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Comment Re:What... (Score 1) 145

Except they have a capitalist vision of google having to pay to have people access gmail.

wat. Of course Google pays to have people access gmail - servers, racks, drives, power, transit, staff, real estate all cost quite a bit.

Chrisq's claim, as I understand it, is that Google would have to negotiate transit with each individual last-mile ISP to make Gmail available to the ISP's customers, or at least available at more than 1999 DSL speeds.

Comment Re:Y2K (Score 1) 69

Obviously serious problems only could occure if software was not patched.

If one claimes even patched software will cause serious problems (your preparations) he is an idiot.

I think the people predicting Y2K doom were under the assumption that someone somewhere might miss a very important patch.

Comment Re:This is not a SSL matter (Score 1) 141

So to fix this we added the "get connected" feature. Basically it's a page after the initial login where people can open a session to all their social networks and provide all their frequent email addresses. This way they can login with any of these. This helped a lot.

The Stack Exchange network has a similar feature. Each user can associate a Facebook account, an e-mail address and password, and multiple OpenID identifiers (Google, AOL, Ubuntu, etc.) to his Stack Exchange user account. The one thing I'm surprised they don't support is Twitter login.

Comment Sitting team handball perhaps? (Score 1) 232

Basketball, team handball, soccer, rugby and gridiron football are members of a family of sports based on advancing the ball into the goal based on restrictions against arbitrarily carrying it. A Paralympic sport in the same family is wheelchair basketball. I wonder what sort of other sports in the same family could be invented for people with no legs like Jennifer Bricker in the same way that volleyball was adapted into sitting volleyball.

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