I thought it was just another spammy article that made its way onto the Slashdot front page. I'm especially wary of "anonymous" contributions here - I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't submitted by Connectify just to get traffic and once they got anough traffic, swap out the original article for some more ads. 8^/

You must be new here - the tagline ("News for nerds. Stuff that matters") is just an inside joke - it doesn't actually mean that stories posted on this site would actually qualify as "news".

The idea is to make you believe that someone is registering domains similar to ones you already own, then offer you the "opportunity" to register them yourself at an inflated fee. If you do nothing, no domains get registered. All they want is for you to believe that someone is planning to squat on your names so you will buy them. Ignore them. Tell them to FOAD. But never believe that they are in any way, shape or form genuine about anything they say. No (legitimate) registrar will contact you to let you know that someone is registering a name similar to your own. None. They all operate in a reactive manner - they will only act *if* a rights holder notices and decides to take action. They never act proactively.

Doing better? I may be reading things wrong, but there doesn't appear to have been any changes made in the last 12 months...

You really expect the powers-that-be to actually consider bug reports and feature requests from we lowly users? o_0

It's never too late! ;^)

Multiply has much better privacy tools than Slashdot and I am sure the former-Slashdot crowd over there would welcome you with open arms. ;^)

You do realise that any USB mouse will work just fine on a Mac? If you don't like the mouse, plug your favourite mouse in and problem solved!

If that's true then it's the first thing Windows has got right in a bloody long time. Previous versions of Windows however are just like Mac and *nix - if you yank the drive out prematurely you run the risk of file corruption. Of course, it is dead easy to correctly eject a USB drive on a Mac, so long as you are not a brain-dead luser as Barbie seems to be - you just click Eject from the context menu (right mouse button, or ctrl-click for single button mouses), or click the Eject icon beside the drive in Finder, or press Cmd-E, or if you really want, drag the icon the the trash. The dragging to trash method is from the very early days of Mac OS and was one of the ways you could eject a 3.5" floppy.

Anyone who claims there is only one way to do something on a Mac has no idea how to use a Mac...

I use Pixelmator. It isn't free, but is a danged fine image editor.

Yeah, you definitely need to add an "easy" mode with fewer tiles and an optional preview thumbnail (not too small though!) to make it a bit easier. But for a basic jigsaw puzzle it is reasonably neat. One problem I did have though was sometimes the tiles randomly disappear and/or show the wrong piece - sometimes you get duplicate pieces on screen, but when you move one of the dupes it reverts back to the piece it should be...

And the reason for my "laundry list" is that they just work so darned well I upgraded reasonably often! (Okay, the multiple shuffles were just a vanity/convenience thing - one for audiobooks, one for music and a couple of different colours just because. ;^) )

Add me to the list of non-negative experiences: Half a dozen iPods, four iPod Shuffles, an iPhone, Mac mini, iBook G4, MacBook pro, iMac and I've had no real problems with any of these. The iPods still work fine with no battery issues, even the second oldest (the oldest I sold, so I don't know how that one is going) at just over five years old is still working fine and holds its charge well. My MBP does need a new battery, but it does get a helluva lot of work, so I'm not too worried about that...

At least I have the balls to put a name to my trolling! ;^)