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Australia's 2 Largest ISP's Start Censorsing the Web 133

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:20AM from the look-away-kids dept.

unreadepitaph writes "Looks like after Stephen Conroy's web filter went down in flames he went quietly behind the backs of Australians and struck a deal with Telstra and Optus to start filtering an undisclosed blacklist of sites from organization within and external to Australia. From the article: 'Electronic Frontiers Association board member Colin Jacobs also expressed concern at the scheme, saying the Government and internet providers needed to be more upfront about websites being blocked and offer an appeals process for website owners who felt URLs had been blocked unfairly. "There is a question about where the links are coming from and I'd like to know the answer to that," Mr Jacobs said."

Comment Re:BFS Isn't Unsupported (Score 2, Interesting) 472

by emergentessence on Saturday October 23, 2010 @04:01PM (#33998544) Attached to: The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop?

I had been wondering about this myself, for some reason I was under the impression that the BFS was no longer being maintained.

It turns out there is an up-to-date package for Ubuntu (I'm running 10.10) as well: http://launchpad.net/~chogydan/+archive/ppa

I thought I'd try it out as the installation was much more straightforward than I'd expected.

'uname -r' now reveals "2.6.35-22ck-generic" and, while this is just my subjective assessment, a few of the quirks I had noticed before on my own system where things would get sluggish when switching between apps / opening closing apps while running things that read/write to the disk, seem to have been ironed out.

I would love to test this in a more empirical manner, as I can now boot into either kernel to do comparisons, but I don't know of any software that would allow me to benchmark performance in a way that is sensitive to the optimizations the BFS allegedly implements.

Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity 591

Posted by timothy on Friday August 06, 2010 @08:08AM from the scott-mcneally-1999 dept.

A user writes "A tweet from the EFF pointed me to a short article detailing part of Eric Schmidt's speech to the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe on August 4. According to Schmidt, true transparency and anonymity on the Internet will become a thing of the past because of the need to combat criminal and 'anti-social' behavior. 'Governments will demand it,' he says, referring to full accountability and a 'name service for people,' possibly hinting towards mandatory Internet passports. The CEO of Google also made a couple of somewhat creepy references to the availability of information: 'If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use artificial intelligence, we can predict where you are going to go ... show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You've got Facebook photos!'"

Surveying the Challenges of Linux On Cortex A9-Based Laptops 119

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @09:52AM from the multiple-fronts dept.

Charbax writes "In this video, Jerone Young, lead partner engineer at Canonical, explains some of the challenges facing Canonical and other companies who are part of the new Linaro project, in preparation for the now imminent release of a whole bunch of ARM Cortex A9 Powered laptops and desktops likely to be manufactured by giants of the industry such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba, as well as lesser names such as Quanta, Invetec, Pegatron, and Compal, all of whom have been showing tens of early prototype designs of these ARM-powered laptops at trade shows around the world during the past year and a half. They're working to standardize the boot process, write drivers to use graphics and video hardware acceleration, optimize the web browser (Chrome and Mozilla), and implement faster DDR3 RAM and faster I/O bus speeds, as well as to optimize the software to use the new faster dual core ARM Cortex A9 processors."

Microsoft's Glasses-Free 3D Display 197

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @09:30AM from the believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Microsoft Applied Sciences Group has developed a new lens that lets you watch three-dimensional content without 3D glasses. The new lens is thinner at the bottom (about 6mm) than at the top (11mm) and steers light to a viewer's eyes via LEDs along its bottom edge. The 3D display uses a camera to track viewers so that it knows where to steer the light; the idea isn't new, but the required CPU power is now affordable and small enough to pull it off on a large scale."

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