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Thursday, 5-April-2012 13:49:38 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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An Australian court has found that Google are responsible for hosting misleading ads. The appeal court ruled that Google had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct with four ads that appeared on its Google Australia website. The advertisers used the names of competitors as keywords to trigger their own ads appearing.
ArsTechnica have taken a look at the CSIRO WiFi back-story, and they don't seem to agree with how things have panned out. In a sense, it's surprising such a debate could happen at all. Why is the history of such an invention in dispute? The premier world engineering institution, the IEEE, created a working group for the evolving 802.11 wireless standard in 1990, a full three years before CSIRO filed for its key wireless patent.
Minecraft AU are having a build contest. I have in my hot little hands 3 closed-beta invites to TERA for some live play over the easter weekend. .. . You have until 8pm Friday night (AEST) to build something cool – either in creative or survival. It has to be STARTED no earlier than now. We WILL be checking logblock – eg, don’t recycle. Start in a new region.
I think we've seen this before, but remember it's important to defraggle your motherdisk regularly. There are several of different species of software to make this happen, but the most excellent way to do it is a hardware defragmentation. You'll only need some basic data-mechanical-skills to be able to accomplish this operation. (Newbies - don't do this. No, really.)
There's a bunch of zombie Macs out there. Variations of the Flashback trojan have reportedly infected more than half a million Macs around the globe, according to Russian antivirus company Dr. Web. The company made an announcement on Wednesday—first in Russian and later in English—about the growing Mac botnet, first claiming 550,000 infected Macs. Later in the day, however, Dr. Web malware analyst Sorokin Ivan posted to Twitter that the count had gone up to 600,000, with 274 bots even checking in from Cupertino, CA, where Apple's headquarters are located.
Hitachi have announced a 4TB Enterprise HDD, the Ultrastar 7K4000. The most obvious change is the 1TB capacity bump over the Ultrastar 7K3000, but this is no insignificant matter. The 33% capacity boost in the same 3.5" form factor gives enterprise users the opportunity to lower their cost/GB as the new Ultrastar 7K4000 hard drives can offer more capacity in the same footprint and weight profile, without increasing costs associated with power, data center cooling and the like.
XbitLabs have a GeIL memory roundup. Today we are going to compare the features and performance of five enthusiast memory kits from GeIL: GeIL Black Dragon PC3-12800 CL9, GeIL Enhance Corsa PC3-12800 CL9, GeIL EVO Corsa PC3-14900 CL10, GeIL EVO Corsa PC3-14900 CL9 and GeIL EVO TWO PC3-14900 CL9.
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