Slashdot Mirror

I think you will find that they do.

I think you will find that they do.

Is tech infrastructure the only thing Pakistan needs to work on?
A 33 year old woman was gang-raped as punishment for her brothers affair on the order of the tribal council.
Story link

Scientists Create Robot Lobster http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15742019-1376 2,00.html Come on... editors.

Hahahahaha! Great article!

Take a look at some of the other articles in "The Other Side" section...
http://www.news.com.au/otherside/?from=ninews_left nav

Robot lobsters? Haha! The only one that I believe is in full truth is the one about the cabbage leaves in baseball hats. I was watching a ballgame the other day and they were talking about this

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15696312-1376 2,00.html

Hahahahaha! Great article!

Take a look at some of the other articles in "The Other Side" section...
http://www.news.com.au/otherside/?from=ninews_left nav

Robot lobsters? Haha! The only one that I believe is in full truth is the one about the cabbage leaves in baseball hats. I was watching a ballgame the other day and they were talking about this

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15696312-1376 2,00.html

... where the IT job market is booming.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15 630672%5E15317%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

Not surprising at all...

Microsoft's media portal in australia, "ninemsn" (think msnbc) recently had to explain how it failed to notice its members had set up a "Rape Club" chatroom devoted to discussions a photos of, er, rape.

I just tried to track down a link through google news.

Which (at the moment) leads to a news article on ninemsn (!) Amusingly, follow the link and receive:

"The article you have requested does not exist"

Tinfoil hats ahoy! Instead, try this link to read about the whole sordid affair:

But while the defacements have undoubtedly halted a number of fraud schemes, security experts are dubious about the methods. "Are the ends good? Undoubtedly. Are the means justified? I don't know," said Cory Altheide of the SANS Internet Storm Center, a consortium of academic and industry security experts. "All I really know is the stories of vigilantism ending well are few and far between."

A better write up on the "hero hackers": this story does point out that the suckurity consulting industry goes out of its way to distance itself from hackers who dish out prompt and rough justice.

For that matter, I happen to approve of the idea of nuclear powerplants - if properly designed and with a waste management plan. So far we've done a pretty bad job of doing it properly, though. Hint - Is it REALLY smart to take a basic design type optimized for compact power in a military application, and scale it up for civillian power?

The same typical people will come on here and post about how they hate M$ and this is their fault because having an enemy gives them a sense of self and identity as part of the /. groupthink. Of course as usual /.'ers miss the point. This story has more to do with international relations than M$. But as usual /. bias comes through. /. cares more for rumor, gossip and bias especially if it's directed at its supposed enemies. Anyone who points this out of course will be modded down accordingly.

Seems like the 'hero hackers' are already working on this...

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15 410901%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Apple is already as arrogant and obnoxious as Microsoft. For example, despite the fact that OS X in its current form would not exist without the efforts of the Open Source community, Apple is still actively working behind the scenes in Europe to destroy the ability of the open source community to work with their proprietary formats.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15 083420%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

yep your ranking are the same as mine.

Brisbane is north eastern Australia (above sydney) a has tropical weather, Adelaide is down south and colder (in winter).

Adelaide has a smaller job market and thats probably what drives people away.

Brisbane, while small, seems to be growing and is more diverse

Adelaide IT jobs are mainly defense related.
I've included a link to a IT job page which I subscribe to, and i guess influences my opinions.

Adelaide and Brisbane are very afforadble for housing. 4/5 bedroom and pool for 300-400k or less.

Some links for you that may interest you...

local Brisbane newspaper
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/

IT jobs in australia
http://it.seek.com.au/JobSearch/index.ascx

and local comuter rail maps
http://www.railmaps.com.au/brisbane.htm

I should also disclaim, that I/my wife have no relatives in Adelaide but we do have relatives in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, so I am probably biased towards Brisbane.

anyway happy browsing
Nick

March 04, 2004
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story _page/0%2C5936%2C9128381%255E954%2C00.html
I bought a laptop in March. It's obsolete now. I guess this is still new enough news for us though.

I read them all. Doesn't mean I have to agree with their fear mongering that's not based in reality. For instance just today
New evidence: farming is huge source of greenhouse gases
Snowpack Surveys Bode Well for L.A. Water Supply LADWP Reports Highest Snow Levels in a Decade
Adaptation the key to surviving climate change, scientists say
AFRICA: Climate change becoming a matter of life and death
Oh look, directly to your early point "It was made crystal clear at the UN climate change conference in Argentina last November that the international community won't support global systems to regulate greenhouse gases. The US, China and developing countries decided Kyoto would not extend beyond 2012. Overtures by the European Union to extend it were rejected. Most greens pretend this did not occur. They also ignore the fact that most governments are not persuaded by claims that global warming presents a cataclysmic threat.
" Liberal plan will cost Canadians billions of dollars annually, Tories say /A>


How many do you read?

Did you agree when they said the cause of the Dec 26th Tsunami was Global Warming? Or when they said that Hurricanes were on the rise due to global warming. Most people didn't because Global Warming doesn't cause Earthquakes (Certianly not warming of 1 degree Farenheit on average global mean) and Hurricanes are on the decrease, as our weather records show.

BTW You called me wrong before when I stated how much warming we had in the 20th century, but you still haven't backed that up. You would think if I was so wrong you could easily show how stupid I was, yet you just go on and use insults as a debating tactic. But that's okay, obviously your opinions on this are just fantasy perpetuated byt the Media scare tactics, I don't expect you to deal with reality in the discusion.

Unfortunately, love & sex are too powerful to be dealt with in a sane fashion by humanity.

What are UN Peacekeepers doing on Slashdot?

What could we expect from a UN-run internet? Child porn and goat sex. In other words, nothing much different.

The next UN scandal is already in progress, the Jordanian peacekeepers having sex with goats scandal.

The next UN scandal is already in progress, the Jordanian peacekeepers having sex with goats scandal.

The next UN scandal is already in progres, the Jordanian peacekeepers having sex with goats scandal.

No, I am not making this up.

We need the UN to take over the Internet!

Only the folks who were in charge of Oil For Food, who stood idely by in Rwanda, who rape children and goats in Timor, and who rape women and children in the Congo are ideally suited for regulating the Internet.

Only they can keep us safe(*)!

-gandalf23@work

* Safe meaning free from worrisome strife and confusion by only allowing us to view what is in our best interests. By filtering out the un-truths and lies, they will free us with conformity and the status quo. Pesky innovation will no longer be allowed! Who needs to upgrade their computer every six months anyway? Anarchists and pornographers and other ne'er-do-wells, that's who! And who needs encryption? Only people who have something to hide!

Help us UN! You're our only hope!

Any time some conservative or religious nutcase

Oh wait! This just in, there are liberal nutcases too: Hillary Clinton bashes GTA

... and I quote: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them. This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different color or they're from a different place."

Meanwhile, a man swims across the Atlantic ocean at 80km/day, and a woman rows through the Pacific at 110km/day.

And remember the fly-eating robot which crawls 5m/day. I bet I could do better.

I won't welcome our new UAV masters until one of them completes the International Aerial Robotics Competition.

I submitted this yesterday with the originally reported article

What scares me the most is that police weren't involved at all. These are corporations barging in and taking stuff with the government's blessing!

Australian statistics show that higher proportions of women in the workforce deliver higher profits to management. In 1982, men held 63.2 per cent of all jobs in Australia and wages were 63.1 per cent of gross domestic product. In 2005 men held only 55.2 per cent of jobs and workers's share of GDP had falled 54.3 per cent. As the writer points out, this is no coincidence.

Here's the story

http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,720 8,11393890%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Of course, the only way around this is for the UN to take ICANN by force, which won't happen in the United States, whether by the US government or especially by the UN. Until Vint Cerf at ICANN changes his mind, the internet will not be governed by the UN.

Now, Sony ain't no angels, sure... and their media companies are as bad as any. But SCE isn't going to try to shut you down. Remember when Ken Kutaragi admitted that Sony had made a mistake in allowing its media division to stifle its computer division, and promised to correct it? Honestly, I think SCE really gets it. I am sure that Microsoft will never ever EVER get it.

Forget straw... if you want an eco-friendly house make it out of Hemp Bricks... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12292104-1376 2,00.html

"Iraq Massacre of kurds"

http://www.wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?articleid= 2434
http://www.wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?ArticleID= 1920
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,140124 8,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_ page/0,5744,12076716%255E1702,00.html

It seems Iraq's guilt re: the gassing of the Kurds isn't as much of an open & shut case as people think it is. There is evidence that the gas was from Iran. Also, the case against the chemical supplier fell apart.

I'm not saying Saddam was the best person ever, just that the above links are interesting reading and might get you thinking a bit more.

Hopefully no one is whipping themselves over this one, because it would be fatal. As it is, it'll probably be fatal to someone's career. Australia's Education Department intended to alert principals to children who are at risk by distributing their faces, cropped photographs from kiddy porn images at the request of the police. But somewhere between human error and bad software, the images didn't get cropped and the emails went out with the full sexual images. Which were opened by 80% of the recipients. Which has the police department groveling in guilt and shame, and promising "a full internal investigation." Read the original story on News.com (Australia): link

You get what you vote for.

Stop blaming voters for their government's actions. The last two elections proved that you do not get what you vote for.

Must be related to the AK-47 Mp3 Player

In 2002, in Australia, a spammer tried to sue the guy who reported them to the SPEWS blacklist. Case was dismissed, see the result here:

and

'TEENAGERS and young men should keep their laptops off their laps because they could damage fertility, an expert said today.

'"Laptops, which reach high internal operating temperatures, can heat up the scrotum which could affect the quality and quantity of men's sperm.

'"The increase in scrotal temperature is significant enough to cause changes in sperm parameters," said Dr Yefim Sheynkin, an associate professor of urology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.'

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page /0,5478,11636712%255E1702,00.html

Am I getting some facts wrong? Arafat walked away from the negotiating table at Camp David even when he was offered 95 % of the land from the 1967 war.

He did so because the intifada was a effective money earner. In 2002 or so, Arafat was worth some 1.5 Billion $. He did this because he cheated his own people.

You're asking the wrong people to get serious about the peace process. Do you know Jordan gets more than 1.5 Billion and Egypt gets 3 Billion odd in US funds every year?

Potential uses for the property: a religious college, spa, golf resort or even a technology park."

Or warehousing, for life "enemy combatants" you don't have the evidence to convict, but can't release because they'll hate you forever for torturing them.

What better for that then a Biosphere literally hermetically sealed from the rest of the world. Perhaps it's even sealed tightly enough to hold in the shame Americans should feel for what's being perpetuated in their names.

Yes, I'm proud to be an American: after getting to the moon in 1969, 35 years later the closest we've come to a manned landing on Mars is a "Biosphere" in the Arizona desert. Meanwhile, "land of the free" is using medieval tortures on innocent men and proposing to jail them for life without any evidence.

Here's to you, Mr. Jefferson! Here's to you Mr. Adams!

This is not the future I dreamt of.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11 798435%255E401,00.html

POLICE in Los Angeles shot dead a US marine after he killed a transexual prostitute.

The marine shot the prostitute after picking her up in Hollywood, believing she was a woman.

The marine was killed while allegedly brandishing a handgun during a confrontation with police after a high-speed car chase through the city.

Officers first tried to subdue the marine with beanbag rounds but eventually were forced to use live ammunition.

Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Sara Faden said a handgun was later recovered at the scene.

The marine got into a row with the prostitute and shot her in his car before dumping the body, police said.

Police cars began pursuing him after a witness called authorities.

They could not immediately confirm that the marine shot the prostitute after discovering he had picked up a transexual by mistake.

The countries that bore the brunt of the tsunami had no notice of what was coming but the earthquake, the largest for 40 years, had been monitored by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Honolulu.

"We don't have contacts in our address book for anybody in that part of the world," National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration director Charles McCreery said.

I agree with your subject line...

If their work is to warn about tsunamis in the Pacific basin, [...] why should they warn about tsunamis somewhere else?

Because they knew about it, and it could have saved lives?

In fact, the latest I read is that they actually did try to warn, so they are not total bureaucratic morons like you seem to be.

But they didn't know whom to call (!), they had no contact in their (Outlook?) address book. But they still tried, and apparently warned the US state department, which in turn didn't know whom to call. Not a surprise that the US state department has no clue on how to reach foreign officials, since it's the Pentagon which is now responsible for foreign relations...

Sad world...

I'm curious as to why a similar magnitude earthquake, also in the ocean, occurring off the coast of Australia shortly before this earthquake didn't cause a tsunami as well?

News about this earthquake here: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11 778537%255E3462,00.html

Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but I'm curious as to what the differentiating factor is between these two earthquakes which means one creates a tsunami and the other doesn't.

NORAD, jointly operated by the United States and Canada, has been tracking Santa for 50 years, ever since a newspaper in Colorado mistakenly printed a number for a "Santa Hotline".

The number turned out to be the operations hotline for NORAD headquarters in the state where tense radar operators were hunched over their radar screens on a cold night at the beginning of the Cold War.

"Needless to say, the military personnel on duty were very surprised to hear small children's voices on the operations hotline asking to speak to Santa," the release said.

The senior officer told childrens he could see Santa heading south from the North Pole, starting a tradition that has now endured for half a century.

They're not only on it, they're also giving him an F-18 escort... ;D

After all, they are nice and look after our rovers.

Mmm, yes, sad. I can feel myself getting a little misty even as I type this.

In other news, mass murderer Osama Bin Laden released a new tape today, confirming he is alive and and kicking and intent upon more mass murdering; x people got blown up in Iraq today, where x is a real number between 10 and 300; The Sudanese are starving; and N. Korea and Iran will probably have a shitload of nukes by the end of the decade.

Goddamn those bastards at Nvidia for needlessly adding to the world's sadness.

University of Adelaide head of anatomical science, Professor Maciej Henneberg said the survey results showed Australia was a nation of "healthy, cheerful, size 16 women".

"Australian women are heavier than American women by a few kilos, but it's not a major concern," Prof Henneberg said.

"I think the reason is there is a socio-economic difference. On average Australians are more affluent than Americans.

"The survey showed one third of women are obese and there is concern over this. However, size 16 women are happy and healthy."

GPS overlays may not be too great... especially if the GPS coordinates are not perfectly correlated with road map information. You can get into accidents that way, if you rely on possibly inaccurate information too much.