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(link) Monday, 27-September-2010 13:34:49 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Game On 2.0 exhibition in Launceston finishes after this weekend, thanks John. Game On 2.0 tracks the development of videogames from the earliest computer games to arcade-era hits and the very latest from today's billion-dollar industry. With more than 120 playable games, as well as rarely seen consoles, controllers and collectables, this is a showcase of games history like no other.
Virgin Blue and Jetstar customers have been impacted by a computer glitch, causing long delays. ‘‘We’ve been advised the cause is an external supplier’s hardware failure,’’ Mr Lippiatt said. ‘‘We are working with them to get that fixed as soon as possible.’’
Google, Apple, Intel and some other tech giants are in trouble for not poaching from each other. Sounds innocuous - Google just doesn't want to irritate its buddies! - but the government saw an anti-competitive cabal instead, one that "restrained competition for affected employees without any procompetitive justification and distorted the competitive process," according to Assistant Attorney General Molly Boast.
IT contractors are healthy, wealthy and generous, thanks AirQ. IT contractors were generally happy with their lot. Despite being hit by the fallout from the recession harder than their peers in other fields (32 percent of IT contractors had their pay cut compared to 23 percent overall) the sense of freedom 86 percent reported led to higher feelings of contentment.
US video giant Blockbuster are going bankrupt, although it apparently won't affect the financially-separate Australian shops. Blockbuster plans to reinvent itself as a leaner competitor with more digital video offerings, including offerings on mobile devices. It said business is continuing as usual with its roughly 3,000 U.S. stores still open. USNews have an article on how Netflix killed Blockbuster. Blockbuster's long-anticipated bankruptcy filing is clear proof that the company clung far too long to an outdated strategy and failed to understand changes that others eagerly exploited.
Some people are saying that Stuxnet is the first worm designed to target real-world infrastructure, in this case, seemingly particularly in Iran. Some have speculated that it could have been aimed at disrupting Iran's delayed Bushehr nuclear power plant or the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.
mpot spotted this amusing pen and paper SQL attack in Sweden. The second to last field is the actual text on the ballot. Could it be that Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has migrated to Sweden? Well, it's probably just a joke but even so it brings questions since an SQL-injection on election data would be very serious.
AirQ sends word of some new industry standards for comparing SSD endurance and reliability. As SSDs are subject to different levels of demand depending on the applications in use, the new standards define two application classes: Client and Enterprise. The standards also establish specific requirements for each, an approach intended to help consumers and enterprise IT managers choose products that are the best fit for their needs.
A Melbourne teenager says he was the unwitting cause of a recent Twitter XSS worm. Delphin, who lives with his parents in Melbourne, said he tweeted a piece of "mouseover" JavaScript code which brings up a pop-up window when the user hovers their cursor over the message. But the idea was soon taken up by hackers who tweaked the code to redirect users to pornographic sites and create "worm" tweets that replicated every time they were read.
Today's very additive timewaster is entanglement, from nyah8. Mouse scrollwheel to turn rotate the tiles, left mouse button for a new one, try to make the longest path, keeping away from the walls and middle.
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