Grab Harmy's "Despecialized" versions, and if you must, watch in Machete Order - ie IV, V, II, III, VI. ie insert ep2-3 as a 'flashback' after Empire before moving on to Jedi. Forget the mess that is TPM, thus removing the cutesy Anakin and almost all of Jar Jar.
http://www.nomachetejuggling.c...
Didn't the US government already try to do this, like 2 decades or so ago?
Yep.
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List. Until approx 1997, ITAR classified strong cryptography as arms and prohibited their export from the U.S.
So welcome back to pre-97 Australia...
DeMaro & Lister looked at the impact of open plan vs closed offices on productivity waaay back in 1987 in the first edition of "Peopleware".
Alas senior management and the beancounters still seem to just look at the capital cost & seem to think partitions are cheaper. I guess they are when the company decides to downsize the cubes to squeeze more sheep into the farm.
This way the filter can be ultra-mega-super agressive, and we'll still get the speeds we currently have! Assuming there is anything left we can actually access.
There is another possible slant to this announcement - perhaps Conroy is intentionally trying to sink the scheme by showing how hard the control of P2P traffic will be. The media coverage and public feedback is impossible for him to ignore - indeed we know he's not ignoring it due to the blog set up, etc, and Conroy is very selective in when he chooses to answer questions regarding this.
The government now knows how unpopular this idea is, but still has top "play the game" of placating the supporters of the scheme. By extending the live trial to cover P2P traffic as well, they can get even more damning results of how ineffectual and obrtusive the filtering will be, and so will be able to throw the scheme out with a "well, we tried..."
Yes, I know I'm probably completely delusional...;-)
The IWF are the net nanny for the UK and EU. What gives them the right to 'censor by edit'? Their view of what is illegal is being imposed globally, which to my mind is an act of vandalism. Just because they don't approve doesn't mean every county does. If every county was to follow the IWFs lead, I suspect there wouldn't be too much content left on the net...
I have never heard of a plan that does not count both uploads and downloads. Is there a specific example of a plan that excludes uploads?
Most (all?) of Internode's plans are a good example - http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/isp-9-1/internode-home-adsl.htm - there may be some caveats to that, but for the most part I understand there is no limit, which is great for the P2P fans - no need to worry about being shaped due to uploading too much.
This download quota system is standard practice in Australia. They typically fall into 2 categories - fixed monthly cost (when the quota is reached, your speed is throttled back to dial-up) and uncapped (charged $X for downloads exceeding the quota).
Many plans also count traffic in both directions toward your quota, so the uploads generated by P2P software can result in a significant reduction in your download traffic.
The uncapped charges can be EXTREMELY nasty - for example the Telstra BigPond plans charge (http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/isp-1/telstra-bigpond.htm) 150 per Gigabyte after exceeding a quote of 200 Meg. So $1 per Gigabyte after a quota of 250 Gig doesn't sounds all that bad!
Society today has a minority of very vocal wowser extremists. Either to shut them up or because they are in influential positions, the governments do what these individuals/minorities want rather than what the general population wants.
This mass internet filtering amounts to putting the entire country into jail for the crimes of a few - and as others have noted, it son't stop anything. All it'll do is give the wowser extermists & pollies a warm fuzzy feeling for a very short time until they realise it didn't work - then they'll try and tighten the screws even harder.
If the needle was made of vinyl & the discs diamond, no-one would be able to afford a single disc! The needle wouldn't last very long either.
The discs would sure look pretty though!
Bradbury wrote some wonderful short stories, many of which should be freely available from the local library.
Short stories can make a great introduction to different authors, and many of those mentioned in other responses have short stories - either a few (usually found in collections with other authors), or a lot (e.g. Asimov's 'Robot' stories, Bradbury, etc).
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Grab Harmy's "Despecialized" versions, and if you must, watch in Machete Order - ie IV, V, II, III, VI. ie insert ep2-3 as a 'flashback' after Empire before moving on to Jedi. Forget the mess that is TPM, thus removing the cutesy Anakin and almost all of Jar Jar. http://www.nomachetejuggling.c...
Didn't the US government already try to do this, like 2 decades or so ago?
Yep. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) control the export and import of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List. Until approx 1997, ITAR classified strong cryptography as arms and prohibited their export from the U.S. So welcome back to pre-97 Australia...
DeMaro & Lister looked at the impact of open plan vs closed offices on productivity waaay back in 1987 in the first edition of "Peopleware". Alas senior management and the beancounters still seem to just look at the capital cost & seem to think partitions are cheaper. I guess they are when the company decides to downsize the cubes to squeeze more sheep into the farm.
If the line sounds a bit scratchy, it's just the cat wanting to be let out.
Disturbingly, she sounds a lot like Kath Day-Knight... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kath_Day-Knight
Just so long as she doesn't talk. What is it with that awful, awful, awful accent?
This way the filter can be ultra-mega-super agressive, and we'll still get the speeds we currently have! Assuming there is anything left we can actually access.
They will encrypt their thesis with it. If ever decrypted, their doctorates will be revoked!
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There is another possible slant to this announcement - perhaps Conroy is intentionally trying to sink the scheme by showing how hard the control of P2P traffic will be. The media coverage and public feedback is impossible for him to ignore - indeed we know he's not ignoring it due to the blog set up, etc, and Conroy is very selective in when he chooses to answer questions regarding this.
The government now knows how unpopular this idea is, but still has top "play the game" of placating the supporters of the scheme. By extending the live trial to cover P2P traffic as well, they can get even more damning results of how ineffectual and obrtusive the filtering will be, and so will be able to throw the scheme out with a "well, we tried..."
Yes, I know I'm probably completely delusional... ;-)
The IWF are the net nanny for the UK and EU. What gives them the right to 'censor by edit'? Their view of what is illegal is being imposed globally, which to my mind is an act of vandalism. Just because they don't approve doesn't mean every county does. If every county was to follow the IWFs lead, I suspect there wouldn't be too much content left on the net...
I have never heard of a plan that does not count both uploads and downloads. Is there a specific example of a plan that excludes uploads?
Most (all?) of Internode's plans are a good example - http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/isp-9-1/internode-home-adsl.htm - there may be some caveats to that, but for the most part I understand there is no limit, which is great for the P2P fans - no need to worry about being shaped due to uploading too much.
This download quota system is standard practice in Australia. They typically fall into 2 categories - fixed monthly cost (when the quota is reached, your speed is throttled back to dial-up) and uncapped (charged $X for downloads exceeding the quota).
Many plans also count traffic in both directions toward your quota, so the uploads generated by P2P software can result in a significant reduction in your download traffic.
The uncapped charges can be EXTREMELY nasty - for example the Telstra BigPond plans charge (http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/isp-1/telstra-bigpond.htm) 150 per Gigabyte after exceeding a quote of 200 Meg. So $1 per Gigabyte after a quota of 250 Gig doesn't sounds all that bad!
Society today has a minority of very vocal wowser extremists. Either to shut them up or because they are in influential positions, the governments do what these individuals/minorities want rather than what the general population wants. This mass internet filtering amounts to putting the entire country into jail for the crimes of a few - and as others have noted, it son't stop anything. All it'll do is give the wowser extermists & pollies a warm fuzzy feeling for a very short time until they realise it didn't work - then they'll try and tighten the screws even harder.
If the needle was made of vinyl & the discs diamond, no-one would be able to afford a single disc! The needle wouldn't last very long either. The discs would sure look pretty though!
Bradbury wrote some wonderful short stories, many of which should be freely available from the local library. Short stories can make a great introduction to different authors, and many of those mentioned in other responses have short stories - either a few (usually found in collections with other authors), or a lot (e.g. Asimov's 'Robot' stories, Bradbury, etc).