Have you ever been caught speeding by a speeding camera? Well if you have, you needn’t have to, as a case in New South Wales, Australia yesterday was thrown out of court because the Roads and Traffic Authority admitted that it can’t prove the authenticity of the pictures they take.

Currently the way that it works is that an MD5 hash is printed onto each picture when they are taken to supposedly prove that it was taken at the time it was. The RTA could not get an expert to prove that the MD5 algorithm could not be tampered with.

This news brings an uncertainty to all future speeding cases - you just need to bring them to court and say that they can’t prove the authenticity of the pictures, and you’ve won.

Note: This may only work in Australia, I am not sure what other countries have in regard to speeding camera authentication.

A hardcore Japanese tech enthusiest has posted on a blog an article (with pictures) of how he overclocked his Intel P4-670 Prescott 3.80GHz computer to a whopping 7.1GHz (7132.82MHz). To cope with the heating, the CPU had to be cooled in liquid nitrogen and only stayed at that speed for 17 seconds.

Full specifications below:

Clock (MHz) /FSB/FID: 7132.82 (375.4x19.0 time)
CPU: Lot no. P4-670 (SL7Z3 / 3507A671T)
Cooling: ARC Pot Revc.12.1xe LN2
Vcore (V): 1.70v
M/B: ASUS P5WD2 Premium
Memory: CORSAIR PC2-5400UL 512mBx2
Vddr (V): 2.3v
FSB/RAM Ratio: 4:5
DRAM Timing: 4-3-3-4-4 (bios)
OS: Server 2003

Pictures below:

Guiness World Record I say.