MS Exec: Oh shit, our name is being dragged through the mud big time and we didn't really lift a finger to stop it happening. This is bad. This is costing us more money in lost reputation than it would cost us just to give everyone a license. Joe, get right on it! Joe: Yessir! Free copies coming right out. MS Exec: Also, can we put a spin on this to say that we are supporting victims, journalists and fighting organized crime and extortion? Joe: Sure thing boss. Spin is being added now! MS Exec: Righto, that's the morning done for me, time for a coffee. Hmmm, Joe, how can we squeeze some more money out of people? Joe: Well, with all that free time now, perhaps we can set the lawyers on the EU again? What about we put Google through another adwords privacy scandal? Maybe we just give them a week off and feed them some more children, you know it's been almost a whole month since they last tasted child flesh... MS Exec: Make it happen Joe. You will go a long way here someday...
And you probably don't know this, but technically it wasn't the Australian people that voted for this government. It was the cross-benchers. So don't tell us what we can or can't complain about.
I actually think that a lot of the choice was made for the cross benchers by the voting that happened in the senate. No-one holding a balance of power would really want to join a lower house government knowing that everything can be blocked by the upper house anyway.
This whole election outcome is a massive lose-lose scenario for Australia. A half decent majority by EITHER of the main parties would have been a better outcome. They would have at least had the opportunity to try a few ideas out. Would all have been good? No, of course not, but the way things stand, any even slightly "out there" legislation or initiatives have no chance of getting introduced or will be so watered down to appease the masses that they are doomed for failure.
We should have declared it hung and gone back for round two. Preferably with new candidates. I have never seen an election where EVERY campaign focused on "Don't vote for the other guy...". Seriously, whatever happened to "Vote for me because.[insert topics here]..."
They are, and I really wonder if Hollywood (FTFA: "As for Hollywood films, he said they, too, used his services.") wants to really be poking ANOTHER stick into the hornets nest that the internet can be.
The way I see if, for every hundred thousand cookie cutter P2P users, there will be one who is savvy enough, annoyed enough and has the resources to return in kind to Hollywood. And there will be people like me, who don't fit in either bracket, but would certainly offer both refuge to that one person and buy them drinks for their efforts.
a woman who continually pauses, buffers, and freezes as she is talking to you......damn, that actually sounds pretty awesome!
Pretty awesome?! I can think of a couple of situations where that certainly isn't the best idea...
Oh yeah, keep going!...
*pauses*
Don't stop... That's the one...
*buffering*
What?! No, keep going! Don't stop now! Now NOW!
*blue screen*
Fine. I'll just go have a wank...
Given that the only way we could see this amazing sight is it to be "flat" to us in our line of sight, if it was side on we would never see this in the glory that is there to be seen.
Makes me wonder the same thing about all the planet hunters and exo-planets that we are finding - how many more would we be able to find if it didn't rely on having just the right angle from our vantage point...
Why is it that we here at/. are frothing at the mouth when companies use false DMCAtakedownnotices but apparently have no such anger directed at other companies using false patent information, we even defend them because of the "evil lawyers"?.
Hypocrisy. You can't have your cake and eat it with this argument.
They should simply pay $250 one time. Quickly you would see these "well intentioned" lawyers disappear.
That sort of fine means nothing to someone who makes MILLIONS of packages for their products and it may well lead to then knowingly using old patent information to both ward off other potential competitors - and in the worst case, pay a one off $250 fine. The whole concept of the $250 PER OFFENCE (meaning per item showing the false patent information) was to ensure that once it expired, you did no longer actually use it - opening the avenue for competition.
These "well intentioned" lawyers as you so callously put it are in fact doing what the patent offices/government should be doing to encourage diverse competition.
To land on an asteroid, using technology remotely related to what we have now, it's going to have to match the velocity of the asteroid. Doing that negates any energy savings gained by the technique.
Please do correct me if I am wrong, but if you have an asteroid on an elliptic orbit that obviously goes quicker near the sun then slows down as it reaches the other end of the orbit, wouldn't simply matching the speed on the inner bend attaching onto it, and letting IT do the slowing down in the outer band of it's orbit be much less work for thrusters than getting all the way out there then slowing down enough to no longer be whizzing? Wouldn't the mass of the asteroid itself act as a much better (read fuel efficient) brake than firing up the thrusters again to slow down?
Sorry, it has been years since I did any meaningful physics and even then, it wasn't that exceptionally meaningful.
What do they expect? I expect from teachers to be teaching the ability to learn. No matter how touchy this subject is for some people, this isn't something that should be punished. Hell, read the wikileaks of the CIA message today... They are doing the exact same thing!
Yes, but the CIA pretend they don't do that sort of stuff. Given how stupid and paranoid most people are, I can see how they want to crucify the teacher. I wouldn't have an issue with that sort of lesson, but at the same time, it might not be overly appropriate. The teacher was a year 10 teacher (that means the students are around 15) and thinking about it, that allows kids to watch just about any movie or play any game released in Australia. I don't see how it is a gross stepping over a "maturity level" line in the sand.
Especially given some of the recent curriculum around how early Australians treated indigenous Aboriginals and the content taught there, this isn't out of line with expected maturity levels of our children. If they are old enough to be expected to understand that, I fail to see how an assignment like this is stepping over a line to ensure that they have actually understood their classes.
FTFA: "There is a difference between being a terrorist and learning about terrorism." - quote from Student in the class who got this assignment.
To me, that simply means that all her class work went in one ear and out the other. Total head buried in the sand mentality if you ask me.
FTFA: "Brian Deegan, whose son, Josh, was killed in the 2002 Bali bombings, said the reality of terror plots at home in Australia is exactly why students should learn about terrorism in school. He said the teacher could have been on to a good idea if the end result of her lesson was to extract feelings of regret and sympathy for the victims of their fictional massacre."
Couldn't agree more with this guy. It's good to see that at least some of us Aussies still have common sense and are able to get past all the media frenzy that anything to do with words like "terrorism" or "war on [insert topic]" seem to stir up.
Aren't there better articles that aren't written by a litigious, unfunny cocksmack who fags up the comics world...
Apparently not. I found it quite humorous. It's nice to see some insight into a process like this from someone with a sense of humor and the ability to laugh at things that make him angry.
Now, go get a nice cup of cocoa, take off those grumpy pants and have a nap. Looks like someone needs a little downtime.
I hope that an easy text will be developed from this in the next few years. I couldn't imagine walking into a haze of Alzheimer's without knowing about it. This is one of those tests that I will ABSOLUTELY not be missing once I book it in.
Makes me wonder if Google got the same take down notice??
No, it probably went like this:
Namco: I am big company! Hear me RAWR! Google: I eat companies like you for breakfast. HEAR ME RAWR!! Namco: *whimpers* Google: Yeah, that's right. Back away slowly little one, else Imma buy you and get EVIL on your ass.
Okay, so it was probably done with more legal talk and less Rawrs, but that would have been the idea - or close to it.
I had to get up my ass and go get pizza. I asked my friends what they wanted. Adam said he wanted a delicious Pepperoni pizza. Jim said he wanted a Hawaiian pan pizza. I tried to remember their choices and took my bike. On the way over to the restaurant I tried to think what I want. Supreme pizza, double-cheese or maybe double bacon cheeseburger pizza?
So, PizzaAnalogyGuy, there seems to have been a little bit of a mix-up. This story wasn't supposed to get published till Christmas and your dream story ended up on/.
Between me and you, don't be expecting anything big under the tree in a few months. You can however, cherish this story, and the fact that you got first post on it.
If one can send seed ships to populate, one can send seed ships to devastate.
Better yet, send three sets of ships.
1) Devastation ships. Wipe them scum off the face of the planet/rock/thing they are on.
2) Colonization ships. Now that you have a lovely empty rock, populate it with your own.
3) Cargo ships. Your colony better have goodies waiting to be picked up by your ships and taken home. If not, return to step 1 and repeat.
And also your 40th waste of time - and in this case, 40th fail. Seriously, if you want to get first posts, log in, become a subscriber (they get to see the news stories about 10-30 minutes before everyone else) and you can post first to your hearts content.
You will get first posts, and as you subscribe, you get to also support the site the rest of us like to visit and read rather than waste time on squealing "first post... blah blah...". It's a win win scenario.
Wow! Does that mean you can use your toes for input as well as your fingers?
How about two people using a screen at the same time when talking about something on the screen. Both are turning objects that are being rendered, to view different angles and the like.
Seems that 20 inputs for a 22 inch screen is the most fingers that would be able to realistically get to it... Any more than two people huddling around the same screen would mean it needs to be significantly bigger in size than 22 inches.
Shouldn't a project funded by federal grants not be eligible to sell their findings but be required to provide them freely to the public? Seems a little wrong to me.
Why can't the Australian government make an investment?
Besides, should things developed with Australian taxpayer money be free to anyone to use? What about things developed with UK funds? Or US funds? I wouldn't at all be surprised if they did provide this information for free if an Australian satellite was about to be hit.
Just call the RIAA and tell them that IP downloaded a song. They seem to be able to do all the John Doe stuff through the courts to find out who it was...
What a funny turned upside down world. The first world nations are striving to work against the people, and the not so first world nations have this crazy idea to work for their people.
The use of a standardised block page notification, which will allow ISPs to notify users that the content that have requested has been blocked, and how to see a review of the block
This I can live with. It basically says: Yes, the site you wanted exists, but it's on a no-no list, so you can't see it. This is why (link to review of site). Don't agree with the review? Complain.
That seems to be somewhat more "filtering I can live with" even as a pretty outspoken libertarian:)
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The general story could be summed up with this:
MS Exec: Oh shit, our name is being dragged through the mud big time and we didn't really lift a finger to stop it happening. This is bad. This is costing us more money in lost reputation than it would cost us just to give everyone a license. Joe, get right on it!
Joe: Yessir! Free copies coming right out.
MS Exec: Also, can we put a spin on this to say that we are supporting victims, journalists and fighting organized crime and extortion?
Joe: Sure thing boss. Spin is being added now!
MS Exec: Righto, that's the morning done for me, time for a coffee. Hmmm, Joe, how can we squeeze some more money out of people?
Joe: Well, with all that free time now, perhaps we can set the lawyers on the EU again? What about we put Google through another adwords privacy scandal? Maybe we just give them a week off and feed them some more children, you know it's been almost a whole month since they last tasted child flesh...
MS Exec: Make it happen Joe. You will go a long way here someday...
And you probably don't know this, but technically it wasn't the Australian people that voted for this government. It was the cross-benchers. So don't tell us what we can or can't complain about.
I actually think that a lot of the choice was made for the cross benchers by the voting that happened in the senate. No-one holding a balance of power would really want to join a lower house government knowing that everything can be blocked by the upper house anyway.
This whole election outcome is a massive lose-lose scenario for Australia. A half decent majority by EITHER of the main parties would have been a better outcome. They would have at least had the opportunity to try a few ideas out. Would all have been good? No, of course not, but the way things stand, any even slightly "out there" legislation or initiatives have no chance of getting introduced or will be so watered down to appease the masses that they are doomed for failure.
We should have declared it hung and gone back for round two. Preferably with new candidates. I have never seen an election where EVERY campaign focused on "Don't vote for the other guy...". Seriously, whatever happened to "Vote for me because.[insert topics here]..."
Aren't DoS attacks illegal? If so, why not?
They are, and I really wonder if Hollywood (FTFA: "As for Hollywood films, he said they, too, used his services.") wants to really be poking ANOTHER stick into the hornets nest that the internet can be.
The way I see if, for every hundred thousand cookie cutter P2P users, there will be one who is savvy enough, annoyed enough and has the resources to return in kind to Hollywood. And there will be people like me, who don't fit in either bracket, but would certainly offer both refuge to that one person and buy them drinks for their efforts.
a woman who continually pauses, buffers, and freezes as she is talking to you... ...damn, that actually sounds pretty awesome!
Pretty awesome?! I can think of a couple of situations where that certainly isn't the best idea...
Oh yeah, keep going!...
*pauses*
Don't stop... That's the one...
*buffering*
What?! No, keep going! Don't stop now! Now NOW!
*blue screen*
Fine. I'll just go have a wank...
Given that the only way we could see this amazing sight is it to be "flat" to us in our line of sight, if it was side on we would never see this in the glory that is there to be seen.
Makes me wonder the same thing about all the planet hunters and exo-planets that we are finding - how many more would we be able to find if it didn't rely on having just the right angle from our vantage point...
so, hunt down big companies willing to spend money advertising that they're sponsors of Chrome Bug-hunt.
Otherwise, you won't have that kind of money just waiting to be spent for every little null pointer dereference fix.
Lets get that massive super multi billion dollar every-national company GOOGLE to sponsor the Chrome Bug-Hunt. Wait... what?
Actually the Americans and Brits find us quite refreshing compared to their own governments. :p
That's certainly one of the reasons this brit moved here.
That, and we use swear words in our international publicity campaigns.
Stop making up scenarios that make no sense.
I am making a simplistic scenario.
/. are frothing at the mouth when companies use false DMCA takedown notices but apparently have no such anger directed at other companies using false patent information, we even defend them because of the "evil lawyers"?.
Why is it that we here at
Hypocrisy. You can't have your cake and eat it with this argument.
They should simply pay $250 one time. Quickly you would see these "well intentioned" lawyers disappear.
That sort of fine means nothing to someone who makes MILLIONS of packages for their products and it may well lead to then knowingly using old patent information to both ward off other potential competitors - and in the worst case, pay a one off $250 fine. The whole concept of the $250 PER OFFENCE (meaning per item showing the false patent information) was to ensure that once it expired, you did no longer actually use it - opening the avenue for competition.
These "well intentioned" lawyers as you so callously put it are in fact doing what the patent offices/government should be doing to encourage diverse competition.
To land on an asteroid, using technology remotely related to what we have now, it's going to have to match the velocity of the asteroid. Doing that negates any energy savings gained by the technique.
Please do correct me if I am wrong, but if you have an asteroid on an elliptic orbit that obviously goes quicker near the sun then slows down as it reaches the other end of the orbit, wouldn't simply matching the speed on the inner bend attaching onto it, and letting IT do the slowing down in the outer band of it's orbit be much less work for thrusters than getting all the way out there then slowing down enough to no longer be whizzing? Wouldn't the mass of the asteroid itself act as a much better (read fuel efficient) brake than firing up the thrusters again to slow down?
Sorry, it has been years since I did any meaningful physics and even then, it wasn't that exceptionally meaningful.
What do they expect? I expect from teachers to be teaching the ability to learn. No matter how touchy this subject is for some people, this isn't something that should be punished. Hell, read the wikileaks of the CIA message today... They are doing the exact same thing!
Yes, but the CIA pretend they don't do that sort of stuff. Given how stupid and paranoid most people are, I can see how they want to crucify the teacher. I wouldn't have an issue with that sort of lesson, but at the same time, it might not be overly appropriate. The teacher was a year 10 teacher (that means the students are around 15) and thinking about it, that allows kids to watch just about any movie or play any game released in Australia. I don't see how it is a gross stepping over a "maturity level" line in the sand.
Especially given some of the recent curriculum around how early Australians treated indigenous Aboriginals and the content taught there, this isn't out of line with expected maturity levels of our children. If they are old enough to be expected to understand that, I fail to see how an assignment like this is stepping over a line to ensure that they have actually understood their classes.
FTFA: "There is a difference between being a terrorist and learning about terrorism." - quote from Student in the class who got this assignment.
To me, that simply means that all her class work went in one ear and out the other. Total head buried in the sand mentality if you ask me.
FTFA: "Brian Deegan, whose son, Josh, was killed in the 2002 Bali bombings, said the reality of terror plots at home in Australia is exactly why students should learn about terrorism in school. He said the teacher could have been on to a good idea if the end result of her lesson was to extract feelings of regret and sympathy for the victims of their fictional massacre."
Couldn't agree more with this guy. It's good to see that at least some of us Aussies still have common sense and are able to get past all the media frenzy that anything to do with words like "terrorism" or "war on [insert topic]" seem to stir up.
Aren't there better articles that aren't written by a litigious, unfunny cocksmack who fags up the comics world...
Apparently not. I found it quite humorous. It's nice to see some insight into a process like this from someone with a sense of humor and the ability to laugh at things that make him angry.
Now, go get a nice cup of cocoa, take off those grumpy pants and have a nap. Looks like someone needs a little downtime.
I hope that an easy text will be developed from this in the next few years. I couldn't imagine walking into a haze of Alzheimer's without knowing about it. This is one of those tests that I will ABSOLUTELY not be missing once I book it in.
Makes me wonder if Google got the same take down notice??
No, it probably went like this:
Namco: I am big company! Hear me RAWR!
Google: I eat companies like you for breakfast. HEAR ME RAWR!!
Namco: *whimpers*
Google: Yeah, that's right. Back away slowly little one, else Imma buy you and get EVIL on your ass.
Okay, so it was probably done with more legal talk and less Rawrs, but that would have been the idea - or close to it.
I had to get up my ass and go get pizza. I asked my friends what they wanted. Adam said he wanted a delicious Pepperoni pizza. Jim said he wanted a Hawaiian pan pizza. I tried to remember their choices and took my bike. On the way over to the restaurant I tried to think what I want. Supreme pizza, double-cheese or maybe double bacon cheeseburger pizza?
So, PizzaAnalogyGuy, there seems to have been a little bit of a mix-up. This story wasn't supposed to get published till Christmas and your dream story ended up on /.
Between me and you, don't be expecting anything big under the tree in a few months. You can however, cherish this story, and the fact that you got first post on it.
*sips coffee*
If one can send seed ships to populate, one can send seed ships to devastate.
Better yet, send three sets of ships.
1) Devastation ships. Wipe them scum off the face of the planet/rock/thing they are on.
2) Colonization ships. Now that you have a lovely empty rock, populate it with your own.
3) Cargo ships. Your colony better have goodies waiting to be picked up by your ships and taken home. If not, return to step 1 and repeat.
I so totally didn't see this story coming this morning...
this is my 40th first post.
And also your 40th waste of time - and in this case, 40th fail. Seriously, if you want to get first posts, log in, become a subscriber (they get to see the news stories about 10-30 minutes before everyone else) and you can post first to your hearts content.
You will get first posts, and as you subscribe, you get to also support the site the rest of us like to visit and read rather than waste time on squealing "first post... blah blah...". It's a win win scenario.
Wow! Does that mean you can use your toes for input as well as your fingers?
How about two people using a screen at the same time when talking about something on the screen. Both are turning objects that are being rendered, to view different angles and the like.
Seems that 20 inputs for a 22 inch screen is the most fingers that would be able to realistically get to it... Any more than two people huddling around the same screen would mean it needs to be significantly bigger in size than 22 inches.
Shouldn't a project funded by federal grants not be eligible to sell their findings but be required to provide them freely to the public? Seems a little wrong to me.
Why can't the Australian government make an investment?
Besides, should things developed with Australian taxpayer money be free to anyone to use? What about things developed with UK funds? Or US funds? I wouldn't at all be surprised if they did provide this information for free if an Australian satellite was about to be hit.
University cops do the bidding of the school...
Just call the RIAA and tell them that IP downloaded a song. They seem to be able to do all the John Doe stuff through the courts to find out who it was...
Because I can't go anywhere without Fluffy...
Okay, do I know you?...
*sips coffee*
Copyright laws work for the good of the people
What a funny turned upside down world. The first world nations are striving to work against the people, and the not so first world nations have this crazy idea to work for their people.
*sips coffee*
The use of a standardised block page notification, which will allow ISPs to notify users that the content that have requested has been blocked, and how to see a review of the block
This I can live with. It basically says:
:)
Yes, the site you wanted exists, but it's on a no-no list, so you can't see it. This is why (link to review of site). Don't agree with the review? Complain.
That seems to be somewhat more "filtering I can live with" even as a pretty outspoken libertarian
Neither am I and I, like you, find the number of identical sounding words that are spelled differently really annoying.