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Saturday Afternoon
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Saturday, 14-March-2009 14:05:01 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There's a bit of chatter about Whirlpool being asked to remove a post by ACMA. On March 10, ACMA issued Sydney web hosting company Bulletproof Networks with an "interim link-deletion notice" for allowing its customer, the Whirlpool internet community website, to post the link to an anti-abortion web page blacklisted by the regulator. But to me it doesn't seem like this is all that new and revolutionary, as ACMA takedown notices, while rare, are nothing new.
Meanwhile a study has shown internet filtering to be ineffective in fighting terror, but Senator Conroy requests us to have faith in net filtering. Speaking at the annual ATUG conference today, Senator Stephen Conroy described some of this opposition as "conspiracy theories."
NSW Police have busted some people using eBay to sell stolen goods, up to $4.5M worth. Police said the items were purchased with fake credit cards bearing account details stolen from legitimate card-holders. Discussion here.
Here's some (possibly disturbing) pics of a guy who lost the tip of a finger, so replaced it with a USB finger drive. It is a 2Gig USB drive inside silicon finger.
The Shuttle launch was delayed, in case you were wondering - and meanwhile the crew of the International Space Station scrambled for their Soyuz lifeboat due to a near miss from some space debris, thanks Dopefish. The object -- about 5 inches across, and moving at nearly 20,000 mph -- passed within 3 miles (4.5 km) of the station early Thursday afternoon, the U.S. space agency reported.
Sniper spotted a new Fusion-io SSD card. How much faster? Fusion-io quotes top sustained bandwidth of 1500MB/s for reads and 1400MB/s for writes, with a respective 185,000 and 167,000 IOPS.
XbitLabs compared five 640GB HDDs from Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital, while DriverHeaven looked at three SSDs from Intel, Patriot and Super Talent.
Timuscat sent in this article about low-tech fixes. Today, many people are finding their own tricks for fixing misbehaving gadgets with supplies as simple as paper and adhesive tape. Some, like MrAzar's plastic bag, are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they work at all. But many tech home remedies can be explained by science.
Today's timewaster is Indestructible Tank AE. Kind've unusual, you have to use the explosions of your enemy to fling your tank up at them. :)
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