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Comment K i need some technical support (Score 1) 503

I have an HP TX 2000 tablet and when I use the VGA out to connect to my brand new 24" LCD the colors are all off. White is now much yellow, and none of the colors are the same as before. I have tried 2 different monitors with 2 different VGA cables and nothing. Even installed windows 7 beta incase it was something with the OS. However it was working fine for a few weeks, with no issues. I think the VGA connector might be fucked up, but you can't tell by looking at it.

Help?

Comment Re:Piracy on the DS is ten times easier. (Score 1) 272

I used to think the same thing, but i have a lot of little cousins, 6 of which have NDS lites. Initially their parents bought them original games, but when they found out about my R4 I ended up buying 6 of them. I bet a lot of NDS games sales come from ignorant parents buying games for their kids.

Contrast this with the PSP, most PSP users are older, and in my opinion at least are more likely to want to hack their PSP, because of the lower battery consumption, and not being forced to carry a bunch of UMDs around.

I love my NDS, rhythm heaven is a lot of fun, and I have 5 games that I don't mind playing whenever, which is more than I can say for PSP games.

Comment Re:Good riddance (Score 1) 210

i I can't say that I really know what you're talking about (I'm an english major), but it sounds like a good idea. What I would do was hop on wifi when i was close to the bandwidth limit, or sit in the library and get super fast download speeds with no limits. From talking to other people at UBC i heard that it's not easy to game the system, it was tied to your rooms IP/ethernet port I guess.

Comment Re:Good riddance (Score 1) 210

That's what my university does, we have a 6 gb/24 hour bandwidth limit (inter university data transfer excluded). It's updated every half hour, and if you go over your download speeds are seriously limited, to the point where even web browsing is noticeably slow. When you can download at 2MB/s it's needed, and I presume that you get similar download speeds with cable in the states. I wouldn't know, at home we have telus high speed enhanced which gets me about 300 kB/s down and 70 kB/s up, with a 60 gb/month bandwidth limit. Throttle the speeds of people who are using "too much" bandwidth, but by raising the prices in this economy, they are going to lose money in the long run. Good that ISP's are finally starting to listen to their customers!

The Courts

Submission + - Swedish ISP Deletes Customer ID Info (thelocal.se) 1

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "A Swedish internet service provider, Bahnhof, has begun deleting customer identification information in order to prevent its being used as evidence against its customers under Sweden's new legislation against copyright infringement via peer to peer file sharing. According to this report on 'The Local', it is entirely legal for it to do so. The company's CEO, Jon Karlung, is identified as 'a vociferous opponent of the measures that came into force on April 1st', and is quoted saying that he is determined to protect the company's clients, and that 'It's about the freedom to choose, and the law makes it possible to retain details. We're not acting in breach of IPRED; we're following the law and choosing to destroy the details.'"

Comment MKD (Score 1) 235

How about this:

Similar to Chess Kombat in Mortal Kombat Deception, where you have a (pretty) normal chess game, but whenever you capture a piece, you either both fight, or the guy who is capturing punches the n00b in the face. Think about it, you would hesitate sacrificing that pawn if you knew you could only take a few more punches.

If not, how about whenever someone caps a piece, the two guys fight for X seconds, like MK Deception, the attacker gets some sort of bonus, an extra shot in....possibly use of a fist filler etc.

Just my pre-wake n' bake thoughts of the day, trust me, it all goes downhill from here.

Data Storage

Submission + - Green Hard Drives Debut, WD's Green Power (hothardware.com) 2

MojoKid writes: "Eco-friendly or "green" products are becoming much more fashionable these days, especially in things like high-end electronics, where the impact on the environment and the disposal of these products is being regulated now by such things as the RoHS compliance standard. In addition, power consumption is also being looked at more closely for all the obvious reasons. Hard Drive manufacturer Western Digital recently took the initiative by being the first drive manufacture to produce and market a lower power version of their Caviar line of hard drives. The numbers here show that a green hard drive will probably only save an average end user about 10 watts in total system power consumption. However, from a data center perspective, where demand for storage is growing by the petabyte at an alarming rate, 10 watts per drive can certainly add up quick"
The Courts

Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case 83

netbuzz writes "Lawyers for the Swiss bank that got the plug pulled on Wikileaks.org have dragged a Stanford grad student/human rights activist into the case because he moderated a discussion group about Wikileaks on Facebook. He has no relation to Wikileaks or the case, other than that he helped authenticate documents — completely unrelated to the bank matter — that were posted on Wikileaks. The guy and his lawyer have done a nice job of making lemonade out of this lemon, though."
The Internet

Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy 129

An anonymous reader brings us an Ars Technica report about a proposed bill in Tennessee which would require state-funded universities to enforce anti-piracy standards. The universities would be forced to "track down and stop infringing activity" or risk losing their funding. The U.S. Congress requested last year that certain universities do this voluntarily. Quoting: "Efforts taken by universities thus far to deter and prevent piracy have had mixed results. The University of Utah, for instance, claims that it has reduced MPAA and RIAA complaints by 90 percent and saved $1.2 million in bandwidth costs by instituting anti-piracy filtering mechanisms. However, the school revealed that their filtering system hasn't been able to stop encrypted P2P traffic and noted that students will find ways to circumvent any system. The end result, some say, will be a costly arms race as students perpetually work to circumvent anti-piracy systems put in place by universities."

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