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Comment Re:report it to the fcc (Score 1) 499

by porkus on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @08:26PM (#32738976) Attached to: Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference?

You find me ONE news story of ACTUAL ham assistance from a REPUTABLE news source in the last year. Just try it!
(Oh, and getting chased off Haiti by the locals doesn't count!)

Hams help with emergency service coordination during major Windstream 911 outage. http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_84aba07a-3d9b-11df-8d7a-001cc4c03286.html

Put that in your hippie HAM-hating pipe and smoke it!

A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions) 395

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @02:38PM from the watch-for-flying-HDD-magnets dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman shares his top tech annoyances. Hyneman runs down the little things that bug him about everything from tools (exotic chargers) to cars (useless features). He also notes that there's a lot of room for improvement on PC desktops: 'In addition to being buggy ... extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat ... There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.'"