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  1. Re:meh on Good Podcasts and Podcatchers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I second Google Reader.

    I've also found Penn Jillette's podcast to be entertaining, even if I don't agree with everything he says.

  2. Re:US needs to be more like Europe on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Because they have to be compatible with older phones.
    I think there are bigger (in terms of storage space) SIMs being developed that will even manage to be compatible with old phones, though the old phones will only be able to use 64K or so of the SIM's memory.

  3. Re:Release date? on Half-Life 2 Gets Episode 1 · · Score: 1

    April 24th
    Confirmed with Doug Lombardi by halflife2.net I seem to remember.

  4. Re:BeOS on Apple to Buy out Palm? · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth does support OBEX exchanges, but you might need to pair the devices before it'd work.

  5. Re:What's a dual-carriagway? on New Honda Accord Drives Itself · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a road with separated lanes. Apparently called a divided highway in the US.
    They usually have two lanes on each side.

  6. Re:Not owned... on Vivendi's Revenues up 35 Percent · · Score: 1

    They don't have an unstable business relationship with them anymore. EA are now Valve's publishers. Even for the back catalogue.
    They're still independent so no need to worry about interference from EA.

  7. Re:Halifax and Cyota on How Well Do Businesses Respond to Phishing Reports? · · Score: 1

    I've had a couple of phishing attempts recently from Nationwide. The disturbing thing is that they know the right email address (it's one that I only use for banking with that bank) and my postcode.
    It seems that their database has either been stolen, or they've sold it to the phishers.

    Nationwide don't even have an address to forward phishing attempts to as far as I can tell.

  8. Re:Formula For Success? on Apple Surpasses Dell's Market Value · · Score: 1

    Oh man. Sorry. I misread your post (I did reread a couple of times too).
    Need my caffeine I guess.

  9. Re:Formula For Success? on Apple Surpasses Dell's Market Value · · Score: 1

    I keep seeing this. Why do people think the new Intel Macs have 4 cores?
    They have one dual-core processor in them.

    I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but what was it that gave you and so many other people the idea that they have 4-cores?

  10. Nob Hill on Sex in Games Conference Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    taking place June 8-9, 2006 at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Fransico, Califronia.

    Hahahah!
    That's brilliant. I hope they picked that on purpose.

  11. Re:This is SO neat! on Warp Engines In Development? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
    It's happened a few times in the past, though apparently never with granualted Uranium.

  12. Re:Why on Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives · · Score: 1

    As long as the BIOS from about 2000 onwards then it should work. Apparently it (the BIOS) does some 'magic'.
    Worked fine for my nForce4, but I wish I could say the same about the motherboard.

  13. Re:Happy Chrismas!! on Microsoft Leaving MSNBC TV Partnership · · Score: 1

    You don't have to pay it. You could always detune your TV.

  14. Re:So what happens when... on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Both Microsoft AntiSpyware and the Malicious Software Removal Tool remove the Sony rootkit.

    Doesn't mean they'll continue too, though.

  15. Re:Watch out Symantec! on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 1

    It's meant to be introduced in Office 12 and Windows Vista.

  16. Re:narrow down to AMD and Nvidia on Building PCs - How do you Choose Your Components? · · Score: 1

    motherboard with an Nvidia chipset - they seem to have less bugs and better drivers than VIA
    Not in my experience. My old SiS motherboard was more stable than this nForce4 Ultra. I get paging errors and total system lockups when I have any cards in the PCI slots (so far tried it with a TV tuner and an Audigy) and if I turn on the built in firewall my downloads are corrupted and I sometimes lose whole chunks of web pages.
    I'm not the only one with these problems.
    Search for paging error nforce4
    Search for nforce4 corruption

  17. Re:Great stuff! on Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s · · Score: 1

    I'll admit now that I'm in way over my head and so might be completely wrong, but don't the Celeron and P4 share the same instruction set? I mean it's not like they're rebadging AMD chips.
    So it could be set to return the details for a P4 3.6GHz as long as it is a Celeron/P4 then there won't be any weird errors.

  18. Re:Great stuff! on Remarked Celerons Sold As P4s · · Score: 1

    It was a bit light on technical details, but it mentioned that they modified the BIOS too.
    Linux (or any other operating system) could well be fooled.

    Benchmarking or close examination is the best way to be sure.

  19. Re:I don't know what this guy is whining about... on OMG Girlz Don't Exist On Teh Intarweb! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...eBay...
    Yeah. No better place to vent your feelings and have a long, heartfelt bitch about 'highschool-style romances and betrayals and jealousy' than...eBay.
    WTF?

    Also, who wants a guy who spends all his time parked in a chair porking-out? Dude, that's one hell of a double-standard you've got there.

  20. Re:Simple Solution: Boycott Sony to Death on More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    In this case it's both.

    MagicGate

  21. Re:Built in weakness on Defend Yourself in the Imminent Robot Rebellion · · Score: 1

    EMO buttons cause an immediate demise of rebelious ways

    Hard to fight wearing heavy slacks and thick glasses.

  22. From what I read on the BBC on UK Politicians Threatened By Bully · · Score: 1

    One politician raised the point that the game should be referred to the BBFC for classification. This is quite normal (though not usually mentioned in Parliament).
    Commons leader Geoff Hoon said something along the lines of 'that decision should be made when the content of the game becomes more clear'.
    Doesn't look like there will be much chance of it being banned.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4380020.stm

  23. Re:Penny Arcade Address on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    I live in England (on an estate and now on my university campus) so there's not enough space to build that many houses like that.

  24. Re:But he'd make a GREAT politician... on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    I blame ET.

  25. Re:Penny Arcade Address on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    My God!
    It looks like Hell on Earth. So many houses, all around. Enough to give you claustrophobia.