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Comment Re:I've mostly bought AMD over the years but... (Score 1) 180

by patowic on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:25PM (#35086824) Attached to: Asus, Gigabyte To Replace All Sandy Bridge Boards

My i7-2600 on a Gigabyte P67 mobo is running just fine right now. I'm only using the SATA3 ports, so this problem will never affect me. Regardless of this, Gigabyte has already publicly declared that I will be able to exchange my mobo for a new one once they've gone and _made_ those new ones.

this i7-2600 is the _fastest_ cpu I've ever run into. It's an absolute screamer -- running TEN kvm VMs under ubuntu 10.04.01, at a posted load average of 1.02. to the kernel, the hyperthreading makes it look like an 8-way box, and my world community grid numbers (overnight, when the kvm machines are shut down) are smokin'.

I'd rather this hadn't happened, but Intel/Gigabyte are handling this like pros. I'll be using this server until such a time as the new mobos are available.

DIY FireHero Project 27

Posted by samzenpus on Friday January 07, 2011 @12:26PM from the I'm-burning-for-you dept.

If you have a propane tank, an ultrasonic sensor, a copy of Guitar Hero and a touch of pyromania, this is the project for you. From the article: "For version 1 of FireHero, the player simply watches a video of the guitar hero chart and plays on the guitar accordingly. Version 2 of FireHero will have a much better system, with Autoplay functionality. I will be able to take a custom guitar hero chart, convert it into a MIDI file, and use Processing to analyze it and play FireHero to the track."

Psystar Activation Servers Down? 245

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 09, 2010 @06:49PM from the bad-news-bears dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I purchased Rebel EFI in support of Psystar's crusade back in October. Just 3 short months later, I have no support. I found this out when I upgraded my hard drive and installed Snow Leopard using Rebel EFI. The program can no longer 'phone home' to activate or download/install drivers. This is a direct contradiction to Psystar's promise posted on their website: 'Psystar will continue to support all of its existing customers of hardware and software through this transitional period. Warranties on hardware will continue to be honored as long the customer has a valid warranty. Rebel EFI support for existing customers, as always, will remain exclusively available through email and the built-in ticket interface.' Has anyone else run into this issue? It has been 9 days with no response from Psystar by e-mail or phone."

Minnesota Introduces World's First Carbon Tariff 303

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @05:29PM from the hey-cut-that-crap-out dept.

hollywoodb writes "The first carbon tax to reduce the greenhouse gases from imports comes not between two nations, but between two states. Minnesota has passed a measure to stop carbon at its border with North Dakota. To encourage the switch to clean, renewable energy, Minnesota plans to add a carbon fee of between $4 and $34 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions to the cost of coal-fired electricity, to begin in 2012 ... Minnesota has been generally pushing for cleaner power within its borders, but the utility companies that operate in MN have, over the past decades, sited a lot of coal power plants on the relatively cheap and open land of North Dakota, which is preparing a legal battle against Minnesota over the tariff."

Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 21, 2009 @11:46AM from the close-enough-to-feel-the-vacuum-breeze dept.

c0mpliant writes "NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released a simulation of the path of an asteroid, named Apophis, that will come very close to Earth in 2029 — the closest predicted approach since humans have monitored for such heavenly bodies. The asteroid caused a bit of a scare when astronomers first announced that it would enter Earth's neighborhood some time in the future. However, since that announcement in 2004, more recent calculations have put the odds of collision at 1 in 250,000."

Journal SPAM: Top prosecutor in AIPAC case quits 6

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday February 28, 2008 @09:00PM

Published: 02/28/2008

The top prosecutor in the case against two former AIPAC staffers is quitting.

Less than two months before the trial date Kevin DiGregory, an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia's Eastern District, is joining the private intellectual property firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips starting Monday.

Journal SPAM: ACLU: U.S. Terror Watch List Surpasses 900,000 Names 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday February 28, 2008 @08:43PM

Wow! Just by reading these words, you probably have a better chance of making this list than winning the lottery. "In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department that the terrorist watch list information in the United States had over 700,000 names, and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month. At that rate, our list will have a million names on it by July." I wonder

Journal SPAM: Spooks Looking for Terrorists in MMRPG 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday February 28, 2008 @08:07PM

In another bogglingly absurd and potentially abusive reach of surveillance by military and intelligence agencies, it appears that US spies believe that Osama Bin Laden may have fled caves in Tora Bora, to a secret base in World of Warcraft. After the US Congress mandated the Director of National Intelligence to submit a public re

Journal SPAM: USAF Mining Data Useage Patterns to Find Thoughtcrime

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday February 28, 2008 @07:51PM

If shutting down access to blogs isn't enough to create resentment, the Air Force is "developing data mining technology meant to root out disaffected insiders based on their e-mail activity--or lack thereof." With "Probabilistic Latent Sema

Journal SPAM: Was Scientology Plagiarized by Hubbard? 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday February 28, 2008 @03:28PM

Based on the evidence of this 1934 German publication, by Dr. Anastasius Nordenholz, it appears that the notion of the Church of Scientology were copped by Hubbard - the church's purported founder and prolific pulp SciFi author. Another interesting note: the English-language term "Scientology" o

Submission + - Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor.

Submitted by

DeusExCalamus

on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @11:25PM

DeusExCalamus writes: "Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs. Read more here: http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html"

Submission + - Gene Simmons: College Kids Killed Music Industry (reuters.com)

Submitted by

drcagn

on Thursday November 15, 2007 @01:56AM

drcagn writes: "Gene Simmons has blasted 'college' kids and claims that they have destroyed the music industry, with the labels also to blame for not properly suing them out of existence when they had the chance. When asked about Radiohead and Trent Reznor's recent support of a different direction in music distribution, he says "that's not a business model that works. I open a store and say 'Come on in and pay whatever you want.' Are you on fucking crack?" When asked about music being free and making money off of merchandise, he says, "The most important part is the music. Without that, why would you care?" even though earlier in the interview he brags that he believes that KISS's merchandise is more profitable than Elvis's or the Beatles'."

Submission + - Why Can't I buy a cablecard ready set top box? (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by

Al E Usse

on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @05:40PM

Al E Usse writes: "Ars Technica does a write up of the problems that haven't been solved by the July 1, 2007 integration ban on integrated security in your cable box. Three months after the ban went into effect, digging up a third-party, CableCARD-ready set-top box can be an exercise in hair-pulling frustration. The companies who make the boxes don't seem interested in selling to consumers, cable companies still push their own branded devices, and Best Buy employees... well, the less said the better. We've heard the pain of our readers on this issue. One of them described his own epic (and fruitless) quest to secure such a device. His conclusion? "Although I should be able to buy a set-top box of my own, nobody will sell me one. I am standing on the doorstep, wad of cash in hand, yelling, 'Please take my money! I want to buy!' but am turned away."

Submission + - US faces US$100 billion fine for web gaming ban

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Thursday October 11, 2007 @05:34PM

Stony Stevenson writes: A Brussels think-tank has accused the US government of reneging on commitments made to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over internet gaming. The forum believes that the US could be liable for up to US$100 billion in trade concessions to European industries after placing illegal discriminatory trade restrictions on European gaming operators. The disputed concessions arise from Antigua's victory earlier this year when the WTO ruled that the US violated its treaty obligations by excluding online Antiguan gaming operators, while allowing domestic operators to offer various forms of online gaming.

As a result, all 151 WTO members are considering seeking compensation for the withdrawal equal to the size of the entire US land-based and online gaming market, estimated at nearly US$100 billion.

Submission + - Chinese internet censorship machine revealed

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Thursday October 11, 2007 @05:26PM

Stony Stevenson writes: The Chinese government has instituted an elaborate system for Internet censorship that employs tens of thousands of censors and police responsible for maintaining control over the flow of information, a report released by international free press advocates showed. Entitled "China: Journey To The Heart Of Internet Censorship," the report issued by Reporters Without Borders outlines the inner workings of a bureaucracy that effectively clamps down on dissent, quashes articles the communist government deems unsuitable for publication, and uses online companies to distribute its own propaganda.

The report, much of which is based on information provided by an unidentified Chinese technician who works for the government's Internet sector, reveals that to control the information flow over such a vast network, three leading government agencies have evolved over the last several years: the Internet Propaganda Administrative Bureau, the Bureau of Information and Public Opinion, and the Internet Bureau, the report said. In Beijing, where most of China's leading commercial Web sites are based, a powerful local agency has been established called the Beijing Internet Information Administrative Bureau.

In general, the Internet Propaganda Administrative Bureau issues licenses to commercial Web sites, which entitles them to provide news stories and reproduce reports disseminated by official media. The licenses, however, do not allow for independent news gathering and publishing.

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