"The spying concern wasn't groundless."

Well this isn't something I'm using, but I was a bit surprised to see at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago over the weekend that they had a few machines still running Windows XP. I could only tell because on one of their displays the typical "Send Report" crash window was popped up and hence I could see the…

Well this isn't something I'm using, but I was a bit surprised to see at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago over the weekend that they had a few machines still running Windows XP. I could only tell because on one of their displays the typical "Send Report" crash window was popped up and hence I could see the…

I'd like to consider myself a somewhat experienced user of DD-WRT having done my first flash about 6 years ago, and having done many more since, but with my latest router (Linksys e4200), I was having all sorts of issues after I flashed it. I won't get into specifics, but I wanted to restore back to stock. I was…

It's never worked in the past for me because where I live, there's essentially only one true high-speed broadband ISP and they know it. Now though, I see that more fiber lines have been ran around the city and there's a competitor who now offers 40/5 Mbps for half the price of my 50/5... This could get interesting :)

Here's something I'd really like to know: wireless headsets with the new system. Will they suck like the last ones or not? Will they even exist at all or am I supposed to use the stupid Kinect?

Does turbo aeration help as well? I'm not a wine drinker, but my wife is and I'm just curious.

Alright here's my rant in response to some of the comments I'm seeing: the gaming industry as a whole is a multi-billion dollar entity that is focused on one thing - making money.

The Wavebird was a pretty awesome controller. My favorite is still the 360 though.

My single biggest complaint and the greatest source of my road rage is when people who are merging onto the interstate don't yield when traffic is heavy. Traffic on the interstate has the right of way and they put those yield signs on the on-ramp for a goddamned reason. Fuck those motherfucking asshat's who fly up…

That was another reason I originally wanted to go with XBMC was for integration with games. AFAIK, Plex doesn't do gaming at all.

PS3 Media Server, Plex, Serviio, etc. are all going to transcode to the 360. 360's don't natively handle the MKV container, so it needs to be put into a different format that's readable by the 360, which is what these programs do. However, it's transcoding on the fly and you can likely see a degradation of quality,…

"The vast majority of Lifehacker readers prefer XBMC."

My question exactly. I've ran CCleaner for a while now and have been happy.

While I agree with what you're saying, you're throwing out a wildly unsubstantiated claim about human reaction speed times. Generally the average human reaction time for any task involving taking in a visual stimulus and the very moment that the person reacts to said visual stimulus is around 200ms. That being said,…

I'd download the F*@K out of a bear, thank you very much.

Mmmmmm....  pancakes.....

PSO was great. That is all.

COTY nom or are we just announcing this one the winner already?

I think that you're looking at this as the outside world would see it, but not putting yourself in the shoes of the person dying...