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Post by Cc_Hairy » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:13 pm

TiVoToGo officially supports PSP and iPod!
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000090068982/

Dreams of pest-free peas dashed by a mouse with the sniffles
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... news_rss20

New Earth-based scope will be 100x more powerful than Hubble
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69578,00.html
"The TMT scope will be so large, it will be housed in an observatory the size of a football stadium resembling an eyeball."

Google's gigantic future
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html
"This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid."

LG's USB Flash Drives come with Homing Beacon
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/20 ... ash_d.html

BF2 Hacker opens web hosting business "30 Gigs free". If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/69668

Record artists blame poor sales on DRM at Sony
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/20/so ... m_is_.html

New Sony CD security risk identified - Now its the uninstaller
http://news.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,3 ... 379,00.htm

Sony's highly controversial XCP DRM technology is easily defeated
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21463 ... defeats-cd
"The use of a piece of tape will defeat any future DRM system on audio CDs designed to be played on a stand-alone CD player"

Darwin exhibition frightening off corporate sponsors - while the Creationist museum get sackfuls of cash
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... ortal.html

SNL "Jean Schmidt" clip from last night's show
Video-WMP Video-QT

Ars System Builders Guide: November 2005 edition
http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/sys ... 200511.ars

How to get out of Iraq
McLaughlin Report

Home Brewed MP3 Player
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000397067512/

No more blurry photographs
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... tw=rss.TOP
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Post by Jesus Knievel » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:04 pm

lots of links! i dont know where to start!!
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Post by Deadly Donkey » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:06 pm

Jesus Knievel wrote:lots of links! i dont know where to start!!
I do. Slashdot.
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Post by venalicius » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:49 pm

The creationist museum sucks.
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Post by Bogey » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:02 pm

venalicius wrote:The creationist museum sucks.
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Post by ayeyah » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:39 pm

Remember that one anti-piracy system on audio CDs where all you had to do was grab a Sharpie and draw a line on it?
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