Porn, Down Under
Kids today… It has been proven that children will do anything they can to upset the well-
intentioned plans of their elders. And if that means hacking into porn filters and posting a DIY on YouTube for other oppressed teenagers didnt the Bard say everything was
fair and all that?
The Australian government, apparently worried over the proliferation of online smut and resulting corrupting of morals, dumped A$84 million (about Rs 250 crore) into a state-of-the-art porn filter. They then collectively sat back, hoping to look over benignly as the hormone-affected population browsed National Geographic and Popular Science. But young Tom Woodall of 16 years oldstuck a mighty blow in favour of free speech (or [Read the rest of this entry…]
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Professional filmmakers require high-quality video shooting equipment, and more importantly something to store their gigantic files on when out in the field. The Codex Portable is a compact field recorder. It supports recording of video formats all the way up to 4096 x 2048thats like a little more than two times current HD resolution standards. 8-channel audio streams can be recorded. To store all this data, it has removable 400 or 800 GB hard drives! You can also plug in a cheap USB Flash drive.Unlike its bigger brother the CodexRecorder, the Codex Portable weighs 4 kg instead of 45. The touchscreen allows you to use the interface, which can also be wirelessly controlled through a laptop, for example. This whopper should be out . Serious filmmakers might be the only prospective buyers, and they will be a very happy pack .