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Comment Re:HIJACKED! (Score 1) 310

Ahh, but they are... Just like you said from the linked comments "Bing stopped acknowledging provider requests."

Microsoft Owns IE, Microsoft owns Bing, IE6 uses Microsoft search options from it's own servers to provide service to third party search engines. They have now stopped providing that option, which I believe is grounds for a violation of their previous anti-trust case.... part of the settlement required Microsoft to share its application programming interfaces with third-party companies, part of which was this feature of the web browser.

Comment HIJACKED! (Score 4, Informative) 310

Anyone else notice this ?
some users of IE6, including yours truely, have had their systems "Hijacked" by Bing. No matter what registry settings are switched, Bing has become the default search engine. We cannot "Customise" the search settings. I wonder how many others have this problem or if anyone has a solution.
Hopefully Slashdot will pick up on my story below (help me out, and comment on it)
http://slashdot.org/submission/1011681/Microsoft-Forcing-Bing-on-Users
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Forcing Bing on Users

Wisconsingod writes: Recently, Bing was released to the masses for use. Even slashdot has started talking about it.

However, some users of IE6, including yours truely, have had their systems "Hijacked" by Bing. No matter what registry settings are switched, Bing has become the default search engine. We cannot "Customise" the search settings. I wonder how many others have this problem or if anyone has a solution.

Comment Re:Crap (Score 1) 420

Come one, get it right.

First of all it's the 64oz (just under 2 litres) guzzler of "Caf-Pow", not some puny 32oz cup. And he only brings it when wants answers, not every time.

Also, Caf-Pow is supposedly a high caffine drink with more caffine concentration than most soda's. That being said, and from TFA, caffine is one of the main culprets in this debate, that would put Abby at the bottom edge of the case study after only 1 serving.

Geesh, get the facts straight

Comment Re:Trekkie - (Score 1) 544

Yes you can be a huge fan without being a Trekkie. I am.

I admit that I enjoy Star Trek very much, but I will not call myself a Trekkie. It's not because I don't love the show, but because I have too much respect for those true Trekkies, and I don't want to shame them by trying to put myself in the same category as those truely inspirational fans.

A Trekkie can name every character ever to appear on the show

A Trekkie has dressed up at least once as a Star Trek Character (and not just for Haloween)

A Trekkie would know the answer to this question, so please enlighen us with an answer....
Why do you yell "F**k you" to Rick Berman? I know he took over for Mr. Rodenberry, and the show has not been the same since, but is that the only reason? Please help inform this fan!

Social Networks

Journal Journal: Facebook Virus?

Yesterday I got three messages from obscure friends with the message "HELP" and a link to go to a website....
"Look at mygener.im" The link points to http://mygener.im
Luckily I have some sense about me and didn't click, it appears that some user accounts have been hacked and are sending out this message. I wonder if it is a virus doing the work, or if there were accounts comprimised. UPDATE: It looks like the news is out that this is an actual virus...

Comment Re:I can think of a few (Score 2, Insightful) 496

We nerds are smart, here are the answers to your problems

security

The security issue is once you press send. With wired the password is shielded from the hackers eyes by the thick plastic cover wrapped around the wires. With wireless it's like attaching it to the tail of an airplane and taking it throught he sky. Point for Wired

bandwidth

Think of the old can-string phones. If you and a friend were in different rooms and talked quietly, you couln't hear. if you talked into the can, it was better sound quality. It's the same for music from the internet, the quaility is better when transferred over wires. Point for Wired

interference/reliability

WE ARE GEEKS, WE DON'T HAVE CATS (point for all geeks)

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