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    E-Waste Lays Siege To Chinese Town

    Let's see: melamine (toxic in certain quantities) in pet food as a filler a substitute (also toxic) for glycerin in toothpaste building one coal-fired power plant every couple of days with few/no emissions controls chemical waste dumped directly into rivers China = Giedi Prime...
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    WiFi MENACE!

    This is hilarious: http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/ And is related to: http://www.badscience.net/?p=418 Hope you enjoy.
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    Viacom Sues YouTube For $1 Billion

    No you are not alone. Google makes technically pretty good stuff (let's just say that they are lucky to have the competition they have). Their corporate smugness and hypocrisy make me gag, though.
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    Asia Quake Damages Cables And Internet

    The cable is usually laid behind a plow-like device that buries it several feet under the sea bottom as it goes. The cable does have a sheath of steel cables around the core FO cables to toughen it, but it isn't earthquake-proof. See Alcatel Undersea FO Cable From Chennai (fka Madras) and...
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    Asia Quake Damages Cables And Internet

    What will all the gold farmers in WoW and EQ do now?
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    Magically Disappearing Optical Drive

    At first, WinXP was unable to delete the Roxio. I went ahead and changed my drive names using regedit (bold, and stupid) as well as deleting the registry entries related to the Roxio cd tray whatsit. Then I had to do a WinXP repair. Then I was able to use WinXP to remove Roxio, and I am...
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    Magically Disappearing Optical Drive

    Roxio Easy CD-DVD writer just did a similar thing to my comp just last weekend! I got my boot drive renamed to C (used to be F - it's a looong story, don't ask) and the DVD drive renamed to D (used to be E - same story). I can't rename the drives using XPs disk administrator, and the...
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    ATI Radeon X1950 XTX / CrossFire Evaluation

    As if all your peripherals (including monitor) are wireless. I had a dongle for my 3dFX cards back in the day and didn't give a damn because the dongle is on the back of the PC with a rat's nest of other wires. Seriously, though, why the dislike of dongles? Is it just that they're a...
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    The "unlocking content" annoyance

    I think you are comparing: 1. progression to new parts of the game that is a logical extension of succeeding in an objective that is expected as part of the games' arc to 2. access to new content (weapons, abilities, areas, tasks) that is only available after succeeding at a very high...
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    MMO Addition Hype

    I would like to know others' opinions on this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700625.html The reporter talks with psychologists and gamers and game devs about addiction to games, with a particular focus on MMOs. The first 1-2 pages are...
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