Comment Re:I would like to remind everyone (Score 1) 303
I'm now paying $50/month for my girlfriend and myself to have two droid phones with 300 minutes, "unlimited" data and text messages where as I was previously paying $50/month for 1 phone on Verizon with 400 minutes, unlimited text messages and no data. (That was after a 25% corporate discount!) On top of that she was paying $100 a month with T-Mobile for unlimited everything. I'm saving over $100 (between us two) and getting more useful features that I use.
If any of you are off contract (another benefit to VM -- they don't have contracts) I would strongly suggest looking at Virgin Mobile and their Android phones, I believe they have two to choose from, one from LG (which I have) and one from Samsung.
Comment Re:Here is an enlaged version (Score 1) 466
Comment Re:Red Chinese arrogance (Score 1) 131
The world moves a lot faster nowadays. It may have been able to handle two mega empires simultaneously solely because of geographical limits. Natural resources were also not nearly as in demand as they are today.
Just my $.02
Comment Re:I'm more excited about "Facebook Disconnect" (Score 1) 292
*.facebook.com.*$domain=~facebook.com|~127.0.0.1
This is a quick fix that doesn't require another plugin to be loaded into memory.
Cheers!
Comment Re:Speaking from a Recent BuckyBalls Customer (Score 1) 475
Comment Speaking from a Recent BuckyBalls Customer (Score 4, Interesting) 475
From what I have heard, this company BuckyBalls made about $500,000 in sales from the woot sale (woot actually bought more from BuckyBalls on the day of the sale because demand was so strong), and $250,000 in sales on the day Google changed its logo to honor the Buckyball. Seems they may have grown too big for their britches and feel a sense of entitlement now.
Comment Re:live stream (Score 4, Informative) 229
TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident 352
Comment Free Access to WSJ Article (Score 1) 118
Here's the link to the Google search for you.
Comment Working Outside in Summer (Score 1) 484
Comment Re:Uploading a swf with a jpg extension? (Score 1) 355
According to the article, the SWF can still be executed under these circumstances, but that seems implausible to me. I would think that the browser would simply invoke the jpeg handler, fail to parse the image data, and throw an error.
I don't know if gif/jpeg rules are the same. But you can upload a GIF as a JPEG, and it will still render as a GIF, even though the file is itself JPEG. In fact, even some free image hosting sites exploit this "vulnerability". If you upload a GIF to tinypic, it will rename the file and place the
Firefox and IE seem to have no problem deciphering this so I doubt it is something that the browsers specifically disallow.
Comment Re:Another shocker (Score 4, Interesting) 305
That's bullshit. It's luck. (And increasingly these days, the luck of having been born into the correct socioeconomic stratum.) The best we can do is to pursue opportunities to the utmost when they do appear and make the most of the luck we get in life.
Your statement reminded me of one of my favorite quotes.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
Comment Isn't the point of advertising (Score 4, Insightful) 404
Comment Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (Score 3, Interesting) 193
Hmm, ok.
That was Hard...
And to think, I own this game and it is collecting dust somewhere. Perhaps I should list it on ebay and retire to some faraway country.