Makes sense

I have seen literally nobody using a Windows 8 machine. I have seen countless advertisements for it, however, as well as a lot of ipads and a smaller number of Android tabs.

I don't see why this deserves its own article. Things like this have already been possible for a while using projects like Osmocom. Being open source, these things can be easily compiled for ARM.

I don't really understand all this complaining about IP-phones. At work I set up a simple asterisk server (running on Debian) with a postgresql database backend for administration.

When anybody calls, the number is matched against the database of customers. If found, the customer name will show up in the screen in addition to the number. Android cellphones integrate nicely with its native SIP stack, meaning calls can be forwarded to cellphones at no additional charge.

Our home-grown CRM allows one to click a call button next to a customer name to call that person from your local phone. The phones were cheap, the PBX was free (it runs on a server already in use for other things).

Necessary?

The question is: do you *want* jquery if you are only going to support modern browsers? The whole reason so many people use it is because it takes away a lot of the pain of working with older browsers (especially the one created by Microsoft).

In newer browsers you have css transitions, which removes the need the .animate() functionality in jquery. Also, things like XMLHttpRequest and websockets work the same, which removes any need for the .ajax() function in jquery. And this goes for most of the jquery functionality.

And that is why

you should install a security suite like LBE Privagy Guard.

Can't they just revoke the intermediary certificate? Otherwise they can just keep generating new certificates after we block them.

How does one get infected with this particular nasty? Most system administrators know better than to install software outside of the repositories. How would this thing get on the server in the first place?

I saw it first

I will be sending a nuke in to blow a hole in the center. I think it'll make a lovely ring for my wife.

Why would anybody want a NAS that runs on a powerhungry Atom? Just make these things with a nice ARM chip instead.

Only 5 million iphones?

That's still 5 million too many!

What a load of bull. This has been possible way way before IOS was even dreamed up. Using a gateway service, like for example www.mollie.nl you are able to set the number people see on the receiving end.

It's been possible for years now, and suddenly it's a security risk?

"That break unfortunately is not for the profit of the artists, but rather this site who is contributing nothing to the artists themselves."

So instead of going to the pockets of the MAFIA (Music And Film Industry of America) it goes to the owners of the website. I don't see any difference for the artists there.

If google were to stop their foolish pigheadedness of requiring credit cards to pay for apps, the number of people buying would go up by a great number.

A lot of android users are too young to have credit cards, but they do have money to spend! Also, many countries (like Netherlands) don't use credit cards that much. I don't have one, for example.

"They found that in that time skull capacity had increased by 200 cubic centimetres for men in the sample, equivalent "to the size of a tennis ball". The researchers found that the average height from the base to the top of the skull in men had increased by 8mm. In the women in the sample, the corresponding increases were 7mm and 180 cubic centimetres."

If I read this correctly, in women the skull capacity increased by 7mm while the body has increased by 180 cubic centimetres. That accounts for all the fat American ladies.

30%

Is that 30% of all users, or 30% of all active users?

Assuming 50% of Facebook users is dormant, they would need 60% of users to vote instead of 30%.

Why not just make some loops on the balloon, feed a string to it that has the diameter you want your balloon to be. Once the string gets tight you launch. This should be easily measurable by any simple kind of pull-chain switch.

My ISP already has native IPv6 support. Currently, you have to enable it yourself through a setting, but come June 6 this setting will be automatically turned on for everyone.

All their modems (Fritz!Box devices) have native IPv6 support and all my devices at home automatically get a different, public IPv6 address. I am quite happy with it, as I can now access all devices directly, without the need for port forwarding.

The thing this is weird about this is that the licenses are being nullified, while the costs for the licenses are not paid back to the telcos. This basically means: pay us again.

As an added bonus, they get to pay much, much more than they have done so far.

Forcing telcos to switch to another frequency is another bad idea, especially given the fact that many phones currently in use would not be able to cope with that, requiring people to buy a new one.

What bothers me the most is their hypocritical claim that they are doing this for the "artists", while, as everyone knows, the only one benefiting from this are the record companies themselves.

Whether an artist is able to make a living mainly depends on the number of people knowing him/her because this determines the number of people buying merchandise and going to concerts, which provide the main part of an artist's income.

An artist whose music can be freely downloaded will of course have a bigger audience which will more than make up for any loss in income due to not selling CD's.

Who cares?

As a linux user, you can't use it anyways.

you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2

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More vendor lock-in

They should be working to reduce vendor lock-in, by educating people in using something else than the standard Microsoft cruft. Can't say I'm surprised though, Microsoft have deep pockets and if there is any country that is corrupt it's India.

0800 numbers here (Netherlands) are free from both landline or cellphones.

However, the company paying for the number can decide whether or not their number can be reached from cellphones at all. If they are not willing to pay the higher charges they can choose not to.

In practice, however, I have never noticed any 0800 number not working from my cellphone.

I have a better idea: Fuck off with these stupid capped plans.

I pay to use their service and they stop whining about not making enough money, despite having a steady increase of the profit year by year.