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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 11-September-2009 14:24:57 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Phalanx sent in some surprising news about a topic that has always angered me: UK PM Gordon Brown has apologised for the treatment of Alan Turing. One of the greatest minds in history, who quite literally helped save the world during WWII and created the modern concept of computer science, he was arrested and sentenced to chemical castration, driving him to commit suicide two years later. His crime? Being gay. On Thursday, September 10, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a lengthy apology to Alan Turing for the way he was treated in the post war era, following the creation of an online petition that received thousands of signatures.
SMH have more info about the PM's website being attacked. Fudzilla report that the hackers were drongos. The hackers kept trying to flood the pm.gov.au site with traffic - known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack - but they had limited success.
From Will: Following on from the news post the other day about Beached Whale being picked up by the ABC, they've just released Episode 2 - "The Snail". Linky here.
A few people sent this in: A South African IT company has proved it is faster to transmit data via a carrier pigeon than to send it using the country's leading internet service provider. As the old saying goes, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. I could certainly drive a 16GB USB stick from here to Sydney quicker than I could upload it.
An Apple update from IntelInside: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs received a standing ovation in San Francisco on Wednesday. Wearing his trademark long-sleeved black shirt, jeans and sneakers he announced "About five months ago I had a liver transplant, so I now have the liver of a mid-20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs". He positively stated ""I'm vertical," he said. "I'm back at Apple, loving every day of it." He unveiled an updated Ipod Nano that "includes a video camera, an FM radio, a pedometer and a microphone and speaker." And said "Apple would be introducing 30,000 ringtones for sale through the iPhone store." Just hours before the event, Apple cut the prices of its iPod Touch, Nano, Shuffle and Classic models.
BFM spotted cooling using frickin' lasers. The concept of laser cooling is three decades old, but German researchers have finally leaped beyond previous failures to show that bombarding high-pressure gas with a laser can produce dramatic cooling.
HotHardware have a rant about browsers, while TechSpot say how to enhance your Gmail with Labs. I moved OCAU's email over to Google Apps as part of the hosting change and have been very happy so far.
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