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• Commented on Movie Studios Create Special Blu-Ray Slipcovers For Target, This Target Tosses Them In Trash
  Buying gold or other precious metals might be a wiser investment than Blu-Ray slip covers in the long run given the amount of disposable income the OP seems to have on hand.. I'm trying to grasp if the Consumerist is...
• Commented on Yep, Microsoft Bought Skype For $8.5 Billion
  Cause Skype 5 wasn't bloated already?...
• Commented on Some Say Kinect Is Breaking Old Xboxes
  Both my old 360 and the new shiny S model are working great. Kinect attached and all....
• Commented on Dealership Sells Car To Elderly Man With Dementia, Who Then Dies After High-Speed Chase
  If you ask me they did the old guy a favor. His life sounded like it sucked pretty bad. He got a last tase of freedom and a huge thrill before finally passing away and ending his suffering. I mean...
• Commented on I Can't Play My Video Game, Nor Can I Return It (Updated)
  He does state in his letter to consumerist that the machine was actually booted into Win7 x64. It wasn't virtualized....
• Commented on I Can't Play My Video Game, Nor Can I Return It (Updated)
  The huge caveat with PC gaming is the min and recommended requirements. Steam has them listed with every game at the right side of the screen. Apple obseletes hardware so fast that this usually isn't an issue. Not so with...
• Commented on Poll: Americans Deeply In Love With Full Body Scanners
  Someone needs to make a video parody of the SNL skit and call it "Jizzed in your hand" re: the new TSA groping policies....
• Commented on How Gadgets Designed For The Dump Are Killing The Planet
  Has anyone showed this to Steve "12 month refresh cycle" Jobs?...
• Commented on PS3 Lets You Stream TV-Unfriendly Sport On Your TV
  Phil's probably still a bit sore from breaking his TV playing Kinect Volley Ball and having to buy a new one. http://www.1up.com/news/kinect-claims-busted-television I personally don't care about any sports networks on my gaming console since it takes valuable time away...
• Commented on It Took 13 Months To Get My Incredibly Crappy Wedding Video - What Should I Do?
  Our videographer just made a shitty little montage at the beginning of the tape with music we hated, then proceeded ot just give us 4 VHS tapes with the raw footage for the rest of the wedding and reception. My...
• Commented on United Doesn't Care That I Lost My iPad Onboard
  How about storing your 500+$ piece of gear in your CARRY-ON and not the seatback when you're done with it.. No sympathy for you!...
• Commented on What's Your Debt Free Date?
  I was on track to being debt free within 3-4 years (other than a mortgage) however we decided to have another child. (daycare for 2 kids is a bitch and a half.)...
• Commented on US Airways: Sorry Your Sister Is Gravely Ill. $30 To Sit Together, Please.
  Why is everyone expecting charity from for-profit organizations is beyond me. Last I heard, there's isn't a company called Bleeding Heart airlines. Sympathies go out to Bernadette and her husband.....
• Commented on Burger King Agrees To Private Investor Buyout
  I've got a craving for a Whopper with Bacon and Cheese all of a sudden......
• Commented on After 6 Years, Microsoft Makes Xbox 360 Controller That Works Right
  That headline is pretty freaking harsh. The 360 controller works great and the d-pad is really the only weak point of it. And that one works fine for anything except fighting games.....
• Commented on HBO Shows Too Good For Streaming On Netflix
  Make previous seasons of shows available on on Netflix and delay the new stuff for a year. Offer the past seasons on Netflix a week or two before the new season starts to build buzz and get new viewers that...
• Commented on Sony Zapping PS3 With Hard Drive Growth Ray
  Given that you can stick and off the shelf laptop HDD into a PS3 and it'll work, if I ever outgrow my 120, upgrading should be really easy and cheap....
• Commented on Xbox 360 Glitch Gives Away Five Downloadable Games
  Not doing this. It's probably against the TOS and will get you banned. I'm not going to risk it for 5 old and shitty SNK games....
• Commented on IKEA's Blue Screen Of Death
  Yes, cause Microsoft is the one that writes shit code and all 3rd party and driver writers are flawless......
• Commented on After Replacing My Broken Nook Four Times, Barnes & Noble Has Given Up
  Aaaand Microsoft and the Xbox 360 is thrown under the bus yet again for the entertainment of the the blogger.......
• Commented on Consumer Reports: New iPhone Is Best Ever
  Ya know.. Consumerist never talks about positive reviews CR gives to ANY OTHER piece of Consumer Electronics other than Apple products.....
• Commented on Five Months From Now Microsoft Will Stop Gouging Families For Xbox Live
  I'd really love to see a charts of adjectives used in conjecture with company names in articles. Seems withever Microsoft is mentioned, words like gauging, epic failure, and "congratulations (?) to Microsoft for doing something right.". (And these are all...
• Commented on Google In Hot Water For Collecting Data From Your Wireless Networks
  "Google says they were capturing the data "inadvertently" and that the quality of the data was poor because the cars were moving. " The quality of the packets is the same regardless of if a car is moving or not....
• Commented on Everyone But Microsoft Says Xbox Motion Controller Will Cost $150
  A lot of people seem willing to shell out 150$ for the thing. It's been alternating between #1 and #2 in the Amazon.com Best Sellers list in Video Games all week now. http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=pd_ts_zgc_vg_video_games_display_on_website_mot1?pf_rd_p=475985451&pf_rd_s=right-5&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=468642&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0E5MPSP4WN7JNE1AZZ4B When you think that the starter kit...
• Commented on Microsoft Took Red Ring Out Of Redesigned Xbox To Prevent Red Ring Of Death
  The E74 errors are also included in the 3 year warranty that covered the RROD so your point it moot....
• Commented on AT&T Salesman's Lies Stuck Me With A Stupid Obsolete iPhone
  The iPhone 3GS does everything the 4G does except for the Front facing camera and the Gyroscope. Nothing here is a huge necessity. How about you stop lusting for the latest and greatest and just be content with the great...
• Commented on Sony Wants To Sell You Enhanced PS3 Online Access, Motion Controller
  It's 49$ for the wand only. The off-hand equivalent of the Wii Nunchuck is another 30$. Multiply that by the amount of players in your household and it comes up to a fair chunk of money overall. Sony/Microsoft would've been...
• Commented on Bing Cashback Ends July 30
  That's a pretty creating tag on the Bing Bong Death Knell. I don't thing a search enging that has 11% of the market and has been only going up the last year is going anywhere. Sorry to dissapoint you there...
• Commented on Apple: 10 Million CDMA iPhones On Order - For Verizon, Perchance?
  Welcome to the rest of the world, where we actually have iPhones in the CDMA variety. I know navel gazing is fun but not everything is about the US. Up here in Canada, the iPhones can be found on Bell,...
• Commented on Downloadable PS3 Game Requires You To Be Online To Play
  Game Sharing may be against the TOU but Jack Tretton said a couple of years back when the PS3 was 600$ that Game Sharing was a feature. quote SCEA’s President Jack Tretton even condones game sharing: “You can send that...