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• On the post: FIFA Threatens To Sue Brewery, Because Dutch World Cup Fans Wore Orange

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2010 @ 02:01pm

  just so you don't miss it

  http://www.bavaria.co.za/index1.html is the SA website
  
  http://www.bavaria.nl/ is the NL (Warnings: screen takeover and Flash and music)

• On the post: Starbucks Finally Realizies That Free WiFi Is The Way To Go

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2010 @ 08:05pm

  Let's talk about ROI

  First. The investment.
  Adding Wi-Fi to a restaurant costs $50/month. Tops.
  Second. Return.
  Happy customers spend more.
  How may customers do you need to spend more to get a great ROI?
  Not many.
  
  P.S. I ding restaurants 1 star on Yelp if they lack free Wi-Fi. With AT&T's caps on data over 3G, free Wi-Fi is muy importante.

• On the post: SCO Loses Yet Again; Is It Finally Over?

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2010 @ 06:40pm

  Finally, SCOXQ is down to a nickel

  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=SCOXQ%3AUS
  
  About time.
  How anyone, in the last year, thought this stock was worth $0.80 USD per share is beyond me.
  
  YOU, yes, I mean YOU, could buy controlling interest in SCO for only $500K USD.

• On the post: EU Politicians Tricked Into Supporting Data Retention On Search Terms… 'For The Children'

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2010 @ 10:31am

  I think there is some danger here

  I Googled "how to build an atomic bomb using small children" (without the quotes) and got 603K results.
  So, someone must be exploiting children.

• On the post: Did AT&T Really Threaten A Customer With Legal Action For Emailing Feedback To CEO? [Updated]

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2010 @ 10:27am

  if not true, then AT&T should be on top of this

  Google the phrase "AT&T warns customer that emailing the CEO" and you get 12K+ results.
  12,000 in less than a day!
  This is horrible pr for AT&T.
  
  If this is true, then AT&T is filled with idiots.

• On the post: AT&T No Longer Offering Unlimited Data Plan To New Customers

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2010 @ 09:20am

  When I first read about the new pricing, I was angry

  but, not anymore.
  
  I checked my wife's iPhone usage (she loves her iPhone and uses it a lot) and found that her highest month was 55MB.
  Yes, her highest month was 1/4 the limit of the new $15/mo plan.
  
  We will start "saving" $15/mo beginning on June 7th.
  I say "saving" because this means that our daughter will inherit Mom's iPhone when Mom buys her new iPhone4.

• On the post: 48 Hours (TV Show) Gets Upset At 48 HR (Magazine)

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 19 May, 2010 @ 04:37pm

  49 Hours

  silly CBS

• On the post: Qwest, CenturyLink Merge, Create Even Bigger Marginally-Relevant USF Money Pit

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2010 @ 06:26pm

  Well, as a Qworst customer in central Denver

  I can say that this "merger" does not excite me one little bit.
  My 1970 (or earlier) phone lines will stay the same and I will still not be able to order more than 3Mbps (down) from CenturyLink.
  And, for many charities in Denver, they are screwed with HQ moving to Monroe, LA.

• On the post: Escapist Website Mass Bans (Then Unbans And Guilts) Users Who Mention Adblock

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2010 @ 06:52am

  Another simple solution for websites.

  Don't run 3rd-party ads.
  
  I block all 3rd-party ad delivery networks.
  It is easy and just one single filter against DoubleClick will block about 33% of all ads that would have been shown on your computer.
  
  If all sites delivered their own ads, then almost none would be blocked as it would be too much work on the part of visitors.

• On the post: The Real Problem With Internet Comments Isn't Anonymity

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2010 @ 07:43pm

  Proud to be a jerk

  and a Grammar Nazi.

• On the post: Nestle Discovers The Streisand Effect… But Only After Making Things Worse And Worse… And Worse

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2010 @ 06:51pm

  It means that Mike should pay attenton to grammar

• On the post: Nestle Discovers The Streisand Effect… But Only After Making Things Worse And Worse… And Worse

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2010 @ 06:50pm

  Well, given that tomorrow is "Meat Out" day

  I am going to have a KitKat after my burger.
  Palm oil = Tasty
  Rainforest = not so much

• On the post: Nestle Discovers The Streisand Effect… But Only After Making Things Worse And Worse… And Worse

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2010 @ 06:45pm

  Grammar Nazi Alert

  @Mike,
  "It had less than 1,000 views"
  fewer
  views are discrete events
  continuous - less
  discrete - fewer
  4th grade
  ,dave

• On the post: Lindsay Lohan Sues E*Trade For $100 Million; Says Baby Was Based On Her

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2010 @ 10:23am

  It gets better

  "I'm just basically glad I took a stand. I'm not going to let them do this to us anymore," Dina Lohan said of the "horrible" and "mean" ad.
  
  She said that the ad was clearly aimed at her daughter because unlike other stars, her daughter's first name is synonymous with the "Herbie Fully Loaded" actress.
  
  "Everyone knows Lindsay, like Cher or Madonna," Dina Lohan said.
  
  Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/lindsay_super_bawl_time_out_2wZQWjTEKUokiMAmr0jNIL#ixzz0hncULuod

• On the post: Lindsay Lohan Sues E*Trade For $100 Million; Says Baby Was Based On Her

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2010 @ 10:29am

  I would say that Lindsay would have a case

  if the E-trade commercial referred to a "coke addict" or an "alcoholic". But, sadly, it did not.
  
  Also, I really doubt that Lindsay Lohan is "a humorless multi-millionaire starlet". Many people think that she is close to being broke.

• On the post: Cutting Saturday Mail Delivery? Sure, If It Makes Good Business Sense.

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2010 @ 06:50pm

  Re: the USPS as a business? not so sure

  Bingo!
  
  How much would USPS save if they cut the "mailman" staff in half tomorrow? Big Bucks.
  
  How much would they save if they raised the retirement age to 70? Big Bucks.
  
  How much would they save if a person's pension were fixed. No COLA. Big Bucks.

• On the post: Developer Seems To Think Trademark On 'Army Builder' Means No One Can Use It In Conversation

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2010 @ 07:23am

  I, for one, am glad

  that it is a lone wolf so that I have a chance to use my club and beat it to death.

• On the post: Why Does The IEEE Make It So Difficult To Access And Share Research?

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2010 @ 08:30am

  How and Why not?

  "Publishing technical journals as does the IEEE is a very costly enterprise, and they don't take advertising to help defray these costs."
  
  How is it costly? Do the editors get paid that much? Thanks to the great god of PDFs, the publication and distribution costs approach $zero.
  
  Why not accept advertising? What is so righteous about journals being ad-free?

• On the post: Microsoft Exec Calls For 'Driver's License For The Internet'

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2010 @ 09:28am

  You need a DRIVER's license because

  you can kill someone with your car.
  You cannot kill someone with your browser.

• On the post: Survey Claims Some Depressed People Use The Internet A Lot

  

  DaveTechDirt03 ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2010 @ 07:13pm

  I was going to write a witty retort, but

  I am too depressed to do so.

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