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Comment May go back to AMD... (Score 5, Insightful) 399

by Guysdrinkingbeer on Saturday December 18, 2010 @07:03PM (#34602924) Attached to: Intel's Sandy Bridge Processor Has a Kill Switch

I was looking forward to this CPU. Now, I am really going to research this. This may flip me back to AMD. I didn't like when Intel did the tracking on the PIII and the sound of this makes me just as uncomfortable.

Comment Re:the joy's of running a big block (Score 1) 525

by Guysdrinkingbeer on Tuesday December 22, 2009 @12:16AM (#30520358) Attached to: The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line

Amen. That's all I have to say to that.

New Massive Botnet Building On Windows Hole 223

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 01, 2008 @11:29PM from the so-patch-it-already dept.

CWmike writes "The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with an emergency fix in late October is now being used to build a fast-growing botnet, said Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro. Dubbed 'Downad.a' by Trend (and 'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec), the worm is a key component in a massive new botnet that a new criminal element, not associated with McColo, is creating. 'We think 500,000 is a ballpark figure,' said Macalintal when asked the size of the new botnet. 'That's not as large as some, such as [the] Kraken [botnet], or Storm earlier, but it's... starting to grow.'"

Comment Already approved? (Score 3, Informative) 153

by Rentiak on Sunday March 25, 2007 @09:15PM (#18482823) Attached to: Washington State To Try RFID Drivers Licenses

According to this CNN article, the initiative appears to already have been approved by DHS.

"The pilot project, signed into law by Gov. Chris Gregoire and formally approved by (DHS Secretary) Chertoff on Friday"

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/03/24/border.crossi ng.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Submission + - MS trying to spur Vista sales with more discounts

Submitted by Ang on Sunday March 25, 2007 @08:16PM

Ang writes: Is Microsoft having worries about selling Vista already? Ars reports that Microsoft has announced yet another "discount program" for Vista, but these new discounts work out only to a 10% discount — not much when retailers already sell Vista below list price. To make matters worse, the discount program would still end up costing you $100 more than the older "family" discount built around Vista Ultimate in some situations. Is all of this complexity supposed to help sell Vista?

Comment Re:Ah, here at last. (Score 3, Funny) 105

by Guysdrinkingbeer on Saturday May 06, 2006 @01:43AM (#15275588) Attached to: One Second Ads Hoping To Grab Your Eyes

So, this is what twenty minutes into the future looks like.

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