Liquid nitrogen can't cool an R600

Subject: The US copyright con is out of control

One of the first points in that bill of gonzales is that 'registering a copyright is a "formality" and should not be used in criminal cases'

In short they want to put people in jail when the material they copied isn't even copyrighted!

Gonzales is as mad as a hatter and doesn't even have the most basic understanding of what law is for, I can't believe he graduated then got a job as lawyer then climbed up then was approved as attorney general, so many people along the line so massively failed to do something, it's staggering.

He should be sidekick of some dictator not an attorney in a western country.

But can we even consider america a civilized western country still? secret jails, torture, attacking other countries, and an insane and corrupt law system.

W

Subject: paying with identity

I enjoy people confusing "identity" with "ability to pay bill".

Most concerns about "identity" on the interwebnet are about payment and the flakey nature of payment authentication. Solving "identity" without solving broken absent payment schemes is a waste of time.

Zoe

Subject: Intel CSI name revealed

Not too funny.

Pathetic actually.

Rod

Subject: quickpath article

I friggin LOVE your website

I wish it was you guys buying Reuters :)

I think that the whole news industry needs to get a clue-- you guys rock

your sense of humor I _LOVE_ it

Aaron

Subject: the sad state of US legal affairs

I have come to the conclusion that the state of US law is nothing more then a pathetic joke. Given that copywrite infringement already carries heavier penelties then child pornography, kidnapping, assault, credit card fraud and the same as level as volentary manslaughter is far beyond insane and these are just a few of the crimes commited on a daily basis around the nation. If things continue in this manor i think that "In god we trust" must be removed from the currancy and replaced with "In the RIAA we trust". I can only hope that nations of the world that still have some semblance of logic and integrity speak up and try to bring some reason by to our government given they appear not to listen to the people they are sapposed to serve.

I mean for god's sake they have been charging 12 yr olds and single mothers on welfare that who's privacy was illegal violated and then proven innocent of the crime yet they continued after her. They still haven't turned over the records they were ordered to by the courts over a month and a half after their due date. I say that ever executive of the RIAA and the executives of its supporting companies should have their privacy invaded in the same way that they are the publics and for every instance of copywrite infringement found they will be required to pay the $150,000 damages fee to all those they have accused, wrongfully or not.

Sid

Subject: well yeah

It is not only Dell who sells 32 bit OS with 64 bit processors (be it Intel or AMD), I've been trying to find a laptop that will come with 64 bit OS, but no luck so far!

aeolus

Subject: RFID tags

"Next thing the UK will be bunging RFID tags in fags so you don't light up in the wrong place."

So, if I understand this correctly, they are going to implant RFID tags in gay people so they can track them? ...or just to make sure they don't spontaneously combust while they're shopping at the mall?

The fags certainly aren't going to like that. You know, civil liberties and all.

Chuckie D

Subject: Lab claims Opteron greener than Xeon

This lab is ridiculous. Sure the Xeon 5160 uses 63% more power at idle than the Opteron 8222. With users at 50-500 that drops to an average of about 10%. With all the money a company would save buying the Xeon 5160 they could probably afford the 10% higher electric bill.

S Froman

Subject: Billions and Billions and Billions

Regarding Passport and forced central authentication: A billion mistakes don't make them any more right.

Gus

Subject: Dell doesn't do 64bit Vista

How interesting, Dell doesn't ship 64bit Vista, but will sell you the 64 bit Vista that YOU can install. When I inquired of Dell sales to purchase a Dell XPS with 32bit XP to install (it sells with 32bit Vista) Dell Sales told me that Dell can't do that.

The specific pitch I was given is that Dell can only ship a PC with the OS istalled, and under no circumstances can it ship a PC with another OS as an extra.

Something sounds very fishy there. Wires crossed, uninformed sales agent? If I were Michael Dell, I would not be very happy considering the marketing share it is trying to regain.

RobertB

Subject: US Copyright Con

It has become evident over the last three to five years that the RIAA and the Federal Bureau of Incompetence have a bit of a problem when it comes to listening to common sense arguments.

Antagonising and harassing Universities to give over the names and IP adresses of 'alleged' P2P file sharers, gunning for (as you rightly said) the soft targets.

How quickly they forget where software piracy (at least in one sense) came from; with *ahem*- 'evaluation' copies of the former leading operating systems and word processing apps floating about within their own country, in order to get people used to them - and create more sales? From this alone, it's nat hard to see why there are 'Organised piracy outfits' running..... they were almost shown how to.

If this carries on along the same path, it'll be better worth your while doing over a Post Office or general store than to share your favourite tune with a friend. - You'll be slightly richer, and the sentence will be shorter.

Let them get on with doing what they seem to do best: Dragging eleven year olds through the court system asking for $250,000 in return for downloading a (most likely low bit-rate) nursery rhyme.

They present themsleves as nothing short of buffoons - and I wouldn't be opposed to telling them to their face, or their other face either.

Shonky

Subject: Pirating Microsoft Windows will get you a life sentence

This country is retarded, I'm moving to Canada.

SF

Subject: Lab claims Opteron greener than Xeon

Addendum to my previous comment: Based on the number of Xeon servers they estimate will be shipped in the next 3-4 years (24 million - 2 CPU servers), the total savings buying the Xeons, about $600 for the Xeon versus about $2300 for the option, would be about $81.6 billion. They would save money, even at idle, over life the life of the server by buying the Xeon, the report's estimated power savings by using the Opteron over the life of the server, at idle, is $12.6 billion which goes down to $3.6 billion with a 50 user load. Most people won't bother to read the full report and will miss those simple facts, the Inquirer should be responsible enough to do that for them and give people all the facts up front.

S Froman

Subject: Lock up the pirates

I hope they start with pirates that are hacks.

Randy

Subject: Scientologists make internet attack on the BBC

Ooops.

In Scientology doctrine, Xenu is a galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. These events are known as "Incident II" or "The Wall of Fire," and the traumatic memories associated with them are known as the "R6 implant." The Xenu story prompted the use of the volcano as a Scientology symbol.

Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard detailed the story in Operating Thetan Level III in 1967, famously warning that R6 was "calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it." Much controversy between the Church of Scientology and its critics has focused on Xenu. The Church avoids making mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story's confidentiality, including legal action on both copyright and trade secrecy grounds.

Critics claim that revealing the story is in the public interest, given the high prices charged for attaining the level of OT III.

What a bunch of money grubbing wackos.

The next one who knocks on my door is going to get a copy of my self help book ... or a free auditing lesson We could put them back in the volvanoes ... couldn't we??

Darren

Subject: Microsoft man seeks to re-engineer the Web

For this to work Microsoft would have to make a u-turn in its business practices :) . It may even do it, but the radius of the turn will problably be some 5-10 years.

So what about the rest of the world?

Maybe this: http://openid.net/ .

And this (a developmental Estonian ID card auth interface to OpenID): https://open.id.ee/ .

Sry only in Estonian for now. Erki

Subject: 25/7

Well actually we'd die younger :)

Björn

Subject: vacuum cleaner

You have no idea how bad the situation is in canada, telus (CDMA 1x/EVDO network) charges 40$CAN plus fees and taxes for 8 Megabytes per month, that plan can be applied to either a smartphone or on a laptop card. The closest competitor, Rogers, is as expensive. I know the inquirer isn't supposed to cover canada or Québec but i feel more british than american in the ways ive been raised, we have the face of the queen on our money after all!

http://www.telusmobility.com/ Let me know what you think, (Dreaming of a reply)

Simon Rousseau

Subject: Pirating Microsoft Windows will get you a life sentence

Its about time the US had a revolution isn't it?

Its about time there was some new blood in the political gene pool as its getting a bit scummy now.

CS

Subject: Mesh

Hopefully they will have discovered this little thing called customer service. I would avoid like the plague.

www.bbc.co.uk/consumer

Alex

Subject: Nitrogen cooled R600

http://www.nordichardware.se/nyhet,12930.html

This article explains how the overclock guru Kinc tried to cool the R600 with nitrogen. The test started out fine but at 1210+ mhz he noticed that the nitrogen could nolonger keep the R600 cool enough.. with better cooling than -196C it should be able to do more. The extrodinary thing is that no other GPU has ever done this.

well, get someone to translate it or read the english version if you care.

thanks for good reading anyways.
Mvh Tomas Ohlson

Subject: Software pirates still making a killing, says BSA

First of all, that's my real address - please don't think I'm some kook. LOL

The quote in the fourth paragraph, "...we still have a lot of work to do to reduce unacceptable levels of piracy."

Does that mean that there is an acceptable level of piracy? If so, could you please find out what that level would be?

Thank you,
The non-kook, Ted
Keep up the good work, guys/gals. I love reading your articles every day.

Subject: green it

The IT industry (as all others) is only interested in selling. Be it to the green(ish) consumer, be it to the power user. So far nothing new. Marketeers HAVE no conscience. What always bugs me however, is the "clean" image of the IT industry. Chips are made with very corrosive and poisonous fluids, which probablay makes it one of the worst polluters out there. Might be an idea to check that out, if that has changed lately, if at all.

Gerben

Subject: ...vacuum cleaner emptying your wallet...

Mike, er Ed,

US$32 per 200MB is about 300 TIMES CHEAPER than Cdn$0.05 per 1kB (Canada's Rogers Wireless data rate).

Jeffy

Subject: R600 Review by Theo

Hey Mike.

Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed reading Theo's R600 article. It's been done in good old "Inq" style.

Again... Great Site, great news, great everything!

Regards,
Thorsten Wolf