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Vanity Fair has posted a lengthy article about the guys behind the Pirate Bay. "When Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm first heard that there was police activity at the site's main location, he jumped in a cab and headed straight there, only to be pulled over by a police car with lights flashing and siren blaring. Svartholm's business partner, Fredrik Neij, had also been alerted to the raid in progress, and was able to back up most of Pirate Bay's files before showing up and doing a bit of "who-are-you-ing" with the invading lawmen."
Well D-Wave systems seem to have shown shown some of their Quantum computing technology after all. This article seems to have a bit more information about the actual demonstration. Another article seems to indicate that quantum chips may be available as early as 2008. Discussion about this can be found in this thread. "For the demonstration, he says D-Wave operators remotely controlled the quantum computer, housed in Burnaby, British Columbia, from a laptop in California. The quantum computer was given three problems to solve: searching for molecular structures that match a target molecule, creating a complicated seating plan, and filling in Sudoku puzzles."
DigitalTrends has posted a roundup of five value laptops. "Value laptops don’t always have to mean you end up with a hunk of junk and a blinking cursor staring back at you. Great notebook computers exist out there for under $1,000, having become more and more of a reality as prices on components like processors, RAM and hard drives continue to fall. While not all computers in this price range will have Windows Vista installed on them, some are ready to update when you are."
ThinkGaming has posted some screenshots for the upcoming expansion to Battlefield 2142 - "Northern Strike".
ChileHardware has posted some pictures of Intel's upcoming DDR3 platform codenamed Bearlake. DailyTech have also posted some information on it. "According to Intel guidance, the P35 chipset can feature DDR2 or DDR3 memory, but not both at the same time. The leaked motherboard supports up to four sticks of DDR3 memory rated at 800 MHz or 1066 MHz. It will also support up to a 1333 MHz front-side-bus on Socket T, also known as LGA775 processors. LGA775 processors supported by the upcoming P35 Express-based board include Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Celeron 4xx-series."
Apparently there is a warning out for a Valentines day virus which may try to infect your PC by using attachments in romatically disguised emails. ""Computer users should keep a wary eye on any romantic messages received by e-mail, as many of them could contain malicious code," said US security firm PandaLabs after detecting an increase in a worm it dubbed Nurech.A. The worm hides in emails with subjects like: "Together You and I," "Til the End of Time Heart of Mine.". People who open an attached file such as postcard.exe can end up infecting their computers."
Robert has sent in this page about "The worlds worst datacenter" which should give you a laugh, scroll down for pictures.
I once again direct you to Damn Interesting who have posted an article about the Wilhelm Scream which is a scream sound effect first recorded in 1951 but replicated many times in blockbuster movies since. "Most movie studios will add sound effects for a film during post-production, and of course it's not unusual for them to recycle sound effects from their archives. In the case of Distant Drums, six short screams were recorded in a studio and creatively titled "man getting bit by an alligator, and he screams". The fifth take was used for the alligator attack, and the others came in handy to give voice to some Indians shot during a raid."
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