Re-read

You guys are misreading sustained service levels across a site for a month, not bursts obtained through speedtest.net. The report is netflix bragging about how much data they can deliver per user, more than how connected the user is to their isp or to netflix's CDNs.

Huh.

I had always thought that the charge on the credit card was the accepted price and cannot be cancelled easily by either party without triggering all kinds of interesting processes. I doubt it matters if he contacted Apple; the big question is was he already dinged on his credit card or not before the order cancelled. (He obviously was or they wouldn't have shipped.)

"Win?"

That landing page doesn't say "Win." It says "get," which is devious-speak for "you can buy one from us."

Seti@home

How will this be truly different than seti@home? A rose by any other name..

On the wane?

Of course it's on the wane. They have yet again neglected to enable profiles for Google Apps users, just like they did for Wave and Buzz. On top of that, I'm sick of having to opt-out of email chains from enthusiastic beta testers who don't seem to care if I've expressed interest in it or not. This should be opt-in, not opt-out.

Mettle?

Pretty sure mettle is correct here...

Same old...

The subscription fee, even divided among Apple and the labels, is still more money than would have been earned if the service didn't exist. We can all see the way Netflix is changing the video market, and now Apple is doing an equivalent (perhaps better?) version for music.

I'm surprised to see that few people realize that it's another step closer to a Star Trek era where everything you want is everywhere there's a signal.

Ripped off? More like took an idea already in the pipeline and pre-empted...

He ripped off the wifi+sync logos and trademarked names and threw them together... Shouldn't he have to pay a royalty for that? He certainly has the income for it, with 50,000 sales at an average of $7/pop.

Hm

It's not an attack on his WL deals, it's an attack on his masculinity (performance, hygiene). They can't hurt him through his social behavior, but the bedroom behavior is a good way to kneecap anybody.

If you expected otherwise...

Pimping their own products? Who would have seen THAT coming? I'm surprised Microsoft doesn't do it on the same scale as Yahoo! or Google.

Multiple copies of same message

Am I the only one confused on why they're sending a clone of a message to the recipients? Cloning a 200kb message to 6 people, along with the backend to shard it out, takes way more resources over just letting those 6 people reference the original. If the reader "deletes" it, they'd simply be removing their link to the post, while still letting the 5 other readers get it...

The end?

Looks suspiciously like the BofH is about to meet his ultimate demise.

End of an awesome series perhaps?

Oooo, tall poppy syndrome

It's an Apple product, and a luxury at that, If you don't like it...move along. Save the kerfuffles for 'need' items instead of 'want' items.

I'm assuming if BASIC or its brethren are enabled on the iphone, someone will find a new way to jailbreak or cause other problems.

yawn

My company insists on giving the peasant ranks low-end machines - you know, the kind that were low-end even when the OS they were initially installed on was new.

Yep, we're on w2k clunkers that take a good 10+ minutes to boot up, with locked down profiles that (try) to block most decent clickage. Essentially, we're forced to use ie6 - not for security or compatibility, but because of the machines running the software.

Not a single machine is ghostable either, its a hybrid mixture of mobos, drives, cpus and ram amounts. So yay for us.

DeNiro

Ok, maybe it was DeNiro in heat.

Fact is, it was mature enough for hollywood to squeeze into a script headed by dinosaurs, so why the kerfuffle 10 years later?

Pacino did it

Pacino was shown this in Heat, a decade or so ago.

ATnT

The AT&T deals were meant to end the first week of January, but I never checked back to see

Libel?

It's only libel if the claims are incorrect, and seeing as 580+ feedbacks with 98% positive...this wouldn't be the only complaint the seller has recieved. Grounds for libel? Hardly.

Mr Garisson

The amount of 'shit' in this article brings us close to a rousing rendition of 'Shitty Shitty Fag Fag' with an even closer chance of angering the Knights defending our honour.

Hax!

Does the VC dictionary interchange 'hax' for 'has'?

Woo!

Although Google does make a valid point with saying satellite tech makes privacy a moot point, the same exact reasoning can be used to argue positively for implied privacy. Namely, it's BECAUSE satellite imagery is so good that privacy should be granted first and revoked second, not automatically revoked just because you can be seen from a million miles away.

eek

How do we really know doxpora is legit? We'd be freely giving away the names of our DNS servers, and easily too!

domains

This seems to be enabled by default for my personal domain. Nice.

re Colin Guthrie

I see you need QA due to your proclivity for using it's when its is required :)

Java isn't just a fancy shell tool. Check out coffeemud.org/coffeemud.net

Giving Linux to cheapies is good for the online community?

Wow, you people are hippies to the single-core.

Giving no-brainers access to something that will let you "rm -Rf /" is NOT a smart move. You complain about the 'stupid' Windows failures you have to take care of already, how will it be when you come into 'Well, I wanted to dualboot and now I have no harddrives' and 'GRUB infected my POSIX and now my sources.list has rpm.sex.com and my pc runs sloooow'.

That's what I'm worried about. The next wave of malware will be infecting source lists and then masking its tracks in ways that Windows users will be snickering at.

If the Bond in the novels was meant to be cardboard...

Then yes, Craig has nailed the character perfectly. CR also revealed one of the nicest looking 4th-wall breakers in a while. First he was a character written on paper, and now he's a character played by paper.

Tripod?

Only would be a tripod if he wasn't surrounded by poontang, and at his height he's at natural see/smell level for most average women.

A revolving door market

Revolving door, a cycle...El Nino-vidia, if you will. Eventually the current trend towards specialised chips will revert to massive single core CPUs in the guise of less power, cheaper, easier to maintain/program for. And then 15 years later, there will be yet another mass schism just like we're looking at right now.

Howzat phrase go...everything old is new again?

FUD

It's kind of funny. Those of us that use Vista don't seem to have any strange trouble that is typically talked about in articles like this. The naysayers seem to be the ones with journo badges, linux/apple fanbois, and luddites.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I haven't had a single problem with Vista since installing it nigh on 12 months ago...and I know I'm not the only one. All the people I know having problems 'with Vista' are amazed to find out that their problems are actually hardware and/or non-Microsoft related.

5 other datacentres?

And not one of them has a recent backup to load Houston's data so the public can be served?

This has already been done.

I refer everyone to the bug shown in the first Lexx movie. Kind of a tenacious little bug, but overall not very reliable.

Batcave!

I was entirely excited at the mention of a selfmade batcave, but then got disinterested at the twisting into a regular (within context) game of darts.

They must have been tourists

Only one slab for 4 adults? Tourists for sure.

af.mil

Its all going to come from af.mil. Duh. Filter at the ISP level.

Robert

The tracks on platters are not perfect like train tracks. Each one has a margin of error in displacement by a micron or two, its the master file table that keeps track of it all in a functioning drive.

About time

44 million customers per week, maybe, but how many of them are return customers who didn't buy the same crap music the day earlier?

The music these stores chooses to play makes me cringe. Its never anything I've heard before, and apparently never will ever again. Not even 1-hit wonders, the choices are so bad.