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Comment Re:Northeast Blackout of 2003 (Score 1) 462

Remember the Northeast Blackout of 2003 ?

...That we lost the Northeastern grid in 2003 through malicious intervention, or that it simply failed and "dominoed" all by itself after some nasty spikes in Canada?

Hey, don't blame us. The article you referenced (link fixed) pegs the domino effect as starting from within Ohio.

Comment Re:Logos (Score 1) 342

I can hardly consider the logos or branding on any OS I've used so far to actually be intrusive or advertising. I mean, (in the case of non-free OSes) you've already bought the darn thing, right? Right now they're more just like a reminder about what OS you're using.

Comment Re:Bricked Consoles? (Score 1) 438

That's pretty handy, actually. Still I'd rather not update mine until the update itself has a zero chance of bricking my unit. Even if it IS free, that's time where the wii itself is left unusable. (And I'm far from the only person who wants to use this one in particular.)

Security

Submission + - Major Advertising Network Compromised (google.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: EyeWonder, a major advertising network, appears to have been compromised today. Its website currently states that it is "down for maintenance", and Google is currently classifying all eyewonder.com search results as being harmful. Both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome use Google's malware detection service, so users of these browsers may encounter malware warnings on a variety of websites that use EyeWonder.
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Submission + - GPS-Located, Scannable Coupons Coming To iPhone (hothardware.com) 1

MojoKid writes: "Njection who already provides speed trap alerts on the iPhone via a free app, is launching a new GPS-based coupon service in July. Basically just drive by or enter a store with a deal and the coupon will show up in the app via GPS location services. The cashier can then scan the barcode directly from the iPhone screen to give the discount. The Njection app is free, so say goodbye to newspaper insert flyers. NMobile also claims to be developing the app for Windows Mobile, Android, Blackberry and Palm devices."

Comment Re:DRM (Score 1) 649

Although you'd have to use twice as much disk to do it, you can both sync the content to the iPod and store a second copy of everything in a sensible directory structure that could be easily copied off to a new machine, as well.

And yes, there are tools to retrieve things from the libraries of non-iPhone/iTouch 'pods as well, though I don't know any myself.

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