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Sunday, 8-September-2013 20:58:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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We have a new PM - and presumably a different NBN to the one we were expecting. Under Labor’s NBN policy, some 93 percent of Australian premises were to have received fibre directly to the premise, delivering maximum download speeds of up to 1Gbps and maximum upload speeds of 400Mbps. The remainder of the population will be served by a combination of satellite and wireless broadband, delivering speeds of up to 25Mbps. The Coalition’s policy will see fibre to the premises deployed to a significantly lesser proportion of the population — 22 percent — with 71 percent covered by fibre to the node technology, where fibre is extended to neighbourhood ‘nodes’ and the remainder of the distance to premises covered by Telstra’s existing copper network.
There's another Lame Game Marathon happening soon for charity. More info here. This year you can look forward to a new and improved LGM, with lamer games, better hardware, bigger giveaways and more. But that’s not the only difference this year, because thanks to our veteran Lame Gamer James being overseas this year, our main man Luke (lovingly known as ‘Dukey’) will be stepping out from behind the producer’s bench to join Dan and Mark on the frontlines.
Anandtech have a 4TB NAS drive face-off. The correct choice of hard drives for a NAS system is influenced by a number of factors. These include expected workloads, performance requirements and power consumption restrictions, amongst others. In this review, we will discuss some of these aspects while evaluating four different hard drives targeting the NAS market.
Keep an eye out for Police Segways in QLD. The three month trial commencing today will be undertaken by general duty police officers at South Bank station. Cairns Esplanade Police Beat officers are expected to commence the trial use of the personal transporters next week. Police Commissioner Ian Stewart welcomed the trial and said he would be interested to see if the personal transporters met the operational expectations of the service.
A man has been killed by his own RC helicopter. Nineteen-year-old Roman Pirozek, Jr., of Queens, was flying the helicopter in a park near Bay 44th Street and Shore Parkway in Gravesend when it struck him in the head and killed him.
The Guardian have a detailed report into the US and UK spy agencies and how they defeat internet privacy measures. Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.
Toshiba meanwhile have their eyes on quantum encryption. “This kind of communication cannot be defeated by future advances in computing power, nor new mathematical algorithms, nor fancy new engineering,” said co-author Andrew Shields, head of the Quantum Information Group of Toshiba Research Europe. “As long as the laws of physics hold true, it will ensure that your communications are fully secured.”
Intel has some new optical chips on the way. The initial version of what Intel calls its silicon photonics technology can transmit data at speeds of 100 gigabits per second along a cable approximately five millimeters in diameter. Intel will offer it for use connecting servers inside data centers, where it can take the place of PCI-E data cables that carry data at up to eight gigabits per second and networking cables that reach 40 gigabits per second at best.
Commercial spaceflight is a step closer, with another SpaceShipTwo test. The reported 600+ customers waiting in line for a trip to space aboard SpaceShipTwo (nickname: Enterprise) surely must have been excited when the suborbital spaceship successfully sailed through another powered flight test today (Thursday). “SS2 has successfully completed another supersonic rocket-powered test flight! Hit our planned duration, altitude, and speed,” Virgin Galactic wrote on Twitter.
You'll still be able to see the old Sydney Monorail if you visit Google. Yes, the Monorail which took its final trip around Sydney on June 30, after 25 years in operation, will be parked on level two of Google's new offices, The AFR revealed. The two carriages of the monorail will be used as meeting rooms. The facade of the building will have to be taken apart in order to get the damn things in.
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