[H]ardNews 10th Edition

XFX GFFX 5950Ultra:

More high end video card review action today. This time around the crew at VR-Zone have the XFX GeForce FX 5950Ultra in house for a round or two of benchmarks. This card isn’t the fastest GFFX 5950U out there, but it does get a few points because it comes with a decent bundle.

For the big spenders out there looking to play their games at high resolutions with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering enabled, the XFX GeForce FX 5950 Ultra is an excellent card to purchase and is one that will continue to carry the XFX brand name until we get NV40 territory later on this year.

Secure ID:

How would you like to have to swipe your ID to use your PC? Ugh. I suppose there are pluses and minuses to the issue, but giving a blood sample and retina scan to log on at work kinda gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Separate technologies that will make logging on to networks more secure, were announced by Microsoft of Redmond, Washington, US and Sun Microsystems of Santa Clara, California at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Microsoft says that a technology called SecurID, developed at RSA Security in Bedford Massachusetts, will be integrated with Windows by September 2004.

Eyes On The Road:

Most states don’t allow any video device that can be viewed by the driver and for good reason. If you doubt what I am saying, I give you this story of a guy busted watching pr0n as he was driving. Blame Mr. Burns for this one.

Police said the 35-year old man from Clifton Park, New York, was watching a adult movie called "Chocolate Foam" on Tuesday night while driving his Mercedes Benz in the town of Schenectady when he was spotted by an officer at a stop light.

AT-Eye Auction:

While we are on the subject of “eyes”, that auction for a pair of ATi promotional EYEBALLS is rolling along nicely. Oddly enough (or not), Kyle is in the lead with a bid of over $50. (Well, he was when we originally posted.),

The two life-like moving eyeballs each have a black silk-screened ATI logo that can be rotated out of view. One of the eyeballs has less "eye juice" but that just adds to the creepy effect!