Or sell the house to Ted Stevens and tell him that's where his Internet comes out of.

Use a URL shortening service to create URLs to point to your favorite websites you don't want others to see, and bookmark the shortened version.

Then, give the bookmark name itself something non-incriminating. Like just a set of initials for the website name.

These two methods will prevent anything incriminating from your bookmarks showing up when someone starts typing something in the address bar.

This won't help for any pages in your history, but fortunately that parts easy. Judicious use of "Clear Private Data" will take care of that.

A Tivo without a subscription operates like old VCRs do. You can schedule recordings based on channel/time/duration. With a subscription, you can do it based on the name of the show instead.

Once you the movie ripped to a file, just copy it to a flash drive (or a SD card if your notebook has a reader). Then you don't have to worry about either the DVD drive or the hard drive motor using up power (assuming you have a traditional hard drive to begin with as many netbooks use flash-based ones now).

But if you have any programs that access the Internet that have a bug that allow running arbitrary code, couldn't a remote cracker could exploit the vulnerability in that program to invoke this bug, and through that gain root access to the machine? It sounds like the program being exploited could even be running as a regular user.

Checks are still a good way for two individuals to exchange money. Neither the payer or the payee has to pay any service fees (something you can't say for credit card or debit card payments) and there is some protection for the buyer (something you can't say for cash - you can't tell your bank to stop payment on a $20 bill).

Anyway, many banks in the US do allow you to transfer money electronically to accounts at other banks, but many of them charge fees for outgoing transfers. Electronic transfers to other accounts at the same bank are usually free.

In the retail world, many stores will convert checks to electronic transfers anyway. You write the check and they scan it at the point of sale and draw the money immediately.

We traded in my mother in law's old Ford Explorer for a few Hyundai Accent this weekend. Combining the CFC rebate with the manufacturer rebate meant we started off with $6000 off MSRP which, on a car with a sticker of $16K, is a pretty significant amount.

Her original plan was to wait for her tax refund check next year and then go shopping for a used car. Her Explorer (which has 260K miles and is practically falling apart now) is barely worth $500 on trade in, so using CFC to get a brand new car with a fresh warranty ended up being a better deal on all fronts.

The conspiracy nuts will say the reflector on the moon just proves there is a man made object on the moon, it doesn't prove it was actually physically placed there by a person. It could have been dropped on the moon by an unmanned rocket, for example.

You could, in theory, just sell your steam account itself to someone else. Of course, this means selling the entire collection of games in your account so you can't pick and choose. You could just set up a different account for each game you wanted to buy though.

The Phenom II X4 955 beats the i7 920 in 3 out of the 4 games they tried. The only one it lost was Cryis Warhead and it was a narrow loss (48 vs. 46 FPS).

These price difference of these two chips is about $35 on Newegg. I think for gamers, getting the X4 955 and putting that extra $35 towards the video card will net better results. This isn't counting the additional cost of DDR2 vs. DDR3 memory which has minimal effect on performance right now but still has a big price difference.

VT-x has been around since some of the later Pentium 4 chips released in November, 2005. The only Core 2 chips missing the feature are the low end ones - the ones branded Celeron and Pentium as well as the lowest end Core 2's. Still, it's pretty annoying, especially consdering all new AMD chips have AMD's version enabled.

I see this release finally includes drivers for RT2860 based wifi cards. This will definitely make my life easier as having to recompile the drivers manually every time a new kernel package came out was getting old. With that in place, this may finally be the first time I'll be able to install an Ubuntu system without having to hunt for any drivers.

Thankfully last time I did a frseh install, I remembered to put /home on a different partition, so I may just do another fresh install this time instead of upgrading.

Not quite... In 3G, the two frequencies are used together. One is for the uplink and one is for the download. 2100 in this case is the downlink. An iPhone wouldn't be able to establish the uplink via 3G making it unable to connect at 3G speeds at all.

ATT uses 850 for the uplink and 1900 for the downlink. Europe uses 1900 for the uplink and 2100 for the downlink. Hence the iPhone will work fine with ATT in the US and with carriers in Europe but not with T-Mobile (for 3G, that is).

T-Mobile and ATT use different frequencies for 3G. T-Mobile uses 1700/2100, ATT uses 850 and 1900. You can connectivity with EDGE but you won't be able to do 3G.

Anyway, just because it's contract free doesn't mean the phone is unlocked. It probably still has the ATT SIM card restriction in place.