http://www.hardocp.com News Feed for [H]ardOCP Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:07:59 CDT en-us Copyright 2009 [H]ardOCP Clifford Murphy kyle@hardocp.com (Kyle Bennett) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:07:00 CDT
An employee of an Apple store in Arlington was shot and wounded this morning during an attempted armed robbery in a back storeroom as more than three-dozen shoppers and other employees milled about the showroom.

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In a filing to the judge overseeing the settlement of a lawsuit filed by The Authors Guild against Google, the DOJ informed the court that it has opened an investigation into the proposed settlement after reviewing public comments of concern. Those comments suggest that the agreement might violate the Sherman Act, a U.S. antitrust law, the DOJ said.

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It's a little unclear exactly when the fire at the Fisher Plaza data center started--some reports say Thursday night, others say just after midnight Friday. A message on Bing Travel pins the problems on a blown transformer. "The blown transformer knocked out power to the entire building, which is home to the Bing Travel servers," a message on the site says. "This is isolated to Bing Travel only, and there is no impact to any other aspect of Bing."

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Left 4 Dead 2 Interview @ VE3D
Sesame Street Says Video Games Are OK @ Kotaku
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Do you like your privacy? I bet you do. What about being able to read all kinds of stuff on the internet without having to hand over your credit card number -- do you like that, too? I bet that's another yes. But which do you like more? You'd better figure that out quickly, because, if you don't, Congress just might decide for you.

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Researchers at ESET have reliable intelligence that the Waledac botnet is currently being prepared for a spam campaign around the Independence Day theme. They have registered at least 18 domain names all related to the theme of video, fireworks, and Independence Day.

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ASUS Maximus II GENE P45 mATX @ Hardware Canucks


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Asus GeForce ENGTX275 @ Neoseeker
ASUS Radeon EAH 4770 @ Overclockers Club
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Atomic @ PCG&H

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The CPU-LN2 operates on heat exchange with cold substances like dry ice and liquid nitrogen and the nickle plated copper evaporator. For reference, dry ice sublimates at -78.5 Celsius and liquid nitrogen evaporates at -195.7 Celsius. By pouring liquid nitrogen or dry ice and a solvent into the CPU-LN2 the end-user can achieve base temperatures that permit substantial overclocks.

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"Some file-sharers don’t like all this money talk, and they’re leaving," acknowledged Hans Pandeya, chief executive of the Global Gaming Factory, in a telephone interview with Wired.com on Wednesday. But "the user experience is going to be the same. From the user’s point of view, they’re doing a search, they’re finding the song or the movie, and they’re downloading it."

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A typical pyrotechnics display incorporates elements of chemistry, physics, aerospace engineering, materials science, fire science, psychology, neuroscience, and risk management. The fact that millions of people across America celebrate the political independence of our nation by watching a choreographed multidisciplinary collaboration of basic scientific and engineering principles that result in pleasing visual, auditory, and olfactory stimulation is nothing short of revolutionary (pun intended).

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Mozilla is scrambling to fix bugs in its just-released Firefox 3.5 browser. Users are posting complaints about problems across the Web. Those problems include longer load times and crashes linked to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. The browser also reportedly has problems with Windows XP.

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We're currently seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates. This problem began around 6:30am Pacific time. All applications accessing the Datastore are affected. Our team is investigating this issue and will post more information as soon as it becomes available.

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Several states say the Internet retailers should charge sales taxes in states where those affiliates are based. The financial benefits may not be quite what the states anticipate, though. Rather than gearing up to collect taxes, Amazon and other Web retailers are simply shutting down their affiliate marketing programs. As the small businesses that participate in these programs get cut off, a state could lose tax revenue rather than add to it.

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