Comment BFT (Score 3, Insightful) 283
I've always hated evolution. Thunderbird is much cleaner.
Comment Been said (Score 1) 535
One of the few reasons I'm willing to pay so much for a new game is the fact I can trade it someday.
There's no way games with these kinds of restrictions are worth their asking price.
Comment C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER (Score 1) 462
Minecraft.
Comment EEE (Score 1) 205
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish doesn't work with Open Source.
Comment Call me crazy... but... (Score 2) 342
Wouldn't more reasonable prices for new games take the wind out of the huge second-hand games business?
Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication 124
angry tapir writes "To help its hundreds of millions of users prevent unauthorized access to their accounts, Facebook has added an optional verification step to its log-in process. The new security feature, called Login Approvals, is a form of two-factor authentication."
Comment I searched Bin Ladin's hard drive... (Score 1) 718
And all I found was Burka Porn.
Comment Re:Any relation to Steam? (Score 1) 321
If we're going to talk about coincidences, I think it's more interesting that Amazon EC2 fell down at the same time.
Comment Other services? (Score 1) 321
What about services like NetFlix and Hulu Plus which require a PSN login? There were many people unable to access these services over the past few days (from their consoles). What do they do? Go after the service provider for a refund? Go after Sony for a refund?
When services are daisy-chained like this, I feel the bottom services carries a lot more liability than they may think.
Comment Less Useful (Score 1) 1162
Blu-rays are less useful to me. I only have one blu-ray player, while I've lost count of my devices that can read DVDs. But most importantly-
I can't (yet) format shift my Blu-rays. I have devices I like to watch my movies on... like, say. my PSP. I can't do that with a Blu-Ray yet, because I don't have the technology to boil all that HD goodness down to the small screen.
As such, yes, Blu-rays are cool and all, but at least when it comes to movies, less useful to me. Games? I like my PS3 games on Blu-Ray.
Comment Re:This just in... (Score 3, Informative) 118
>>AM Radio could interfere with aircraft beacons, since they're right next to each other!
These intentionally overlap. Back in the day, AM radio stations were just as useful at navigation as proper NDBs. You can tune in and listen to most of the AM band using your aircraft's (very old) ADF.
Comment Cell Network (Score 1) 532
The only reasonable explaination I've heard for everyone having the cells off while in flight is load on the network below- 100+ phones changing towers at 500 mph can't be good for the network.
Comment Re:He's right (Score 1) 487
Comment So Much (Score 1) 342
Fail.
Comment It is Never (Score 3, Interesting) 507
It is Never a good idea to buy anything new. The only reason to do it is to placate emotion. This applies to Furniture, cars, and for god's sake yes, electronics.
The iPhone 4 is awesome and I will likely have one someday. But problems like these, founded or not, are the kind of thing you sign up for if you want to be an early adopter. That, and spending way too much money.
