Brendan McNamara expects his employees to work as long as him. Was he paying them as much as he made out of this? Doubt it.
Even if the International Game Developers Association is investigating can they do anything? Doubt it too. Gaming is like Fashion modeling and competition is fierce for jobs. He'll find another batch of programmers eager to take his abuse for a shot at doing what they love, or at least think they will love. Best solution for an A$$hole boss is to quit.
By my calculation Conroy just spent $521 on behalf of each man, woman and child in Australia ($11.8B / 22,643,653 people) to buy an aging copper network run by Telstra: a privatised monopoly phone company with a crappy record for innovation, value or customer service. In exchange for this I get to pay almost exactly what I currently do for the same Internet service I already do through a new monopoly. If I am unlucky, it will be even slower. What is the point of this? Telstra must be laughing their asses off.
By law I can't even buy my internet service direct from the new monopoly. I must go through a "provider" who will add a 100% markup. And for what? What a complete waste of money.
"We've all seen it happen on TV a zillion times. But when a police officer recited to me those well-rehearsed words – 'you have the right to remain silent ' – I felt sick in the stomach."
The Policeman who confiscated Grubb's iPad was Detective Superintendent Errol Coultis. "When I questioned under what legislation they had the right to seize my iPad, Coultis told me I was under arrest in relation to receiving unlawfully obtained property." Head of the Queensland police fraud squad, Brian Hay said accessing a photo without permission was the same as stealing a TV.
Amusingly the "Queensland Police Media Service" are into twitter damage control: "Police can legally seize material which may be evidence of a crime. It will be returned as soon as we can do so."
Grubb said "I was told that forensics officers were going to make a complete copy of the information on my iPad, whether it related to this matter or not."
An absolutely disgraceful peformance by the Queensland Police involved.
Really! A decent beginners guitar will set you back $50, a violin $120 or a keyboard $200. Yes, you can pay more for better, but if you are learning or just jamming for fun there is really no need. There are plenty of instructional DVDs, Youtube clips, web advice, books and CDs for learners. Lots of people play so It's also a great way to meet people, whatever your style.
You don't need a game to do this! It's called Real Life and it's a lot more fun.
Once you've finished curing cancer, then you can tease the paramecium.
They're cute little creatures. Run around on the microscope slide like an over-eager dog. Why would anyone want to torture one for a game?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium
OP is assuming that people will care what you have to say. Blogs, facebook and twitter are full of light rubbish. It would only be of interest if you were a famous person. How much effort have you put into finding out about your Great Grandfathers political views? Have you even asked? Even if this stuff was available, people who use social media. You can't 'friend' a dead person. Even worse, they can't 'friend' you.
You can already leave written memoirs at the moment. The good thing about those is people who write them generally have something to say.
I'm in the same boat as you and feel the same way. I've paid enough for these movies many times. AFAIAC I already legally own them. My suggestion to everyone is that they download the Bluray versions off the net and when the feds knock on your door call the ACLU and EFF and tell the authorities you already legally own the film. No jury would convict, and I reckon the MPAA wouldn't like to make this a test case for fear of setting a precedent.
That's right. There's a 1:1 correlation that Girls with big boobs have a big amygdala. Tall guys with high cheekbones and a chin you could trip over also have a big amygdala. I'm glad science has finally proved this.
We're entitled to free speech, but increasingly the world is under the control of companies we can't function without.
Recently we saw Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and an opportunistic Swiss bank all take advantage of Wikileaks plight to either seize their funds and/or stop them receiving any more funds.
Now here's eBay stopping people from engaging in perfectly legitimate trade. Satire is Free speech, you know. But who has the money to appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court. Only the very wealthy can afford justice.
With the big end of town merging and competition shrinking I can see the day where you just have a few players (as happened with credit cards) where you can be turned into an unperson just because a handful of big companies decide they don't want to do business with you.
Don't expect Congress to defend your rights. As we saw in with their Copyright Extension Act (the "Mikey Mouse Act") they always rush to codify the wishes of their biggest donors. Don't expect the courts either. The Supreme Court decided recently that companies can pour as much cash as they like into election campaigns. Roberts & co. aren't going to defend our rights.
500+ comments in this so I know my little post here will be lost, but what the heck...
Wikipedia is pretty awesome. For many things it's the cleanest way to find facts and get useful links.
But I agree with you on the source taste left by contributing. I used to contribute, but I just got so sick of having my changes reverted. I remember one article camped on by a tin goddess who reverted my changes which were just a few sentences, useful, relevant and sourced. She reverted it. I reverted it back. She threatened to report me for vandalism. I tried talking but she was haughty and nasty. She wasn't too hard to find her elsewhere on the web; I think she had "issues;" An empty social life she countered by pretending to be someone big and important on the web. Well I gave up. I've had similar experiences. There's only one article I've managed to contribute to successfully. It was a lot of work, and at the end of the day I decided all the grief and hassle wasn't worth it. I still use Wiki, but I can't be bothered contributing. Why waste an evening to make a contribution which some tin god can turn around and revert? (I used to contribute to Bruce Schneier's blog but stopped after I found he was deleting what he saw as controversial posts without telling the authors. Was half an hour on a well thought out post only to have it disappear. Why bother? I didn't harbor ill-will against Bruce but at the same time I found I drifted away from his community too.)
For donations there are more deserving charities and I don't really know that my buck to Wikifoundation will go where it's needed or into some hanger on's dinner. But certainly the above tribalism from wikicampers turned me away from developing closer links with the so-called Wikipedia community.
So there you go: If you don't listen to people, they will still turn up to the free beer nights, but don't expect them to support your wider agenda.
But Jimmy's banner ad is awesome. Such a warm friendly face. That's a face you could trust with your newborn. Lovely work.The photographer who came up with that deserves a prize.
Sounds good, but what OP left out is that it is Daniel Domschelt-Berg leading the breakaway on the ground his ego couldn't fit in the same room as Assange's. Now while Assange is doing time for what we suspect are trumped up charges with the US Attorney General willing to make up laws to shut him up, at the same time Domschelt-Berg is publishing a book called Inside WikiLeaks: My Time at the World's Most Dangerous Website and distracting attention from the cables. Which man would you trust with your leak?
Don't these so-called scientists have better things to do with their time? It's a parlor trick and looking at their lists of uses they're struggling to find excuses for it. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. But if their goal was to get their names in the paper which will help with their next research grant, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Hello. Aussie here. That these lazy bums are wasting our taxdollars to surf the net doesn't really surprise me. The federal public service in Australia is a huge drain on the taxpayer. The federal government delivers very little to Australia. Most of the services are delivered by the states (paid via a consumption tax) and city councils (paid by rates); health, education, infrastructure.
The federal government really delivers bugger all to the average Australian. They collect taxes through a very nasty federal tax office, blow billions on defence Defence so we can get involved in wars that have nothing to do with us, and the rest is pork barreled out at election time.
But both the Labor and Liberal Party are pro-big government which is why Canberra - the federal capital - is experiencing a huge spurt in growth as these departments bloat up, all paid for by our taxes. The federal public service has a reputation for sloth and corruption, and promotions and hires (supposedly by independent panels) is really based on where your mates or your dad's mates work.
> The US State Department has started to warn potential recruits from universities not to read leaked cables, lest it jeopardize their chances of getting a job.
When they learn what a bunch of dictatorial thugs you guys are and decide to work elsewhere? We're supposed to live in an open democracy, you creeps! They're now telling citizens what news they're not allowed to read.
> They're also showing warnings to troops who access news websites
It's okay to die for us, but you're not entitled to know why.
That sounds plausible and I'm sure this software is already on the way. Someone said if drugs were banned people would run in circles on the front lawn until they fell over; "people want to get high." Humans are animals and spend a lot of time catering to animal instincts.
And so now that Open Government has well and truly arrived our leaders are busy trying to shut it down. Well the public have had no privacy for a long time. Now politicians and bureaucrats are getting a taste of their own medicine.
The moral is don't say or do anything unless you wouldn't mind the entire world knowing. That means you too, Hillary!
When Scott McNeally of SUN told the public "You have no privacy, get over it!" our politicians didn't give a damn. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the public not to do anything they wouldn't like the world to know, politicians were similarly uninterested.
Well now the shoe is on the other foot. The dirty deeds of the US and UK governments come to life, and all of a sudden they care about privacy... *their* privacy... not ours.
Screw them. We're the public. We pay for the government. We're entitled to know what it's up to. More often than not 'National Security' is just a smokescreen for covering up incompetence and law breaking by government fat cats and politicians.
We see this on Slashdot all the time. Basement dweller eventually gets some mod points, fails to understand what being a mod is about, then mods down anything they don't agree with.
There's no way on slashdot to appeal this. In theory metamodding would catch it but I've tried it and it's boring (you don't know the context) and incredibly inefficient (because most mods are fine). It would be far better if you could flag a bad mod on a post and have *that* reviewed.
Thanks to OP, not long. I really don't see the need to publicise underground information like this given they know it will lead to it being shutdown. OP is basically daring the Chinese authorities to do just that. And so I award him the Jeff Young Award for Stupidity on Slashdot.
Yes; Demonstrating Stupidity ahead of his time, jryoung@gmail.com posted this story telling all any sundry where you could get free textbooks on the net. Within days of his post the site was shutdown. What exactly did he think would happen? Cookies and Candy and a Party in the Street? http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/01/1838205http://www.jeffyoung.net/
Sadly in this case the price isn't textbooks but a peoples' freedom. Well done, Sir!
Aussie PM Julia Gillard is Kevin Rudd's successor. She supports the filter, but put plans on hold for the election. Now the election is over and she's back, complete with a reappointed Stephen Conroy as Minister for Communications.
Gillard really should have lost the election, but the right-wing opposition party was lead by Tony Abbott; a pro-business anti-worker fundamentalist misogynist racist buffoon firmly in the pockets of big business and the tobacco industry, but an economic ignorance that was laughable. Every time Abbott opened his mouth he drove voters away. Like Palin in America, when a right-wing party is out of office they get captured by the crazies and swing further to the right thinking that will win them more voters. Of course it doesn't, and Abbott lost.
And so Gillard won by default... and now the filter is back. You would think the opposition would kick out Abbott and put in someone more centrist, but they refuse to admit they made a mistake and they're clinging on to him. Meanwhile the censorship regime rolls on. Both parties are pro-censorship. What are we to do?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/gillard-ushers-in-the-era-of-farce/story-e6frfhqf-1225896276726
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Some reason? The guy created the Lotus Notes. Compared to that Windows 3.1 should be hanging in The Louvre.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/feb/09/guardianweeklytechnologysection
http://damienkatz.net/2005/02/70-reasons-lotus-notes-sucks.html
Brendan McNamara expects his employees to work as long as him. Was he paying them as much as he made out of this? Doubt it.
Even if the International Game Developers Association is investigating can they do anything? Doubt it too. Gaming is like Fashion modeling and competition is fierce for jobs. He'll find another batch of programmers eager to take his abuse for a shot at doing what they love, or at least think they will love. Best solution for an A$$hole boss is to quit.
By my calculation Conroy just spent $521 on behalf of each man, woman and child in Australia ($11.8B / 22,643,653 people) to buy an aging copper network run by Telstra: a privatised monopoly phone company with a crappy record for innovation, value or customer service. In exchange for this I get to pay almost exactly what I currently do for the same Internet service I already do through a new monopoly. If I am unlucky, it will be even slower. What is the point of this? Telstra must be laughing their asses off.
By law I can't even buy my internet service direct from the new monopoly. I must go through a "provider" who will add a 100% markup. And for what? What a complete waste of money.
"We've all seen it happen on TV a zillion times. But when a police officer recited to me those well-rehearsed words – 'you have the right to remain silent ' – I felt sick in the stomach."
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/grubbs-story-privacy-news-and-the-strong-arm-of-the-law-20110518-1esn9.html
The Policeman who confiscated Grubb's iPad was Detective Superintendent Errol Coultis. "When I questioned under what legislation they had the right to seize my iPad, Coultis told me I was under arrest in relation to receiving unlawfully obtained property." Head of the Queensland police fraud squad, Brian Hay said accessing a photo without permission was the same as stealing a TV.
Amusingly the "Queensland Police Media Service" are into twitter damage control: "Police can legally seize material which may be evidence of a crime. It will be returned as soon as we can do so."
Grubb said "I was told that forensics officers were going to make a complete copy of the information on my iPad, whether it related to this matter or not."
An absolutely disgraceful peformance by the Queensland Police involved.
"Well Artoo, this is another fine mess you've gotten us into"
Obligatory Useful links: A very good description of radiation by the EPA
http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/understand/index.html
Follow the link under the green heading at the right of the page
You don't need a game to do this! It's called Real Life and it's a lot more fun.
They're cute little creatures. Run around on the microscope slide like an over-eager dog. Why would anyone want to torture one for a game? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium
You can already leave written memoirs at the moment. The good thing about those is people who write them generally have something to say.
I'm in the same boat as you and feel the same way. I've paid enough for these movies many times. AFAIAC I already legally own them. My suggestion to everyone is that they download the Bluray versions off the net and when the feds knock on your door call the ACLU and EFF and tell the authorities you already legally own the film. No jury would convict, and I reckon the MPAA wouldn't like to make this a test case for fear of setting a precedent.
That's right. There's a 1:1 correlation that Girls with big boobs have a big amygdala. Tall guys with high cheekbones and a chin you could trip over also have a big amygdala. I'm glad science has finally proved this.
Recently we saw Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and an opportunistic Swiss bank all take advantage of Wikileaks plight to either seize their funds and/or stop them receiving any more funds.
Now here's eBay stopping people from engaging in perfectly legitimate trade. Satire is Free speech, you know. But who has the money to appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court. Only the very wealthy can afford justice.
With the big end of town merging and competition shrinking I can see the day where you just have a few players (as happened with credit cards) where you can be turned into an unperson just because a handful of big companies decide they don't want to do business with you.
Don't expect Congress to defend your rights. As we saw in with their Copyright Extension Act (the "Mikey Mouse Act") they always rush to codify the wishes of their biggest donors. Don't expect the courts either. The Supreme Court decided recently that companies can pour as much cash as they like into election campaigns. Roberts & co. aren't going to defend our rights.
500+ comments in this so I know my little post here will be lost, but what the heck...
Wikipedia is pretty awesome. For many things it's the cleanest way to find facts and get useful links.
But I agree with you on the source taste left by contributing. I used to contribute, but I just got so sick of having my changes reverted. I remember one article camped on by a tin goddess who reverted my changes which were just a few sentences, useful, relevant and sourced. She reverted it. I reverted it back. She threatened to report me for vandalism. I tried talking but she was haughty and nasty. She wasn't too hard to find her elsewhere on the web; I think she had "issues;" An empty social life she countered by pretending to be someone big and important on the web. Well I gave up. I've had similar experiences. There's only one article I've managed to contribute to successfully. It was a lot of work, and at the end of the day I decided all the grief and hassle wasn't worth it. I still use Wiki, but I can't be bothered contributing. Why waste an evening to make a contribution which some tin god can turn around and revert? (I used to contribute to Bruce Schneier's blog but stopped after I found he was deleting what he saw as controversial posts without telling the authors. Was half an hour on a well thought out post only to have it disappear. Why bother? I didn't harbor ill-will against Bruce but at the same time I found I drifted away from his community too.)
For donations there are more deserving charities and I don't really know that my buck to Wikifoundation will go where it's needed or into some hanger on's dinner. But certainly the above tribalism from wikicampers turned me away from developing closer links with the so-called Wikipedia community.
So there you go: If you don't listen to people, they will still turn up to the free beer nights, but don't expect them to support your wider agenda.
But Jimmy's banner ad is awesome. Such a warm friendly face. That's a face you could trust with your newborn. Lovely work.The photographer who came up with that deserves a prize.
Sounds good, but what OP left out is that it is Daniel Domschelt-Berg leading the breakaway on the ground his ego couldn't fit in the same room as Assange's. Now while Assange is doing time for what we suspect are trumped up charges with the US Attorney General willing to make up laws to shut him up, at the same time Domschelt-Berg is publishing a book called Inside WikiLeaks: My Time at the World's Most Dangerous Website and distracting attention from the cables. Which man would you trust with your leak?
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/anger-at-slave-trader-assange-wikileaks-loyalists-decide-to-break-away-20101210-18s0w.html
Don't these so-called scientists have better things to do with their time? It's a parlor trick and looking at their lists of uses they're struggling to find excuses for it. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. But if their goal was to get their names in the paper which will help with their next research grant, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
The federal government really delivers bugger all to the average Australian. They collect taxes through a very nasty federal tax office, blow billions on defence Defence so we can get involved in wars that have nothing to do with us, and the rest is pork barreled out at election time.
But both the Labor and Liberal Party are pro-big government which is why Canberra - the federal capital - is experiencing a huge spurt in growth as these departments bloat up, all paid for by our taxes. The federal public service has a reputation for sloth and corruption, and promotions and hires (supposedly by independent panels) is really based on where your mates or your dad's mates work.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/burgeoning-bureaucracy/story-e6frerdf-1225866150479
> The US State Department has started to warn potential recruits from universities not to read leaked cables, lest it jeopardize their chances of getting a job.
When they learn what a bunch of dictatorial thugs you guys are and decide to work elsewhere? We're supposed to live in an open democracy, you creeps! They're now telling citizens what news they're not allowed to read.
> They're also showing warnings to troops who access news websites
It's okay to die for us, but you're not entitled to know why.
That sounds plausible and I'm sure this software is already on the way. Someone said if drugs were banned people would run in circles on the front lawn until they fell over; "people want to get high." Humans are animals and spend a lot of time catering to animal instincts.
I salute Steve Balmer for giving us the Kinect - perhaps the greatest pr0n device ever invented. Well done, Steve!
And so now that Open Government has well and truly arrived our leaders are busy trying to shut it down. Well the public have had no privacy for a long time. Now politicians and bureaucrats are getting a taste of their own medicine.
The moral is don't say or do anything unless you wouldn't mind the entire world knowing. That means you too, Hillary!
When Scott McNeally of SUN told the public "You have no privacy, get over it!" our politicians didn't give a damn. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the public not to do anything they wouldn't like the world to know, politicians were similarly uninterested. Well now the shoe is on the other foot. The dirty deeds of the US and UK governments come to life, and all of a sudden they care about privacy... *their* privacy... not ours. Screw them. We're the public. We pay for the government. We're entitled to know what it's up to. More often than not 'National Security' is just a smokescreen for covering up incompetence and law breaking by government fat cats and politicians.
There's no way on slashdot to appeal this. In theory metamodding would catch it but I've tried it and it's boring (you don't know the context) and incredibly inefficient (because most mods are fine). It would be far better if you could flag a bad mod on a post and have *that* reviewed.
> See? Seven of Nine's outfit was inspired by science after all.
That was a suit? I thought it was painted on?
Wonder if this suit could help osteoporosis sufferers?
> How long before Kindle traffic is locked down?
Thanks to OP, not long. I really don't see the need to publicise underground information like this given they know it will lead to it being shutdown. OP is basically daring the Chinese authorities to do just that. And so I award him the Jeff Young Award for Stupidity on Slashdot.
Yes; Demonstrating Stupidity ahead of his time, jryoung@gmail.com posted this story telling all any sundry where you could get free textbooks on the net. Within days of his post the site was shutdown. What exactly did he think would happen? Cookies and Candy and a Party in the Street? http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/01/1838205 http://www.jeffyoung.net/
Sadly in this case the price isn't textbooks but a peoples' freedom. Well done, Sir!
Gillard really should have lost the election, but the right-wing opposition party was lead by Tony Abbott; a pro-business anti-worker fundamentalist misogynist racist buffoon firmly in the pockets of big business and the tobacco industry, but an economic ignorance that was laughable. Every time Abbott opened his mouth he drove voters away. Like Palin in America, when a right-wing party is out of office they get captured by the crazies and swing further to the right thinking that will win them more voters. Of course it doesn't, and Abbott lost.
And so Gillard won by default... and now the filter is back. You would think the opposition would kick out Abbott and put in someone more centrist, but they refuse to admit they made a mistake and they're clinging on to him. Meanwhile the censorship regime rolls on. Both parties are pro-censorship. What are we to do?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/gillard-ushers-in-the-era-of-farce/story-e6frfhqf-1225896276726