Archive for May 25, 2008

Encryption Chip Will End Piracy, Says Atari Founder

At yesterday’s Wedbush Morgan Securities conference, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell claimed that a stealth encryption chip will “absolutely stop piracy of [PC] gameplay.”There is a stealth encryption chip called a TPM that is going on the motherboards of most of the computers that are coming out now,”

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The website is down because someone removed the X-Box

What happens when the boss mistakes an Xbox running as linux server for a xbox to play games on?

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Proposed Treaty Turns Internet Into a Virtual Police State

Leaked documents are one of the banes of modern western politics. They reveal exercises and actions being proposed that are generally objectionable to the public. Such a leak occurred with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which seeks to turn the internet into a virtual police state.

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Discrimination: Ban The Wi-Fi We Have Allergies.

This is something new to me.

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In Search of the Super Easy Super-Phone

What users are clamoring for is a phone with a beautiful screen and a brain-dead-simple user interface like the iPhone, with the core business functionality and keyboard performance of a BlackBerry and the high-quality camera of some of the LG phones. We want GPS, 3G and great media management. Who will get there first? Prediction: Apple.

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The $1,632 copy of Windows Vista

Since Microsoft is unwilling to reverse the clearly erroneous charges, it’s time to ask the bank to stand up and fight for its customer. If conversations don’t help, leap over the hurdles of incompetence and fire an Executive Email Carpet Bomb at both Microsoft and the bank.

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Linux May Power New Nokia Phones

The world’s top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.

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