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Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 417

Your son is obviously autistic.
His actions are highly unusual, get him in to an autism specialist immediately.

With early treatment he has a chance of leading a semi-normal life. Good luck!

As a parent of a child who is "on the Spectrum," I view your cavelier attitude towards a glib diagnosis and/or dismissal as incredibly insensitive.

To the original post, if you feel your child is exhibiting odd behaviors, by all means get him checked out by a battery [and I stress battery] of professionals. Get second opinions, because opinions vary from profressional to professional. That said, there is nothing wrong with technological fascination in a child - feel free to nurture it! We have found sites like http://starfall.com/ to be incredibly awesome, especially if the child is verbally/lexically inclined!

Comment Palantir (Score 1) 63

Looks like this may be a way to make a play for competition in homeland security and business support, like Palantir has done plus medical data tracking, and other possible extrapolations

I'm fairly sure it's not going to be used for just generating websites.

Comment Re:What a pipedream. (Score 1) 152

You have to consider the fact that internal IBMers are still required to use internal mainframe software for some accounts. Because they're ingrained in the process. A lot of the philosophy is "if it ain't broke [obviously], don't fix it"

IIRC, every internal system comes with Firefox on it, or has it pushed via the IBM Standard Software Installer [ISSI], so it's not like people don't have the browser. It's just a matter of whether or not you have the resources to retrofit older processes to be Firefox-compliant. Given the general bean-counter-based perspective of the company, I doubt that this will gain much traction.

Remember a few years ago when IBM pledged to move to an entirely Linux environment? Hasn't happened yet and there never seemed to be any further push for it. Or when there was a company-wide push to use their awesome internal solution to remote VPN connectivity [IBM Connect]? It decidedly got shelved when a contract with AT&T was renewed. So, yeah, like I said, not gonna gain much traction

Comment Tethering will increase data usage, right? (Score 1) 670

I read the comments on the Gizmodo story and everyone seemed to be hunky dory with the cap at 2G, since they didn't go anywhere near there with their current plans and they were keen on the tethering.

Am I off base, but won't tethering vastly increase their data usage? Seems to me that people will be paying an additional $20 plus potential overages

Comment Re:Happens all the time. (Score 1) 410

When I used to live 5 miles from the Canadian boarder I would hear nightmare stories like this all the time. People, despite being in the US would find that their cell was roaming to a Canadian tower because it had a better signal. It was bad then, even before data. Now I can only imagine how horrible it must be.

Happened to me when I lived in St. Albans, VT, which is about 15 miles shy of the Canadian border. Granted, I could've easily been lying about not going up and crossing the border and using my phone, but I wasn't. And luckily, the folks at VZW were pretty accommodating at the time and made sure it was cleared from the bill.

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