Comment best wishes (Score 1) 4
Glad you're not going to take it. I am also glad that she can feel her feet. I hope her surgery goes smoothly.
Comment I'm glad you posted this (Score 1) 16
My sister actually almost did jump off the Golden Gate Bridge last year, and his really unstable now. There's unfortunately nothing we can do for the moment, and in fact, she's in Germany with nobody but her creepy boyfriend that we don't trust...
Comment Re:Administrative violations are unconstitutional (Score 1) 366
a slight problem with this: I'm not aware of any right that the City of Corona has to take away a license administered by the State DMV for a violation that doesn't, under state law or regulation, qualify as a license-taking offense.
Comment Re:why arent the Feds/state gov stepping in? (Score 1) 366
The Constitution was the highest authority, but then the politicians went in and fixed that.
Comment Re:Most people who want them already got them (Score 1) 320
You're missing a fundamental point here. The Wii has a different target market than the PS and Xbox.
Comment Re:Let's see some all-3.0 computers now! (Score 1) 191
Clearly you didn't understand my post. I was saying that until it's industry standard to include USB 3.0 on new computers the way 2.0 is now (and it was far from an overnight transition), we will continue seeing USB 2.0 as the highest speed USB ports on most new machines.
Comment Let's see some all-3.0 computers now! (Score 5, Insightful) 191
Until USB 3.0 ports are all over computers everywhere, USB 2.0 will be alive and kicking. I just hope they avoid the pitfall some manufacturers did, with some ports in the past having been 1.1 and only some being 2.0 on the same machine. That was a pain. I hope any new computer sold will have either all 2.0 or all 3.0 capable ports, I don't want that stupid design to repeat itself.
First-Ever USB 3.0 Hard Drive 191
dreemteem writes "After 8 years of success, the USB 2.0 standard has begun its long journey into obsolescence. Dutch storage company Freecom has announced the first mainstream storage product based on 'SuperSpeed' USB 3.0. Buyers will be interested to hear that the new external Hard Drive XS 3.0 doesn't cost the earth at £99 (approx $160) for a 1TB drive, even though that excludes the £22.99 for a desktop PCI-bus controller necessary to make it work at its intended throughput. Laptop users can pair it with a £25.99 plug-in PC Card to achieve the same effect."
Comment Interesting technology (Score 1) 247
but the idiocy of the application makes me wish for an electromagnetic pulse to turn the application interesting too. I already want to see Segway users faceplant (I saw a video once and loved it), and this isn't helping the situation.
Comment Apparently... (Score 1) 134
...it only works if you use the "Firehose". Click on Firehose link, and from there click on "Stories".
Now you have all the +/- thingamajigs, tagging works. And it will keep working as long as you use "the hose".
Bastards! Now I have to do some extra clicking every time I want to tag everything "dick", "fuck", "cunt", "sucks", "ass" and other useful tags.
Oh... Firefox 3.5.3 here. But it was the same for the earlier versions as well.
Comment Most people who want them already got them (Score 1) 320
I think the fact that Wii was selling so well early on and has dropped off at this point just indicates that a large portion of the people who actually wanted the Wii have already acquired it by now.
AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful 317
ifchairscouldtalk writes "A Phase III 'RV 144' study in Thailand succeeded in reducing HIV infection rate in trial with 31.2% effectiveness. The study was conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health and used strains of HIV common in Thailand. It is not clear whether the vaccine, which combines AIDSVAX with Aventis Pasteur ALVAC-HIV canarypox vector, known as 'vCP1521,' would work against other strains in the United States, Africa or elsewhere. Strangely, the vaccine had no effect on levels of HIV in the blood of those who did become infected, providing 'one of the most important and intriguing findings' of the trial, according to Dr Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is one of the trial's sponsors."
Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8 152
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Early tests with Google's Chrome Frame found IE8 runs 9.6 times faster than usual. The testers ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite." The other question is what is the performance hit of using the Frame plug-in instead of running the browser natively.
GPL Wins In French Court Case 266
viralMeme writes "An appeals court in Paris has upheld the ruling from a lower court, which found that the French firm Edu4 had violated the GNU General Public License (GPL). The plaintiff was the French Organisation Association francaise pour la Formation Professionnelle des Adultes (AFPA), an umbrella organization for adult education." The basic charge was the removal of copyrights and such from VNC source code, and not distributing it.
Comment In Brisbane (Score 4, Interesting) 148
You could taste it by about 11am (still can).
Water restrictions will be lifted for a few days to allow people to hose things down. Latest reports suggest there is a lesser dust storm due here by Saturday. Damn Kiwis are stealing our country by stealth!
