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Siemens Sells Skype Adapters For Wireless Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whaddya-know dept.

prostoalex writes "In a recent Slashdot story on Skype CEO interview some comments expressed displeasure with the fact that you have to be tied up to your computer to make those VOIP calls via Skype. Not anymore - this adapter from Siemens plugs into the USB port of the computer and allows Siemens Gigaset S645, Gigaset S440/445 or Gigaset C340/345 phone models to use the Skype connection instead of landline. News.com has the story."

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  1. Wow by Hot+Summer+Nights · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who cares?

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  2. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah!

  3. Oh it tempteth me so....1st p0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    abcdefgh xwyz?

  4. Tied to PC? by gregstumph · · Score: -1, Troll

    Uh, if you're hooking your cell phone up to the USB port of your PC, you're still "tied to your PC," right? I guess the poster meant "tied to your land line." Which, of course, the /. editor could have clarified... sigh.

  5. I care you insensitive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Fuck the South. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

    And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

    Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

    No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years dickheads. Fuck off.

    Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

    All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. Let the Spanish keep it, it's a shithole, we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

    The next dickwad who says, It's your money, not the government's money is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That's right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It's too easy, asshole, they're blue states. It's not your money, assholes, it's fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

    Let's talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It's fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marria

  6. mod parent up by garbletext · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is this really a troll? offtopic maybe, but did whoever moderated it as troll even read it? It's partially in jest but there are some interesting facts contained in it. i'd like this to be read by others. Please moderate underrated.

  7. Re:This is a story? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Agreed. The points against skype are too numerous to all list here, but I'll give a few of the more important shortcomings:

    - Skype rhymes with hype.
    - Inflexible: only supports 8khz 8-bit audio.
    - No encryption support now, none planned.
    - Created by the Kazaa company (spyware laden)
    - No automatic microphone volume levelling.
    - Max 5 people on the contact list.
    - No compression on the audio, bandwidth hog.

    If the skype company wishes to move forward, many of these points will need to be addressed.

    The one thing skype does have going for it is high availability: I've had my local POTS go down more than any of my skype connections ever have.