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WTB one of these. Also, looks like I'll be buying a 3DS -- I was holding out to see how Mario Kart ended up on it, in fear of it being more like the Wii version than the predecessors.

This. I'd encourage those who seriously believe that Llano was a serious consideration to go look at some benchmarks -- Llano is practically in the same performance category as Atom chips, and the Macbook Air isn't a netbook. I'd believe it was looked at as a possibility, but I can't believe...

The way this is worded is sort of confusing. Describing the new chips as "new enthusiast Sandy Bridge chips" and old chips as "older mainstream Sandy Bridge chips" would be a lot easier to understand -- referring to the mainstream chips as "high end Sandy Bridge" is the particularly misleading...

Part of the reason that Apple sales have shifted toward laptops is that they don't have any desktop offerings that are at all appealing to the same power users that carry Macbook Pros (myself included). iMac simply does not meet my needs, and Mac Pro is just too much of a waste of money...

Yowza, thanks for the heads up -- looks like I got double charged too.

I just wonder what the new excuse will be for the failure of Windows Phone after these have been out for a few months. Samsung and HTC produce hardware that's seemingly good enough for the ~50% of the smartphone users that are running Android, so surely it was the hardware that was causing...

I don't mean to turn this thread into a fix-BF3-tips thread, but if you do end up finding a fix (or if anyone else out there has figured this out), I'm all ears.

I haven't had a lot of issues on my personal machine, but spent the better part of last night doing tech support for enraged friends who bought the game to play with me. The most rage-worthy: point your browser to www.amd.com/bf3driver. You'd expect to find the latest AMD driver for BF3, but...

Example solution: Use Google Voice with two-factor authentication. Solves all of the above problems, and the messages aren't stored locally at all. There are plenty of other options too, admittedly none of them are simple and widespread, but to a 10,000+ employee company, even paying a team to...

That one falls under "underfunded" ;)

RIM has been effectively dead for well over 2 years now, it's time to stop posting stories about them. There are still a few apologists around, but that doesn't mean there is any substance to their arguments. The typical apologist argument "The encryption methods are better than anything...

With iOS5 / iPhone 5 and Android 3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) both coming in the next month, I'm a lot more interested in how WP stacks up against them than how it stacks up to Android 2 and iOS4 (which are a year and a half and a year old now, respectively). When WP was first released it was largely...

That's a good question. I went digging through the basement for my old Joystick recently, but to no avail. Last time I used it was for Battlefield 1942, so... Particularly, I'd like to use my PS3 controller if possible. Corded, even, would be fine.

I think I'm getting trolled by an editor at Ars... posting links to exploits would be a pretty reasonable grounds for a ban, no? Like I said, I don't expect that saying 'they're out there' is proof, which is why I suggested you ask the security community and/or ask around about the going rates...

Of course, 100% agreed on that. However, again, "defects published by Microsoft" and "known defects" are not the same thing. This is what I mean when I'm saying you're sticking your head in the sand, and that's why I suggested you present the question at DefCon -- everyone in the security...

One entry that can't be prevented by other means -- and the very, very short list means you can use other means to prevent the attacks. Oddly enough, this is exactly the IT attitude I was talking about in my first post -- You'd rather stick your head in the sand and pretend that IE6 is secure...

Ask Microsoft if IE6 has any known defects, the answer is no. Ask the hacker community if IE6 has any known defects, and they'd just assume you were trolling. "Defects published by Microsoft" and "known defects" are not the same thing -- this is why I suggested you present this line of thought...

Security by obscurity is no security at all, sir. IE6 is still swiss cheese any way you slice it, and trying to argue that you've chosen to stick with it for security reasons would get you laughed out of DefCon faster than you can find a new IE6 exploit (that's pretty fast, by the way)...

So, you're suggesting that IE 6, even with all of the available security patches, is more secure than using a frozen build of Chromium or FF? I'd say that is an absurd suggestion.

This has been mentioned twice now without rebuttal. It was painful to read through dozens of comments before this obvious solution was mentioned. It was equally painful to see it get ignored. Corporate IT culture, especially among Fortune 500 companies, has basically been stagnant for a...