Amnesty International USA urged foreign governments Wednesday to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American "architects of torture" at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of ties to terrorist groups have been interrogated. Watch the video here or read the transcript here: (more…)

Cough, what can I say…it is simply the next step   Digital Immortality – Download the Mind by 2050 The wealthy will be able to download their consciousness into computers by 2050 – the not so well off by "2075 or 2080", claims futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson, head of the Futurology unit at BT. While it sounds like science fiction, Pearson is serious about his claim.  He believes that humans will achieve a kind of virtual immortality by saving their consciousnesses into computers within the next 45 years. "If you draw the timelines, realistically by...

You want more features in Google? You want to have GoogleSuggest on the main page? You want to get rid of those ads? No need for complaining at Google: just make the changes yourself! What do you need? Firefox (an other reason to switch ) and the extension Greasemonkey which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior. Now all you have to do is write a script… or download one Here you can find a quite big list of available user scripts, there are probably more, but you have to find them. (If you find another good list, feel free to post...

Santa Monica, CA – May 16, 2005 – id Software™ and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the development of ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS™. Developed by Splash Damage and built on id Software’s new MegaTexture™ rendering technology, ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in the ultimate online strategic shooter. Featuring strategic team play, persistent character promotions, day and nighttime combat missions, and the universe’s most powerful weapons and vehicles, ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS transports...

THE EVOLUTION OF THE PDA 1975-1995 by Evan Koblentz, editor, Computer Collector Newsletter — posted May 2005, version 0.99 The purpose of this document is to be a comprehensive timeline of the history of PDAs. Specifically, my intention is to clarify which companies premiered each of the primary front-end features that are considered standard in modern devices, as of the mid/late-1990s commoditization trend. So this is not a discussion of back-end technologies such as architectures, chips, programming interfaces, and speeds. By "premiered" I mean "first to actually include...

  PS3 Xbox 360 Processor 3.2GHz Cell w/ 7 SPEs 2.0 TFLOPS 3.2GHz G5 w/ 3 Cores 1.0 TFLOPS Memory 256MB XDR @ 3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 @ 700MHz 512MB GDDR3 @ 700MHz 10MB Embedded DRAM GPU 550MHz NVIDIA 500MHz ATi Best Display 1080p Standard Dual Screen Output 1080i Optional Single Screen Output Network 1000BASE-T Ethernet Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g 100BASE-TX Ethernet Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g Audio 5.1 Digital 5.1 Digital Wireless Input x7 on Bluetooth 2.0 x4 on 2.4GHz RF Storage Removable HDD *TBA...

Firefox 1.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. Here’s what’s new in Firefox 1.0.4: Several security fixes. Fix to DHTML errors encountered at some web sites. For web developers, learn more. Fixed in Firefox 1.0.4: MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides MFSA 2005-43 "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL ...

Okay – I’ve posted like three posts about cooling in the last month, but this wasn’t exactly what I expected:   "Forget fancy watercooled CPUs or complicated heat pipes. Annoyed with the noise of the forced-air cooling in his computer, this guy simply dumped his entire motherboard in an aquarium filled with mineral oil. (coral cache). No modifications were necessary; he even left the fans running to keep the oil moving about. The only thing not submersed in oil is the hard disk."   Now I really didn’t think that was possible!  Hope he doesn’t...