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Ubeek has a zillion security-related news items: The 'barcoding' of people has quietly begun rolling out in the US, via Applied Digital Solutions' VeriChip. FBI demand for new surveillance functions forces telecos to upgrade equipment, forego new customer services. Don't pass on virus alerts, says an expert, as it may be a hoax and the creator may be exploiting your goodwill. Software piracy grew last year, breaking six years of progress by software companies to stamp out illegal use, a trade group reports. All of the Korean-language versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Studio .Net developer tool shipped with a help file that is infected with the Nimda virus, company officials said Friday. Police uncovered the first DVD pirating laboratory on the West Coast where more than 1,200 illegal movies were found. The Fraunhofer Research Institute in Germany, set out to see whether it could fool various biometric systems. It was easy.. Antivirus companies are warning users to install patches and signature files to protect against a worm variant that has surfaced in the United States and Europe. Dynamic modification of rules is simple for people but complex for machines; indeed, it is so complex that the cost of sending spam would skyrocket, eliminating the problem.
SystemCooling have an article titled Air Cooling: Rocket Science or Common Sense?..
Simon spotted Old OCAU pages buried in the Web.Archive.
TheDDRZone wonder how VIA's Eden and RealMagic's X-Card go together for a entertainment PC. We reviewed the 800MHz Eden here a few days ago.
Munkiboy sent in this 3D stickman anim and a flash street fighter game.
Jas per found a cool circuit schematics page for handhelds. need to know the schematics of your gameboy? Casio Organiser? did you know there is a tilt sensor on some palm pilots? A HEAP of stuff there.
Marzi found some guy who can't sign up for MS Passport because his last name is "offensive".. info here.. and Californians are being given anti-nuke pills.
Scott notes that modern PC's can do amazing 3D things.. like rendering movies in realtime.
Reviews:
Zalman CNPS5100 cooler on BlargOC.
Dr Thermal Extreme cooler on Virtual-Hideout.
Samsung PC-800 RDRAM on AMD3D.
Plextor PLEXCOMBO 20/10/40-12A CDRW-DVD drive (video review) on 3DGameMan.
X-micro Impact T4200 128MB video card on OCPrices.
CopperTop Maze 3 Waterblock at LiquidNinjas.
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