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Comment Re: Sad, isn't it? (Score 1) 529

by mjrider on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:46PM (#49979091) Attached to: The Town That Banned Wi-Fi

depending on the weather, i can hear the powerlines, they make a buzzing sound. Dogs have better ears so i assume they can hear them even better.

Comment Re:Yeah but... (Score 1) 402

by mjrider on Saturday October 06, 2012 @05:05PM (#41571229) Attached to: Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit

o yes they do. You just have to be ill enough to not be able to go to the doctor. Seen one beside my bed 10 months ago. just before he called an ambulance for me for transportation to the hospital.

Submission + - Nominum calls Open Source DNS 'a recipe for proble

Submitted by

Raindeer

on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @07:19AM

Raindeer writes: "In an effort to promote its new Cloud based DNS service SKYE, Nominum one of the commercial DNS-software, providers slaundered all open source/freeware DNS packages. It said: "Given all the nasty things that have happened this year, freeware is a recipe for problems, and it's just going to get worse.(....) So, whether it's Eircom in Ireland or a Brazilian ISP that was attacked earlier this year, all of them were using some variant of freeware. Freeware is not akin to malware, but is opening up those customers to problems. " This has the DNS community fuming. Especially when you know Nominum was one of the companies affected by the DNS Cache poisoning problem of last year. Something PowerDNS, MaraDNS and DJBDNS all open source weren't vulnerable too."

Submission + - Yahoo Pulls The Plug On GeoCities (pcworld.com)

Submitted by

Mike

on Thursday April 23, 2009 @07:15PM

Mike writes: "It's official: Yahoo is pulling the plug, and GeoCities is dead. GeoCities had suffered a long and drawn-out battle with its health over the past decade. An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle. An official cause of death, however, has yet to be determined. Awful, eye-punishing graphics, lack of relevancy, and "lowest-common-denominator design" are believed to have contributed to it's demise. GeoCities was 15 years old."

Journal Journal: Using Google Adsense for Charity

Journal by Raindeer on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @07:16AM

I hope Slashdot-readers will help me generate more attention for this idea and come up with ideas to get this idea higher up Google's to-do-list. I have blogged about this on my blog. The origins of this idea lie in me looking at the enormous amount of $8 on my Adsense account (the payout limit is $100) and wondering if there was something better to do with it, instead of waiting 12 years for the first check.

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