I think BG1980 is saying to keep making your payments and what would have been interest will go toward principal until regular payments kick back. I’m not sure they understood you plan on putting it into savings or somewhere and paying a lump sum just before regular payments kick in and possibly end up with the same…

Agreed, it sucks. The rumor I heard is eventually we will be able to subscribe through Amazon, but I don’t know if that was someone being hopeful or not. If it does, who knows how long it will take.

Nichelle also played the mom in Disney’s “Snowdogs” in 2002. That’s the big one I remember outside of trek. IMDB shows some bit parts like on “Heros” which also had Takai and Zack Quinto.

I don’t know about narcotics, but TSA has swabbed my wife’s wheelchair with a special paper thatlooks for traces of explosive residue. They wipe it all over and then put the paper in a special machine that tells them what substances are found. For all I know, the machine can look for narcotics also.

I've mostly given up on fighting between hacker and cracker. Your average hacker is probably more grey Hat anyway, just depends on which side of the line you are.

Good to know. Hard try to tell sometimes. I've been accused of dry wit way too often.

First I'm hearing of this incident, but do we know Extra Life was the target? I don't know about EL, but most data centers have multiple customers. Maybe DDOSing EL was just a side effect. Just wondering here.

Hacking is just using something in a way it wasn't designed for or reverse engineering to see how something works. The problem is with malicious hackers like these idiots.

I assume you are being sarcastic. I know it's hard to show on the interwebs.

Last time I rented with Uhaul, they didn't have the size I reserved and rented me the next size up for the same price and threw in the hand cart for free. I've had better deals from independent owners over the main offices.

I don't mind a few jokes here and there. They may never be fully appropriate and I try to be sensitive about the feelings of those around me. I also think I can take as good as I can give. I don't mind laughing at myself and love a good stereotype race/religion/whatever joke about me as long as the teller isn't…

We are charged $10 for our HD DVR and another $20 for 2 regular SD boxes for Comcast in No. Va. (Bill lables these as "additional outlets"). We did get all 3 boxes free for the first year as a promotion with our package, but now that we are "current customers" we longer qualify for the special "New Subscriber"…

If you are considering Southern VA to be "real VA" because NoVa might as well be DC, then wouldn't it make sense that most Virginians would choose the rival of the beltway?

My allergies seem to be acting up a little more than usual right now. I always enjoy stories like these.

I also wonder if Chrome Books or anything else that might be using a mobile hotspot or some other form of wifi count toward this. Also, what about Game Consoles or other non-traditional devices like Google TV? Granted, most of these probably account for very little at the current time, but combined probably take up at…

I'm curious about this also. I assume they use some sort of security system so you can't just walk out with a high-priced item. Guards checking receipts? Or will it demagnatize the security tag when you check out, but if so, how?

The funny thing is, most of today’s cell phones include a combination WiFi/GPS/Bluetooth/FM radio chip. What they don't have is an FM antenna. If they do make it mandatory to have access to listen to FM, at least make it HD radio. Can I also have Weather Radio, Shortwave and a Morse code app. Oh, and make the chip a…