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File Sharing

Many of you may be aware of the ongo­ing legal bat­tle between AFACT [Aus­tralias ver­sion of the RIAA] and IINET. You can catch up with the par­tic­u­lars at itnews.com.au
Inves­ti­ga­tors claim to have recorded almost 100,000 instances of iiNet users mak­ing avail­able online unau­tho­rised copies of films and TV pro­grams from the film studio’s cat­a­logues, lawyers […]

Economic Crisis and Stimulus package info

Having com­pleted eco­nom­ics as a year 11 + 12 elec­tive at school I do regard myself as hav­ing knowl­edge “slightly above aver­age” in regards to eco­nomic issues. It’s very handy and reas­sur­ing to know that what is going on now in the econ­omy, the doom and gloom (or the impend­ing apoc­a­lypse as CNN would portray […]

‘Atlantis’ spotted on ocean floor off Africa

Well it looks like the team at google have blown us away yet again! We have seen them rein­vent email, make an inter­ac­tive street-level map of your sub­urb, index sev­eral bil­lion web pages for us to search in an instant, and have watched as they suc­cess­fully became one of the worlds largest and most prof­itable com­pa­nies.
This […]

“There is possibly no God…”

Mid last year arti­cles started pop­ping up on news and social net­work­ing sites (such as digg) about athe­ist groups spend­ing vast sums of money pro­mot­ing that “There is prob­a­bly no God. Now stop wor­ry­ing and enjoy your life”. Sup­port­ers of the adver­tis­ing cam­paign stat­ing that every­one has a right to free­dom of speech, and that God has had his mes­sages plas­tered all over front-lawn signs of churches for centuries.