Wait... the chances of dying by lightning are 1 in 80,000? That must mean the chances of being HIT by lightning are even better.

Oh hey look Kotaku has broken by browser's back button again.

So, are there tiny pixelated tanks in Tiananmen Square?

The original videos of it didn't really impress me, because it looked like a virtual pet game with a kid instead, but this looks much more interesting, and more like some kind of adventure game where you go on the adventure with a freind and he performs the actions you direct him to. But maybe it wasn't that at all,…

That's possible I suppose. There's not a lot of documentation.

Under your account settings there is an offline tab. Enabling offline mode downloads the emails to your PC.

Google already has backup software built into gmail. Its under options. It will automatically sync with it.

I love how the site redesign has broken my browser's back button. I wonder how many viewers you lose when they just say screw it and go to a different site because they can't get back to the front page in the traditional manner.

Great, let's make sirens even more fucking annoying. It's bad enough they blare them at night while speeding to the site of some minor traffic accident or a report of a prowler, or some dude with a spraycan.

Countdown until some idiot runs into traffic while trying to avoid imaginary zombies.

I wonder if KOTH would play different if the capture speed for the point were sped up significantly, so that if the team that captured the point didn't stay on the point, they would lose it immeidately.

Correct, except I'm pretty sure old ink can't break a printer, because the printer head is actually on the cartridge, and if it becomes clogged you just get a new cartridge.

Nope. If all a virus had to do was disable a computer, then what would a trojan be? Or a worm? A virus replicates itself by attaching new copies of itself to software. A trojan is a software application which does not replicate, but looks innocent and is not. A worm uses network vunerabilities to propogate.

It doesn't sound like what he wrote was a virus. It sounds like he sold a piece of hardware with some software on it that caused it to stop working after a period of time... which is the same thing printer manufacturers do to their inkjet cartridges.

It's already been shown that the TSA cannot detain you at the airport if you choose to leave rather than be scanned. These people should simply have refused to be searched.

What? Targetted advertising on the page where they're submitting the contest entries? Yeah okay, maybe they could do that... with the location data the parents provided. But that's not really what people are complaining about. They're worried about the social security number. And Google doesn't need that to…

I don't know if there will be any detectable difference in audio quality between 16 and 24bit. But if you took a 24bit image, and reduced it to 16bit, then there would certainly be a difference, even if both were then compressed. Both conversions damage the data, but in different ways, so you would get twice the…

A 320kbps MP3 is compressed by only 50%. Your average JPEG is compressed by over 10x. A bitrate of 320kbps is excessive in the extreme.

I don't know what led to Google's harvesting WiFi data. But you forget that it was they who first notified the public that the collection had accidentally occured, and it was they who offered to delete the data, and it was the government who wanted them to retain that data and gain access to it themselves.

What is this, Fox News? What do you think Google is going to do with some kid's social security number? In the hands of an identity thief, that information might be useful. But Google? What do you think they're gonna do, open credit card accounts in their names? Create fake passports?