Recent content by Auroram

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    Analyst: BlackBerry 10 Will Not Save RIM

    Oh look, yet another self fulfilling prophecy where a "negative" analasys keeps people away from a potentially great product. He says that he hasn't seen anything good yet... before the actual presentation has even started. Seriously, why do these people even get paid at all for this crap...
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    U.S. Bill Will Allow Feds to Read Your E-mail Without Warrants

    And you Americans dare call your country a land of freedom? Speak up about these things or you will simply be ridiculed by the whole world. Well, until the US government tries / succeeds to enforce that stuff everywhere and we're all screwed. They have a tendancy to think their laws should apply...
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    Windows 8 Pro is Now Free (by Mistake)

    alextheblueIt's not quite the same as Win7 hibernation. Hybrid Boot is better for most users than hibernation and typically just as good as a cold boot (but much faster especially on low end systems with mechanical drives).There's almost no reason to disable hybrid boot, as a matter of fact. You...
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    Facebook Can Use Phone Numbers For Targeted Advertising

    edgewood112358I've got one acronym for you: TORAlso, in general people should take it for granted in this day and age that almost anything they put online is not truly secure or private, and should take due precautions. I hope you'll never want to own any domains then. Whois tools don't care...
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    Windows 8 Customers Fuming Over Spotty Updates

    stevo74I Have Windows 8 - using the drivers that Windows installs - I don't use 3rd party programs that won't play nice with Windows and guess what? Everything is just fine.All my programs run faster on Windows 8 and it takes me less time to do what I need to do on my computer.I guess that...
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    Valve's Gabe Newell Inducted Into AIAS Hall of Fame

    greghomeIf only Valve had bought DICE back then, instead of EA.......we would have much better Battlefield games nowadays....... We wouldn't ever have gotten Battlefield 3, dude. All jokes aside, congrats to him. Just don't forget that there's a whole company out there making Steam happen...
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    Samsung Details New Storage Chip For Smartphones

    When will they finally start using the extra space for a larger battery? I mean, who honestly cares if their phone becomes 2-3 mm thinner? I know I don't. It'd be nice to have phones with a battery life which lasts longer than 24 hours on medium to heavy use.
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    NASA Plans to Encrypt All Laptops

    cumi2k4not going to help if user passwords are mostly "123456" Actually, it will. You can image new laptops to come with Bitlocker, for example. Set the password requirement to contain at least a combination of a fair amount of letters/numbers/symbols, etc. Enforcing a proper password isn't all...
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    Diablo 3 Gamers Petition for Offline Gameplay Patch

    Rick_CriswellI will probably buy it once the always online is removed. Tried the beta and was able to connect to the servers once during the weekend. What good is it if you can not connect to the servers, or two years from now they decide they are not making enough money off of the game and shut...
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    Chinese DDoS Attack Takes Down UK Domain Registrar

    mayne92If it is from China then it is from China, regardless if proxies were used or not. Indeed it is very broad term but when all that is mentioned is that the source was China - I fail to see any accusation made here unless people read into it too much. The thing is that the statement was...
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    Mounted Combat Now Available in Skyrim Beta

    I don't want to sound cynical and have clocked many an hour on Skyrim, but it almost seems like it's a good idea to not touch Bethesda titles until a couple months after the initial release date. There's simply so much content added and bugs fixed by then, that my enjoyment of (for example)...
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    Chinese DDoS Attack Takes Down UK Domain Registrar

    "China" is a very broad term. They might as well have not mentioned it at all to prevent any sort of political issues. I am interested to see how this story develops!
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    Diablo 3 Auction House Delayed Again, New Patch Coming

    adjmanAt least they are fixing issues. Awesome games from Bethesda always ship and then get fixed by the players. Then Bethesda releases a patch and breaks all the fixes the players made, while still not resolving the issues that the players fixed. While it may not be ideal, a perfectly...
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    Diablo 3 Auction House Delayed Again, New Patch Coming

    xerrozYeah. But a game that's been 11 years in development? You have no clue what you're talking about. The achievement system hasn't been in Blizzard games before November 13th, 2008. The date when Wrath of the Lich King has been released. Burning Crusade was released Januari 16th, 2007. That...
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    Diablo 3 Beaten in Just 7 Hours?

    Screw you, Kevin. Learn to warn for spoilers already...