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Submission + - New Australian laws will censor terror DVDs

Submitted by on Monday April 16, 2007 @03:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: Within a few weeks, Australia may introduce new laws to censor films and literature deemed by the government to be supportive of terrorism. This is not the first time material has been censored in Australia, which has previously censored films and banned publications, including one titled Defence of the Muslim Lands (censored in mid 2006 by Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock). The proposed laws are aimed to target material such as a DVD by Feiz Mohammad containing some of his past controversial sermons calling for jihad and comparing Jews with pigs. The Office of Film and Literature Classification previously classified this DVD as "PG", suitable for viewing by anyone under 15 years of age with parental guidance.

Submission + - Intel to launch Linux-powered mobile Internet devi

Submitted by daria42 on Monday April 16, 2007 @03:13AM

daria42 writes: Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week's Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It's based on Linux. Called a Mobile Internet Device (pic), or MID, the devices will have screen sizes from 4.5 to six inches with a target audience described as "consumers and prosumers" rather than mobile professionals.

Submission + - How single-pixel camera work

Submitted by S3D on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:52AM

S3D writes: Terence Tao explain in his blog how single-pixel camera work. The explanation is long and detailed. The central idea is to use analog of hash function to distinguish dominantwavelets of the image.

Submission + - Blender 2.43 released - with Google SOC tools

Submitted by

LetterRip

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @07:08PM

LetterRip writes: "Blender 2.43 the free 3d animation suite has been released. There are a number of amazing new features including sculpting (which was supported by Googles Summer of Code) — you can now sculpt huge poly counts (6.5 million!) on Linux; fast 3D texture painting and numerous animation tool improvements."

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