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CaptainDefragged writes:
Just announced on the Australian ABC News site Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material. ... Senator Conroy says anyone wanting uncensored access to the internet will have to opt out of the service, and will work with the industry to ensure the filters do not affect the speed of the internet.
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morpheus83 writes:
Astronomers have discovered the largest diamond in the galaxy, located at a distance of 50 light years from earth in the Constellation Centaurus. The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter which makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds. Scientists believe that the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun.
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TT writes:
Google is considering building a wind-powered data center in Greensburg, Kan. In addition to the huge solar-panel project it's building in Mountain View, this 20-megawatt data center in Greensburg would go a long way toward helping Google get carbon neutral, as is its goal. The company, like the entire universe today, is on the green kick. It announced last month that it wants to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.
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j. writes:
Apple finally settled a lawsuit filed long, long ago against ThinkSecret, the best source for Apple scoop — the site is shutting down. D'oh.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/settlement.html
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DeeQ writes:
A computer worm has been spreading on Google's big-in-Brazil Orkut social network, according to a report on the Sounds from the Dungeon blog.
The relatively harmless worm appears to use JavaScript and Flash code to create new scrapbook entries on profiles with a New Year's message in Portuguese before propagating to the victim's friends.It may have infected as many as 400,000 users, according to a post on a blog called
"c0d3w12."
"It appears Google has responded quickly," writes a blogger on ValleyWag. "Too bad. If Google had let the worm rampage, maybe some American users might actually hear about Orkut for the first time."
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Thwomp writes:
Over at Coding Horror Jeff Atwood has an interesting write up on the performance of JavaScript in the big four browsers. He has used WebKit's newly announced SunSpider to produce the results. He's also benchmarked the lasted Firefox Beta here. Overall the results seem surprising.
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suntory writes:
I am a lecturer at a Spanish university. This week had to attend a
workshop on "Advanced HTML and CSS" for the university staff. Some of
the ideas that the presenter (a fellow lecturer) shared with us:
- IE is the
only browser that follows standards. You can see
it clearly because it works for all sites, whereas Firefox and
other browsers have problems displaying some of them.
- Frames and tables are the best way to organize your website.
- You can view the source for most CSS,
Javascript and HTML files, so you can freely copy and paste
what you feel like — the Internet is so free, you know.
- Same applies for images. If you can see them in Google
Images Search, then you can use them for your projects.
Of course, the workshop turned out to be a complete disaster and a
waste of time. So I was wondering what other similar experiences you
have had, and what was your worst IT workshop...
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Clown of the Month writes:
A bug in the Google Toolbar could allow criminals to steal data or install malicious software on PCs, a security researcher claims.
