Totally agree. It continues to mystify me that Slashdot thinks it's a newspaper.

So, tell me again how I text a message to your company's phone number, extension 3007...?

>most voice mail services allow call back

I've never seen one that does. Often times if someone's calling from a smaller provider, the voicemail states the number as "an outside caller". A lot of good that's going to do :/

Bell Canada - Call Display $10.95 /month (landline)
Link (click on "full details". Yes they have bundles but not everyone wants that.)

> I also didn't know that you could have a phone without caller ID

Unless you use a VOIP line or a burner (pay-as-you-go) cell phone caller ID is always an extra for both landlines and cellphones. For cellphones it's often bundled with voicemail or some other feature so you'll usually end up getting it ... but, yes, it's very possible to get a smartphone with no caller ID or voicemail.

Liquid nitrogen for your RAM then...?

... that he did this back then. Imagine if the industry were founded recently. They'd sue anyone who tried to make a refrigerator or air conditioner to protect their outdated business. And they'd win, because they'd pay off -- excuse me, "support the campaigns of" -- all the right politicians.

It's UC-fucking-LA. It's not in the middle of a freeway, and I doubt she lives on a freeway either.

http://goo.gl/maps/J9UQq

Looks pretty walkable to me. It may be a windy route, but in that case, bikes can ride anywhere cars can, except for highways, and even though it's near a mountain, I don't see anywhere that's 100% cut off from the outside world except for freeways. Zoom in anywhere and there are little roads there.

Hell, if I lived there and were faced with that option, I'd ride my bike on the freeway every day until I got a ticket for doing so.

I've been using this hosts file for about 10 years. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...

> See also #3.

Sorry, you wanted the numbers rendered on your ordered list? Wrong site.

Yeah, I can't imagine why they did that, either.

TOO easy. Idiots do it accidentally every day.

A couple were ten years ago. :-)

Or people who bought content from WMA-based stores.

For all the reasons outline here, unless MS is going to embed their own metadata into every image I use that promises the image is safe, and that if it isn't, MS will foot the bill. Even so, that won't help me if I print something and lose the original digital version with the metadata. Stupid, stupid, stupid.