Comment dangerous (Score 3, Funny) 353
Yup - that was me - 13 years old, with a stack of graph paper, a bunch of pencils, and a bag of funny shaped dice. 100% pure gangsta!
Comment Re:What is wrong with SIP (Score 1) 114
btw the interface just popped up in my gmail account, so I tried calling my cell phone, and the caller ID on my cell phone showed my Google Voice number, so perhaps these services aren't so distinct. Maybe a gmail user who doesn't have a Google Voice account could chime in.
Comment Re:What is wrong with SIP (Score 1) 114
but they can't support SIP - a protocol specifically designed to handle these kinds of situations
Can't, don't, or don't yet? With google voice, they're two trivial steps away from letting wifi capable phones call and receive calls anywhere in the US (and probably elsewhere) for free, with no SIM card installed, even - 1) set up a SIP gateway and allow (android/iOS,etc. or computer based) softphones to connect it to it using Google's existing authentication bindery, 2) allow Google Voice users to direct calls to the gateway (and 3), I guess, create user interfaces (Android, etc.) for making calls that are more convenient than their website tool). I don't see a business model there, but it would be really cool
You can string this stuff together with GV and other existing services, so I know it works
Comment Re:I think it's a good question. (Score 4, Insightful) 249
... a AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 1GB RAM running Ubuntu 8.10 back then... Haven't gotten any news since).
-- you actually managed to give away equipment without getting tech support calls about it every week for the next 5 years? Please provide more details.
Comment measure something without changing it? (Score 1) 330
what's the impact on my power bill of a bunch of these little things?
Comment Re:SSD (Score 1) 316
yeah - my 64 gig SSD in my little Atom powered Debian box surely accounts for the main part of my flash memory. The rest is SD cards.
Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah 644
The LA Times reports that Konami has announced Six Days in Fallujah, a video game due out next year that is based on an actual battle fought in Iraq in 2004. Quoting:
"The idea for the game ... came from US Marines who returned from the battle with video, photos and diaries of their experiences. Instead of dialing up Steven Spielberg to make a movie version of their stories, they turned to Atomic Games, a company in Raleigh, NC, that makes combat simulation software for the military. ... 'The soldiers wanted to tell their stories through a game because that's what they grew up playing,' said John Choon, senior brand manager for the game at Konami... More than a dozen Marines are featured in documentary-style video interviews that are interspersed with the game's action. The Marines reappear in the game itself, doing pretty much what they did during the war. One tells the story of how he furiously wrote a letter to his wife and begged a chaplain to give it to her if he died. Another, Eddie Garcia, talks about how his right leg was shredded in a mortar attack, and how he suffered survivor's guilt after he was taken out of combat."
Comment disposable addresses (Score 1) 137
There's a long-running thread on the bbs for spamgourmet discussing a bunch of events like this -- spamgourmet users generally use a unique email address for each of their accounts, and so can quickly identify a problem (unless it was with spamgourmet itself, of course, but records so far show that hasn't happened). The response of the companies varies from complete denial and reticence to surprising accountability. None of it ever ended up in court, afaik.
