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Monday, 8-November-2004 18:43:28 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne has officially been awarded the Ansari X prize. The backers of the Ansari X Prize have now made good on their promise to award 10 million dollars to the first private team to send a craft meeting certain technical requirements into space and repeat the feat within two weeks.
Four years behind bars is the reward one NSW man gets for organising nigeria scams costing people $5 million, thanks McGyverrr. Judge Mahoney said a significant sentence was needed to deter others from committing similar offences.
Sillen's PCDB entry is a nice photographic walkthrough of assembling a watercooled PC.
If you want to play RealMedia files but would prefer not to install their player, Real Alternative might be a good option, thanks Timbot.
Daniel sent word that Australian snooker legend Eddie Charlton has passed away.
The BBC report on IBM's Blue Gene/L, poised to knock NEC's Earth Simulator from the top of the supercomputer rankings, thanks Aaron. DOE test results show that Blue Gene/L has managed speeds of 70.72 teraflops. The current top machine, Japan's NEC Earth Simulator, clocks up 35.86.
The MPAA is following the RIAA's lead, with lawsuits levelled at internet users caught swapping movies. The MPAA want to issue the first lawsuits, before high-speed internet access becomes more widespread.
Apparently phishers have been taking notes from virus writers, with a new generation of attacks on the way, thanks Murray.
TechIMO report on a digital lifestyle show in New York recently.
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