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Comment: Re:George Orwell, anyone? (Score 1) 358

by joshuaes on Monday June 02 2008, @01:16AM (#23623695) Attached to: China's All-Seeing Eye

"I'm willing to bet that in China, a land where the government censors almost everything in sight, Orwell is banned."

I mentioned 1984 to a friend that lives in China and she has never heard of that book, or Orwell. So, yes, it is banned.

Super Mario Galaxy dethrones Ocarina of Time-> 0

Submitted by

Mohan

on Sunday November 18 2007, @02:08AM

Mohan writes "Looks like Nintendo has beat itself, and this time the well received Ocarina of Time has been beat as the all time best rated game by Super Mario Galaxy."
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Why are MS betas fast, but the releases slow? 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2007, @03:33AM

An anonymous reader writes "Recently I've been reading about Vista's slowness on even high powered machines. I played with the Vista release candidate early this year and found it to be quite speedy on my low-spec notebook (768MB RAM, 1.5GHz Celeron). I remember the same situation with the Windows XP release candidates some years ago: they ran fast on modest hardware of the time, yet the final release arrived and ran slowly on the same hardware. The question is: What are Microsoft doing between RC and final releases to pour treacle into the works? Some people I've mentioned this to have suggested a conspiracy theory (duh) that Microsoft deliberately enhances the RC release to build hype amongst journalists who see it, but why can't they just released the "enhancements" with the final build?"

Firefox 3 Antiphishing sends your URLs to Google 1

Submitted by

iritant

on Tuesday September 25 2007, @02:04AM

iritant writes "As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso or the latest version of Firefox, is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default."