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Whilst many claim Firefox doesn't have the brand recognition that Internet Explorer does, it's getting a big push here in Australia.

Take a look at the front cover of the Sydney Morning Herald.
You can read the full article here.

Kudos to MozillaZine for running an article on it. :)
So yeah... people in Aust. are taking firefox seriously... most Aust. sites are getting hammered if they are not FF friendly. :)

Cheers,

M.

On how bad it could be, you may want to read this and then rethink if you really hate glasses/contacts that much.

Do you want to be that one failed surgery.

Developers shouldn't concern themselves with bogus patents.

If you want the Symantec release re-written by someone who knows what they're talking about, look here.

"Evaman occupies a false email address" doesn't fill me with respect for CoolTechZone's credentials.

Okay, fine, users are dumb. How how about we give them a slight break in this case? Failed deliveries are far enough out of most people's 'normal' e-mail experience that i can understand why they'd read the message. No it doesn't excuse opening anything with .scr, but txt.scr, html.scr, outlook.scrtxt.exe might dupe your avg users.

Anyways, here's a better article linked by McAfee and The Article That Started It All from the Sydney Morning Herald. Perusing the summaries off of Google News makes it seem like this will either be "unlikely to have a major impact on Australian businesses." or (now this is really crazy because it's from the same website, but a different article) "clog mail servers, cause severe slowdown and wreak financial damage as it spreads rapidly around the world when businesses return to work today"

I love that everyone can quote the Sydney Morning Herald to report that the sky is falling, or that things will mostly be okay. how do two journalists end up with such completely different viewpoints? They both quote Tim Hartman

"Tim Hartman, senior technical director at the security firm Symantec, said Evaman had the potential to be "every bit as bad as MyDoom. It's really shaping up like that. Mr Hartman estimated the virus would spread at an uncontrollable rate as people returned to work"

"We don't think it's going to be a major outbreak... most businesses had been able to filter out the affected emails" Mr Hartman said.

If you want the Symantec release re-written by someone who knows what they're talking about, look here.

"Evaman occupies a false email address" doesn't fill me with respect for CoolTechZone's credentials.

Okay, fine, users are dumb. How how about we give them a slight break in this case? Failed deliveries are far enough out of most people's 'normal' e-mail experience that i can understand why they'd read the message. No it doesn't excuse opening anything with .scr, but txt.scr, html.scr, outlook.scrtxt.exe might dupe your avg users.

Anyways, here's a better article linked by McAfee and The Article That Started It All from the Sydney Morning Herald. Perusing the summaries off of Google News makes it seem like this will either be "unlikely to have a major impact on Australian businesses." or (now this is really crazy because it's from the same website, but a different article) "clog mail servers, cause severe slowdown and wreak financial damage as it spreads rapidly around the world when businesses return to work today"

I love that everyone can quote the Sydney Morning Herald to report that the sky is falling, or that things will mostly be okay. how do two journalists end up with such completely different viewpoints? They both quote Tim Hartman

"Tim Hartman, senior technical director at the security firm Symantec, said Evaman had the potential to be "every bit as bad as MyDoom. It's really shaping up like that. Mr Hartman estimated the virus would spread at an uncontrollable rate as people returned to work"

"We don't think it's going to be a major outbreak... most businesses had been able to filter out the affected emails" Mr Hartman said.

Sounds great.

Too bad it's already here, what else do you think America is in the middle east for?

peace?

Oh yeah, I forgot: war is peace.

Justice?

Oh yeah, justice!

It's about oil.

We are already living in the peak, just wait, it's coming down.

>I was wondering if you care to support your outlandish claims that we support ecoterrorism?

Oh, please, don't make it so easy!

Tree spiking murders innocent workers.

A quote from Mr. Paul Watson (as a Greenpeace member, I'm certian you know of him, as he is a principal founder of your organization)

"I was the person who first thought up the tactic of tree-spiking and as such I feel obligated to defend this child of my imagination." (Link)

Care to make me find more examples?

>We do not and will not tolerate ecoterrorism.

That's why the principal founders of your organization devise murderous tactics, right?

It doesn't sound like a sane organization when it's founded by people like Paul Watson.

>Greenpeace is a very upright environmental organization.

Excellent. Tell me what happened to your boats in British Columbia on July 3, 1997. Find me a link to the info on the greenpeace website, if you're so upright.

Of course, we won't find one, because on that day the people of Victoria, BC fought back and blockaded YOUR boats.

>We have many worthwhile causes.

Many? Care to name 3 that aren't runing people's lives?

>You might not agree with protesting, but it's hardly any type of terrorism.

Hey, I agree with protesting. But protesting doesn't include blockades and property invasion. That crosses the line of protesting (which is marches in the streets, passing leaflets, general education of the public) and becomes sets of criminal acts, even in countries with the most liberal of free speech laws, such as the US. Criminals don't deserve to benefit from their work.

>or the illegal logging in the Amazon

Which you defend through such extreme violations of the law you become pirates yourselves, charged under laws intended for true pirates (such as yourselves -- it's shameful to take over other people's private property like that -- all the more reason the world will have to continue to arm itself against radicals such as yourselves). For some reason it's wrong to pirate logs, but just fine to pirate ships.

You can't be serious.

>I don't know of many other organizations that stand up for the thousands killed in Bophal

You have to go back 2 decades to find something decent Greenpeace did?

That's sad. But, sadder still, is the proof that your protesting really was worth nothing:

"Meanwhile, very little of the money from the settlement reached with Union Carbide went to the survivors, and people in the area feel betrayed not only by Union Carbide (and chairman Warren Anderson,) but also by their own politicians. On the anniversary of the tragedy, effigies of Anderson and politicians are burnt."

At least the US Government managed to squeeze some money out for them. I wonder, how much did Greenpeace give?

Now, for my final point, care to respond to this?

"IT'S OFFICIAL: GREENPEACE SERVES NO PUBLIC PURPOSE"

Revenue Canada, the tax-collecting arm of the government, has refused to recognize the new Greenpeace Environmental Foundation as a charity, saying its activities have "no public benefit" and that lobbying to shut down industries could send people "into poverty."

"But according to court records made public in June by John Duncan, the Reform MP from British Columbia, the federal charities division found the group's activities "have not complied with the law" on charitable organizations."

"The recent Greenpeace campaigns against PVC plasticisers and

Same can be said for their Web APIs and some of the applications like Google Dance Tool and Google Alert that have developed from it.

While I think this is probably a case of people going after Google's newly deep pockets, it would be interesting if Google planned to release some of this code out into the open.

It seems that everyone BUT the USA have reported this - sorry if you didn't hear from inside happy land.

According to this article, "Apple has just hived off iPod into a separate division under Jon Rubenstein, formerly head of hardware development. Despite protestations, maybe there really is a video iPod (or PDA-Pod or mobile phone-Pod) in the works.".

For all you know, there will be a cellphone designed by Apple. I imagine if they use the iPod Touch Wheel for an interface, it would bring back the act of rotationally "dialing" a phone number.

June 19, 2004 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday buttressed President Bush's claim that Iraq posed a direct threat to America by saying Russian intelligence was tipped off that Saddam Hussein was preparing anti-American attacks after 9/11.

Putin said the warning was relayed to Bush, who personally thanked one of Russia's spy chiefs for it.

And then there are Zarqawi and Abu Nidal , two of the most blood-thirsty savages engaging in terrorism, both of whom found a home in Iraq.

No, I'm afraid you have it backwards, Saddam was both a participant and an enabler of terrorism. We did the right thing just based on terrorism.

That is not even considering the many banned activities going on in Iraq in defiance of the UN. Read David Kay's report sometime, or some of the other UN material. For your convenience, here is an excert from his statement:

We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN. Let me just give you a few examples of these concealment efforts, some of which I will elaborate on later:

- A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.

- A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.

- Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.

- New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.

- Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).

- A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.

- Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the UN.

- Plans a

Now you're equating Iraq with 9/11. The two are unrelated, as the 9/11 comission has found. As is hopefully common knowledge, Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are the culprits. They should be brought to justice for what they've done, and I certainly don't suggest we surrender to them.

What I am saying is that there is no reason for the west to be in Iraq. There's no 9/11 link. There's no WMD. (You can post some links to right wing blogs or magazines if you like, but the US govt hasn't actually been able to dig up any physical WMD on the ground). Saddam's government was dodgy, but no more so than, say, North Korea or Indonesia. (And North Korea actually admitted to having a WMD program to boot).

If you're uncomfortable with bringing the troops home, then perhaps they would be better used rooting out Al-Qaeda camps than dodging car bombs in Baghdad. Just a thought.

Even more suprising England did actually win the final....heartstopper of a match though.

Here are some links:
Muslim leaders condemn terrorist attacks
Muslims worldwide demonstrate against terror

I'll leave off the long list of condemnations of 9/11, from ordinary muslims, scholars, leaders, etc. I can also point you to fatwas condemning the mutilation of contractors in Fallujah, the bombings in Indonesia, etc. However, since I've seen lots of strawmen claims that Islam supports killing POW's (the whole Nick Berg issue), I should point out that the scholars have been unanimous and clear; it's forbidden.

Fatwa concerning POWs
Muslim authorities at Al-Azhar seminary condemn killing Radical Shi'ite Hizbullah condemns beheading
Iraqi Muslim leaders condemn beheading

Some users may not have been able to take advantage of the patch issued in April because of problems it can cause. Users who find their computers infected by it are actually being advised to cancel their credit cards. Presumably, users who were unable to install the patch may have no choice.

Some users may not have been able to take advantage of the patch issued in April because of problems it can cause. Users who find their computers infected by it are actually being advised to cancel their credit cards. Presumably, users who were unable to install the patch may have no choice.

This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on May 1st. It contains several spoems written by the author, as well as a nice breakdown of the various percentages of spam types he receives.

I've seen these sorts of poems appearing alot on blogs recently. Even tried my hand at it when I had half an hour to spare. It's good fun. Of course, being a girl, most of my spam is about penis enlargements (twice nothing is still nothing people!), but some of the more random spams make for interesting poetry.

It would be extremely difficult to tell, as movie (and recording) bookkeeping is an arcane cult that disguises all profits and usually reports a loss. I don't know the details of how they do it, but somehow they've managed to get away with what in most businesses would be called tax evasion and get you the perp walk, even under the Bush administration.

So we could see what reported net profits were, but it would be difficult in the extreme to figure out what the actual profitability is per film--except to look at it for the enterprise as a whole (or whichever reporting unit comes closest, if the studio reports earnings separate from the parent company). And even then you'd have to find a studio with an equivalent number of hits and as few misses, and that would be hard indeed to find.

At risk of feeding a deliberate troll, you do realize, of course, that:

• "murderous" - "Military shrugs off attack on wedding party"
• "torturing" - More accounts, photos of Iraq abuse surface...
• "liar" - Bush misstated report on Iraq
• " rewarded people who attacked you"
• "spoke fondly of it" - Mission Accomplished!

So we shouldn't have invaded Iraq because Al-Qaeda wouldn't like it?

Actually yes, that should have been a consideration. We should have looked at what we'd get out of it vs what the cost would be. In this case we got nothing out of it and we are paying billions each month for the privilege of occupying the place. And to top all that off we provided Al-Qaeda with the best damn recruitment photograph in history.

And it was okay that Saddam tried to hide and create WMDs, just as long as he wasn't successful?

Do you have any evidence that he was still trying to create them? I'm sorry but we don't go to war on "We think he might be doing this". And quite frankly who the hell cares what Saddam may or may not have had? I'd have started worrying about it when he had delivery systems to actually get the damn things here. And don't come back at me and say "He was in bed with the terrorists" unless you are prepared to say exactly what terrorists he was "in bed" with (Al-Qaeda hated him) and what motivation he would have had to give them WMDs.

And we're losing a guerilla war where we're killing 20 times more of the guerillas than they are of us (at least)?

I don't know that we're losing but we aren't winning now are we? If you think killing 20 of them for every one of our own is a victory then I suggest you check out the Korean War in your history book. 54,246 Americans died -- DoD estimates that we killed over 1,500,000 North Koreans/Chinese. That's one point five million. That's a ratio of slightly over 27 enemy KIA for each one of our own. And guess what? We didn't win the Korean War.

Furthermore the Korean war wasn't a guerilla war -- it was a conventional war. Every time we kill an Iraqi insurgent we piss off the local population and two or three more step forward to take his place. Does this sound like a winning formula to you? Are you prepared to kill every man of military age in Iraq so we can declare victory?

If the grounds for dispute for trademark ownership is whether or not a name may be mistaken for a registered trademark, could education make microsoft.com look so different from microsoft.org that disputes may go the way of the pillow case? Then maybe we'd be doing justice to the expansion of TLD namespace?

• Austria
  There are no kangaroos in our country

Expensive gas raises prices, but really not all that much on most things.

The reason the French helped the Americans was to piss off the English; nothing more, nothing less. France wasn't even on the 1st republic when they got involved in the American Revolutionary War; they are now on the 5th Republic.

America, the same republic that exists today, on the other hand, helped save the French in both the 1st and 2nd World Wars. Furthermore, America was left cleaning up after France in Indochina, as well as the Middle East. If you want to compliment France for what they did three centuries ago, then surely you should also criticise them for all the shit they pulled since then, mainly dicking around Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas and comporting themselves far worse than the British Empire on many occasions. Some of the positive effects of the British Empire can still be felt today. Name some positive effects of French colonialism; I can name plenty of the negative effects than can still be seen today.

As for France's opposition to the Iraq war, lets not forget the oil-for-food scandal and all the weapons France was selling to Iraq. Here's an article detailing some of the shit Germany, Russia, Britain, France, and the US pulled in Iraq. In the defence of the US and the Britain, they went to war to set some of their mistakes right. What have the Germans, Russians, and French done (aside from riding their high horse)?

Work on another aircraft, the L-29 jet trainer, to convert it to a RPV started in November 1995 and continued until at least 2000. The L-29, although smaller and less capable than the MiG, could still be used to deliver CBW agent in quantities that would pose a significant threat to neighbouring countries.

ARIA tried to hide their record CD sales from the Australian public Music industry way off track with song and dance about falling sales

In Australia, the major political parties frequently hold party meetings that are closed to the public, and to cameras. Thanks to new mobile phones that now have video recording capabilities, a brawl at a national branch meeting of the Liberal Party was caught on camera for all the world to see. I'm sure a lot of people had to think twice about the image of the Liberals as a "mature and rational" party after that, I know I sure did.

North Korea is suspected of training hackers.

What if we all just agree to be happy and nice? If we just pretend everything is good, it will be. Unfortunately, grownups seem to be bad. And with nuclear weapons, they're going to be bad enough that all of us get killed. One day, it's going to be a lot simpler, when we're all dead, and no one is bad.

Oh, and terrorists are stupid foreigners.

It will help prevent problems like this (Work safe).

Not being a huge perveyor of porn, would whacking on a condom really destroy the effect?

I wish the article had indicated how secure the area was where the cards were stolen

If people can steal routers from australian airport customs, this should be easy enough.

Not just telcos, but government departments too, need to take their physical security more seriously. Anyone recall Australian Customs having some mainframes stolen late last year?
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Given that the purpose of the exercise is to undermine China and Iran, two countries whose policies on homosexuality make Ashcroft look like J. Edgar Hoover in comparison, it's still an accident.

We're presently engaged in a global war against a culture that prohibits the viewing of women's faces... a culture that - when when its adherents come to Australia, they see our women as whores fit only to be "fucked Leb style", and when they come to France and Norway, they "take turns" on 14-year-olds, then I say desensitizing these animals to sexual stimuli through regular exposure to pr0n is a feature, not a bug.

If we're serious about winning the war on terror, we shouldn't just be letting this stuff through the filter, we should be phoning up Larry Flynt, Bob Guccione, and Hugh Hefner and placing enough orders to load up a fleet of C-130s with copies of every wankmag that gets remaindered and bomb the fuckers into the sexual revolution. Fuck Islam. Bring on the w33ners and b00bies.

Taylor: Hello, how may I help you?

Radar: I received an email from Worldwide Global Lotto stating that I had won $193,000. I want to collect my money.

Taylor: First of all, this is a financial company. I am aware the Worldwide Global Lotto is a promotion presently going on for all Microsoft users around the world.

Radar: But I don't use Microsoft. I use Apple.

Taylor: You must have used Microsoft once in your life. Probably this is where your email address has been gathered.

Radar: Great. And how do I get the money?

Taylor: All you have to do is make available the fees and charges for the processing of your winning and legal documentation and naturalisation papers. That is an equivalent of $2400. As soon as you make this payment available in the name of our chief accountant, Mr Kelvin Duncan, within 24 hours your winnings will be transferred to you as a certified cashier's cheque or into your bank account.

Radar: There is no lotto or prize, is there?

Taylor: What? Obviously you have emerged as a winner if you have the correct email.

Radar: How much money do you make from this scam?

Taylor: Bye-bye now. [Click]

"The USA is supposed to be a country based on the Constitution, and was founded with the belief that every individual has natural rights that need to be protected [...]"

It's an ideal lost to some it seems. When I saw this story I was greatly disheartened. Can anyone now not wonder now at what really goes on in Guantanamo?

Yeah, I know its off topic, but it fits in so well with the SlashDot "Business Plan", I figured I had to share it somehow.

--
Just say no to karma whoring!

here.

I shoulda previewed my comment damnit!

Which even costs less than $US 2 million in most cases.

In Australia, we already have it...

Of course, with any fact you can put a spin on it but this does not matter as long as the listener is aware of the bias. It is a bit scary when a press baron like Murdoch is considered one of the main reasons Blair won the previous elections, and that the future of the Blair government seems to depend on Murdoch not to tell his UK news papers to go after Blair. Either the British readers of Murdochs papers are happy to vote for the guy picked by Murdoch, or they are ignorant of the bias they are served ...

Just start a corporation and never pay tax again.

Human body could power small fuel cells
Power from blood could lead to 'human batteries'

The only problem would be when your laptop would get low on power, so would you!

For a full updated list of sites pulling april fools jokes see here

Some of the latest enteries:
livejournal.com - on userinfo pages, "Friend"/"Friend Of" -> "Stalking"/"Stalked By"
www.gpf-comics.com - Comic mirrored.
smh.com.au - Yum-cha trolleys with "L" plates
www.clutchfans.com - Patrick Ewing returning to NBA
www.freeciv.org - Freeciv ANSI client
www.rav4world.com - Closed? Should have announced that TOMORROW!
www.retrocrush.com - Nude pics of Jaclyn Smith
westcoaster.net - Roller coaster site turned into teen girl site
www.meowpawjects.com - Sock people forced webmaster to take website down.
miceage.com - Disney merges with Walmart
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - Badgers replaces with zombies
skepdic.com - Skeptic's Dictionary closing
fool.com - Buffett buys Krispy Cream
launch.com - Britney Spears & Jason Alexander To Renew Wedding Vows
MetaFilter.com - Turned in to a Wiki for the day
www.ddrkc.com - owner sold site to a user that is unpopular
brownpau.com - March for Web Standards
www.beyondunreal.com - ut2k4 production suspended
globetechnology.com - Microsoft Solitaire
www.modernwiccan.com - Randomized Color Scheme
bbs.fuckedcompany.com - Site shutting down
www.diary-x.com - looks like diaryland!
theprp.com - Music site to "Previously Ridden Ponies"
mpx200.org - Pocket PC with 2Gb system memory/Smart Drunk Pocket PC application
www.macosxhints.com - triple G5 Powermacs
www.slyfx.com - AOL buys slyfx
palminfocenter.com - Palms for toddlers.
www.carniola.org - fake news story
eikenes.alvestrand.no - Considering porn spam to be in a separate dialect to everything else
defunctgames.com - Pimps At Sea fox xbox

For a full updated list of sites pulling april fools jokes see here

Some highlites:
livejournal.com - on userinfo pages, "Friend"/"Friend Of" -> "Stalking"/"Stalked By"
www.gpf-comics.com - Comic mirrored.
smh.com.au - Yum-cha trolleys with "L" plates
www.clutchfans.com - Patrick Ewing returning to NBA
www.freeciv.org - Freeciv ANSI client
www.rav4world.com - Closed? Should have announced that TOMORROW!
www.retrocrush.com - Nude pics of Jaclyn Smith
westcoaster.net - Roller coaster site turned into teen girl site
www.meowpawjects.com - Sock people forced webmaster to take website down.
miceage.com - Disney merges with Walmart
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com - Badgers replaces with zombies
skepdic.com - Skeptic's Dictionary closing
fool.com - Buffett buys Krispy Cream
launch.com - Britney Spears & Jason Alexander To Renew Wedding Vows
MetaFilter.com - Turned in to a Wiki for the day
www.ddrkc.com - owner sold site to a user that is unpopular
brownpau.com - March for Web Standards
www.beyondunreal.com - ut2k4 production suspended
globetechnology.com - Microsoft Solitaire
www.modernwiccan.com - Randomized Color Scheme
bbs.fuckedcompany.com - Site shutting down
www.diary-x.com - looks like diaryland!
theprp.com - Music site to "Previously Ridden Ponies"
mpx200.org - Pocket PC with 2Gb system memory/Smart Drunk Pocket PC application
www.macosxhints.com - triple G5 Powermacs
www.slyfx.com - AOL buys slyfx
palminfocenter.com - Palms for toddlers.
www.carniola.org - fake news story
eikenes.alvestrand.no - Considering porn spam to be in a separate dialect to everything else
defunctgames.com - Pimps At Sea fox xbox

There isn't much bio information on the website but he is in his second year of presenting Triple J's current affairs program and was previously a reporter for same. You can listen to the show online.

He has written some interesting articles for the Sydney Morning Herald in the past, including this one on the decline of Sydney and another on censorship of CDs.

cheers
marty

There isn't much bio information on the website but he is in his second year of presenting Triple J's current affairs program and was previously a reporter for same. You can listen to the show online.

He has written some interesting articles for the Sydney Morning Herald in the past, including this one on the decline of Sydney and another on censorship of CDs.

cheers
marty

There isn't much bio information on the website but he is in his second year of presenting Triple J's current affairs program and was previously a reporter for same. You can listen to the show online.

He has written some interesting articles for the Sydney Morning Herald in the past, including this one on the decline of Sydney and another on censorship of CDs.

cheers
marty