If the government had never sold Telecom we would be up shit creek without a paddle. Telecom were complete bastards, until competition appeared we had one of the most expensive and least useful telecoms networks in the world. We still have problems with price, but usability is slowly getting better (no thanks to Telstra though). Optic to the hub or home is an unrealistic dream for a country this fucking big. Demand for high speed optic fibre cable is 20 years old and was met in small island countries like Japan, Taiwan and Maylasia but has stagnated in our country which is as large as the USA but with less than a tenth of the population.
We could implement now what the progressive countries had in the 90s or we could try to embrace the future by investing in the private sector, and especially wireless which looks to be reaching 120mbps on 4G. In other words, the fibre network will be outpaced before it even gets laid as mobile speeds exceed those of the fixed lines. 'Redundant before it gets made' is not the technology that Australia needs to sink 43 billion+ dollars into.
There's nothing much stopping say a Chinese firm reverse engineering the current iPhone and replicating it using existing technology. In fact there's never been much of anything stopping individuals from recreating any patent, that is one of the intentions of patents after all. Thinking this would be the death of patents is like saying downloads are the death of copyright. Sure, the technology disrupts things but the legal system always finds a way to screw us over.
What's stopping someone from pirating the iPhone in 2050? How's $1 million in fines per infringing copy sound? I'm sure the legal minds will think of something.
I admire that you think we'll escape the IP trap so easily, as if technology were the only obstacle. Perhaps it's you thinking too small though, if we have replicators that can replicate an iPhone we should be also able make a replicator, and pretty much anything else to boot. We would be transitioning to a post-scarcity society. Would IP matter in such a world?
I prefer profiteers to tyrants, but either way the NBN is absolutely stupid and is no excuse to impose a load of bureaucratic totalitarian bullshit on Australia. We finally are rid of our old telecoms monopoly and what does the government do? Start a new one! They project demand at 80% of households when nowhere near that level of demand is present in the trials, and the only growth in the sector is in wireless not fixed lines. They expect 15 years at 80% will pay off half the costs. Do you really think this will be state of the art in 15 years? The private sector is the only solution to coping with the rapid technological change. The NBN will be a joke, a great example as what not to do when developing technology infrastructure.
Yeah, I'd say that IP breaks the 'nothing new under the sun' rule, and I fully support people who remix works while violating copyright, but to simply reproduce and violate is a step too far. What we need is copyright that lasts for a reasonable period of not more than a few years, and by few I mean two or three at most, with liberal fair use and allowing remixes alongside parodies.
Going back to my adolescent VHS and casette pirating years, I believe the loss of quality justified fair use of the medium, but with digital there is no loss. I know the music cartels are corrupt.
I feel we're a while away from a market based instead of a black market solution but we are getting there slowly. I do know that in 100 years they will wonder why the hell we didn't immediately embrace infinite reproduction to its fullest from the start.
... If you hold a balance in your PayPal account, your funds will be pooled with money from the PayPal Accounts of other customers and deposited by us with a licensed bank in Australia. This does not effect your rights to withdraw funds from your PayPal Account. We will hold your funds separate from our corporate funds and not use your funds for our operating expenses or any other corporate purposes.
So it looks like they aren't quite a bank, they just need to keep any deposits in a real bank, seperate from their corporate account.
From their product disclosure page: "PayPal is licensed by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority as an authorised deposit-taking institution authorised to provide purchased payment facilities." So yeah, they're whatever that means.
Aussie banks are extortionately profitable because they have been illegaly colluding for decades to monopolise the sector and marginalise any competition to the point they are scared of imaginary competition from two decidedly non-banks.
I'm not really pro or anti piracy, I think we have to move beyond somehow. One of the most powerful features of digital works is the ability to endlessly reproduce them for a minimal cost. Before this though, I was pirating VHS tapes and casettes as a kid and didn't really see it as harming anyone. I think I was wrong about that, but I'm not positive. I don't pirate anymore, as I've found plenty of sources that let me download legitimately more media than I could ever listen to or watch. I also still try-before-I-buy thanks to seeing youtube clips etc.
I think overall copying is positive as it allows a grand and rapid spread of art and culture at a pace never seen before. Finding a way to utilise that, like open source and creative commons do, while still adequately compensating artists would be my goal. I'd say I'm anti-piracy, but pro-copying.
Ignoring the legal quagmire, can I ask, did you ever purchase something you had already pirated? I only ask because I've never seen a negative response yet, indicating piracy increases sales.
The motion is a factor of windspeed, so a windspeed of 0 wound imply no motion. It's not free energy, just efficient use of the groundspeed/windspeed differential.
No problem, this is an issue where brains are twisted regularly. The against the wind cart can be seen on youtube and such, it's fairly basic really, but this brainfuck seems to allow faster than incoming wind by using the delta of windspeed and groundspeed, ok my brain just melted halfway and I have to stop.
I guessed you didn't RTFA but since this is slashdot that's ok:) Even totally ignoring the DDoS he still did serious damage and should be punished. You can't just run a botnet that harvets names, passwords and credit cards and expect to escape punishment.
Yes, you can easily attach a windmill to a cart and travel directly into the wind. Whether you can do this faster than the incoming wind, well my brain would melt trying to figure that one out.
It's not perpetual motion, it's just efficient use of the avaliable energy. I have a hard time explaining it though as does everyone I think. The trick is that the wheels drive the prop, which pulls the cart, which drives the wheels, not the other way around. A prop works just fine in a headwind, so going at or faster than downwind presents no problems.
Like every slashdot story about how oppresive Australia is, this will never pass the House let alone the Senate. Sure, they want an opressive Orwellian regieme but somehow our parliamentary system actually seems to work and put a stop to the idiocy before it gets close to becoming law.
AFAIK they can't vote for the president though unless they move to one of the 50 states. They get to vote for their local government and one non-voting seat in Congress.
The earth has been warming for around 9000 years. It is perfectly rational to dispute the claim that mankind is responsible for what is a natural trend. I accept mankind is responsible for emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. I accept this does have a warming effect.
I deny that current warming trends are primarily driven by this manmade component of our atmosphere. I deny that we are accelerating warming in any appreciable degree. I deny that there is any catastrophic tipping point we are supposed to be nearing. I deny a gradual warming of one degree per century, the IPCC predicted rise from manmade greenhouse emmissions sans the unknown feedbacks will harm mankind in any way we cannot quickly adapt to.
The only proof of catastrophic temperature and sea rise and ocean acidification and all the other components of the doomsday scenario are crude and faulty computer models which have failed every prediction they've made. Hurricanes are not increasing. Coral reefs are not dying. Pacific islands are growing, not sinking. Droughts and floods are not more extreme. Polar bears are thriving. The Artic icecaps have been growing these last few years, as temperatures are cooling despite ever increasing CO2 emissions. Every claim made is based on a hypothetical computer modelled planet, not the empirical evidence of how the world is today.
Can you proffer any evidence that a rise of one degree per century will have any adverse effects at all, and indeed not see a flourishing of life on the planet like every interglacial period experiences?
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If the government had never sold Telecom we would be up shit creek without a paddle. Telecom were complete bastards, until competition appeared we had one of the most expensive and least useful telecoms networks in the world. We still have problems with price, but usability is slowly getting better (no thanks to Telstra though). Optic to the hub or home is an unrealistic dream for a country this fucking big. Demand for high speed optic fibre cable is 20 years old and was met in small island countries like Japan, Taiwan and Maylasia but has stagnated in our country which is as large as the USA but with less than a tenth of the population.
We could implement now what the progressive countries had in the 90s or we could try to embrace the future by investing in the private sector, and especially wireless which looks to be reaching 120mbps on 4G. In other words, the fibre network will be outpaced before it even gets laid as mobile speeds exceed those of the fixed lines. 'Redundant before it gets made' is not the technology that Australia needs to sink 43 billion+ dollars into.
There's nothing much stopping say a Chinese firm reverse engineering the current iPhone and replicating it using existing technology. In fact there's never been much of anything stopping individuals from recreating any patent, that is one of the intentions of patents after all. Thinking this would be the death of patents is like saying downloads are the death of copyright. Sure, the technology disrupts things but the legal system always finds a way to screw us over.
What's stopping someone from pirating the iPhone in 2050? How's $1 million in fines per infringing copy sound? I'm sure the legal minds will think of something.
I admire that you think we'll escape the IP trap so easily, as if technology were the only obstacle. Perhaps it's you thinking too small though, if we have replicators that can replicate an iPhone we should be also able make a replicator, and pretty much anything else to boot. We would be transitioning to a post-scarcity society. Would IP matter in such a world?
I prefer profiteers to tyrants, but either way the NBN is absolutely stupid and is no excuse to impose a load of bureaucratic totalitarian bullshit on Australia. We finally are rid of our old telecoms monopoly and what does the government do? Start a new one! They project demand at 80% of households when nowhere near that level of demand is present in the trials, and the only growth in the sector is in wireless not fixed lines. They expect 15 years at 80% will pay off half the costs. Do you really think this will be state of the art in 15 years? The private sector is the only solution to coping with the rapid technological change. The NBN will be a joke, a great example as what not to do when developing technology infrastructure.
Really? Can you name a single one? It's like saying modelling clay or a lathe is the death of patents, I'm just not seeing it.
Yeah, I'd say that IP breaks the 'nothing new under the sun' rule, and I fully support people who remix works while violating copyright, but to simply reproduce and violate is a step too far. What we need is copyright that lasts for a reasonable period of not more than a few years, and by few I mean two or three at most, with liberal fair use and allowing remixes alongside parodies.
Going back to my adolescent VHS and casette pirating years, I believe the loss of quality justified fair use of the medium, but with digital there is no loss. I know the music cartels are corrupt.
I feel we're a while away from a market based instead of a black market solution but we are getting there slowly. I do know that in 100 years they will wonder why the hell we didn't immediately embrace infinite reproduction to its fullest from the start.
Spot on. The error here is in our knowledge of what's happening, our RNA is functioning as intended.
From further down it states:
... If you hold a balance in your PayPal account, your funds will be pooled with money from the PayPal Accounts of other customers and deposited by us with a licensed bank in Australia. This does not effect your rights to withdraw funds from your PayPal Account. We will hold your funds separate from our corporate funds and not use your funds for our operating expenses or any other corporate purposes.
So it looks like they aren't quite a bank, they just need to keep any deposits in a real bank, seperate from their corporate account.
From their product disclosure page: "PayPal is licensed by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority as an authorised deposit-taking institution authorised to provide purchased payment facilities." So yeah, they're whatever that means.
Aussie banks are extortionately profitable because they have been illegaly colluding for decades to monopolise the sector and marginalise any competition to the point they are scared of imaginary competition from two decidedly non-banks.
I'm not really pro or anti piracy, I think we have to move beyond somehow. One of the most powerful features of digital works is the ability to endlessly reproduce them for a minimal cost. Before this though, I was pirating VHS tapes and casettes as a kid and didn't really see it as harming anyone. I think I was wrong about that, but I'm not positive. I don't pirate anymore, as I've found plenty of sources that let me download legitimately more media than I could ever listen to or watch. I also still try-before-I-buy thanks to seeing youtube clips etc.
I think overall copying is positive as it allows a grand and rapid spread of art and culture at a pace never seen before. Finding a way to utilise that, like open source and creative commons do, while still adequately compensating artists would be my goal. I'd say I'm anti-piracy, but pro-copying.
Ignoring the legal quagmire, can I ask, did you ever purchase something you had already pirated? I only ask because I've never seen a negative response yet, indicating piracy increases sales.
The motion is a factor of windspeed, so a windspeed of 0 wound imply no motion. It's not free energy, just efficient use of the groundspeed/windspeed differential.
No, that is a unique problem with the USAs parliamentary system, and citizens damaging other citizens property is very different.
No problem, this is an issue where brains are twisted regularly. The against the wind cart can be seen on youtube and such, it's fairly basic really, but this brainfuck seems to allow faster than incoming wind by using the delta of windspeed and groundspeed, ok my brain just melted halfway and I have to stop.
I guessed you didn't RTFA but since this is slashdot that's ok :) Even totally ignoring the DDoS he still did serious damage and should be punished. You can't just run a botnet that harvets names, passwords and credit cards and expect to escape punishment.
The thing is they can clearly describe the mathematics, the problem is this doesn't make it any less counter-intuitive.
Yes, you can easily attach a windmill to a cart and travel directly into the wind. Whether you can do this faster than the incoming wind, well my brain would melt trying to figure that one out.
It's not perpetual motion, it's just efficient use of the avaliable energy. I have a hard time explaining it though as does everyone I think. The trick is that the wheels drive the prop, which pulls the cart, which drives the wheels, not the other way around. A prop works just fine in a headwind, so going at or faster than downwind presents no problems.
Factor in his botnet, harvesting credit card data etc. on top of the DDoS and I can see why 30 months was reached.
Civil disobedience is one thing, vandalism another. No-one should have the right to ddos another.
Like every slashdot story about how oppresive Australia is, this will never pass the House let alone the Senate. Sure, they want an opressive Orwellian regieme but somehow our parliamentary system actually seems to work and put a stop to the idiocy before it gets close to becoming law.
As an Australian, I have to differ. I prefer someone who's trying to push me advertising over someone who's out to take my liberty.
AFAIK they can't vote for the president though unless they move to one of the 50 states. They get to vote for their local government and one non-voting seat in Congress.
The earth has been warming for around 9000 years. It is perfectly rational to dispute the claim that mankind is responsible for what is a natural trend. I accept mankind is responsible for emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. I accept this does have a warming effect.
I deny that current warming trends are primarily driven by this manmade component of our atmosphere. I deny that we are accelerating warming in any appreciable degree. I deny that there is any catastrophic tipping point we are supposed to be nearing. I deny a gradual warming of one degree per century, the IPCC predicted rise from manmade greenhouse emmissions sans the unknown feedbacks will harm mankind in any way we cannot quickly adapt to.
The only proof of catastrophic temperature and sea rise and ocean acidification and all the other components of the doomsday scenario are crude and faulty computer models which have failed every prediction they've made. Hurricanes are not increasing. Coral reefs are not dying. Pacific islands are growing, not sinking. Droughts and floods are not more extreme. Polar bears are thriving. The Artic icecaps have been growing these last few years, as temperatures are cooling despite ever increasing CO2 emissions. Every claim made is based on a hypothetical computer modelled planet, not the empirical evidence of how the world is today.
Can you proffer any evidence that a rise of one degree per century will have any adverse effects at all, and indeed not see a flourishing of life on the planet like every interglacial period experiences?
Newsflash: The suspected pedophile rapist Assange's terrorist spy network has once again come under the scrutiny of our glorious leaders. While no direct threats were reported, there remains a high level of suspicion about this egotistaical selfish showoff who's only agenda is to hate our freedom. More at 11.