First thing I did with NoScript was block google analytics. They're on about 99% of the sites that I visit on a daily basis, and I'm really not comfortable with them tracking me from site to site like that.

In my case, it was for living in my mom's basement for 6 months while I finished paying off the lease on a rental with my recent ex-girlfriend.

I was 19 and had just moved to Virginia to be with her, and after only a few months of living there together, we realized it was a mistake, and by the time we hit the 6 month mark, we had a VERY messy breakup.

Unfortunately for me, I was on the lease for a year, and the lease stated that I had to pay until a replacement roommate was found. Since the ex now hated my guts, she thought it would be good payback for me leaving her by never finding a roommate and having the place to herself for six months. So I got completely screwed over, and couldn't afford to rent a place back home while paying for the lease down there, not while paying tuition and working part-time. It was a really low point, but I joke about it a lot now, it just seemed like something every college-age kid should go through, a period of geeking out and sleeping on a futon in a basement.

I don't like their terms, so I'm not buying an iPhone. Not that Verizon is great by any means, but through them I have unlimited voice, data, and 1000 texts per month for about $65, after taxes & fees. The same deal with the iPhone would cost me about double that per month. I'll keep my crappy WM phone for the time being.

Thank you, I was thinking the exact same thing, one sentence in. Maybe it's because I know people who do have Crohn's, but it seemed to me that it would be something you'd bring up as a possibility to a patient with recurrent symptoms.

Here are my ICSI results.

Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
Direct TCP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.


My office is just outside of Philadelphia, so southeastern PA, for regional results.

Particularly true when:

1) The torrented shows are of higher quality than Hulu offers.
2) The torrented shows work fine in Boxee/AppleTV, whereas Hulu keeps going out of their way to break Boxee support.
3) The torrented shows don't have ads that cut in at 200% volume compared to the episodes on Hulu.

Very frustrating. I'd be willing to buy more content from iTunes and just requiem off the DRM, except that the prices are just too high compared to DVD releases, so I generally just go without and wait for the DVDs to come out a few months later.

Capable cars in the US are limited to 135 mph, and 240 km/h (~150mph) in Europe.

As someone who takes his cars to track day events & drag strips, where I can legally drive any speed I like, I would certainly not be in favor of further speed limiting. And I'm sure residents of larger, sparsely-populated states wouldn't be in favor of them either. The speed limit in parts of Texas is 80 mph, a limiter at 85 mph would mean you couldn't really pass anyone.

Has anyone pondered the fact that maybe the updates aren't really that frequent at all, and the developers just push out minor changes so that all updated users get a forced visit to their homepage when they reload Firefox?

I know about the feature, only it doesn't work for every game.

If I suspended GTA in the middle of a car chase or something, when I tried to resume the game it would take me back to my last saved point and lose my current progress. Maybe it was a firmware bug or something, but I remember it distinctly, it was utterly infuriating! Lumines worked perfectly though with it, I could suspend a game at any time and resume it later, leading to epic 900,000 point games that spanned several days of gameplay on the train.

Everything the parent said is 100% true. It's a slick piece of hardware, but after nearly 8 months of not using it, I finally just sold mine to a friend for his kids to use.

I used my PSP while riding the train to & from work every day, about 35 minutes in each direction. As a result, I wound up playing Lumines more than anything else because every other game I tried was a complete joke, or, in the case of GTA, too convoluted & involved for easy pick-up & put-down gameplay. If I can't turn the game off at my stop without losing all of my progress, then it's not worth playing.

And yeah, UMD movies, why on earth would I want them!? So I can rewatch half of my DVD collection in "teeny weeny eyestrain-o-vision"? (Thanks, Yahtzee.) Fuck that.

Ahh, a Philadelphian! Do yourself a favor and go see it at the IMAX in King of Prussia instead, very soft, reclining, comfortable seats.

The Tuttleman theatre at the Franklin Institute was designed almost twenty years ago, and was intended for short educational films, not full-length features. If you recall, it used to be named the Tuttleman-Omniverse Theatre, not Tuttleman-IMAX.

Nail on the head here. I used to watch Hulu on Boxee through my Apple TV, until Hulu killed it. So when I had guests over earlier in the week and we wanted to watch a show on hulu, I simply plugging the DVI out from my laptop into a DVI->HDMI changer, right into my TV. A few seconds later, I had Hulu playing in full-screen on my TV in the living room.

So what did they accomplish except annoying me? Absolutely nothing. They also seem to have forgotten that the lines between computer monitors & TVs are becoming blurred all the time. I have friends using 42" displays as their monitors, with a PC right in the living room. Hulu (and by extension, Fox, NBC, etc.) just don't seem to get it here. If they're making their content available for free online, people will find ways to watch it when & how they want. Constantly trying to work around that will only serve to piss off your user base.

No, trust me, the freakin' programmers and IT people make it impossible.

Riiiiiight.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Honestly, we just want to get the code written and have you leave us alone. But we can't do that.

Instead, we have to follow the rules implemented by management, usually non-IT management. So while the code change itself might be all of 10 minutes, we have to follow Six Sigma, or have all changes go through 3 weeks of requirements gathering, or have to follow some horrible process workflow like the Waterfall model because they read about it in CEO Magazine.

It's management who make your life more difficult. And oddly enough, almost all of them have MBAs...

Bravo!

I smell bullshit.

How on earth would IE 8, a browser with a UI not written in XUL, be able to "flawlessly" use a Firefox plugin like Tab Mix Plus? Unless IE 8.1 embeds all of Gecko, plus XUL, XPCom, the XPI to install the plugins, you couldn't install or run a plugin on it. And why on earth would Microsoft suddenly give in and embed other rendering engines? That's not something the dominant browser does, that's something that a low-share browser does to help with compatibility, ala Netscape 7.

I don't buy it. Furthermore, the article is light on details, has some dubious screenshots, and was published just before April Fools' Day.

P.S. If you want to use Firebug in non-Firefox browsers, then use the Lite version. It works great in IE.