Google is just providing me RSS aggregation via iGoogle. Mostly NPR, Slashdot, Routers, Wired, Fark, and my google finance and gmail.

Don't need to search when its all pretty much on my home screen/page. I keep it open all day and just check back as I click around on the updated links. Only if I want to look up something further do I actually 'search'.

huh?... the emulator is included with the SDK, always has been.

I agree with this, I had a copy of Spore that wasn't exactly legal (lot of good their DRM did, I know), but the game didn't come anywhere near the hype and I played it less than a day total. I don't feel any bit evil for my actions, I avoid a crap game.
Two developer's come to mind that has always gotten my money, ID software, and Blizzard. I think I have a legal copy of every game ever produced by both groups. IMHO, developers need to stop blaming pirates and start producing better games.

Unfriendly is right, I've had some peoples profiles that would crash my firefox hard every time. Full page transparency's also doesn't agree with the linux version of firefox. Now I do block everything under the sun on facebook, but at least they enforce the page style and I don't have to look at glitter gif's. Now if there were only a way to eliminate peoples application's within their stream from poping up on my friends stream.

Cable and Sat have gotten out of control, I don't watch enough tv to necessitate 1000+ channels while paying $50-$75/mo for it.
I canceled my cable a few months ago and have been souly utilizing Netflix for my viewing needs via my xbox360. If hulu starts offering direct streaming services and in HD, via xbox, ps3 and/or web for all of its television content like netflix does for movies I would be willing to pay $5-$10-$15/mo for it and wouldn't mind some ad support. Unchanged though, I wouldn't consider paying for it.

This is actually incredibly easy on the android platform, apps made this easier in 1.0, widgets made this accessible from the home screens in 1.5, and 1.6 added native support with a control bar.

Half-Life did use the Q2 engine.

I'm sure your reasoning is sound, nobody should buy software from a company that drops support for its previous generat, oh.. oh wait.

The most simple solution would be to use "Porn Mode".
Enable private browsing, use search engines to find your fetish, never book mark anything, and close the browser when you're done. No history, no cookies, don't even have to clean up (well, anything digital that is...heh).
If you have so many porn urls that you frequent so often that you can't remember all of them, then you have a larger problem than someone finding your bookmarks. I do like the tinyurl workaround someone mentioned above.

Really, no user should be sharing the same user account so profiles will be separate anyway, but this is targeted at the non tech savvy individuals that won't be reading slashdot. the same users never update anything else either.

Spelling has probably improved because I get instant feedback and correction, but my handwriting resembles something a third grader would produce.

What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with ports, only instead of nxdomain being returned, you get a magic ip that host a search page chuck full of click through ads. If the ftp, mail, irc, ssh servers have valid RR's then an authoritative answer will be returned, and thus your resolver will supply the answer. How often do you connect to servers that don't have valid resource records?

This entire thread is overflowing with misinformation. Not that it doesn't justify, or make nxdomain redirection a good thing but with home internet services becoming dirt cheap, company's are offsetting the money they would make on the connection with advertisement revenue via these streams. My home isp does redirection, it doesn't effect my (cisco) vpn into work and resolving intrAnet names. RFC's aren't law, they're merely a guideline. I may disagree with it but theirs nothing to enforce company's not to do this other than customer churn. The normal user doesn't know anything about this, the power users will just apt-get install bind on their linux firewalls. So resi ISP's will continue this trend to offset price competition and the 'race to zero'.

So you mean to tell me that some hacker swiped a domain from a known and self proclaimed squatter, and I'm supposed to care!? I should hand this Goncalves guy a metal (even though he may very well be a bragging fool). At the very least, I'm not going to feel sorry for Mr and Mrs Angel.

Maybe, or MAYBE he really didn't have the money, so he couldn't really afford the toilet paper!
Its expensive to keep that baller image.

Actually, if you uninstall IE6/7/8 from a windows machine, automatic update will instantly (upon reboot) nag you to patch IE, even though its not installed. I think this is what parent is attempting to describe.
His MS technet link states he only uses firefox.

I used to own my surname, owned it for 5 years or so, I forgot to renew it and it expired. I attempted to purchase it as it went out to the wild (it was in the deleted status but not released yet, about a 30 day period), but it got snatched by a squatter who is now attempting to sell it. Big group, doesn't care about the name, only that it was previously registered and that they want to sell it back to the owner (me). There are other TLD's open with my surname (its very very uncommon), but I had a lot of stuff tied to my particular TLD.

I researched back when this happened, but $1300 was ridiculous to dispute on something that I just administrated for my family. I attempted to contact the law firm that registered and was promptly ignored. This was a year ago, I waited to see if they would let the domain go, nobody's going to buy it from them, but they renewed it for another 1 year.

I honestly believe icann can do more about this issue, obvious squatters should pay more to hold the name space. Something to deter large organizations from simply owning domain names that was once previously owned. I could register some random text .com "jdklajflkda.com" let it expire, and I bet you a squatter picks it up.