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| (hx) 11:45 AM CEST - Jun,12 2003 |
- The Matrix Reloaded banned in Egypt - Global blockbuster
The Matrix Reloaded has been banned in Egypt because of its "violent"
content and because it tackles "religious themes". The country's censorship
board said the film's storyline, about the search for the creator and control
of the human race, may cause "crises". Violent scenes also had the potential
to "harm social peace", a statement said.
- Chances for 'Fat Tax' Approval Look Slim -
A proposal to tax junk food, video games and television commercials to pay
for an obesity prevention program faces stiff opposition from lawmakers and
business groups. Chances of the proposal passing before lawmakers go home for
the summer on June 19 looked slim after a spokesman for Republican Senate
Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said he would not support the tax. The 1
percent tax hike proposed by Assemblyman Felix Ortiz would apply to junk food,
video games and television commercials, which Ortiz blames on New York's
growing obesity problem. Ortiz, a Democrat, did not rule out proposing tax
increases on other things that he believes contribute to obesity.
- Newest Bugbear Virus Targets Banks -
The worm's code contains a list of more than 1000 domain names of banks
from around the world, according to Symantec. Suzanne Gorman, chairman of the
Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an industry
security group in Reston, Virginia, said that the organization responded
immediately to the first reports of Bugbear attacks on banks by warning member
institutions to make sure that their security systems are fully in place. A
conference call was held with security experts and members to review the
problem and discuss strategy, she said. No member banks so far have been
infiltrated by the Bugbear virus, she said, because of firewalls, antivirus
protection, and other multilayer IT security systems.
- Toshiba, SanDisk shrinking memory cells - Toshiba and SanDisk
announced that they have
managed
to shrink the cell size, the region that "holds" data, on flash-memory
chips, a development that will lead to 2-gigabit and 4-gigabit flash chips by
next year. The new memory cell has a physical area of only 0.041 square
microns, smaller than existing cells, and can be manufactured on the
90-nanometer manufacturing process, a manufacturing standard coming to market
toward the end of the year.
- AMD overhauling transistors, chips - The Sunnyvale, Calif-.based
chipmaker is examining how to incorporate a wide variety of cutting-edge
concepts--strained silicon, multi-gate transistors,
replacing silicon with metal in key transistor components--to boost the
performance of chips that will hit the market in the second half of the
decade.
- Intel takes notebook chips past 3GHz - Dell began offering its new
Inspiron 5150 notebook with the 3.06GHz mobile Pentium 4 on Wednesday. The
machine starts at about $1,550, a price that includes the new chip with a
15-inch high-resolution display, 256MB of RAM, a 30GB hard drive, a DVD-ROM
and a graphics board from ATI Technologies.
- Epson Stylus Photo 900 review - The sticker on
the Epson Stylus Photo 900 ($200 street) says, "The Complete Printing
Solution for Your Digital Lifestyle." We doubt any printer can live up to that
claim, but the quality of the 900's output 900 varies from good to excellent,
and as a bonus, you can print directly onto CDs.
- FIC A98P Radeon 9800 Pro review - VR-Zone today has take a look at
the FIC
A98P Radeon 9800 Pro card which sports a hip box design with a rendered
bull on the cover. FIC continues to hammer away their OEM only image by
putting out quality graphic cards and motherboards geared at the enthusiast
markets. The A98P is no exception, from slick new retail packaging design to
great overclockability (472/370Mhz), the A98P is one of the few cards that
holds its own in the ever so turbulent and cut-throat high end graphic card
market.
- QuickTime Alternative 1.10 -
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt
and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player.
As a bonus, Internet Explorer will play all QuickTime movies that are embedded
in a webpage. You do need a media player that is capable of playing QuickTime
files.
- Media Player Classic 6.4.5.4 -
Media Player Classic
(download)
is similar to windows media player 6.4 but with features pertained to
minimalist advanced users.
- VIA Audio drivers v3.50c - VIA Tech has released
new drivers for the internal AC97 sound in their chipsets i.e. south
bridges VT686A, VT686B, VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8233C and VT8235.
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| Comments from thuggish | posted - 07:11 PM CEST - Jun,12 2003 | | see, that just makes me sick. what the fuck is a movie gonna do the mentality of the people of Egypt? god damn man, next they're gonna ban sex cuz it's too animal like and they're gonna fucking use artificial insemination. get real. | |
| Comments from YO | posted - 11:03 PM CEST - Jun,12 2003 | | This is excatly why I'm proud to be an american | |
| Comments from a normal | posted - 11:11 PM CEST - Jun,12 2003 | | Fucking Fat Tax. Unbelievable! Only in America. Let's also add Fat Taxes to couches, TVs, cars... come to think of it, we can put a Fat Tax on almost everything, excluding gym equipment (something fat people don't have or use). I'm so sick of this “stupid people” bull shit. Maybe if these obese people would get off their asses every once in a while to do something other than go to the kitchen and stuff their fat faces all day and night, maybe they wouldn’t be so fucking fat. And perhaps, when they do eat, they can eat food that is not so unbelievably fattening. Does anyone have any commonsense these days? Americans are becoming dumber than dogs. I’d hate to see how this country is going to look ten or twenty years from now. | |
| Comments from Jake | posted - 12:32 AM CEST - Jun,13 2003 | | Two categories, genetically fat and fat for no reason but eating too much or too fat food, the first category have my sympathy and they should somehow through taxes get atleast a chance to recover like with any other disease, but the second category just plain disgust me and have nothing with any tax funds to do whatsoever. | |
| Comments from Edward J. Kwak | posted - 12:32 AM CEST - Jun,13 2003 | | It's okay, it's not like Egypt matters anyway :) It can stick its pyramids right up its sphinx-ter. | |
| Comments from thuggish | posted - 01:04 AM CEST - Jun,13 2003 | | hahahahaha true true. | |
| Comments from | posted - 01:06 AM CEST - Jun,13 2003 | | higher taxes = more crime | |
| Comments from Erboz | posted - 12:12 PM CEST - Jun,13 2003 | | Egypt is right in banning lame crap like The Matrix. Just like how bad the game is, is should be banned all over the world. | |
| Comments from potrine | posted - 02:47 PM CEST - Jun,13 2003 | | They should ban you too, Erboz :) | |
| Comments from tom | posted - 09:55 PM CEST - Jun,13 2003 | | Doesn't egypt harbour terrorists? funny they ban a game and let terrorists live in their country. I believe in countries that allow people freedom to live and have an opinion. From what I understand in Egypt, people don't really have rights and their goverment is more of a dictatorship. People shouldn't complain about taxes in USA. You all have it easy. Trying living in Canada and dishing out 50% of your salary to a government that blows it on uselessness. Americans got it easy. I'd live there but I can't live in a country that not mature enough to put the guns away. Any country that allows the right to bear arms is a bad place. You know why Americans are so against drugs and why government pursues it. Not cuz it's bad for your health, but because imagine millions of Americans smoking marijuana and holding a gun. They'd cut their population in half within 2 weeks. | | The old comment system has been replaced. Use the regular FORUMS!
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