Comment Creating own award (Score 5, Informative) 360
The AP is also reporting that China is creating a Confucius Peace Prize to be given out the day before the Nobel Prize.
Comment Re:FireFox has a Do Not Track Addon (Score 1) 179
Ghostery is also available as a Chrome extension.
Comment Re:SSD's die more than HD's (Score 0, Troll) 681
So from a sample size of 1, you can conclusively prove that SSDs are less reliable than hard drives?
Comment Re:I read the TFA (Score 5, Informative) 121
The US is most in absolute numbers. In rate per 1000, Turkey has the highest rate.
Comment Yes (Score 4, Informative) 412
I got a good laugh off of this, but is it really possible to get better quality from a lower bitrate?
Sure, if you also switch to a better codec, such as using H.264 instead of MPEG-2. However, I don't think that's what's happening in this case.
Submission + - Amazon adds battery life, PDF support to Kindle (corporate-ir.net)
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon today announced a free firmware update to its Kindle e-readers that extends battery life with wireless on by up to 85%. The update also adds native PDF support and manual screen rotation to the readers. The update is available for both the US and International versions of the Kindle 2 and will be automatically distributed through Amazon's Whispernet.
Comment Re:2% by 2012? (Score 4, Informative) 240
Comment Re:2% by 2012? (Score 4, Informative) 240
New Jersey already gets 50% of its electricity from nuclear.
Comment Re:Warning - concealed terms of service (Score 3, Informative) 230
The Microsoft announcement says "Use of the software is governed by the Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistance 6.5 Beta License Agreement accessible as a file in this download." So you can't read the terms of service without downloading (and installling?) the software.
If you scroll down further, you'll see "Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta License Terms.rtf" which can be downloaded and viewed separately without having to install the program.
Comment Re:No it doesn't. (Score 5, Insightful) 249
Read the paragraph before it. The "third party Web site" is referring to the Verizon web site, not Yahoo, MSN, etc. This is a non-story.
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In this week's Disagree Mail, I try to show the range of messages I get. It's not all angry or insane, sometimes it's sent to us for no apparent reason. We start off a little mad, slip into a whole bunch of crazy and finish with someone who has a complaint about racism at his favorite restaurant. Read below to get started.
Comment Re:Great show, decent movie (Score 5, Insightful) 226
The episodes about Fry's brother, his dog,...
I have all the DVDs, and I still watch the repeats on Adult Swim once in a while, but I'll never watch "Jurassic Bark" again. Saddest. Ending. EVER.
Feed Parabolic Trough Solar Collector Systems Made More Energy Efficient (sciencedaily.com)
A mirror alignment measurement device may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable and energy efficient.
Matt Groening Talks About Futurama's Comeback 156
Joel Keller writes "When I was at the Television Critics Association press tour earlier last month, I briefly talked to Matt Groening about Futurama's comeback. I posted the interview to TV Squad a couple of days ago. The man behind the Simpsons and Futurama talks about the latter's comeback, the fun of doing sci-fi in a comedy format, and a few words about the first episode to air on Comedy Central."
Submission + - Microsoft extends XP Home support through 2014
Unoriginal Nick writes: Microsoft Watch is reporting this morning that Microsoft extended Windows XP Home and Media Center support to match that of XP Professional. Support was supposed to end 2 years after Vista was released, but under the new life cycle, they will enter extended support in April 2009, so critical security updates will be available for an additional five years.
