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Monday, 17-December-2012 23:49:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Thanks to FearTec for our Xmas logo!
The Internet Archive are having a fundraiser. With help from a generous, anonymous donor who’s matching other donations three to one through the end of the year, we now have enough funding to buy a new Petabox! We now have only seventeen days left to get the three more we’ll need in 2013. These massive servers are the backbone of the Archive, and critical to our continued growth. To all of you who’ve contributed to our fundraising drive, thanks from all of us here at the Internet Archive.
It's not just Apple Maps getting people into trouble, with Police warning Google Maps can be misleading too. Police in Colac, a town west of Melbourne, say Google Maps has created "a significant safety issue for tourists [and] locals" along the Great Ocean Road by suggesting they drive down a one-way road not built for heavy traffic, according to a police sergeant quoted by ABC News. Tour buses using Wild Dog Road are in danger of being driven off the road, Sgt. Nick Buenen told ABC. In fact, Apple Maps were not entirely at fault with the recent Mildura confusion, it seems.
The US and UK have refused to sign the UN's internet treaty, and it has been blocked. The US was joined in its opposition by the UK, Canada, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Qatar and Sweden. All said they would not sign the proposed final text, meaning that although a number of other countries will sign it, the treaty cannot be effectively implemented.
A cool Indiana Jones mystery is unfolding at the University of Chicago. The package contained an incredibly detailed replica of “University of Chicago Professor” Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks only sort of like this one, but almost exactly like this one, so much so that we thought it might have been the one that was for sale on Ebay had we not seen some telling inconsistencies in cover color and “Ex Libris” page (and distinct lack of sword). The book itself is a bit dusty, and the cover is teal fabric with a red velvet spine, with weathered inserts and many postcards/pictures of Marion Ravenwood (and some cool old replica money) included.
There's a spirited debate going on in our Portable & Small Form Factor forum, as to whether HP is behaving anti-competitively or not. So if someone owns a HP notebook and they'd like the option to use any device they want with it (instead of having to bow to the will of HP), they should get in touch with the ACCC to let them know that as Australian consumers of HP products they demand the right to use their legally purchased products unrestricted and unencumbered by the interests of the manufacturer.
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