Comment Re:People stopped using Telnet? (Score 1) 238
For an added bonus try POE.
Comment Re:idea (Score 1) 90
Actually I would like to hear about this.
I work for a small ISP which leases its copper from the LEC and we are doing just fine. Although we only deal with business customers and also provide VOIP service.
Comment Re:Meh (Score 2, Insightful) 657
So instead of getting a consistent web experience you're basically deciding to play russian roulette with Flash content?
Brilliant.
It just works.
Except when the fucking browser crashes.
What a ridiculous comment. All he's saying is you can disable it by default and browse the web as you would normally, with the option to play flash content if you want. All flash content is russian roulette, no matter what platform you use. What does it matter if it's on your phone or not? No matter what you're getting a consistent web experience.
Fat Fingered Sumo Wrestlers Given iPads 69
The Japan Sumo Association is handing out about 60 iPads to training stables to help the wrestlers communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a regular mobile phone. From the article: "The iPad was chosen because the sumo association believed the device was big enough to cater to wrestler's fat fingers, unlike the smaller keys on mobile phones, according to reports."
Comment Re:Two points I don't need to make (Score 0) 1268
mathematic doesn't exist. mathematics is the noun, not the plural of some other noun. "math." is an abbreviation of mathematics. when spoken, it's said "math" since you don't say "math period", and over the years the writing of "math." changed to "math" for reasons unknown. "maths" is just plain wrong.
Comment Re:It changes nothing (Score 0) 711
Give me a fucking break. If the US weren't killing thousands of people in the name of a wild goose chase for something that happened almost a decade ago, no soldier would be getting hurt. Get the troops out and end these pointless wars and there wouldn't be these disgusting documents to leak to begin with. The US has no business being there. If these documents are that harmful it's even more of a reason to get out now, though I doubt the documents pose much of a threat, even with names and locations since most of the information is months to years old.
Comment Re:save lives by exposing military tactics.... (Score 0) 711
Soliciting implies trying to convince people to send them documents or offering something in return. Which they do not do.
No, it's exactly what they did.
No, you're completely wrong and I'm pretty sure you know it.
Comment Re:save lives by exposing military tactics.... (Score 0) 711
That's bullshit. The soldiers' lives are at risk by just being there. Get them the fuck out of harms way and no harm will come to them.
Comment amazing idea (Score 0) 230
whoever came up with this is brilliant. this will speed up the extermination of ipad purchasers. thank you!
Comment Re:Hunters.. (Score 0) 1010
you forgot magic
Comment news? (Score 0) 133
i've had an app like this on my android phone for at least a month. how is this news?
Comment Re:curious situation: iphone more google than appl (Score 0) 326
no one is forcing anyone to install this software though. if the user wants to replace the "core functionality" they should be able to. apple is just wrong here.
Comment Re:How does custom firmware "lose sales" (Score 1) 190
Protip: Don't sell consoles at a loss.
Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year 445
JacobSteelsmith writes "A respected American think-tank, Nemertes Research, reports the Web has reached a critical point. For many reasons, Internet usage continues to rise (imagine that), and bandwidth usage is increasing due to traffic heavy sites such as YouTube. The article goes on to describe the perils Internet users will face including 'brownouts that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace,' and constant network 'traffic jams,' similar to 'how home computers slow down when the kids get back from school and start playing games.' ... 'Monthly traffic across the internet is running at about eight exabytes. A recent study by the University of Minnesota estimated that traffic was growing by at least 60 per cent a year, although that did not take into account plans for greater internet access in China and India. ... While the net itself will ultimately survive, Ritter said that waves of disruption would begin to emerge next year, when computers would jitter and freeze. This would be followed by brownouts — a combination of temporary freezing and computers being reduced to a slow speed.'"
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 177
Sprint is the primary Internet connection for my laptop. You can run a webserver on a cellular card but only other sprint cellular users will be able to access it. Sprints cellular data network blocks port 80 inbound from other networks but not inside their own network.
Get a business account if you can. They are fairly lenient about hosting servers and using lots of bandwidth.
