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Nintendo is the top dog, and Microsoft is holding steady. Now, Sony may have more of a chance than first thought as Microsoft deals with recent troubles. Shiny graphs inside.

By Edith Honan NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A former White House official who took top secret documents from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office and gave them to opposition figures in the Philippines was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years

"If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it." Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay told a gathering of College Republicans were included in a video produced by writer Max Blumenthal.

Recently this thread got some exposure here on digg, bringing in a short lived flood of consumer opinion, and now After 1,655 posts and almost 50,000 views someone has saw fit to silence all discussion on the issue. Well i guess i at least will be voting with my consumer dollars and taking my money elsewhere, no more wine-ing their software for me.

You tip the pizza man, you don't tip the Fed Ex driver. You tip the bartender at the pub, and you don't tip the McDonald's clerk; but you do tip the barrista at Starbuck's. The US has ritualistic levels of tip etiquette, which admittedly don't exist other places in the world but, the question remains; Why don't we tip our IT service people?

It gathers computer's IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer's registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL.

Gareth Groves bought a Hummer, parked in on the street outside his home, and less than a week after he had Washington, D.C., tags, it was vandalized with windows and headlights smashed, tires slashed and the metal body chopped with a machete-like tool. Some passerbys are horrified, others say he deserved it for owning such a vehicle.

Here are a lot of things you can do to help make research papers work for you â€" and get a decent grade in the process.

The music industry got some bad news from the European Court of Justice today, as the EU's highest court ruled that ISPs are not required to hand over subscriber info to the music industry.

Mexico wants the world to know what food is authentic...Taco Bell's vision of Mexico is something entirely alien south of the border. When the fast-food chain tried to establish a presence in Mexico City in the 1990s, consumers were so perplexed by the "burritos" that a leading newspaper helpfully included a definition.

The Patent Reform Act of 2007 may be headed to a vote by the full House of Representatives after a modified version of the bill was approved by the Judiciary Committee. The bill would, among other things, change the US to a first-to-invent patent system from its current first-to-file system.

It took him 18 minutes and 50 seconds to swim 0.6 miles in waters created by melted sea ice at temperatures of 29°F â€" the coldest a human has swum in.

On May 30, 2007, DreamWorks greenlit two sequels to Transformers.Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Peter Cullen are signed on to return.

Larry Flynt told Larry King that he has at least 30 more names to release in his quest to expose Republican hypocrisy. And ye shall be shocked at a certain Senator that he has left unnamed so far. Sounds like a James Dobson/Wingnut/phony family values man to me….Hannity and his pals are probably feeling a little “uneasy” right about now…

Who knew Bill Kristol had such a flair for satire? How else to read his piece for Outlook on Sunday, in which he declared, 'George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one'? Surely Kristol, the No. 1 cheerleader for the Iraq war, was mocking himself (and his neoconservative pals) fo...

Was I only dreaming or did we use to have something called "Due Process of Law?"

Britain became separated from mainland Europe after a catastrophic flood some time before 200,000 years ago, a sonar study of the English Channel confirms.

Do you currently work with a real-life David Brent? Follow this list to see if you do.

Read the horror stories of people that have installed Automatix thinking that it would save time, only finding out that it would break their entire systems. Check out the alternatives to really pimp out your Ubuntu System.

Why hard-core gamers have to care about casual-gaming audiences and what the impact is for us hard-core gaming fanatics!

The unique combination of the open source model with the universalism of web design remains one of the ideal applications of the open access philosophy. Here are 100 resources--including open source design software packages, CSS tools and generators, templates, and code sources--that can save you time and money while designing web sites.

Apparently the online co-op play may not be 4 player as rumored and may not exist at all. Although there is still hope that it will be patched in later.

Ferrari surprised us all today by revealing the newest F430 model, which we though would be called the Challenge Stradale like past models, but instead is being called the Scuderia. It's an F430 meant primarily for the track, as it's lighter and more powerful than a normal F430.

"Here's a gallery of a 59-feet-tall 1:1 Gundam robot, lying down in its base at Mount Fuji. I know the world is entranced by Transformers right now, but please excuse my enthusiasm when I say... "it's full-scale Gundam! A REAL GUNDAM! Look at those pics! LOOK AT THAT DETAIL! OMFG!"

IDC released marketshare numbers for the top U.S. and worldwide computer brands.Apple's 2nd Quarter 2007 U.S. marketshare was up to 5.6% of U.S. shipments. This tied Apple in 3rd place with Gateway for U.S. marketshare for this quarter. Dell and HP were well ahead at 28.4% and 23.6% respectiv...

"It took an unlikely straight on the final card of the 205th hand, but Jerry Yang finally eliminated Tuan Lam to win the 2007 World Series of Poker's Main Event, the $8.25 million first prize and his first WSOP bracelet."

A slick web 2.0 SSH client for you iPhone with that nice iPhone look and feel. Give it a try. Works great in a normal web browser too. Contains helpful security tips.

Walmart will start selling a $300 PC with Vista Basic and no Trialware. PC made by Everex with 1.5Ghz Processor, 1GB RAM and 80 GB Hard Drive. The PC will also include free OpenOffice pre-installed. It looks like Walmart finally is getting something right!

A woman who hates spiders is crediting them with helping save her from a house fire.

Since true random numbers are impossible to generate with a finite state machine, scientists are forced to either use specialized expensive hardware number generators, or content themselves with suboptimal solutions. A 'true' random number generator that relies on the unpredictable quantum process of photon emission has gone online.

This is in reaction to horrific vehicular deaths of five teens where driver was texting while driving. Recent poll of people 18-24 years old shows 2 out of 3 admit to sending text messages while they drive.

After an XKCD comic strip joked about getting an on-ride photo of someone playing chess on a roller coaster, many readers have sent in their own photos of various board games on extreme rides.

Find out about the Eclipse Platform, including its origin and architecture. Starting with a brief discussion about the open source nature of Eclipse and its support for multiple programming languages, we demonstrate the Java™ development environment with a simple programming example.

E3 may have ended last week but the my E3 hangover still lingers. There's lots of info to process from the event that's still stuck in my head. Here is something that's easy to process, a talk with Morgan Webb...

You don't have to have seen Sicko to know that if there is one area of human endeavor where private enterprise doesn't work, it's healthcare. Consider the private, profit-making insurance industry, which Bush is so determined to defend. What "innovations" has it produced? The deductible, the co-pay and the pre-existing condition are the only ones

Scripts, books, treatments and other ideas that just never got off the ground. Well, "I Am Legend" finally did, so maybe there's hope for the others.

Think this will get the same traction as the story about someone else's haircut?

Electronics specialty retailer Best Buy, which announced in April that it would be expanding its Mac pilot program to about 200 stores, has begun fitting some of its higher profile locations with radically improved Apple store-within-a-store concepts. These include 'mini theaters' with stereo speakers and embedded Apple cinema displays.

This can't work. Unless a few drops of this extravagantly expensive liquid can form a seal around every piece of crap as it comes out your ass on its way into the toilet water....or can it?

Usually, when someone spouts creationist garbage, it’s because they’ve been mislead. We have a case of this, in spades, in the Evansville (Indiana) Courier Press, where a highly deluded creationist has written an editorial so full of crap I’m tempted to call a septic cleaning crew.