Netmonger writes “This Japanese guy overclocked a Pentium 4 to 7.132GHz!! The system managed to calculate pi to 1 million decimal places in 18.516 seconds, setting the world’s record.” The article notes that a Pentium 4 had been overclocked faster earlier this year, but at that speed it was not possible for the machine to function beyond BIOS. Of course, they’d yet to try diverting power from the dilthium crystal reactor to the deflector array.
Originally posted by CowboyNeal from Slashdot
A new variant of Mac OS X for Intel began surfacing on Internet sites early Thursday, boasting the ability to run on any x86 based computer. The leak has apparently been cracked to bypass the protections that prevent Apple’s development kits from running on any unofficial system.
Originally from BetaNews.Com
Xeni Jardin:
A Montana Supreme Court justice says it’s within the law for police to sift through your garbage for incriminating stuff, even without a warrant or court approval.
The Supreme Court of Montana ruled last month that police could conduct a warrantless “trash dive” into the trash cans in the alley behind the home of a man named Darrell Pelvit. The cops discovered pseudoephedrine boxes — a solvent with uses including the manufacture of methamphetamine — and Pelvit eventually ended up in prison.
Pelvit’s attorney argued that his client had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his trash, but the court rejected the argument and said the trash was, well, meant to be thrown away.
What’s remarkable is the concurring opinion of Montana Supreme Court Justice James C. Nelson, who reluctantly went along with his colleagues but warned that George Orwell’s 1984 had arrived. We reproduce his concurring opinion in full…
Originally posted by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing
While its timing may be purely coincidental, Microsoft earlier this week released an add-in for Microsoft Word that enables users to mark sections of a document for redaction. Redaction is a process used by governments and corporations to black out certain sections of text in a document.
Originally from BetaNews.Com
David Pescovitz:
A South Carolina man packed up a brush trimmer for a FedEx return to Country Home Products in Vermont and inadvertently included five kittens with the shipment. Apparently, the box was in his barn and the kittens snuck in before he sealed it. Fortunately, they survived the two-day trip. From the Associated Press:
“My co-worker Alan Bean opened the box. Something moved. He jumped; and he looked in again and there was five kittens,” (Country Home Products employee Deb) Peters said. “Three black ones, a gray one and one that looked like a Siamese.”
Country Home employees dashed to the nearby Vergennes Animal Hospital and returned with bottles of kitten formula, which the kittens devoured.
The 3-week-old kittens were taken to Addison County Humane Society in Middlebury, where they met Hazel, a black domestic cat whose kittens had just been weaned. Hazel is a now a surrogate mother to the kittens…
Originally posted by David Pescovitz from Boing Boing