Comment why is this such a big deal (Score 1) 132
Get a bootable windows 95 disk with fdisk on it and type fdisk
Comment The price in Canada has shot back up. (Score 1) 280
One retailer sold out, but Future Shop and Best Buy in Canada has raised the price back up to $399. I guess they thought this demand was something they could profit on.
Nobody's buying end of life tech for full price. I'm going to wait until it drops back to $99.
Comment It makes total sense (Score 1) 236
They're shutting down google labs, it's a google labs product and, as the blog post reads, "Google will discontinue App Inventor as a Google product and will open source the code" so all that's likely to happen is the URL will change, new eyes will look at and update the code and things will continue as normal.
Why is making it more accessible a bad thing?
Comment At least it's orange... (Score 1) 153
All of the stories I've read say that the world ends from Grey Goo. So Alaska is safe!
Comment it's a rolling supply for the enemy! (Score 1, Interesting) 81
I can see it now. Afghani soldiers wait until it drives by and then jump on, cut loose all the stuff and then jump off. Free everything!
So, you would need a patrol with it so you're saving one guy. Nice work for how many billion dollars each?
Comment Everybody Panic! (Score 4, Funny) 331
He's right! And if everyone in town flushes their toilet at the same time, all the pipes will burst and we'll all die!
Comment Re:duh, hollywood finds something else (Score 1) 339
There are thousands of bible movies made for the fundamentalist christian set. They just don't get the big marketing budgets the regular ones do. Most of the B-list actors make good money appearing in them.
Comment There can be only one! (Score 4, Informative) 300
Patrick McNee! Sure, Ms. Peel looked good in a cat suit. But the umbrella rules!
Comment Re:What about? (Score 2) 162
Are you saying that someone could join a security or military organization, download key secret documents and give them to an organization, say, like Wikileaks? I don't believe you! America is too strong for that kind of thing!
Comment But can he compact garbage? (Score 3, Informative) 29
Sure, he looks wall-e-ish but does he have a 5 tonne compactor in his midriff?
Comment Re:Like (Score 1) 71
plus one!
Comment Troll! (Score 3, Funny) 272
I mean really, this whole article is just an excuse for the trolls to come out and say how good their fanboyism is versus all the other fanboys.
I've never seen such an obvious pitch for vi, Windows, and Ubuntu
Comment Yeah, right! (Score 1) 385
I remember these announcements for XP and previous generations of Windows. It would run, all right. It would take 20 minutes to boot and the run like a diseased snail.
Comment Re:For those confused (Score 1) 441
I was worried. I'm just downloading FF6 Beta and suddenly I'm 2 version behind. This isn't rapid release, this is TARDIS programming.
Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way 619
Attila Dimedici writes "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to announce a new regulation requiring all vehicles to contain a 'black box.' Not only that, but the devices would be designed to make it difficult (possibly illegal) to modify what information these devices collect or to disable them even though the courts have ruled that the owner of the vehicle owns the data. The courts have also ruled that authorities may access that data (to what degree and whether a warrant is necessary depends on the state)."
