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Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs 409

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @02:31PM from the well-perhaps-in-some-senses dept.

Sasayaki writes "South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson claims, in an interview with Good Game, that gamers were more of a threat to his family than biker gangs. This is the man who has been the biggest opponent to Australia receiving an R18+ rating for video games and who has the power to veto any such law introducing it."

Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware 441

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 02, 2008 @09:09AM from the so-they-say-now dept.

unassimilatible writes "As new features of Windows 7 continue to trickle out, ZDNet is now reporting that it will scale to 256 processors. While one has to wonder, like with Vista, how many of the teased features will actually make it into the final OS, I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody." This Mark Russinovich interview has some technical details (Silverlight required).

Comment Re:History of the term: Snail Mail? (Score 1) 196

by dwvanstone on Monday October 24, 2005 @11:28AM (#13864091) Attached to: Email Turns 34

Really? Can you link to any etymological documentation?

I really doubt that mail without a zip code was actually stamped "Snail Mail". Perhaps I wouldn't mind this comment if the moderators rated it "funny", but all the moderators so far has rated it "informative".

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