Comment: Re:Cryptonomicon!! (Score 1) 647
How about Michael Crichton's Airframe?
Comment: Re:Don't miss the Mississippi (Score 5, Informative) 78
Yes, it's 200 acres in size!
Comment: Re:Couldn't they have named it something else. (Score 1) 381
I suggest 'MFOAB'.
I'll leave the expansion up to the reader.
Comment: Re:Simple solution to dealign with these trackers (Score 1) 761
How do you know it's gov property? There's no identification on it. It's stuck to your property. I'd say you own it and are free to do with it as you please.
If they ask for it back, say they have to prove it's theirs. And give you a receipt that you returned it.
Comment: Re:Access to energy is social justice (Score 1) 360
Really? I work about 90 hours a week, and haven't had a single week actually "off" in about ten years.
Selfish bastard. You could share some of that work, there's enough to do for two or three people there.
Don't worry, they'll have to hire someone else when he works himself into an early grave.
Comment: Re:"How can we discover 'the new' in an age when (Score 1) 266
How is this a GPS problem? Maps existed before GPS...
Yeah. I don't that that is an effect of GPS so much as an effect of the online maps (Google Maps, etc). Of course, those are dependent on GPS, so I guess it's a secondary effect.
Comment: Re:t mobile (Score 1) 286
i like t mobile's plan scheme, where the first 2gig is at full speed and then your speed gets knocked down. instead of paying an arm and a leg for the data. their data plans are $10 a month and i've always been able to tether for free using the phone off the shelf. i hate to say it, but with their shitty service and all but they've got the best setup. all told i think that is a $20-50 per month saving
I've got T-mo as well. My (un-rooted) Vibrant came with a option in the settings to enable it to be a WiFi AP. When I bought the phone I was told that I could tether with no extra charges. Then a couple of months after I got it, this came out:
T-Mobile recently announced the upcoming availability of a Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing service plan that enables select smartphones to function as wireless modems for connecting devices, such as laptops, tablets and netbooks, to the Internet through the T-Mobile network.
I've only used it a couple of time, for my iPad, and so far they haven't modified my plan. But from the wording, it looks like they could. I suppose they'll only go after the biggest data hogs.
Comment: Re:Your kidding, right? (Score 1) 585
Then they took two more but filled various body cavities in the Pinto with rigid urethane foam.
I don't think I want to fill my body cavities with foam!
Comment: Re:DoD is Ga Ga For RIM... (Score 1) 132
This is from a BlackBerry Software license agreement:
(2) You will not use the RIM Products and Software in the development, production, handling, maintenance, storage, detection, identification or dissemination of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or their missile delivery systems, or of materials or equipment that could be used in such weapons or their missile delivery systems, or resell or export to anyone or any entity involved in such activity;.
That's pretty standard legalese found in most SLAs. So is RIM a controlling hippie, also?
Comment: Re:the concept of 'device management' (Score 1) 272
... now pany batteries are chipped. 'for your protection' but they are authentication chipped for vendor lock-in (or lock-out, depending on POV).
Sometime 'for your protection' really means for your protection. If you put some cheap knock-off battery in the device, maybe it has different charge characteristics and the device will over-charge it, which can cause all kinds of problems.