Shuff's General Chat Thread ... #73 - Talk about anything and everything...  

PS4 and Xbone are much of a muchness. I prefer the Xbone controller, I prefer the PS4 interface. The best thing about the Vita is remote play. PS4 will eventually have an Uncharted game, so that alone should justify the purchase...
Oh, and LOU HD is brilliant.

Have them cleaned and sent to my quarters.

i reckon this will be good.
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two problems that I'm seeing.

one - the special effects looks to be overdone, and

two - I remember the original, and how do you improve on such a classic piece of Aussie cinematography.

San Andreas, yet another American disaster movie offering ( ), staring The Rock.

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12 Rotor engine doing some low power test runs on the dyno. The Carb would not flow enough for more then 2000 rpm. Working on the fuel injection and turbo setup now.

Police clear Martin Place after gunman holds hostages at Lindt Chocolat Cafe


Hostages are being forced to hold an Islamic flag against the window of the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Martin Place after at least one gunman stormed the premises.

About 10 staff and customers are being held at gunpoint inside the cafe. It was earlier reported that 20 hostages were being held.

A number of people could be seen through the windows with their hands held in the air.

Police confirmed an operation was under way at the shop in Martin Place.

A NSW Police spokeswoman said officers were called to the shop about 9.45am today. She urged people to stay away from Martin Place.

A woman is believed to have raised the alarm at 9.44am when she saw a man outside the cafe carrying a blue sports bag with a gun inside.

There are reports that there could be two gunman inside the cafe, although police have not confirmed this.

The cafe is right in the middle of the banking and retail district, and is usually packed with Christmas shoppers at this time of year.

The Channel Seven newsroom, which faces Martin Place, has been evacuated, along with the Macquarie Bank and Westpac offices in the area.

The Martin Place studio is Seven's main newsroom and home to breakfast show Sunrise and The Morning Show, which was on air when news of the siege broke about 9.45am.

The network was originally running a live-stream of the siege, but was asked to take it down for security reasons.

It is unknown if any Seven staff are among the hostages.


Evacuees in Hyde Park due to a siege under way in Martin Place, Sydney.  © AAP Image/Lauren Farrow Evacuees in Hyde Park due to a siege under way in Martin Place, Sydney.

State Parliament, which is one block away from the cafe, has also been closed to the public, while David Jones's flagship store in the city was also being evacuated.

Terrified customers in the cafe could be seen holding an Islamic flag - which is black with white writing on it - up against the glass window. The flag appears to be a Shahada flag, not an Islamic State flag, but is associated with Islamist and jihadist movements.

Trains between Central and Bondi Junction were initially stopped, but the Transport Management Centre said services resumed about 10.45am. However trains will not stop at Martin Place.

Fairfax Media understands the federal government has convened a meeting of the National Security Committee this morning.

It has been warning for months that a terrorist attack in Australia could happen.

A spokesman for federal Transport Minister Warren Truss said: "The airspace over the Sydney CBD is not in shut down. There are choppers in the air and air traffic is being rerouted according. At this stage no impact on the air traffic network."

Journalist in shop

Journalist Chris Kenny, who was in the shop about 20 minutes before the siege began, said he understood the automatic glass sliding doors had been disabled.

"I did speak to a couple of people who saw a bit more of this unfold than I did," he said.

"One woman said she tried to go into the shop just after I came out with my takeaway coffee but the doors wouldn't open.

"So obviously whoever is doing this has disabled the automatic glass sliding doors to stop anyone else going in and she said immediately she could see there was a weapon.

"She mentioned it being taken out of a blue bag and people were straight away asked to put up their hands."

A man who gave his name only as Bruno said he'd worked in the cafe for six months.

"I was supposed to start at 10am," he said while visibly shaken.

That was about 15 minutes after the seige started and he was unable to get inside.

Broadcaster Ray Hadley was reporting today that the gunman had told negotiators he wanted to talk to Prime Minister Tony Abbott live on radio. Police have not confirmed this.

In September this year, police conducted a series of major anti-terrorism raids across Sydney. Following those raids, police alleged Islamic extremists were planning to behead a person in Martin Place in Sydney's CBD.

Shortly after the siege began, the US Consulate sent an "emergency message" to its citizens warning them to stay away from Martin Place.

The message read: "U.S. citizens are strongly encouraged to review your personal security plan, remain aware of your surroundings including local events, and monitor local news stations for updates. Maintain a high level of vigilance and take appropriate steps to enhance your personal security."

Glad i'm not in Sydney CBD

anyone else had trouble accessing pirate bay in the last day?

not that I'm acquiring anything there, just like to keep an eye on things / search / to see what's available.

Did you forget. That and eztv were shutdown

Did you forget. That and eztv were shutdown

While there is still no sign of The Pirate Bay, another major torrent site is starting to recover following the police raid earlier this week. The popular TV-torrent distribution group EZTV is starting to upload new shows again as some of its servers come back online.


eztv-logo-smallEarlier this week Swedish police raided a nuclear-proof data center built into a mountain complex in the city of Nacka.

The target of the raid was The Pirate Bay but collateral damage caused several other torrent sites to go down as well. This included EZTV, the go-to place for many torrenting TV fans.

After nearly two days of downtime EZTV is slowly starting to crawl back up. TF spoke to the EZTV crew who confirmed that several servers are up and running again and that the site’s services are coming back online.

At the time of writing the main site is still offline. However, the upload bots are back in action and EZTV torrents are being uploaded again in other places such as Kickass.so and ExtraTorrent.

In addition, EZTV proxies such as eztv-proxy.net can now connect to the site’s backend IP-addresses. This means that these are showing new uploads again, as can be seen below.