BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I tried out Amazon’s Unbox, and unlike others didn’t have problems downloading a rental and running it. I was able to connect my TV via VGA (my television has a PC input) and the viewing experience was quite good. Not as good as a DVD, but good enough. However, the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The reason Amazon’s Unbox connects to the internet to uninstall is that everyone’s local objects are mirrored at Amazon. To disable an account, it has to be disabled both at Amazon and on the PC. The only problem is, the uninstall disables the validation of the PC as the first part of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Griefer. It’s a new word. A griefer is a person like Jason Fortuny, who posed as a woman and put out an extremely suggestive sex wanted ad at Craigslist and then published all the results–including actual names, emails, photos, and other contact information of the men who responded. I’ve always thought the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Griefer. It’s a new word. A griefer is a person like Jason Fortuny, who posed as a woman and put out an extremely suggestive sex wanted ad at Craigslist and then published all the results–including actual names, emails, photos, and other contact information of the men who responded. I’ve always thought the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can strongly recommend subscribing to the Science Blogs. I have never seen such an interesting mix of material come out of one place before. From today’s reading: Monkeys are not Mozart Fans from Mixing Memory. Nerd Music from PZ. (The juxtaposition of both of the above was purely by accident.) The Top Ten […]