Recent content by clist

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    These are the Amazing Credit Cards of the Future

    Agreed... It's funny, living in NYC I eat out pretty much every night, and use my credit card pretty much every time, and have been doing this for 15 years. In all that time the only time my credit card number has ever been taken and scammed, the bank and I tracked it down the culprit to a...
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    Google Publishes Michael Jackson Search Graph

    The graphic I'd really like to see them publish is the geographic distribution of the searches. I.e.; [#Searches by location] / [Population Density for the location] ...mapped. Cheers, CList
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    Senators Request Probe Into Exclusive Carrier Deals

    chripuckMan, if only that were a true parrallel to the article. Too bad GM makes, sells and services their own product. Last I checked, AT&T only sells the product and the access fee to use it, service and production are carried out by manufacturer of the phone. ...the real problem with the...
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    Senators Request Probe Into Exclusive Carrier Deals

    chripuckORRRRRRRR.... you could just not buy the big fancy phone. Do you need a Palm Pre or an iPhone. No, you just want one and don't want to pay the price. ah, I think you missed my point. I want the fancy phone, and I'm more than happy to pay - full price - for it. What I don't want is to...
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    Senators Request Probe Into Exclusive Carrier Deals

    chripuckAnswer me this: why would a company be MORE likely to innovate on a new phone when they have to foot the entire bill rather than part of it being funded by AT&T (iPhone?) ...so what you're saying is that I should pay higher costs to my carrier since they're going to be giving money to...
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    California Proposes Ban on Power Hungry TVs

    Square_HeadLOL, I'm going to have to steal that line. Green IS the new Red. It just further builds my rage against California. I love my 100W light bulbs and my Plasma TV. I drive a truck that gets 15mpg and I eat trans fat. Suck on that liberals While I also have a philosophical issue...
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    Valence's N-Charge Power System Delivers More On-Battery Uptime

    Aren't there limits to the size of batteries you can take on planes or have they eased up on that? I could really use something like this for flying, but I'm afraid they won't let me carry it on. Thanks, C
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    Logitech Reveals Harmony 1100 RF Remote

    While the 890 cannot *directly* control devices via RF, the RF receiver is an IR repeater. You put the IR transmitter things in the same cabinet with your components and the RF gets converted to IR that goes to the components. It's a cool system for multi-room AV or when you want to have your AV...