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  1. Re:Obviously on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1, Funny

    DUDE!!!! You CANNOT have the word "Microsoft" and the phrase "running smoothly" in the same sentence.

    Please go and beat yourself up severely...

  2. Re:Huge market on WoW Helping or Hurting the Industry? · · Score: 1

    No, the game price includes first month subscription for free (or you can think of it as paying $35 for the cds and license key, $15.00 for first month)

    All 3 of my teenage boys have WoW accounts so I'm REALLY in the hole!

  3. Re:Odd story about Katrina victims. on Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps · · Score: 1

    no he won't because he has a NIMBY attitude.

    Even though he hates having it, he still has it...

  4. Re:Odd story about Katrina victims. on Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Read your definition again.. Got it? No? Let me spell it out...

    O-N-E I-N S-E-A-R-C-H O-F R-E-F-U-G-E

    I think you'll find that having your home and city destroyed by a natural disater would cause you to seek refuge...

  5. Re:My 2 cents... on PayPal to Offer Micropayments · · Score: 1

    You missed the point. I think the system that is being described is that payment is sent electronically WITH the email - so your email server will refuse to receieve any email that does not have payment attached.

    It's not feasable for several reasons but spammers not paying up isn't one of them, because their emails wouldn't go anywhere.

  6. Re:Transaction Costs on PayPal to Offer Micropayments · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have been especially selected for our FREE Apostrophe 101 course.

    We recommend that you pay particular attention to module 3...

    It's "fees", not "fee's" and "cents" not "cent's". Although you managed to work out how to pluralise "thing", "sale" and "cost" and even "micropayment" correctly.

    4 out of 6 plurals correct... Well done, but do try harder next time... :)

  7. Re:need higher resolution and more gray level on Prototype Rollable Paper-like Display Ready Early · · Score: 1

    If you'd have taken the 2 minutes required to RTFA, you would quickly see it's not OLEDS. It's...

    Using a bi-stable electrophoretic display effect from E Ink Corp., the display consumes little power and is easy to read, even in bright daylight

    So you spent more time typing an irrelevant comment than it woulda taken you to RTFA. But hey, this IS slashdot :)

  8. Re:Alternatives on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1

    I wonder why somebody doesn't sell their own refillable ink carts with their printers.

    They sell the printers at HEAVILY subsidised prices. I can get a lexmark photo printer for $50 form a bricks and mortar store here in the UK.

    Their primary business is not selling printers, it's in the carts, which is why the refill/refurb market is so damaging to the HPs and Lexmarks of the world.

  9. Sobering but.. on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    A very Sobering read, but this struck me as very odd... In the post where he's askin for supplies// " socks (white)" - wtf does it matter what COLOR they are?

  10. Re:Another link with video... on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    So you ALWAYS go to the pool with your kid? DOn't they go with School/Scouts etc?

  11. Re:Kind of pointless on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    but I know I'm not the only one who plays "dead man's float" in a pool

    And you do that on the BOTTOM of the pool do you? Neat Trick!

  12. Re:How did she drown? on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    The computer system observed her. There's the take from one of the cameras in the BBC video.

  13. Re:Except... on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    If you have air in your lungs, you probably wouldn't be sat 12 foot under the surface - unless you have a weight belt of course.

  14. Re:Another link with video... on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    Watch the vid on the BBC site, they inteview the girl that saved her. She makes 2 points
    1) You can't SEE the bottom of the pool
    2) The pool was crowded, a lot of folks splashing about.

    And to all the heartless bastards who say it's too expensive/guards not doing their job - how would you feel if it was YOUR kid that had been saved by this? Hmm thought so...

  15. Re:What is the problem.. on Libraries Use DRM to Expire Audiobooks · · Score: 1

    Oh that's right, There are no BLIND people in the world anymore...

    THINK before you post!

  16. Re:Library Checkout System Outdated? on Libraries Use DRM to Expire Audiobooks · · Score: 1

    So let's summerise your world:

    1 - We all copy everything with impunity.
    2 - Authors and publishers don't get paid
    3 - No more new content
    4 - NO profit. Everyone loses in the end.

    This a perfectly valid and sensible use of DRM. As another poster said, EVERYONE wins. The consumer can stay on his butt at home, the publishers and authors still get royalty, libraries don't need shelf space and a big ol' public building... I'm sure there's more...

  17. Re:Wow, scary! on Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet? · · Score: 1

    ll I want is 3-5Mb/s down and 1-3Mb/s up...and an ISP where I can say what protocalls/ports get open or blocked and where I can run some basic servers

    Then move to England my friend. With NTL cable, I got 3Mb/s (and a free upgrade to 10Mb/s by the end of the year) no restrictions on ports and servers. Up speed isn't great yet but you can upgrade to a business account to get full up speed. I run my own ftp server, webserver, and vnc on it

  18. Re:Dark Fiber on Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet? · · Score: 1

    I dunno, maybe it's just me, but fiber without any equipment attached is kinda... UNUSED???

  19. Re:Google 'dominance' can evaporate on Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    DUDE check your facts before posting, it works just fine.

  20. Re:You people are insane. on Google Seeks to Develop Parallel Internet? · · Score: 1

    I tried yahoo mail once, inbox was full of spam within a day, and it wasn't an easily guessable email address. GMail rocks. Google search rocks. picasssa Rocks. Deskbar Rocks. Google Map TOTALLY rocks.

    Yahoo? hmm I play a lil pool on theit game site but I could live without that. Google's stuff, I couldn't live without.

  21. Re:From Someone Who Makes His LIving Playing on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    even then it's not ideal, if every one but winner folds, he may not necessarily want his hole cards revealed.

  22. Re:From Someone Who Makes His LIving Playing on Pokerbots Making Online Players Sad · · Score: 1

    Your algorithm means always revealing the other player's hole cards (using Texas as an example here) which is flawed.

    Players who fold or muck do NOT want their hole card s revealed even after the hand is done as this gives others an insight in to how they play, how gutsy they are, their bluffing strategy etc. in other words, you gain an advantage by knowing what cards others tossed.

    It's not gonna happen...

  23. Ffs editors, LEARN some grammar PLEASE! on Sri Lanka Declares an Open Source Week · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You can't say "a open" it's "an open", Basic schoolboy grammer. Geez...

  24. Re:waving to the camera on New Round of P2P Lawsuits from Hollywood · · Score: 1

    Or the dumwit who robbed a CCTV surveillance store Hilarious, but in this case, as the store owner pointed out, "The incident was "the biggest boost to business imaginable"."

  25. Re:Data from the article on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1