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Comment Tabs (Score 2, Interesting) 272

Ok, does anyone know how to turn off the tabs bar, or at least hide it when there is only one tab, like firefox does?

99% of the time I read my mail in the reading pane instead of popping open a new window, so the tabs bar is just sitting there with only one tab showing.

Plus pressing the write button opens a new window instead of a tab anyway...

First Person Shooters (Games)

Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203

Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.
Emulation (Games)

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
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Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child Screenshot-sm 331

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."

Comment Re:US vs UK... (Score 1) 1174

I'm British, and didn't think to be proud of ours plugs until that article came up...

As well as a fuse in the plugs, we also have GFCI breakers installed on all the circuits that feed plugs, they do work, my sister once touched the live prong trying to remove a plug with a broken cover (didn't switch it off at the socket beforehand either), it tripped, everything in the house turned off, but she was unharmed.

Also everyone is taught in year 9 (13-14) how to wire up a plug to ensure all the safety features work, and change the fuse.

Comment Re:marketshare (Score 1) 343

Having used linux on the desktop for more than 5 minutes, I am quite happy downloading and installing random .debs I find on the interlolz, because its not in the repo/a more up to date version. Malware thats easy to manage and update is still malware.

Comment Re:Right? (Score 4, Informative) 875

So this new right is just yet another form of redistribution of the fruits of productive labor, and more Nanny Statism. Of course. And when you make getting the use of a dermatologist or an allergist a "right," this is exactly the sort of thing that comes next.

Here in Europe we like that kind of thing, YMMV.

Comment Re:DNS is the problem (Score 2, Insightful) 207

Pakistan taking out Youtube had absolutely nothing to do with DNS, they wrongly propagated a BGP announcement for the youtube IPs outside of Pakistan, so about 1/3 of the internet routed traffic into their black hole instead of to Youtube. Pretty effective blocking had they kept it internal, but they didn't.

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