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Thursday, 11-October-2012 18:37:17 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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If you don't like door-to-door salesmen, put up a sign, because it's now legally enforceable. It’s your house and you can slam the door in their faces whenever you like, but remember the legal requirements too: no calls before 9am or after 6pm on weekdays, before 9am or after 5pm on Saturdays, or at any time on Sundays or public holidays. Better yet, get a sign and remind anyone who ignores it of the $50,000 fine.
Queenslanders will have access to a new state government website soon. It will see government-held information posted on the internet, including emergency hospital and crime statistics, how much electricity schools use, and the location of buses, trains, ferries, and speed cameras. "We're going to ask the Queensland police to regularly post where they're putting the speed cameras," Mr Newman told a budget estimates hearing at parliament.
Facebook celebrated their 1 billionth user with their first advertisement. Chairs, doorbells, bridges, airplanes. These are things that people use to get together and connect. Facebook is also something that over a billion people around the world use to connect with one another. It's a fairly odd ad, and Taceo_Corp spotted this parody.
Animal rights group PETA have their eyes on Pokemon. No, really. Animal rights group PETA has condemned the Pokémon media franchise and video game series, saying it “paints a rosy picture of what amounts to thinly veiled animal abuse.”
Asher noticed that Canonical are letting people choose Ubuntu's price and development priority. There's nothing wrong with that—this is the open source world, after all, and many people contribute to Ubuntu with code rather than money. But starting this week, Canonical is presenting desktop OS downloaders with an optional donation form.
Forbes report on an aerosol caffeine boost. Dr. David Edwards, Harvard professor, invented Aeroshot – a small shotgun shell like capsule that delivers a blast of caffeine through a patented device. AeroShot’s key advantages are: it provides that quick boost without any calories whatsoever and starts working right away – anytime, anyplace.
Backblaze have an interesting blog about how their business resorted to hard drive farming when the Thai floods spiked prices. To survive this crisis without raising prices or compromising service, Backblaze deployed every last employee, as well as friends and family, to acquire drives in what became known internally as “drive farming”. What follows is how we did it.
Today's timewaster is This is Sand from Davo1111.
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