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MojoKid writes:
A few weeks ago, AMD
released information on new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's K10 architecture and will feature a faster on-die memory controller, support 64-bit and 128-bit SSE operations, and they'll be outfitted with 2MB of on-chip L2 cache (512KB dedicated per core) in addition to 2MB of shared L3 cache.
Today,instead of revealing some more of the juicy details regarding those
enhancements,
AMD just sent over a tasty photo of a Phenom die. Click the image for a
high-res version.
183369
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S.S. writes:
Wouldn't it be nice if you could put "holds" on your Netflix movie slots — as it is now, you currently always have to all your movies checked out to you out once, even if you only really want one out at the moment. This is inconvenient because if you suddenly want to see a different movie than any of the ones you currently have checked out, you have to send a movie back — there's transit time getting the movie back to Netflix before they will send you a new movie. However, what if you could put any of your movie slots "on hold," so that even if you pay for the privilege of having three movies out at a time, you could opt to just have one movie that you want to see out, and you could put the other two movie slots on "hold." Then when you wanted to see another movie, you could remove the "hold" on one of your slots, and they would send you the movie that's next in your queue immediately, without having to wait for you to send a movie back. This would be efficient and save a lot of time — how many people get movies they don't end up watching, and would rather put their slots on "hold" to save for when they really want to see a specific movie?
Does anyone know if they're working on a feature like this?
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HNK writes:
Gizmodo.com has an article up about a new version of Real Player coming out. Why the good folks at Giz started the article with, "RealPlayer used to be cool," I'll never know, but the comments certainly rip into Real. Anyway, the basic scoop is that the new version of Real will allow you rip Internet streamed videos, with one click even. While this is a nice feature to add, there are other players that A) are better, B)are open source, C)are more functional, and D)HAVE NO MALWARE.
183263
submission
jcgam69 writes:
story:
"I was minutes from going home and I had only gone up there to relax and enjoy the view when I saw something moving on the surface of the water so I dashed to get the camera.
"It wasn't a wave because it was going in the opposite direction to the waves that I could see and the top half of it seemed to be black.
"My camcorder was on a black and white setting and it took me a while to find it again in the water, but I've got two-and-half-minutes of footage which I have shown to experts and they think it is definitely a living creature."
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/news?articleid=291 3523
video:
http://www.stv.tv/content/news/north_scotland/disp lay.html?id=opencms:/news/north_scotland/Man_belie ves_he_has_filmed_nessie
183183
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Talaria writes:
This is the first hand account, from a large U.S. broadband provider, of what happened when a zombie botnet — their customers' compromised computers — woke up and started attacking. As a total of more than 3000 customer computers woke up and started spewing Russian spam, this security team member details what occurred.
182863
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Ted Stoner writes:
The ultimate in case mods comes from 34 year old Kasey McMahon. A beaver stuffed with a "2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, Panasonic DVD writer, and AOpen motherboard" in the stomach and a fan to blow smoke out it's rear end.
New terminology to add to the lexicon. "I need to boot my beaver." "My beaver is down for maintenance." "My beaver is so hot."
A call to arms for animal rights activists perhaps.
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jfanning writes:
In Helsinki the 'CityWall' has just gone into operation. It is a 2.6 metre long multi-touch interface developed by the Ubiquitous Interaction group at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.
The technology developed for the wall would allow displays that are theoretically 16 meters wide and the number of users is limited only by available space. CityWall is described as 'a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a collaborative and playful interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city.'
The CityWall is designed to support the navigation of media, specifically annotated photos and videos which are continuously gathered in realtime from public sources such as Flickr and YouTube.
182299
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SkeeLo writes:
One of Vista's big selling points is security, but a report from CRN concludes that Vista offers little in the way of security advancements over Windows XP. Ars Technica analyzed the report and found some methodological problems. 'The report faults Vista for "providing no improvement in virus protection vs. XP," but of course Windows Vista does not ship with antivirus software — something the reviewer fails to mention. Faulting an AV-less Vista for not stopping viruses is a bit like faulting a door without a lock for opening when the handle is twisted.' That's not all: 'It was also disappointing to see CRN completely ignore the issue of buffer overflows, which has been addressed well in Vista by most accounts. This was a major weak spot with XP, and so far, Vista looks strong in this area, strong enough that Vista may never get its own "SQL Slammer." Why CRN didn't address this is a mystery, as it is no minor matter.'
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solitas writes:
Two Russian cosmonauts climbed out of the international space station Wednesday to install protective panels designed to shield the orbiting outpost from dangerous space debris... [while] The station's third occupant, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, remained inside.
An independent safety task force in February said that there was a 9 percent risk that the space station, once completed in 2010, could be hit with space debris severe enough to cause the loss of the outpost or crew members. That risk estimate was reduced to 5 percent if protective panels were installed on Russian portions of the space station.
Sections of the space station built by NASA and the Japanese and European space agencies were protected sufficiently against space debris, the task force said.
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It's been 40-odd frickin' years since Star Trek and we still don't have forcefields. Apalling.