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Man gets 5,000 calls for YouTube posting

Posted by: [NT] on: 04/23/2007 01:07 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 767 views

Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands.
So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.
Fitzgerald said he wanted to "be there," for anyone who needed to talk. "I never met you, but I do care," a spiky-haired Fitzgerald said into the camera on his YouTube posting. Yahoo has more.

Pirate Bosses Order a Hit on DVD Sniffer Dogs

Posted by: [NT] on: 03/22/2007 01:32 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 839 views

Malaysian movie pirates have put a bounty on the heads of two sniffer dogs who busted a fake DVD ring with a seizure of discs worth about $3 million, media and officials said on Thursday.
Lucky and Flo, two female black Labradors deployed by Malaysian authorities in their crackdown on pirated movie DVDs and music CDs, carried out their first major successful operation in Johor state on Tuesday. ExtremeTech

Is Your Child A Computer Hacker? ;-)

Posted by: [NT] on: 03/10/2007 11:00 AM [ Print | 14 comment(s) ] · 1919 views

Nice fun read found by the Inq 3. Has your child asked for new hardware? If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never sold in stores, and you will most likely be told that you have to order them from internet sites. Do not buy this chip! This is one request that you must refuse your son, if you are to have any hope of raising him well. Whole story here

Star Trek's 'tricorder' realized

Posted by: [NT] on: 03/08/2007 02:08 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 737 views

Purdue University researchers have demonstrated a portable instrument that they claim can identify any substance in less than a second, much like the "tricorders" used by the crew of the Enterprise in the Star Trek series. The 20-pound, battery-powered unit combines a mass spectrometer with a desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) source.
"The detection is done in an ion trap—an RF device that traps ions, then lets them out on the basis of their masses, enabling you to be exactly sure what compound you are sensing," said Graham Cooks, Henry Bohn Hass distinguished professor of analytical chemistry at Purdue's College of Science EE-Times

Man sues Microsoft over porn surfing history

Posted by: [NT] on: 03/05/2007 07:10 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ] · 1112 views

A US citizen is suing Microsoft for $200,000 after Internet Explorer failed to delete his history of pornography sites.
Michael Alan Crooker bought an HP computer running Windows XP and Internet Explorer from retailer Circuit City, and said that he was assured it would protect his privacy.
But when he was arrested on firearms charges, police cracked the PC's security and found his internet surfing history, along with videos of himself and his girlfriend engaged in sexual acts. More of this at Vnunet

More R600 pictures ?

Posted by: [NT] on: 03/02/2007 02:45 PM [ Print | 7 comment(s) ] · 1209 views

Would like to see more and detailed R600 pictures? See them here

$10 wok keeps TV station on air

Posted by: [NT] on: 03/01/2007 01:48 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 587 views

Found it on Slashdot.org Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective?
This is exactly how North Otago's newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down.
45 South volunteer Ken Jones designed the wok transmitter in his spare time last year when he wanted to provide wireless broadband to his Ardgowan home. Read on

New Operton CPU discovered on SETI@HOME ?

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/28/2007 02:31 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 964 views

On Boincstats a new CPU has been discovered which is much faster than anything else which is listed with 2 cores.
The web rumours that this CPU could be the new Barcelona CPU from AMD.
It´s listed as following: AMD Athlon(tm)/Opteron(tm) CPU-model unknown Who knows who knows...............(maybe it´s an alien CPU ?)

DMCA takedown notice for BackupHDDVD at SourceForge

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/28/2007 11:34 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 567 views

I just got a message from SourceForge informing me that they were issued a DMCA takedown notice for BackupHDDVD and have complied. I'm pretty sure BackupHDDVD doesn't violate much of anything so any info (NO legal advice) as to what exactly my options are would be much appreciated...... More: doom9

Steve, show us the code !

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/26/2007 07:57 PM [ Print | 4 comment(s) ] · 896 views

An open letter to Steve Ballmer Your repeated claims that Linux violates Microsoft's intellectual property has come to the attention of the Linux community. Not only that, but it's been reported Microsoft has convinced businesses to pay for a Linux patent that you can't provide.
Therefore, this website will serve as a response to this accusation, and within it, a request. The request is simple, since you, Microsoft, claim to be so sure of yourself: Show Us the Code. Show us the Code and Show Us the Patents. Lets make this crystal clear. The whole letter at ShowUsTheCode

Name the Game Contest

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/19/2007 10:29 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 540 views

We’ve teamed up with PowerColor to bring you a fun new contest. This month, thanks to PowerColor, we’re giving away a PowerColor X1650XT Graphic card! This card has some firepower and we don’t want it to reach to the wrong hands, so you will have to prove that you deserve it.

Man sues IBM over adult chat room firing

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/19/2007 07:21 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ] · 744 views

A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
James Pacenza, 58, of Montgomery, says he visits chat rooms to treat traumatic stress incurred in 1969 when he saw his best friend killed during an Army patrol in Vietnam..... Read the whole story at Yahoo

When DRM dies what happens to my restricted songs?

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/17/2007 01:39 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 617 views

Interesting question...As the music industry transforms and ultimately ditches DRM–and it will happen probably sooner than we think–one question is left hanging: What happens to the tunes you bought already with DRM restrictions?
On a feature at RealMoney (subscription required) called Columnist Conversation Michael Comeau asks an interesting question:
"If DRM gets abolished, I wonder if Apple (AAPL) will allow people to download songs they've already purchased in the unrestricted mp3 format." Read the answer here

Nvidia 'delays' key Vista driver release ten months ;-)

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/15/2007 02:20 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ] · 1363 views

Nvidia inadvertently - we hope - yesterday told its customers they will have to wait until 6PM Pacific Time on 30 December for a crucial Windows Vista driver update for its GeForce line of GPUs. Reg Hardware readers looking for the software last night were presented with the following screen... Reg has more

More ATi R6xx Rumors

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/02/2007 01:07 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 672 views

The latest rumor out there revealed that R600 is 80nm process technology and is entering mass production soon . R600's Z no-AA performance is 2.5x, FP16 blending & filtering performance is 2.7x, FP32 blending & filtering performance is 3.9x, FP16 filtering performance is 8x of R580. R600 final clocks could be at 814MHz and has 64 unified shaders. [This could imply 32 ROPs]. According to the rumor, it seems that low end RV610 will be on 65nm process, Digital PWM, 8 layers PCB, 256MB/128MB 64bit DDR2. For the mainstream RV630, it will be on 65nm process, bi-directional PWM for GPU and uni-directional PWM for memories, support 2x256MB 128bit GDDR4. Source: VR-Zone

More information on ATI's R600 'Ruby' demo

Posted by: [NT] on: 01/31/2007 09:45 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 1155 views

Elite Bastards send some words about new Ruby Demo informations.
Here´s what they saying: The only real news here (which will undoubtedly spark off all kinds of inappropriate fantasies) is that Ruby in fact has a younger sister - Jade. To tie in with the whole AMD/ATI acquisition, Jade will be dressed in green compared to Ruby's red. It appears that the plot of this demo will involve Jade being kidnapped to lure Ruby into action to save her sister. Cliched perhaps, but are you really looking forward to watching a DirectX 10 technology demo for the plot?! Sadly, there is really nothing new in the way of technical details about the demo (nor of course R600 itself), but at the moment we're grateful to grab any tidbit we can about ATI's next-generation plans. Elitebastards has more.

XPSP2 will limit your max. connections/sec

Posted by: [NT] on: 07/20/2004 02:29 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ] · 27490 views

Hi

Just found this in my event-log after starting emule:
"EventID 4226
TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts"

This is what I get from a M$-Guy when i asked him why XPSP2 slows down programs like emule which open many connections to different destinations:

"Thanks very much for responding. This new feature is one of the stack's
"springboards", security features designed to proactively reduce the
future threat from attacks like blaster and Sasser that typically spread
by opening connections to random addresses. In fact, if this feature had
already been deployed, Sasser would have taken much longer to spread.

It's not likely to help stop the spread of spam unless spammers are
trying to reach open email relays in the same way, by opening
connections on smtp ports of random IP addresses.
This is new with XP SP2 and we're trying to get it right so that it does
not interfere with normal system operation or performance of normal,
legitimate applications, but does slow the spread of viral code. New
connection attempts over the limit for half-open connections get queued
and worked off at a certain (limited rate)."

If anyone knows how to switch it off please leave a comment...

Online Penition to stop the release of doom3

Posted by: [NT] on: 07/16/2004 08:38 PM [ Print | 19 comment(s) ] · 4650 views

Some people wishes to stop the release of doom 3 since it contains satanistic symbols. There has started an online petition containg the following text...
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TWEAKNEWS.NET DEFRAUDED AGAIN!

Posted by: [NT] on: 06/29/2004 10:52 AM [ Print | 4 comment(s) ] · 2738 views

Tweaknews.net has caught yet another person posing as a hardware reviewer and trying to obtain expensive hardware illegally. This time the young man was trying to get some expensive Twinx 1024-3200ll Pro modules from Corsair.

Here is the forum topic where I lay out all the information on what happened.

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RIAA Claims Music On Car Radios Meant Only For Original Vehicle Owner

Posted by: Newsfactory on: 01/29/2004 10:52 PM [ Print | 11 comment(s) ] · 9718 views

Please only read on if you understand satire Another great idea from the RIAA:

The Recording Industry Association of America announced today it would be expanding its crackdown on copyright infringement by suing family members, hitchhikers and carpoolers.

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Linus Torvalds: SCO Is ''Just Too Wrong'' also

Posted by: [NT] on: 01/27/2004 11:36 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 1007 views

In an interview here to Businessweek Online , Linus Torvalds has called Rats with rabies and Wrong in any imagined position. I think , he is pissed off by SCO tactics of mud-slinging LINUX in enterprise community without any independently proven proof on paper.

Digital Rage @ GeekExtreme.com: PETA Strikes Again

Posted by: Newsfactory on: 12/23/2003 02:46 PM [ Print | 8 comment(s) ] · 1446 views

As Editor-In-Chief of GeekExtreme.com, I give my opinion on a lot of things. Normally, I don't comment on ideas outside of the "Geek Universe." However, recently PETA moved me to do just that. With a single graphic image and the slogan "YOUR MOMMY KILLS ANIMALS," PETA succeeded in getting my attention. Have the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gone too far?

Novell applies for Unix SystemV code copyright ,which Sco claims ownership ,and

Posted by: [NT] on: 12/22/2003 10:22 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 990 views

As said here , Novell has registered for the copyrights on UNIX System V 2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2/386, 4.0, 4.1, 4.1ES, 4.1ES/386, 4.2, and 4.2MP with the U.S. Copyright Office. Which SCO has already claimed for ownership and is trying to spam Fortune 1000 linux using companies to seek damages for IP infringement. I remember getting all cozy on reading Novell's take-over of Ximian (a linux developer) for 200 millions (approx.) and also about rumours of IBM thinking of getting Novell.
But if this news by Groklaw.net is true, then all hell might break loose in the linux world and that makes me sick. But Guess who is happy with this news? For complete synopsis on Novell's SystemV code registration warp2.. Groklaw.net

Microsoft Research:- Is the future of Emails, Forum interface?

Posted by: [NT] on: 12/22/2003 10:04 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 985 views

Scott Hanselman has wrote in his blog here , showing/discussing a concept of future email frontend from labs of Microsoft Research , which pretty much looks like todays forums. For screenies and more details warp2. .www.hanselman.com/blog.

XGI so-called optimisations

Posted by: [NT] on: 12/19/2003 07:51 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 878 views

The news posted here earlier about XGI optimising their drivers from benchmarks have been flatly denied on XBitlabs :

go check it out: Xbitlabs