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  1. Re:I would only buy a Keurig for Cats on Here Comes the Keurig of Everything · · Score: 1

    No, it's an 18-pound Norwegian Forest Cat

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:I would only buy a Keurig for Cats on Here Comes the Keurig of Everything · · Score: 1

    The Kat-Keurig would need some intelligence.

    There already are cat-autofeeders, which dispense a certain amount of kibble/gravel on a schedule.

    My cat learned how to lie on its back, reach into the dispensing channel, and coax more food out of it. A lot more.

    He's one of those spherical cats that almost won't stop eating.....

  3. And it was all a smokescreen on Microsoft Settles With No-IP After Malware Takedown · · Score: -1, Troll

    to conceal the obvious... that the viral-growth medium they've been distributing for decades is the -real- problem.

  4. Re:Who wants to make their lives interesting? on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    I was *praying* to not have to see that word. Fuck that spaghetti monster.

  5. Re:Who wants to make their lives interesting? on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    If you are going base on ./ UID, I'm a mitochondrion.

  6. Re:Mobile Data cant exceed capacity on American Cellular Companies Clamor For Fresh Spectrum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Totally correct; In Germany it's 3GB on a no-contract no-commitment prepaid SIM for €20/mo. (if you go over, you still get service, but 56k-ish speeds)
    This is on the Deutsche Telekom network, probably the best in that market.

    MORE importantly, in lower-use cases, you can get 200MB/500MB/1GB for €8/10/13 per month. Most users in the US really use little data, and have to pay out the ass for mandatory 'data plans'. This is where the real theft is in this FreedomLand scam.

  7. Re:As the old saying goes: on Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School · · Score: 1

    You should be banned to Pen Island.

    http://www.penisland.net/

    There, a wide variety of writing instruments are available.
    Because you are not allowed to bring any with you!

  8. Re:Build the new and they will come on Sun Founders' Push For Open Source Education · · Score: 1

    This is more like the concept behind DVD-region codes. Which are generally unpopular outside the actual media industry itself.

  9. Re:It's nothing new... on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I worked in Downtown Seattle for 14 years, ending a few months ago. Never got a parking ticket. Take the bus, or a bike, Señor Mantecapo.

  10. Re:Nokia E70 or N95 on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    True, true SpzToid, the -only- problem I have with the N95 is leaving the thing on with the GPS going, or something. Sure battery death within 8 hours. If I just run the basic stuff, it's just like any other phone, battery lasts 2 or 3 days.

    I'm using a third-party bluetooth keyboard that I got for around 50 bucks, it's fine.

    This model, (iGo Stowaway)
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CDHWQA/ref=dp_cp_ob_title_1

    The sportstracker is way cool, although the GPS sometimes takes a while to get initialized.

  11. Nokia E70 or N95 on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being my two phones of the past 3 years.

    The E70 has a -real- keyboard, and runs Putty perfectly.
    over the GPRS/3G network, or over WiFi, your choice.

    The N95 has a regular phone pad, but I use a folding external bluetooth keyboard if I'm doing a lot of text.
    and -every- feature of the N95 rocks. Putty runs perfectly, as always.

  12. IPKall on Making Free Phone Calls With Google's GrandCentral · · Score: 1
    IPKall has offered a free inbound number (which you can use with ANY publicly-reachable SIP service worldwide, including Gizmo/sipphone) for years. The numbers are in Washington State, but will work anywhere. Super-simple to set up. And it does not do the silly ringback method (hit 1 to receive the call, etc.) that GrandCentral does.

    To -make- calls, if you have no other option, the GrandCentral web system (http://m.grandcentral.com/) is a bit clunky, but OK for residents of FreedomLand.

    (I signed up long before the Google acquisition; my number still works after a LONG period of inactivity)

    IPKall takes away your number if you don't use it for a few weeks.

  13. Damn Kids! on Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks · · Score: 1

    Get off my lawn, you!

    Off my network, too! Especially if you run that commie Linucks or Mac stuff! Unamerican!

  14. It's the demand, stupid. on Most Spam Comes From Just Six Botnets · · Score: 1

    This is just like the specious 'War on Drugs' that's been so remarkably successful over the past decades. The problem here is that there are morons who actually send money for bootleg Viagra pills, male-member enhancers, and other quality merchandise which these spams promote. Just say no!

    Life on the internet was a lot simpler when all stupidity could be pinned on AOL users.

    Now if we could only get rid of all those easily bot-ified Minesweeper/Solitaire boxes.....

  15. Yes, it does cost twice as much in the UK on Amazon MP3 Store to Go Global in 2008 · · Score: 1

    Well, duhh. 4 pounds (about $7.90) to ride the tube between Covent Garden and Leicester Square, a fantastic journey of maybe 35 seconds!

    Amazon has a staff, pays lawyers, runs some ops, etc in the UK.

    They have to charge a lot more.

    Dollars have become Banana-Republic money, thanks to Chimp in Chief and his henchmen.

  16. It's stupid WINDOWS users, duhh on Facebook Widget Installs Zango Spyware · · Score: -1, Troll

    This thing is annoying, but it does not 'secretly' slide into your shitty windows box, you go to some doofy 'download now' page.
    Anybody who 1) still runs Windows and 2) installs random shit deserves it.

    That said, Facebook is rapidly approaching MySpace 'quality'.

  17. Re:Question on Students Power Supercomputer with Bicycles · · Score: 5, Funny

    MIT measures its resident nerds using the International Smoot scale.

  18. Linux, BBC, and RealPlayer on BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures · · Score: 1

    I've been listening to the BBC on Linux with my RealPlayer, or whatever it's been called for the past 10 years.
    Whatever dark place they've pulled these stats from requires a thorough cleansing.

  19. Re:One thing that's always interested me... on The Physics of Beer Bubbles · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nard_cells I believe it's related to this phenomenon, the bubbles act as markers. I've seen these while flying over small ponds in New England in the early A.M., composed of the fog over the (relatively) warm water.

  20. Re:Anti trust? on Cryptography To Frustrate Printer-Ink Piracy · · Score: 1

    OK, but bad example. Walgreens sells house-brand blade-cartridges for Gillette Sensor and other models. The price is very low. They fit the razor handles just fine. The quality is inferior, but I don't think that is a conspiracy.

    What the printer manufacturers have been doing is far more evil.

  21. Another reason to use Nokia phones on U.S. Bans Some Cellphones For Patent Reasons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, sorry this is slashdot. Time for an iPhone!

    Can you hear me now???

  22. Re:Heading off at the pass on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 1

    i hate to break it to you, but god is as real as the tooth fairy ok. if he isn't STRIKE ME DOWN!!!! i'm still typing so looks like i'm right and your wrong, thanks for playing

    She will, just be patient.
  23. Re:VoIp Everything on IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010 · · Score: 1

    It's private space, they can use the full 32 bits. Which comes out to over 4 Billion.

  24. Re:VoIp Everything on IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nonsense. If mobile companies do go to VoIP, it will be done in private IP space. The IPv6 fanboys are ridiculous, even Dick Cheney is more believable....

  25. No shit, this is frivolous on Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is use a URL that changes continuously. This is trivial with the RealServer.
    But serving anything except warm air with MS products shows a serious lack of clue. Which is why they sue.

    Not reflecting the views of any corporation, solely my personal viewpoint.