Comment Referred? (Score 3, Interesting) 765
But of course, they have referred the matter to the appropriate law enforcement agency for enforcement?
Submission + - News Corp Pays Out For Hacking (abc.net.au)
SandmanWAIX writes: "Rupert Murdoch's media empire has made huge payouts to 37 phone-hacking victims, including actor Jude Law, singer Danii Minogue, and former British deputy prime minister John Prescott, their lawyers said."
Huge is a relative term isn't it?
Huge is a relative term isn't it?
Comment A good example of LED fun (Score 1) 48
Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material 298
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Anyone who is partial to ketchup with their food will know how difficult it is to get the final dregs from the bottle but now the Telegraph reports that scientists have created one of the most slippery materials ever that promises to result in new self-cleaning surfaces that never get dirty, could be used to coat the inside of bottles and jars to help consumers get all of the food inside, or in the energy industry for making oil flow more efficiently through pipes. Professor Joanna Aizenberg, a materials scientists at Harvard University, was inspired by the carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants, which has a highly slippery surface at the top of its flute-shaped leaves so that insects tumble down into the digestive juices contained inside. The new material, known as a Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surface or SLIPS boasts a rare trait called "omniphobicity", which means it can repel both water and oily materials. "If we used substance like ours to coat the inside of bottles, it would be possible to get it all out," says Aizenberg. "The only problem may be that the sauce may come out a little too easily on to their food.""
Comment So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Score 1) 1027
Submission + - DC Universe Online released (dcuniverseonline.com)
An anonymous reader writes: DC Universe Online has finally been released after being in development for more than two years, and after a beta testing period of just over one month. The game seems to mostly be a success with more positive points than negative. Do you think it lives up to the hype, and is the price justified? For over two years in development is the game amazing, or is it just average?
Submission + - Gaming at 18 watts or less on 32mn AMD processors (techreport.com)
mykos writes: AMD's new 32nm Zacate ultra-low voltage Fusion processor, handling both graphics and CPU functions, will be heading to manufacturers at the end of 2010 destined for PCs in 2011. AMD showed off some impressive technical and practical demonstrations including video games and web browser hardware acceleration, showing off some impressive performance numbers in 3D gaming and hardware-accelerated web browsing. It looks like 2011 is shaping up to be a good year for ULV devices.
Comment Re:Innovative features (Score 1) 140
Agreed. A most excellent summary. Pretty rare these days.
Comment Re:Conroy on ABC's Q&A next Thursday (Score 5, Funny) 401
I'll be in the audience. Suggestions on the most effective way to point out flaws in the proposed censorship regime welcome.
Throw a shoe at him.
Comment Re:Conroy on ABC's Q&A next Thursday (Score 1) 401
Don't forget you can watch this show via ABC's awesome iView service.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/iview/
Q&A is available under the "CatchUp" section.
Q&A is available under the "CatchUp" section.
Comment Application? (Score 1) 180
It all depends on what output you need?
DAD software has the ability to customize data types, multiple inheritance of objects, and to define different relationship types.
You can then trace along object relationships bringing back a dynamic graphic depending on what you want to show (and spit out to PDF).
DAD software has the ability to customize data types, multiple inheritance of objects, and to define different relationship types.
You can then trace along object relationships bringing back a dynamic graphic depending on what you want to show (and spit out to PDF).
As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood" 366
theodp writes "You know times are tough when the best place to work in America replaces holiday bonuses with a request for unpaid labor. Blaming the economic crisis, Google management has canceled the traditional cash holiday bonus — reportedly as much as $20K-$30K per Googler — and substituted an unlocked Google Android cell phone, retail price $400. An accompanying email calls for employees to celebrate the 'chance for us to once again dogfood a product and make it even better!'" Update: 12/23 01:09 GMT by KD : A reader pointed out that comments to the article note a couple of inaccuracies: the Android phone being offered is an unlocked dev model, which goes for $400; and the reporter may have confused holiday bonuses with performance bonuses. The former have traditionally been in the range of $1,000, according to two comments.
Comment Re:I like Mono, but... (Score 2, Interesting) 405
Yeah this is true, but for some of us this is acceptable.
Linux users are an additional market for the product I help develop and we have never really worried about it. I have been waiting for this mono milestone before bothering with mono, however now that they are there I dont mind putting the resources in and testing the waters.
If everything goes smoothly I can see us offering a linux flavour very soon. Our current product operates on .NET Framework 2.0 SP1.
Linux users are an additional market for the product I help develop and we have never really worried about it. I have been waiting for this mono milestone before bothering with mono, however now that they are there I dont mind putting the resources in and testing the waters.
If everything goes smoothly I can see us offering a linux flavour very soon. Our current product operates on
Submission + - whirlpool.net.au Founder Sued by 2Clix
An anonymous reader writes: news.com.au is reporting that the founder of the popular Australian broadband news and discussion site whirlpool.net.au, Simon Wright, is being sued by an accounting software firm 2Clix Australia. The claim centres around negative posts made in the discussion forum about 2Clix's accounting package. 2Clix is claiming that a number of the posts "relating to the Plaintiff and its software were false and malicious". A scanned copy of the Statement of Claim is available at whirlpool.net.au/img/article/2clix/soc.pdf.
I can only assume Wright is being sued as 2Clix can't identify the individual forum members. An interesting line from the SOC reads "[Wright] did not require proper verification of identity before permitting registration...". No Australian law I'm aware of requires formal verification of ID in this manner. I'm hoping that the legal system actually works for once and this case doesn't go anywhere. As Wright said: a lot hangs in the balance here. Of course if needed we can always post on overseas sites, like Slashdot for instance.
If you are interested you can view the two forums here and here.
I can only assume Wright is being sued as 2Clix can't identify the individual forum members. An interesting line from the SOC reads "[Wright] did not require proper verification of identity before permitting registration...". No Australian law I'm aware of requires formal verification of ID in this manner. I'm hoping that the legal system actually works for once and this case doesn't go anywhere. As Wright said: a lot hangs in the balance here. Of course if needed we can always post on overseas sites, like Slashdot for instance.
If you are interested you can view the two forums here and here.
