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The Minister for Home Affairs and Justice has released some draft guidelines for an R18+ classification for computer games. The draft guidelines can be read here. If you wish to provide feedback, please complete the online survey. The survey closes on Wednesday 22 June 2011. Feedback will be collated to provide advice to classification Ministers in considering the proposed draft Guidelines for the Classification of Computer Games.
The domain space is set to become more complicated with custom top level domain extensions possibly on offer soon. The global body governing internet domain names will soon allow organisations and companies to replace the ''com'' in website addresses with their own name - at a cost of more than $US200,000.
Sony's woes continue, with their Canadian and Greek websites being hacked. Following the infamous PSN breach last month and an attack on the company's Greek online music service earlier this week, Sony Ericsson has now seen another intrusion that extracted personal data of more than 2,000 Canadian Eshop customers. Fortunately, the company claims that passwords taken were encrypted and no credit card details were lost, but this is still worrisome nevertheless.
Telstra will be bandwidth throttling phones soon, instead of surprising people with enormous bills. In a statement released late last night, Telstra finance chief John Stanhope said customers deserved to be able to enjoy the full capabilities of their Telstra mobiles on plans without fear of a large, unexpected bill. “By slowing data speeds once a customer has exceeded their data allowance, and not charging for the extra data, customers stay connected without fear of a hit to the hip-pocket,” the executive said.
With the final Shuttle mission soon, and no replacement in sight, NASA have surprised us with a manned exploration craft. NASA on Tuesday announced a plan to build a spacecraft that will fly astronauts into deep space, taking them as far as near asteroids and even Mars. The new spacecraft, called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, will be based on an earlier concept for the Orion vehicle, a spacecraft originally intended to ferry astronauts to the moon, the space agency announced during a press conference. The new spacecraft, which will be built by Lockheed Martin, will be designed to carry four astronauts on 21-day missions.
Cray have revealed their first GPU-powered supercomputer. Hardware-wise though, the XK6 is not that different from its CPU-based brethren. The blade is basically a variant of the XE6, replacing four of the eight AMD Opteron sockets with NVIDIA Tesla GPU modules. Each four-node blade consists of two Gemini interconnect chips, four Opteron CPUs, and four NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs. The Tesla in this case is the X2090, a compact form factor of the M2090 module that was introduced last week. Like the M2090, the X2090 sports a 665 gigaflop (double precision) GPU, 6 GB of GDDR5, and 178 GB/second of memory bandwidth. A XK6 cabinet can house up to 24 blades (96 nodes), which will deliver something in the neighborhood of 70 teraflops. Cue "how does it Fold?" comments. :)
A recent fibre-optic speed record has been claimed by NBN Co as demonstrating that the largely fibre-based NBN is on the right track, thanks JD. However Alan Jones is more impressed by frickin' laser beams, thanks Scott. Jones said the announcement was proof that the NBN would be outdated by the time it was built, without realising the network was based on exactly the same technology.
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