judgecorp writes "the UK's culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will this week ask Google to stifle sites deemed to be pirates, pushing them down the listing and cutting off their advertising revenues.
Slashdot: Programming
Two Rambus Patents Invalidated By USPTO
Submitted by editor on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:17AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer
Submitted by editor on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:17MojoKid writes "AMD recently held a press event at their Austin headquarters, offering hands on time with the company's upcoming Bulldozer-based FX-line of processors. Many of the details disclosed are still under NDA embargo, but AMD is allowing a sneak peek today to go along with a claimed Guinness World Record announcement. A team of overclocking enthusiasts and AMD engineers had a sampling of early AMD FX processors running at around 5GHz with high-end air and water-cooling, in the 6GHz range with phase-change cooling, and well over 8GHz on liquid-nitrogen and liquid-helium setups.
NASA Sells Space Food, Shuttle Tiles To Schools
Submitted by editor on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:17iamrmani writes with word that NASA
"is offering processed space shuttle tiles and astronaut food to eligible schools and universities to preserve history.
Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method
Submitted by editor on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:17A few weeks ago, we discussed the discovery of a diamond planet in orbit around a pulsar. One of the researchers behind the discovery has now written a followup article about reaction to the news from the media and laypeople. Quoting:
"The attention we received was 100% positive, but how different that could have been. How so? Well, we could have been climate scientists. ... Instead of sitting back and basking in the glory, I suspect we’d find a lot of commentators, many with no scientific qualifications, pouring scorn on our findings.
$300M To Save 6 Milliseconds
Submitted by editor on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:17whoever57 writes "A new transatlantic cable (the first in 10 years) is going to be laid at the cost of $300M. The reason? To shave 6ms off the time to transmit packets from London to New York. The Hibernian Express will reduce the current transmission time — roughly 65 milliseconds — by less than ten percent. However, investors believe the financial community will be lining up to pay premium rates to use the new cable.
Syndicate Reboot Coming Next Year
Submitted by editor on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:17Electronic Arts has announced that the popular 1993 cyberpunk game Syndicate is getting a remake. This time, instead of being a tactical action game, it'll be a first-person shooter, and co-op play is planned. The Guardian's games blog sums up what the new Syndicate will need in order to succeed: "The biggest challenge will to replicate Bullfrog's brilliant story-telling and its keen eye for cyberpunk details.
theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles
Submitted by editor on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:17An anonymous reader writes "Thousands of PC users are being called on to donate their spare CPU cycles to help create a massive grid computing engine to process terabytes of radio astronomy data as part of theSkyNet project.
Coming Soon to EA's Origin Store: Third-Party Titles
Submitted by editor on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 05:02First time accepted submitter RGDfleet writes with news snipped from Gamer Gaia, based on a report in GameSpot UK: "For around three months now EA's Origin store, previously known as the EA Store, has been providing digital copies of just about any EA title post-2009. In fact, Origin has been exclusively EA ever since its inception and has featured no games from other publishers. On top of this the service has restricted access of EA titles on competitor providers such as Steam, Battlefield 3 perhaps being the leading example.
Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Buy Legal Game ROMs?
Submitted by editor on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 05:02PktLoss writes "I'm interested in building an arcade machine, following the footsteps of Cmdr Taco among many others. Not being all that interested in piracy, I need to find somewhere to buy games. StarROMs used to be the kind of thing I was looking for, though with an incredibly short catalog. The MAME people have a few available for free (non-commercial), but this isn't going to sate my needs. There's an entire cottage industry supporting this goal. People are ready to sell me plans, kits, buttons, joy sticks, glass marquees, and entire machines.
