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One of my colleagues was reading an article in a magazine, and he came across the pricing for the iPad. Apparently, the iPad costs something around 500 USD, right? Anyhow, the article mentioned that, with all the combined features required to make the device function, you will spend not $500, but $800-$1000 to make it function properly. Can anyone back this up, or is this a load of BS?

Bk2070: Kontera DOES pay through paypal. You can also configure for them to deposit to your bank account. Remember to configure your tax information, or they won't be able to send you any moola.

Hey Chiiga, Welcome to Trap. If you're wondering about hosting here, it's great. My server hasn't gone down ONCE, and my site operates at lightning-fast speed. You don't have to use your myCents just for hosting, either. If you want a free domain, all it takes is a little patience and a decent amount of posting. Trap is probably one of the most useful sites I've found. If you want to make some extra income here, you can sign up for Kontera(more on that here) and generate some extra revenue while generating myCent income and posting. Trust me, this place is no waste of your time. Best of luck, Thejode.

I opened up a fresh new forum only about 2 months ago, and somehow some Russian spammers managed to find it and post porn. It really is awful. I don't know why, but it seems like most of the spammers come from Russia. I do not wish to insult anyone, but this seems to be factual now. Wasn't there a service similar to dot.tk a while ago that would register free russian domain names?

Gosh. That's awful. But it's what you can expect from free hosting sites. Did you backup your data? I do that every day in case something like this happens. Hopefully you can get some free premium hosting here. I know I do, and it has turned out to be quite useful. I hope you can get your site running again. Have you contacted the JLK free hosting service? Maybe they can recover at least some of your sites. I hope you get your site running agin. Regards, Thejode.

This is why I hate having a webcam on my laptop. I cover it up with a post-it note, so if there's any spyware or other crap on my computer, they can't see what I'm doing. I know the chance is slim, but I prefer to have an external microphone and webcam instead of the built-in stuff you see on computers these days. Even if they wanted to "check" on the kid, they could have just stuck a simple keylogger that would only report the stuff the kids did wrong to the principal. If I were one of the kids, if I learned that the computer was bugged, I'd rip the battery out. Just like that. No machinery can operate without power, and this is the simplest and most effective method of stopping creeps from spying. Let's hope this isn't repeated......

Tommy Refene, an iPhone game developer, recently got his app, Zits & Giggles, removed from the Apple marketplace. This probably wasn?t much of a surprise to Refene, due to the fact he did a decent amount of mouthing off to Apple. Refene?s was a spokesperson at the ?Indie Gamemakers Rant? at last week?s Game Developers Conference?, or GDC. At the event, developers were given the opportunity to vent out about what ticked them off the most. So, Refene chose Apple as his primary target. Some pretty nasty things came out of his mouth, but one of them was that he enjoyed using an early 1990?s ?Tiger Electronics LCD Game? more than the iPhone. Of course, Apple wasn?t very happy when they received the news. But besides this, Refene decided to play around with his application?s price tag. Over the course of about a month, the app featured a price change, varying from $15 to $400. The day someone bought the app for $400 was the day Apple decided they had enough. Refene?s app was no more. But as everyone knows, Apple is not very good at communicating (except with your wallet), so Refene received no warnings that his app may be removed, or an email to negotiate a set price tag for his app. Even though I?m not much of an Apple fan, I do have to let Apple have this round. Imagine showing up at a grocery store to buy some oranges. The first day you come, a pound costs $5,000, then $1, then $800. Neither you nor I would ever want to return to the store, and the store would lose its legitimacy in the process. This isn?t the first time Apple stripped an app from the marketplace for having a wild price tag. An example would be the ?I am rich? app, which priced at $999, and only served to display a picture of a diamond with the words ?I am Rich?. I?m betting Refene is going to keep the battle going. He seems like the type. This definitely is not the end of the battle. But I can say it will result in headaches for Apple and Refene alike. Stay tuned???

Hey everyone, In case you didn't know, Google Chrome recently got an update that now allows you to have extensions, similar to those on Firefox. Two of my favorite extensions on Firefox are WOT(Web of Trust) and Adblock. WOT is basically a gigantic community full of people who rate websites based on their trustworthiness. There are 4 categories: 1.) Trustworthiness 2.) Vendor Reliability 3.) Privacy 4.) Child Safety Each one has a bar of 1-100. You grab the pointer and drag it to where you feel it fits most appropriately. Now, I always access my cPanel via Xisto - Web Hosting.com. But Web of Trust warned me that the site fit under the categories of Malware/Malicious content and Spyware or adware. Maybe one of the sites they host are bad? Take a look for yourself at https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/www.computinghost.com. Anyone know if they did host bad websites in the past?

Wow, that's pretty cool. I know I wouldn't have the patience to sharpen all those pencils and just glue them on. Who made these things? I'd really like to see more of this artists work.

You know, back in 2008, this thing was supposed to wreck havoc upon all computers that were infected with the Conficker worm. And what happened? A whole lotta nothing. You know, I'm not really looking forward to the security in 2010. Hackers are probably thinking, "We haven't made a decent virus for a while. How about a New Year's resolution to crack 5,000,000 bank accounts?". Well, maybe not that nuts. I hope.Anyhow, I keep hearing about how all these free security systems like "Avast" and "AVG" security are better than paid products like Norton and whatnot. Why would something free be better? Who says they're not going to poison their own software, or let a virus "slip through the cracks". Only unless you're 10, you should be able to head to your nearest Best Buy and get yourself a decent security system. Probably the majority of people who get their computers hacked and have a parade of GeekSqad guys march through their house are those who rely on freebies.

Guitar Hero Van Halen is the WORST Guitar Hero out there. Most people make the pun, Van Failen. It deserves it. 1.) All the features of Guitar Hero 5 have been stripped. Since it was developed before Guitar Hero 5, it still has the old and outdated features of Guitar Hero: World Tour. It could make you barf. 2.) So there are 25 or so Van Halen songs. But who was the genius who threw in all the OTHER songs? Like Weezer? Yellowcard? They probably pulled the artists out of a hat and just slapped them on there. If you've gotten it bundled with Guitar Hero 5, great. If not, it's absolutely NOT worth the 60 dollars. This is my worst game experience.

I agree. It's really stupid to stay up just for a videogame. Anyhow, I think MAG is supposed to be "epic", due to the fact that it can have 256 players in a single battle. I think that's WAY to much. 256???!! Everyone would be SO disorganized.

I hear that it uses a similar OS to the iPod touch. Most people were probably expecting something upgraded from the iPod touch. Maybe it has time to unveil itself. Have you seen Steve Jobs? Gosh, he's as skinny as a rail. Look's like he's on deaths doorstop. I think a lot more people will be into the pad, because it's not too small like a little iPhone, but not too big and clunky like a full-sized desktop. I think Apple may have another win, because that thing looks COOL. I will definitely be heading to the Apple stores soon to check the Ipad out.

Okay, the movie was pretty good. I heard it had been worked on for TEN years to develop the technology used for their special effects. Ten years? Can you imagine? Anyhow, it paid off. They were fantastic. I saw the movie in 3D, and 3D has turned into a marketing gimmick more than an "actual" 3D experience. 3D still needs to be developed a lot more. It's like watching a movie with sunglasses on. What kind of fun is that? The plot line was decent. One thing that would've improved the movie drastically was the soundtrack. It was a typical Hollywood soundtrack. Same scenerio with Titanic. Good movie, but the soundtrack definitely brought it down a notch. Other than that, it's an enjoyable movie. Well worth your time and money. 4/4

Are you a member of Rockyou.com? You probably know about this (and have most likely deleted your account and sided it with a complaint letter to the company), but 33 MILLION passwords were stolen from the database, and are now floating around in cyberspace. Some people have gotten so ticked, they?ve sued rockyou. Now, you may thing ?It?s not their fault, it was a security breach?. This is a lot worse. They might as well write their passwords on their office building. The passwords were stored in simple text files, UNENCRYPTED. Now, what is Rockyou? They?ve created social networking applications, such as ?Pieces of Flair?, and ?Superwall?. Now, here?s kind of the problem with Rockyou?s user database. The most popular user password was ?123456?, followed by ?12345687?. Other incredibly imaginative and secure passwords were closely following these two, including ?Password?, ?QWERTY?, and ?rockyou?. If a hacker used the list of top 5,000 passwords for a dictionary brute force on Rockyou, it would take only one attempt per account to guess about %0.9 of the community?s passwords. At this rate, hackers would gain access to 1 account every second, or 17 minutes to gain access to 1,000 accounts. Now, estimates show that sites like Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, etc. probably carry the same population of people who use these ridiculously easy passwords. But they have a captcha, a computer generated image that displays text and letters at a funky angle and weird colors. (Generated by Google) Other security systems require you to answer a question (?What is the color of the sky??), and complete arithmetic problems via a captcha. Most experts agree that passwords haven?t changed from 20 years ago. Users and businesses are just becoming more careless about security measures. Companies are also worried about employees using the same insecure password they use for social networking sites as they use for their business. This brings a new threat of a mass password hack that could result in millions of dollars lost. Who will suffer? Those who are careless. Beware of ?123456? passwords!