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Submission + - 'Killing in the Name' UK No. 1 thanks to Facebook (bbc.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Josh04 on Sunday December 20, 2009 @06:42PM

Josh04 writes: Due to a 900,000+ Facebook campaign, 90's rap metal group Rage Against the Machine are this year's Christmas number 1, beating out Simon Cowell's X-Factor contestant Joe McElderry to the top spot, making 'Killing in the Name' the first ever UK download-only Christmas number 1. The popular 90's rock song had support from celebrities and the BBC, who got in trouble earlier in the week for allowing five 'fucks' to slip through the censor on a live performance.

Comment Re:Nothing outrageous... (Score 4, Informative) 464

by Jojoba86 on Saturday December 19, 2009 @09:41AM (#30498126) Attached to: Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest

As TFA states:

Chase’s eligibility rules make it clear that the bank can disqualify any participant.

Pretty straightfoward really, no lawyer techno-bable there.

Comment Charities? (Score 5, Insightful) 464

by Jojoba86 on Saturday December 19, 2009 @09:36AM (#30498112) Attached to: Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest

Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), Marijuana Policy Project and several anti-abortion groups were not finalists

In what ways are these charities? I thought charity is about giving to people in need, not supporting political organisations.

Comment Backup! (Score 5, Insightful) 929

by Jojoba86 on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @06:46AM (#30455524) Attached to: Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop

What.all my client case notes and testimony, writing, pictures, music and applications. Years of work. NO!!!! What?? Are you insane?? What were you thinking? THAT’S ALL MY WORK!?

What? There are a million and one things that could happen to a nice shiny laptop while travelling, if your data is that important it's pretty stupid not to backup, especially before travelling.

Comment Re:Conveniently forgetting the details (Score 2, Informative) 929

by Jojoba86 on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @06:43AM (#30455488) Attached to: Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop

There was no moaning in TFA about the questioning, just the 3 bullets in the laptop. There's no reasonable explanation to why they might do this that I can think of, but it makes for some awesome pictures.

Comment Re:24 hours? (Score 1) 86

by Jojoba86 on Monday December 14, 2009 @07:10PM (#30437000) Attached to: Hand Written Clock

I think you mean 1 hour and 5 minutes. But then he'd be upside-down at 6:00!

Submission + - Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google to Bing (mozillazine.org) 1

Submitted by Andorin on Friday December 11, 2009 @01:04AM

Andorin writes: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, has published a brief blog post in which he recommends that Firefox users move from using Google as their main search engine to Bing, citing privacy issues. Disregarding the existence of alternative search engines such as Ask and Yahoo, Dotzler asserts that Bing's privacy policy is better than Google's. Dotzler explains the recommendation with a quote from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time..." Ars Technica also covers the story.

Comment Re:Didn't they already (Score 3, Informative) 104

by Jojoba86 on Thursday December 10, 2009 @07:09AM (#30386512) Attached to: <em>Mega Man 10</em> Confirmed For WiiWare

Explanation given in a series of posts that go with the comic.

Comment Re:ATI chipsets (Score 1) 195

by Jojoba86 on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:58PM (#30314254) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released

...at least 3D can and has worked reliably on linux...

No, you mean your 3D card has worked reliably on linux. A laptop with an R600 chipset is not easy to get working.

Comment Re:ATI chipsets (Score 1) 195

by Jojoba86 on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:55PM (#30314214) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released

I don't know why I was modded funny or you were modded troll, I was being serious. I'm not a complete linux n00b but I've never got my ATi card (R600) working with 3D acceleration, I'm lucky to get smooth 2D graphics. The current version of openSUSE completely locks up after installation due to the graphics driver. For hardware 2 years old it shouldn't be this hard, but good job to those working on this and ATi for opening up the specs.

Comment Re:ATI chipsets (Score 0) 195

by Jojoba86 on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:22AM (#30310484) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released

Superb! I've had my laptop for 2 years and now may finally be able to get 3D graphics working without a major headache.

Comment Re:Bwahahahahaa (Score 1) 64

by Jojoba86 on Thursday November 26, 2009 @10:10AM (#30236618) Attached to: Tag Images With Your Mind

The other thing I'd like mention, being only on my second cup this morning, those guys in the graphic when looked at quickly looked like they were wearing thigh high stockings.

I thought the same and yet the image isn't tagged as such. Clearly vaporware then.

Comment Re:Have a great trip! (Score 5, Informative) 1095

by Jojoba86 on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:41AM (#30211452) Attached to: Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

If you're there for two weeks get out of London too! Trains are quite good to places like Oxford, York and the South Coast to see a bit more of England, which are all quite different to London. Oxford is definitely worth a visit, and the steampunk exhibition that's on in the Museum of the History of Science should fill your 'geek' critea.

Comment Power cord (Score 1) 1095

by Jojoba86 on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @06:37AM (#30211404) Attached to: Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

If you have a small enough laptop bring it. No need for a new power cord, just get a plug adapter, unless your power brick really won't handle 240 V (most modern ones do).

Comment To be entirely fair... (Score 1) 4

by Jojoba86 on Sunday November 22, 2009 @01:00PM (#30194404) Attached to: The Laptop Steering Wheel Desk

To be fair to it you can't use it while you're driving (unless you're only going in a straight line), as the desk clips onto the steering wheel itself.

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