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Submission + - Tremblay Hiring May Signal Parallel Push At MS (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "Microsoft's hiring of Sun chip designer Marc Tremblay could be part of a parallel computing push at Microsoft, InfoWorld reports. The former CTO of Sun's microelectronics business will manage a little-known group that sets software/hardware strategy for Microsoft. Tremblay, who holds over 100 patents, played a key role in the development of multithreaded, multicore Sparc processors. Test results suggest that Microsoft's Windows OS runs faster on CPUs with up to four processor cores, after which performance levels may deteriorate as more cores are added."
Privacy

Submission + - BitTorrent communities can be targetted (arstechnica.com)

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Death Metal
Death Metal writes: "A research team from Northwestern University has found that BitTorrent users form unintentional communities based on their shared interests, and that the communities can be used to launch a "guilt-by-association attack." An open-source plugin restores privacy, though at some cost to transfer speeds."
Privacy

Submission + - Church files complaint against online blogger. (jacksonville.com)

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Scr3wFace
Scr3wFace writes: "After a church filed a complaint about a blog, a police detective — who also is a member of the pastor's security detail — opened an investigation. The detective got a subpoena from the State Attorney's Office requiring Google Inc. to provide information about whoever was behind the site. Names, addresses, etc. It's important to note that the blog never threatened violence. Was it harshly critical? Sarcastic? Unfair? That's a matter of opinion. But it never threatened violence. And the detective closed the investigation, finding no criminal wrongdoing.He also provided the church, his church, the identity of the blogger. The church then issued a trespass warning against Thomas A. Rich and his wife. Most chilling about all of this: Those in power — from the police to the church leaders — not only defend this chain of events, they say it's how things should work. The Sheriff's Office says there wasn't a conflict of interest and that the detective did the right thing by passing along the blogger's identity to the church. The State Attorney's Office says there wasn't anything unusual about the subpoena, which made it possible to figure out who was tapping away at a computer keyboard. Happens all the time. Not just with blogs. With e-mails, text messages, etc. And I'm not sure what to make of one detail of the saga, other than perhaps the irony of it, but one form of communication that wasn't part of this investigation — face-to-face talking with the blogger. This isn't necessarily unusual, police say, especially considering that no criminal wrongdoing was found. But what if, as the blogger believes, the ultimate goal of this process wasn't to find wrongdoing but to find him? More details to this can be found here. http://fbcjaxwatchdog.blogspot.com/ http://www.newbbc.accura.net/FBCSubpoenas.pdf http://www.newbbc.accura.net/JSO-InvestRep-Sept29.pdf http://www.newbbc.accura.net/JSO-InvestRep-Nov13.pdf"
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Does professional gaming have a future? (bit-tech.net)

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mr_sifter
mr_sifter writes: "Three years ago, celebrity gamers such as Fatal1ty were bagging millions in prizes and TV channels were queuing up to broadcast games on TV. Professional gaming looked set for the big time. It never happened, and in the current economic crisis, sponsors and media organisations are cutting costs, resulting in the closure of many pro gaming competitions and a downscaling in prize money. This feature looks at whether pro gaming can bounce back, and whether it will always be a PC sport, or if console pro gaming is the future."
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Apple switching to quanity over quality? (digitimes.com) 1

Submitted by Trintech
Trintech writes: Apple has reportedly placed orders for 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips. (Note: The chips hold 8 Gigabits which equals 1 GigaByte) This is an odd move for Apple because they generally use much higher density chips even in small storage products like the 4GB iPod shuffle which uses a single 32Gb NAND chip. There has been some speculation as to what Apple might do with all these low density chips and, as usual, Apple refuses to comment.

1GB iPod Femto anyone?
HP

Submission + - $99 HP Laptop -- no Intel Chips. (engadget.com)

Submitted by jmccarty
jmccarty writes: From the article: ... NVIDIA is showing off an HP Mini 1000 at CTIA that it has totally gutted, replacing the laptop's stock Atom-based circuitry with its own Tegra wares atop a bone-stock Windows CE build. At first the move seems counterproductive since Tegra can't run XP or Vista, but if you look at this as the first prototype of a large Tegra-powered $99 MID, you're thinking along the right lines.

Comment Re:Europe... (Score 1) 199

by dblackshell (#27500229) Attached to: Organized Online, Students Storm Gov't. Buildings In Moldova
well this cannot be know, no study or research has been done on that matter. But I can tell you that we (most of the young people, under 30) don't share the ideology, and don't care about.

A small example, from the entire Romanian blogosphere I read daily (100+) there were only 3-4 who wrote an article about it, and a couple which came with twits like: "gonna watch some TV... actually changed my mind, you can't see anything else except the riot in Moldova".

Comment Re:Europe... (Score 1) 199

by dblackshell (#27492093) Attached to: Organized Online, Students Storm Gov't. Buildings In Moldova
from the way you speak, and the protests your speaking about I assume you are a member of "Noua Dreapta", an ultra-nationalist organization...

Moldova and Romania have moved on two separate roads, and it's not our right, not our duty to intervene. There is no room for "divine" intervention, if they want to go through with this they'll have to sort it out themselves.

Just take as an example the way that the US cleaned Iraq from dictatorship. Now there are more bomb attacks, political conflicts, etc that anyone would have imagined. The changing of the system can only be done by their citizens, intervention may be interpreted by the communist party as a lack of power from the people they rule.

If you and your ultra nationalist party are rebelled by what's happening, I invite you and your little fellas to go in Moldova and sort things out.
Censorship

Submission + - Phoenix Police Seize PC's of a Critical Blogger

Submitted by logicassasin
logicassasin writes: From the article found here — http://carlosmiller.com/2009/04/02/phoenix-police-raid-home-of-blogger-whose-writing-is-highly-critical-of-them/

"In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department.

Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, routers, modems, hard drives, memory cards and everything necessary to continue blogging.

The 41-year-old software engineer said they also confiscated numerous personal files and documents relating to a pending lawsuit he has against the department alleging harassment — which he says makes it obvious the raid was an act of retaliation."

Read an Arizona news article on the raid here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/03/19/20090319copsblog0319.html

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