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Sunday, 12-December-2010 17:16:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Scorptec have a contest next weekend where you can take on Team Immunity in Call of Duty: Black Ops and win prizes. Register here.
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has released their Cyber Safety Help Button software as a free download. It provides help and advice on a range of online risks including cyberbullying, unwanted contact, scams and fraud, and offensive or inappropriate material. All you need do is download it from this page and install it on your computer desktop. You can leave the button icon on your desktop or place it on the taskbar. Then just click it twice if you ever need help or advice about something unsafe or upsetting that you have encountered on the internet. More here.
Meanwhile there's a new site with info for business NBN users. Communications minister Stephen Conroy has released a new website featuring tools to help businesses go online, as part of the Government's campaign to convince businesses of the economic benefits of the National Broadband Network.
TonyR spotted a new world's hottest chili. But the new pepper is actually the handiwork of Gerald Fowler, a British chili farmer and pub owner, who crossed three of the hottest peppers known to man -- including the Bhut Jolokia -- to create his Frankenstein-monster chili. "It's painful to eat," Fowler told the Daily Mail. "It's hot enough to strip paint." Indeed, the Daily Mail reports that defense researchers are already investigating the pepper's potential uses as a weapon.
Intel have announced they and other major tech companies will abandon analogue displays soon. Intel and AMD expect that analog display outputs such as Video Graphics Array (VGA) and the low voltage differential signaling technology (LVDS) panel interface would no longer be supported in their product lines by 2015. HDMI has increasingly been included in new PCs for easy connection to consumer electronics devices. DisplayPort is expected to become the single PC digital display output for embedded flat panels, PC monitors and projectors.
Timbot sent in this Lego Antikythera Mechanism. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica out of Lego.
Today's timewaster is this annoyingly difficult Spongebob Boat-O-Cross.
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