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  1. Re:iCal compatible on Google Calendar · · Score: 1

    Interesting. When using Opera it just shows a warning about not supporting my browser, but gives me an option to try anyways.

  2. Re:WPA Support on DS Web Browser in June · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about a second base station? They're pretty cheap, especially if you only need 811.2b and WEP. Put it between your router and the modem and your network is pretty much secure - except against people wanting to use your uplink maybe.

  3. Re:Bill Gates declares EU "Axis of Evil" on Microsoft turns to U.S. for EU Antitrust Help · · Score: 1

    .o(serifs of mass destruction)

  4. Richest kid wins? on Xbox Live More Popular than iTunes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Alright, so you can buy yourself some kick-ass car and rock at Project Gotham?

    Oh well, skills are overrated anyways..

  5. Re:Monthly contracts? Do they mean... on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Germany at least, and I would guess in all EU countries, you have to register your pre-pay SIM before you can get onto the network, linking your name to the SIM.

    OTOH, you're not untraceable with a pre-pay SIM even when it's not linked to your name - mobile phones are inherently traceable.

  6. Re:Why the wailing and nashing of teeth? on Katamari Team Disbands · · Score: 1

    Or only got one Katamari game so far, We <3 Katamari, like some often overseen continent.
    Sure it's small, but there's still lots of stuff to roll up in Europe..

  7. Re:alienware burned me. Dell can improve them. on Dell to Buy Alienware? · · Score: 1

    Uh, sending your harddrive along probably is a very bad idea.

  8. Re:Anyone know what Vodafone's Japan market share on Vodafone Quitting Japan · · Score: 1

    Heh. Actually cell phone carriers would love that - a few years ago they introduced a service called 'MMS' in Europe: an SMS with pictures and sounds. They made the sender pay for uploading and the receiver pay for downloading.

    Not very surprisingly, it didn't work very well in a market used to not paying for being at the receiving end of communications.

  9. Re:What do they mean by safe? on 5% of All Web Traffic Unsafe · · Score: 1

    Who indeed?


    Dumbass.

  10. experiences at german schools on Linux vs. Windows for Schools? · · Score: 1

    About a year ago many public schools in Germany were equiped with a Linux running server. It was mainly supposed to provide Internet access with webfiltering and fileserving to all of the school's windows based computers.

    Problem was, none of the teachers know how to use them or have the time to administer them, and of course there isn't enough money to employ an admin. Sure, they were sent to a seminar on Linux administration, but that was just an eight hour lecture - not nearly enough.

    Of course these servers kept breaking down, so often in fact that more and more schools stop using them - so now there are a bunch of expensive Xserves rotting in some dark corner of those school's CS labs :(

  11. Re:Anybody out there? on Recovering From the Xbox 360's Big Mistakes · · Score: 1

    OMG, my eyes. How can you advertise a page using comic sans?

    Th3 p41n...

  12. Re:N64. on Top 10 Worst Game Controllers · · Score: 1

    Not only Mario Party - Mario Kart was a real controller killer too. Those controllers just weren't made for powerslides..

  13. Re:This sounds familiar on Mac OS X Struck By Severe Security Hole · · Score: 1

    Local root exploits are a lot easier to find than remote ones - that's what makes this hole so severe. Besides, if your mission is collecting private data, rather than rooting yet another box, user level access is all you need.

  14. Re:View from a disinterested observer on The 360's Position in the Next-Gen War · · Score: 1

    Didn't they announce that all titles that ever came out on Nintendo's consoles will work on the Revolution? At least I thought that's what the GP meant...

  15. Re:good for the steve on Disney Buys Pixar · · Score: 1

    Supposedly he hasn't really been running Pixar, being CEO only on paper. Should that be the case his workload would now go up, as he'd be busy trying to keep his 3.5billion in Disney stock from losing value.

  16. Copper Theft on Earth's Copper Supply Inadequate For Development? · · Score: 1

    In Germany the situation seems to be pretty bad - just about a week ago someone stole 30 meters of cable from some railroad tracks, rendering the track inoperative for two hours...

    And it happened in the middle of Berlin too, so getting the cable must have been a risky and laborious task.

  17. Re:Upstate NY on Alternative Energy Confusion · · Score: 1

    There's no need to spare that troll, him being the guy claiming a total of 12 casualties from the Tchernobyl Disaster (quite a touchy subject, for Europeans at least..) and generally acting as the authoritative know-it-all on almost any subject touched in this discussion.

  18. Re:Nintendo anyone? on The 360's Towering Pricetag Explored · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, what a revolution - "we're cheaper than those guys!1!" Of course you'd want to christen your shiny new console according to such an event ;)

  19. Re:Heh. The Circle is Complete on The 360's Towering Pricetag Explored · · Score: 1

    Huh? Five years ago we had ~1GHz (32Bit) CPUs, usually 256 Megs of RAM and a different bus for interfacing with the graphics card..etc.

    Compare that to todays PCs - a new graphiccard won't be enough in five years, it's more likely you'd have to build a new PC.

    /nitpick
  20. Re:When will /. get a "RPGs" topic? on Gen Con Indy 2005 In A Nutshell · · Score: 1

    It actually has an RPG icon, it's an 8-Bit Theater style FF character. No idea why it wasn't used..

  21. Re:Not pictured... on Gen Con Indy 2005 In A Nutshell · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Traveller 0wnz j00! on Gen Con Indy 2005 In A Nutshell · · Score: 1

    Duh. While I respect your need to rant over table-top games' superiority to PC games this wasn't exactly the right place to do so.
    Kind of like preaching to the choir...

  23. Re:Does it still give you motion sickness? on Half-Life 2 Lost Coast, Antlion Troopers · · Score: 1

    *lol* No, you really should not.

  24. Re:Hitatchi Deathstar on Hitachi's 500GB SATA-II Reviewed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I haven't read your linked article yet, but I gotta say I've seen many 40GB DeathStars fail. I don't know what they were called exactly though..

  25. Re:Yeah, but what about graffiti? on Self-Cleaning Buildings to Fight Smog · · Score: 1

    You seriously consider graffiti to be a comparably bad or even worse problem as air pollution is?

    [... ...] somehow your priorities seem a bit strange.