Unfortunately, this is the sad truth: life's unfair.

When I was traveling to the USA with my European phone (iPhone 4S with 3G) last year, I took a prepaid card at T-Mobile and it worked fine for me. The vendor told me the 3G *could* work but since they were deploying the network (at the same time they deploy LTE), I shouldn't count on it (I was in SF then).
3G worked when I exited the shop and put the new SIM card for about 20 minutes, then it fell back to Edge for 99% of my 6 weeks trip.

I traveled on the east and west coast and only had 3G another time, at the top of my hotel in Manhattan at night, just after Sandy. Since most of the towers were down (because of the hurricane) that was a quite good surprise and I could Skype my family to tell them I was OK.
Then, when I left, my iPhone told me I was connected to AT&T 5G. Never understood why, but it was fun to see (should have taken a screenshot!).

For a 50$ plan with unlimited voice, text and data (of which 500MB of data high speed then low speeds) that was quite nice. Should they get a better high speed coverage, it would be definitely the best you can get when traveling in the USA.

Plants emit CO2 at night, let's have a tax on people who have plants too!

Beside iOS and OSX development, I don't see clear advantages of using a Mini as a server when you already have a good Linux setup and provisioning for other services.
At my company, we use them to run continuous integration for iOS and OSX software. We've got like 10 of them for this purpose and they work quite well. I think the oldest one even out-survived the oldest Linux server used for CI. We don't need all the fancy server features for them (ECC, redundant power, serial console, hardware RAID). If one dies, well, we shut it down and replace it with another. They are inexpensive, and just build servers anyway, not critical for the company.

They're not always easy to work with though, we had them in a DC, but our remote hands wouldn't touch them. Since we couldn't find any IPMI or KVM suited for them either, we decided to move them in a secured room in our office. We never needed to do anything of them anyway, but it's still handy to have them close by.
If anybody has a solution for remote KVM or IPMI on a Mini, that'd be great!

Seems quite silly to have such an old CPU (dual core 3GHz) with a (back then) top of the line GPU but it's working great! Note that I'm also using 6GB of ram at 800Mhz dual channel (1+1 + 2+2 GB).
I am able to play LOTS (if not all?) games with high / very high graphic detail since then. There are a few options that are tightly coupled with the CPU sometimes and I avoid these, but the rest works great at 1920*1200 (24" screen), even with new games.

My next upgrade will probably be a CPU upgrade, probably with the new Intel Haswell this time when it's released, but I'm not expecting a big boost in games, mostly a faster system overall (dual core is still a bit limited when you have so many programs launched in the background).

What if, in addition to the flagging software, they also had another software that answered to DMCA takedowns with a "No, it's not illegitimate".
Would it create an infinite loop of takedowns and restores?

Users don't need a VPN, just a different DNS server.
Or just go to the management interface and disable the *feature* if they don't want it.

It's up to the customs and airport security to check there's no illegal device boarding the plane.
And by illegal, I mean that don't comply with regulations on safety, radio signal power or frequency.

They do it all the time for toys that are unsafe for children, why couldn't they do it for adult gadgets too?

I vote for banning hard cover books too. I think they hurt far more than a kindle when thrown at you.

Humble[hmbl]
adj
1. conscious of one's failings
2. unpretentious; lowly "a humble cottage" "my humble opinion"
3. deferential or servile

So how is letting your pay what you want not humble? If they were pretentious, they would sell it for at least $50, they would deserve it. But no, it's up to you.

Somehow, I think that the people who deserve the title "humble" the least are all the people complaining about this operation.
Being humble is accepting what you're given and not asking more. And you're all whining about every little detail, trashing a company on the verge of the bankruptcy (with lots of jobs at stage) and totally ignoring the charities the Humble Bundle have supported for quite some time. Humble? No. Quite selfish, indeed.

It's actually more like buying drinks, and only getting milk. Now you assume you'll always have milk. So when you get some orange juice in the box too, you start a drama.
Well, to be honest, it isn't bad, milk and orange juice go well together sometimes.

So in order to make money for the Child's play charity or Red cross, they have to port to games to as many platform as possible and spend lots of money. Just to be sure everybody has access to it, I suggest they consider a port to Linux, OSX, Xbox, PS3, Amiga, BSD, Snes, Atari, Gameboy, Hurd and various models of coffee machines with integrated LED display.

If you want to raise money and you can do it efficiently as the games have already been made, there's no shame about it.

It's not a crime to express yourself. When you're just a few people saying you just don't like, it's quite ridiculous compared to all the other people who endorsed it or paid for it and all the rest who didn't think of a drama.
Speech is silver, but silence is golden. Especially true when you're a nobody trying to create a drama out of nothing.

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It is actually possible to sign up on Spotify without a Facebook account if you are in Germany and some other countries: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120904spotify