Chandler 12-inch erection hailed as breakthrough

Those Intel assholes - when they open a fab, all they do is ship processors.

I'll bet you are pissed that Intel didn't have two (count them two) GALA OPENING CELEBRATIONS AND INVITE YOU wags two both parties - just to celebrate us pimps getting together - many months before we ship any sh*t out of our German-bought-and paid-for wafer fabs.

Cheap Intel - not like our German-bought-and paid-for wafer fabs with gala parties but no chips to ship !

AMD - Uber Alles !

Puking and Suing and Partying Hector

[We think this is the INQ reader of the millennium, an ex-Intel employee. Heuristic hints suggest this to us. He won't say. We always get letters from him signed Hector. Hector never writes to us. Ed.]

Seagate and Foxzilla

Oh dear....

So I'm trying to return a hard drive to seagate.... but I was foolish enough to use firefox. :(

Firstly it tells me that I should download internet explorer: (http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/449/seagate15xm.jpg)

then when I spoof the useragent... it tells me I need to disable my popup blocker.... (http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4527/seagate23ss.jpg)

Is this a technique to make my data safe? Force usage of IE and force people to turn off popup blocking? Blimey. Perhaps they're hoping customers will get "r00ted" and then getting drive repaired will be the least of their worries?

Cheers,
Ivor

Cops say hard drives justify 90 day jail without trial

Maybe they should lock the coppers investigating the crime up for 90 days instead. This would give them the incentive to do a quick and thorough search. Also, no donuts either.

Name supplied

IBM claims Intel Paxville beats AMD, sets record

This affirmation is a little biased. What makes the Paxville "faster" then the Opteron is the X3 architecture.

But only in certain test, I suspect. You see, X3 connects the Xeon Paxville somewhat independently. X3 has two buses allowing two CPU each. If you look at that architecture, you will notice that two CPU - i.e. four cores - share the same bus.

Consequently, I suspect that even though the access to memory is really improved compared to an Intel chipset (actually it's multiplied by two only, which is not that much for an 4 to 16 CPU configuration), it is still a bottleneck. So before one claims that the X3 architecture beats the Opteron ...

Let's see what real life test will tell.

Paul R

Clink. Hard drives continued

In Australia we have 6 months detention for similar "crimes" which include among other things, suspected copyright infringement. The Crime here dosent need to be proven - just the suspicion - for the penalty. Curiously from my experience this accounts for about 90% of peoples HDD content these days.

Check it out... section 3LA of the crimes act as part of their "2001 Cybercrime Act".... Curiously quickly passed a couple of weeks after september 11 2001. If you are keen the legislation is freely available on austlii.edu.au

How do I know these things? Unfortunately I was in a position as to be at the knife end of the legislation, and while it was rigorously opposed by civil libetarian groups and IT professionals alike - like most other laws that flush out rights down the toilet it was generally ignored by the public.

I would appreciate it if you would not publish my name etc. if you choose to follow up with this.

Great IT News site btw :)

cheers,
Name supplied

UK mobile phone drivers face jail

So, someone who is using a mobile phone when they hit someone with their car must go to prison for five years. After all, the reasoning goes, a person has been killed; someone must answer for that, even if it was an accident due to carelessness.

Meanwhile, the two police officers who deliberately shot and killed Harry Stanley, in public and in broad daylight, will not even face any charges. Stanley, a perfectly innocent civilian who did not even disobey any police command (that he could hear) was killed - yet nobody has to answer for his death.

What is the difference? The police were arguably trying to keep the public from danger, whereas the mobile phone user is just trying to make his or her own life easier. But in each case an innocent person is killed. The mobile phone driver does not mean to hurt anyone, whereas the police officers thought they were killing a dangerous terrorist - but they weren't. Stanley, however, is just as dead as if he had been murdered or accidentally killed.

If we are going to have broad legal principles such as "someone has died, so the person responsible must be punished", then we cannot make exceptions. Unless, of course, we want to have laws that explicitly allow the police to go around killing anyone they want to.

Name supplied

[We're on the side of the cops at the INQ. We just don't want them to become judge, jury, and executioner. Nor politicians. Ed.]

Sony implants

It's articles like "Sony rights manager implants spyware" by Nick Farrell that makes me glad I read The Inquirer. The mainstream media doesn't seem to pick up on stuff like this.

I'll be checking my own PC as soon as I can to see if I have this garbage installed.

I'll also be emailing the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Canada to see if these organizations are aware of this.

I'll have to stop by a music store to see if this software is also on CDs sold in Canada. If it is, it would be appalling since every blank CD sold in Canada has an extra charge levied that goes to the music industry to compensate for illegal copying.

And to Sony Music: What do you have to say for yourself?

Peter Stern

Paxville again

Re your "IBM claims Intel Paxville beats AMD, sets record"

You do realise obviously that the IBM Poxville system is running DB2 and the comparison HP AMD system is running MS SQL Server. Unless you follow the link to the IBM pdf you won't get this from your story. What IBM are really proving is that DB2 is a lot faster than SQL Server - enough to make up for the performance gap between Opteron and Xeon.

Alan

Magna Carta

Magna Carta? What a joke! Britain has been a fascist state, fond of war, throughout recorded history. Democracy is a facade. The country is run for the wealthy and the privileged.

Everyone else is treated like peasants and behaves like peasants, cow-towing to the authoritarian regime. The spectacle of peasants and royals is pitiful.

What's worse, most people have no idea just how abused they are and would classify these words as those of an embittered, out-of-touch cretin. Well, mates, has anyone stopped recently and considered how many times in their lifetime the government has banned them from doing something.

What's the latest? Boozing on trains. Get a life: use your passports and buy one-way tickets out of there before it's too late and you're all either retired on no pension or working paying the pensions of many others.

Leave the ruling classes to fight it out amongst themselves. There's nothing they hate more than having no one to tax and rule over!

Yours in deepest sympathy,
Ex-pat no longer shackled