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Wednesday, 5-August-2009 16:03:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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NASA have an astronaut using Twitter from the International Space Station now. What a fun shuttle mission - especially w 13 people on board station. Life here is amazing - still getting used to floating!
New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery has criticised the internet filtering plan. "Crime prevention methods need to be practical," Cowdery told the symposium matter-of-factly. "The talk of filters and blocking mechanisms, ultimately in a society like ours, would have only limited if any success."
Foliage has posted a thread about browsers storing credit card details in plain text on your PC. Now I don't think it would be very difficult at all to write a small trojan that steals these databases and uploads them, certainly a lot easier to do than setting up a keylogger that has to run for weeks. Quite an easy way to steal some ones identity.
Some Mac users are grumpy about MacBook cases cracking and splitting, thanks von Stalhein. Richard Olsen bought his white Macbook at the opening of the Sydney Apple Store in June last year and within months the case began to crack. "I didn't take much notice of it until one day I ran my wrist across the side of it and it pierced into my wrist," he said.
They're having trouble with exploding iPods too, it seems. Ken Stanborough, 47, from Liverpool, dropped his 11-year-old daughter Ellie's iPod Touch last month. "It made a hissing noise," he said. "I could feel it getting hotter in my hand, and I thought I could see vapour". Mr Stanborough said he threw the device out of his back door, where "within 30 seconds there was a pop, a big puff of smoke and it went 10ft in the air".
Here's a fairly impressive 30TB gaming PC on YouTube. Not much more to say, check out the vid.
Phalanx spotted this stainless steel printing which is interesting. The process lays down a thin layer of stainless steel powder, this is bound by a binding material. Layer after layer is applied and the resulting model is then lifted out of the powder. The model is then heated, cured and infused with bronze. Then in this case it is polished. This is a very new process and we're taking it straight out of the lab and bringing it to you.
Tech Report have an interview about OpenCL. We recently got to speak with Neil Trevett, who is both the Khronos Group's President and Nvidia's VP of Embedded Content. We asked Mr. Trevett about the status of OpenCL, how it compares with Microsoft's DirectX Compute Shader, and about the future of general-purpose computing on the GPU.
BenchmarkReviews have a CPU cooler roundup. Looks like HardOCP had one recently too. This exponential growth is unfortunately not shared in the realm of heatsinks. Sure we have heat pipes and direct-touch coolers which didn’t exist years ago. But we also know where the finish line is; ambient temperature.
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