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Wednesday, 14-April-2010 14:55:25 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A few people sent in this article about ACTA making a criminal of you. The 'Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement' (ACTA) might sound like it's aimed exclusively at the crooks selling pirated DVDs at the markets, but it's really about curbing the behaviour of individual internet users, according to one of Australia's leading legal academics. There's a second part of the article here, covering a three strikes system.
Apparently this season's final episode of House was filmed entirely on a Canon 5DMkII digital SLR. This is quite an endorsement for Canon, with a network giant entrusting the finale of one of its most popular shows to the 5D Mark II (which happens to be the first digital camera to take the Presidential portrait as well). Discussion here.
HotHardware have some info on the world's first 6-core notebook. The planet's first six-core notebook has arrived, with options for the 980X or the Xeon W5680 available. Users can also equip the machine with up to 2.6TB of storage (room for four hard drives!) and up to 24GB of DDR3-1333 memory.
Opera Mini has approved for Apple's App Store and is available for free. "We are delighted to offer iPhone and iPod touch users a great browsing experience with the Opera Mini App," said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software.
An American eBay user is being sued for negative feedback on the site. Michael Steadman accused Elliot Miller of having the "ethic of a car salesman" after the $US44 clock arrived in pieces, Florida Today reported. Mr Miller, a lawyer, claims the negative feedback has ruined his "100 per cent" eBay rating and commericial reputation and is suing for damages.
Gigabyte are soon to launch the 2010 open overclocking championship. The 3rd year of the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC) is about to launch. Are you ready? Time to sharpen up your extreme overclocking skills and show the world you have what it takes to become GO OC 2010 overclocking champion. Discussion here.
HWSecrets have a 128GB SSD roundup posted. Looking for a 128 GB solid state drive (SSD) for your computer? Today we are going to compare the performance of seven different models from Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, Intel, Mushkin, Patriot and Western Digital. Which one you should buy? Check it out.
Thousands of Star Wars fans have combined forces, each creating a 15-second scene which will be joined together into a giant fan film. Of those, 473 scenes were collated into remaking the entire full-length feature, which will premiere at the CPH:PIX festival in Copenhagen on Monday night. The result is a mind-bending mix of hilarious, cringe-inducing, mystifying animation and live action, all done with the approval of Lucasfilm and featuring the original John Williams score. There's a 15-minute trailer here.
Kingsley noted a StarCraft cheating scandal unfolding in Korea, rocking the pro gaming world. At this stage, we hear that various pro gamers have been found intentionally losing matches, as well as leaking their team’s replay files to illegal gambling groups. ... The story has been likened to the 1919 Black Sox scandal, which saw eight members of the Chicago White Sox World Series team intentionally losing several games – giving the series to the Cincinnati Reds.
XbitLabs consider CPU overclocking vs power consumption. Processor power consumption is closely connected with their clock frequency. That is why when overclockers increase their system performance they sacrifice energy efficiency. But how serious this problem actually is? We tested nice different processors from Athlon II, Core 2, Core i3, Core i7 and Phenom II families overclocked to different levels and are ready to give you an extensive answer to this question.
Today's timewaster is cantyouseeimbusy, with 3 games that look like you're actually working.
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