Comment Re:Dock/Taskbar design (Score 1) 688
"still better hardware than the single-core P4 I have now"
DUDE!! how old is your computer?
Comment Re:Who needs to avoid these countries? (Score 1) 197
ummm, remember the Whirlpool thing
Comment Re:The best things in life... (Score 1) 293
arh! abuse of the term 'begs the question'
http://begthequestion.info/
Comment Re:Why have profiles at all? (Score 1) 1182
Oddly enough, these are exactly the same stages I went through when switching to Linux.
Comment Re:Thunderbird Public Service Announcement (Score 1) 209
...Gmail as an offsite backup for files, or as a way to transfer files between machines...
don't you have a FTP server?
Comment Re:my letter to the editor (Score 1) 690
Woo Woo Wooo...Hang on a second...
people still listen to John Markoff, after the whole Kevin Mitnick 'thing'?
Comment Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o (Score 1) 503
this is where a quote from a friend fits perfectly
'end user education' is a good idea in theory, but you have to be a masochist to attempt in practice.
Submission + - $15,728.64 / GB for Mobile Broadband (apcmag.com)
conan1989 writes: "They may call themselves Virgin but they are not virgins when it comes to screwing subscribers big time for mobile data.
"Now someone has forgotten to tell Virgin that the cost of mobile data has come down dramatically since the days of GPRS because they are still charging the same data rates that the telcos charged back when sending data over the GSM network was very expensive. 1.5c per KB of data might not seem that bad until you do the math and realise that Virgin are screwing their customers a whopping $15,728.64 per GB for casual data.
Comment Re:Not to worry! (Score 1) 951
come on, you're on /. you should know better.
it's crackers not hackers.
it's crackers not hackers.
Comment Re:Hmmmm (Score 1) 377
no, not good luck with that.
even if the UK gov't can't get through R&D, that's a lot of wasted money.
even if the censor is easy to get around or tunnel through, that will leave a large uninformed populaces ripe for taking advantage of.
this IS the same issue as what Australia currently faces (yes, i live there)
Comment Re:Not really news? (Score 1) 182
given the choice, i don't think he was planning on any sleeping.
Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 674
but then how would people force their will on others?
/rhetorical question
Comment Re:Not to worry. (Score 1) 183
no, i got this web page changed.. just had to email he web master.
