Posts by Kevin

Obama wants to wring fat dollar from mobile operators

Wireless Spectrum Fee

There's already precedent for doing this. As the airwaves in the US are, by law, owned by government in trust for the public, the Fed can charge usage fees. Just ask anyone who buys any software. You're only buying a "license", not the product. So the software house can keep gouging you for for $5 of code or take you to court for letting anyone else use your copy of the software.

American gamble or bluff: WTO members bet on Antigua

The People's Republic of Bush ignores rule of law

Once more King George IV has decided to ignore the rule of law the has governed the former USA for centuries. No wonder over half the world hates Americans.

MS update ate my CPU cycles

I'm still waiting

Silly me DL's the update on four computers. One at work (1.8 MHz Pent5 1GB RAM) and three at home - (Celery 1.4 MHz / 758 MB RAM, 2.2 GHz AMD 3400+ / 1.5 GB RAM, 2.0 GHz AMD 3000+) and all four machines basically locked up for five minutes plus. That is ridiculous. What makes it even more disgusting is that none of the security utilities from Norton or McAfee will ignore turning off autoupdates. So, I get nagged to death because I want to decide when to download and decide. And yes, you can set the schedule, but how the blazes does one know what one will be doing at some time in the future? Only fool leaves his PC on 24x7.