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Tuesday, 28-October-2008 02:11:09 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Thanks again to BlaYde for this news post:
A 15 year old student in the United States is facing felony charges for breaking into his school's computer network and then calling the school principal, warning him about the security hole.
Australian systems administrators' professional group is upset with the Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy for alleged attempts by his office to silence a vocal network engineer expressing an opinion about the planned government internet filtering scheme. Internode network engineer Mark Newton has publicly criticised the government's mandatory ISP filtering plans on the grounds that ISPs would face major network redesigns to meet requirements, increased costs and security threats to Australian internet users.
And while we’re on the subject of internet filtering, Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government's plans to filter the internet.
A Bond University study for the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia has renewed calls for R18+ classification for games.
A report on Cnet.com says that Sony’s new PSP-3000 which comes equipped with a new screen is in fact worse than its predecessor. The new screen is supposed to help reduce the glare, produce better colours and reduce pixel ghosting, however, some users are reporting that the new screen has introduced artifacts in the form of visible scanlines and jaggies. According to Sony this appears to be a hardware fault and there are no plans for a quick fix via a software updates; Since this phenomenon is caused by hardware characteristics, there is no plan to fix it with a system software update.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation on eBay where perhaps the transaction didn’t go smoothly, you didn’t receive the goods as per original sale description or you might have been misled by the seller in some way and as a result felt compelled leave negative feedback? A 42 year old Chris Read from UK is facing a court battle after leaving negative feedback on eBay for a mobile phone he bought on the auction site. Mr Jones (seller) claims the unfavourable comments have damaged his business. The legal missive goes on to warn Mr Read that if he fails to retract his comments he will be dragged to court where he faces costs, lawyers' fees and damages .
What’s better to have? Low latency DDR2 800MHz CAS3/4 or DDR2 1066MHz CAS5? Richard Swinburne of bit-tech.net attempts to answer this question in his article Low Latency DDR2 800MHz versus 1,066MHz. And while you’re over there, check out Tim Smalley’s report on AMD releasing a limited number of retail and review editions of the ATI HD4830’s cards which have only 560 stream processors enabled, instead of the usual 640.
AnandTech has a first look at the MSI X58 Eclipse motherboard. We are rapidly approaching the i7 Core and X58 launch date. With that in mind, we are starting to receive final production motherboards from a variety of manufacturers. The latest board in the labs is the MSI Eclipse featuring the X58 and ICH10R chipsets.
David A. Karp, author of Windows Vista Annoyances (O'Reilly), as well as a dozen other books on technology would like to help you Make Vista Great. Surprisingly, most of Vista's annoyances are fixable. If you're willing to roll up your sleeves and do some tweaking, you can turn Vista into a pretty great OS.
According to the Interactive Australia 2009 report (IA9), the average age for an Aussie gamer is now 30. GameSpot has filed this report as well as an in-depth feature about the IA9 report and the habits of Aussie gamers.
With the imminent release of Fallout 3 this week, Todd Howard, executive producer of the game told Reuters that fans of the game will not have to wait another 10 years to see a sequel to Fallout 3. Gamers have been waiting 10 years for Bethesda Softworks' "Fallout 3," for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. "I think it's good for people to miss things," said Todd Howard, executive producer of the game. "Ten years between 'Fallout' is a bit long, but I think there's this nostalgia factor. Fans of the post-Apocalyptic game, set in Washington, D.C., won't have to wait another decade for "Fallout 4." Howard said he believes three years is a good time frame between games.
Flagship Studios' ill-fated massively multiplayer online game, Hellgate: London will have the servers brought offline as of February 1, 2009. The writing has been on the wall for some time, and now it's official: Hellgate: London will be taken offline as of February 1, 2009.
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