Monday and yet another windows flaw, is that becoming too routine?? Come on Redmond, you can do better. It’s all well and good spouting the “trustworthy computing platform” but you must try harder, C++ for effort?

Perhaps all is not lost, they didn’t miss this nugget… More than half of all Windows crashes reported to Microsoft Corp. are the result of deceptive software, according to Brian Arbogast, corporate vice president of the Identity, Mobile and Partner Services Group for MSN and the Personal Services Division at Microsoft…

We told you that already but nice try anyway?

Quick reminder that the [b]First Short-Media LAN party has just seven days left before close of signing up![/b] … see the primesuspect.. err.. primesuspect in this thread here to get a ticket to meet people who are as mad game crazy as you.

In other news.. ATI have revealed one of the secrets of their R420 GPU..

[quote]1) The board is red
2) There will be an X in the name (maybe even 2)
3) You won’t be disappointed in the performance
4) You will still be able to run it in your shuttle
5) It won’t consume as much power the space shuttle (or a competitor’s card for that matter)
6) Did I mention that the board is red? [/quote]

Well gee thanks there :rant: but I think:
[quote]5) It won’t consume as much power the space shuttle (or a competitor’s card for that matter)[/quote] was the stinger towards their nearest competitor… Still no mention of price though…

A Credit card that only works when spoken to is the next line of defence against credit card crime. Could be quite interesting but suppose you have a headcold and you get arrested for impersonating your chainsmoking cousin!?

I think Il stick to cash when I hand over my £500+ for my (now apparently) power conservative R420. Yes cash, rather than using my voice controlled credit card fed into a stores “trustworthy” PC full of MS security holes. Before spiriting it home to be spammed in my email by viruses, deceased Nigerian dignitries Im related to and promises of a bigger …