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    HOT! Ryzen 7 2700 8 Core Processor $135 @ Newegg

    I7 8700 would be close, as far as gaming performance.
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    Kaby Lake 7700K vs Sandy Bridge 2600K IPC Review @ [H]

    I still running my 2600k at 5ghz and it still fast, I'm more amazed that the 4 Force 3 SSD's in raid 0 hasnt had a failure yet. Only the video card has been changed to stay current.
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    Comcast CEO: “The More You Use, The More You Pay”

    Sounds like you have never worked for a Tier 1 provider, if you had, then you would understand peering contracts, and how they greatly reduce bandwidth costs in general for all major providers, since over 90% of data traverses for free, and only costs when the data is forced to cross a...
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    Popcorn Time Deleted By Mega, MPAA Lawsuit Pending?

    seems to be back up now, website and downloads are all working, with the disclaimer "Popcorn Time streams movies from Torrents Downloading copyrighted material may be illegal in your country. Use at your own risk." streaming torrents is not exactly new, Utorrent has been streaming...
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    Hasbro Sues ASUS Over Transformer Name

    Oh man, I was going to buy one of these tablets, fully expecting it to turn into a robot, become my buddy and help me hookup with Megan fox. damn you ASUS for crushing my dream with your false advertising ! Seriously though, the branding was pretty obviously intended to tie back to...
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    3dfx Voodoo 590

    wow, that only served to make me long for days gone bye. RIP, 3DFX you will remain in our hearts.
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    DVD Industry in Crisis As Sales Slump

    I purchased only two movies this year , and both on bluray. the only dvds I would buy now would be weird B movies that will never make the transition.
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    Pirate Bay Co-Founder Proposes Peer-to-Peer DNS

    p2p dns would be an utter disaster. since there are really only two ways that would work, 1. any reply is accepted as true. Problem dns becomes too easy to poison, and will become useless. 2. "wisdom of the cloud" poll hundreds of of requests and assume top result is correct...
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    Verizon Grabs for Internet Speed Crown

    heh this figures two days ago I found out that FIOS will be available at my current place in like 3-4 weeks. and the apt im moving to wont have FIOS for another six months.... sigh, guess i'll have to stay with charter for another 6 months. fast internet is like crack, once you have a taste...
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    Upgrade of really old laptop (LCD swap from Dell to IBM)

    No, but if I remember correctly the 4xxxx series could drive the 8xxx series panels I seem to remember people using them as an upgrade since the 8xxx series had up to 1600x1200 panels but on the whole the 4xxx line shared more in common with the CPX line, you can find those cheap on ebay...
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    Chrome OS to Support “Legacy” PC Apps

    RDC + VM running dos box in full screen ? Or a VM of dos with ne2000 drivers and a telnet server running .. /sarcasm perhaps a took "legacy" some what too far ?
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    Duke Nukem Forever Lawsuits Settled

    It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum .
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    Onkyo’s DX Dual-Screened Netbook

    I think i'm in love, I could care less about the "tablet" mode, dual screens is what I need., Ive used dual or triple screen monitors for so long that it is hard for me to use a single screen system.
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    World’s Greatest Electric Car = W.E.N.G.

    I could build a faster machine with off the shelf parts for way less money.
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    AT&T Just Killed Unlimited Wireless Data

    T-mobiles highest data plan is 30.00 /month for 10gb w/ free tethering, also you don't pay more if you go over 10gb, they just throttle your connection to EDGE speeds once the 10gb is reached.
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    Apple on NPD’s Android Outselling iPhone Claim: Whatever

    "Sir, Sir! your pants are on fire !" "No, they are not" (whoosh) (cinders fall to floor)
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    Verizon Leads Carriers in Customer Satisfaction

    I'm currently with TMO there service isn't the greatest but works fine in my local area, there 3G is somewhat spotty, however there not as bad as I expected, and the customer service is friendly and helpful. that being said, I plan to return to sprint when my contract with TMO has ended...
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    Microsoft to End Support For Windows 2000, XP

    Xp's activation feature defaults to activated if it is unable to connect to the activation servers. So, you have no worry there, you will be able to install /activate xp long after the activation servers have shut down.
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    U.S. Based Companies Sued For Heat Pipe CPU Coolers

    As I stated most coolers do not meet ALL of the conditions I listed, I did not state no cooler meets any of those design features. And for the record, not all heat pipes use liquids many use compressed gases.
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    Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Date a Girl Gamer

    depends, joysticks work well for nascar and indy sims as an alternative to those without a steering wheel, its still far more accurate then a keyboard .
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    New Netflix Deals Mean More Streaming Movies

    Pirates show the weaknesses in any given system. they exploit these weaknesses by providing what the customer wants and the content producers do not provide. A company can always learn what it is the customer wants by looking at what the pirates are doing . in this instance, 1. Quicker...
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    16-Year-Old Accuses Mom of Facebook Slander

    I think you need to RTFA, his mother has lost parental rights, and the son does not live with her, and is in custody of his grandmother. he was well within his rights to charge her for what she did. she has lost the right to make parental decisions on his behalf, and therefor what she did...
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    U.S. Based Companies Sued For Heat Pipe CPU Coolers

    "The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages. This amount was reduced to $160,000 because the jury found Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages"
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    U.S. Based Companies Sued For Heat Pipe CPU Coolers

    For those not extremely adept at reading patents, the basic concept of there patent is, A heat pipe cooler with thermally conductive fluid, the heat pipe is then connected to a thick heat transfer plate, this plate is connected directly to the PCB with notches cut into the the base of the...
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    Man Pays Internet Bill With Huge Cardboard Check

    yes and no, the large checks are in fact legal, however "anything" will not fly here. oddly the rules here dictate the shape of the check and location of where the check information must be placed . however, there is currently no size limit that I'm aware of. the only limit may be in fact...
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    Intel Seen as Slowpoke in Support of USB 3.0

    still will not stop or really even slow down the adoption of USB3. I don't know about you but the last few mobos that I bought had a lot more usb ports the the main chipset supported. most had at least one additional usb controller. So what we will see, is much like the crossover days...
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    Microsoft Getting Sued by a Doctor over the Zune.

    anyone have links the the patents in question ?
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    Rapidshare Aims To Convert Pirates Into Customers

    this will change nothing. passworded multipart rars and short file names take care of this, rapidshare is slow to remove files as it is, this scheme will only replace the "this file has been removed for BLAH BLAH BLAH" it truly changes only where the "deleted" page redirects too. (in this...
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    House Bans File Sharing By Government Employees

    Well that is not exactly true, in truth it is both. you can get the program "bittorrent" from bittorrent.com, it uses the bittorrent protocol to connect with other bittorrent users, (and other clients using the bittorrent protocol ). The protocol is in fact named bittorrent because it was the...
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    Microsoft Pulls Bing App From Non-U.S. Stores

    And those crickets you hear is the sound of no one caring.
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    JooJoo Refunds Smell Awfully Fishy

    been that way at leased a few years. since 2006 for sure.
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    Secret Service Computer System Has Only 60% Uptime

    no, the security of 80's equipment was based around the total lack of people having another computer to attach to yours (read NONE) but in a way that works since those machines are isolated from the net, and would require physical access to get the data. and that data is stored in tapes...
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    Intel Confirms Atom N470 Processor

    its a second die on the same substrate connected via fsb, very much like the first intel dual cores, it is not a single integrated die, such as the fusion core is supposed to be. I'm sure AMD would call it cheating, but we have already seen how "cheating" can lead to winning the race. the...
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    Intel to Introduce Faster Atom Chip Monday

    10.1 beta also supports gma500 and broadcom crystal hd daughter card.
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    MS Outlook for Mac Announced

    I'm not quite sure is that a promise or a threat?
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    FCC Filing Info Outs New Microsoft ‘Turtle’ Phone?

    oddly, not that far off ..lol
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    71% Australians Do Not Look at Internet Porn

    yeah yeah, and only 40% of US male admit to looking at internet porn, so then you could say 60% of US males don't look at it. not to mention only 6% of US females admit to looking at internet porn , that would put the US numbers very close to this survey, that is if you think these people...
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    25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries for 2010

    AOL was not called nor looked anything like aol until 92' in 85 AOL (then Quantum Computer Services) launched a service called Quantumlink and was for c64 and c128 users only . but this was not the start of the company either. AOL started in 83' as Control Video Corporation selling...
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    Rate my friend's rig - Circa 2003

    heh, a 9700 is still far faster then current on board graphics from intel a gma950 will run quake III at 40-60 fps a 9700 will run quake III at 150-200 fps
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