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Submission + - Australian coverage of all ADSL2+ providers (apcmag.com)

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Anonymous Coward

on Thursday November 01, 2007 @12:10AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "ADSL2exchanges.com.au reveals the locations and coverage of all ADSL2+ providers in Australia. The site plots all exchange locations onto Google Maps, allowing for approximate wire-length estimations (Google Maps calculates "as the crow flies" figures but ADSL2exchanges.com.au estimates what that would be in "as the road runs" terms). You just need to type in your address and phone number, and the site figures out what exchange you're on and who services your exchange."

Submission + - 16 billion pixel image of Last supper online (haltadefinizione.com)

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xiashunkai

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @11:49PM

xiashunkai writes: "the original size of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "last supper" is about 4.6m * 8.8m, painted on a n stone wall covered with resin and pitch. Now it is digitalized by technology experts to a huge image with 160 billion pixel. think about the surface area of our earth, it is about 510 million square kilometers, in spite of oceans, the land is about 149 million square kilometers, with 100m resolution remote sensing image fully covered earth land , the pixel numbers of there imagery will be in the same magnitude order of the digitalized painting."

Submission + - Al Qaeda declares Cyber Jihad on the West

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hgilde

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @11:39PM

hgilde writes: "The Debka File reports that Al Qaida intends to begin a "Cyber Jihad" on November 11. Debka seems to have a certain amount of credibility in this area but all I can think is "oh, no... attack of the Muslim script kiddies. Run in fear."

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