Comment Re:ignore them and show it anyway (Score 1) 821
Wish I could mod this comment up higher than the max of five. Seriously.
Comment Re:Why I quit cable (Score 1) 397
This is what happened to me. TWC couldn't maintain their own network, and continues to allow third-party contractors to repeatedly fuck things up. High speed isn't worth the cost when it's frequently down for long stretches. DSL might be slow, but it's been rock-solid stable for years.
Comment How can they call it a shuttle replacement (Score 2, Insightful) 109
When it won't carry people, and has no more the cargo capacity of a pickup truck?
Comment Re:Duh! (Score 1) 261
Mod parent up. Puh-leeze? If I had mod points right now, I'd grant him more.
Comment Re:Call me juvenile ... (Score 1) 267
Don't laugh, the term's already been used : http://www.buttpaste.com/BLButtPaste.php
Comment Re:Statistics! (Score 3, Insightful) 1142
There are lies, then there are damned lies, and finally there are statistics.
Comment When life gives you lemons, make lemonade (Score 1) 295
Surely there's plenty of potential for making heavy water (d2o), right?
Submission + - Senators against Net Neutrality (rawstory.com) 3
opencity writes: "Led by Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison a group of Senators have introduced a bill to prevent the FCC from getting funding for any initiative to uphold Net neutrality. This is after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski stated the Obama administrations plan to enforce Net neutrality."
Comment Found in 100M Year-old termite guts (Score 1) 145
Are you certain there were no RIAA/MPAA copyrights in those microbe genomes? I'm just saying...
Comment Run Windoze much?? (Score 5, Insightful) 655
HP and Microsoft repeatedly suggest re-installing the operating system to cure a network configuration issue.
Comment Disney's already developed it (Score 1) 157
According to this item at Hackday.com anyway.
Comment Crunchy Spider Surprise - WTF?!?!? (Score 1) 44
What the hell happened to Crunchy Frog?
Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.
Milton: Ah, yes.
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.
Milton: Ah, yes.
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
(Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy.)
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Journal Journal: TWC relents on Usage Caps
ARS Technica reports Time Warner Cable is backing down in the face of consumer revolt over their metered billing tests. From the article: "When Comcast currently offers a 250GB/month cap for around $42.95, and the price of Internet backbone traffic is dropping by 50 percent a year, and DOCSIS 3.0 updates cost only $20-$100 per customer, and TWC's finances showed big upticks in
Comment Marvell's Linux support isn't spectacular (Score 1, Redundant) 464
If they are judged by the OpenWRT's project efforts with the Linksys WRT-350N, Netgear WNR854T, and D-Link DIR-615 are any indication. Two Marvell associates are providing support in their personal time to develop a fully functional open-source driver for Marvell's gigabit switch chip.
Comment 3Com's Audrey internet appliance (Score 1) 123
This futuristic device was one of the earliest commercial uses of the Geode chip. Unfortunately at $400 it was overpriced, and 3Com never supported the firmware developed for it.
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The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out. Computer translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
