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    Google Asked To Remove 345M Pirate Links In 2014

    If you link to the "chilling effects" website and look at the entries, you'll see most of the links are completely unrelated to the media file reported - perhaps 500 links per complaint. So, google needs to have captchas for each individual link reported, to prevent abuse of the DMCA.
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    North Korea Training Teams of ‘Cyber Warriors’

    As the first desktop MMX Pentium was the P166, they must be underclocking their P166 PCs to 75 mhz to save electricity. x1.5, 50 mhz.
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    Technology Gone Seriously Wrong

    ...and to open the trunk you have to do the Gangnam Style dance
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    GIGABYTE Announces 3TB+ Unlock Utility

    I've run up against most of these limits, but especially the oldest four. The 128 PB limit (48-bit LBA) The 2 TB per partition limit (MBR) The 512GB limit. The 127.5 GB limit recently. (FAT32+Scandisk or 28-bit LBA or CHS, 65536/16/255) The 64 GB limit (Win98 Fdisk) The 32 GB limit...
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    Used Game Sales are 'Destructive' to Industry

    I bought Fallout New Vegas on eBay for $35 recently. I ran the installer off the DVD.. and up popped Steam asking for my install code. It was a bit bizarre because all I was buying was a Steam code, and Steam wanted $50 or so for the same code. It was not necessary to put the DVD in; I could...
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    Intel Charging $50 to Unlock Your CPU

    When process yields are low, nobody minds that chips with defective cores or cache are sold as lower end models. A Phenom X4 sells for 100% over cost, and Athlon X2 might only sell for 15% over cost. When process yields are high, every chip could be made into a Phenom X4 but there is still...
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    Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler / Heatsink Review @ [H]

    I just bought one a few days ago. The base of the heatsink is very rough, as rough as my Thermalright 120 extreme. I intend to lap both bases. One confusing note in the article: on page two, it says This is true in watercooling, or if you are using water as your thermal interface material (TIM)...
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