The site seems to be slowing a bit, so I can't find details, but surely there are some privacy concerns here. I know that this just replicates the publically avaliable material in the physical archives, but there is a big difference between going to the archives and digging through books, and harvesting info over the web, especially given the sheer amount of info on the site, many of them recent records.
Personally I would find this, or something like it, very useful in research, even as just an undergrad History major. The amount of times I've wished for something like this while digging around in musty old archives...
Although, it has to be said, I hope they make everything accessable for *everyone*, regardless of OS and browser. No doubt a lot of researchers would be using OS X/Linux/Firefox.
I've got a poster of something very similar to Rotating Snakes. Mostly it's interesting to look at when I'm bored, but it can be nasty after a cone or two.
IANA satellite engineer, but apart from any encryption, would there be anything stopping someone with a reciever and the right gear grabbing, ripping and sharing this? I'm guessing the equipment wouldn't be entirely proprietary , and the protection could well be breakable (CSS..)
Nah. They paid Trent Reznor, but he bailed after a while. The title song was done by Tweaker, an ex-NIN guy.
And yes, the title track is a blatent rip-off of Lateralus era Tool.
At Tas Uni, I get shell access to a nice Sun box, or an X session if I want. (have to use a VPN to access it from home, but that's OK).
No dialup access, but that doesn't bother me, nor do I know anyone who would use it. For the record, I think the Tas Uni school of computing has pretty much the best IT setup I have ever come across, despite being fairly small. Good standard of education, as well. And all that for (roughly) US$3000 a year, (non-residential, like most Australian Unis), which is an interest-free loan that I don't have to pay back until I start earning above a threshold. (AU$22k or so, IIRC)
This is only anecdotal evidence, of course, but I have a lot of trouble concentrating on tasks other that coding or the like using a computer - essays spring to mind. I actually cranked out a typewriter the other day to cut down on distractions, and I found it did work. With no instant distractions -/. springs to mind - I was able to concentrate on the task at hand much more effectively.
Yes, looks like you're right. It does ring a bell, but as I come from Tasmania, perhaps the most notorious convict colony, I tend to forget that other states are a bit different.
However, South Australia was only established as a commercial venture in 1831 by the South Australia Company through the sale of land to free settlers. This differed from other Australian states, which were either established as penal colonies or made use of convict labour.
Once again, Wikipedia to the rescue.
Incidentally, the secret ballot wasn't developed by the US or the UK as you may expect, but Australia back when it was a colony. Wikipedia has details.
Not sure what relevence this has to the thread, so mod me down if you want, but I find it kind of interesting that a mere convict colony developed this 'fundamental principle a democratic society is built on'.
We changed our notes about a decade ago here in Australia, and as far as I know they are effectively impossible to counterfeit properly. Obviously a smaller economy/population that the US, but I don't recall any significant problem with the changeover. The new notes were introduced gradually, starting from the $5 up.
More details on the security features: Here.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but it seems to work fine. Just an item in the context menu, click on it and it will reload the current page with the nyud.net:8090 appended. Looks like Coral could be a very useful project.
Yes, absolutely right. I think the Wikipedia article is pretty good on the matter:
"Australia is one of the few countries in which it is compulsory to vote. Compulsory voting was introduced after the First World War, when it was felt that since 60,000 Australians had died in the defence of freedom, Australians had a duty to use the freedoms so dearly bought. The immediate impetus for compulsory voting at federal level was the low voter turnout (69.4%) in the federal elections of 1919. Voting is compulsory both at federal elections and at elections for the state and territory legislatures. In some states voting at municipal elections is also compulsory. Prosecutions for failure to vote are rare and the fine is nominal.
Strictly speaking, it is compulsory only to attend a polling place and have one's name checked against the electoral roll (enrolment to vote is also compulsory). The voter is free to place the ballot paper in the ballot box unmarked. This is called informal voting. In practice, over 95% of Australians vote at elections, and in most elections only 2 or 3% of votes cast are informal.
Some political scientists believe that compulsory voting benefits the Australian Labor Party, others dispute this. It is argued that most of the social groups who would tend not to vote if voting were voluntary are more inclined to vote Labor (people from the ethnic and immigrant communities, indigenous Australians, and people with lower levels of education). Occasionally conservative politicians or libertarian intellectuals argue for the abolition of compulsory voting on philosophical grounds, but no government has ever attempted to abolish it."
Exactly. This is one area where I think the Australian political system is much better than the US. There isn't really any such thing as a 'wasted vote' - if your ideological/fringe/protest first vote candidate doesn't get in, then you can vote for the lesser of two evils, and your protest at the two party system is duly noted. Maybe.
I can't make up my mind about compulsory voting though - on one hand it does 'force' people to become politically active to some degree, but perhaps it is an infringement on personal choice to some degree. I wouldn't say no to fixed election dates, a bill of rights, and a two term limit for the PM.
I'm doing a computing degree in Australia, and I haven't purchased one textbook, nor do I intend to. (This is my 2nd year out of 4)
At least where I am, the lecturers are pretty good about not depending on the textbook for problems etc, the lecture slides and lecture audio is freely avaliable from the unit website, and of course pretty much anything taught at undergrad level computing is avaliable on the Internet. Latest editions of the textbooks are readily avaliable in the library in the reserve section, so they're always avaliable, but I still haven't needed to look at one yet.
The only books I have ever got are cheap public domain novels for English, which cost a whole AU$8 each.
Personally, I'd love a feature to automatically lower the volume on ads, to save me doing it manually.
RTFA.
Vogel showed off the majority of the ICE service's functionality at an event in Sydney this morning, including the ability to control the volume level of advertisements (dubbed "ICE Hush") automatically..
It's a fair comparison. You conveniently forget the fact that von Braun built weapons for Hitler, who I would argue was infinitely more dangerous, especially to the West, than Hussein. von Braun had a big part in the development of the V-series rockets, which caused a considerable amount of damage to London towards the end of the war? yet from the same technology we got space flight (and ICBMs).
Yeah, it's good, but I find it quite annoying that there is an article on every single US town or village or whatever with a population over about 10.
They're not even interesting, cause it looks like someone's just ripped all the data out of some official government source and dumped it all on Wiki. Probably useful for some, but turned me off random. Not that I should complain, probably saved me hours.
Whenever I read about space elevators, I can't help but think of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl, the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, AKA that horrible 70s movie with Gene Wilder.
Don't get me wrong, it sounds like a great product, but I wish something so flexible wasn't inherently crippled. It'd be nice to see some community server software as well, I'm betting that the "Gateway D5 Streaming Media Server", in addition to being windows only, is a piece of crap.
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The site seems to be slowing a bit, so I can't find details, but surely there are some privacy concerns here. I know that this just replicates the publically avaliable material in the physical archives, but there is a big difference between going to the archives and digging through books, and harvesting info over the web, especially given the sheer amount of info on the site, many of them recent records.
Although, it has to be said, I hope they make everything accessable for *everyone*, regardless of OS and browser. No doubt a lot of researchers would be using OS X/Linux/Firefox.
I've got a poster of something very similar to Rotating Snakes. Mostly it's interesting to look at when I'm bored, but it can be nasty after a cone or two.
IANA satellite engineer, but apart from any encryption, would there be anything stopping someone with a reciever and the right gear grabbing, ripping and sharing this?
I'm guessing the equipment wouldn't be entirely proprietary , and the protection could well be breakable (CSS..)
On a related note, don't forget IF Quake
These guys won't, but what about the Labor party?
News Ltd. story
Nah. They paid Trent Reznor, but he bailed after a while. The title song was done by Tweaker, an ex-NIN guy.
And yes, the title track is a blatent rip-off of Lateralus era Tool.
At Tas Uni, I get shell access to a nice Sun box, or an X session if I want. (have to use a VPN to access it from home, but that's OK).
No dialup access, but that doesn't bother me, nor do I know anyone who would use it. For the record, I think the Tas Uni school of computing has pretty much the best IT setup I have ever come across, despite being fairly small. Good standard of education, as well. And all that for (roughly) US$3000 a year, (non-residential, like most Australian Unis), which is an interest-free loan that I don't have to pay back until I start earning above a threshold. (AU$22k or so, IIRC)
This is only anecdotal evidence, of course, but I have a lot of trouble concentrating on tasks other that coding or the like using a computer - essays spring to mind. /. springs to mind - I was able to concentrate on the task at hand much more effectively.
I actually cranked out a typewriter the other day to cut down on distractions, and I found it did work.
With no instant distractions -
However, South Australia was only established as a commercial venture in 1831 by the South Australia Company through the sale of land to free settlers. This differed from other Australian states, which were either established as penal colonies or made use of convict labour.
Once again, Wikipedia to the rescue.
Incidentally, the secret ballot wasn't developed by the US or the UK as you may expect, but Australia back when it was a colony.
Wikipedia has details.
Not sure what relevence this has to the thread, so mod me down if you want, but I find it kind of interesting that a mere convict colony developed this 'fundamental principle a democratic society is built on'.
We changed our notes about a decade ago here in Australia, and as far as I know they are effectively impossible to counterfeit properly. Obviously a smaller economy/population that the US, but I don't recall any significant problem with the changeover. The new notes were introduced gradually, starting from the $5 up.
More details on the security features:
Here.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but it seems to work fine. Just an item in the context menu, click on it and it will reload the current page with the nyud.net:8090 appended. Looks like Coral could be a very useful project.
Here.
First 4 replies leaving their email gets an invite.
Had a look at your webpage, and if you ever appear in my electorate (Franklin, Tasmania) you've got my vote, for sure. Very sound policies.
"Australia is one of the few countries in which it is compulsory to vote. Compulsory voting was introduced after the First World War, when it was felt that since 60,000 Australians had died in the defence of freedom, Australians had a duty to use the freedoms so dearly bought. The immediate impetus for compulsory voting at federal level was the low voter turnout (69.4%) in the federal elections of 1919. Voting is compulsory both at federal elections and at elections for the state and territory legislatures. In some states voting at municipal elections is also compulsory. Prosecutions for failure to vote are rare and the fine is nominal.
Strictly speaking, it is compulsory only to attend a polling place and have one's name checked against the electoral roll (enrolment to vote is also compulsory). The voter is free to place the ballot paper in the ballot box unmarked. This is called informal voting. In practice, over 95% of Australians vote at elections, and in most elections only 2 or 3% of votes cast are informal.
Some political scientists believe that compulsory voting benefits the Australian Labor Party, others dispute this. It is argued that most of the social groups who would tend not to vote if voting were voluntary are more inclined to vote Labor (people from the ethnic and immigrant communities, indigenous Australians, and people with lower levels of education). Occasionally conservative politicians or libertarian intellectuals argue for the abolition of compulsory voting on philosophical grounds, but no government has ever attempted to abolish it."
Here.
I can't make up my mind about compulsory voting though - on one hand it does 'force' people to become politically active to some degree, but perhaps it is an infringement on personal choice to some degree. I wouldn't say no to fixed election dates, a bill of rights, and a two term limit for the PM.
At least where I am, the lecturers are pretty good about not depending on the textbook for problems etc, the lecture slides and lecture audio is freely avaliable from the unit website, and of course pretty much anything taught at undergrad level computing is avaliable on the Internet. Latest editions of the textbooks are readily avaliable in the library in the reserve section, so they're always avaliable, but I still haven't needed to look at one yet.
The only books I have ever got are cheap public domain novels for English, which cost a whole AU$8 each.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source?
RTFA.
Vogel showed off the majority of the ICE service's functionality at an event in Sydney this morning, including the ability to control the volume level of advertisements (dubbed "ICE Hush") automatically..
It's a fair comparison. You conveniently forget the fact that von Braun built weapons for Hitler, who I would argue was infinitely more dangerous, especially to the West, than Hussein.
von Braun had a big part in the development of the V-series rockets, which caused a considerable amount of damage to London towards the end of the war? yet from the same technology we got space flight (and ICBMs).
They're not even interesting, cause it looks like someone's just ripped all the data out of some official government source and dumped it all on Wiki. Probably useful for some, but turned me off random. Not that I should complain, probably saved me hours.
Don't get me wrong, it sounds like a great product, but I wish something so flexible wasn't inherently crippled. It'd be nice to see some community server software as well, I'm betting that the "Gateway D5 Streaming Media Server", in addition to being windows only, is a piece of crap.