You rang? :-p

Or "Oman Data Park LLC" where at least a couple of these domains were registered through (from a quick check) was compromised?

Unless I'm playing games or otherwise hammering the CPU or graphics, I'd like my laptop to be cool and virtually silent. Generally day to day laptop usage doesn't really need the power of the processors they usually have, instead either automatically running the processor very underclocked and with unnecessary cores switched off, or having a second, low power processor and only turn on the high power processor when needed. Similarly with the graphics system. As a side effect, this should extend battery life, but that is less of a concern to me as I don't often have mine off the mains power.

While I voted "DVD", what I don't enjoy are the "anti-piracy" statements/videos or adverts that you can't skip though. If I had decent enough internet I'd probably go for streaming (but from what I've seen, often legal streaming will be interrupted by adverts, which is one reason that I tend to prefer DVDs over TV).

Hello from a 4. ;-)

Like so many here will no doubt be doing, I just wanted to say 'thanks'. Slashdot was not only my favourite source of news for many years, but also Slash (the 0.3-pre tarball!) was my introduction to coding in Perl, and out of that I built my career. So my sincere thanks for all you did here, and I hope you enjoy whatever you do next.

We currently have petrol at £1.40 per litre in the UK, which is over $10/gallon. Our prices have been over $5/gallon for maybe 20 years or more. We still have single-occupant SUVs all over the place, in fact they're on the increase.

One sales droid's abject terror is another sales droid's golden opportunity.

Last time I joined in one of these threads, Rob Malda finished it a few comments later.

Are Twitter at any point going to get a revenue stream?

"Bank to bank transfers are also widely available and free of charge." While I completely agree with moving away from cheques to electronic payment, bank transfers are not free to all UK account holders - particularly some business accounts - this is why an IT support company I sometimes do work for pays me by cheque, as the fee to transfer by BACS from his account makes it less cost effective.

They are trying to encourage you to pay online - I did that this year when I renewed my car's tax disk.