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Tuesday, 23-February-2010 21:11:23 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A document that people are claiming is a leaked draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has some worrying elements. It proposes making ISPs (Internet service providers) liable under civil law for the content their subscribers upload or download using their networks. Sounds familiar..
Sounds familiar because it's just like the result that was NOT achieved by the recent AFACT vs iiNet case, which iiNet won, but who now are being asked to pay part of AFACT's legal fees, thanks enigma. "We didn't ask to be sued. They came to us and sued us and they lost, so I don't see why we should be paying any of their legal expenses," Malone told ZDNet.com.au today.
Also sounding familiar is this Tasmanian law: According to consumer group Digital Tasmania, Section 191 of the state’s Electoral Law currently requires all election material posted on the internet to be accompanied by an authorisation containing a person’s full name and home or work address. The situation mirrors legislation enacted in South Australia recently which requires a resident’s details to accompany any internet comment about the election. However, the state quickly pledged to repeal the legislation after substantial public dissent led by newspaper the Advertiser.
A couple of hardcore Apple fans have been married in an Apple store. The geeky ceremony was attended by around 30 friends and family -- as well as several bemused Apple shoppers. Staff also watched on in shock as the couple exchanged rings (attached to 1st generation iPods) and the wedding was conducted by a priest dressed as Steve Jobs.
There are apparently mountains of electronic waste building up in developing nations, according to the UN. The report gathered information about current levels of e-waste in 11 nations and also looked at how those totals might grow in the next decade. Globally, e-waste is growing at a rate of about 40 million tonnes per year as consumers, in both developed and developing nations, buy new gadgets and discard their old ones.
There's an interesting video here about gaming, including how Facebook has shaken the industry, and where the future of game design may be going. If you do experience design of any kind it’ll be the most valuable (and entertaining) 20 minutes you’ll spend all week. Actually I just watched it to the end and it was really interesting stuff.
TechReport consider CPU value. In our grand Athlon II vs. Core i3 showdown article last week, we included performance-per-dollar graphs based on whole system prices. Those system prices were themselves derived from the rough cost of a middle-of-the-road PC—the kind your typical enthusiast might buy. What if you're on a tight budget and really have to cut corners, though? We've whipped up another set of graphs, this time using prices from low-end components, in order to find out.
Original_Muse sent in this amusing but worrying article about working for the Government. In regards to the post on “ThinkUKnow” and government organised websites in general it seems apt to link to this journalists writings on when he was head hunted to be a speech writer. Then how he saw just how disorganised some government websites can be.
XbitLabs took a look at onboard PhysX. All contemporary Nvidia solutions support PhysX, but in return some of the GPU resources are assigned to physics effects acceleration. Is it possible to avoid performance losses without adding more cards? EVGA’s answer is "yes". We in our turn will try to answer the question if there is an alternative for the owners of ATI Radeon HD solutions.
Evil ZeR0 spotted this (beware, some NSFW ads) gingerbread PC worklog. I'd seen a couple of photos before but not the whole process, so thanks!
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