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Dunno the details. Engadget's use of the nickname "Sammy" for Samsung made me think that the guy who contacted them in the first place was the person who verified the fake alert, but it just seems that Samsung itself is claiming that it's a false positive. So... it might be that Samsung is...

They updated the story again, it seems as if the malware scanner mistook a legit folder ("the Microsoft Slovene Language folder") for a keylogger. Engadget calls it "much ado about nothing" but I wonder what the effect is for Samsung if this becomes one of those stubborn rumor/urban legends...

This just in-- politician gains powerful office, suddenly wishes that people and information weren't so free. This isn't anything new, and neither is his clumsy way of admitting it. The media is as much friend as enemy to the US President, and often it's as much accidental as it is deliberate...

How much did he deserve for suggesting that they take an existing model and put an existing skin on it?

The vast majority of people who will buy these CPUs will not even know what they bought or what socket it uses. They'll be buying a Dell or an HP or Gateway or whatever. Multiple sockets let Intel enforce changes within CPU families so that they can maintain pricing strata. Believe me, it's...

The key phrase in that article is "seemingly public spaces online." Does someone own that space? Is it not the government? Then it's probably not public, and you're limited in what you can do or say. People tend to get pretty touchy about 'freedoms' as long as it isn't at their expense.

It makes sense though... the kids that can't hack it in school wouldn't be bright enough to pull this off and get away with it. :p

When you pass the billion mark in active users the script blows up! :)

You sorta wish that these countries and governments would have been doing this a few years ago instead of now. Granted, they may not have had enough evidence at the time and couldn't do anything until now. But the actions by Korea and the EU (later this summer, assuming the rumors are...

I can't believe that people still complain about the way [H] reviews video cards. For one, if you want the typical review setup (all cards at exact same settings for every resolution from 1280x1024 and up), there are plenty of sites that do just this. Second, if you look at the max playable...

Your average home consumer will rarely look to upgrade their OS because it's a major hassle. Many of them don't want to bother with relatively straightforward upgrades like more memory or an additional hard drive/optical drive. And in my experience in IT, most corporate consumers are pretty...

Synthetic benchmarks are useful when what they are measuring is simple and straightforward. Early on, both CPUs and video cards (and pretty much any computer component) were pretty simple and straightforward. They dealt with problems via brute-force number-crunching, so even a fairly narrow...

I would say that the easier to develop on, the sooner you'll see games on that platform. It also makes it more likely that the X-Box 360 could have more games developed on it for that reason. If it's faster and easier to develop for it, you spend less time and therefore less money developing...

I agree. But marketing is typically a multi-pronged approach. The pitch you aim at end-users and potential venture capitalists is very different from the pitch you aim at potential industry partners. We're seeing the former here.

That was the impression I got from reading the article and comments here. These fellows are looking to get into a graphics market (low-power mobile devices) that looks to become very hot and potentially extremely profitable if you can get a foothold. But how to get some attention (and perhaps...

It just reminds me of anytime there were mass bannings or a gripe with some other forum, and people would start saying how these forums were dying out and how Kyle was ruining the place by being such a hardass. I guess it is one of those really long and slow deaths.

I think I'm gonna get into this business of hitting up venture capitalists for cash. Because it seems that even after the dot.com bust, venture capitalists are still willing to throw millions of dollars at people without doing reasonable background checks. So, HAY RICH GUYS!!! I'm building...

I think you guys misunderstood my posts, heh. My bosses are engineers (geotechnical and structural engineers, specializing in subsurface investigation), just as my co-workers are. For the most part, my co-workers are no more knowledgeable about computer hardware than my bosses are. Heck, in...

Yeah, but this could be said about so many things, that it is really futile to worry about it. Businesses, in particular the businesses that buy expensive servers, are going to have their bureaucracy and inefficiencies. And that's not even counting all of the shady stuff that may or may not be...

I agree. Intel's problems with Prescott don't hurt either. Every little bit helps, in the long run.

In the corporate space, what AMD needs to do is build a reputation and create the right relationships. Their past hurts the second more than it does the first. A typical CEO may or may not be even mildly tech-savvy, in which case they'll have some very vague impressions, but those...

It'll come to the desktop when it is strategically advantageous for Intel to do so, and not before. The announcement seems timed to derail any momentum that AMD may have been building up with their own 64-bit CPUs. I think that an Intel spokesman said that they don't think 64-bit will be...