Posts by Grashnak

Gamer fails STAM roll, dies after 40-hour Diablo III stretch

Died of shock

Probably got an item drop that was something he could actually use, rather than sell at the auction house, and his heart couldn't take the shock.

Testicle-boiling new iPad ignites fanboi fury

Specs Under Review

Anticipated Explanation:

Our rigorous specification identifies several levels of thermal comfort:

Level 1: Puppy in your lap

Level 2: Cheesy pizza burning the roof of your mouth

Level 3: Passing out face first over a bonfire whilst camping

Level 4: Spontaneous human combustion

Level 5: Trip to the centre of the sun

The iPad continues to function as intended at about Level 3.5. Don't hold it wrong.

Juror jailed for looking up rape defendant on Google

Worst Excuse Ever

Sometimes my English isn't so good? I'd have given her another six months for trying to insult the court's intelligence.

If you can't speak English well enough to understand a simple instruction, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you shouldn't be sitting on a juror weighing evidence delivered in English.

Faustian descent into backup hell: A play in two acts

Why would it matter?

The software is just cloning a hard drive - why on earth could it possibly matter if that hard drive is in a laptop or not? Why should it matter where it is at all? It could be nailed to a board for all that matters.

Condolences for the bs and thanks for convincing me never to touch Acronis's products.

Hey dumbo, Facebook isn't sharing telephone numbers

Why is this so hard to understand?

It's not that Facebook is sharing your phone number with the world, but it IS sharing it will all your "friends". Now, unless you're that rare person who is only Facebook "friends" with people you actually know, Facebook has given your phone number to a bunch of perfect strangers.

I looked at my contact list and I have dozens of private numbers for people I don't know. I used to write for a music blog, and a zillion people friended me back then. I'm pretty sure they didn't intend to send me their private cell phone numbers. Some are even relatively well known people whose numbers are almost certainly not public knowledge.

Did those people "agree" to this when they clicked "ya whatever"? Sure. Did they know what they were doing? I doubt it. So I'm not sure if that's Facebook's problem or not, but I do know that it's a bad thing if every 14 year old girl's cell phone number is available to all 3000 people she plays Farmville with.