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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!

Aw, c'mon. This picture is so fake. It would be splashed all over the news if that had actually happened. if you look at the plane, it looks like it's kind of leaning to one side. I may not be much of an aviation expert, but for an F-18 to go at that kind of wonky angle, it needs to have a pretty decent amount of thrust. Enough thrust, say, to blow out the windows in the apartment and deafen, if not throw off, the man "inspecting" the plane. And anyhow, the jet wouldn't fly so low. If it hit a tree or building with just a little wing scrape, it's going to be no miracle on the Hudson..... Just a big ball of flame. But, back in October or so, (I think in '09), there was some kind of airplane being escorted by an F-18 flying over New York... Scared the heck out of the locals. That was close. But this is a lot closer. I'm going to have to say that this picture is fake. Whoever made it has a thing for Photoshop, though.

Hey everyone,So I opened up a forum with a domain I got for free via Xisto. Yay! Now, I like to keep track of how many hits my website receives. So I signed up for google analytics. Now, my forum is running phpbb3. Now, I need help with inserting the code. I have utterly no clue how to track on PHP. Can someone please explain to me how to install this code?Thanks,Thejode

I was looking for free web hosting, and when I came across Xisto, I was like "what kind of name is Xisto?!?". Anyhow, like they say, you can't judge a book by it's cover. But I do think that the "Trap" is a little odd. What trap? What are you trapping? And the 17 part, it seems somewhat unprofessional, because 17 sounds like it's 1 year underage. (Underage for what, who knows?). Anyway, I think Xisto is probably a 30-minute thought-out company name. I think you guys should at least scrap the 17 part and turn it into hosting, so at least people can get that the website offers hosting.?

Happy new year to everyone!I hope 2010 is going to be most excellent to everyone. By the way @BH, I had no idea you were this good at poetry. Very nice. Once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I remember that I created a web browser similar to the one you mentioned. It was like a modified version of Internet Explorer, just somewhat cut down in terms of functionality. There is no back, forward, refresh, or history button. I find that it loads faster than IE due to the fact that has no add ons. I think there are probably tutorials for more complicated browsers on Youtube.

I think what it basically does is that a group of people who are willing to work really hard somehow manage to change how the google search functions. So I guess someone decided it would be funny if he changed the search results of "failure" to a biography of George Bush. It's actually pretty funny, but people complain about it to Google because they get pretty ticked when someone changes the search engine to purposely embarrass someone. I find it pretty funny. Really, it's quite harmless and gives google a little more Zest. I guess enough people complained, because these days, if you type "failure", it just shows results from the Urban Dictionary and details on the prank. It definitely was fun while it lasted.

The bush one doesn't really work anymore. The Creed one is funny. Where it says French Military Victories, it's not an actual google page. It's albino black sheep PRETENDING to be a google page. These are very funny though. Someone needs to make a list of these things.

Actually, I wouldn't say that the Droid has really been aimed as, what you said, "let's text and share videos" kind of phone. I bought it about 5 months ago, and I have to say, it's a very useful phone. I rarely ever text and have never shared videos. What I DO have is an unlimited data plan for only 20 bucks a month, and that has proven very useful. I can browse the web, check my email, use it as a GPS, ect. Some of the applications are very useful, including "A2B", which helps you locate your parked car, and the "Paypal" app, which helps you manage your paypal account on the go. I can't say that teens aren't using their phones to text and chat, but the Droid is not much of a social networking phone.

I really don't see the logic of whining about bad weather. It happens, it sucks, and that's life. People should expect bad weather and the general rush of the holidays to clog up the highways and airports. I can understand people being frusturated not being able to arrive to their destinations on the holidays. I saw a news article of people having to camp out in the airports, and believe me, that's not fun. But, you have to expect the worst when traveling.?

Yeah, really. It seems like people have been turning the bug in the camera to somewhat of a publicity stunt. So far, I havn't heard anything about it on the news, but I'm on vacation, so I havn't nessesarily been keeping track of world events as much as I usually do. Anyhow, the guy doesn't seem offended at all. Rather, he looks somewhat amused. All of those fools out there who think HP is 'racist' should be ignored. Would they really do something like that? No. It would ruin their public reputation, possibly stomping it out.?