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Thursday, 16-September-2010 00:14:48 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Malcolm Turnbull has been appointed Shadow Communications Minister, and has come out swinging at the Government's policies. “I am a notorious internet junkie — I love it,” Turnbull told the ABC’s PM radio program this afternoon. Turnbull was famously an investor in one of Australia’s first major ISPs — OzEmail — from which he made a fortune in the late 1990s. And the MP also carries around an iPad, which replaced his Amazon Kindle. Discussion here.
Sony have a new site championing gaming with buttons, as opposed to Microsoft's Kinect jumping-around gaming. Spotted by the folks at Joystiq the site basically points out that Kinect isn’t going to be your tool of choice for the next instalment of COD or Halo, but we already knew that – didn’t we?
Maslander pointed out this response to the "accidental pirate" website, Deliberate Pirate. A parody of accidentalpirate.com.au a campaign launched by the Australian copyright lobby. Clip made for Pirate Party Australia by Simon Frew.
Finnish-born Linus Torvalds has become a U.S. citizen. We've been in the US for over a decade, and it's definitely "home", and we like living here. But being an alien means that you can't vote, and seeing all the news being about the presidential election (and all the streets here locally littered with signs about the local school bond) tends to remind you about that issue.
It turns out people don't like 3DTV because they don't like the glasses. More than half said the glasses were a "hassle" and 57 percent said they were "not likely" to buy a 3D TV set for that reason, the survey found.
VooDoo sent in this Mad Max slideshow showing various scenes from the movie compared with the present day. Cool idea, but I think it's been too long since I've seen the movie, coz I don't remember any of the urban stuff in that slideshow.
A Google engineer has apparently been fired for spying on people. According to a report by Gawker, in at least four cases, David Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. The report claimed that Barksdale accessed contact lists and chat transcripts, and in one case quoted from an IM that he had looked up behind the person's back. Discussion here.
Koopz sent in this super slimline car. I have been building 'crazy' cars since 1984 when I built a 9 foot tall street legal DALEK.
More Intel Developer Forum coverage: Day 2 CEO Keynote on HotHardware, Turbo Boost and Overclocking on Sandy Bridge on PC Perspective, Dell demos tablet/netbook on TechReport, Sandforce using Intel 25nm MLC Flash on LegitReviews.
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