http://www.hardocp.com News Feed for [H]ardOCP Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:07:06 CDT en-us Copyright 2009 [H]ardOCP Clifford Murphy kyle@hardocp.com (Kyle Bennett) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:07:00 CDT
Several states say the Internet retailers should charge sales taxes in states where those affiliates are based. The financial benefits may not be quite what the states anticipate, though. Rather than gearing up to collect taxes, Amazon and other Web retailers are simply shutting down their affiliate marketing programs. As the small businesses that participate in these programs get cut off, a state could lose tax revenue rather than add to it.

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Wu told Krause that if Drew had been convicted of felonies he would already have sentenced her in May when her sentencing had initially been scheduled. But the misdemeanor convictions gave him trouble. "I don’t see how the misdemeanor aspect would be constitutional," he said, telling Krause that he had problems with the "vagueness" of the federal statute.

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]]> http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=NDA1MjcsLCwsLCwx http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=NDA1MjcsLCwsLCwx Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:07:00 CDT NZXT Khaos Aluminum Gaming Chassis @ TechwareLabs
Thermaltake Element G Case @ Hardware Secrets

Cooling
Nexus TDD-9000 Liquid Cooling Pad Laptop Cooler @ Tech-Reviews

ETC.
Lenovo ThinkPad T500 Laptop @ Driver Heaven
PCPer Podcast #63 @ PC Perspective

Power Supply
Corsair CX400W PSU @ Hardware Secrets
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Apparently, Apple applied for the iPhone trademark in China in late 2002, but its application only covered computer hardware and software—not phones, according to the Web site of China’s trademark office. Two years later, the Chinese company, called Hanwang Technology, which makes electronic devices and Chinese handwriting recognition systems, registered the i-phone trademark covering phones.

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The operation, with key players located in Canada and St. Kitts, used spammers to drive traffic to Web sites selling an extract of the hoodia gordonii plant that the sellers claimed would cause significant weight loss and a "natural human growth hormone enhancer" that sellers claimed would reverse the aging process, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Thursday.

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I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion today about how we’re bringing Silverlight ads to LIVE in the future. I need to let you know that you don’t need to worry about a huge influx of ads across the dashboard. One of our core principles is to enhance, not interfere with the gaming experience, and we work directly with our partners to only deliver experiences that are relevant to the LIVE community. Silverlight will help make those ads a more organic part of the dashboard, like we’ve done with some of the NXE slots in the past. No one on the team wants to turn the dashboard into something that looks like Shibuya Crossing. That’s just not good for anyone.

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Person Wins Messed Up Xbox 360 @ Kotaku
UFC Banning Fighters Who Sign On With EA's MMA Game? @ VE3D
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The Liberty Eco 620W is the fifth power supply we have reviewed from Enermax and to be blunt, Enermax is one of the few brands to waltz up to the craps table and not throw snake eyes in some way with this many rolls of the dice. As such the Liberty Eco 620W had a lot to live up to, and to make things more difficult Enermax is pitching this unit as a value oriented one. And typically value oriented units have not exactly been the best in our testing for many reasons. So, with all that in mind was Enermax able to come away with another Editors Choice award? Or did they push their luck and let it ride just a bit too long with the Liberty Eco 620W?

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Less than a week after the iPhone app developer behind Hottest Girls was busted for distributing pornographic material on the iPhone, another perpetrator sneaked in and posted what is purported to be a photo of a nude 15-year-old girl to its iPhone app. The app, named BeautyMeter, has been removed in line with Apple's policy against pornographic material.

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Earlier this week, we were all rather intrigued by the appearance of a Microsoft ad, in which a wife borrows her husband's laptop and suffers a technicolor nightmare when she espies a site that he has been, um, enjoying. By Wednesday night, however, Microsoft had second thoughts about the pulling power of puke.

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Cooling
CoolIT Domino A.L.C Watercooling Kit @ Tech-Reviews
Evercool Buffalo Heatpipe HSF @ PureOC

Video
Sparkle GeForce GTX 275 @ Legit Reviews
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Two years ago I wrote a post scoffing at members of Congress who were pushing legislation to outlaw caller-ID spoofing. I was wrong; they were right. People who abuse caller-ID need to know they're breaking the law.

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A superquick recap: Psystar releases the OpenMac, a $400 desktop Mac clone; people debate if this is possible, technically or legally, and if Psystar is a scam; the hackintoshes turn out to be real; they ship; Apple gets upset; Psystar grandstands; Apple continues to be upset; Psystar gets murdered. To death.

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The appellate court consolidated several similar lawsuits brought by minor girls dubbed "Julie Does" and their parents or guardians, claiming that MySpace failed to implement available age-verification software or set the default security on the girls' accounts to "private."

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