Something DOES need to be done about the way that ISPs market themselves. I provide 2 quotes from the website of my current ISP, and ask you to guess which one is most prominently shown :) 1. "We think you deserve more. So no matter which of our fibre optic broadband packages you chose, you get unlimited downloads. That means you can download as much music, as many films and as many photos as you want without having to worry about going over any kind of limit." 2. "So to make sure that our service is fair for everybody, we sometimes moderate the speeds for the top 5% of customers who are downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount." Lovely....So, you don't need to "worry about going over any kind of limit", but if you go over a limit, you'll get things really, really slow. It's OK. cos you can still download all you want, you'll just not be able to do it at the speed that you paid for... Gotta love that kind of doublespeak.

I think you have confused GoDaddy.com and the "Go Daddy Girls" referred to in the summary....Some of them were certainly "pump and dump" candidates :D

The last few times that I have had to provide a signature at a bank, it has barely even been glanced at.

Is a signature actually used as a proof of identity these days, or is it just used as an audit record for any future claims against fake transactions? I suspect the latter....

I'm wondering what percentage of credit card transactions are done remotely these days...I look forward to the next website I make a transaction on asking me to take an imprint of my card :D

So, some details of English football fans has been "leaked" by FIFA after the German World Cup Finals 4 years ago...

Get over it Englanders.....you are still a long, long way up on them after Bomber Harris and Dresden...

Hmmm....I think I might as well just give up and get a new account here after that drunken comment :p

Steve is running late according to the classic Celtic calendar....November is very definitely Winter...Steve needs to learn his Irish Calendar before making promises that will be listened to Worldwide :p

Ahhh.....interesting choice.

Can I interest you in a lovely, black, roll-neck jersey? It will look good for a while, but.....

At what point did you find yourself shocked that a /. poster didn't have anyone they needed to "speak" to on the phone?

The parents are just upstairs from the basement, and the girlfriend is just.....oh, yeah, nuff sed

smartphones are just for the interwebs, this "phone" thing you talk of is irrelevant here :p

OK...I guess I am missing something....can you explain how your suggestion of making "ChromeOS run Android apps" fits with you saying that you disagree with the OP suggesting that Google will merge the two? Have you not just perfectly defined a merging of the two?

I'm not sure if it's the same elsewhere, but in the UK authors get paid every time a book is loaned out from a public library.

Given that this is the case, surely the authors would prefer to have the artificial restriction removed so that more people can borrow their book at the same time. There is no need for the publisher to incur the expense of printing a book to be sold to a library if it's only going to be loaned electronically, so why bother?

OMG. Did you just suggest that fighting to eradicate the nazi occupation of Europe and their associated death camps didn't help some people have a better life?

I think you might be getting confused.

The first release version of ASP.Net came out in 2002, but I think they were talking about "classic ASP" which was released as part of the NT4 Option Pack back in 1997 or 1998.

I guess that would depend on where in the World you live!