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Submission + - AMD Radeon HD 6990 Launch on 8th March (vr-zone.com)

Submitted by tincat7788
tincat7788 writes: Presentation slides on the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card which is slated to launch on March 8th has been leaked. AMD is touting it as the world's fastest graphics card as least till NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 comes along. The Antilles card comes with dual Cayman XT GPUs at 40nm process, 2 x 389mm2 die size, 2 x 2.64B transistors, 3072 ALU, 192 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 4GB of GDDR5 memory at 256-bit width and 5.0 Gbps data rate.
Intel

Submission + - Light Peak is now officially Thunderbolt (intel.com)

Submitted by
xkr
xkr writes: "Intel announced today "Thunderbolt" PC connection technology running at 10 Gbps. The novelty is mixing both video display data and data-data on the same cable. The protocol extends the popular concept of embedding one popular protocol inside of another. Both PCI Express and DisplayPort run on top of Thunderbolt. I wonder if USB and Ethernet can effectively run on top, too?"
Piracy

Submission + - Another file-sharing case dropped before trial (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by
nk497
nk497 writes: "UK prosecutors have tried to drop yet another file-sharing case rather than risk taking it before a judge. This time, prosecutors dropped a case against Filesoup admin George Cartledge, who was arrested in 2009. His legal team argued the case was full of "defects", notably because the investigation wasn't run by police, but by film industry body FACT. "Itâ's right that copyright holders should be afforded the protection of the court, they'(TM)ve just been going about it in entirely the wrong way," said David Cook, of Cartledge's legal firm Burrows Bussin, which last year defended a 17-year-old accused of illegally trading music files via OiNK — whose case was also dropped by prosecutors."

Submission + - Australian ISP's Copyright Win (abc.net.au)

Submitted by
jaa101
jaa101 writes: "Medium-sized Australian ISP iiNet has won a copyright case against the major movie studios. Local studio Village Roadshow was joined by 33 others, including the US majors, in arguing that iiNet was not doing enough to stop its users pirating content. iiNet may have been chosen as a target big enough to set an example but small enough to beat. Today's victory was on appeal in the Australian Federal Court, confirming an earlier ruling a year ago that was won with costs."

Submission + - Court rules Against Studios in Piracy Case (theage.com.au) 1

Submitted by skirmish666
skirmish666 writes: The giants of the film industry have lost their appeal in a lawsuit against ISP iiNet in a landmark judgment handed down in the Federal Court today.
The appeal dismissed today had the potential to impact internet users and the internet industry profoundly as it sets a legal precedent surrounding how much ISPs are required to do to prevent customers from downloading movies and other content illegally.
Software

Submission + - Original Doom Ported To A Calculator (omnimaga.org)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "For years, students could spend their math classes playing various stripped-down clones of Doom and on their graphing calculator, but thanks to MRaklopaz, now they can even play the real game from ID software on the TI-Nspire. A video of the game in action is available there. It seems that Doom is on anything with a screen, these days."

Comment Re:Linux fails... AGAIN (Score -1, Flamebait) 168

by Nuno Sa (#35252776) Attached to: London Stock Exchange Price Errors 'Emerged At Linux Launch'

Those *are* facts. The new system is better in every metric. The old system failed several times. Once it crashed and stayed down for the better part of the day.

The cause of the error in unknown... As always.

Anyway, there's no need for the "root cause". It failed. It was slow. Somebody had to eat a frog and scrap the whole system. And in the 90s they said nobody ever got fired for buying MS. Good old days. Too bad for some it's 2011!!

And you don't have to be bitter, MS' stock may hold a few months more with the Nokia buyout. :-)

Comment Easy (Score 1) 1

by Nuno Sa (#35252630) Attached to: Ask Slashdot

The email headers (like To, Cc, Subject) play no part in deciding to whom the message goes.
The message goes only to the recipient pointed in the SMTP conversation, the "RCPT TO:" header.

This example smtp conversation will appear to be addressed to one@example.com but will only be delivered to two@example.com, and not one@example.com
Everything after the "DATA" is useless regarding the final destination of the message:
--- Cut here ---
HELO server
MAIL FROM: linus@linux.com
RCPT TO: two@example.com
DATA
TO: one@example.com
Subject: Got you!

Hello
.
--- Cut here ---

The similar email address is just some creative/random domain substitution ;-)

Comment Re:Linux fails... AGAIN (Score 1, Interesting) 168

by Nuno Sa (#35252448) Attached to: London Stock Exchange Price Errors 'Emerged At Linux Launch'

Btw, they are _upgrading_ to Linux, because the previous system (Windows and .net) failed several times, required MW of energy and was slow.

This new _upgraded_ system is many orders of magnitude faster.

Unfortunately, it appears, it wasn't properly tested... WTH? I'd expect for the system to run only 100x faster, instead of 1000x faster, during the first few weeks. Or maybe that some API from 1990 stopped working. Wrong data is just too much. Maybe the story isn't telling all the facts? ...Hmmm... Maybe the affected clients are running Windows?!!!!!!
Microsoft

Submission + - New SMB Bug in All Versions of Windows (threatpost.com) 2

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Researchers have identified a new remotely exploitable vulnerability in all current versions of Windows that could be used by attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. There is already a proof-of-concept exploit in circulation for the bug.

The new bug lies in the BROWSER protocol, which runs on top of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on Windows. Microsoft security officials said that the vulnerability is most likely to be found on servers, but that all current versions are vulnerable.
Microsoft

Submission + - Gates & Ballmer dumping MSFT shares (theweek.com)

Submitted by walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: Microsoft Founder and Chairman Bill Gates sold 10 million Microsoft shares earlier this month, for a total of 90 million shares sold over the past year (a value of approximately $2.5 billion). CEO Steve Ballmer also sold nearly 50 million shares in the past week, his first stock selloff in seven years. Gates is still Microsoft's largest shareholder, with nearly 600 million shares. But should other investors be nervous about the accelerated rate of his divestiture?

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