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    Windows 7 Allows You To Turn Features On or Off

    Windows 7 still has Telnet. That's relevant for today, right. Where's the no DRM option?
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    Amputee Designs His Own Replacement Arm

    He should beat those defeatist 'doctors' to a bloody pulp with his robo-arm. Since in their minds, it doesn't exist.
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    Latitude Keeps Tabs on Family and Friends

    I'm so glad I'm not a simpleton where fads and trends and bad ideas, so tantalizing and tempting to fools are toxic to me.
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    BFGTech GeForce GTX 285 OCX @ [H]

    I'm going to be nice, because I just re-read this thread and learned that H traffic is up while revenues are significantly down and I'm going to give H the benefit of the doubt and not say mean things to scare off noobs. I find it interesting that you are challenging degrees of impact of the...
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    BFGTech GeForce GTX 285 OCX @ [H]

    Let's go beyond the obvious, k? 1) Most games, and you can count on one hand the ones that are not, are adequately served by today's hardware...so there is much less pressure, if any, to upgrade. 2) Nvidia has nuked whatever reputation it had with the RoHS fiasco with their chip packaging...
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    Video Game Link in Shooting Dismissed by Police Investigators

    And yet you bozos print this non-news. I call for an embargo on any comment/post/story with JT in it. Starting with this one, do not reply, I won't read it. It has to start somewhere.
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    Playing Games Using Multi-Touch

    Do not want.
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    Your Mail in Rebate May Be In Jeopardy

    We have been longstanding supporters of mail in rebates Vichy France approves.
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    Is Our Internet Future In Danger?

    Infoworld sucks. Invest in infrastructure.
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    Rash of Intel, AMD Warnings Issued by Analysts

    Give people a reason to upgrade and they will. Better software, more features, smaller footprint, etc. etc.
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    University Holds Artificial Intelligence Test

    Judging by the comments in this thread, the real question seems to be not if an AI actually thinks, but if people do.
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    Man Uses Remote Logon to Nab Laptop Thief

    In other words, there are freely available programs that can disable your PC or laptop on a whim? Or even better: unique, non maskable codes that survive BIOS flashing?
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    Ubuntu Alpha Breaking Hardware?

    Did you know 40-70% of all Intel NICs in the wild are counterfeit? Did you know NewEgg is also NOT an authorized Intel NIC reseller? After picking up a simple PCI Intel NIC from good old reliable New Egg and having the physical RJ-45 connector separate from the card breaking it, I learned...
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    Q&A with SOE’s John Smedley

    Thanks..I now have a name, John Smedley...to go with the company, Sony who will never get a dime of my money. I will also champion and support alternatives to any Sony gaming product. I have a memory longer than that of a gypsy moth and Sony's rootkits and piss-poor PS3 introduction and...
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    U.S. Agents Can Seize Travelers' Laptops

    What information is so potentially damaging to national security and of such a nature that it must be kept on a traditional device such as a laptop or cell phone and unable to be stored or transmitted in any other way? Are they looking for a file, a picture? a movie?
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