People with nVidia cards, if I'm to believe the comments on TFA. Someone there said that those don't do DX10.

From Teh Wiki (WITH citations, it seems):

Yeah, that sounds real fucking funny to me. I LOL'd.

And they keep eating cycles for doing almost nothing if you're on a Mac. Thanks Adobe, I guess. And the fact that a lot of pages don't leave it at one ad, but prefer to have a (metric) fuckload all over the place.

Not something that an ad-blocking solution can't handle, of course, but it IS one of the reasons a lot of people dislike Flash.

I recently got a LED bulb, which is supposed to use even less energy for a comparable amount of light. Looks good so far, and it's "instantly on", there's no warm-up. Dunno how long it's gonna last, of course, it's only been there for a week.

CFLs... well, they don't seem to make 'em like they used to, as others have said as well. I remember my dad one day installing some weird socket-mounted ones, which worked for YEARS. The incandescent-replacements tend to live a lot shorter.

As an aside, they're running a test program with LED street lighting. In a "forrest-y" part of the city, they have these greenish (but there's some red as well, it's really weird to look at the light source) that are supposed to use less energy, and have a narrower beam too, so it doesn't shine into the forest as much. Critters rejoiced.

If I have to go by what I've heard so far, LED is teh r0xx0r compared to CFLs. Wish they'd come down in price, though.

Microsoft is just one company, the music industry is just that, a whole industry. That means there's more money circulating there. Apart from that it's also quite a bit older and therefore way more entrenched.

I agree with GP tho, Microsoft could learn a thing or two from the music industry wrt to being absolute cunts.

I recommend reading "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", where this tech (backup, restore to a fresh clone body) exists for humans. Death is effectively avoided that way, as is most of modern medicine, since everything more severe than a cold is handled by swapping your sick body with a fresh one. Interesting read.

Couple of small things: the key to remove "..." from menu items (or otherwise do interesting things to menus) is Option (alt), not Shift.

Also, the "new" (as in "has been on the market for quite a while now") alu keyboard as that fn key as well, and uses it too.
As to the Mighty Mouse: as far as I know it has *4* buttons; those things on the side both map to one button.

But yeah, it's been quite a few years ago that the Mac was a One Mouse Button Only beast. =]

Given the amount of fart apps around, I'd say Apple is happy to ship a million apps that are basically all the same. As long as you're not getting on *their* turf (which is a misty, ill-defined area) and the Powers That Be Approving are in a good mood, you're fine.

I think I understand what you mean. I also think that a fool proof emotional system is way, way off into the future.

In the mean time, I'll settle for a kill switch. =]

Asimov's three laws, you mean? I think Asimov himself showed that, even with rules like that, humanity might still end up screwed.

They'll also know how to spell "us" correctly. =]

I might, yes, good idea. Setting up the squid wasn't that much work tbh, just sudo port install squid and a little tinkering in the config file

I'll have a look into the DNS stuff. Thanks for pointing that out!

I have this "Disable ads" checkbox near the top of the page because I've been a good /.'er, you insensitive clod!

Besides, ABP is for n00bs. Squid -- with some general blocking rules -- keep ALL my browsers on ALL my machines ad-free.

And if you die, it's borderline impossible to retrieve stuff from your accounts.

So... can you use a *phrase* instead of a "word", then? Must be a lot easier to remember, and it can be VERY hard to break. Or use a sentence but only type the first letters of the words, if you're lazy and/or have to retype that pass a zillion times per day.