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Valve Community Directory

3. January 2009

Valve software are heralded as the major crusaders of PC gaming and responsible bringing our beloved platform back from the ashes into mainstream culture.  The Steam platform alone has elevated PC gaming beyond that of a passing interest to be a major player in this generation of gaming.  Which brings me to: The ValveCommunity.net Directory A fantastic [...]

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Australian Internet content filtering - Cleanfeed

15. December 2008

What is Cleenfeed? Clean-feed is the Australian government’s $70 million national Internet content filtering scheme, which will impose blanket filtering for all web connections at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level.  There are two lists, a ‘child’ safe list which filters both illegal content and hardcore pornography and a second which users can ‘opt-out’ to which [...]

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AFACT sues iiNet over customer piracy

22. November 2008

Media Release: Film industry launches legal action against iiNet to prevent online peer-to-peer copyright infringement. Today, seven leading film companies and their affiliates and licensees filed a legal action against iiNet, a major Australian internet service provider. The action was filed by Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner BrosEntertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, [...]

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Large Hadron Collider Set for Go!

8. September 2008

Officials at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, outside Geneva, announced Thursday that their new particle accelerator, the world’s largest, would begin operation on Sept. 10. On that date, the physicists and engineers will make the first attempt to circulate a beam of protons around a 17-mile-long super-cooled underground racetrack known as the Large [...]

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