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Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 102

I have to wait 10 minutes or more between posts

I’ve found that this seems to be a side effect of using the separate posting page rather than the fancy-dancy Web 2.0 comment editor.

Internet Explorer apparently doesn’t support the Web 2.0 fanciness, so you’re stuck with the other page... and the posting limit...

Thanks for the tip, I'll see if that helps.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 2, Interesting) 102

Oh Please don't remind me of that, not the OMG Ponies! thing, but the fact that I was stupid on that day. For a while first posts were getting modded up, I decided to start the first post stuff as myself. Later the mods started modding the trolls as trolls and my Karma hit rock bottom. In fact I think I'm still paying for it as I have to wait 10 minutes or more between posts, then again there may have been trolls on using an open WiFi I once had.

Comment Re:Stay classy (Score 1) 290

If you are using 64-bit Windows you can forget syncing by USB. Some individual apps like pocket tunes (pTunes) will still sync since they identify as a different device altogether. If you sync by bluetooth, infrared, or serial (even through a USB converter) everything will work fine, but slowly. Palm is not updating their software and drivers to work on 64-bit Windows and the official solution is to use either Bluetooth or Infrared to sync. 32-bit Windows up to and including Windows 7 will work with the Palm Hotsync software, but with 64-bit there is simply no USB driver. I don't think Palm will discontinue the Centro anytime soon, nor any of their standalone PDAs that still use Palm OS. They need to re-write their software to support 64-bit Windows and Mac OSX on Intel in both 64-Bit (and if necessary 32-bit).

Comment Re:Simple really, just like government accounting (Score 1) 1006

Diesel is very plentiful at least in my area of the USA. Most if not all Gas stations in my area carry diesel and the one station if you pull up to the diesel terminal they wouldn't even notice that you are filling up with diesel unless they see which nozzle you are using as that terminal is also a regular gasoline terminal that also has a diesel terminal integrated.
Government

Submission + - Antitrust probe for Wireless provider texting (eweek.com)

DJRumpy writes: The chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights urges the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission to examine whether dominant wireless carriers such as AT&T and Verizon are stifling competition with practices that include exclusive arrangements between carriers and cell phone makers, possible text messaging price fixing, and questionable roaming arrangements.

Apparently the new Antitrust chief is doing just that, but hitting resistance from within the administration.

Media

Submission + - ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings 1

gerddie writes: ASCAP (the same folks who went after Girl Scouts for singing around a campfire) appears to believe that every time your musical ringtone rings in public, you're violating copyright law by "publicly performing" it without a license. At least that's the import of a brief [2.5mb PDF] it filed in ASCAP's court battle with mobile phone giant AT&T.

Read more about it here.
Announcements

Submission + - Digital kills Kodachrome

comcents writes: "The Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it's retiring Kodachrome because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. The world's first commercially successful color film, spent 74 years in Kodak's portfolio. It enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and '60s but in recent years has nudged closer to obscurity: Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of the company's total sales of still-picture films, and only one commercial lab in the world still processes it. Unlike any other color film, Kodachrome is purely black and white when exposed. The three primary colors that mix to form the spectrum are added in three development steps rather than built into its layers. Because of the complexity, only Dwayne's Photo, in Parsons, Kan., still processes Kodachrome film. The lab has agreed to continue through 2010, Kodak said."
Security

Submission + - Siemens Nokia helped provide Iran's censoring tech

An anonymous reader writes: The Wall Street Journal has an article about Nokia and Siemens selling the censoring technology to Iran's government (WSJ article ). Do you believe that the public relation damage to these companies can persuade them from selling this kind of technology to other dictatorial regimes?

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