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Comment Re:seriously?!!? (Score 1) 506

Mine does. It says:

"Ryan Vogt writes in the Mercury News that Shakespeare described death as 'the undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.' Did you know there is a the miraculous way to resuscitate tabs sent to the 'undiscovere'd country,' a sort of Ctrl-Z for the entire Internet, that means 'no more called-out cusswords, no more wishing the back button had you covered when, aiming to click on a tab, you accidentally hit the little X on the tab's starboard.' For Macs: Command [plus] shift [plus] t reopens the last tab. For PCs: Ctrl [plus] Shift [plus] T. 'Try it right now. Close this tab and bring it back. I dare ya.' Melia Robinson's trick [described for Chrome] works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, too, so clumsy mousing won't send the the E*Trade tab you mistakenly closed all cued up to sell those 10,000 shares of stock or your long political post on your uncle's Facebook page on a one-way trip to the undiscovere'd country in those browsers, either."

Comment Really? (Score 1) 120

"since Motorola is assembling the Moto X in Fort Worth, Texas, the company expects American users to have their customized Moto X within four days of placing an order."

FTFY. Or should it be Texan users..

Comment Why is Australia different? (Score 1) 867

Interesting that Australia Post has seen both revenues and profit increase in recent years then. Traffic to their stores has steadily declined as has traditional 'letter' based post - obviously less people send letters, but also less people get bills by mail etc also.

However parcel delivery has skyrocketed due to online shopping and they've used this to continue to build growth. There are other options they're running also (digital mailbox where they'll scan stuff that arrives for you, 24 hour access secure mail collection system) but prices overall don't seem too bad to me & the service levels are not horrendous either.

What is it that makes America so different?

Comment Re:Ah... (Score 1) 168

Agree but the trouble of this approach is when the planned upgrades are cynically used for sales.

Diablo III for example shipped missing a number of the features that were present (and well received) in D2LOD. It's clear there was always a plan to 'hold back' various elements of the experience for the sole purpose of selling the expansion later.

Maybe it's just naivety but I don't think this used to be the case - rather, it was "produce the best game you can - then try to improve it down the track".

Comment Yahoo hack led to this (Score 1) 36

As per the parent post they were referencing a list of usernames and passwords sourced 'elsewhere'. Yahoo jp edition lost pretty much everyone's details about six weeks back - this is more than likely the source.

I have a club nintendo jp account (no notice of hacking yet, though I did receive notice from Yahoo above). From memory the user ID for the club nintendo service needed to be an eight digit number rather than a more usual word based UID. That could easily explain the perceived low success rate of the hack attempts.

Submission + - Boston Marathon Bomber used "Weapon of Mass Destruction" (wsj.com) 2

bunkymag writes: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has now been indicted on over 30 charges relating to his part in the Boston Marathon bombing. Of particular note however is a charge of using a "Weapon of Mass Destruction" which seems clearly out of line with previous usage of the term, most notably in justifying the invasion of Iraq. From an outsider perspective it would seem easy enough to leverage any number of domestic anti-terror laws to achieve anything up to and including the death penalty if required. Why then muddy the waters with this new WMD claim, when the price could be giving further ammunition to groups outside of America that already clearly feel the rules are set up to indict them on false pretenses, and explicitly use this sense of outrage to attract new terrorist recruits?

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