Comment Re:It's not that hard to remove.......... (Score 1) 389
yeah i posted the simplest way since it seems the average mac user is too freaked out to do anything remotely complicated....
Comment It's not that hard to remove.......... (Score 5, Informative) 389
All you have to do is go into Safe Mode. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
Then go into the Applications Folder > Choose MacDefender.app > Move to Trash. (in Safe Mode)
Reboot normally and reset Safari.
Comment Re:This is what I've been waiting for (Score 1) 72
If someone really came up with better input devices, the pro computer gamers would be using them. As for user interfaces, Starcraft players seem to manage very many actions per second. So the challenge is to create a user interface that's friendly and usable to "noobs" but also able to augment pros/experts to their limits. Most recent UIs seem to emphasize friendly and usable to "new users", but they neglect the case where some of those new users don't mind taking the trouble to learn to do things very very much faster.
current games are designed around KB mouse input, the kinect stuff is programmed to take advantage of the hardware. give it time.
Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant 146
An anonymous reader writes "A woman in need of a lung transplant got her new lungs from someone with a peanut allergy who died of anaphylactic shock. Seven months after the surgery, the woman was at an organ transplant support group when she ate a peanut butter cookie and had a violent allergic reaction. So how had the woman's new lungs brought along a peanut allergy? A blog post dives into the medical details and explains that immune cells in the donated lungs couldn't have lived in the new body for long enough to cause the reaction... however, if they encountered an allergen (i.e. something peanuty) shortly after being transplanted, they could have trained the woman's native immune cells to respond."
Submission + - Google Voice Apps For Android And Blackberry Here! (techcrunch.com)
Mark Mathson writes: "Two Google Voice apps are being released tomorrow morning, for Blackberry and Android phones. The Android app is the most complete and takes over the native dialer, address book and call log. Users won't be bothered with accidentally dialing numbers through the device phone number. The Blackberry app is less integrated, accessing only the native address book, and uses its own dialer. Users can't simply go into the call log and return missed calls. They need to go back to the address book and select Google Voice to make the call. Still, it solves a big problem. The apps also allow users to access the core features of Google Voice. Listen to/read voicemails and text messages (all voicemails are automatically transcribed as well), access call history, send SMS messages and place international calls at low rates. (via TechCrunch)"
Submission + - Israel Accused Of Boosting Gaza Sex Drive (yahoo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: I just cant help but share the most hilarious thing I have ever read online!
Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying its Gaza Strip stronghold with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive.
Whats more yahoo posts it.
hubba hubba gum.
Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying its Gaza Strip stronghold with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive.
Whats more yahoo posts it.
hubba hubba gum.
The Ultimate "Doll House" For WoW Players 44
BoyIHateMicrosoft! writes "A friend of mine sent me this link today about a group of MIT students who have created something called a WoWPod. It's like a playhouse for WoW players. It has everything from Refreshing Spring Water, to food (Like Crunchy Spider Surprise of course!) to a toilet and of course the appropriate gaming gear."
Comment Re:Yeah, except (Score 1) 189
Sorry I realized that was confusing. Northeastern University in Boston Ma.
Comment Re:Yeah, except (Score 1) 189
NU uses Blackboard, I even worked in the IS department supporting faculty and staff with Blackboard. Never had issues with it and I used Firefox.
Comment I use pidgin (Score 1) 1104
And when I upgraded I noticed this "feature" and it annoys the shit out of me. They should have left well enough alone.
Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling 172
davecb writes "A California judge is likely to order a Berkeley city initiative back on the ballot because of local officials' mishandling of electronic voting machine data. A recount was not possible because the city failed to share necessary voting records, a violation of election laws. In a preliminary ruling Thursday, Judge Winifred Smith of the Alameda County Superior Court indicated she would nullify the defeat of a medical marijuana proposal in Berkeley in 2004 and order the measure put back on the ballot in a later election."
Feed WSJ Notices That The NAB Has An Agenda (techdirt.com)
It's been pretty clear for some time that the National Association of Broadcasters' opposition to the merger of XM and Sirius isn't based on any concern for the public, as it would like you to believe, but rather is an attempt to get the government to bolster its struggling business because it doesn't want to compete in the marketplace. We've pointed out before that it's that behavior that rankles us in this case, rather than any real desire to see a merged XM-Sirius. What the NAB is doing -- the astroturfing, the paid shills, the conflicts of interest, the not-so-independent research, and most of all, the utter hypocrisy -- is representative of so many other entrenched industries that will do anything and everything they can to avoid having to actually compete in the marketplace. With all that in mind, it's nice to see people starting to catch on that the NAB's self-serving agenda means it really shouldn't have any part in the debate about the XM-Sirius merger, as The Wall Street Journal did over the weekend. As an editorial in the paper put it:
"No one knows whether the public will ever really take to the pay model, but it's not the role of the government to help the NAB smother a fledgling competitor in the crib... Telecom policy should not be about picking winners and losers but about encouraging investment and innovation. For that to happen, what's most important is competition among technological platforms: cable, telephone, wireless and satellite (for now). Policy makers and regulators would do better to focus less on static models of market share within one platform and more on making sure rival platforms continue to exist. Consumers will happily take care of the rest."That cuts to the heart of the issue: the NAB wants the government to give it, in essence, a subsidy to protect its business -- just as it's tried to do so many times before, with so many other technologies. Blocking this merger won't block anticompetitive behavior from XM and Sirius, it will empower anticompetitive behavior from the NAB's terrestrial radio membership.
Feed Drug Company Sales Visits Influenced Doctors, Study Finds (sciencedaily.com)
Almost half of sales visits by pharmaceutical company representatives advocating the use of the drug gabapentin led to doctors stating that they intended to increase their prescription of the drug or recommend it to colleagues, according to an analysis of a survey completed by the doctors shortly after the visits.
Submission + - Why are T1 lines still expensive?
badfrog writes: Over the last 10 years, DSL and cable modem has upped its speed (although in some instances only slightly) and dropped its price. However, the price of a T1 has stayed almost exactly the same. If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have predicted any geek that wanted to would have fiber or their own T1 line to the house by now. What is with this sad state of affairs that a 'business class' 1.544Mbit connection is hundreds of dollars more than a 6Mbit cable connection? Is it a legitimate case that a high upload rate should increase cost so significantly?
Submission + - Daylight Saving change: no power savings
Brett writes: Results from energy companies are coming in, and the word is that moving
Daylight Saving Time forward three weeks had "no measurable impact" on power consumption. The attempt by the US Congress to make it look like they were doing something about the US energy crisis has been exposed as the waste it is, but the new DST is probably here to stay. Letting the bill expire would mean re-patching a lot of systems again next year. So much for saving energy.
