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Comment Re:T-unlimited mobile is all good all right (Score 1) 55

Totally agree. Former verizon and att customer. Not regrets, never want to go back. We have a large family with mostly teenagers and college students. I fucking love tmoble's services. Their coverage is spectacular, plenty of bandwidth, superb call clarity, lowest prices I have ever seen. 13 devices, all unlimited, including tablets for less than 200 a month. I dread the future where things change, but for now its perfect.

Comment Barking up the wrong tree? (Score 5, Interesting) 386

Unless you are talking about your netgear or dlink box getting back doored, I think you are looking in the wrong places.

Any NAT device is sufficient.
Patch all your stuff
Don't download crap
Don't execute the crap you download
Don't play web games
Don't use internet explorer
uninstall flash
uninstall java

If you are really looking for a good firewall, go grab a little pfsense box from netgate. But I think you have many other places to look at first.

Comment I don't get what the damn mystery is here (Score 1) 112

This tech has been around for decades. Its currently in use.

Here is a demo from decades ago:
https://youtu.be/4eZVF1ouTT4?t...

Ultrasonic beat waves/interference is what this looked like from the beginning. Reverse engineering isn't necessary to discover this.

Comment Huh? What are you talking about (Score 1) 359

They already are compatible. Have been for decades. I save a text file on linux, open on my pc, I can read it. Linux machine can browse the same websites, edit the same files, leverage the same protocols... So what exactly are you asking for? Run a single app binary on linux mac/windows? Java.

Comment And, I suppose, phone life. (Score 1) 106

Every single time an android user tells me how great their phone is, I realize that they just didn't understand that ALL phones do that, that there are easier ways, that there's no need to pay through the nose to do those things, or that they didn't realize certain things were even possible because "android doesn't have that".
I have personally never found a selling point for an android device over their competitors, certainly not one that justifies the price difference. But people are happy to live in ignorance because they don't actually buy the device to do those things, they buy the device to go on YouTube occasionally or order their shopping or stick the kids on a game. And there, pretty much, you don't require any particular specialities and everything else is just a "toy" to play with.
Android is a designer brand sold on the fact that "I've heard android are better". I've yet to find that to be true. However, most people spend a lot of money on an android device, use it for everything they were ever going to anyway (i.e. not very much) and are happy that it does that. Fair play to them. But in terms of VALUE for money, I can't even begin to justify that over any other devices.

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