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  1. Re:Privacy is not my main concern with Gmail on Forbes Reviews Google's Gmail [updated] · · Score: 2
    Where and when, precisely, did anyone at Apple say that mac.com email would be "free forever"?
    The iTools Membership Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy certainly doesn't. In fact it says very clearly:
    Apple may change, suspend or discontinue any (or all) aspects of iTools at any time, including the availability of any iTools feature or content. Apple may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain features or portions of iTools, including a charge for or imposition of a subscription or other fee for use of iTools or any part or feature of iTools, or restrict your access to any part or all of iTools, in all cases without notice or liability.

    (Emphasis mine) Which is exactly what they did- they discontinued iTools (free) and created .Mac (pay) in its' place. In fact, according to the policy (which, wild guess here, you've never read), they were fully within their rights to simply make iTools a pay service.

    Nothing lasts forever, particularly when it's free.
  2. Re:That's nothing... on Apple and Pepsi Ad Sports RIAA Targets · · Score: 1
    That's right, drink Coke and give your money to the Mormons....

    yes, the Mormons bought Coke...


    Uhhh...how about no?
  3. Obligatory Simpsons Quote... on Is Space Mining Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Royce McCutcheon: You'll be on a rocket-ride to the moon! And while you're there, would you pick up some of that nice, green moon money for me -- Royce McCutcheon!

    Homer: No deal, McCutcheon, that moon money is mine!

  4. Re:Found out how they do that..... on Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived · · Score: 1

    The headphone jack is probably a basic serial connection (Transmit, Receive, and Ground)

  5. Re:How do you... on Last Chance for Slashdot T-Shirt Contest · · Score: 1

    Very carefully.

  6. Whole new meaning... on Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets · · Score: 1

    ...for "eating the profits".

  7. Re:Palm screens too small... on New Palms: Zire 71 and Tungsten C · · Score: 1
    Hate to break it to you, but Mac OS X's Inkwell *is* Rosetta. The technology had sat shelved at Apple until OS X 10.2.

    Why do you think Apple pulled the Newton group back in after they had spun it off as a separate company?

  8. Re:12 Year olds? on Jack Valenti's Views On The Digital Age · · Score: 1

    Only for research purposes, of course...

  9. Re:Was there, it was .... pretty ok on LinuxWorld Report, Day 2 · · Score: 1

    Black long-sleeved shirts and jeans, huh?

    Now where could they have possibly gotten that idea?

  10. Re:I wouldn't be surprised... on DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers · · Score: 1

    In that case, the electronics manufacturers would have to start suing each other.
    The remote that came with my TV can control many different brands of VCRs, DVD players, cable/DTV boxes, and stereo receivers.

  11. Re:What the MPAA did RIGHT on DVD Review: Back to the Future Trilogy (Widescreen) · · Score: 1
    Perhaps if EVERYONE went in and asked for "last temptation of christ" (banned cause it's not christian enough for the owners), we could start a movement.


    Strange, because I found it here, which indicates that they both rent and sell "The Last Temptation of Christ".
  12. Re:Y2K-Not OK! on Saddam's Inbox Hacked · · Score: 1

    Well, I did hear people say that they wanted Iraq bombed back to the stone age...

  13. Obligatory Simpsons Quote on Survivor Meets Junkyard Wars for Scientists · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Martin, draw a plan for a coconut radio, and if possible, a coconut Nintendo system." --Bart, "Das Bus"

  14. Obligatory Movie Reference on Godzilla Getting Ready to Stomp Mozilla? · · Score: 2, Funny

    (From "Austin Powers in Goldmember")
    Japanese Man 1: RUN!!!!! IT'S GODZILLA!
    Japanese Man 2: It looks like Godzilla but due to international copyright laws...it's not.
    Japanese Man 1: STILL, WE SHOULD RUN LIKE IT IS GODZILLA!!
    Japanese Man 2: No, it isn't.
    [Japanese Man 2 Winks at Camera]

  15. Obligatory Simpsons Reference on One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk · · Score: 1

    Abe "Grandpa" Simpson: "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes saying it!"

  16. Re:Relevant Simpsons quote... on Isn't it Time for Metric Time? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet I've got a better one!

    "Not only are the trains now running on time, they're running on metric time! Remember this moment, people: 80 past 2 on April 47th!" --Principal Skinner
    (Episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain")
    [the one where Lisa joins Mensa]

  17. Re:Whip it! on Slashback: Favoritism, Alternacy, Moo · · Score: 1
    Hate to spoil your meter, but "Mister Rosen" is in fact a Ms.


    Not that it really matters, considering what she looks like...yeesh. :-)
  18. Re:ping time on Beaming Neutrinos Through Earth? · · Score: 1

    size does matter!!

  19. Re:the name... on A Kitchen Computer That's Actually Useful? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It actually looks more like a Mac Classic or one of the variants thereof (Color Classic, Classic II)

  20. Re:Correction on Microsoft's Family Room Change · · Score: 1

    Too bad that it's SonicBlue that makes the ReplayTV... Clicky, clicky

  21. Re:AirPort on Linux Firmware For Some 802.11b Access Points · · Score: 1

    That would be here:
    http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/airport /a irport.html

    Amazing what a quick Google search will turn up.

  22. Re:What will they do? on KaZaa Suspends Downloads · · Score: 1

    Of course, that's only if you look at the listings where the song title and the artist name are exactly correct.

    Try looking a line or two down from the blocked listing.

  23. Re:Dudes, it's fake on Apple PDA? · · Score: 1

    That power adapter is for the Titanium PowerBook G4 on the desk next to it, genius.

  24. Re:Lack of Bluetooth on Palms on GBA Getting Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    Well, Socket makes a CF Bluetooth card:
    http://www.socketcom.com/product/bluetoothcard.h tm

    and IBM's AlphaWorks has a Palm Bluetooth stack:
    http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/bluetooth4pal m

    Theoretically, it should work. Theoretically. :-)

  25. Re:They aren't very friendly on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 1

    Hmmm....the old "We welcome your business, now get the hell out" philosophy.