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    Dsmvwl  Admin  Promote to frontpage Approve user Ban user ×
    Image of Digo Digo
    01:07 AM

    In reply to The Thinnest Macbook Pro Is the Best Love Card for Fanboys and Fangirls
    On the screen I'll write "And you know I mean it because I don't play games"
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    01:31 AM

    @Digo: That's funny, cause on mine I wrote, "Thanks for the Xbox. Now I can play games with the rest of the world."
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    Image of Teslanaut Teslanaut
    01:45 AM

    @Digo: I play games on my Mac. Modern Warfare 2 & Team Fortress 2. Sometimes TorchLight.
    (Still waiting on Diablo III & Starcraft II, both of which will release on OS X and Windows at the same time. I wonder how Blizzard does it without Emulation)
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    02:01 AM

    @Teslanaut: Shhh, don't let your Mac brethren find out. They'll shun you.
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    Image of clR3vv clR3vv
    12:13 AM

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    Count me in.
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    12/14/09

    In reply to The TomTom Price Slashes Continue: Full iPhone Navigation App Hits $70
    Seriously, you can get a full TomTom device for 70 bucks. I can tolerate this price because it comes with the damn hardware, but when you're piggy backing off of someone else's hardware, there's really no reason for this app to cost so much.
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    Image of deciBels deciBels
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    What would be a good app for the task? Most of what I have is small petty stuff.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    iTards
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/14/09

    @Alfisted: Is that the name of an app I don't have yet?
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/14/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: Yes, it does nothing but coordinate a denial of service attack on your own carrier's network.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/14/09

    @Alfisted: Is that an approved app or am I going to have to jaibreak my iPhone?

    I did that on my last three iPhones and got a picture of some fugly looking dude everyone said was named Rick Astor. I couldn't figure out how to change its so I just got a new phone.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    I use AT&T at work for voice and data so I have already alerted staff members to watch out for "something" Friday. Thanks for the advance tip so I didnt spend HOURS on hold trying to get a lie out of their customer service people.
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    Wireless connections are just too unreliable. What we really need is more wires. If only we could use a phone that were wired to the network, then we'd be really- ohhhhhhhhh, now I remember...

    ATT's epic clever response to this will be: "Nice, now you fools don't have a network. We'll get this fixed up for you right away kind-of. By the way. You all owe us another $100 next month."
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    Image of Nick Nick
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    alright, well i think my sewage bill in san antonio is too high. i propose we all flush our toilets at exactly the same time in protest. it can be an empty flush or feel free to load it up. time and date TBD.
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    12/14/09

    @Nick: and anyone with an iphone can flush that too, kill 2 birds with one stone.
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    Image of jgrnt1 jgrnt1
    12/14/09

    @Nick: This isn't protesting rates. I think the proper analogy would be your toilet sometimes partially flushes or doesn't flush at all, you often have to hit the flush handle several times to get it to flush, sometimes what you flush doesn't arrive where it's supposed to for several hours and sometimes you think it flushed only to find hours later that everything is still in the toilet....

    ....And I still think this is a goofball idea. Everyone, including AT&T, knows they have capacity and reliability issues. This will only make it worse, not better. I hope this doesn't prevent any critical calls from going through Friday afternoon.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    12/14/09

    @jgrnt1: you protest what you want and i will protest what i want.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    All this is going to do is prove AT&T's point that AT&T needs to have a measured usage plan like they have been suggesting.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/14/09

    @EBone: Alas, this is what happens when iPhone users suffer from groupthink after working together.

    What was once a relatively harmless collection of simpletons and bleeting sheep becomes a force capable of self-destruction on a scale the world has never known.
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    Image of Thorax707 Thorax707
    12/14/09

    @EBone: So how does this hurt AT&T exactly? I mean, we're still paying our bills right?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/14/09

    @Thorax707: I don't think it hurts ATT at all. It hurts the people who want to use ATT's service at noon on Friday. And it bolster's ATT's assertion that there are bandwidth hogs who should be charged more per month.
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    Image of Mikestan Mikestan
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    This sounds great and all but in end aren't we just punishing ourselves?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    "The goal is to have every iPhone user...turn on a data intensive app...The idea is we'll create a digital flash mob."

    So, as long as roughly half of the world's iPhone users send at least one picture message, it'll work, right?
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    Image of Hearthatvoiceagain Hearthatvoiceagain
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    Perhaps everyone should just use the AT&T app to report bad service at the same time. They really can't complain about you doing it and would find it hard to prove any collusion on your part aimed at taking their network down.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    I have altered the plan. Pray that I don't alter it further.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: C'mon, everybody knows he said that to Lando.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/14/09

    @EBone: Really?

    You guys are correcting ME on Star Wars? Really? Because you think I don't know the scene. Or the actual line. Really? Me?
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    Image of dagpotter dagpotter
    12/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: The copy of the script at IMDB says this:

    LANDO: You said they'd be left in the city under my supervision.

    VADER: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: *grabs popcorn*

    "Hey, you guys are gonna wanna come see this!"
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/14/09

    @dagpotter: That's great. I'll tell it to my guy, Darth Needles, on Saturday when I'm getting more work done on my Star Wars tattoos. I'll work it in in between our discussion of Season 2 of "Clone Wars" and the newest trailer for KOTOR 3.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/14/09

    @EBone: But in your haste to zing Ponies you overlooked the fact that the actual line was, "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further.", so what Ponies wrote is in fact not the actual line Vader said to Lando. It was merely a homage.

    Say, you might want to get a napkin. You've got some crumbs from a big 'ol fail sammich on your face.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: To quote something Ponies said in another thread - Lighten up, Francis.
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    How close are we really to the limit of the data network? I don't really ever have problems accessing data over the air, but I'm not in NY or LA where everyone always complains.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/14/09

    In reply to Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday
    I suppose the idea is to get AT&T to construct more towers.

    I laugh everytime I say that.

    Well good luck. I would love to see an improvement in AT&T's network.
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    Image of the_amazing_doug the_amazing_doug
    12/14/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: i went out to visit a friend in the middle of nowhere, va this last weekend. every time i visit her (a couple times a month), i have next to no edge coverage.

    i looked down at my phone and had 5 bars of 3g.

    they're doing something.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/14/09

    @the_amazing_doug: "i went out to visit a friend in the middle of nowhere, va this last weekend. every time i visit her (a couple times a month)"

    Tiger Woods, is that you?
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