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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 9-March-2010 15:02:08 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Federal Government apparently recieved over 55,000 submissions on whether or not an R18+ rating should be introduced for video games in Australia. The federal Attorney-General's Department will prepare a report for the Standing Committee of Attorneys General based on the submissions. Information on submissions that didn't request confidentiality would be made public in "due course". Some more info on Electronic Frontiers Australia. A particularly noteworthy submission is here.
Kotaku meanwhile report that the recent game violence vs smoking study was done by a group funded by Michael Atkinson, a vocal opponent to R18+ game classification. Now, as reported by News.com.au, it comes to light that the ACCM has received considerable funding from the office of Michael Atkinson, the censorship minister who opposes the introduction of an R18+ rating for videogames. Mr Atkinson also apparently demanded $20k from someone who had posted a rude remark about him online.
Kytro sent in a radio interview where Dr Christopher Ferguson criticises the moral panic about video game violence in Australia. Dr Christopher Ferguson has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Central Florida and is the co-author of: Much Ado About Nothing: The Misestimation and Overinterpretation of Violent Vido Game Effects in Eastern and Western Nations: Comment on Anderson et al. (2010).
USA retailer NewEgg have released a statement about the fake Intel processors people received from them recently. Initial information we received from our supplier, IPEX, stated that they had mistakenly shipped us “demo units.” We have since come to discover the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with this supplier.
Ford have unveiled their first electric vehicle, and it's a van aimed at fleet users. Ford says as many as one in four cars it builds in 2020 will be a hybrid or electric vehicle, and it’s rolling out an electric Focus next year. But it’s starting with a delivery van because fleets are a perfect market for EVs. The vehicles tend to follow set routes, so range isn’t an issue. They return to a centralized location, making recharging a snap. The up-front cost is higher, but the operating costs are lower.
Kingston have released a 30GB SSD "Boot Drive". Seems like an odd move, but there's some logic to it. Coverage on LegitReviews, TestFreaks and HWLogic. The idea of an SSD boot drive like the Kingston 30GB V Series drive works well of a lot of users who just can’t dump a load of money into a drive but would really like to get rid of the HDD bottleneck in their system.
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