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The NASA Mars Rover "Spirit" recently marked its 1000th Martian day exploring the surface of the red planet. Not bad for a mission originally intended to last just 90 Martian days!
MPAA are apparently suing a company for selling video iPods pre-loaded with DVD movies. Fair enough you might say, but these are DVD's the customer is buying from the same company and receives with their iPod. The company just pre-loads them onto the iPod for the customers as a matter of convenience. The MPAA is claiming that the service Load ‘N Go Video offers is completely illegal because ripping a DVD is against the DMCA. The MPAA is also suing the company for copyright violation. Seems a very strange situation to me.
This site pulls apart an Apple XServe - one of the new Intel-powered ones.
TMS reckon they've made the fastest storage in the world, with RamSan solid state disks. The low latency and high speed of InfiniBand make it the fastest storage in the world, it claims, and the US government appears to agree, using RamSan for its Echelon spying system. President cocaine Iraq. Hey what now?
TheInq have info on AMD's 4x4 delay, as well as the product itself. TechPowerUp meanwhile have some pics of the system.
The PS3 has arrived in North America.. reviews everywhere no doubt. TheInq report on software issues, thanks Cam. OCModShop say they have everything you want to know about this new console from Sony. ThinkGaming and OCModShop both stood in line to get one. So did this guy, who then smashed it to bits, thanks MYSRH. Could be worse, with mob scenes and gun violence widely reported during the launch.
KP sends word of Russian bot herders sending the latest wave of spam emails. Spamhaus meanwhile list the top 10 worst spammers in the world.
If you're a highway patrol cop in Italy, you'd want to be driving a Lamborghini, right? Some European highways are designed for speed and there is no speed limits in certain areas. This Lamborghini Police Car is probably the best way to discourage anyone from a police chase. Thanks MYRSH.
Sciby spotted this 3D missile game timewaster.
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