About eight months ago, I contacted netflix when someone 'stole' my credit card info and opened a new account with them. Did the online chat thing and their rep had it all fixed (at the netflix end of things at least) within 15 minutes. It was painless and easy.

No, I don't work for netflix and am not affiliated in any way. There are certainly things about them that I don't like but I can't complain about their customer service.

While I agree with your main point, it seems to me they both went up in price. Wasn't single-disc DVD delivery along with streaming $7.99/month before the change? Now, either service, by itself, costs $7.99.

Is it too late to get an invite to my username at gmail dot com?

Thx!

"On the upside I don't live in Nebraska."

General Custer and his men are at Little Big Horn when his 2nd in command comes over to him...

Custer: What's the status?
2nd: Well, there's good news and bad news.
Custer: What's the bad news?
2nd: We're outnumbered ten to one, surrounded on all sides, and will surely die today.
Custer: Holy shit! What's the good news?
2nd: We won't have to travel back across Nebraska.

Is this a new Win7 command? Because it totally didn't work on my Win95 box.

What am I doing wrong?

But a file is actually software isn't it? This is more of a hardware hack.

Or am I missing something?

Heh. Me too. "They f--cked with the wrong Mexican!". Best. Movie. Tag-Line. Evar.

"I wouldn't be surprised either if the the devices sold by American companies had same backdoor for government wire-taping."

Wait, the government is taping wires to things now? I've heard some pretty wacky conspiracy theories in the past but this one sounds feasible! Any suggestions on how to protect ourselves from this nefarious plot? (I'm all out of tin-foil. Oh noes!!)

Roomba cleaning robot? I can't be the only guy whom thought it was a great idea.

I must be reading /. <|:-o ...rolls eyes... o-:|>

Meh... please notify me when wi-fi is ubiquitously free at airports.

I find it interesting that, with the current vote tally at 1076, more people claim to have had better pizza in Antarctica (27 votes), than in either Africa (20), South America (16), or even Asia (27).

So either penguin pizza is more awesome than I would ever have imagined - or it must really suck in those other places.

I love this line; "The result: it took five drama-packed years for the standard to come to fruition"

Yep, this has definitely kept me on the edge of my seat waaayyyy more than watching Lost or Heroes.

They can have my Windows 3.1 when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!