@hizzlebizzle1138: You're still not trolling hard enough. Article points out that Microsoft gave him the boot in Office 2007 for PC. I didn't really have to look that one up, buddy.
Comcast's new XFINITY packages promised an upgrade from the standard residential 12Mbps to 25Mbps. This for many became a DOWNgrade in their wallets.
Like many of the commenters have stated, 450,000 people definitely may not cover every hill and valley there is in the states. I think it's a kind of neat, yet useless study only because this shows how many people *aren't* happy!
@♫ Realityism ♪♫: I still use a landline, unlike what seems to be the rest of Giz readers, so that tip is great to know! Thanks!
@kingblind1: Your garage door opener shouldn't be in the house :)
@sophomoric: Very interesting concept, but electricity passes through two poles. I'm not too sure where you obtained a photograph of that socket with three prongs.. Could you elaborate? :p
@Dogen: Why would you need to set up the network connections? These phones aren't available unlocked yet..
@Ajh: If they knew how to change the SSID, it may have been someone malicious using reverse psychology to lure in vulnerable users. Of course that's just my evil mind taking over :) (it's 11:30PM where I'm at)
@AlienSix (WeComeAlive) ver.: Pretty common, too!
@V@no: Or, the guy next door makes an honest living and goes to work every day while his 13 year old son plays WoW all day and gets mad so finds the router set-up CD and enables WEP without knowing what it even means.
@joni: is "Belkin54G" out of style already..? :(
@Ajh: I'm sure they just thought people were stealing because their internet was slow that day. Maybe other computers were showing up in their network neighborhood in Windows. The Sony PS3 will also show network-shared media devices (Vista & 7 have this turned on by default I think)
So basically I can do this except put my annoying neighbor's apt. number in the SSID? Muahahah!
@EvanSei (lord of the gerbils): Nope, it's called Undroid. Don't ask me why they feel it's necessary to make a knockoff of open-source software, but they do ;)
Nowadays, if your PC is infected, your antivirus probably is too - even if Windows boots. Live CD's, as mentioned several times, (especially WinPE environments) are a lifesaver for pretty much any problem. I remember when CHKDSK fixed anything I had issues with. Wish things were still that easy :)
In response to number 1- This tip definitely does help me out though, since I often experience roaming issues. I'm glad that the CDMA market variety in the states is abundant. I would definitely prefer being on a GSM network, but the GSM markets in my area are scarce.
@CarbonatedFalcon: A good number of people think that their browser's homepage is the god of the Internet, and that you can't use anything besides [ask.com, AOL, yahoo, etc..] to accomplish something. It's sad.
@JerryA: I like the implementation of AdBlock, as some (most) advertisements are misleading and/or malicious. You gotta keep in mind though that enabling it by default kills revenue for a lot of people.
We bought a corless watertight poolside phone, by Uniden quite a few years back. It used inductive charging too. Now I just don't see the point of implementing it into everyday devices (besides the incorrect usage of a dock and/or charger that would result in ruined cables/devices)