Havn't done much testing. Covers my apartment with no worries, but thats not saying too much.

Nowadays it might be better and cheaper to go with 1.3 Ghz phones. Uses the TV bands that were freed up. I have one and have wonderfully interference-free calls.

How, exactly, are they pirates? There was no minimum amount set. If I got a game on sale for $15 instead of the retail $60, does that make me a pirate? Last I checked, I still bought goods at a price they were willing to be sold at.

I got ganked in the loading screen while exiting a station in 0.0, left in a full transport ship, arrived in a destroied escape pod. Shortly after, I stopped playing, because I didn't want to deal with that kinda crap.

This is actually far more scary than the title would lead you to believe.

Scaring online poker players and internet gambling aficionados in Massachusetts is text found on page 123 of the 172-page bill. It reads, “Any person who knowingly transmits or receives a wager of any type by any telecommunication device, including telephone, cellular phone, internet, [or] local area network or knowingly installs or maintains said device or equipment for the transmission or receipt of wagering information shall be punished.” The penalty is a hefty one, up to two years behind bars and a fine of up to $25,000.

Translation: if you are in Mass, and you send an email to a buddy along the lines of "Five bucks says Lumburgh is gonna make me come in on Saturday" can get you put in jail and fined.

I hit that one, and came to a good setup. Both cell and landline have answering machine turned off, and if I am at home and only one phone rings, I do not answer it. Took about a week to get the stubborn family members to call via GV

Do you use any steak or barbeque sauce on your steak? A1 has HFCS, as does most other sauces. Even ketchup. Check some food lablels in your house, its probably listed on most of the packages.

I bought the disk. I am holding the disk. Why are you saying that I do not have the right to use all the ones and zeros that are on the disk I purchased? I believe the purchase of these ones and zeros does, in fact, entitle me to all of them.

When I am reading the paper, with relaxing music in the background, the newspaper does not start talking to me.

Websites, however, do. If I am reading slashdot articles in google reader, the last thing I want is to have a bunch of articles pre-load and start talking, desynched just enough to be very loud cacophony.

This happened looking at _this_ article, causing me to find and install an ad-blocker in chrome. If its an ad in a video, feel free to talk to me, or play music. But, if I am reading, STFU!

Even more fun. Chinese player and a Ukranian player on a US server. What law/court are you in now?

This is what happens when you type 3 minutes before leaving for work.

http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html

Best example I know of.

Firewall had a scene with the main character analyzing a network intrusion bu looking at odd packets in wireshark (now ethereal).

Accurate, and it looked good on screen.

According to their own site, it will be "fully modable", therefore, likely as modable if not more than civ4. Watching some interviews with the Civ guys, they love the modding community, and recognize its importance to the success to the series. Firaxis is one of the coolest game companies I know.

However, there was a more fundamental problem, in the minds of some internet service providers and powerful telecommunications companies. YouTube pays for the transmission of half that awesome amount of data it serves (in theory only, in practice it's less). The other half is paid by those who receive it, by way of the telephone company used to get internet access. The users may consider that fair, but the telephone companies saw the equivalent of newspapers being delivered using their vans while they see none of the advertising revenue. YouTube, and Google and Facebook and other big traffic destinations, they argued, should pay to reach those customers.

Now, think about this for a moment. If I am renting a van from you, paying what you asked for mileage, filling up the tank when I brought it back, etc... why should I give you more money for using it to deliver newspapers, than if I used it to pick up a couch and bring it back to my place?

Seriously, where the hell did they think up this analogy?