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[wallaceb]

I will be updating this thread with new posts containing interesting tech news, come here often!


Nacospeak hurls computer through window

A Nacospeak man who startled his neighbours when he hurled his computer out of the window in the middle of the night, was let off for disturbing the peace by police who sympathised with his technical frustrations.

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China Limits Teenage Internet Gaming

The Chinese government has launched a campaign to limit the number of hours teenagers spend online playing games. Uh oh, if they restrict teenagers from online gaming, how is anyone in China going to get pregnant?

Under new rules that took effect Monday, Chinese Internet gaming companies must install a program that requires users to enter their ID card numbers. After three hours, players under 18 are prompted to stop and "do suitable physical exercise."

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RIAA Ordered To Cover Defendant's Legal Fees

The RIAA, after suffering a string of high profile loses in court and other legal setbacks, was just ordered to pay $70,000 in legal fees for someone they tried (unsuccessfully) to sue. Now that is funny!

Until Monday's ruling in this case, called Capitol v. Foster, the Recording Industry Association of America had never been ordered to pay attorneys' fees as part of its ongoing battle against allegedly illicit file swapping, according to attorney Ray Beckerman, who has been tracking such suits at the blog Recording Industry vs The People.

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Criminals Using Botnet To Attack iPhone Buyers

Researchers at PandaLabs have issued a warning to iPhone users about the new Aifone.A bot Trojan that is making the rounds.

Looking to buy an iPhone? Beware that the Web site you think you're visiting actually may be a phony site set up to empty your bank account instead of sell you a new iPhone.

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Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again?

Hackers have released a new version of the FairUse4M program that strips copy protection from your music so it can be copied and shared at will.

The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft's digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files, was published online late Friday. In the past year, Microsoft plugged holes exploited by two earlier versions of the program and filed a federal lawsuit against its anonymous authors.

[Fusion Fox]

"China Limits Teenage Internet Gaming"

Probably a good idea when people play so much they forget to eat and starve to death...

[wallaceb]

fusionfox said:

"China Limits Teenage Internet Gaming"

Probably a good idea when people play so much they forget to eat and starve to death...

like Everquest *cough* Evercrack *cough*

[morefood2001]

I don't play games enough to say that I play games While I am on, I typically find myself programming or surfing this forum LOL

[Guru Mandi (will return)]

The Nacospeak one was so funny, though!

[wallaceb]

mangafangirl said:

The Nacospeak one was so funny, though!

agreed ;D
things like that always bring a smile to my face

[wrathoftwilight]

wallaceb said:

fusionfox said:

"China Limits Teenage Internet Gaming"

Probably a good idea when people play so much they forget to eat and starve to death...

like Everquest *cough* Evercrack *cough*

Keep with the times. Everquest is soooo last decade. World of WarCRACK is a better example...
Although, I read the other day that two parents almost starved their children while playing D&D Online.

[Luke Danger]

Couldn't read the one about criminals using botnet to attack iPhones

[wallaceb]

Boy Finds $90k In PS2 Bought On eBay

You know, I never have this kind of luck when I shop on eBay. Hell, I never have this kind of luck…period. The funny part is that an eBay spokesman called the incident “somewhat unusual.” Ya think? Thanks to [H]ard|Forum member TheDreamer for the link.

The cash arrived in a box at the house in Aylsham, Norfolk, with the games console, but minus two games. An eBay spokesman said the parcel's contents were "somewhat unusual" and it would help police with their inquiries.

[chrisc801]

digg.com/view/technology

[Kelvinho]

OT: The iPhone really is Apple's first major security challenge, haha!

[wallaceb]

www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2113

this is a great article that explains some of the new technology that is being implemented in new motherboards.

any new mobo you buy right now, i think you need to make sure that it has these components

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It's about time some motherboard manufacturers started solving the long-renowned capacitor issue. Other than Gigabyte, is there word of any other companies adopting this new technology?

[Joe Stoppinghem]

I know that Dells are notorious for this problem.

[Luqkim...]

fusionfox said:

"China Limits Teenage Internet Gaming"

Probably a good idea when people play so much they forget to eat and starve to death...

I heard the government created some sort of "Boot Camp" for these gamers ..

Parents could send them there where they will be "Treated" for their "Illness" through counsellings and Military training ..

Sweet.

[wallaceb]

will said:

It's about time some motherboard manufacturers started solving the long-renowned capacitor issue. Other than Gigabyte, is there word of any other companies adopting this new technology?

sadly no.

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Macbook vs Subaru == Applesauce?

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MySpace Deletes 29,000 Sex Offenders

MySpace announced today that it has deleted the accounts of 29,000 convicted sex offenders, more than four times the figure the company had initially reported.

The new information was first revealed by U.S. state authorities after MySpace turned over information on convicted sex offenders it had removed from the service. "The exploding epidemic of sex offender profiles on MySpace -- 29,000 and counting -- screams for action," Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in a statement.

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Lawsuit Seeks To Shut Down Facebook

Can it be? Did the owner of Facebook steal the idea from the founders of ConnectU while they all attended Harvard together? You’d think it’d be pretty easy to prove if it happened the way they say it did.

The lawsuit's allegations against Zuckerberg include fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. It asks the court to shut down Facebook and give control of the company and its assets to ConnectU's founders. A hearing on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit is scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston.

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Netflix Stock, Website Both Go Down

What is worse than having your stock hit its lowest point ever? How about having your website crash the very same day. Netflix must be having “one of those weeks.”

Netflix Inc.'s stock price plunged to its lowest point in more than two years Tuesday after the online DVD rental leader reported the first quarterly customer losses in its history and dimmed its earnings outlook for the rest of the year. To make matters worse, Netflix's Web site — the hub of its rental system — went down Monday evening and remained inaccessible as of Tuesday afternoon.

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wallaceb said:

sadly no.

Aw man, that's very unfortunate. I'm not a big fan of the Gigabyte brand and would hate to part from ASUS, they've never done me wrong. So, anyway, how much more does it cost to get one of these new motherboards? One would assume higher quality capacitors would mean significantly higher prices, right?

[wallaceb]

will said:

wallaceb said:

sadly no.

Aw man, that's very unfortunate. I'm not a big fan of the Gigabyte brand and would hate to part from ASUS, they've never done me wrong. So, anyway, how much more does it cost to get one of these new motherboards? One would assume higher quality capacitors would mean significantly higher prices, right?

the cost is not too much more.

[wallaceb]

Projekt V2

Tell me this ^ and cool ;D

f you want to see what all the fuss is about in the forums today, check out this amazing case mod called Projekt V2. Just FYI, your eyes are not playing tricks on you, those are side pipes and pistons.

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AMD Phenom @ 3GHz & 3-Way CrossFire Sighted

AMD is showing off something that many people have doubted them about lately, and that is a high speed quad core processor. While not mentioned by name at AMD's analyst day, there are "Quad Core Processors for Desktop" being demonstrated using 3-way CrossFire. Both machines are running a yet-to-released Phenom processor based on the Agena core. One machine is running Call of Juarez and the other is running Stranglehold. I have personally played stranglehold on an Agena system and watched it fully utilize all four Agena cores!

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Crysis Island Walkthrough Trailer

Shacknews is hosting the 288MB HD version of the Crysis island walkthrough trailer. If you haven’t had a chance to see this title in action (or haven’t seen it lately), you really must grab this video.

n case you hadn't seen a watermarked version during E3, here is the new Crysis island walkthrough trailer. The video offers three minutes of gameplay footage.

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Show Us What You Got!

always wonder what other people have? take a look at that ^ ;D

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Do Magnetic 'Avalanches' Damage Disks?

For those of you that missed this story, scientists say they are working on ways to make data storage more reliable after discovering that "avalanche" effects in spinning magnetic fields can cause data loss in hard drives.

Spinning magnetic fields can cause avalanches or ripples across an area of the disk's surface, according to two physicists, Joshua Deutsch, a physics professor at the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California; and Andreas Berger of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, who reported the effect in the US Physical Review Letter on July 13th.

[wallaceb]

AMD Spills its Barcelona, Puma, fabrication plans