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The Hardware Show #12Submitted by Jonathan on Wed, 2005-11-30 08:52.
Download: This this release was delayed. No I am not going to tell you why. ShownotesHardwareCray will use AMD Opterons increasingly in the next 4 years http://www.theregister.com/2005/11/16/cray_sc_05/ Dell, HP, Apple, and Intel having problems with selling motherboards with bad capacitors Apple shortsighted, may have attempted to deliberately hinder Motorola's ROKR AMD's next generation socket to have more than 1200 pins (pics) Coffee table made from old hard drive platter Scrolling LED text + underwear = ????? SoftwareEFF publishes list of XCP "protected" (more like "infected") discs from Sony http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php Mark Russinovich, who discovered the rootkit, exposes many more flaws in Sony's "solutions" to the XPC problem. Class action lawsuits have been filed in Los Angeles This has become so huge, effectively destroying security for as many as 3,000,000 users, that Stewart Baker, the Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for policy, made comments that implied that if Sony or any other company screws up this much again the government might step in and kick their asses personally. All of this has led to Sony suspending all production of CDs with XPC. In other news, new monitoring software detects pr0n in real-time and blurs it SocialWith public, centralized filesharing on the run, concern turns toward 'Darknets' http://www.cio.com/archive/110105/tl_filesharing.html Modern Internet turns 15. German IT firm outlaws whining LawShare a file--Go to jail. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/04/moaning_ban/ Company that makes spyware specified in EULA that their software could not be used for "anti-spyware research" and therefore they are sueing a company for analyzing their software and putting it in an anti-spyware application. Westchester County in New York proposes to make wireless security mandatory Study indicates that scientists are frequently forced to change or entirely abandon their research due to patents. 673 reads
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