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Tuesday, 7-September-2010 02:52:52 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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In an interesting twist to the now somewhat dormant issue of internet filtering, it seems the recent audit of politician' internet use mis-classified websites as "adult" when they weren't. Both news.com.au and smh.com.au were classified as adult sites in the audit. "The definition of what has been classed as an adult site is something we're reviewing," she said. "What surprised us... the biggest (site) of what is classed as an adult site being hit by the parliament is the news.com.au site.
Internode have unveiled what they're calling the first true 1TB internet plan in Australia, with more info here. Significantly, all these new Easy Broadband plans allow customers to use their data quota whenever they want - rather than quarantine them to the wee hours with off-peak quotas.
Here's an interesting look at some soldier food packs from various troops in Afghanistan, thanks w0ng. Each year, among the countries with troops in Afghanistan — the current number is 47 — tens of millions of dollars are spent researching how to fit the most calories, nutrition and either comfort or fun into a small, light package. The menus and accompaniments are intended not just to nourish but also to remind the soldier of home.
Guru3D checked out the eVGA Classified SR-2, and threw some LN2 into the mix. In the end the processors are going to be cooled with liquid nitrogen, and for the sake of it we will pop in four GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards as well, these will also be cooled with liquid nitrogen. That's six Liquid Nitrogen pots on one motherboard... consuming 40 to 50 liters of liquid nitrogen with each hour of testing.
The PS3 jailbreak ban has unsurprisingly been made permanent by the federal court. The court ruled on Friday that a ban on distribution of the PSJailbreak "dongle", first issued on 27 August, would be made permanent. However, on Thursday the software code behind a similar hack was released free on the internet as PSGroove.
YouGamers have a gaming PC specs guide. Another year, another pile of new shiny PC components on the market. The product cycles have slowed down a bit - it may be the worldwide economy taking a nosedive, it may be that it is just harder to squeeze more performance out of those pieces of silicon. Yet PC performance keeps improving and manufacturers keep fighting over marketshare just as hard as ever.
Stagea sent in this article with more on The Stig's unmasking. If Ben has been worried about losing his job on Top Gear after unveiling himself as the man who has appeared as The Stig for the past seven years, he certainly isn’t showing it.
There's an AMD competition for Australians. Get an AMD Phenom™ II X4 or X6 processor between 1st July and 30th September 2010 to be in the running to win a trip for two to Germany plus other great prizes. Discussion here.
Here's a couple of amusing Knowledge Base articles: Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music and PowerPoint Centimeters Different from Actual Centimeters. To improve its usability, PowerPoint slightly misdefines the size of a centimeter to make the invisible gridlines fall at convenient points on the ruler.
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