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Comment In Japan... (Score 1) 361

by s4nt (#33966744) Attached to: Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers

When I travelled to Japan last year, a customs officer asked me if I had any illegal (uncensored*) porn.
They had a full picture book with photos of illegal items you could not bring to the country (firearms, drugs, porn, etc)
In the porn case they had a couple of pictured some porn DVD covers LOL

* As you may know, Japanese porn has censoring over the genital area...

Comment Re:Ummm... (Score 1) 366

by s4nt (#33174900) Attached to: Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays?

I agree with this idea...
    --- Volume group ---
    VG Name data3
    VG Size 5.46 TiB
    PE Size 256.00 MiB
    Total PE 22356
    Alloc PE / Size 22128 / 5.40 TiB
    Free PE / Size 228 / 57.00 GiB

(this is on RAID5)

Comment Re:Not using a "Facebook" browser (Score 4, Interesting) 152

by s4nt (#32775044) Attached to: IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Browser

Notice that IBM is not going with Chrome, though it is a faster and better browser for the moment.

As stated before, IBM wants to build a stable linux environment to eventually replace windows internally, and the chrome port for linux sucks ATM.

Also, IBM started testing Firefox for internal use for over 4 years now, when chrome didn't even exist.

That is why they went with Firefox.

Comment Re:Call it right (Score 1) 142

by s4nt (#32615066) Attached to: Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball

The rest of the world calls us some form of "Amerika" in their own native languages, so why can't we?

AFAIK only in Japan they call the USA Amerika ( in katakana), the rest of the world calls you "Unites States" translated to their native tongues. "Estados Unidos" in spanish and portuguese speaking countries,"États-Unis" in french "Vereinigte Staaten" in german ones.
Real Time Strategy (Games)

StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010 453

Posted by Soulskill from the nobody-likes-a-rush dept.
Blizzard has just announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty won't be released this year. From their announcement: "Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game. The upgraded Battle.net is an integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward. This extra development time will be critical to help us realize our vision for the service. ... As we work to make Battle.net the premier online gaming destination, we'll also continue to polish and refine StarCraft II, and we look forward to delivering a real-time strategy gaming experience worthy of the series' legacy in the first half of 2010."
Yahoo!

Microsoft and Yahoo Reach Deal 301

Posted by kdawson from the rhymes-with-sting dept.
e9th writes "We know that Microsoft failed last February in its attempt to buy Yahoo. Now, Advertising Age reports that they've reached a deal. Instead of a buyout, the two will enter into a revenue sharing agreement, and Bing will become Yahoo's default search engine. The meat of the AdAge article can be found in Yahoo News. This deal may give Google something to worry about."
Windows

Windows 7 Hits Build 7600 (Possible RTM) 671

Posted by timothy from the all-aflutter dept.
An anonymous reader writes "One Microsoft Way is reporting that Microsoft has significantly incremented the build number of both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: 'Reports across the Web are pointing to a build 7600 for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This is significant because the bump in the build number would suggest that Microsoft has christened this build as the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. The RTM is expected to be given out to Microsoft partners sometime later this month and launched on October 22, 2009, the day of General Availability (GA). The build string is "7600.16384.090710-1945," which indicates that it was compiled just a few days ago: July 10, 2009, at 7:45pm. Microsoft only increments the build number when it reaches a significant goal, and the only one left is the RTM milestone. The last builds that were leaking were all 72xx builds, so such a large bump is suspicious but at the same time it is something Microsoft would do to signify that this is the final build.'"

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