.'s FiOS provides the only significant competition to cable in many areas. Yet FiOS is costly to build out, and Verizon's commitment to the technology has faltered. Consumer groups and unions that opposed the deal between the cable companies and Verizon said it showed that Verizon was further giving up on FiOS and yielding the home broadband market to cable.


Comment Re:Karma's a bitch (Score 1) 372

You buy electronics at crackhead prices, don't be surprised if you get burned. About as dumb as people who download hacking binaries.

TFA doesn't mention the age of type of laptop. I sold my 7 year old Dell Inspiron on eBay for $100, originally purchased for $1600. It worked just fine, except I had Linux on it and they were going to install Windows. We don't have enough details here to make a judgement either way. If it was brand new, the I say she should have used her judgement. But a few years old, then you never really know. This was a school library laptop, so it really could go either way.

Comment Re:But do they have a case ? (Score 1) 394

Why, in that case, did they not defend their name against he previous owners of the cloud domain ?

I have the same exact situation with my own company. I own the .net analogue of my company's name, and someone owns the .com. They've owned the .com for several years, and have a 10-year registration according to GoDaddy. The site currently doesn't do anything - it doesn't resolve at all.

The best thing to do in this case is not to approach the person, but establish yourself and make the name worth something. Then, the cybersquatter will attempt to monetize the name and hopefully do something which can be used in a UDRP claim against them, like setting up an advert site or something.

In any case, it appears the trademark was owned by someone else and maybe iCloud didn't want to pay up. You can't go based on domain names at all - you have to use established business use as the guideline.

NES (Games)

Nintendo Entertainment System Turns 25 164

harrymcc writes "On October 18th 1985, Nintendo launched its NES console in the US, reviving a near-dead video game industry and establishing Nintendo as a leader in home consoles. We've celebrated with a roundup of some of the stranger spinoffs that the NES has inspired over the last quarter century, from odd controllers to a lock parents could use to disable the console to do-it-yourself projects like an NES built into a Super Mario cartridge."

Comment Re:This is painfully obvious. (Score 1) 772

I personally make around $35k as a young single person with no debt, and feel rich, fwiw. I can't even spend it all--- after $1k/month on rent for a nice apt near the beach, and another $1k on food/car/entertainment, my expenses are pretty much covered.

Unless you have paid the car off in full and don't lease or have a car payment, I don't see how this doesn't qualify as debt.

Comment Re:One Of The Best Things About Being A Mac User (Score 1) 551

Which is great for about 6 months...until they release the next version of OS X (or maybe iOS?).

So now, for my mac mini I'd have to install Leopard from scratch, then re-install Snow Leopard over it.

Either way you cut it, re-installing the OS is a pain in the neck. On Windows, it's a once-a-year activity at the very least. On Linux and Mac, I haven't found it necessary thanks to portage on Gentoo and Mac staying pretty stable for the most part, outside of the latest forced upgrade due to the XCode release.

Comment Re: iPhone (Score 4, Interesting) 315

As an iPhone developer, I can tell you the majority of streaming radio apps on mobile phones are listening to Shoutcast servers. That's where most of the money lies for AOL/Nullsoft in Shoutcast. The protocol is very simple and similar to HTTP so the iPhone OS supports it (sort of) out of the box, and some of the more advanced features (like in-stream song names) can be taken advantage of by manipulating the HTTP headers.

Government

Submission + - Bank of America Rescinding H1-B Offers Due to TARP

fistfullast33l writes: The Financial Times is reporting that Bank of America is rescinding job offers to recent MBA graduates who require H1-B visas to stay in the US. According to the article

The recently passed $787bn stimulus bill in effect prevents financial institutions that have received money from the government's troubled asset relief programme from applying for H1-B visas for highly skilled immigrants if they have recently made US workers redundant.

Only about 50 students are affected, but business schools are worried that other banks will soon follow.

Comment Re:$200 in NY is a start (Score 1) 111

I know it's Slashdot, but I'm assuming you're not from New York. Per the article's link, the bill was introduced on March 3rd, so if this gets passed by 2015 we'll be lucky. This is the same state that's rebuilding the World Trade Center and swears it'll be done in time for the 10th year anniversary - in 2011. Did we mention they started in 2002?

Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Texas Road Signs Warn of Nazi Zombies

fistfullast33l writes: "Wired's Gadget Lab Blog and multiple media outlets are reporting on a story out of Austin, Texas where hackers apparently change highway construction roadsigns to warn drivers of Nazi Zombies ahead. Don't forget to watch the local Austin's news station's coverage of the story on You Tube. The story goes on to note that this happens occasionally at MIT as well."

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