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Paul has sent in this article about Windows Genuine Advantage and how it "phones home" even when you click cancel. Microsoft has admitted that the latest update to its Windows Genuine Advantage program will phone back to Redmond even if the user clicks cancel. WGA is meant to help Redmond fight piracy, but has been criticized on privacy grounds and because previous versions have incorrectly labelled people with genuine software as pirates. But if you cancel the installation of WGA, maybe because you dislike the privacy implications, the software will still phone home. Microsoft stresses that WGA does not take any information which could identify you as an individual, but is only used to collate statistics on WGA use.
There seems to be heaps of these awesome flight simulators around. This one is probably one of the more extreme ones out there. Australia, March 12, 2007 - It's amazing what you can find at three in the morning whilst surfing the Net. While perusing our favourite Russian flight sim forum, we stumbled across photos of the craziest amateur-created cockpit we'd ever seen. At first we thought it was a hoax; surely nobody would build such a large scale sim just for the heck of it?
Bit-Tech have posted this mod of a Coolermaster Stacker case. Not only is this a mod for the sake of improving aesthetics they have also made a practical case and taken it to several LAN events in Europe like NetGamez. They also attended Cooler Master's Masters of Modding competition and completed some of the modding live in front of spectators at the event. We can tell you that this is no mean feat!
Justin has sent in this article about Windows Vista and innovation. There’s no doubt that Microsoft has had an effect on the computer market that could really only be referred to as “global.” Taking inspiration from the Unix and Apple interfaces, the company produced a stable operating system that changed the world of computing forever.
For those who want to actively fight against the RIAA, DigitalTrends has posted an article on how you can do this. The Recording Industry Antichrist of America, as I like to call it, is officially out of control. Its let’s-sue-the-downloaders campaign is the most perverse marketing campaign in history. Rather than adjust its product and marketing to fit a new era, the music industry is instead using its trade association to bully consumers in a mistaken belief that this will transform file-sharing freeloaders into smiley-face customers. Consider the following tidbits.
Paul sent in this article about a study which found mobile phones do not need to be banned in hospitals because of interference they make. Calls made on cell phones do not affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said Friday, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart devices misfire. Tests at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, showed normal use of cell phones, also called mobile phones, caused no noticeable interference with patient care equipment, they said.
Guy Sizkin has broken the world record for a air cooled Quad Core QX6700. Guy broke the record with an Intel Core 2 Extreme Q6700 processor (QX6700), Intel's quad-core CPU, with each core running at 2.66GHz at stock – making it a particularly hard nut to crack....This amazing achievement was made possible with ThermalTake's BigTyphoon, to which we added two additional 120mm fans, on top of the existing fan. Bringing the QX6700 to such a high clock speed required a very high voltage of V1.735, with an enormous loss of V0.115, but the temperatures remained within the reasonable range – up to 75c under full load.
LegionHardware has posted an article about DDR2 memory frequency performance on Core 2 Duo.
Brad has sent in this odd video of some guy painting with ketchup and fries, yuck.
Todays timewaster is quite suitable for a Friday night, it is this drunken walking game where you need to control the drunk man walking home.
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