Comment Re:Half-baked (Score 1) 290
Did you mean Cockta? I certainly hope not, that stuff is awful.
Comment Re:Tiget Direct == Better Customer Service? (Score 1) 134
No, their customer service is still just as bad. Also, their website doesn't take orders all the time. I ordered a gift for christmas (Logitech Harmony remote) and it never got billed to my credit card. By the time I realized this, the price went up 20 dollars and their customer support wouldn't give me the old price.
Newegg for life.
Comment New DRM (Score 1) 75
Is this the future of DRM?
Comment Re:License, regulate, tax. (Score 1) 381
This is the answer. I'm sick of the government using billions of dollars to make it harder for people to get their hands on some weed. All it does is make it harder to get good weed.
Comment Re:To be fair.... (Score 2, Funny) 281
The link is dead, can you please reupload? I also can't seem to find part2 anywhere. Link?
Comment Re:Slashdot achievements (Score 1) 1582
I concur.
Comment One Note (Score 2, Interesting) 224
The only reason I would want to run MS Office in linux is for MS OneNote. Believe it or not this is actually a great piece of software for students and there is no FOSS alternative that comes close. The closest competitor is Evernote which doesn't run natively on linux either.
Comment Re:Missing options (Score 1) 425
I was expecting to see the vast majority of people with 10+. I'm amazed at how many tech-savy people must use public trackers. No wonder some people don't really like bittorrent, they aren't getting downloads from people with seedboxes.
Comment Re:Let's bigin lobbying Adobe (Score 1) 383
He could also be running linux. The linux flash player is horrible. My Athlon XP 2800+ goes to 100% when viewing flash content. I don't know where it stood in windows, but that is only because it was never an issue.
Prisons To Get Bottom Scanners 3
In an attempt to stop prisoners smuggling mobile phones into jail, Britain plans on introducing bottom scanners. Prisoners will have to sit on the scanners (chairs), called Body Orifice Security Scanners, which bleep if their subjects have a phone hidden inside them. The £6,500 chairs are going in 102 jails across Britain, and can also be used to detect drugs and weapons. The chairs are very reasonably priced when you think of the savings on latex gloves, lube, and anti-bacterial soap they provide.
Comment Really UK? Really? (Score 1) 107
Why would they even consider not extraditing him? If I knew that I would get extended prison time for a felony, I too would be considering suicide.
Comment Hard Drives are cheap. (Score 1) 185
I don't understand the problem. 1tb hard drives are about 120 USD. 120*100=1200 USD. Ok, then you need backups. Either way, it is only a couple thousand dollars. What is the problem? Do the national archives need a federal bailout or something?
Comment If I Wasn't Computer Savy... (Score 1) 249
I wouldn't even log in to the portal. I would think that it was a horrible phishing scam to steal my passwords.
Second Penny Arcade Game Due Out This Week 68
Hothead Games has announced that the second episode of the Penny Arcade: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness series is coming out this Wednesday, and they've released a trailer showing off some of the gameplay. ACG has an interview with Hothead's Joel DeYoung discussing the series and explaining some of the decision-making that went into its development. The game will launch for Linux, Mac, PC, and Xbox Live, with a PS3 version coming later. Feedback from players of the first game in the series inspired a $5 decrease in price this time around.
