US Forces Suffer Major Blow From Infected Iraqi Porn DVD’s
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A wise man once said:
In a world without walls and fences there is no need for Gates and Windows…
US soldiers in Iraq definitely have to set up some software “walls” in their laptops as many get infected by viruses. The infection, as it is stated in Washington Post, in most cases comes from porn DVD’s that the soldiers buy in Iraqi markets. These bootlegged DVDs contain malicious software that tends to spread from PC to PC when soldiers share these disks between them.
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Prince Of Persia Is Back
Ubisoft announced that a new Prince of Persia is scheduled to release Holiday 2008 for the Xbox 360, the PLAYSTATION 3 and PC. This new Prince of Persia marks the debut of the critically acclaimed franchise on next-generation consoles.
French Magazine Joypad has an inside story with many pictures of the new game that it is based on “The tales of the Thousand and One Nights”
I found a teaser video on youtube, nothing special of course, but you can watch it 
Memristor Shows The Future Of PC’s
Back in 1971 Leon Chua, an engineering student studying non-linear circuits, made the assumption that a fourth basic circuit element (besides the the capacitor, resistor and the inductor) exists. He even went all the way to come up with its mathematical expression and its physical behaviour.
Now in HP Labs, scientists manage to create this new element, called memristor. This component can process information in the same manner that the human brain does. It works by remembering how much charge has gone through it and hence it can be used to make memory chips that do not loose their stored information when the PC is switched off.
By having a component whose resistance is increasing depending on how much current has passed through it, PC’s would be able to run not only on 1’s and 0’s but also in in between states, hence carrying more information.
The results from this work will be published in today’s edition of Nature.
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Papyrus e-book Concept
Papyrus e-book is a digital replacement for textbooks and notebooks. The Papyrus e-book reader replaces the usual PC or PDA and becomes an interactive e-book reader for school classes. The cost is expected to be less as 100 dollars, which makes is a feasible classroom tool.
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Computers Are Now Allowed In Cuba
Today I learned two things. First the new Cuban president allows his citizens to have electronic equipment and second is that till now it was not allowed. Only companies and foreigners were allowed to have a TV and a computer. All DVD’s were held in customs.
The new president made this move, according to Reuters, to bring his people closer to him. Every Cuban can now own a Plasma TV and if they survive the cultural shock then they can try buying a computer.
To get an Air Condition they need to wait a bit due to the high demand in electricity.
Mariah Carey Likes 802.11n
Mariah Carey is following the path of technology. To approach the young audience she hired a nerd for her latest video clip to fix her PC and she sings:
If it?s a camera up in here, Then I best not catch this flick on Youtube
…and when she is done she tells him ?the download speed was killing me, please tell me you updated to 802.11n?
See the video clip here
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