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  1. Re:why not for the Wii on Resident Evil 5 Not A 360 Exclusive · · Score: 3, Informative

    Resident Evil Wii is supposed to be released about the same time, and will be similar, but different, and exclusive to the Wii.

  2. Popups on Google Targets TV Advertising · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If Google can reverse the trend on some channels to move towards LARGE popups that move around and make noise on the bottom have of the screen DURING the actual show, completely ruining and interrupting it, than GREAT! Go for it!. I really hate trying to read something on the screen like a subtitle or place&time text only to have a big race car drive across it, obscuring my view and making loud tire screeching noises over a quiet/dark/moody intro scene to some show.

    Quiet, text-only, to-the-point, factual advertisement is a lot more tolerable.

  3. Re:Immediate access? on Investing Tips for College Students? · · Score: 1

    You can get 4.35% in a no-risk savings account with no minimum balance, no fees, and online transfers to and from your regular checking account at any other bank, using ING Direct - http://home.ingdirect.com/

  4. Re:Advertiser Fraud on Google Launches Cost Per Action AdSense · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm more worried about the 3rd party advertiser committing fraud, since that is basically all Commission Junction seemed to be back when I tried it. I paid lots of good money to sign up for a service where 3rd parties would place ads linking to my website on their webpage via CJ, but almost every single sale that results from that channel was the 3rd party themselves using a stolen CC and placing an order so that I pay CJ, CJ takes a cut of the money, and the advertiser who placed the fraudulent sale gets a cut of the money, then I get stuck with a bunch of chargebacks. CJ really didn't have any incentive to stop that kind of behavior, or weed those people out, since they still get a cut of all the sales themselves either way.

  5. Re:Nice idea, but the cost... on Store Your Own Juice · · Score: 1

    I have house, with washer/dryer, 6 computers running 24/7, and I blast the AC in the middle of summer and my bill will only top at $100-$125 max. This is in lower Michigan, with 85-90 degree days. Our power company only bills 1 rate, which I think is about 9 cents per kW/h.

  6. Re:Themes and extensions keep working on Firefox Update Kills Bugs, Adds Mac Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    You didn't read the message when you clicked later. The message said that an updated was already downloaded and ready to be installed. It asksed if you wanted to install it now (and restart Firefox now) or install it later (when you next restart Firefox).

    In the options under Advanced/Update the default is "Automatically download and install the update" but you can change that to "Ask me what I want to do" if you want. Of course, the "Warn me if this will disable extensions of themes" box is also checked by default, but I'm not sure how much that works. I think it just checks if the extension disabled itself because of the maxversion flag it has set maybe. That doesn't mean it will work for sure though, since extension authors can't predict these kind of things.

  7. Upload on Increased Bandwidth Irrelevant? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There IS, however, a noticable difference between the 2Mbps upstream on FIOS, the 768Kbps upstream on (my) DSL, and the 256Kbps upstream on cable around here. At least, for anybody who has ever tried to email a digital camera picture to a friend, etc.

  8. Re:GameCube controller == Dual Shock on Revolution Horsepower Revealed · · Score: 1


    Lots of games use analog on the shoulder buttons, such as Mario Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion, to control how hard/far you shoot water or vacuum up ghosts.

  9. Re:Ah, error correction. on Changes in HDD Sector Usage After 30 Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hard drives do the same thing - for each 512 bytes of real data, they actually store near 600 bytes onto the disk with information such as ECC and sector remapping for bad sectors. There is also tiny "lead-in" and "lead-out" areas outside each sector which usually contain a simple pattern of bits to let the drive seek to the sector properly.
    Unlike CD-ROMs, I don't believe you can actually read the sector meta-data without some sort of drive-manufacturer-specific tricks.

  10. Re:Would someone... on Utah Games/Porn Law Fails · · Score: 1

    Look under Related Stories up at the top.

  11. Re:http://www.kfc.com/buffalosnacker/Checkage.asp on Interactive Commercial Utilizes Tivo Features · · Score: 1

    Why do I just end up at http://www.kfc.com/buffalosnacker/toyoung.asp no matter what I enter there, even if I delete all my cookies? Will somebody post a link to the actual coupon, because who knows how many other garbage questions they want us to fill out so they can spam us probably.

  12. Re:For those who'd like to give it another go on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that disc does not have the special "2nd quest" to Manjora's Mask either. I think the only way to get it new was to get it bundled with a new Gamecube system sometime before Windwaker came out, because this disc has a playable demo of Windwaker and a big "Zelda retrospective" video thing on it too.

  13. Re:For those who'd like to give it another go on Legend of Zelda Celebrates 20 Years · · Score: 1

    There is a Gamecube disc with the first two zeldas on it as well as the two N64 zeldas. It can be found at most used game shops since the only way to buy it new was with some special promo.

  14. Re:well, let's test it then on The Secret Cause of Flame Wars · · Score: 1

    Seems the problem is too many people don't really insert the connotation by typing like:

    I *love* Linux. It's great! :-)

    vs.

    I /love/ Linux. It's great. ::rolls eyes::

  15. Re:"from the must-go-faster dept." on Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate · · Score: 1
    How do I use that javascript version of the tool under Windows Firefox 1.5.0.1?
    I created a .cmd file with
    @echo off
    set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=DOMLeak:5,DocumentLeak:5,nsDocShe llLeak:5
    set NSPR_LOG_FILE=C:\Documents and Settings\ME\Desktop\nspr.log
    cd "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox"
    start firefox.exe
    But npsr.log is always 0 bytes when I close or kill Firefox.
  16. Re:"from the must-go-faster dept." on Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate · · Score: 1

    I used to leave Mozilla Suite, and older Firefox open for weeks on end without issue, but now, after some normal usage, every 2-3 days Firefox will reach 400MB easily. Closing Firefox always throws it into a 99.9% CPU usage for quite a while, and it will eventually finish and terminate on its own, but I just get fed up and kill it from task manager because I want to restart it right away. The responsiveness really suffers when the memory usage goes up, but it is not because of swapping, since I have 1024MB of ram. I keep everything in one window, and open many tabs at once, and open and close new tabs all day long, refreshing pages and running bookmarklets which may create 10 iframes at once. Pretty soon just clicking on a link has a 1-2 full seconds of delay before it actually changes color from the click and starts loading a new page. This never happened on Mozilla Suite or Firefox around 0.9 or so.

  17. Re:uhh on AOL to Charge Senders for Incoming Email · · Score: 1

    I don't know how Verizon is because I live in AT&T-SBC-Ameritech land, but with SBC, the "promotional" prices as almost *always* for the full year that the "contract" is for. There is no two year contracts, only one year, and you can call in at any time during the contract, and re-up for the current rate, it will just reset your contract year to start from the point you called in.

    And the way the prices have always gone so far, at the end of each year, the new "promotional" rate is lower than last years, so nobody ever really goes to the "real" rate. Even if they say the rate is for new customers only, they have so far *always* let existing customers call in and re-rate. Sometimes it is just the first week of the promotion that they don't want to overload the call centers with existing customers calls, but they've always allowed it shortly after.

  18. Re:uhh on AOL to Charge Senders for Incoming Email · · Score: 1

    Well it looks like the new price for 3.0M is $18, which is $5 less than AOL, and doesn't tie up the phone line.

  19. Re:uhh on AOL to Charge Senders for Incoming Email · · Score: 1

    $23 is a full $10 higher than the new AT&T/SBC DSL 1.5M/384K package now it looks like: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/71751

  20. Re:The second one suprises me on Cross Site Cooking · · Score: 1

    Nope, I tried it with and without the dot, and couldn't get a cookie set for ".com." ever. See for yourself at http://ark42.com./mozilla/cookietest/test1.php

    From what I can see, only Opera 8 is vulnerable. Firefox 1.5 and IE 6.0 both refused to show the .com. cookie ever.

  21. Re:The second one suprises me on Cross Site Cooking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, that one surprised me as well, and he made it seem like modern browsers where still affected, but a simple PHP script:
    <?
        SetCookie("Test","Value",0,"/",".com.");
        print_r($_COOKIE);
    ?>

    Did not work in Firefox or IE6 for me, so those browsers at least, seem safe from this.

  22. Re:MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!! on Why Google in China Makes Sense · · Score: 3, Informative

    The bottom of the page still says:

    "In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org."

    This leads me to believe there is still 1 missing result from that search, which I am not allowed to see, because of a law (DMCA) that my government has, even if it was a person or corporation which abused this law in this particular case, and not the government directly asking Google to remove the link.

  23. Re:MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!! on Why Google in China Makes Sense · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Censorship is censorship and we're no better: http://www.google.com/search?q=xenu

  24. Re:4 kinds of information on Slashback: Google, Surveillance, Stardust · · Score: 2, Informative

    See my post above with the translation of "According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate."

    It does look like Google tells people that things where removed.

  25. Re:4 kinds of information on Slashback: Google, Surveillance, Stardust · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think your #5 is really #4.

    I don't condone the censorship, but we all know China would just filter all of Google in its entirety if they didn't make an attempt at complying with local laws.

    According to http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=zh_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.google.c n%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtiananmen%2Bsquare
    the bottom of the page says "According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate." which I'm sure means something along the lines of "your local laws forced us to remove some of the results from this search".

    Again, I don't agree with this censorship, but that is the best it is going to get until the chinese people change their government themselves.