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Monday, May 27, 2002

Tweakers Australia - Technology News, Reviews and Analysis:"Memory performance is becoming a key concern of computing system designers across many market segments. From PC applications surrounding multimedia (gaming, streaming media and video/photo editing) to networking systems routing hundreds of gigabytes per second of packets, high-performance memory systems are a must. Most people would know that the memory bandwidth on modern video cards is crucial to performance levels in Direct3D and OpenGL, and overclocking the memory will guarantee an overall boost 100% of the time. Essentially, main system memory goes by the same rule, and is often overlooked in most cases. SDRAM and DDR SDRAM are the most common types of memory used in personal computers across the globe, and offers fairly good performance as well as being very cost effective. RDRAM is another option, originally brought to power with the original Pentium 4, but dumped for DDR to satisfy the low to midrange market. "
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Amazon tests mail-order catalog listings. The online retailer is testing a feature that would allow mail-order catalog companies to display their products on the site. [CNET News.com]
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New Order of Web Researchers May Rise From Jupiter's Ashes. Components of Jupiter Media Metrix, once one of the most prominent Internet research firms, are being bought by rivals who want to continue in the same business. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Technology]
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A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction

A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction
Posted by timothy on Monday May 27, @08:30AM
from the constructing-the-eye-of-the-needle dept.
BrianWCarver writes: "The NY Times (free registration blah blah...) is reporting that a libel suit may establish a precedent of allowing online publishers to be sued not in the jurisdiction where their servers reside, but in the jurisdiction of the complaintant. A warden at a Virginia jail didn't like the way he was portrayed by several Connecticut-based online news outlets so he sued in his home state of Virginia. "If the district court decision stands, online publishers could be sued for defamation in any state or country that an online article is read." The article goes on to worry that this will cause publishers to self-censor their online publishing to avoid offending anyone in any jurisdiction, whatsoever, which if carried to its logical conclusion, means online publishing would simply cease." This may remind you of an earlier case in which an Australian businessman sued Dow Jones for libel. Update: 05/27 15:12 GMT by J: Jamie Love points out elsewhere that "60 countries, including the USA, are negotiating a treaty regarding Internet jurisdiction for libel and defamation.

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