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Tuesday Night
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Tuesday, 2-February-2010 20:39:34 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Quite a few people sent word that there's new laws in South Australia, effectively censoring political comment on the upcoming State election by requiring any commenter to publish their name and street address. The law, which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner. Err, so if we don't HAVE the real name and addresses of commenters, and of course have no way of verifying the info given to us anyway, what do we do? Just blindly ban any comment on the SA State Election? Not to mention that publishing your name and address on the internet is pretty universally known to be a bad idea. Faaaantastic. However, EFA seem to think it might not be as bad as it seems at first glance.
The EFF meanwhile are demonstrating a browser's fingerprint, thanks wessam. The EFF's Panopticlick application collects anonymised data to help users establish how easy it is to identify them amongst all their fellow surfers. The service evaluates the HTTP request headers (browser ID and accepted MIME types) and uses JavaScript to collect information about the browser's installed plug-ins and fonts as well as screen size and time zone. Finally, it also considers standard cookies and "super cookies" (web storage, Flash cookies, IE userData) to determine a browser's ranking.
Intel and Micron have announced a 25nm NAND fab, with reports on LegitReviews, PC Perspective and HotHardware. February 1, 2010 marks the official announcement of 25 nanometer NAND technology--a major advancement for the company. Intel and Micron now lay claim to the smallest production ready semiconductor process technology in the industry.
Justice Cowdry will apparently be handing down the judgement in the iiNet vs AFACT case on Thursday. During cross-examination, iiNet stated it was legally unable to act as “judge and jury” by disconnecting customers, and that as such its only recourse was to refer cases of possible infringement to other authorities.
Overclockers.com have a 3-step guide to overclocking your Core i3, i5 or i7 system. There are so many people willing to give advice, but who can you trust? It’s hard to know, and I’ve seen many users sent on wild goose chases because they are following advice that doesn’t solve or even address their specific problem. I’ve also seen too much trial and error overclocking. What I will attempt to do is create a very simple three step guide to “one-size-fits-all” overclocking.
Whistleblower website Wikileaks has had to shut down, temporarily at least, due to lack of funds. The document repository, founded by an Australian living in East Africa, has been the catalyst for countless front-page stories around the world. It has exposed serious business and political corruption and sparked a political scandal in Australia when it published the federal government's secret blacklist of banned websites.
Koopzy sent word that the Principality of Hutt River is celebrating 40 years since secession. The Principality of Hutt River is situated 595 km north of Perth, Western Australia and is about 75 square km in area, consisting of some 18,500 acres of land. Hutt River is an Independent Sovereign State having seceded from Australia on the Twenty First Day of April 1970 and is of comparable size to Hong Kong (not the New Territories). More info on the Wikipedia Page.
Quan-Time spotted this cool scale of the universe Flash slider thing.
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