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bleedingpegasus writes:
US Air Force apparently buying another batch of PS3, 2200 to be exact. This is after a machine that under development by the Air Force, codenamed "Roadrunner" rumoured to have bought 300 PS3 (old-big version) only to be dismantled and its Cell processor combined to make some kind of neuromorphic brain for combining images to form higher resolution radar's results looks to be successful.
What tickles me most is not the idea behind it — but why Cell processor by Sony? And why not just buy the processor directly, won't that be any cheaper?
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bonch writes:
After apparently disabling and then re-enabling support for the Atom chipset in test builds of their 10.6.2 update, Apple has officially disabled support for the chipset in the final update released yesterday. This makes it impossible for OSX86 users to run 10.6.2 on their Atom-based netbooks until a modified kernel shows up. One important issue fixed in the update is a data deletion bug.
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llManDrakell writes:
Sophos recently ran a test to see how well UAC on Windows 7 was able to stop the latest viruses.
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suraj.sun writes:
European publishers want a law to control online news access
A group of European publishers has signed a declaration that aims to see its draconian Automated Content Access Protocol forced on search engines and news aggregators by legislation.
A group of European publishers has recently released a declaration of principles, the "Hamburg Declaration," that amounts to a long-winded rant against the Internet for stealing their news. They want the government to step in and fix the situation by force of law.
Most of the statements in the relatively short declaration ( http://www.epceurope.org/presscentre/archive/International_publishers_demand_new_intellectual_property_rights.shtml ), which will surely take its place among thousands of other European declarations on intellectual property and other matters that have come out over the past few years, hinge on the idea that "universal access to news" does not equal "free." In this respect, the publishers want to maintain the democratic ideal of a "fourth estate" that provides news to an informed citizenry, while simultaneously restricting access to that news to those who can pay for it directly.
What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers' favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol ( http://www.the-acap.org/ ), the force of law.
ARS Technica : http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/07/european-publishers-want-news-access-controls-legislated.ars
