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We use OnSIP, http://www.onsip.com/ I HIGHLY recommend them. Call quality is great, support is competent, and the pricing structure is usage based, not a flat rate. I don't work fo…

If you view the page with Javascript disabled, you get "For security reasons Javascript is required for this website to work. Why? Because Javascript runs on your computer. Which m…

Am I the only one bugged by the incorrect use of "year 2010 Anno Domini"? Anno Domini means Year of Our Lord, so the proper usage is 'AD 2010', as in "The Year of Our Lord 2010".

Is this unusual for DNS failover? We are looking at doing the same thing for our DR system. Does anyone have any experience with DNS failover?

I think the author misses the point at the end - it's not a choice between Adobe messing up and users not updating. The question is "why are so many users running outdated versions…

Perhaps this is an indication that a single, all encompassing program is impossible to fit to every student. Perhaps a range of programs could be offered, and students and their pa…

Didn't the Pierson's Puppeteers breed for luck? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteers#Foreign_...

"This fear arises, at least in part, because people don’t know their neighbors as well as they did in times past. People tend to lead private lives, largely indoors, and adults cen…

I think this misses the point of the original article. While the overall point of ignoring progress may be valid, Mankiw is aware of the ability of markets to reduce costs. He is a…

It sounds like you don't know many academics.

This headline should read "New Research ... could free hundreds grieving parents wrongly wrongly convicted of killing their own child."

My folks came to Maryland in 1660 or so, on the first colony ship. They were Catholic (illegal at the time in Britain) and looking to start somewhere more Papist-friendly.

"'Mommy & Me' is catchy and alliterative, and, in my neighborhood, it’s the standard label for parent-child events, whether fathers are welcome or not. The term is also unapologeti…

Of course these people will still be trotted out whenever someone wants a new law. Every politician loves having people who can justify any policy they want to enact without fear o…

True, but "Who's on First" is still one of the funniest things you can find. Not all humor needs to be fresh.

It's about the poor, stupid people? We can't let the proletariat know of these ideas, since they are too weakminded to hold against them? No, you can't ban opinions just because th…

I use this feed: http://nirmalpatel.com/fcgi/hn_feed.fcgi which gets me full text of the article with links to the HN comments. Of course, I found it originally in the standard HN …

Nice. I only follow HN in Reader, and this makes that even easier. Thanks a lot. Now if we could only get full feeds from the NYTimes...

Agree. I have a alot of fun add-ons, but I need my AdBlock. The internet just looks funny with all those adds.

Who else would own them?

The fact that this question keeps coming up without a solid, convincing answer seems to indicate that there is no simple answer. It is most likely a huge combination of factors.Thi…

Showing that even international standards can be poorly thought out, and fail in real-world application. And when they do, they are hard to go back and fix.

I would offer to play the world's smallest violin, but I don't have the rights to any appropriate music.

This would be a disaster of biblical proportions. GR isn't just a aggregator of feeds, it is a feed-based social network! I can see, in real time, what my friends are reading, what…