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  1. Re:subscriptions - shooting themselves in foot on The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It · · Score: 1

    That's even more funny if you mean this weekly reader: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Reader "Weekly Reader is a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children in grades Pre-K–12. It began in 1928 as My Weekly Reader. " ;) It was good stuff when I was a kid.

  2. Re:Full browser? on 3D Helicopter View Added To Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Netscape navigator 9.0.0.6 (I have it installed just for laughs) shows the 3D button but the plugin shows some errors and crashes the browser if you try it anyways.

    You're on the wrong site. Saddism is over there....oh wait...whaaa?

    And i thought i was the only one that did that, got Mosiac and Lynx too? Been going thru stuff and got a couple of the last netscape (whatever) was last version.

    But back on topic this really reminds me of Choplifter and Rescue Raiders :P

  3. Re:Really? on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    Have you ever thought that someone who might like an Action-Adventure-RPG such as WoW wouldn't like a twitch First Person Shooter like TF2?

    Actually I do like both, thanks for asking. A Raid group fighting a boss or PVP group in battleground can be just as exciting and "twitchy" as a FPS.

    Try getting ganked sometime :D

  4. Re:For what application? on EComStation 2.0 GA To Be Released May 14 · · Score: 1

    Personally the scariest thing i've seen was cash registers at a major department store running Windows 98.

    At the time they were also replacing their wireless credit card/ATM readers with ones that had encryption (real scary eh?)

    This was 6 years ago, it was around the same time a major fast food chain was still running their stores off an NT 4.0 server and wasn't going to change any time soon.

  5. Re:not news for nerds - close: news for pussies !! on Ubisoft Steals 'No-CD Crack' To Fix Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 · · Score: 1

    I've had quite a few games i bought that had media checks in them. A recent game came on DVD-ROM and the media check failed because my only DVDROM drive happens to be a burner. Remember I paid for the game, so whats the alternative then? This wasn't the first program to cause issues because of certain hardware etc, but you get the idea. I had no alternative did I? Also don't waste your time with call the support line, that joke gets old.

  6. Re:More Than The Speed on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    Back when I had 56k dialup from a local provider, I had a linux (slackware) box setup to share the connection. It would connect, redial if dropped and stay connected all the time. Had two PC's hooked up to it (3 total). It was nice and fast for the time 53,000 or so down (had a 2nd line of course just for it). This was in 1998 before Roadrunner hit town (1999), havent looked back since.

    Online gaming back then was kinda rough, but like everybody back then we made due.

    I would imagine that something equal to my cable connection was say $25 a month more people would sign up.

  7. Re:no USB? on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually there is instructions on their website on how to solder a USB cable to the router. This is shown for recovery purposes.

    http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/10341/Recover-Your-WGR614L-Using-a-Serial-Console-Windows/

    Probably not exactly what you want but, its nice there is already instructions (in case) you brick it.

  8. Re:Who's responsible..? on FBI Wiretapping Audit Secrets Uncovered Via Ctrl+C · · Score: 1

    Still, I'm sure that, sometime soon, MS will remove the Ctrl+C combination. For national security, of course.

    BUT you still will have CTRL-Insert

    HA!
  9. Re:What happens to today's games? on Unreleased Atari 2600 Game Found At Flea Market · · Score: 0

    Maybe an unfinished Duke Nukem Forever will turn up?

    Someday....someday!

  10. Re:because they've been conditioned on Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable? · · Score: 0

    Its a "Boot other Devices" or "Boot removable USB devices" in your bios turned on and the memory card reader in your printer appears as a device that it wants to try to boot from (removable hdd).

    also btw:
    (I don't accept Windows Updates for components I don't use)

    that will get you a virus, just because you don't use it, its installed and can be exploited.

  11. Re:How long... on NASA Plans to Smash Spacecraft into the Moon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe this is some sort of goverment effort to control the weather/global warming......hmmm?

    whats a tin-foin hat made out of again?

  12. Re:Eh, you mean like a classic car? on iPhone SDK May Be 1-3 Weeks Late · · Score: 1

    Bah i say, i waiting for Android to run on an Iphone then you'll have something.

  13. Re:Do arms races ever work? on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 1

    Well the problem with internet traffic IS of course all the unsolicited traffic that you receive every second (worms or whatever). Not sure how most ISPs solve that issue. The internet is/has been a "noisey" place for quite a while, i do not want to pay for somebodys "crap" cause it happens to bounce ping/sniffs/whatever off me.

  14. Re:Favorite emulator... on The History of the Apple II as a Gaming Platform · · Score: 1

    An excellent site for people like me who stuck with the Apple II//][ line when the IIgs came out is the http://freetoolsassociation.com/. It's the FTA's site, they're from the demo scene back in the IIgs days, along with an EXCELLENT activeX or downloadable emulator. Not to mention some great disc images from back in the day. Worth checking out for any Apple II fan.

  15. Mocha PC = Latte on Cappuccino PC, Round 3 · · Score: 1

    The Mocha is a name used by that distributor of the Latte made by Saintsong, in Taiwan http://www.saintsong.com.tw. Seems its not on their website anymore. Here is the page of the US Distributor (Intraplex Corp) http://www.intraplexcorp.com/Latte.asp