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  1. Re:messenger? on Microsoft Teams Up With Japanese VoIP Carrier · · Score: 1

    Messenger 8 will be able, or is currently able, in beta, to do VoIP to PTSN (or PC-POTS if you prefer) through MCI at 2.3 cents per minute for US destination calls. The service is similar to Skype-out or Whatever-out. But you can already make that type of call for free, for example, and there are other examples, with VoipBuster

  2. Re:Blurring out the Whitehouse? on India Forms Expert Group on Google Earth Images · · Score: 1

    Nobody has mentioned Live Local. Look at the FBI. It's a shame really; the Capitol and the White House are beautiful buildings.

  3. Coded Message Perhaps? on Coca-Cola's Coffee Soda · · Score: 2, Insightful

    By the foot icon, I understand the parent post to be in the "funny" category, but where's the humor? And if it isn't funny, how is the article relevant to /.? I'm working on decoding the hidden message. There must be some reason our mod's, in their wisdom, included an article about Coca-Cola mixing some coffee with Coke.

  4. Re:I am not a doctor on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    So if you said "piss on the mods", you would actually be advocating first aid, assuming their intestines were showing.

  5. Re:eBay Killer on Google Base Launches · · Score: 1

    Print classified ads, and even regular ads didn't have eBay-style feedback etc. Anyway, at this point, if challanged on your reputation, you could refer customers to your old eBay profile.

  6. eBay Killer on Google Base Launches · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just tired it, and you can jump in too. The water is fine! No expiration, ten images, no charge, searchable via Google. eBay had a good run. The use is, of course, to sell and buy stuff. There are other applications, but they won't be the important ones at first.

  7. Why No Comments from /.ers? on Alternative to Tokamak Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    Every page that /. links to gets visits from at least hundreds of /.ers. The bottom of Focus Fusion poses overwhelming competition to Tokamak has a comments section, but only six comments appear.

  8. Getting Around anti-Copy Provisions on Reining in Google · · Score: 1

    After all, data isn't physical, and ownership is imaginary (an agreement between people at most), so don't expect an argument about copyright laws to be fruitful. The concern for /. lovers should be - are there any hacks for print.google?

    Try the title: Camus, (my favorite author from the days when I used to read books) (To get very far you'll need to login with one of your Google accounts.)

    Some pages have "restricted content"; they're not there, that is.

    And rightclick is prohibited all over. I assume Google is trying to inhibit copy & paste. Of course I can save the page on my drive, but the main part, using div class="theimg" ,seems to be print_files/cleardot.gif (Clear Document Template, I imagine), and there's nothing to that. If I open what I stored on my HD with Dreamweaver MX 2004, the main section doesn't display anything but a blank. If I open the stored file with Firebox 1.5 beta, the main section displays.

    I can save the page as an image via using the Print Screen key and then pasting into a graphics program, but that's as far as I've gotten.

    Someone more knowledgeable can explain how Google's page replaces cleardot.gif with text. Or to rephrase the question, How would you copy the text part of one of these print.google pages?

  9. Supercavitation on Sonic Torpedo Defense · · Score: 2, Informative

    The torpedoes in the next war won't be WWII slow: Supercavitation or Warp Drive Underwater

  10. Re:Java delivery on Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity · · Score: 1

    You're right. I concede the movie is cool, but I don't know why everybody is talking about the movie itself. It's a Java app from Vividas, huh? That settles it. I'm sold. I'm learning Java.

  11. news:alt.usage.english on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Composing code is significantly different form composing English. With code there usually is a clear-cut right way and a wrong way, and the syntax obeys a handful of rules. With English composition, the correctness of any given piece is much less clear-cut, and syntax is governed by a huge set of rules, many of which are so ambiguous they can't truly be called rules.

    The debates in the English newsgroups, such as: news:alt.usage.english (or http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.usage.engl ish) illustrate the complexity of English composition.

  12. Re:Price on Build a House Out of Recycled Cardboard · · Score: 1
    So, is that US $35,000 or AU $35,000?

    1.00 USD (United States Dollars) = 1.27870 AUD (Australia Dollars)

    It's a gross deficiency of the site to not clarify which monetary unit they mean. But in either case, the price is too high. A nice complete new 16 x 80 (16 feet by 76 feet) mobile home, with appliances, goes for 30,000 $US, and you can shop-around for a lower price. A building concept has to be economically reasonable.

  13. Re:TV episodes from BitTorrent, Product Placement on TV Piracy is Next · · Score: 1
    TV companies will probably try to ...prevent other people cutting the ads out
    Dr. Jing-Mei tells a teenage girl ER patient about a new diet drug, Amphetagor, which is medically better than puking after every Hogie - sexier too. After her shift in the ER, the good doc goes outside to her shiny new HumPee (the camera loiters on the car's brand insignia with Jing-Mei's thighs in the background), where she gushes about how the spacious, luxurious, vehicle can accommodate...

    Commercials separate from the show's content aren't necessary.
  14. Re:Expensive to screw a bulb? on Screw-in LED Floodlights · · Score: 1

    The actual cost of changing a lamp is more than what you see on the surface. Sometimes, after receiving a required job order, someone, perhaps a skilled person, has to drive out to the job, go to the store perhaps to get the proper bulb (if it's available), setup a ladder, and so on. The job is so much trouble that sometimes bulbs go un-replaced for years - or maybe forever. Then there is the cost of problems occurring because of a light being out. An accident may happen, something may get lost, and in a commercial situation, efficiency may be lower or work may not be able to proceed at all. It's simplistic to just look at the act of screwing in a new bulb.