Monday Mini-News Mash

[Mr. Analog]

Rather than posting a lot of this stuff separately I'll condense it!

Training From America's Army Game Saved a Life
MMO's: Saving Life?

Microsoft Insider Details Xbox 360 Red Ring Problems

heat on the GPU warping the mother board around it. This would stress the solder joints on the GPU and any bad joints would then fail in early life. There are also other significantly high failure rates in other areas, like the DVD

Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th
I hope everyone likes IE7, 'cos it's coming down as a "security" patch. For most users, they don't care, for big stupid companies it can be a problem.

RIAA Website Hacked

The existence of an SQL injection attack on the RIAA's site came to light via social network news site Reddit. Soon after hackers were making merry, turning the site into a blank slate, among other things

To quote Nelson Muntz: Ha-Hah!

Japan folded paper (origami) plane society hopes to fly a paper airplane from the International Space Station to Earth

The plane will be 30-40cm long and weigh about 30 grams. A University of Tokyo research group has successfully designed a special paper plane model that was able to withstand a Mach 7 high velocity stream for 10 seconds. The experimental plane was about one-fifth the size and withstood temperatures as high as 300C without burning up.

The Weighted Companion PC
Remember; it isn't bitter or anything...

[Darren Dirt]

Rather than posting a lot of this stuff separately I'll condense it!

The Analog Report

[Mr. Analog]

Rather than posting a lot of this stuff separately I'll condense it!

The Analog Report

LOL

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