It's not going to happen overnight (assuming it works). And you can guess that it will be *expensive* to start with. But for some people the difference in quality of life will be enormous, with children in particular. But the demand for this would be huge..

I can beat you on that..type 2, 6.1" and 160 lbs. That raised a few eyebrows, but it can happen to anybody it seems..

Cyberbunker are trying to paint themselves as proponents of free speach (sic) and through some magic PR they've got Anon worked up into a frenzy. But I don't really equate being able to blast out pharma spam and hosting malware as a freedom that I cherish. Blocking traffic to and from 84.22.96.0/19 is pretty effective IMO.

Sadly no longer a Googlewhack.

Allowing a web page to have complete access to the device.. what could possibly do wrong? Oh that's right.. pretty much everything. Firefox OS is likely to follow in the miserable footsteps of Java, ActiveX and .NET when it comes to security nightmares.. assuming it every becomes popular. When everybody else is trying to sandbox the browser from the OS, Mozilla go and do the opposite. Bad move.

They were still circulating in the 1980s when I was at university, although in those days we had email, FTP and even floppy disk!

But printers were a rarity, and by default the print jobs would go up to the main Computer Centre and then be delivered to your pigeonhole the next day. You had to remember to specify a local printer, else the pictures would end up "upsetting" the ladies who handled the print jobs. Ooops.

From memory, the most popular ASCII art one was called brigitte.pic (Brigitte Bardot). There were naughtier ones but hardcore porn and ASCII art do not really work together..

DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY. This is what happens when you exhibit independent thought..

Well, I suppose putting a sign up saying "Fraudsters Welcome" might attract business. Actually, isn't that what Delaware has been doing for years?

What a load of bullshit.. Nortel's infamous "return to profitability" is almost a textbook example of a dying company fiddling the books. I hope that the Canadian government takes this to appeal, else it looks like Canadian corporations can get away with whatever they like if they blow enough cash on lawyers..

Wow, I haven't seen the Slashdot effect in action for ages.

It's quite often available on eBay for around €270 to €370 depending on model. However, if the N9 is a bit too mainstream for you, then there's the very rare Nokia N950, which is the developer's version with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The cheapest I've seen one of those is €750, with prices going up to over €2000 (!) which isn't bad for a device that was mostly given away for free to select developers.

Bada is dead as far as I can see, the last handsets running that OS were released in 2011, with no activity at all during 2012. It would seem pretty obvious though that Samsung would develop a Tizen handset as it was a leading proponent of LiMo which folded into Tizen.

Whether or not anyone will care about Tizen is another matter. Samsung tried to push LiMo with the Vodafone 360 range back in 2009. That was pretty much a failure, I don't think that the odds are in favour of a Tizen device, especially if it is a carrier exclusive.

'nuff said.

If you don't want to be blacklisted, then stop sending spam. Simple.

I've seen this story several times before with people complaining about "blackmail" with different blacklists and filters, and in all cases I have ever seen there has been some sort of real problem. Remember that there are different levels of blacklisting, from the lowly backscatter blacklisting which hits a lot of legitimate organisations, up to Level 3 (which indicates that you've been informed of a problem for a long time but basically don't give a fuck), up to the next step which is de-peering or permanent widespread blacklisting. OP is clearly drinking in the last-chance saloon on this one.

Top tip: running an ISP is harder than it looks. Not managing abuse of your systems will eventually cause major problems, and in the worst cases will drive you out of business and have law enforcement forcing their way into you server rooms to take your kit. Don't assume that YOU are the innocent party and the the complainers are just making it up if you want to remain in the ISP business..