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Mark Cuban was fined $25,000 for remarks he made on Twitter about the way his team was treated during a recent game. The NBA didn’t seem to like those comments and slapped him with the fine.
Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is apparently just as frank on Twitter as he is courtside at basketball games. The NBA fined Cuban $25,000 on Sunday for a complaint that he tweeted about the refereeing of his team's 103-101 loss to Denver.
Aghhh!!! Run for cover! The Google Street View team caught nine UFOs flying in formation on camera! We are all gonna die!
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Intel Xeon W5580 Processor @ Bit-Tech
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Apple Safari 4 Beta @ VIAArena
Moblin V2 vs. Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs. Ubuntu MID @ Phoronix
Motherboards
MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3 @ Neoseeker
Power Supply
Antec CP-850 850W Power Supply @ jonnyGURU
Video
EVGA GeForce GTS 250 @ Ultimate Hardware
Like many of you, I’m a Facebook user and I like to read funny Facebook related stories as much as you guys do...but a movie about Facebook? Who would watch that?
The movie, as you may recall, is spearheaded by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and is reportedly based on a book by Bringing Down the House author Ben Mezrich, known for scandalous tales of ambition and temptation set at elite universities. That's a fine match for Facebook, which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his friends while they were all undergraduates at Harvard.
Greenpeace has put out an updated guide to greener electronics that bashes HP, Lenovo and Dell over the head pretty hard for not cleaning up their act environmentally. Oddly enough, although Nintendo is dead last on the list (again) and makes more consoles than any other company on the planet, they were not even mentioned in the article.
HP, Lenovo and Dell had promised to eliminate vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009. Now they've told us that they won't make it this year. The phase-out of toxic substances is an urgent priority to help tackle the growing tide of e-waste. Still, producers only go green when they feel public and consumer pressure to do so. That's why we campaign.
If this would have been our list of the ten smallest gadgets in the world, we would have stacked up 18 of those little hard drives and shot the world’s smallest hole in them using the world’s smallest pistol.
The Associate Press says "Don’t fret about Conficker." The article says that most everyday users will not even know they are infected…and then offers this awesome bit of advice:
The best remedy is to have a friend — whose computer is not infected — download a removal tool from Microsoft or one of the antivirus vendors. Then that person should e-mail the tool to you.
Yeah, like opening every attachment sent to you by friends didn’t get you in this situation in the first place.
First Saints Row 2 DLC Revealed @ Shacknews
Gears 2 Snowblind Map Pack Out Now @ Joystiq
Operation Flashpoint 2 Screenshots @ VE3D
Sony Announces PlayStation 2 Price Cut @ Kotaku
While you and I are smart enough to realize that spending $0.42 to send a bill for $0.42 to someone is a waste of time from the get go, not all companies are that smart. Not counting the postage, just look at the picture below and then factor in the paper, envelope, man-hours and resources it took to process that payment and you can’t help but laugh at a company that sends you a bill like that. Thanks to Izzy R. for this one.
Thanks to Gizmodo, I now know that a 32" x 32" square of dirt looks like one dead pixel from an altitude of 1 kilometer in Google Earth.
Some old guy killed his wife for playing too much GTA. I know, I know, the first thing that came to your mind was "please let it be Jack Thompson." Don’t feel bad, I was hoping the same thing too.
He would play on the computer until midnight, after which Ms Cannom would take over, regularly staying up until five or six in the morning, Lincoln Crown Court was told. "Carol quickly became hooked. He was very unhappy about the amount of time she was playing on the PlayStation."
Cases & Modding
NZXT Zero 2 Full Tower Chassis @ ThinkComputers
Silverstone Raven RV01 Case @ Hardware Logic
Cooling
Evercool Hermes Notebook Cooler @ Overclockers Club
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ASUS G71V Gaming Laptop @ Driver Heaven
Motherboards
Gigabyte EX58-UD4P @ Techgage
