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AMD Shows Upcoming Phenom II CPU At 6.0 GHz+ 159

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 20, 2008 @03:50PM from the calm-down-there-cowpoke dept.

Vigile writes "Today during a press briefing at AMD's offices in Austin, TX the company showed off some upcoming technology that should be available sometime early in 2009. What was most impressive was the overclocked speeds of the pending Phenom II X4 45nm processors. On air cooling AMD showed the quad-core CPU running at nearly 4.0 GHz while with much more extreme liquid nitrogen cooling help the same CPU reached over 6.0 GHz! It looks like AMD's newest processor might finally once again compete with the best from Intel, including its recent Core i7 CPUs."

Comment Good and Bad (Score 1) 724

by rhenestofel on Thursday January 03, 2008 @01:55PM (#21897370) Attached to: Cocaine Vaccine In the Works

As someone who smokes and has been trying to give it up for years... I am all for the Idea of a vaccine for nicotine, but as I said "the Idea" of a vaccine is interesting but the actual application of such a drug would be terrifying to me. What else are the going to try to inoculate me against? On the note of the cocaine vaccine, I do party but don't mess with anything harsh (generally alcohol, specifically Jagermeister) but I do hang around alot of people who "PARTY" and I have already spoken to a couple of them since first reading this, their responses were the same... they would switch to something else if they couldn't do their "party-favor of choice" Where is this going to lead, they will keep coming out with vaccines and people will keep going to the next level to get their fix, eventually leading to messing with VERY dangerous drugs... Just my opinion: Stop this before it gets out of hand, people MUST learn how to cope again without drugs and parents are responsible for more than you may think.

Submission + - Google's Gdrive Raises Instant Privacy Concerns (popularmechanics.com)

Submitted by on Friday November 30, 2007 @11:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: The rumor mill is already raging over the potential functionality and capacity for Google's online storage service we talked about earlier this week (the company says "it makes sense" to put all its Web apps under the same umbrella). But Internet rights advocates are now crying foul over liability issues, a probable lack of encryption and an cash-cow model that could scan all your personal data for advertising keywords. From the article: "'Google would be wise to offer users an option to encrypt your information,' says Nimrod Kozlovski, a professor of Internet law at Tel Aviv University. 'It really needs to have really detailed explanations of what the legal expectations are for storing your info.'"

Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK 432

Posted by kdawson on Thursday November 08, 2007 @12:49PM from the deeply-inspect-all-you-want dept.

angryphase writes "The British Phonographic Institute (the UK's RIAA) has noticed a significant increase in the amount of encrypted torrents — from 4% of torrent traffic a year ago to 40% today. Whether it follows a trend for hiding suspicious activities or an increased awareness of personal privacy is up for (weak) debate. Either way, this change of attitude is catching the eye of ISPs, music industry officials, and enforcement agencies. Matt Phillips, spokesman for the UK record industry trade association explains, 'Our internet investigations team, internet service providers and the police are well aware of encryption technology: it's been around for a long time and is commonplace in other areas of internet crime. It should come as no surprise that if people think they can hide illegal activity they will attempt to.'"

Submission + - Network Neutrality Squad: Users Protecting the Net (vortex.com)

Submitted by

Lauren Weinstein

on Monday November 05, 2007 @08:58PM

Lauren Weinstein writes: "Announcing the "Network Neutrality Squad" — NNSquad Joining PFIR Co-Founders Peter G. Neumann and I in this announcement are Keith Dawson (Slashdot.org), David J. Farber (Carnegie Mellon University), Bob Frankston, Phil Karn (Qualcomm), David P. Reed, Paul Saffo, and Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane). The Network Neutrality Squad ("NNSquad") is an open-membership, open-source effort, enlisting the Internet's users to help keep the Internet's operations fair and unhindered from unreasonable restrictions. The project's focus includes detection, analysis, and incident reporting of any anticompetitive, discriminatory, or other restrictive actions on the part of Internet service Providers (ISPs) or affiliated entities, such as the blocking or disruptive manipulation of applications, protocols, transmissions, or bandwidth; or other similar behaviors not specifically requested by their customers. More at the Network Neutrality Squad Home Page. Thanks. — Lauren —"

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