Apple Acknowledges MacBook 'Staining' Problem || The Mac Observer
Published Friday, June 30, 2006 by Stangrunner.
MacZot is giving away Inventive's awesome multiple clipboard app iClip right now. It's normally $20, and as a previous (very happy) customer, I can tell you that it's well worth a free download folks. If you enjoyed the free widget, make sure to check this out.
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"I wanted to crawl into my fire helmet." Firefighter Mickey Kross describes a fierce wind lifting him up amid the collapse of the North Tower, in a podcast from the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
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"A team of Texas archaeologists believe they may have located the remains of Noah's Ark in Iran's Elburz mountain range."
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A man was charged with violating state wiretap laws by recording a detective on his home security camera, while the detective was investigating the man�s sons.
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iBloggedThis » An Origami solution to the Apple MacBook TrackPad “squishy” Button Problem
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MacBook Discoloration Issue Blown Insanely Out of Proportion
Published Thursday, June 29, 2006 by Stangrunner.
...so I decided to make some calls around to people I know inside and outside Apple who are responsible for providing warranty support for the darned things. What I've found is, largely, that the blogosphere has blown these issues insanely out of proportion
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The old strategy of suing 800 people at once is gone. Instead the RIAA is looking to be more localized, focused and personal with its new strategy.
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Cnet shows you how to turn your old clunker of a computer into a good firewall to protect your home network.
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President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia's secret services to find and kill those who kidnapped and killed four Russian Embassy employees in Iraq, the Kremlin announced in a statement.
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You don't need to speak Japanese to enjoy this. One of the funniest things I have ever seen on the Internet.
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Following on the success of 1977's Star Wars, a PSA featuring (presumably) the cantina on Tattooine was released in an effort to curb drunk driving.
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What really happened when the emperor learned about the destruction of the Death Star, Funny clip from Robot Chicken
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Code-named "BlackWidow," the new system is part of an evolving heterogeneous processing capability that is the centerpiece of Cray's Adaptive Supercomputing vision. It will be available in the second half of 2007. Applications developed for the Cray X1E system and its predecessor, the Cray X1 system, will port to BlackWidow.
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While many IT shops deal with the issues related to hundreds or thousands of users, Google regularly manages, administers and upgrades software and systems for millions of users. How do they do it? This article presents an excellent overview of the Google file system and its unique capabilities.
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"Wikipedia 3.0: The end of Google?" That's what everyone asked after a popular blog post Monday, but everyone was wrong. Because of five advantages, Google will be first to make a global artificial intelligence and a semantic web. What's more, Google already said they'll do it.
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To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of podcasting on iTunes, Apple has created a special celebratory page which lists some of the bigger and better podcasts out there. Of course Diggnation is there, check it out...
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Britney sheds her clothes for magazine cover - Celebrity News - MSNBC.com
Published Wednesday, June 28, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The Examining Room of Dr. Charles - More Brothers, More Chance of Being Gay?
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RULE 472: Before you touch a monkey god’s tail to cure your leprosy, make sure the tail doesn’t have a little hole in the end.
The Dilbert Blog: 13-inch Tail
The Dilbert Blog: 13-inch Tail
This article will show you how to get songs off of your your iPod, with any computer that has iTunes on it. This tutorial was written for total noobs so send it to your family members who are always bugging you about how to do things. Step 4 is all you need to look at if your computer savvy.
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It's a challenge to the plain language of the Constitution," said Arlen Specter, a Republican whose Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the issue. "There is a sense that the president has taken signing statements far beyond the customary purview."
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Microsoft has removed the controversial "phone home" notifications component from its WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) anti-piracy tool.
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Network based (encrypted) backup in 15 minutes -using open source software!
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Open source based data backup tools have come a long way. This article shows how to quickly setup network based backup all using freely downloadable open source tools. A combination of Amanda, Samba and open source encryption tools enable this setup. Backup configuration on two different Linux distributions and a Windows client is shown.
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Simple -- put it through a semi-secret military industrial machine called the Guard Dog. It is designed for when spy planes etc crash on enemy soil.
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Airzookas are strange old things that create a vortex of air that spirals across a room. They pack a surprising punch - check out the video.
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This guest is terrified of balloons! Watch as the Maury staff terrorize her
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An expert in psychology and mental health issues explains why we need to be scared in our horror games, or we can't be healthy. He goes even as far to say that the more frightening the game, the more pleasure we get in our lives.
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This video is basically a "show and tell" custom built on a Thompson Encore (fancy version of the Thompson Contender). The Caliber... 600 Nitro Express. that's right...an elephant gun round in a handgun. The story goes that the guy that built it is some kind of custom gun maker, and built this as an exhibition piece. He takes it to the range...
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Reinstall Windows XP and keep your files without moving them off your drive
Published Tuesday, June 27, 2006 by Stangrunner.
This howto will demonstrate how to keep all of your data while reinstalling Windows without copying it off of your hard drive. This will only work if you have a Windows XP CD or a real source to install it from, NOT a manufactures "Restore CD" which reloads all the junk it came with.
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"More imported workers will be needed and we'll have to send more work overseas to outsourcers... Baloney! The software doesn't know, of course, that someone with good Windows administration skills can learn Linux skills to become the new Linux administrator who�s desperately needed."
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Since I had to install both Windows and Ubuntu from scratch, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to compare the two operating systems' basic installation procedures. Thus, I tracked the time it took to carry out all installation tasks for both operating systems, and report the results below.
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This page gives step-by-step instructions to change the text of the login screen AND the overall appearance of the window.
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Comcast has fired an employee for sleeping on a customer's couch during a house call after video of the incident became a minor Internet sensation.
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stealth radar: Traffic cops could check speed without triggering detectors
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Ohio State University engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable, because its signal resembles random noise.
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A guy and a girl play a game of copycat on the subway, but the guy's got a trick up his sleeve...
Really clever idea for a commercial.
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Really clever idea for a commercial.
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Video of minor league coach Joe Mikulik of the Asheville (N.C.) Tourists going crazy over a bad call on second. He gets ejected, reenacts the play, rips up second base, throws bats on the field and buries home plate. Guy deserves his own Budweiser Real Men of Genius Song!
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Why 'Net neutrality' means more federal regulation | Perspectives | CNET News.com
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With the new Digg design providing three advertising slots on most pages, the site could earn more than $36 per 1,000 page views, based on the pricing of its ad units. With 5 million page views at present and traffic likely to grow with today's expansion, that starts to get into serious revenue.
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Halifax scientists announce plans to attach high-tech equipment to fish, noting that they're one step closer to sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
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The iPod Observer - Now Playing - Some iPod Shuffle Owners See 'Lights of Death'
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - Apple Executives to Preview Mac OS X “Leopard” at WWDC 2006 Keynote
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - Prior Art on Apple's MagSafe (patent pending) technology
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An anchor from Albuquerque seems to have other things on her mind. Google video link.
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Here's video of a cam that was snuck into a Scientology orientation session, shouldn't be long before this gets censored by the CoS.
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A friend of mine gave me an XBOX to fix. It got dropped, with predictable consequences on the hard disk drive inside. Here's the thing... it's a stock unit, no mod chip, so it will not boot unsigned code. I managed to locate a nifty howto on building an EEPROM reader and a really nice bit of Windows freeware.
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Customs officers in Sydney have intercepted an Australian woman who swallowed 320 condoms full of heroin in an attempt to smuggle the drug into the country
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ELECTRONIC ID CARDS for all children under 12 are to be introduced in Belgium. They will bear a code designed to allow parents of missing children to be traced instantly. This announcement came as Belgian police continued to search for two young girls who vanished from outside a bar in the middle of the night, a fortnight ago.
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Gone are the days of science fiction like in the Jetsons cartoon when people traveled in transparent elevator bubbles. Today this is no longer a product of our imagination. There is a bubble that can carry you without cables, pulleys or pistons. By simple principles of physics; it literally transports you by air.
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In 1985, AppleMatters carried this story, If the Mac has ever had a bigger fanboy than Bill Gates it is unclear who it was. In the days before the release of the Mac, Microsoft had more people working on software for the Mac than Apple had employees.
Check this for the text of the memo - http://www.scripting.com/specials/gatesLetter/text.html
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Check this for the text of the memo - http://www.scripting.com/specials/gatesLetter/text.html
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Apple's buying power may force NAND bulk purchase prices low enough for Apple to be able to build a 12 GB Nano for $250 with its current model of cost/profit. Should be out by the fall.
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An high level member of Scientology has decided to come out and expose the corruption within the organization. Better read this before the lawyers get involved.
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Microsoft's new adCenter Labs Demographics Prediction tool enables you to "predict a customer�s age, gender, and other demographic information according to his or her online behavior". Enter www.google.com and watch Microsoft call Google "Female Oriented with following Confidence: 100%".
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Deputy mistakes pistol for taser, shoots wacko in tree
Published Sunday, June 25, 2006 by Stangrunner.
One deputy attempted to discharge a Taser at the man, but when it did not work asked another deputy to fire a Taser. Instead of grabbing the Taser, the deputy grabbed and fired the gun. "Ow, that hurt, I'm coming down, I'm coming down," said the wounded man.
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Toyota factory workers in England made giant flag from cars - AutoMotoPortal.com
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Apple has decided to use its own specially-trained employees in order to sell its Macs at Best Buy retail stores rather then rely on the regular Best Buy employees. Apple will train select Best Buy employees using Apple Solution Consultants to sell their products.
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"[One of the girls] took [a] gun out and put it to my head and told me to empty my pockets."
The girls didn't get much because the victim had forgotten his wallet. They let him go, unharmed, and he called police.
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The girls didn't get much because the victim had forgotten his wallet. They let him go, unharmed, and he called police.
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If you have two network cards in your ubuntu computer, it can be a very powerfull router with NAT, port forwarding, and even QoS so your downloads dont interfere with gaming! This howto will cover setting up Webmin which will be used to configure masquerading, DHCP, DNS servers, and port forwarding. Includes pictures for most steps!
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Podcasting News: iPod Math Day: Record Player + CD Player + Dock + Wine Rack = The iPod Victrola
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CNN.com - Report: Chrysler may offer money-back guarantee - Jun 23, 2006
Published Saturday, June 24, 2006 by Stangrunner.
A council has apologised to a woman who was fined £60 after workmen painted a disabled bay around her car. When Shirley Hatcher, 67, parked her car and in North Road, Southampton, Hampshire, there were no parking restrictions in place when she returned there was this disabled bay and a £60 fine."
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"An Indonesian who died after catching the virus from his son represents the first confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of the disease. The W.H.O. investigators also discovered that the virus had mutated slightly when the son had the disease, although not in any way that would allow the virus to pass more readily among people."
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According to the article, "relaxifying" your work space is crucial to productivity. There's actually quite a bit that you can do to make your workspace a soothing, happy place instead of just the building you go to every day to kill eight or nine hours.
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When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.
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A spokesman for the Round Rock, Texas, computer maker confirmed that the computer was bought from Dell, but declined to give any further details. "We're aware of it, and we're digging into the details," the spokesman said. "There's an investigation going on right now. When something like this happens, we want to know why."
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The median income in America is mid 40K... and these guys are making this each day??? WTF??
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Mini-Microsoft: WinFS is Dead, Hiring Stop, Another Missing VP, and Stack Ranking 2006 - Comments
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Podcasting News: Hitch Let You Copy and Share Audio Files Without a Computer
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles - Will Special Healthcare Courts Bring Justice?
Published Thursday, June 22, 2006 by Stangrunner.
It will probably be a long time before they can make a nice juicy steak, but scientists believe minced meat for things like hamburgers, sausage, and pizza may only be a few years away. They also will have nutrients tailored to our needs. If it tastes good enough this should even be good for the environment.
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At the end of a Wall Street Journal interview, the Microsoft executive admitted to watching pirated videos on YouTube. What he says exhibits how ubiquitous copyright infringement has become.
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Pixar used a "computationally expensive and sophisticated approach" to create the reflections and lighting in "Cars," said MovieEditor.com studio technology consultant Robin Rowe. Rendering each frame took about 20 hours to complete before the artist could see the results of their work.
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Not content with trying to take down the site, the MPAA have now resorted to stalking anakata of TPB
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"When will California experience its next big quake along the San Andreas Fault? It's hard to say, but conditions are ripe for a big one near Los Angeles and San Diego."
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How sad of a day! Lego will be ending it's US production and laying off a good chunk of it's workforce.
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On June 23rd DefectiveByDesign.org will provide the contact numbers for the RIAA and similar organizations around the world.
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Inventor Polchai Phanumphai's idea is for the aircraft to spin its way down for an emergency landing.
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Interesting excerpt from a NASA funded documentary about NASA's plans to build robot colonies on Mars.
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Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes) help prevent damage from power loss and common electrical fluctuations. But there's more to effective protection than just plugging in a UPS and connecting computer equipment. These pointers will help ensure that your UPS safeguards your systems.
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Scientists here believe they have uncovered the trigger for leukaemia, a cancer of the blood that afflicts millions worldwide.This could pave the way for the design of new drugs to combat the abnormal proliferation of white blood cells and might also lead to new treatments for other types of cancers.
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Remembertheeighties.com is for Gen Xers in their thirties who want to remember the glory days of Wham, Megadeath, big hair and other 80s mistakes. The Internet is now a place for nostalgia
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"Although the pathways involved are uncertain, the results indicate that a diet rich in green and yellow vegetables inhibits the development of hardening of the arteries and may reduce the risk of heart disease," said Michael Adams, lead researcher from Wake Forest University.
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Codebot.org was given a takedown notice by the Church of Scientology after getting 2800+ diggs. Here's the discussion from the original link: http://digg.com/links/Amazingly_Scary_In-depth_Look_at_Scientology_
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This dude stuck a mac mini in his prius and is now using Front Row on his touchscren. Talk about portable media.
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An average monarch (butterfly) weighs roughly 500 milligrams; large raindrops have a mass of 70 milligrams or more. What do butterflies do in the rain? Michael Raupp, professor of entomology at the University of Maryland, offers this answer.
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"This guide tries to be as spesific as possible, so that even newbies can follow it easily!"
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"In the case of these Mac ads, however, I'm smack in the middle of the target demo. I'm a PC user, and I've often considered switching to an Apple. Thus, I feel equipped to say: These ads don't work on me. They are conceptually brilliant, beautifully executed, and highly entertaining. But they don't make me want to buy a Mac."
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We might all be plenty happy to ogle over the next gigahertz revolution, but CNet recently pointed out that rating processor performance alone is becoming a useless measure. We can make the processors fast, the quesiton is, can we do it without burning through the mother board (and the electric bill).
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Are you tired of reviews? Do you want to see how the Macbook really runs LIVE? This video will show you how the famous macbook runs with his native apps.
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"Nearly every e-mail consumers receive -- some 86 percent -- is considered spam, either malicious or simply "unwanted content" today, a new study provided to TechNewsWorld demonstrates. As if that wasn't enough of a headache for corporate IT departments, instant messaging spam soared by 500 percent last month."
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A stunning survey reveals that 7.6% of windows users would switch to a mac, even if it couldn't run windows. That said, over 20% would switch if they could run windows.
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Podcasting News: Flushed iPod mini Clogs South Bay University Toilets for Months
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"I've worked for a telecomm company that I would prefer to go unnamed, and I'd like to offer some tips to anyone trying to disconnect a service they no longer want. The biggest tip is to call well outside of normal business hours... It can turn a twenty minute phone call into a two minute phone call." read on for more tips...
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Despite its ubiquity, we still have a lot to learn about water. We take the properties of water for granted. Yet scientists assure us that we have a lot to learn about our biologically essential old friend. "Liquid water is one of the most mysterious substances in our world."
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Sometimes you need to QUICKLY erase your Hard drive. The article explains how to do it when you only have seconds, and the data needs to be 100% unrecoverable.
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With the releases of the third X-Men and The Da Vinci Code, movie downloading will increase, along with the MPAA suing consumers. Here are 5 ways to not be caught up in their wild and crazy suits.
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Analyst Richard Greenfield tells Bloomberg.com that when he called Vonage to cancel his account, he was offered a discounted rate if he would stay. Apparently that offer- presumably made incognito - had a major effect. Based in part on a trend gleaned from that call, the analyst downgraded his assessment on Vonage stock from "neutral" to "sell."
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This Japanese parking lot is quite remarkable. It kind of works like a jukebox. Only this time your car is fetched instead of the latest track of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Sleep in the dark, and you could reduce the chances of getting breast cancer. Dramatic new research shows the risks to women of artificial lights at night, in or out of bed. The research is "the first proof" of a link between artificial light at night and cancer.
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CNN.com - Lawsuit: World's most expensive lemon? - Jun 16, 2006
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Bink.nu | Microsoft co-founder's Paul Allen arrives with super yacht in South Africa
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The iPod Observer - Now Playing - Colorado Rockies Players Use iPods to Watch Game Film
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Remote desktop is a nice feature of Windows that lets you remotely work on the system as if you were there. Many times you find that you need it enabled - but the machine you are trying to access is tough to reach. This is a simply way to remotely enable it.
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How to boycott the Music Industry and still enjoy music
Published Friday, June 16, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The article offers alternatives to buying CDs and DRM infested files. Alternatives include listening and recording internet radio, audio blogs and a large list of free music download sites.
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"Use Wi-Fi at home or the coffee shop? Your computer could be vulnerable to hackers. Here are some easy ways to stay protected."
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Becoming a father tends to change a man's outlook, but now scientists are showing it might also change his brain. This ScienCentral News video explains that new research in father mice reveals how time spent with their young benefits the brain.
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While Airgo's 3rd generation product achieves record breaking throughput, it annihilates any legacy 802.11 b/g product in the vicinity. The other products from weren't quite as devastating to the neighbors, but the damage is still severe. What's crazy is that these products are FCC legal and are being sold on store shelves today.
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Three German companies yesterday demonstrated what could be considered the ultimate movie experience of the future: If you thought it just doesn't get better than a 1080p high-definition home theater, think again: Cinevision 2006 runs at a stunning 10 megapixel resolution and promises to improve to 16 megapixels down the road.
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Those guys at ColorWare PC have updated their product line now to allow you to have a MacBook that stands out from the rest of the crowd. For a premium price of course. Why doesnt Apple get in on this market and offer more stock color choices like they did in the original iMac days?
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Now that Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has started his two-year goodbye from a day-to-day role at the company, it's time for CEO Steve Ballmer to set a resignation date, too.
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At Hewlett-Packard, they've found one answer in an unexpected place: model jet airplanes. HP is adapting fans from radio-controlled jets to relieve heat-stressed computer servers.
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15% of the fuel in your gas tank actually moves the car, 85% wasted
Published Thursday, June 15, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank gets used to move your car down the road or run useful accessories, such as air conditioning. The rest of the energy is lost to engine and driveline inefficiencies and idling.
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A pair of photos published earlier this week by the UK's Mail on Sunday appear to portray substandard work environments within Chinese manufacturing facilities that build versions of Apple Computer's popular iPod digital music players.
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Previous research indicated men are more aroused by erotic images than women, "But that was not the case."
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There's enough gold buried deep within the Earth's core to cover the entire land surface of the planet to a depth of half a metre, an Australian researcher says.
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Playing video games is the only way most people live out their pro sports dreams. For Brad Coleman, all those hours locked away in his bedroom helped turn his hopes into reality.Two weeks after graduating from high school, Coleman debuted in nascar.
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A man bought an item on EBay, never received it, so he called the phone number and talked to the seller's Mom. The rest is history.
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This turtle spent the beginning of it's life stuck inside one of those plastic 6 pack tops. The video shows how the turtle grew everywhere else except it's midsection. Don't forget to cut those plastic rings.
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The Triangulum galaxy emerges from the shadows to reveal stunning swirls of stars and dust dotted with brilliant pink nebulae.
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Imagine jetting from New York to Miami in an hour and a half, or flitting from New York to Tokyo in less than 10 hours - including a stop to refuel. That's the $1.4 billion dream of aerospace pioneer Bill Tracy, whose startup Aerion is hoping to build the first supersonic business jet, or SBJ.
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"It's the ocean equivalent of Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon all rolled into one."
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At certain altitudes, aircraft produce contrails - the vapor wake caused when water in the chilly atmosphere is condensed by the plane's hot exhaust. These contrails have a surprisingly big but also complex effect on the climate.
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Shy people may be quiet, but there's a lot going on in their heads. When they encounter a frightening or unfamiliar situation--meeting someone new, for example--a brain region responsible for negative emotions goes into overdrive. But new research indicates that shy people may be more sensitive to all sorts of stimuli, not just frightening ones.
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The Firefox Extension Backup Extension lets you backup all of your extensions, themes, bookmarks, preferences...and the Compact Library Extension Organizer bundles everything into a single .xpi file that you can install on any installation of Firefox.
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Ten companies which had their servers confiscated during the police's raids against file-sharing site The Pirate Bay demand compensation from the Swedish state.
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The FCC fined CBS $3 million for the teen sex orgy scene in Without a Trace. Now CBS is saying the fine is invalid because the people who complained didn't even know what they were complaining about. They were just robotically following the orders of their cult leaders at the PTC and the American Family Association.
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RIAA is apparently sending out cease-and-desist letters to YouTube users who dare to put up videos of things such as themselves dancing to music they haven't licensed.
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Mini-Microsoft: Other Mini-Like Sites and The Broken Windows Theory - Links
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The microorganisms that live in your gut could explain one of the sources of obesity. Bacteria live throughout the body, but some intestinal bacteria appear to be better than others at helping their hosts turn food into energy.
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"A newly likeable Bill Gates isn't afraid to admit his company is lagging in some areas, says FORTUNE's Adam Lashinsky."
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"The survey found that 24 percent of the boys and 14 percent of the girls said they had done so at least once. The actual number of teens who behave in this fashion could well be higher. "
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information used by retired cop to enter
-->place of birth as "Tijuana, B.C."
-->address as "123 Fraud Blvd."
thats funny
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-->place of birth as "Tijuana, B.C."
-->address as "123 Fraud Blvd."
thats funny
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The male Lyrebird impresses mates by imitating chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters, and other sounds of the forest.
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Sound dies quickly in the cold, thin air of Mars. Researchers have modeled a sound wave traveling through the Martian atmosphere and report that it doesn't go far--even a lawn mower's roar dies after a hundred meters or so.
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Success of the standoff delivery is due in part to the Raptor avionics' ability to compute an accurate Launch Acceptability Region (LAR), the area in the sky from which the pilot can release a weapon to successfully attack the desired target
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"Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky."
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Last month, astronomers watched a meteoroid blast a hole in the lunar Sea of Clouds. Their video of the event is a must-see.
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Walking upside-down requires a careful balance of adhesion and weight, and specialized trekking tools to combat the constant tug of gravity.
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Written by a chronobiologist, this is a detailed guide to human sleep cycles, how to alter them, what they are...
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It seems that the early 2.5 GHz liquid-cooled G5s shipped with Delphi radiators that were problematic. They're leaking green goo!
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getting booted from E3 for not following their (non-existent) media "dress code". This isn't an unusual event in my life, btw...This is just the first time it's been caught on tape!! :)
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Paper aeroplanes could fly by flapping their wings thanks to smart paper that bends when bathed in an electric field. The material raises the prospect of swarms of tiny lightweight aircraft carrying sensors that act as the eyes and ears of a surveillance network.
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In short, Microsoft is admitting to pulling even more information from your PCs -- such as your IP address and date and timestamp data "relating to systems' booting and continued operations."
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Mozilla the makers of Firefox have created a new plug in for their browser which integrates with the popular open source PBX Asterisk.
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - The Ultimate Music Download Service Is Here … But It's Illegal
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Coffee may counteract alcohol's poisonous effects on the liver and help prevent cirrhosis, researchers say. In a study of more than 125,000 people, one cup of coffee per day cut the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 20 percent. Four cups per day reduced the risk by 80 percent.
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A much talked about labeling system is finally set to reach the retail consumer this year. Timestrips use capillary action to draw a liquid at a constant rate across the label to provide visual use-by dates for fresh groceries and leftovers.
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"Wisconsin this week will become one of the first states to ban the forcible implantation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into humans. The act dictates that no person may force another to have a microchip implanted in his body. Violators face fines of $10,000 each day until the chip is removed."
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Two students from the University of Tennessee have begun a project to break the code behind Coca-Cola's bottle-cap rewards program. Submit codes to help break the algorithm used to generate them.
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SATA Hard Drives for MacBook, MacBook Pro || The Mac Observer
Published Monday, June 12, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The iPod Observer - Now Playing - National Semiconductor Gives Video iPods to 8,500 Employees
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macosxhints.com - 10.4: Fix PowerPC apps that fail to launch on Intel Macs
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Thanks to data from ESA�s XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 750 kilometres per second.
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Extracts from a British newspaper about the people that make iPods. One plant has 200,000 workers!
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Japanese Airline (JAL) is now offering passengers DS Lites to pass time on flights. The DS Lites's WiFi capabilities have been gutted as wireless devices' use is prohibited on planes.
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A scientist has explained why a new ball being used in this year's World Cup is frustrating goalies.
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Doctors say the cancers can strike 3 to 5 years after exposure to toxins such as benzene, a cancer-causing chemical that permeated the WTC site from burning jet fuel. "We have nearly 35 of these [rare] cancers in the family of 50,000 Ground Zero workers. The odds of that occurring are one in hundreds of millions."
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An article on how 400(!) G5's were used to restore the bond movies. Some of the facts are astonishing... They scanned at 45MB per frame, and had to (digitally) remove 37 million pieces of dirt and 74,000 hairs before starting on colour correction.
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Monkeys fed a diet rich in trans-fats � commonly found in fast foods � grew bigger bellies than those fed a diet rich in unsaturated fats, but containing the same overall number of calories. They also developed signs of insulin resistance, which is an early indicator of diabetes.
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Ever wondered who your ancestors really are? Or, more importantly, are you really from the background that you think you're from? On Saturday, 65 people got some surprising answers using the latest DNA technology at a workshop at the College of Alameda.
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Volvo�s Collision Warning System with brake support was launched recently. Now, the company is working on the next generation of the Collision Warning System which actually does all the braking for you. Take a look at it working in this video, where Volvo researchers set up an inflatable obstacle and the brakes stop the car just in time.
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Pirate Bay's popularity DOUBLES after 3 days of being shut down
Published Sunday, June 11, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days.
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When davechan asked his sister for a Macbook for his birthday he got what he wished for, sort of. The height and width are actual size but sadly it doesn't run Mac OS X. Mmmmmmm Macbook.
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Want to know how to fight DRM?
Purchase a number of DRM'ed disks,
then walk out the door then back in and
return the merchandise, it would cause
havoc in the retail world for that day.
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Purchase a number of DRM'ed disks,
then walk out the door then back in and
return the merchandise, it would cause
havoc in the retail world for that day.
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The Guardian Angels founder Curtis Swila told the Daily News he saw Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin playing a computer card game while he testified at the trial of John A. (Junior) Gotti.
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Got a speed camera in your neighborhood?. Apparently, Britons are fed up with the government spying on them and raising revenue by snapping their picture speeding down the highway. So a large number of these devices have been destroyed and the pictures tell the whole story...
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Drive the remote-controlled Spy Video Car into top-secret territory without being detected. See in the dark as infrared light illuminates real-time video transmitted to the eyepiece of your headset.
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I think the RIAA is on steroids. Coming off some huge victories against P2P and thousands of dastardly downloading teenagers, the RIAA is trying to take the definition of copyright infringement a step farther in a new case. If they win on their terms, then you're probably violating someone's copyright right now.
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PQI has unveiled a sleek credit card-thin Card Drive USB drive with capacities of 1, 2, and 4 GB - and 8 and 16 GB editions. No pricing is available on the 16GB card yet, although the 4GB is priced at $139.99.
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Tiscali is a European ISP that had a deal with IFPI, the international wing of the RIAA, to offer legal, paid for, licensed streaming music to its customers. IFPI made them remove the feature that allowed paying customers to search for the music they wanted to hear by artist (!) saying that this was too much "interactivity."
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"It could be recharged many, many times perhaps hundreds of thousands of times, and ... it could be recharged very quickly, just in a matter of seconds rather than a matter of hours"
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Macenstein » Macenstein Archive » BENCHMARKS: Mac Mini’s brain replaced with a Core 2 Duo
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Hilary Rosen, the woman who once ran the Big Four Organized Music cartel's RIAA, says she believes the RIAA lawsuits against students have, "outlived most of their usefulness". It's also time for another look at DRM, she says.
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I read this story in the May issue of Reader's Digest.
The story is on their website.
Page 3 and five paragraphs down talks about how she affects the
computer.
Very interesting.
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The story is on their website.
Page 3 and five paragraphs down talks about how she affects the
computer.
Very interesting.
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The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman has ruled that the Apple iTunes service breaks the law, and has given the company two weeks to fix the problem.
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Dual booting Vista and OS X is finally here. It looks like we were just one step short all along. (And please no "why would you want to run Windows on a Mac?" posts. If you aren't intelligent enough to figure out why, then don't bother reading the article.)
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The bloke who claimed that he was asked by a US elected official to build a program which would hack into electronic voting machines is standing for election.Against Congressman who sought to hire him
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A guy turns on a GPS phone today (Wednesday) before sending it via UPS and has a Google Maps/Earth mashup for tracking the phone. I wonder how long the battery will last?
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The lens -- large enough to extend a ring around the iris -- comes in two colors: amber and grey-green.
The amber lens is for fast-moving ball sports, such as tennis, baseball, football or soccer. Grey-green is better for blocking glare for runners or helping a golfer read the contour of the ground.
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The amber lens is for fast-moving ball sports, such as tennis, baseball, football or soccer. Grey-green is better for blocking glare for runners or helping a golfer read the contour of the ground.
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The average time to render a single frame of film for "CARS" was 17 hours. Even with a sophisticated network of 3000 computers, and state-of-the-art lightning fast processors that operate up to four times faster than they did on "The Incredibles," it still took many days to render a single second of finished film.
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A subway poster that has a fully functional headphone jack imbedded in it, which plays samples of various tracks. This Pepsi poster sings to you.
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I made my way to the credit union at about 6 a.m. to make sure no employees saw us. I then proceeded to scatter the drives in the parking lot, smoking areas, and other areas employees frequented.
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The U.K. music-industry trade organization, the BPI, is to sue popular Russian download site AllofMP3.com, claiming it is operating outside the law and not sharing any of its profits with the artists whose music it sells.
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The Federal Government just increased the price for saying the f-word on TV or radio from $32,500 to $325,000.
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"I actually asked one if this meant that if my two players were stolen, I purchase two more to replace them, but I also don't purchase another PC (!) that I would NEVER be able to use the two new players on Urge on my original PC? The answer was yes. I actually asked, "for the rest of my life," and the answer again was, incredibly, "yes."
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Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker.
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Complete guide to all the most advanced features of Google search. It demonstrates how to easily find & download mp3s and complete albums too.. heh, when will the RIAA be suing Google?
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"The MacBook is a powerful and affordable option, especially for people who are uncertain about their Windows future. You get a computer that runs both Mac OS X and Windows XP today, and even appears to meet the minimum requirements for Vista once it gets here. Dell and HP should be very worried indeed."
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