While phones use Internet connectivity, they usually connect through the carrier infrastructure which may only allocate a few (or even 1) IPv4 addresses, thanks to NAT.

A woman in Japan forgot 5 DVDs for 10 years ; the fee for 1 DVD / 1 day is 200 Yen. She had to pay 5 x 200 x 365 x 10 yen ... ( $36,000 )

More likely some porn the shop owner was dying to get back.

The RIAA manages to do that pretty well.

Quite good movie. And of course the Matrix

Point at the Moon during a summer solar eclipse to get the Sun light back.

She can already pretty much control whatever is coming in, thanks to the routers that do the I/O with Germany. I think what she wants is to control what's going out...

Indeed, let's be totally fair:
- too bad these games are more about your country's wealth than your personal ability
- too bad these games are more about your country's education system than your personal ability
- too bad these games are more about your country's climate than your personal ability
- too bad these games are more about your ancestors genetics than your personal ability
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Can Slashdot survive user revolt?

systemd is as good as init daemons management system - the problem is how the transition is going to be performed? Hopefully it won't be like the gnome-classic => Unity mess. Init and systemd will both have to be available, giving time to administrators to migrate what could not be automatically transferred and specific applications.

Never say never ...

When the product is as popular as an iphone - would you like it or no - many people want it the first day and, unless queuing early, you'll have to wait.

Probably /. expects some people to correlate this snow event with global warming, climate changes etc... Because that storm is rather special..

And a majority of Americans voted, twice, for W

As powerful as lasers may be, a (good) mirror should be enough to perform a "return to sender"...