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  1. Re:I guess someone will buy it on Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    Nope, he didn't. These addresses were never used. You lied or he did.
    But it doesn't matter anyway, since hell.com closed the webmail system one year ago and expired the last addresses (except for the patronage ones) in early oktober.
    You could sign up at http://hell.com/PAY/X.html, but this is also "dead" now.

  2. Missing the point? on Is Apple & Community Evangelizing Into Uncoolness? · · Score: 1

    Sorry if this repeats some of the things out there but the positive sides can be explained in 4 simple points:

    - if Apple moves x86 (read: Intel) they always have a least one other Chipmaker (AMD) "just in case" without switching the platform again
    - if Microsoft should decide to abandon Office on the Mac - well, Apple in return could offer their OS to any other PC users. Oooh, thats nasty. (Free Keynote and Pages included)
    - if IBM should deliver mobile Chips or 3+ GHZ PPC Processors "out of the blue"(TM) they could stay (longer?) on that platform.We didn't say when we abandon PPC ...
    - and if corporate Users demand a better XP/Longwhaterver "Emulation" they would just have it

    just one question. are we there yet?

  3. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ... bzzz on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 1

    Well, some people might use their TV for the countdown. Would be funny if one Technician switched to early ...

    But seriously - German terrestrial television is switching to digital broadcast since 2003. It's done slowly (only a third of the frequencies at a time) and spread over the year.

    As a result the transition works good. They only bad thing is that remote areas have fewer digital channels then the big cities.

  4. It's an addon ... on Short Text Messages In Mid-Air · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have to buy an extra shell to get this silly function (Available in Germany). It's like the old days when you had to buy a special battery to get vibration alarm, but this time the function is kind of useless. Imagine many people waving their mobiles in the air to communicate. Not to mention that you can't type and wave at the same time ...

  5. And he is also the suspected Author of Netsky on Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police · · Score: 1

    Sasser was only a new type of worm for him - the police found evidence (Google Translation here) that he is also responsible for the netsky virus.

  6. Phatbot comes from Germany, too on Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police · · Score: 4, Informative

    See here in german and the google translation. Official say, there is no connection. Well ...

  7. Re:Hoax or response to proof of concept? on Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s · · Score: 1

    I read the comments to this topic for 20 minutes or so and it seems noone noticed that the "type" of the manipulated mp3 is still applicarion and not mp3 audio. You can see that in in 'list view" and 'column view'. So even a dumbuser has a chance to find out what is wrong with this mp3 mentioned in the top of this thread.

  8. Better see the whole newspages on News at a Glance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Newseum has hundrets of digitized frontpages of real newspapers. It's kinda better than that.

  9. this is an new ad format ... on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1
    got you. you just read one of the new ad formats :P

    buy buy buy - yadda yadda yadda
    brought to you and invented by some squirrels and mr. katz.

    ... and you thought big graphical ads would be bad.

  10. you'll end like mr. kirch in germany on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Here in germany we have one guy who bought all film and sport licenses. then he tried to establish pay tv as he thought: charge a lot per view.

    guess what: he is nearly broke.

    since we have a lot free tv stations (and even good ones mainly without advertising) he was doomed. so are you. there will be others. this community will scatter and reform somewhere else. PS: bad idea to charge per 1000views. baaad idea.

  11. Re:This is an Adobe publicity scam on Adobe Sues MacNN Over Photoshop Article · · Score: 1
    >C'mon -- when the pages are still up at AppleInsider under slightly changed filenames, and someone posts the changed URLs to freaking Slashdot, which is of course a hush-hush Underground site that nobody reads (where nobody == MAX_LONG, anyway), can you really believe the official story?

    Maybe. But maybe you're wrong and the site did ... well, did some kind of "ziviler ungehorsam" - they removed the links, but left the pages somewhere.

    Nice trick, because Adobe's legal team would sue them for linking. But now they don't. Will they now sue slashdot? Well, call them and we'll see.

    Anyway. The 6.0 software doesn't exist. But if there is no spoon use the frok - use GIMP :).

  12. Re:Here's The Article on Adobe Sues MacNN Over Photoshop Article · · Score: 1

    You forgot the Image Ready Article here. N-joy reading.

  13. next chance for additional certificates: Mozilla! on Thawte Bought by Verisign · · Score: 1
    First of all I'm scared. A company ruling mor then 90% of the ceritifacte market is a nightmare. I'm glad I chosed PGP instead of S/MIME.

    But the question is: How to introduce new (root) certificate instances? Well, only a new browser version will make it possible for the "dummy" user without hassle.

    So next stop is Mozilla/Netscape 5.0.

    I suggest on this "stop" to add/introduce an open certificate instance(but don't read that as "insecure") like the german cert/dfn. This root instance should be driven by scientific or nonprofit institutes with can't be beaten or bought.

  14. Serveral Issues make searching suck. on Is the Internet Becoming Unsearchable? · · Score: 1
    As a journalism student I often come to the point where the "garbage" in searche-engines makes it impossible to search the web for information. It is not only the database driven websites but the short-sighted design of websites which causes so much pain:

    First, the use of robots.txt is well known - but never used, when in a hurry. This means: Never used. Only when you get too much hits by a search engine, you put one in the directory. Even then by the lack of time you normally exclude all pages exept the frontpage.

    Second, Designers and Webmasters are not putting the technical possiblities to the max. Like using Apache paths and mod-rewrite to transform queries into a virtual path. Which would make a dokument look real. Even for a search engine. Since this is no out of the box feature, there will be no hope for this.

    But the worst one is a thing of the engines themselfes: The time between two visits of an engine. It is up to a month now, this means: Better use local search in slashdot, freshmeat, nerfpoint and else.

    Indexes like yahoo, infoseek, web.de(german) and others become the only hope to find a start and the use local searching.

    This is why altavista, hotbot, lycos and others got the additional "directory" feature. Compare them to google and you know how they looked two years ago. And by the time, google will ... well, maybe not. I hope.