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Tuesday Evening (18 Comments) (link)
 Tuesday, 7-November-2006  18:11:15 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Australia will soon have an office of the FBI in Sydney. The FBI office will be based in the office of the Consulate General of the United States in the Sydney CBD.

The recording industry will apparently be targeting Australian downloaders soon. If ISPs refuse to co-operate, Mr Kennedy said he would take his requests up to Australian politicians.

Meanwhile the Australian Institute of Criminology says the financial loss statistics quoted by the music and software sectors are unreliable and inaccurate in an early draft of their report.

HotHardware compared two AM2 CrossFire motherboards, the ASUS M2R32-MVP and ECS KA3 MVP Extreme.

Tweaktown have some info on multi-core CPU processing in Source from Valve. Right now, CPU technology is ahead of software and the industry needs to move quickly to catch up to the hardware - they are doing it but it is taking some time. Valve is one company who understands this and is quickly working to add Multi-Core processing into their Source gaming engine and all of their very successful gaming titles.

Big spotted a company apparently using the DMCA to silence and uncover people posting videos online. Landmark's efforts are being challenged on multiple fronts. The Internet Archive is fighting its subpoena, and EFF filed official objections on its behalf.

There's an introduction to phase-change cooling article on a website called, oddly enough, Watercooling 101. We all heard the term Phase Changing, but what does this really do and how can you apply it to your system? Find out and take your CPU to the next level. I covered the theory in some detail in my VapoChill review and some of that info is now in the Wiki. Check out our Extreme Cooling Forum for more.

A timewaster from joeechick: Double-decker ping pong! Ok, not really double decker... but close enough. It took me a while to figure out due to not speaking french, but basically you have to play pingpong with the top bat while making sure the ball doesn't fall off the lower bat/platform thing.



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