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Submission + - Bizarre audio taking the internet by storm. What do you hear? (2gb.com)

Submitted by johnsnails on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:04PM

johnsnails writes: NB HOW DO WE MAKE THIS A POLL???? You hear Laurel, I hear Yanny.

A bizarre piece of audio has gone viral and it’s dividing us all.

Some say they can hear ‘Yanny’ but Alan says it’s ‘Laurel’ loud and clear.

What do you hear?

Submission + - Billy Graham, evangelical preacher dubbed 'America's Pastor', dies aged 99 (abc.net.au)

Submitted by johnsnails on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:58PM

johnsnails writes: Billy Graham, the magnetic, movie-star-handsome preacher who became a singular force in postwar American religious life and was a confidant of presidents, has died at the age of 99.

"America's Pastor" had suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments and died at his home in Montreat, North Carolina.

More than anyone else, Mr Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivalled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the US.

His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians and threw a lifeline to believers in the communist bloc.

Submission + - Magento 2 - A New Era of Commerce Innovation is Here (magento.com)

Submitted by johnsnails on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @07:40PM

johnsnails writes: We are excited to announce that Magento 2.0, our next-generation digital commerce platform, is now available. What’s New in Magento 2.0?
Magento 2.0 builds on our open source heritage and provides unmatched flexibility to help you quickly create innovative shopping experiences tailored precisely to your business. The out-of-the-box performance is significantly faster, enabling you to meet rising consumer expectations. You will also appreciate the streamlined checkout experience, new product video feature, and responsive reference themes, all designed to increase engagement, conversion rates and sales.

An all-new, intuitive Admin user interface and efficient business user tools accelerate ramp-up time and increase productivity and agility for your entire team. Plus, you get access to a full roadmap of new features and functionality that will only be available on the Magento 2.0 platform.

Submission + - Australian Feliks Zemdegs takes title at Rubik's Cube World Championship (abc.net.au)

Submitted by johnsnails on Monday July 20, 2015 @08:40PM

johnsnails writes: Australian Feliks Zemdegs has taken the Rubik's Cube world title for the second straight time at the 2015 World Championship finals, which reunited the world's meanest "speedcubers" in Sao Paulo.

The 19-year-old completed the traditional 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube with a staggering average of 7.56 seconds and best score of 5.695 seconds, narrowly missing the world record of 5.25 seconds held by American Collin Burns.

Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

Submission + - Court ruling on whether Australian ISPs must hand over customer data (news.com.au)

Submitted by johnsnails on Monday April 06, 2015 @10:46PM

johnsnails writes: A LANDMARK court ruling is due to be handed down today that will have lasting implications for the ongoing fight against illegal downloading and file sharing.

Dallas Buyers Club LLC has requested that iiNet (and a few other Australian ISPs) divulge the identity of customers whose IP addresses were found to have shared the film Dallas Buyers Club illegally.

The company owns the rights to the movie and identified a total of 4726 IP addresses that engaged in the illegal activity. Federal Court Justice Nye Perram’s verdict is due to be handed down at 2:15pm today.

While iiNet challenged the request, if successful, the suit could result in thousands of Australians being sued for copyright breaches. The watershed case will set a precedent for Australian ISP’s and will have a major impact on the behaviour of pirates.

Submission + - 'No Survivors' Expected In France Plane Crash

Submitted by johnsnails on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @07:57AM

johnsnails writes: A passenger plane has crashed in France, with all 148 people on board thought to have died.

The Airbus A320, operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline, came down in the southern French Alps between Barcelonnette and Digne.

Flight 4U 9525 sent out a distress signal at 10.45am (9.45am UK time) on its route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf.

Submission + - Yii 2.0 RC is released (yiiframework.com)

Submitted by johnsnails on Sunday September 28, 2014 @02:56AM

johnsnails writes: We are very pleased to announce the release of Yii 2.0 RC (Release Candidate).

This RC release includes about 100 bug fixes and 200 new features and enhancements. It is a result of five months of intensive development since the prior Beta release. During this period, we have received a lot of help from the Yii community users. We hereby thank everyone who has contributed to Yii and made this release possible. You are the best!

Check out the definitive guide here

Submission + - Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps dies

Submitted by johnsnails on Friday March 21, 2014 @05:43AM

johnsnails writes: THE fiery founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, who drew international condemnation for outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and US soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died. He was 84.

Submission + - Bitcoin exchange boss, Autumn Radtke, found dead of suspected suicide in Singapo (news.com.au)

Submitted by johnsnails on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @08:33PM

johnsnails writes: IT SEEMS controversial virtual currency bitcoin has claimed its first life.

THE American chief executive of a bitcoin exchange has been found dead at her home in Singapore.

Autumn Radtke, 28, was found dead in her apartment on February 28 and investigators are awaiting toxicology tests to confirm that her death was a suicide.

Radtke formerly worked with Apple and other Silicon Valley tech firms on developing digital payment systems before taking up the position with First Meta, an exchange for the digital currency bitcoin.

Submission + - Are you smart enough to work at a start-up? (news.com.au) 1

Submitted by johnsnails on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @09:56PM

johnsnails writes: EVER fancied yourself the next Mark Zuckerberg or David Karp?

Well, here's your chance to shine.

Sydney-based tech company Bigcommerce is recruiting engineers to work in their inner-city warehouse offices, fitted out with ping pong tables, Xboxes and nerf guns in true start-up vibe.

The only thing standing in your way is solving the ridiculously difficult riddle pictured above.

Once cracked, the code will generate a phone number that leads to a "batphone" in their Sydney offices.

Submission + - Kevin Rudd quits as leader as Tony Abbott storms to victory.

Submitted by johnsnails on Saturday September 07, 2013 @08:58AM

johnsnails writes: KEVIN Rudd has conceded defeat to Tony Abbott in the election and said he will not recontest the Labor leadership. Mr Rudd called on the nation to unite behind Mr Abbott as prime minister. “As Prime Minister of Australia I wish him well now in the high office of Australian prime minister.” “Tonight is the time to unite as the great Australian nation. Because whatever our politics may be we are all first and foremost Australian.

Submission + - Girl, 11, has higher IQ than Einstein (news.com.au)

Submitted by johnsnails on Sunday August 11, 2013 @11:50PM

johnsnails writes: THE smartest person in Britain isn't an Oxbridge professor or BBC boffin, it's an 11-year-old girl with huge aspirations.
Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell scored the maximum of 162 on a Mensa IQ test in July, ranking her smarter than Einstein and Stephen Hawking, the Wall St Journal reports.

Submission + - Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing to be given posthumous pardon (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by johnsnails on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @04:40AM

johnsnails writes: Government indicates support for backbench bill to pardon mathematician who took his own life after indecency case

Submission + - The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP (php.net) 2

Submitted by johnsnails on Thursday June 20, 2013 @06:56PM

johnsnails writes: The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0. This release includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include:

Added generators and coroutines.
Added "finally" keyword.
Added simplified password hashing API.
Added support for constant array/string dereferencing.
Added Class Name Resolution As Scalar Via "class" Keyword
Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions
Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach
Added support for list in foreach
Added Zend Opcache extension and enable building it by default.
The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improve existing functionality.
A lot more improvements and fixes

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/what-to-expect-from-php-5-5/

Submission + - Researchers hack Google Australia headquarters building (news.com.au)

Submitted by johnsnails on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:36PM

johnsnails writes: RESEARCHERS have managed to easily hack the building management system of Google's Sydney headquarters.

The researchers from security firm Cylance were able to obtain the password for the control system for the waterfront Pyrmont office, where it could access the system that controls alarms and other building services.

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