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Submission + - AT&T's Worldnet Service is a nightmare in prog (peeniewallie.com)

dukw_butter writes: Recently, AT&T sent notices to its customers explaining the "Discontinuation of AT&T Worldnet® Service" to be "Replaced by AT&T Dial Internet". In theory, users would just register at a website for a seamless transition to the new service. Instead, users are left hanging. They cant' receive emails and can't contact customer service. A total meltdown. (Check the comments at the link.)

Comment Re:What a lot of work. (Score 1) 574

"Sellers could cut them out by raising their prices so that demand matches supply."

Ding! Ding! Ding! This is the correct answer. What most people don't understand is that the venues are charging less than people are willing to pay. Demand is greater than supply and so the price goes up. Scalpers are there to correct the situation. The only way to "beat the scalpers" is to price the tickets appropriately, meaning to "auction" off the tickets to the highest bidder. Then, if the performers/venue feel the prices are too high, they can perform another show. This is the way the free market economy works.

Comment Measure the Radiation from the Tower (Score 1) 791

One person said "The power of the antenna in this case is restricted by the larger number of cell phone users in the city." And, it is true that the radiation intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source. I personally think that you should attempt to measure the radiation from the tower. Then, you could decide if you needed to turn the apartment into a Farraday cage.

Comment Killing Processes (Score 4, Interesting) 901

I want more control over the O/S and less questioning of my actions by the O/S. For instance, I want the ability to kill a process without further interrogation. And when I kill a process, I don't want to see it lingering out there, requiring me to kill it 9 times. Actually, what the computer needs is a setting to tell it how advanced the computer user is, from say 1 - 10. Where a 1 is a housewife and a 10 is an XP kernel developer. Then, I would set my O/S to a 10, and it would do what I tell it to without question (deleting files, killing processes, etc.)

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