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Wednesday, 6-April-2011 03:03:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Time for some news catchup! Firstly a reminder that the Facebook Connect thing on Friday was of course this year's April Fools gag. So you can probably lay off the angry emails now, heh.
Gizmodo chuckle at some silly conditions on Australian websites. I kept the idea basic. Find Australian websites that had Terms & Conditions that either banned or inanely denied you linking to their website. I did not have to go far. And yes I am breaking their terms & conditions by linking their terms & conditions pages here. The irony does not escape me.
Kotaku meanwhile dismay at the state of the R18+ debate. Sadly, there is no such thing as a rational debate when it come to the R18+ issue in Australia. When it comes to R18+ rationality is dead. When someone, in the face of overwhelming evidence, refuses to adjust his or her opinions, you have to ask yourself – is this really a discussion?
Internode's CEO is concerned about anti-competitive impacts of the NBN, thanks BeanerSA. Last week, I stood up at a conference and described the NBN’s pricing model as “insane” for small Internet service providers. I said that the NBN’s pricing model would only be feasible for ISPs with desires for national coverage if those ISPs already have more than 250,000 customers – specifically limiting the potential directly attached national customer base for the NBN to little more than Telstra, Optus, TPG, iiNet and Internode.
Bohemyth sent word that the NBN's construction boss has resigned. Now in the latest blow to NBN Co's efforts to deliver the project on time and on budget, the company's experienced head of construction, Mr Flannigan, tendered his resignation yesterday.
If you like cracking codes, maybe you can help the FBI crack a murder mystery. Ricky McCormick, who was murdered and dumped in a field in St. Louis, Missouri, had two encrypted notes stuffed in his pockets when police found the body.
Google recently launched a +1 system, similar to Facebook's "like". More here. In order to +1 things, you first need a public Google profile. This helps people see who recommended that tasty recipe or great campsite. When you create a profile, it's visible to anyone and connections with your email address can easily find it.
There's two Duke Nukem videos out. Contains bad language and general bad behaviour. Here's another video, of a kinda clever ad for a wooden mobile phone. Also check out this LCD monitor disassembly. Bill takes apart an LCD monitor and shows how it works. He explains how it uses liquid crystals, thin film transistors and polarizers to display information.
Here's a new one on me, bacn, which is email that's better than spam, but not as good as real mail. Bacn differs from spam in that it has intentionally been signed up for, even though this could be sometimes construed as a misinformed decision. Bacn is not necessarily sent in bulk. Some examples of common bacn messages are news alerts, periodic messages from e-merchants one has made previous purchases with, messages from social networking sites, and wiki watch lists.
Speaking of which, PETA are offering $1M for in vitro meat. Scientists around the world are researching or seeking the funds to research ways to produce meat in the laboratory—without killing any animals. In vitro meat production would use animal stem cells that would be placed in a medium to grow and reproduce.
Sony are the latest to draw fire from Anonymous, thanks JD. The hacking collective known as Anonymous has successfully taken down Sony’s official PlayStation website in revenge for the company’s lawsuit against George Hotz. Earlier today, the coordinated assault knocked Sony.com and PlayStation.com offline, with more attacks promised to come.
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