There should be two

AT&T likes duopolies. It's only fair that they let China Telecom perform government-orded snooping too.

And the wires

Brace yourself for a stream of profanity then ask people what they think of AT&T wired products. This isn't just about mobile phones. Buying T-Mobile eliminates one more escape path for sufferers of AT&T DSL and home phone service.

You do not hold cable. Cable holds you.

It's disappointing that this seems to have become another fat cable technology rather than the sleek optical cable it started as. The DisplayPort cable on Macs is more rigid than Cat 6 and USB 3. It won't stay put and the tiny jack strains to support it.

Evil Ellison icon, please

Uninstalling Java is a harsh recommendation from a web site that's hammering my Flash blocker and Web-bug blocker.

As a language, Java is very good for business applications. It's simple, has a rapid development time, and has growing support for multiprocessor systems. Most of the bloating comes from commercial "Enterprise" frameworks that attempt to eliminate boring boilerplate code with XML files. They run slowly, bloat applications, drive up costs, increase complexity, and usually take longer to use than the boring code they replace. Oracle makes those frameworks so there's a real conflict of interest in them owning Java.

And we all have fiber-to-the-home

Advanced codecs exist because bandwidth savings pays the licensing. "Better performance than MPEG-2" isn't aiming very high, even when free.

Who wins the ashes?

So what's the outcome of this battle? Can open source developers compete with the R&D from a group of multi-billion dollar companies? Much like the last Terminator movie, this epic battle will continue long after the prize is gone.

iRecliners too

Steve is building his retirement home and it involves a lot of TVs.

As Regards Your Request!

Microsoft is creating more throwaway accounts to protect their customers from spammers that use Microsoft throwaway accounts. I don't know if that's a WIN or FAIL.

Customers, customers, customers

"But after Lion's release, all future versions of the OS will not include Java. Instead, developers will obtain Java for Mac from Oracle."

That seems awkward. I can understand not including the Java Development Kit (JDK) but plenty of apps and some web sites need the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Maybe Jobs wants developers to use Flash and AIR instead?

Is it the TV or the chair?

I could never find 4 hours for TV because I'm working at my computer for at least 8 hours.

WTF?

Wait a second... The telcos and Republicans want to allow corporations to control the Internet, then the FCC will sell off free TV spectrum so that everybody must buy TV service from the same telcos? I just checked the local rates for basic HD cable with one jack: $73 + taxes and unspecified fees per month. I'd like a new government now.

over-the-what?

"Every Logitech Revue will receive free over-the-air updates whenever Google and Logitech release software enhancements."

Ah, that's great. TV over the Internet and software updates over the rooftop antenna.

Since US radio is dead

Since independent US radio is mostly dead, I can't wait to start using Quiro... Queeroo... Kuri..., Qroc.., Qirio..., Pandora.

Panasonic backdoor

My Panasonic TC-P50V10 listens on a port open while it's turned on. Panasonic won't say what it does and it doesn't respond to random codes sent to it.

More fun when it breaks

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Range extension, maybe

Taxis spend so much time stopped that a tiny diesel generator could keep them going all day. The generator could be either off or running at peak efficiency at all times, so there should be combustion efficiency and emissions improvement with that model. The question is how much all of this weighs compared to simply using a big diesel motor. I'm skeptical of current battery technology available for cars.

"Who thinks they stopd at smallest dist?"

Too much time in front of the terminal window, Chris.

killall -ABRT stopd

Big piece of acronym

Isn't 'BPOS' sometimes used for the phrase "Big Piece Of Sh..."?

I'm CEO, bitch

Major web sites will never adopt this. Maybe Van Jacobson hasn't worked with a dot-com. They're all a bunch of data hoarding control freaks, offering "personalization" to differentiate themselves from all the others. Any attempts to shield your personal data will simply result in refusal service. Premium content is encrypted and watermarked per viewer, so it's not cacheable. Web pages are personalized and varied for marketing testing, so they're not cacheable. The 150 or so bandwidth sucking animations and images on each web page are for customer tracking (the payload is the request), so they're not cacheable. What remains for caching is a few static images and low value videos. It's not a lot and it's easily covered by existing edge cache services.

The protocol might be useful for personal servers to replace clumsy Torrents. Locating data will still be a problem, though. Who will build an indexing service? Speaking of Torrents, Hollywood should be demanding tracing and takedown controls in the CCNx protocol soon.

Still can't drive

This is pure stupidity. Lawmakers are attempting to forbid all the things that might cause dangerous driving rather than enforcing existing laws related to safe driving. In my tiny 1.7 mile bike ride to work, I'll see about 5 cars drift from their lane, 8 cars illegally turn right across a bike lane, 5 cars speeding, 2 slow cars impeding traffic, and one car and 3 bicycles run red lights. I don't believe they're all on the phone.

Paper trap

I hate how when I print a web page on paper, it doesn't import back into the computer properly.

This car makes me wet

Many single family US homes have a 6 KW outlet in the garage for an electric clothes dryer. Pick which device is more important.

Only 60GHz

There's another wireless image technology that takes advantage of higher frequencies and higher throughput using two dimensional antenna arrays. The drawbacks are similar to 60GHz in that the signal degrades with distance and is easily blocked by obstacles. These systems are sometimes referred to as "video projectors."

14340 PRINT "Other "; O

The 0.19% for "Other" operating systems would include the antique that is rendering those pie charts?

iHang

iTunes frequently hangs and consumes large amounts of CPU time with large music libraries because its use of multithreading is obsolete by about 20 years. It should be withdrawn from the online store.

"Cracked open" source

Field names are exactly preserved but temporary variables have names matching their data type. The redundant initial value of 'isImmutable' is gone. That's clearly decompiled code.

ATDT5551234

5 billion dollars for a computer that will depreciate at something like 40% a year?! How about rolling out 4 bilion dollars worth of 1Gbps fiber optic cables to US homes so we stop free-falling down the broadband rankings? The contract for getting the link could be that you must buy a fast computer and let the government process tasks on it for 10 hours a day. The other 1 billion dollars should be enough to build a core computer to coordinate tasks.

And pigs fry

Are those bare electrified metal strips on the surface? The important question now is AC or DC. AC could do a nice job of heating a piece of cured ham but DC would make a big rusty mess. The review needs to be updated, as being able to heat salty slabs of meat could possibly make the device useful.

Turtleneck

And one more thing... Today I present a strategy that's like nothing you've ever seen before. The Political Reality Distortion Field. We've worked hard at this and it's absolutely beautiful. Stock markets will soar. The poor will be fed. Terrorists will lay down their arms when they see this sleek system. It's really amazing and it's ready today.

Screw developers

I've seen MacOS become popular in corporate environments because it is an excellent Java development system. It elegantly bridges the gap between the corporate Microsoft world and the Solaris/Linux server world. I can think of several major companies that will be MacOS-free once Java is no longer maintained. That's a lot of software developers and IT staff losing interest in Apple systems.

I'd be Lion if I said I was impressed

Mission Control and Launch Pad - that's the demo for a major revision?!? Will QuickTime X be extended? Will the iTunes threading bugs be fixed? Will very large amounts of hard disk and RAM be used more efficiently? Will SSD replace spinning swap? Will there every be API support outside Objective-C?

I almost guarantee...

Reporting this problem should be as simple as checking the ARIN record for that address, right?

abuse@msn.com, abuse@hotmail.com, abuse@microsoft.com

Auto-reply bots saying that your complaint was sent to the wrong address and discarded.

noc@microsoft.com

Carefully guarded by a filter that rejects anything that might mention any type of abuse going on.

Spam on!

Carbon fire

I tossed an old 12V NiCd battery pack into a box for storage... that happened to have an unused sheet of carbon fiber in it. Even without epoxy to feed fire it wasn't what I'd call a minor issue. Carbon doesn't melt/burn until it's white hot and the fire throws off fragments of fibers that lead to more shorts elsewhere.

Ah, zillion to many NAT

The phone call must have gone something like this:

O: You're blocking us.

FB: You're hacking us. I'll send you the IP addresses of the hackers.

O: Everybody has those addresses!

FB: Sucks to be you.

Floods of tens, even dozens, of requests

Since when does India have enough spare bandwidth to be running distributed attacks against distributed servers? Contracting illegal botnets would be a sure-fire way to get yourself and your service provider completely disconnected from the rest of the planet.

Thump

AT&T ads in the US are demonstrating how you can go about your day, including crossing streets, with your eyes never leaving the TV show on your cellphone. This is sad because people too stupid to keep themselves alive will be unavoidably killed by responsible people. No doubt legislation will be passed to equip vehicles with heavy, expensive, fuel-consuming hardware to keep brainless TV tumbleweeds safe.

800dpi?

What does 800dpi mean for a device that pivots like a joystick? How does it perform nonlinear motion if you can't pick it up like a mouse or reposition your finger like a trackpad? With 2560x1600 being the new standard resolution, I can't imagine pointing to things with linear tracking. It would be like trying to support a telescope with your hands.

Structural cohesion alert

Can this smart kitchen sense shelf weight, temperature, and humidity to accurately predict when broken particle board and dish fragments will be on my floor?