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Satellite Phones Making A Comeback?

carnun writes: "Over at CommVerge there is an interesting article updating what's happening on the Satellite phone market... Is this just another blow in the Iridium cluster or are we finally going to be able to sit with our laptops and connect from the middle of the Sahara?"

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  1. arf by mati · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    arf

    1. Re:arf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Innit.

    2. Re:arf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      eat shit and die assholes.


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      i'm banned but i still shit on all of you. fucking taco, i'll gouge out your eyes and skullfuck you, then i'll rip your fucking head off and shit down your throat.


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      mackga----banned because the fucking assholes here can't get my negative karma right.


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    3. Re:arf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      banned because of negative karma? hah, that's kid stuff. I'm banned for life, my ip forbidden to connect to slashdots server, for posts made as an AC. (i got a new ip, of course) lets see you achieve that level of bannedness, and then we can eat shit and die and be shat on with eyes gouged out and skullfucked while our heads are ripped off and our throats shat down, punk.

  2. 1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yay!

  3. Grrrr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Grrrr

  4. Re:LNUX go bye bye (ESR - Surprised by wealth!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now thats not fair.

  5. Re:LNUX go bye bye (ESR - Surprised by wealth!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's not fair?

  6. NEWS FLASH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. Re:LNUX go bye bye (ESR - Surprised by wealth!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its not fair because ESR IS SURPRISED BY WEALTH!

  8. I'd rather hear about how... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    VA Linux is now selling proprietary closed source software. It's a dark day for open source.

    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6954900.htm l? tag=mn_hd

    "The mixture of open and proprietary software "is a model we saw a lot of people going to," Augustin said."

    1. Re:I'd rather hear about how... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Open or closed, does anyone really care about SourceForge??

      Really, you've got CVS and CVSWeb...thats all you need to get work done.

      Larry should sell off VA assets and distribute the returns among the investors. Since its a forgone conclusion that VA can't make it, what is to be gained by spending the rest of the cash on hand?

    2. Re:I'd rather hear about how... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Larry has been selling of *his* VA assests for quite some time. I think he's sold nearly 10 million in stock last time I checked. He might as well milk it for salary as long as he can, 150k a year to run a company into the ground is a pretty sweet deal.

  9. Re:Huge Cell phones by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about, "Hey baby, that's my 19-inch one-eyed trouser snake. Wanna touch it?"

    --
    "If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
  10. Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard sad news on talk radio -Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. There weren't any more detail than that yet. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.

  11. 238928th post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can you believe they took away the numbers! fucking assholes! now there's going to be more of that content bullshit!

  12. RALPH IS A LYING WIMP WITH NO BALLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No one wants to even listen to a word you say loser

    Youre still full of shit my little turd ass bandit

    You think we cant die - meet me - name the date, time and place you wimp. You can have your best shot - for a member of the super race that should not bother you

    YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE - LEAVE AND DONT COME BACK OR FACE ME - PUT UP OR SHHUT UP YOU FAT FOUR EYED WIMP

    1. Re:RALPH IS A LYING WIMP WITH NO BALLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      eat shit and die, you fucking zealot. i hear you take it up the ass with three feet of rusty razor wire. how's them hemmoroids, asshole?

  13. Re:Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  14. Re:Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    asshole motherfucking pigfucking cocksucking shit slipper. you eat my greasy darkbrown hemmoroidal shit laced with blood and cum while i fuck your mother with a studded dildo and scrape the scabs out of her rancid cunt.


    btw, since i'm your dad, please suck my cock for your allowance.

  15. Judaism making a comeback? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or is there just a disproportionate number of Jews here on Slashdot?

  16. Re:Laptop in Sahara by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shutup you shit eating nerd. What the fuck do you need a laptop in the Sahara for? If you did take one there some Kaffer would mug you anyway. Which might not be a bad thing.

  17. Re:Sahara? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    fuck you funny. the relatavistic spastic assholes that populate this pustule ridden tampon eat my shit on a regular basis and lap up the blood soaked cum from my fever ridden asshole while sucking the man juice from my cock for breakfast.

    also, taco, i'll skull fuck you when you least expect it and shit down the bloody pulp of your decapitated girlfriend's neck.


    guess who?

  18. But is it OpenSource? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Answer here...

  19. Slashdot sucks lately by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It seems like nothing has been working properly on slashdot. Lots of broken features like older stuff and search. What is with this posting stuff too. It seems like no matter what I try to submit I get some sort of error.

  20. Re:And we NEED this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when the need for porn arises, it cannot be contained.

  21. Can't someone make a troll filter for this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why not a troll filter that looks for the words stephen and king and dead in the same post and blocks it - or a lameness filter ?

    1. Re:Can't someone make a troll filter for this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Then what happens when Stephen King actually does die?

  22. evil company! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

    Boycott IBM!

  23. Laptop in Sahara by TV-SET · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If you'll find yourself in Sahara with a laptop, you better rush to install IE or NN, because www.water.com does allow anything else to pass.

    Good thing is my Opera can sign like any of the above :)

    --
    Leonid Mamtchenkov ...i don't need your civil war...
  24. Re:GPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ummm, his idea was that you could call for help with the cell phone and read them your latitude and longitude.

    Please read before posting. Thank you. Next.