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10 most Recent Topics - The Geek Crew http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl - The Geek Crew en-us The Geek Crew Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:35:37 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 30 The Mother Board - Game Thread! http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1215782993/384#384 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1215782993/384#384 JRogers@TWNCommunications.Net (b0b) Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:19:10 +0000 Quote: <div class="quote" style="width: 90%; overflow: auto;">Duke Nukem Forever is back: coming to both consoles and PC By Ben Kuchera | Last updated 14 minutes ago The news of an upcoming announcement at PAX, followed by a tweet that showed the image of a flying pig. These were the hints pointed at a momentous occasion in gaming history: Duke Nukem Forever will see release late this year, or maybe next year, on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Gearbox Software will be taking over development from the now-defunct 3D Realms. After the studio's closing, litigation began between 3D Realms and Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of Duke Nukem Forever. According to the Wall Street Journal, the suits have now been settled and neither side was willing to discuss terms. The game has not sat still, however: According to Pitchford, Gearbox began finishing “Duke Nukem Forever” in late 2009. “Clearly the game hadn’t been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of content had been created,” he says. “The approach and investment and process at 3D Realms didn’t quite make it and it cracked at the end. With Gearbox Software we brought all those pieces together. It’s the game it was meant to be.” The game is actually playable at PAX, for both the press and the general public. If you're there and you get to play, send in your report. We'd love to hear what it's like to finally put your hands on it. If the release slips into 2011, we won't exactly be shocked. </div> I'll believe it when I see it.  That said, I still can't help but to be a weeeee bit excited! -b0b (...is fresh out of bubble gum.) The Mother Board - Networking Fun! http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1271056612/19#19 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1271056612/19#19 JRogers@TWNCommunications.Net (b0b) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:24:59 +0000 New toys!  These are crappy eBay pictures, but I'll take a picture of the actual products as soon as I have a moment to fire 'em up. <center>Cisco 3550 48-port multi-layer switch with the enhanced image. This bad boy will replace my 2950 and will allow me to route between VLANs right on the switch instead of handing the traffic off to the 3745 router.</center> <center> <img src="http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/Cisco3550.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></center> <center>Cisco PIX 515 firewall with restricted license. This is a firewall/VPN endpoint that will allow me to scan traffic entering my network to a deeper degree than my router can do by itself. This will probably remain a "lab" firewall and I'll buy a beefier model for the production rack.</center> <center> <img src="http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/CiscoPIX515.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></center> -b0b (...is excited.) The Mother Board - Random Stupidity http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1165336311/2009#2009 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1165336311/2009#2009 JRogers@TWNCommunications.Net (b0b) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:42:26 +0000 Real men prop their servers up with 7.62x54R. -b0b (...ha!) The Mother Board - Picture and Video Thread http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1129558932/2026#2026 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1129558932/2026#2026 JRogers@TWNCommunications.Net (b0b) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:24:41 +0000 WildAmmo posted a bunch of movie posters that show what several movies would have looked like had they retained their original casting.  Some of them would have been substantially different had they stuck with their original casting decisions... <a href="http://wildammo.com/2010/06/03/if-movies-followed-their-original-casting/" target="_blank">http://wildammo.com/2010/06/03/if-movies-followed-their-original-casting/</a> -b0b (...is particularly glad the Clooney wasn't in Hancock.) The Mother Board - Cry freedom! http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1131463095/1356#1356 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1131463095/1356#1356 agentx216@yahoo.com (X) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:23:56 +0000 Quote: <div class="quote" style="width: 90%; overflow: auto;">Case Study The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves By Adam Cohen Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements. That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant. (See a TIME photoessay on Cannabis Culture.) It is a dangerous decision — one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich. This case began in 2007, when Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents decided to monitor Juan Pineda-Moreno, an Oregon resident who they suspected was growing marijuana. They snuck onto his property in the middle of the night and found his Jeep in his driveway, a few feet from his trailer home. Then they attached a GPS tracking device to the vehicle's underside. After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA's actions, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all perfectly legal. More disturbingly, a larger group of judges on the circuit, who were subsequently asked to reconsider the ruling, decided this month to let it stand. (Pineda-Moreno has pleaded guilty conditionally to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana while appealing the denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained with the help of GPS.) In fact, the government violated Pineda-Moreno's privacy rights in two different ways. For starters, the invasion of his driveway was wrong. The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home. The government's intrusion on property just a few feet away was clearly in this zone of privacy. The judges veered into offensiveness when they explained why Pineda-Moreno's driveway was not private. It was open to strangers, they said, such as delivery people and neighborhood children, who could wander across it uninvited. (See the misadventures of the CIA.) Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who dissented from this month's decision refusing to reconsider the case, pointed out whose homes are not open to strangers: rich people's. The court's ruling, he said, means that people who protect their homes with electric gates, fences and security booths have a large protected zone of privacy around their homes. People who cannot afford such barriers have to put up with the government sneaking around at night. Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. "There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist," he wrote. "No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter." The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of "cultural elitism." (Read about one man's efforts to escape the surveillance state.) The court went on to make a second terrible decision about privacy: that once a GPS device has been planted, the government is free to use it to track people without getting a warrant. There is a major battle under way in the federal and state courts over this issue, and the stakes are high. After all, if government agents can track people with secretly planted GPS devices virtually anytime they want, without having to go to a court for a warrant, we are one step closer to a classic police state — with technology taking on the role of the KGB or the East German Stasi. Fortunately, other courts are coming to a different conclusion from the Ninth Circuit's — including the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That court ruled, also this month, that tracking for an extended period of time with GPS is an invasion of privacy that requires a warrant. The issue is likely to end up in the Supreme Court. In these highly partisan times, GPS monitoring is a subject that has both conservatives and liberals worried. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's pro-privacy ruling was unanimous — decided by judges appointed by Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Plenty of liberals have objected to this kind of spying, but it is the conservative Chief Judge Kozinski who has done so most passionately. "1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it's here at last," he lamented in his dissent. And invoking Orwell's totalitarian dystopia where privacy is essentially nonexistent, he warned: "Some day, soon, we may wake up and find we're living in Oceania." </div> X (Vomits on himself) The Mother Board - Interesting News Article Thread http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1133485166/1268#1268 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1133485166/1268#1268 wesleydowner@gmail.com (The_Fat_Man) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:27:11 +0000 I agree Pat, it was really really good.  I was pleasently suprised by this because I had kind of dismissed the movie as stupid.  Only went to see it because it was a group thing. Definately one of the best movies of the year. The Mother Board - Danny's Popular Science troubles http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1272299877/14#14 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1272299877/14#14 ebriney44@yahoo.com (Ironman) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:04:25 +0000 I don't even think I knew what a pen name was when I was in high school...   shoot. The Mother Board - Time Of The Gathering http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1281577190/1#1 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1281577190/1#1 JRogers@TWNCommunications.Net (b0b) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:17:57 +0000 Dibs on half the table and one chair! The Mother Board - Word Association http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1130103416/1469#1469 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1130103416/1469#1469 JRogers@TWNCommunications.Net (b0b) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:54:20 +0000 Do you feel lucky, Punk? The Mother Board - Computer Questions http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1171509430/147#147 The Geek Crew/The Mother Board http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1171509430/147#147 agentx216@yahoo.com (X) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:16:28 +0000 The case I have is pretty cool and the way my  GTX 480 has a decent fan built into it and the thing takes up two bays in the back.  One for the video connectors and one for just exhaust.  The power draw is excellent with the MoBo I have...like I said, the MoBo is a bit overpowered as I could run 4 off the 480 and all I would need is another PCIe connector to the MoBo to be safe and each 480 takes 3 PCIe.  You'd have to get another power supply just for the 480s if you got more but that's not too big an issue anymore. X