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Tuesday Afternoon
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(link) Tuesday, 29-April-2014 16:13:19 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Right, slowly getting back up to speed after long weekends and school holidays! Time for some news catchup.
Net Neutrality is back in the headlines with the FCC apparently changing their view of it. The Federal Communications Commission, America's telcoms regulator, has formulated a plan to allow internet service providers (ISPs) to charge companies for the right to "premium" access to its customers. This is the worst internet policy news imaginable. It should strike terror into the heart of anyone who cares about fairness, politics, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, fair trade, entrepreneurship, or innovation. More here and here.
MacWorld have daisychained 42 devices from one Mac Pro. Since Thunderbolt ports can support up to six peripherals in a daisy chain, which is a wiring scheme where multiple devices are chained together in a certain order, Macworld decided to test how many devices they could daisy chain together with the new Mac Pro's six Thunderbolt ports, four USB 3.0 ports, one HDMI port and two gigabit Ethernet ports.
The search for the world's worst video game has been successful. The legend was true. Atari really did dump a bunch of E.T. and other Atari 2600 cartridges and paraphernalia into a landfill 30 years ago. Today, a team of video game archaeologists recovered the proof. More here, discussion here.
Also recently unearthed are some new Andy Warhol digital images, created on an Amiga. "The purely digital images, 'trapped' for nearly 30 years on Amiga floppy disks stored in the archives collection of The Andy Warhol Museum, were discovered and extracted by members of the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club," the university said in a statement on its website. The newly uncovered art is owned by the Andy Warhol Foundation, although it was commissioned by Commodore International to promote its 1985 Amiga 1000 computer. There's an Amiga thread in our Retro forum.
This browser plugin to unlock text from images is bordering on witchcraft - particularly the "remove text" feature. Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.
This isn't really a timewaster, but for some reason this thumbs and ammo blog tickled my fancy.
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