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(link) Thursday, 25-February-2010 17:55:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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An Italian court has found Google executives guilty for allowing a bullying video to be posted online. Google consider this a serious threat to the web in Italy. "If individuals like myself and my Google colleagues who had nothing to do with the harassing incident, its filming or its uploading onto Google Video can be held criminally liable solely by virtue of our position at Google, every employee of any internet hosting service faces similar liability," he added.
Closer to home, someone in Western Australia has been successfully sued for online forum comments, thanks von Stalhein. The hunt for the man's true identity proved the stuff of private detective novels updated into the age of blogs.
Check out this bizarre pin-cushion building being built by the British in China. Costing £25million to build, the 60ft-high cube-like construction is covered by 60,000 quivering, transparent acrylic rods,received investment from eight Government departments and agencies.
NVIDIA have an interesting paper showing how a GPU with CUDA can accelerate SQL database operations. This paper focuses on accelerating SELECT queries and describes the considerations in an efficient GPU implemen-tation of the SQLite command processor. Results on an NVIDIA Tesla C1060 achieve speedups of 20-70X depend-ing on the size of the result set.
XbitLabs looked at some HDD silencers and coolers. Today we are going to talk about six solutions for cooling 3.5-inch hard disk drives. We will check the cooling efficiency and acoustic performance of products from GlacialTech, Scythe, Tuniq, Xilence and A.C.Ryan.
NASA have a Lunar Explorer Rover Simulator app for the iPhone. You want to Discover how LER’s turning radius, ability to move in multiple directions, attached suits, and habitat capabilities optimize safety and exploration efficiency. You want to virtual test drive the Lunar Electric Rover.
Meanwhile Dell have a tablet which is taking aim at the iPad, thanks disfuctional. The Mini 5 will sport a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a separate front-facing camera that can be used for video conferencing, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1-GHz processor. The 5-inch screen also means it will be be closer to the Sony PSP in its form factor than the longer legal notepad design of the iPad.
VooDoo sent word of a push to build a drag-strip in Melbourne, with more info here. As some of you may know, the Victorian people have been without competition ANDRA drag racing for over 10 years now. In co-operation with ANDRA, there has been a group of people lobbying to the state governmnet to get a world class track built in Victoria to bring back drag racing.
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