Archive for February 6, 2008

Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise

For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable in the Mediterranean Sea has apparently been cut, and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious.

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Top 100 Essential Mac Applications

An up to date list of the top 100 Apple Mac applications. These are the applications that every Mac should be installed with. Examples include the free to the not so free but all worth having for any Mac user.

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GameSpot Exodus Continues as Ryan Davis Leaves

Ryan Davis had been with GameSpot nearly eight years, but now he’s leaving the site, the latest to follow Jeff Gerstmann out the door. “Jeff’s gone, and I’m not afraid to say that it absolutely breaks my heart,” Davis said in December.

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RIAA Wants Artist Royalties Cut to 9%; Apple: Cut Them to 4%

If there was ever a time for a band to try going completely independent, this is it. Why give over 90% of your income to greedy sleazebags when you can sell your music online without the middleman? This industry needs to be burned to the ground and built back up again; it’s broken and it seems less and less likely that it’ll be able to be fixed.

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Super Tuesday iPod touch Easter Egg

Perhaps Apple engineers wished they could vote for Lincoln this time around: if you own a jailbroken iPod touch and bought the January Software Upgrade, run your nikita_receipt.plist through your favorite Base64 decoder. Way to go Francis who figured this out!

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Ebay To Ban Negative Feedback Ratings

Online auctioneer eBay plans to change its feedback system and ban sellers from leaving negative comments.

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Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask

It seems prudent to explain just exactly what we’re getting into with this new chapter in the FCC-regulated airwaves saga, and what open access really means to you.

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Bad Ideas: $1.1 million paid for world’s stupidest domain

As the real world’s real-estate bubble pops, a virtual one continues to inflate. Cruise.co.uk, a British travel agent, has paid $1.1 million for the domain name cruises.co.uk. An exorbitant sum to let pasty Englishmen know they are able to purchase more than one cruise at a time.

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PS3’s Folding@Home Hits 1,000,000 Users

SCEA’s Playstation 3 Folding@home project, which went live back on March 22, recently topped one million user, meaning that about 3,000 PS3 users have registered for Folding@home a day since they software went live on the console.

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The Evolution of TV

TV through the ages, from the early 1900’s till today

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IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire Internet

A research paper shows that IBM is working on a computing system capable “of hosting the entire internet as an application.” This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputers to create a theoretical mega-system of 67.1m cores, 32PB of memory, and an IO output of 10.4Pb/s.

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Capcom: don’t worry, the 5GB Devil May Cry install is worth

With gamers being grouchy about the reported 5GB mandatory install of Devil May Cry 4, Capcom has some advice: calm down, make yourself some food, and enjoy the faster load times.

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