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by CodyRazor (#26143807) Attached to: Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown

I just got 20,676 in 3Dmark Vantage. I can run crysis max settings 1920x1200 with 4x AA and i get 40fps. before I couldnt even have everything max at 1920 with no AA, same GPUs but a e6700 dual core. so it made a huge difference for me and was worth it.

Why does everyone on slashdot act like high end gaming doesnt exist or is unimportant? I thought this site was for nerds...
Censorship

Submission + - UK teachers want to ban Youtube

Submitted by WombatDeath
WombatDeath writes: The UK's Professional Association of Teachers is demanding that Youtube be shut down in order to remove threatening and bullying video footage from the internet. Following cases in which teachers have struggled to have individual clips removed, a spokeswoman for the PAT said that "Being exposed to ridicule, whether as an adult or young person, is a humiliating and frightening experience," adding "In the short term confronting this problem must be the closure of sites encouraging the cyber-bullying." Are new measures necessary to counter online bullying or, as Youtube asserts, are its existing processes able to deal with such situations?
United States

Submission + - Misleading Studies Obscure Public Health Problems

Submitted by IceTwinkie
IceTwinkie writes: Countless research papers and news reports about high-risk sexual behavior and methamphetamine use in gay communities have neglected to make any comparison to their straight counterparts. For this reason, there is a false impression that meth use followed by unprotected sex is only a problem among gay men. Researchers from the San Francisco Department of Public Health report that meth use among men who have sex with men has decreased over the past three years due to aggressive public health campaigns. Meanwhile, unprotected sex among heterosexual methamphetamine users is a continuing problem. Perhaps for political reasons, researchers and the media have been so focused on meth use in the gay community, that they have completely neglected the same behavior among straight addicts. As a result, public health campaigns have been aimed exclusively at gay men when they should have been available to the general public.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Man burns opponent's house for calling him "ne (theglobeandmail.com)

Submitted by
prostoalex
prostoalex writes: "The Globe and Mail is reporting on a feud between two members of a picture-sharing site that motivated one of the opponents to drive down to Texas from Virginia, meanwhile taking photos of his trip and sharing them on aforementioned picture-sharing site, to burn the victim's house down: "Investigators say Tavares boiled over when Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under a "Revenge of the Nerds" sign. Tavares obtained Anderson's real name and hometown from Anderson's Web page about his Museum of Horrors Haunted House. Tavares took leave from his post as a weapons systems operator at the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren, Va., and started driving. Investigators say he told them he planned to point a shotgun at Anderson and shoot his computer.""
Windows

Submission + - Hacking kiosks and ATMs with Windows sticky keys

Submitted by
pestilence669
pestilence669 writes: "An alarming number of kiosks and ATMs (like the V-Com units in 7-11) run Windows XP. I've recently made it a hobby to play minesweeper and surf the web on these units. Most, if not all, are connected to the Internet. BitTorrent from an ATM? It's easier than you think! Gaining control is as simple as five keystrokes.

The companies that build ATMs and kiosks seem to know nothing about keyboard shortcuts. If there's a keyboard attached, you can bet that they removed the TAB key to prevent ALT+TAB abuses. Little do they know, ALT+TAB is not the only way to lose focus for an application.

If you're a fast typer like me, you've probably been greeted with the Microsoft sticky keys dialog. It asks you if you want to enable "sticky keys." It's a usability feature that helps disabled individuals type with one hand. Sadly, it's pseudo-enabled by default since this dialog box appears. Most people don't know it, so it's ready to be abused on just about every production XP-based kiosk or ATM (with keyboard).

All that needs to be done: hit the SHIFT key five times. SHIFT is guaranteed to be included in even the most restrictive keyboard layouts. In almost every instance, the sticky keys dialogs appears. As the kiosk or ATM application looses focus, you'll be presented with the XP start menu in the background. Many of these machines use a complete install with Minesweeper, Hearts, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Fun!!!

I've made it a regular habit to browse Slashdot, send email, and surf blogs from just about any kiosk that I find. Whenever my wife uses the bathroom at Dave & Busters, I'm reading blogs in the lobby. Whenever I'm at 7-11, I'm surfing with the ATM.

What's really scary about all of this is how easy it is to install executable code onto these devices. They're on the Internet and they have local storage. As far as I can tell, in my own experience, there are no restrictions in place. What's to stop someone from installing their own COM/ActiveX "helper" object and intercepting all HTTP/bank traffic?"
Security

Submission + - Fox News' FTP Password Anyone? (whitedust.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While browsing around the Fox News website, I found that directory indexes are turned on. So, I started following the tree up, until I got to /admin. Eventually, I found my way into /admin/xml_parser/zdnet/, in which, there is a shell script. Seeing as it's a shell script, and I use Linux, I took a peek. Inside, is a username and password to an FTP. So, of course, I tried to login. The result? Epic fail on Fox's part. And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic.
The Media

Submission + - Computer Program to Predict Film Blockbusters (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by
arclightfire
arclightfire writes: "Epagogix [film industry analysts] have designed a computer program to assess a proposed Hollywood film's chance of success — the Guardian reports; "...It breaks down scripts into hundreds of constituent elements (the setting; whether the hero is black or white or an alien; if everyone's speaking Aramaic), assigning each one a commercial value. Epagogix claims it can estimate 80% of projects' likely US box office to within $10m of the final figure. 'It does something that the studios can't do and we can't do and you can't do — the inter-relationship between multiple factors that the mind just can't compute,' says Nick Meaney [of Epagogix].""
Robotics

Submission + - Walking on Water

Submitted by qeorqe
qeorqe writes: A robot is being developed at CMU that walks on water. It is modeled after the basilisk lizard. Information about the robot can be found in a pdf file. They have done both computer simulations and experimented with test models. External counter weights were used with the models.

Information about why you can't walk on water is in a ppt file and also converted to an html file in the Google cache.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Core 2 refreshed - QX6850 and E6750 (hexus.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: As AMD's Barcelona approaches, the price war between AMD and Intel continues. To spice things up a bit this week, Intel is throwing into the ring a number of new processors, refreshing the Core2 line-up. HEXUS reviews the high-end QX6850 and mid-range E6750: 'Now is a golden time for anyone looking to buy a new CPU, whether Intel or AMD. The latest round of price cuts means you can now get an incredible level of processing performance for little more than £100. But if your need to buy is not urgent, remember that Intel and its big rival are each promising new processors before the end of the year — AMD with K10 quad-core and Intel with 45nm Penryn-derived CPUs.'
Censorship

Submission + - Terrorists guilty until proven innocent (smh.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Australian Government is well behind in the polls with an election due by the end of the year — so time to wave the terrorist doll, scream 'Terrorist, Terrorist", and hope the voters are scared out their wits.
An Indian doctor is working in Australia, and he went to med school with some of the terrorist suspects in England. He apparently left a mobile phone SIM card with his English cousin, and so after being locked up for more than a week without charge he was finally charged with "recklessly lending a SIM card to terrorists". Now this guy may be innocent or guilty of something or other, but when a magistrate released him on bail the Immigration Minister immediately revoked his work visa, and now he's off to an immigration detention centre. We Aussies have learnt from Guantanamo Bay !
Announcements

Submission + - MIT finds cure for fear (pressesc.com)

Submitted by
Doom con runs away
Doom con runs away writes: "MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience. They did this by inhibiting a kinase, an enzyme that change proteins, called Cdk5, which facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context."
Microsoft

Submission + - How To Crash Vista In 10 Seconds

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Despite its improved security, when Microsoft designed Vista it apparently forgot fix an old Achilles' heel that's plagued Windows for many years. According to InformationWeek blogger Alex Wolfe, Vista can be crashed in 10 seconds or so by simply holding down the "Windows" key and the letter "E." This'll open up hundreds of Windows Explorer, and eventually the system will stop responding. Do you think this is just one of those stupid oversights by normally smart people, or does it say something damning about Microsoft's approach to security?
Music

Submission + - Apple release DRM free tunes

Submitted by
IndiepoprockJesse
IndiepoprockJesse writes: "Apple today released their announced DRM free itunes music. The new service, called iTunes Plus, let's you download DRM free music with a higher bitrate at 30 cents a piece more. Currently only EMI music is available in the DRM free AAC 256kbps format, including singles and albums from Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane and more than a dozen of Paul McCartney's classic albums. People who have EMI music on their computer can upgrade to the new DRM free format for 30 cents a song or 3 dollars for most albums.."

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