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    An Instrument For the Sonification of Everday Things

    I think this is very cool. I love the sound you get even from the simple cardboard box, to me it's kind of unexpected which makes it intriguing. I think it needs some more creative processing, the sounds were a little raw, but as a visual learner and a lover of music this really does it...
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    Researchers Uncover Serious Issues With BitTorrent Tracking

    Using "its" as the subject of the parenthetical clause is incorrect, because the authors don't appear to be referring to "clues" which is the subject of the previous clause. The authors appear to be referencing "peer" which isn't the subject, or even the object of the preceding clause, it's...
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    Intel Talks About Future Technologies for Processors

    Intel usually does have two processes that they implement -- one low power and one high-clock. Why they haven't scaled the frequency more.... ? I think that's a complicated question. You have to remember that smaller transistors could mean faster frequency... except you have to consider...
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    Turn Everyday Objects into a Touchpad

    it is cool to watch, but there's almost no appropriate outcome that would warrant tethering my arm or body to my computer to do anything. I even hate corded mice. But hey, free arduino with purchase...
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    The Minority Report Input Device Is Here

    Uses infrared cameras: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/why-the-leap-is-the-best-gesture-control-system-weve-ever-tested/ Also another youtube video from cnet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXvvCtfSU2s&feature=related Very cool stuff.
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    Watercooling With Toilet Water?

    A 7L tank would have a heat capacity of 29300J/degree C. So if the computer is putting out 40W on average that would raise the water temperature 5 C per hour assuming you can dump all the heat into the tank. So if the water starts out at 15C (59F) then you've got 3-4 hours until you start...
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    My X-Fi Forte just died, need a new soundcard

    I'm using an asynchronous USB source, meaning it slightly buffers the usb data, and the audio and is therefore relatively immune to interference from your computer. It's like a 'brick' that you can throw on or under your desk and you control it via software. It has a headphone amp as well as...
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    If Quake Was Made Today

    quake live?
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    IBM, Intel Group to Invest $4.4 Billion in Chip Tech

    AMD only does design - not fab anymore, they spun that off to Global Foundries. IBM and Globalfoundries work extremely close together on process development, co-occupying their development sites. Also, you have to read through the PR speak - this amounts to 2,500 new jobs across the state...
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    Intel Reinvents Transistors Using New 3-D Structure

    actually Steve himself posted this story on May 4th, with a video no less! It does mention Ivy Bridge http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/news/2011/05/04/intel_reinvents_transistors_using_new_3d_structure/
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    Using Google+ For Spamming

    what country are you in?
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    The Navy Bought 59,000 Fake Chinese Microchips

    The quote on the front page, while verbatim from the Business Insider article, is incorrect. The chips did NOT (according to the Wired article which appears to be the original source...) have a backdoor in them. Wired merely speculated that someone could put a backdoor in counterfeit...
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    15% off SSDs at NeweggBusiness

    FYI you can write applied xxxx for the FEIN where xxxx is the date if you have an EIN application in progress.....
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    Warm? 80GB x25-m G2 (adata) $128+tax at microcenter

    Down to 102.39 no MC near me though.
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    Velociraptor or SSD for OS Drive now???

    if he doesn't notice the ssd why pay the price premium for the raptor? also, lol: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1610771
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    Velociraptor or SSD for OS Drive now???

    I would never recommend getting a raptor, especially if you don't notice the SSD, you will never notice the raptor, except that it is hotter and louder (well the old ones were anyway). If you do end up swapping, go for something big 1-2TB as at least you will have a use for it in the future...
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    Warm ? 160GB adata $204

    This does not appear to come with the "spacer" that the intel retail box SSD's come with. I'm talking about the black band that screws into the top of the drive, bringing it from 7mm to 9.5 mm in height for installation in some laptops. Can anyone confirm that this does or does not come...
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    Linkedin IPO Scammed by Bankers?

    IMO, the current stock price for LinkedIn is WAY overvalued. at $100/share, the company is valued at nearly $9 billion, while it's profit last year was $15 million on ~$290M in revenue. This is much lower than even other 'startups' with growth potential and similar valuations. So, no scam...
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    Who Will Be Shut Down if P2P Becomes a Felony

    this is silly, and whoever wrote that blog entry is an idiot. From the original article, the white house issued a report that urges Congress to “clarify that infringement by streaming . . . is a felony in appropriate circumstances.” This is far from "The Fed has announced that soon the...
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    Best Reason To Reinstall GTA IV

    Loved Carmageddon 2 and the original. Was pretty disappointed that this wasn't actually a mod to let you play carmageddon style within GTA. That would be really sick and it seems possible.
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    Intel Insider - It's Not DRM

    What a terrible marketing job. An apparently brief announcement with few facts, and a poorly spun blog article. Intel Insider appears to be a movie service, no wait its a content protection hardware feature of the 2011 core processor, no wait its "Not DRM". The technology in the 2011 core...
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    Corsair Vengeance RAM Giveaway! 5 12GB Kits!

    its better because it has those cool fins!
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    A Monitor That Prints Screen Caps?

    there has been talk of integrating 'sensors' into the typical RGB pixels of LCD monitors, so you might have red, green, blue, touch, and visual "sub-pixels" at each point on your monitor. The unfortunate thing is that if they did that, the scan quality would be relatively low as monitors are...
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    A Monitor That Prints Screen Caps?

    If it's anything like a normal printer, it will likely shake your monitor off the desk while it's printing....
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    When Your Company Kills Your iPhone

    This is merely a case of poor implementation on the iPhone. There is no reason for a remote wipe to touch any non-email data, and certainly not to brick your phone. If you run Android with touchdown, touchdown will accept a remote wipe, and it will delete all your exchange email for that...
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    How They’re Blocking Google TV

    yeah, I don't see a clear legal argument against this. It's not a free speech issue, not an invasion of privacy. You don't have the right to use copyrighted content on any device you want. This is the sad truth. Soon cable operators will offer IP-based video to all their customers and it...
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    Amazon Wins Fight to Keep Customer Records Private

    How does the state properly demonstrate that it has 'destroyed' the documents amazon sent? Especially if there was digital copy? Also, I would think that beyond just giving names and 'total purchases', you would have to obfuscate the "total" amount if only 1 item was purchased, otherwise the...
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    Google Shutting Down GOOG-411

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Actually not many people know about this. Everyone I show this to is impressed, even people with smartphones.
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    warning: ZipZoomFly may be going under

    as evidenced by failure to pay a myriad of rebates and inaccessibility of customer service. Ordered WD15EARS in March, never got the rebate, and don't think I will, just read my review on reseller ratings and the others there. They have a lifetime rating of 8.24 and recently dropped to 4.5...
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    BitTorrent Founder to Create a P2P Live Video Distribution Model

    I consistently hit 25mbits down from torrents. It depends on the quality of users you connect to.
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    BitTorrent Founder to Create a P2P Live Video Distribution Model

    Um, http://www.sopcast.com/ http://www.myp2p.eu/ this is how I watched the winter olympics, re-streamed from foreign networks. NBC certainly had no live coverage.
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    Levin Wants To Wire 97% Of U.S. For $10B

    The pathetic part is this is proposing 4mbps for these people in 2020 I think I would kill myself before moving somewhere that had that level of service. Honestly, I"m on FIOS now and have resisted moving closer to where I work because they only have time warner and there service sucks.
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    Stuxnet Computer Worm Still a Mystery to Officials

    that's quite a long discovery. Or is that "Months after being discovered"?
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    Google News Turns 8

    link goes nowhere again.
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    Clueless Consumers Favor 15" Notebooks, Ruining Market

    for the record typing this on a m1330, wouldn't buy anything bigger. I have a "desktop" at home (mITX, smaller than a shoe box) and a 24" 16:10. Use a 17" external and BT keyboard when I'm at my desk at work with the laptop. Haven't read the article, but the author likely just needs to...
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    Silicon Oxide Circuits Break Barrier

    link on main page is broken. Forum link above works.
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    Email Overload? Try Priority Inbox

    I've been doing this with the "multiple inboxes" labs feature for a while now. Unread mail at the top, starred mail in the middle and everything else at the bottom. That way I can let messages sit unread or starred and not get lost in my inbox. Seems they've added auto prioritization which...
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    New 1156 mini itx boards?

    you could say that onboard sata 6g isn't needed when you have a PCI-E open also ;) http://www.meritline.com/vantec-2-port-sata-6g-plus-pata-pci-e-host-card-w-raid---p-51378.aspx?source=fghdac get the gigabyte. I just ordered one.
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    GA-H55N-USB3 slow memory?

    run a real memory benchmark and compare it to other published values for h55 boards. its the only way to know if you have a problem. comparing amd to intel is usually not straight forward
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    Innovation@Intel: Energy-Efficient Hardware Accelerator

    this appears targeted for discreet ICs like for a router or dedicated VPN box. They have AES-NI in some of the new Core processors. If they really cared about "innovation" they wouldn't have crippled the AES-NI instructions from the Core i3 Processors. Its all about the money.
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