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Zuckerburg talks as if Facebook users should place a lot of trust in his corporation, while at every turn he and his company have shown that they can't be trusted. After all, any exec who says out loud that his customers are dumb fucks shouldn't be too surprised when some of them decline to reveal personal information.

William Shatner... Then you are not welcome.

At home, I have both cable and DSL. I use a Vigor2930N from DrayTek.

Works like a charm.

There have been other mentions of a Cisco/Linksys product (the 104, I believe) but I went with the Draytek because I wanted integrated wireless, too.

Evolution

And yet, it took only 4 years for Microsoft to shut-down their MSN Music service. This should be the point of the article (in my opinion). However, the OP loses ground when he talks about companies like Nintendo deciding Online isn't worth it. I think consumers will decide Online isn't worth it, especially if Sony can just shut down the actual game servers when the next iteration of their console comes out. And no, it's not paranoia, remember, Microsoft shutdown all Multiplayer servers for the original X-Box.

Sure, I have a lot invested in my Steam games, and I hope if Valve ever shuts down their servers I can at least backup my games and play in "offline mode", but we'll have to wait and see. However, as opposed to a console, my PC is still useful even if Steam does go down. If future consoles play online-only, when those servers DO go down, the consoles will be worthless, regardless of how hard you blow into them. Will the manufacturers price the consoles and games accordingly? Doubtful, not as long as there's profit to be made.

As it turns out, I do: Sony: Hackers Exploited Known Vulnerability

You can also find it in this JoyStiq article, but it's kind of hidden in there and is just one line:

The vulnerability in the web server was a vulnerability known about that particular type of server, one of the execs on stage said.

Someone else did some NetCraft sleuthing and determined that the "particular type of server" in question was apparently Apache 2.2.3, but I don't know how accurate that is and can't find the link to that.

Time to hack AT&T into the ground.

Yes! Everybody go out and buy some more iPhones!

Oh, wait.

Maybe you should be wondering how Microsoft manages to detect and ban people using modchips. Answer - in a similar fashion as Sony is intending right now - mandatory updates that detect modchips through various means when users sign onto XBL. e.g. this story speculates that MS stealth patched some games to install modchip detection code to wield the banhammer.

SONY has earned my lack of business.

I don't say this lightly - heck, I've even worked in Japan at a SONY location (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo) - I will NEVER purchase another product made from SONY again - unless it is required for my work and there aren't any other alternatives. NEVER.

They've worked really hard at this. First was the root-kit installed with music CDs. I was mad, but i didn't impact me. The last straw was suing a hacker (not cracker) over making use of hardware that he'd bought. Why don't they sue the USAF instead? They are clearly doing the same things http://www.tomsguide.com/us/usaf-ps3-playstation-cluster-cell,news-5177.html .

That includes movies.

In other news, the Windows Phone 7 user is really mad. We tried to call him but he was out of credit.

He says he has to save all his money to pay his phone bill

He says although his phone cost more than all those millions of Android ones, he's happy because he knows he has all the smarts and know-how of the best brains in the business behind his closed source OS, so has great support if anything goes wrong. Then he got his phone bill

glad someone makes business minded commentary as well :)

"pirates are leeches" is completely wrong. According to research pirates spend more money to music and movies.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Pirate-Fileshare-Music-Download-Illegal,news-5001.html

look at this gems:
Are Aliens Among Us? Sort of, NASA Says
NASA Finds Alien DNA in Californian Lake
NASA discovery to add new 'element' to life

All of you lack the experience or the memory to say how obvious it would be ON THE HARDWARE AVAILABLE THEN.

Video decompression had been done with GPU assist (including decoding the motion compensation information) for at least a year by NVIDIA hardware before this patent was filed, and maybe earlier. Are you saying that reversing the process---moving from decoding to encoding---is so fundamentally different that it isn't an obvious thing to do? That seems like a prima facie absurd argument that demands extraordinary proof.

What, precisely, about this patent was novel, unobvious, and useful in 2004? Because I just don't see it.

Given that the Microsoft board didn't give Ballmer a full bonus this year, I suspect they are looking for someone new already. My guess is that if Windows 7 Phone isn't a huge success, Microsoft will have a new CEO next year. It's a mystery to me as to how he has managed to stay in the position this long, given his many blunders.

EA has something like this going on. I'm not sure they're doing it, but apparently pre-owned games will need to pay a 10$ fee if they want to play online. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ea-project-ten-dollars-dlc,news-5797.html

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/PSP-PSP-Go-PSP2-PlayStation-3DS,news-7016.html

Failure.

They should relocate to France. French courts have already ruled circumvention devices legal when there is no other way to run your own software on your machine.

Does this mean an accomplice has to hang around within 3m of the pump?

What a stunningly stupid question. Was it an attempt to be funny? It failed. Even if bluetooth didn't have vastly more range than 3 meters, there is bluesniper which you too can build.

Sweden doesn't have oil, neither does Finland or Denmark. Norway does.

Ripping up old phone lines is not costly operation, telcos actually called up and offered 3G data network in rural areas so they could take away the old phone lines that were prone to be cut in snow storm, had to be cleared of brush regularly, pay land rent, etc. In US such incentive doesn't exist because FCC requires phone companies maintain phone lines as well as wireless service. All you need to do is to say that phone lines can be removed from areas where unlimited 3G wireless data connection and phone connection are offered for less than $30/month and telcos will do the rest. That's what happened in Finland.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/AT-T-FCC-Analog-Digital-VoIP,news-5456.html

Same goes with the television, requirement to support old TV technologies when free internet TV broadcast could address most (if not all) concerns is dumb. Maintaining TV stations and reserving bandwidth for handful of people is expensive. You have also asked repeatedly about the need to have 100mbps internet, but have you ever questioned the need to have a TV? I have lived all my adult life without TV.

Enjoy it for as long as you can (which will be for a while).

However, the "Analog Sunset" will eventually disallow you from using analog connections to watch a Blu-Ray disc one way or the other - via a flag embedded in a disc by a studio, or if you have to buy a new player after 2013 (after your current one breaks according to the manufacturer's carefully-timed plan to avoid giving you warranty service) it won't have analog outputs. Blah blah HDFury - as soon as they're popular enough for studios to notice, their HDCP keys will be blacklisted so you're one involuntary firmware update away from being broken again. If you think the studios won't do that because it could disable a bunch of legitimate players, think again.

Also, your cable and satellite providers have the go-ahead from the FCC to shut off analog outputs at will, which is purportedly for PPV and certain on-demand content.

+1 for promotion of piracy yet again.

Steve Jobs: Just Don't Hold the iPhone 4 That Way http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-4-reception-bumpers-iphone4-iphone,news-7218.html

Sony and Nintendo bend Microsoft over a chair and take turns having their way.

are you sure? xbox recently overtook both PS3 and Wii in market share, although they are all very close.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/slideshow/npd-console-marketshare,0101-243018-0-2-3-1-jpg-.html

the hardware itself is a money sink, as it is for other console vendors. they make $ on games / licensing / peripherals / online services.

You can already write whever you want on an Android phone.

Not if you're on AT&T, which has removed "Unknown sources" from the menu on its Android phones.

And what's stopping you from displaying several recipes on the one screen? when I cook there are anywhere from five to eight recipes on the screen. (I did say laptop, not netbook? right? :P)

if you really need many more, you need a second cook, who can bring their own laptop. or maybe just a W700?

Actually, that's a lie. I was working with Japanese 3D phones in 2008, never mind 2009.

Many people care about the level of detail that their screen can give them.

I have been following virtual reality and 3D TV's since I went to college (10 years ago). They all used to rely on shutter glasses or two screens and polarised light.

Now you can get 3D without glasses... But to do this, the TV's need about a lot more pixels than a standard HD screen. For example you could have 42 times the number of pixels and this could allows 42 different viewing angles (using a lens system on each pixel). Each angle supplies a different image to the left and right eyes, but this the 3d Effect drops out, the further you are from the TV.

More pixels = 3D without glasses

Your custom USB device would have a slab of flash, which it would fill according to the LED commands it received. I don't know if there is anything equivalent on Windows.

You're trying way too hard;
    Linksys Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives reviewed 1:10 PM - July 6, 2004

Case and point; provides you access without black magic, and demonstrates what 98.2% Microsoft market share does to CIO's (layer 7 junkies) - who all seem to think that their "network" starts at the Windows login screen and not the UTP port.

Bob Brewin writes on NextGov that the National Security Agency has developed a software tool that detects thumb drives or other flash media connected to a network

Bah! n00bs.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/iPad-iMat-iBoard-Joke,news-5968.htmliPad iMat iBoard iMat

But 3d TV requires glasses

False. Some displays do not require glasses.

Just google for: 3d tv no glasses
1 2 3 4 5

I'm trying to figure out if I'll get a "woosh". Can you cite anything about China's once booming recording industry that's now died? The facts are that pirates (and I'm not one) spend more on music than non-pirates. Here are some citations:
http://www.switched.com/2009/11/03/music-pirates-also-buy-more-tunes-than-others-poll-finds/
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Pirate-Fileshare-Music-Download-Illegal,news-5001.html
http://www.mixx.com/stories/9014955/music_pirates_spend_more_on_tunes_than_non_pirates_finds_poll
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=27090916
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/11/02/music-pirates-spend-more-on-music-than-their-legal-law-abiding/
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/study-pirates-buy-tons-more-music-than-average-folks.ars

In the US it is generally known that almost everyone speeds and have for 80 years or so

In some places where it's obvious that the speed limit for the road conditions are way too low. Especially during the '70s when the national speed limit was 55 and had been reduced from 70 or higher in most places. here in town I notice that people drive well UNDER the limit most of the time; the speeding is mostly on straight interstates.

Law enforcement has been "cracking down" and imposing draconian penalties on speeders since the beginning of the automobile era.

A hundred dollar fine is a draconian penalty? When I'm travelling I notice that the speeders are all driving Hummers and Escalades and the like -- to these people, a hundred bucks is NOTHING.

Are you trolling, joking, or just ignorant?

until Apple releases their greedy mitts over the smartest (dc) plug ever invented. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-patent-laptop,news-964.html

just as they won't activate the bluetooth chip inside older Ipod Touches.

Er, they did...

If you pay Apple 10 bucks for the 3.0 OS upgrade, that unused bluetooth chip in the second-gen iPod Touch will spring into action...

I can't see that being a major cost component. The accelerometer is in the Wii's controller, which alone retails for $49. This article on Tom's Hardware says that the Wii's manufacturing cost has actually gone down 45% since launch. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/nintendo-wii-price-drop-costs,news-3758.html

Zune phone simple enough. It looks like they already have the hardware but will need a PR blitz as well as incentives for carriers to sell the phone. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/microsoft-zune-phone-iphone-pre,news-3918.html

It's not as customizable as a desktop, but DIY laptops are possible... http://www.tomsguide.com/us/diy-laptop-whitebook,review-1286.html

McAfee: Data Theft Results in Trillion-Dollar Losses

Al, that's a really tired argument. Every Mac comes with a disk burner. Every iTunes track can be burned and re-ripped removing the DRM. It isn't hard. It isn't expensive. It isn't even time consuming on any computer made in the last 3 years. I've done it myself with several tracks. I can't hear any difference. Honestly, they're digital downloads... they're already compressed in a lossy format and reripping them into that exact same format doesn't make an audible difference, at least not to my ears. Maybe you're 12 years old and you can still hear things I can't. It still won't be a big difference, even if you have dog ears.

Besides, millions of songs on the iTMS are now DRM free now. The record companies are giving up one at a time, just like they gave into digital downloads one at a time. Remember what a big deal it was getting the Beatles on iTunes, dragging them, one at a time, kicking and screaming into the 21st century? The big labels realize they've been pWN3D by Apple and there's no use fighting it. They'd rather be available on all players and all stores and making money. Apple's DRM has effectively defeated a bleak future full of DRM laden music in a most unexpected way. Apple used DRM like the GPL uses copyright.

They beat the bastards at their own game and on your behalf. But rather than be the least bit grateful that they saved your ass from that bleak future, it's obvious you have a strong, unwavering, irrational hate for Apple. Apple might be the number one music retailer in the US now, but I'd hardly classify a 19% market share a monopoly. You go right ahead and hate them though, I'm sure they didn't do it for any of your gratitude. They did the right thing because that was also the smart and profitable thing to do and they proved it becoming #1.

... and went back to 2003! Twice!

- angry over confusion
- angry over video card
- angry over southpark
- angry over upgrades
- angry over waiting in line

It's old: May 18, 2006 But here is a URL to details on the ILM "Deathstar" http://www.tomsguide.com/us/lucasfilm-amd,review-713.html

A review of the MBA at Tom's Hardware points out that there is NO Kensington lock point on the notebook.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-censor-leopard,review-1020.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-osx,review-1019-2.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-osx-leopard,review-1016.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/leopard-osx-problems,review-1028.html

I'm sure more can be found, but here are a few that I have read (my apologies that they are all Tom's Hardware, but these were the first I could think of off the top of my head). As for the astroturfing, I'm writing this from Fedora Core 7 thank you very much, on which I pretty much do all of my computing.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-censor-leopard,review-1020.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-osx,review-1019-2.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-osx-leopard,review-1016.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/leopard-osx-problems,review-1028.html

I'm sure more can be found, but here are a few that I have read (my apologies that they are all Tom's Hardware, but these were the first I could think of off the top of my head). As for the astroturfing, I'm writing this from Fedora Core 7 thank you very much, on which I pretty much do all of my computing.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-censor-leopard,review-1020.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-osx,review-1019-2.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-osx-leopard,review-1016.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/leopard-osx-problems,review-1028.html

I'm sure more can be found, but here are a few that I have read (my apologies that they are all Tom's Hardware, but these were the first I could think of off the top of my head). As for the astroturfing, I'm writing this from Fedora Core 7 thank you very much, on which I pretty much do all of my computing.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-censor-leopard,review-1020.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mac-osx,review-1019-2.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-osx-leopard,review-1016.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/leopard-osx-problems,review-1028.html

I'm sure more can be found, but here are a few that I have read (my apologies that they are all Tom's Hardware, but these were the first I could think of off the top of my head). As for the astroturfing, I'm writing this from Fedora Core 7 thank you very much, on which I pretty much do all of my computing.

"Many of the author's points dont make any sense in comparison to MS and Vista. SP1 isn't due out (as of now) till Q1 2008... OSX's update is already out... don't see the similarity. "

Um, you do realize that Microsoft has been releasing Vista fixes for months now via Windows Update, right? Fixes don't have to come as SPs or .0.1 updates.

But you're right, I don't see the similarity either. Vista has to work probably 3 orders of magnitude more configurations than OSX does, yet Leopard is still very buggy, even with 10.5.1, BTW.
And make no mistake: The author's complaints are not an isolated case.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/update-leopard-problems-apple,review-1028.html
http://www.robhyndman.com/2007/11/14/ive-been-attacked-by-a-leopard/
http://scobleizer.com/2007/11/16/caught-in-apple-restart-hell/
http://scobleizer.com/2007/11/17/the-brand-promise-of-apple/
http://www.digg.com/apple/MacBook_MacBook_Pro_owners_suffer_keyboard_freezing_with_Leopard

And check out the Apple discussion forums (though Apple has seen fit to lock many of the threads that complain about Leopard's problems, so check out MacinTouch and AppleInsider.com forums too).

Apple's "Vista is crap" ad campaign and using BSOD icons for Windows network shares in Leopard makes this all the more embarrassing for Apple. And comedian Baratunde Thurston has publicly called out Apple on its unjustified smugness (even before Leopard was released).
Baratunde Thurston: I Hate the Smugness of Apple

That's gotta hurt a little, coinciding as it does with Apple's Don't Give Up On Vista attack ad.