Comment Re: Sad, isn't it? (Score 1) 529
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
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.
Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit 402
New submitter jefery23 writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press article (as carried by the Denver Post): "Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices." Friday's jump followed another big one just a day earlier, too. Texas gas prices have gone up, but not quite so dramatically ($3.59 at the station nearest to me); how are they in your neck of the woods? Those Bloom boxes and charging stations can't arrive too soon.
Submission + - Nominum calls Open Source DNS 'a recipe for proble
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)
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 An antiquated service model and outdated technology are widely blamed for the struggle.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."
Asus Set To Release Desktop Eee PC Variant 171
the_leander writes "The Register has pictures of the desktop version of Asus's Eee PC, reportedly called the 'Ebox.' It will be released early next month after it has been unveiled publicly at Computex in Taipei on June 3. It'll come equipped with the same Xandros Linux distribution as the Eee, though it's likely that Windows XP will be available also. But given the probable choice for CPU, Atom, ithe Ebox is unlikely to allow for the use of Vista, unless you're something of a masochist. It's expected to retail for $200-$300."
Journal Journal: Using Google Adsense for Charity
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.
Comment Re:Price of games (Score 1) 555
People will even pirate data worth 99 cents... so long as there's a price tag, there's people who try to get around it.
That just so nottrue. I'll buy (and have bought) 1 game every month. I don't buy more than 1 game because i just can't afford it. If the game companies reduced their prices with atleast 50% then i would have bought 3 games per month - which means that they will make more money by reducing their prices. (yes, my budget isn't high enough for 2 games per month )
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I know i don't talk for my self only, but also for many of my friends.
That just so nottrue. I'll buy (and have bought) 1 game every month. I don't buy more than 1 game because i just can't afford it. If the game companies reduced their prices with atleast 50% then i would have bought 3 games per month - which means that they will make more money by reducing their prices. (yes, my budget isn't high enough for 2 games per month )
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I know i don't talk for my self only, but also for many of my friends.
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