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A few months ago, some entertainment industry folks floated the idea that file sharing “helped terrorists” because certain groups that were suspected of funding terrorist operations had ties to counterfeiting gangs. That was quite a stretch, but now the US Army is pointing out that file sharing might actually help terrorists if it’s done [...]

EBay’s move to a new billing system has some sellers seeing double–double entries of debits and credits on their auction accounts, that is. Company executives say the software snafu hasn’t caused any overcharges, but some sellers complain the auction giant is too slow to address the problem, and that the ongoing fix is adding to [...]

AMDZone have thrown up a new article which looks a 32-bit vs 64-bit OS Performance using Unreal Tournament 2004!
For this test I am going to be using the UT2004 demo, Windows XP 32 bit, Mandrake Linux 32 bit, and Mandrake Linux 64 bit. The reason for using the demo is that the full version [...]

It was reported sometime ago that retail listings around the net gave proof that Sega would be porting Outrun 2 over to the Xbox and today, following that report, it has been confirmed. Although somewhat of an odd source, Atari’s Australian website today posted a press release announcing the Xbox port of the game. The [...]

Delayed until the third quarter of this year. The long awaited service pack fixes bugs and holes and greatly improves Windows security model. Microsoft wouldn’t say why the update has been delayed, but there’s speculation that there were still serious security flaws in the update.
Leo Laporte’s Blog

Thanks Chris - Internet search engine leader Google Inc. filed its long-awaited IPO plans Thursday, setting the stage for the company to make its stock market debut — a move that could be months away. Without specifying a price per share, Google said it hopes to raise $2.7 billion with an initial public offering that’s [...]

5 REM nam37 codes
10 PRINT “In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical”
20 PRINT “idea - create a computer language muscular enough to harness”
30 PRINT “the power of the period’s computers, yet simple enough that even”
40 PRINT “the school’s janitors could use it.”
50 END

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Fido over at The Inquirer reports ATi’s X800XT card is now clocked at 525MHz and I am sure that ATI will claim that its yields are good and that’s why it’s done it, but actually it learned the Nvidia numbers from online reviews and decided to increase the frequency a little bit more just to [...]

3DGPU.com have posted some impressions of City of Heroes, which went live yesterday. Here’s a cut from their article:
The myriad of options makes for a surprisingly deep experience (and I’m not typically one with the patience for that). I sat down at 9:15 and created a character, Tazendra the Level 1 Scrapper. When I looked [...]

The Ubisoft Forums now offer a list of changes and additions for the upcoming version 1.2 patch for Far Cry. The update describes planned network improvements and other bug fixes and balance adjustments to running speed, sprinting stamina, and vehicle damage.
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