Outside UTS it appears that someone got carried away and started demolition on the wall. Shows there is truth in the sign attached.
links for 2011-02-11
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A ruling by the Press Complaints Commissions (PCC) has given British journalists the green-light to lift tweets from social networking site Twitter.
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Commentary about the new Commonwealth Bank's social media policy.
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THE Commonwealth Bank has threatened its employees with disciplinary action, including dismissal, if they do not report criticism of the bank made by others on social media channels, including Facebook.
links for 2011-02-09
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In a tearful, riveting live television interview only two hours after his release from an Egyptian prison, the Google executive Wael Ghonim acknowledged that he was one of the people behind the anonymous Facebook and YouTube campaigns that helped galvanise the protest that has shaken Egypt for the past two weeks.
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Australia’s online Catch Up TV services are a hotch potch mess. There’s no one central portal for finding everything you want, despite the promises of the Freeview consortium. Each of the five major networks has its own online TV offering. Unfortunately the services vary from the awesome to the dismal.
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A controversial London-based law firm that sent tens of thousands of letters demanding payment from people it accused of illegal file sharing has dramatically quit its copyright litigations, claiming death threats are causing "immense hassle" to the lead solicitor's family.
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The story of how Angry Birds was created and became the sensation it is today.
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In the estimation of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands alongside the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.
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Australians are consuming so much video and internet on their smartphones that mobile data usage is forecast to grow 32-fold from 2010 to 2015, according to the world's largest provider of network equipment, Cisco Systems.
links for 2011-02-06
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Telco giant Telstra has asked the government to keep potential reviews of policy surrounding copyright infringement off the table until a court case being heard on the matter is completed.
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The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton today signalled how far the US has swung its support behind vice-president Omar Suleiman and the transition process he is leading in Egypt.
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The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
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Bottom-up change may happen, but it still depends on top-down control from corporation and governments to allow it happen. those that control the Internet/communication.
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Claiming SSL is not computationally expensive is like saying gas is not expensive when you don’t have to drive to work every day.
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If you're new to negotiating or find it difficult, here are some missteps to avoid.
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With mandatory Internet filters all but scuttled by the Greens and the Coalition. Stephen Conroy is happy that telcos have been coerced into adopting 'Voluntary' Internet filters.
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A leading sushi restaurant chain has admitted it paid some foreign staff as little as $9 an hour, in what workplace experts warn is the tip of a ''massive black economy'' in Australia's hospitality industry.
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Factional tensions are rumbling in the Coalition with MPs divided on Tony Abbott's performance during the flood crisis as the Opposition Leader attempts to shrug off an embarrassing fund-raising gaffe.
Caution: Road Walk Ahead (photo)
In Broadway this afternoon there were signs directing people around the city because of a parade. Must be the Chinese New Year Twilight parade.
links for 2011-02-05
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Questioning the amount of money spent by state and commonwealth governments on religion, despite the constitution requiring the separation of the two.
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Mr Abbott has repeatedly stressed that it is unfair to impose a tax on people, especially those who had already donated to disaster relief. But at the bottom of the letter, underneath his signature, is a link inviting recipients to ''click to donate to help our campaign against Labor's flood tax''.
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Speaking to this website, Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of The Master Switch, said the days of a utopian internet were numbered.
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A West Australian egg wholesaler has been fined $50,000 in the Federal Court for misleading the public by labelling cartons of eggs as "free range".
links for 2011-02-03
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Backed by a public outcry, Canadian opposition parties lined up on Tuesday to voice concerns about a regulatory decision that chokes off the ability of small independent Internet providers to offer unlimited downloading to their customers.
links for 2011-02-02
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Star Trek writer/producer Brannon Braga regrets leaving gay characters out of the sci-fi franchise, insisting it was "a shame" the futuristic show failed to incorporate a wider range of sexualities.
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The French website igeneration.fr published an image provided by an Apple Authorised Service Provider that highlights a more lenient approach to dealing with water-damaged devices.
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Intel has found a design flaw in a recently released chip, and is working with laptop makers to replace affected computers.
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Microsoft has warned that the 900 million users of its Internet Explorer browser are at risk of having their computers hijacked and their personal information stolen by hackers.
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The Egyptian people's demands are "legitimate", its all-powerful military says, vowing not to crush mass anti-government protests called for Tuesday.
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Market leader Toyota has issued a bulletin to its 200 dealers warning of failing sound systems that can be locked if connected to an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPod Nano 6G with the iOS4.1 iTunes software update released in September 2010.
Are you pushing the right buttons at Woolworths?
On the ground floor of Woolworths in Sydney CBD the lift buttons are faulty. Only the up button works.
If you want to go down, and press the down button, you will be waiting a long time.
It appears that they are aware of the problem. And someone has helpfully left a note in marker pen to press the up button.
Perhaps they should think about fixing the down button as well?
links for 2011-02-01
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As Egypt's government attempts to crackdown on street protests by shutting down internet and mobile phone services, the US is preparing to reintroduce a bill that could be used to shut down the internet.