Internet Explorer is far from a "first class browser". It's getting better, but Microsoft still insists on ignoring standards, taking forever to properly implement new technologies and leaving hundreds of bugs in their browser. It's because of Internet Explorer's dominance that websites are slow to adopt things like…

Why use them? So I don't have to carry wads of cash around, which is much more of a target for theft. When I buy something, I can pay it's exact price, rather than breaking bills into small change which I'll probably just end up losing.

Steve Jobs died today.

I don't see a lot of "MS hatred" comments, there's only 1 other comment that is critical of MS.

Obligatory design schematics

I'm getting the feeling Windows 8 is just Windows 7 in a new package :P

Is Windows 8 really worth it, beyond the new interface and a few features? Are there huge performance improvements, or perhaps support for newer technologies?

#9's bullshit, as the mechanism the article describes for which scotch tape/nail polish would remove the itch makes little sense. Scotch tape "stabilizes" the area? I can hear that sound of pseudo-science from a mile away.

Giving a dollar to a beggar?! How exceedingly generous of you!

Is that picture really of in-game graphics :O Why do LEGO games look better than most "realistic" games released in the last few years?

Oh yeah, beat this: [steamcommunity.com] ;)

Clicked the link, made the purchase (right away, didn't leave and come back). Hopefully you got yourself $5 :D

I am seriously impressed with this digital-distributor, their website has great aesthetics, but is still very easy to navigate, their software doesn't seem to have any serious annoyances, and most importantly, the prices are great! I used the coupon code on top of the 15% off automatically applied, and got the great…

Most routers have an option along the lines of "Disable Radio"/"Enable/Disable WiFi"/etc in their settings page. The settings page is usually located at either: 192.168.1.1/192.168.1.0/192.168.0.1/192.168.2.1/192.168.1.254 To find out exactly what your routers IP is, open a command prompt, type ipconfig. The IP…

Glad to be of service, lol.

The overhead from Direct2D should be minimal enough that most games could multitask fine with hardware-accelerated Firefox. It's about equivalent to running the game VVVVV. If your PC can handle running your favorite games as well as VVVVV or a similar game, then Firefox should run fine. I'd be more concerned…

It would be fairly easy to add functionality to a cracker to take simple countermeasures like first-letter shifting into account. Sure, it would slow things down, but not render the password impossible to break. Perhaps increase the time by x2.

If you're really going to be picky, then while although long passwords composed of words would be difficult to crack brute-forcing letter-per-letter, a dictionary attack would have it broken in very little time. The Oxford English Dictionary contains about 170 000 words (excluding very obscure/obsolete…

I can't see any reason why you'd want to leave your connection unsecured; I haven't even heard a device made in the last few years that does not support at least WPA security.

What happened to the days when a major version increment like 2 to 3 was actually a big deal. It seems now like "major" revisions only contain a couple of bugfixes, maybe an added HTML5 element or two.