Actually, i've chatted to the guys behind this piece of software quite a bit. They're all gamers, people who have seen how much cheating has ruined the gaming community. The point of the software is not only to stop cheating but moreso to create a better community in which random players don't just show up on servers. The software actually forces people to view the messageboards and participate in the irc channels associated with the servers they are playing on.
From what i've heard them say, they are well aware of the fact that MAC addresses are changeable, it's just one tier of the system. Each user of the software has a Unique logon so that is probably much more important as fear of losing that logon will probably stave off most stupidity.
The Federal Court is the court of original jurisdiction for this case and hence this case hasn't passed even one appelate court yet.
Also our High Court (our highest court of appeal) has the nifty habit of disagreeing with lower courts (as most high courts do:) so don't get too excited
The ACCC has the full weight of Australian law to fine the movie studios (and also executives) per day per offence. In amounts large enought to shut down their piddling national offices.
If one of the distros (i'm thinking Mandrake) can convince AOL that they should be partners then i think it would be a win win situation for Linux in general.
Think about it, Mandrake loses nothing because AOL can't demand all versions of Linux come with AOL or possibly even that all version of Mandrake come with AOL fully integrated.
Mandrake has become the easiest to use Linux in my opinion and is prime for the AOL market. It offers much of the usability of a Windows box with the added bonus of stabillity.
I'm just hoping someone at AOL reads this post.:D
or even better a good moderator.
See the "The Castle" by the same group that made "The Dish" has the same sense of self-deprecating Australian humour that makes "The Dish" so enjoyable. Many Australian's feel "The Castle" was in many ways the better film as it dealt with some cultural issues many Australian's don't have the guts to deal with.
Anyone who reads this book and enjoys it should by a copy to show their appreciation to the author. It was thanks to this book that i became interested in Linux/Unix.
I found it portrayed hackers as real human beings many of whom have a moral belief behind their actions.
Two years ago a branch of Australian Personal Computer magazine publish the Linux Pocketbook, which covered Redhat Linux 5.2
It included Redhat and covered the move from windows to Linux with installation and how to set up a variety of servers. It was done in easy to understand language with little dillydallying.
The Second edition of the book, released a year later covered both Redhat 6.0 and Caldera 2.0.
The homepage for Australian Personal Computer magazine is http://apcmag.com
I am living in Queensland and have the luxury of surfing the Web on a cable connection, albeit and expensive and bandwith capped one. But due to the tyranny of distance in Queensland (one of Australia's biggest states!) and the fact that the vast majority of the population can be found in the South-East corner of the state many rural Queenslanders would kill for the bandwidth that is available to those living in the States Capital, this type of initiative should be supported whether it can truly offer a quality service or not, because not even the major ISPs in the nation can be bothered to offer service to Outback Australians, kudos GrowZone and hopefully people like you can spread Linux throughout Australia, god knows i would like to use this cable connection through linux!!!
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Though I am most probably biased, seeing as I like there, I feel Brisbane is a unique city to live in and has a thriving I.T. community. Many I.T. company's are based here and consequently there are many job opportunities. There are many good Universities in the city. Though the Internet Censorship laws have been enacted in Austrlia they have proven to be, as most people suspected they would, ineffective in stopping transfer of the kind of material it set out to.
Friendly people, smart people (not just I.T), very livable city with little polution and more Urban Sprawl than you can poke a stick at (we built outward rather than upward). All these things make Brisbane the best place for an I.T. professional!!!
I can't wait for the catastrophe that will inevitabley lead to the destruction of the International Space Station. I am counting on a compatability issue between the American and Russian sofware. Sit back and watch the fireworks folks.
I am in favour of the individual aspiration to invent. But surely the possible fire damage that could be caused by a project like this outweigh any individual rights. What is more worrying than his success if the possible ramification of a failed spacecraft crashing into the residential area that surrounds him.
I think all human beings should be thankful for the Human Genome Project, for if it has truly won the race to map the human genome then they may well have saved the human race trillions of dollars in medicine's that come as a result of gene therapy. They have also guaranteed the free use of the genome for science.
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Actually, i've chatted to the guys behind this piece of software quite a bit. They're all gamers, people who have seen how much cheating has ruined the gaming community. The point of the software is not only to stop cheating but moreso to create a better community in which random players don't just show up on servers. The software actually forces people to view the messageboards and participate in the irc channels associated with the servers they are playing on.
From what i've heard them say, they are well aware of the fact that MAC addresses are changeable, it's just one tier of the system. Each user of the software has a Unique logon so that is probably much more important as fear of losing that logon will probably stave off most stupidity.
The Federal Court is the court of original jurisdiction for this case and hence this case hasn't passed even one appelate court yet.
:) so don't get too excited
Also our High Court (our highest court of appeal) has the nifty habit of disagreeing with lower courts (as most high courts do
that may be true but he got supporting breifs from the ACCC (our competition watchdog down here) which i'm sure helped considerably
large population + not much room == no choice.
is that no matter how technically savvy tech-heads may be they can still be the penultimate dickheads
The ACCC has the full weight of Australian law to fine the movie studios (and also executives) per day per offence. In amounts large enought to shut down their piddling national offices.
God bless 'em
This isn't a regulator it's a consumer protection agency that is too a large degree free from the control of the Federal Government.
This is a distinction that must be observed.
If one of the distros (i'm thinking Mandrake) can convince AOL that they should be partners then i think it would be a win win situation for Linux in general.
:D
Think about it, Mandrake loses nothing because AOL can't demand all versions of Linux come with AOL or possibly even that all version of Mandrake come with AOL fully integrated.
Mandrake has become the easiest to use Linux in my opinion and is prime for the AOL market. It offers much of the usability of a Windows box with the added bonus of stabillity.
I'm just hoping someone at AOL reads this post.
or even better a good moderator.
See the "The Castle" by the same group that made "The Dish" has the same sense of self-deprecating Australian humour that makes "The Dish" so enjoyable. Many Australian's feel "The Castle" was in many ways the better film as it dealt with some cultural issues many Australian's don't have the guts to deal with.
Shameless Australian plug!!
Trying to portay Australia as the home of bestiality.
Give the man the nobel prize for saving the human race's ass, previous thought of having my genes locked up in patents can now be thoroughly quashed.
Anyone who reads this book and enjoys it should by a copy to show their appreciation to the author. It was thanks to this book that i became interested in Linux/Unix.
I found it portrayed hackers as real human beings many of whom have a moral belief behind their actions.
Nick Denham
Two years ago a branch of Australian Personal Computer magazine publish the Linux Pocketbook, which covered Redhat Linux 5.2
It included Redhat and covered the move from windows to Linux with installation and how to set up a variety of servers. It was done in easy to understand language with little dillydallying.
The Second edition of the book, released a year later covered both Redhat 6.0 and Caldera 2.0.
The homepage for Australian Personal Computer magazine is http://apcmag.com
I am living in Queensland and have the luxury of surfing the Web on a cable connection, albeit and expensive and bandwith capped one. But due to the tyranny of distance in Queensland (one of Australia's biggest states!) and the fact that the vast majority of the population can be found in the South-East corner of the state many rural Queenslanders would kill for the bandwidth that is available to those living in the States Capital, this type of initiative should be supported whether it can truly offer a quality service or not, because not even the major ISPs in the nation can be bothered to offer service to Outback Australians, kudos GrowZone and hopefully people like you can spread Linux throughout Australia, god knows i would like to use this cable connection through linux!!!
I think you mean Wayland Smithers.
sorry first sentence it should be live not like
(Barbaq hangs his head in shame)
Though I am most probably biased, seeing as I like there, I feel Brisbane is a unique city to live in and has a thriving I.T. community. Many I.T. company's are based here and consequently there are many job opportunities. There are many good Universities in the city. Though the Internet Censorship laws have been enacted in Austrlia they have proven to be, as most people suspected they would, ineffective in stopping transfer of the kind of material it set out to.
Friendly people, smart people (not just I.T), very livable city with little polution and more Urban Sprawl than you can poke a stick at (we built outward rather than upward). All these things make Brisbane the best place for an I.T. professional!!!
I can't wait for the catastrophe that will inevitabley lead to the destruction of the International Space Station. I am counting on a compatability issue between the American and Russian sofware. Sit back and watch the fireworks folks.
I am in favour of the individual aspiration to invent. But surely the possible fire damage that could be caused by a project like this outweigh any individual rights. What is more worrying than his success if the possible ramification of a failed spacecraft crashing into the residential area that surrounds him.
I think all human beings should be thankful for the Human Genome Project, for if it has truly won the race to map the human genome then they may well have saved the human race trillions of dollars in medicine's that come as a result of gene therapy. They have also guaranteed the free use of the genome for science.