Comment Creating own award (Score 5, Informative) 360
The AP is also reporting that China is creating a Confucius Peace Prize to be given out the day before the Nobel Prize.
Comment Re:FireFox has a Do Not Track Addon (Score 1) 179
Ghostery is also available as a Chrome extension.
Comment Re:SSD's die more than HD's (Score 0, Troll) 681
So from a sample size of 1, you can conclusively prove that SSDs are less reliable than hard drives?
Comment Re:I read the TFA (Score 5, Informative) 121
The US is most in absolute numbers. In rate per 1000, Turkey has the highest rate.
Comment Yes (Score 4, Informative) 412
I got a good laugh off of this, but is it really possible to get better quality from a lower bitrate?
Sure, if you also switch to a better codec, such as using H.264 instead of MPEG-2. However, I don't think that's what's happening in this case.
Comment Re:2% by 2012? (Score 4, Informative) 240
Comment Re:2% by 2012? (Score 4, Informative) 240
New Jersey already gets 50% of its electricity from nuclear.
Comment Re:Warning - concealed terms of service (Score 3, Informative) 230
The Microsoft announcement says "Use of the software is governed by the Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistance 6.5 Beta License Agreement accessible as a file in this download." So you can't read the terms of service without downloading (and installling?) the software.
If you scroll down further, you'll see "Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 beta License Terms.rtf" which can be downloaded and viewed separately without having to install the program.
Comment Re:No it doesn't. (Score 5, Insightful) 249
Read the paragraph before it. The "third party Web site" is referring to the Verizon web site, not Yahoo, MSN, etc. This is a non-story.
Submission + - Microsoft extends XP Home support through 2014
Unoriginal Nick writes: Microsoft Watch is reporting this morning that Microsoft extended Windows XP Home and Media Center support to match that of XP Professional. Support was supposed to end 2 years after Vista was released, but under the new life cycle, they will enter extended support in April 2009, so critical security updates will be available for an additional five years.
