You read the story summaries? I must be new here (IMBNH), I thought we were supposed to read the headline and either yell out "first post", attack Microsoft or complain about how country X is going to hell in a handbasket.
Read the story summaries, huh? Learn something new everyday. BTW, in case you didn't know, the RIAA has an outmoded business model.
NO! Don't moderate "Flamebait" near a post discussing ammonium nitrate! It's like yelling "Fire" in a crowded theatre (full of explosives with sound-sensitive detonators)!
Next you'll be telling me that the Queen wasn't born on the Queen's Birthday! (she wasn't - in fact it's celebrated on different days in different states of Australia) And that the Easter Bunny wasn't born on Easter Sunday!
Was I even born on my own birthday?
Why are they fearing making the list public? If all the sites are required to be blocked by ISPs then there should be no way Australians can access the 'disgusting' material on the list anyway. *sighs*
The censorship is currently undergoing a trial... not all ISPs are involved, notably the big ones. I'm Aussie and I'm against the censorship - I think that there are real ethical and technical problems with the scheme that has been proposed. I do not trust either the current government or any likely alternatives not to use this to their political advantage. But this partial censorship is just farcical!
Every result is calculated by at least two computers to ensure accuracy so the unique results are at least one half of the total results that are published.
Sorry - mathematical pedantry follows.
Every result is calculated by at least two computers to ensure accuracy so the unique results are at most one half of the total results that are published.
A few years ago on the Australian version of "Big Brother" a failure in the vote counting process resulted in them "evicting" the wrong person... the evictee went back in, the votes were recounted and the "right" person was evicted: here. The company involved - Legion - is also responsible for Australian Idol SMS voting.
All this resulted in more hype and publicity and advertising dollars for the show, of course.
The Australian Senate (which is where such legislation would be blocked) is semi-proportional - and Senators sit for six years (twice the length as in the House of Representatives). Which means that a party has to win elections fairly comfortably two years in a row in order to be able to push through whatever they want.
And as our last (Howard) government found out, being able to push through whatever (Workchoices) they want can end in a political backlash. Australian voters don't like either party having too much power, many actually vote for third parties in the Senate precisely as a control on the system. A previously successful third party (the Australian Democrats) had an unofficial slogan, "Keeping the bastards honest."
| pi - 22/7 | = 0.001264489
| pi - 3.14 | = 0.001592654
So 22/7 is closer to pi than 3.14.
355/113 is better though. Accurate to six decimals places. 3:55pm on 11th March perhaps?
I "migrated" my wife from Vista to Ubuntu last week. She's a clever girl, but not technically aware. She just wants to do stuff. Total training: "Firefox replaces IE, OpenOffice replaces Office, Pidgin replaces Messenger."
Nuclear reactions (both fission and fusion) convert mass into energy. E=mc^2 and all that. It's not perpetual motion because eventually you run out of mass to convert. The sun's been generating energy this way for ~5 billion years and will run out of hydrogen to fuse in another ~5 billion.
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Pirated versions of Windows end up with automatic updating turned off as a way of getting around Microsoft's Genuine Advantage validation tests.
No, the reason he wears/removes the sunglasses is that it makes it harder to edit him out of scenes without breaking continuity.
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You read the story summaries? I must be new here (IMBNH), I thought we were supposed to read the headline and either yell out "first post", attack Microsoft or complain about how country X is going to hell in a handbasket. Read the story summaries, huh? Learn something new everyday. BTW, in case you didn't know, the RIAA has an outmoded business model.
NO! Don't moderate "Flamebait" near a post discussing ammonium nitrate! It's like yelling "Fire" in a crowded theatre (full of explosives with sound-sensitive detonators)!
I for one welcome our stacked blonde religious nutjob overlords...
By the same logic, slashdot.frontpage == botnet
In addition, Australia is not geographically positioned to have a high volume of international traffic flow through it.
It's John Calvin.
If we can follow the whirring sound then we can solve an almost five hundred year old mystery:
From here: "He died on May 27, 1564, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Geneva."
I've been told that the reason that he did this was to prevent his grave from ever becoming a "shrine" or focus for pilgrimage.
How will we celebrate? Well apparently we celebrate by doing what all slashdot-posting, Linux-loving nerds love to do - argue over pedantic details!
Next you'll be telling me that the Queen wasn't born on the Queen's Birthday! (she wasn't - in fact it's celebrated on different days in different states of Australia) And that the Easter Bunny wasn't born on Easter Sunday! Was I even born on my own birthday?
Why are they fearing making the list public? If all the sites are required to be blocked by ISPs then there should be no way Australians can access the 'disgusting' material on the list anyway. *sighs*
The censorship is currently undergoing a trial... not all ISPs are involved, notably the big ones. I'm Aussie and I'm against the censorship - I think that there are real ethical and technical problems with the scheme that has been proposed. I do not trust either the current government or any likely alternatives not to use this to their political advantage. But this partial censorship is just farcical!
Every result is calculated by at least two computers to ensure accuracy so the unique results are at least one half of the total results that are published.
Sorry - mathematical pedantry follows.
Every result is calculated by at least two computers to ensure accuracy so the unique results are at most one half of the total results that are published.
A few years ago on the Australian version of "Big Brother" a failure in the vote counting process resulted in them "evicting" the wrong person... the evictee went back in, the votes were recounted and the "right" person was evicted: here. The company involved - Legion - is also responsible for Australian Idol SMS voting.
All this resulted in more hype and publicity and advertising dollars for the show, of course.
The Australian Senate (which is where such legislation would be blocked) is semi-proportional - and Senators sit for six years (twice the length as in the House of Representatives). Which means that a party has to win elections fairly comfortably two years in a row in order to be able to push through whatever they want. And as our last (Howard) government found out, being able to push through whatever (Workchoices) they want can end in a political backlash. Australian voters don't like either party having too much power, many actually vote for third parties in the Senate precisely as a control on the system. A previously successful third party (the Australian Democrats) had an unofficial slogan, "Keeping the bastards honest."
| pi - 22/7 | = 0.001264489 | pi - 3.14 | = 0.001592654 So 22/7 is closer to pi than 3.14. 355/113 is better though. Accurate to six decimals places. 3:55pm on 11th March perhaps?
Does it run on Linux?
I "migrated" my wife from Vista to Ubuntu last week. She's a clever girl, but not technically aware. She just wants to do stuff. Total training: "Firefox replaces IE, OpenOffice replaces Office, Pidgin replaces Messenger."
(and it's lose, goddamn you! Loses the locker room talk, loses his job. Loose is what you do to the hounds)
loose talk loses case and loser loses job
Nuclear reactions (both fission and fusion) convert mass into energy. E=mc^2 and all that. It's not perpetual motion because eventually you run out of mass to convert. The sun's been generating energy this way for ~5 billion years and will run out of hydrogen to fuse in another ~5 billion.
No, the question is, do people WANT nasally-fitted Fusion Reactors?
My Amiga 500 had that - discovered it by accident by holding down both mouse buttons together while booting!
I have: "sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1"
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/09/cory-doctorow-freekonomic-e-books.html
You don't even really need to exclude iPhones - Japanese people primarily buy Japanese phones... see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/27/free_iphones/