Comment Re:McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwid (Score 1) 459
PsTools is XP and above only, but it covers all that stuff.
Comment Re:Fucking idiots (Score 1) 452
Just to clarify, it's actually a nasal swab. You basically jam a slimy q-tip up your nose and swirl it around.
Comment Re:Sigh... (Score 1) 231
Well, it -is- a game that relies on other users to enjoy. If his friends are all playing Left 4 Dead 2, then he's stuck dealing with bots or randoms.
Comment Re:Real Age doesn't "sell" your details. (Score 3, Informative) 136
The point is that Real Age is maintaining control of your information. Advertisers aren't learning anything about you. I'm sure they're getting paid for passing the ads along, though.
Comment Re:NCCDC (Score 2, Interesting) 219
You really think that if the NSA went to Microsoft and asked for source code, that Microsoft would say no?
Comment Re:ANONYMOUS FIRST POST TROLL!!! (Score 4, Funny) 300
No one else did either.
Comment Re:Oklahoma? (Score 4, Insightful) 1161
You kidding me? I've never seen a blurry photograph of God running through the woods.
Comment Re:Violence, maybe, but not gore (Score 4, Insightful) 219
Portal has violence, it's just all happening to you instead of your enemies.
Comment Re:Wrong Premise (Score 1) 1108
Comment Re:$65 per mbps is a bit expensive, a**holes (Score 2, Insightful) 369
How about a reasonable family? Let's say two of them download games on Steam, one of them uses a VPN to work, and one of them plays WoW. Maybe they occasionally watch TV on Hulu. Think they wouldn't hit the cap?
Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 2, Informative) 369
Actually, that -is- racial profiling, but that doesn't mean it's ineffective or wrong.
Submission + - Robert Jordan Dies At 58 (bbc.co.uk)
Torvaun writes: "Author Robert Jordan has succumbed to the blood disease he had been fighting for years. Despite the increasingly lackluster performance of his more recent novels, there is no denying that he has had a massive impact on the fantasy genre. No news yet about what this means for the book he was working on, which was intended to be the final book in the Wheel of Time series."
Submission + - The History of the Nintedo Family Computer (4colorrebellion.com)
neil_beforezod writes: "Two well regarded gaming blogs, 4colorrebellion and Powet.tv, have joined forces to tell the story of the revolutionary console that helped revived gaming: the Nintendo Family Computer or the Famicom. The Famicom, the older brother to the NES, may never have been release in the U.S. nor have every reached the fame of its younger brother, but it's presence had everlasting effects on what the gaming industry is today."
Submission + - Ultraspeed 1st MSP to deliver diskless server boot
An anonymous reader writes: Managed hosting provider consigns hard disk based servers to the scrap heap to eliminate customer do...
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php ?relid=iXQQT
Submission + - 10 Procrastination Avoidance Tips for Techies
kierny writes: Dice.com runs an article on 10 tips for avoiding procrastination. According to researchers, almost everyone procrastinates, and up to 20% of people do so chronically. Overcoming the tendency to procrastinate is especially difficult for techies, give that technology — while boosting productivity — also leads us to distraction, and distractions — Flickr, Skype, IM'ing, BlackBerries — stoke our desire to procrastinate. To help, a leading industrial psychologist recommends a number of techniques to avoid honing your art of delay, from deactivating email notification and killing short-cut buttons, to banishing the Dew and getting separate PCs for work and home.
