Misleading (largely plain wrong) advertising from US ISP's

 LOLZ. So this also happens abroad, not just in the Philippines

And We havent even mentioned the monthly caps which make this even more LOLZ.

Basically Every ISP Is Trying to Scare You Into Paying for Internet You Don't Need

You thought AT&T was screwing unsuspecting customers into paying obscene bandwidth bills with ridiculous claims of stuff you can't do? Time Warner says you can't have 3 people on the internet without at least 15Mbps. Oh, it gets worse.

And then there's Cox. By being vague, they're a little less bad, but still perpetuating the idea you can't share photos or download music without at least a 10Mbps connection

According to Time Warner, unless you have at least 7Mbps internet, you can't download music, or even "Windows Media Player software." And you need their most expensive plan for "Super Fast Shopping Concert Tickets & Online Auctions" and watching videos

Here's AT&T's ridiculous chart again, which says you need at least 3Mbps to use Facebook, and at least 18Mbps to download movies.

in reference to:

- Basically Every ISP Is Trying to Scare You Into Paying for Internet You Don't Need - ISPs - Gizmodo (view on Google Sidewiki)

Domesticating the Fox

An astounding and audacious experiment showing how animals were domesticated

Belyaev decided to study the genetics of domestication, a problem to which Darwin gave deep attention. Domesticated animals differ in many ways from their wild counterparts, and it has never been clear just which qualities were selected for by the Neolithic farmers who developed most major farm species some 10,000 years ago.

Belyaev’s hypothesis was that all domesticated species had been selected for a single criterion: tameness. This quality, in his view, had dragged along with it most of the other features that distinguish domestic animals from their wild forebears, like droopy ears, patches of white in the fur and changes in skull shape.

Belyaev chose to test his theory on the silver fox, a variant of the common red fox, because it is a social animal and is related to the dog. Though fur farmers had kept silver foxes for about 50 years, the foxes remained quite wild. Belyaev began his experiment in 1959 with 130 farm-bred silver foxes, using their tolerance of human contact as the sole criterion for choosing the parents of the next generation.

“The audacity of this experiment is difficult to overestimate,” Dr. Fitch has written. “The selection process on dogs, horses, cattle or other species had occurred, mostly unconsciously, over thousands of years, and the idea that Belyaev’s experiment might succeed in a human lifetime must have seemed bold indeed.”

In fact, after only eight generations, foxes that would tolerate human presence became common in Belyaev’s stock. Belyaev died in 1985, but his experiment was continued by his successor, Lyudmila N. Trut. The experiment did not become widely known outside Russia until 1999, when Dr. Trut published an article in American Scientist. She reported that after 40 years of the experiment, and the breeding of 45,000 foxes, a group of animals had emerged that were as tame and as eager to please as a dog.

in reference to: Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It’s All in the Genes - New York Times (view on Google Sidewiki)

wall socket with extension cord

1 word. BRILLIANT!!!
in reference to: Rambler Socket tucks a recoiling extension cable, pinch of genius within your AC outlet -- Engadget (view on Google Sidewiki)

Kindle hack removes DRM

If there is one near universal gripe folks have with the Kindle, it's the DRM-laden files. It's no wonder, then, that the thing has been a lightning rod for the "information wants to be free crowd," almost since the beginning. Sure, we've seen Mobipocket, .epub, and .pdf files used on the device, but if you really want to bedevil Bezos the thing to do would be to altogether circumvent the DRM from your Amazon e-books -- and it looks like an Israeli hacker named Labba has done just that. For the time being, the hack, which allows you to convert your legally obtained e-books to unencrypted PDF files, is available as a Python script. We're sure that the process will be streamlined for us civilians soon enough -- let's just hope that it happens before the hole gets plugged and your e-reader auto-updated. This is one way to keep hold of your legally purchased Orwell, eh?
in reference to:

"Amazon Kindle gets its DRM stripped"
- Amazon Kindle gets its DRM stripped (for the time being) -- Engadget (view on Google Sidewiki)

No Grace Period for Credit Cards

There are unconfirmed reports that starting 2010, the moment you swipe the CC, there is already interest.

in reference to:

"No Grace Period Na sa Credit Cards"
- TipidPC.com | No Grace Period Na sa Credit Cards (view on Google Sidewiki)

Robinsons holiday mall schedule 2009

December 1 to 23: Extended mall hours (10AM to 10PM), 10AM to 12MN (on December 18, 19 and 23)
December 24: Regular mall hours (10AM to 9PM)
December 25: 12NN to 9PM
December 26 to 29: 10AM to 9PM on weekdays, 10AM to 10PM on weekends
December 30: 10AM to 12MN

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SM malls Holiday schedule 2009

December 19 to 23: 10AM to 12MN
December 24: 9AM to 7PM
December 25: 10AM to 10PM
December 26 to 30: Regular Mall

Schedule (10AM to 9PM)
December 31: 10AM to 6PM
January 1: 12NN to 10PM
Regular mall schedule resumes on January 2. The regular mall schedule for SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City is from 10AM to 10PM.

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