Not the federal education minister anymore (thank christ) and everyone know's how much of a dimwit neo-liberal brendan nelson is. (VSU, education should be a business).
ID or creationism could never worm their way into an Australian school curriculum, the whole country is pretty secular but ESPECIALLY when it comes to teachers.
And a model no. + serial no. DOESN'T uniquely identify an instance of an item somehow?
Bought a laptop lately? Check the serial no. on the back, it will almost certainly be unique to that laptop.
There is no real feasible way to do the orwellian thing with RFID in consumer products without some ridiculously huge database and infrastructure as well as cooperation between millions of seperate stores, govt, competing producers etc etc.
The same FUD was spread when barcode readers and credit cards came into play.
When the government starts trying to implant an RFID chip in my neck and IS installing readers in every lampost I'll be one of the first to freak out and make a big fuss, but untill then I'm gunna go ahead and be content with accepting RFID for what it is; another useful technology making life easier and the world more efficient.
unless you're running 3dmark05 on a continuous loop for that entire year then it is not going to draw a constant 1kw, and even then most likely not.
That power has to go somewhere, and if your computer is emitting 1kw of heat light and sound at all times then I don't think you'll be able to live with it anyway;-)
n Canada, where similar laws have been introduced, a fee was levied on blank CD and iPod unit sales to compensate copyright owners with up to an extra $32 being placed on the store price of individual machines.
Mr Ruddock's spokeswoman said a similar system had been discussed for Australia, but was unlikely to be introduced.
Can't be bothered dismantling all of your "but..but.. it's COPYING!" arguments but couldn't help myself with this one.
>Is listening to someone, who didn't pay the RIAA, sing the copyrighted song Happy Birthday illegal?
No, but then you are not creating a copy.
So, going by that logic recording that person singing happy birthday and then listening to it later WOULD be copyright infringement? bu.. I thought time-shifting was legal in the US?
Equating downloading a file to "it's creating a copy and that's illegal" is bad voodoo, I could argue that I am simply on the receiving end of those bytes and recording them for later use, is that not the same as time-shifting a radio or television program?
Didn't generalise anything about the US from michael moore except the gun laws, which I gather would have been represented reasonably accurately, laws being a fairly finite thing and all.
Sorry, having never been to the US I was going by michael moore's bowling for columbine where he opens a bank account and gets given a gun. within about an hour... not much time for any real background checks in an hour.
Gun legislation is also handy for preventing diagnosed psycho's from being allowed to use them.. as well as convicted murderers etc. Then again, if guns were banned for psycho's in the US then I guess profits would take a serious hit.
Project Entropia's fundamental idea is that everything in game has a real-world value. You begin the game with nothing; and must purchase in-game items with real money. Items you use to harvest resources, kill monsters, or any other activity which generates saleable objects in the system decay over time. You give Project Entropia money to buy objects in game, that money flows into MindArk. When you sell an object and withdraw real life cash, that money flows away from MindArk.
Given that, the Project Entropia system cannot generate rewards greater than the amount of money fed into the system, minus however much MindArk takes off the top.
You are using a virtual tool that decays, purchased with real money, attempting to generate a positive income in a system already rigged to prevent such a scenario on average. Your tool will break, and you will buy another one, in the hopes of getting that big payoff. It's a gambling system dressed in some livelier colors.
You mean... effectively like every capitalistic economy in the world?
The point he was making is that sitting down with SCHOOLS, institutions that are supposed to teach, y'know, real things and deciding what you want your child to be taught to believe is wrong.
Another post said it much better, everyone can have their own opinion, but you can't have your own facts.
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Not the federal education minister anymore (thank christ) and everyone know's how much of a dimwit neo-liberal brendan nelson is. (VSU, education should be a business). ID or creationism could never worm their way into an Australian school curriculum, the whole country is pretty secular but ESPECIALLY when it comes to teachers.
The point being, though, that they ARE secular and therefore it WON'T get taught in schools, no matter what survey's show.
sure does, and all that wasted heat energy it emits will most definitely burn your sorry arse if you touch it.
technical point, the amount of waves pretty well is the frequency, you're thinking of the amplitude.
And a model no. + serial no. DOESN'T uniquely identify an instance of an item somehow?
Bought a laptop lately? Check the serial no. on the back, it will almost certainly be unique to that laptop.
There is no real feasible way to do the orwellian thing with RFID in consumer products without some ridiculously huge database and infrastructure as well as cooperation between millions of seperate stores, govt, competing producers etc etc.
The same FUD was spread when barcode readers and credit cards came into play.
When the government starts trying to implant an RFID chip in my neck and IS installing readers in every lampost I'll be one of the first to freak out and make a big fuss, but untill then I'm gunna go ahead and be content with accepting RFID for what it is; another useful technology making life easier and the world more efficient.
oh ffs, RFID is a serial number or a barcode that can be read without line of sight.
The sky is not falling.
Imagine the amount of great literature and important lessons the world would be missing if we had this pill throughout history.
There's nothing good about PTSD, but a great many of the most influential statements, art or otherwise, are a result of someones scarred past.
Amen to sensible names ;-)
"If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck; it's probably a duck"
unless you're running 3dmark05 on a continuous loop for that entire year then it is not going to draw a constant 1kw, and even then most likely not. ;-)
That power has to go somewhere, and if your computer is emitting 1kw of heat light and sound at all times then I don't think you'll be able to live with it anyway
quite likely a christmas day rush style thing, we didn't get a wireless AP at home till around 4 days after and haven't had any real troubles.
So, going by that logic recording that person singing happy birthday and then listening to it later WOULD be copyright infringement? bu.. I thought time-shifting was legal in the US?
Equating downloading a file to "it's creating a copy and that's illegal" is bad voodoo, I could argue that I am simply on the receiving end of those bytes and recording them for later use, is that not the same as time-shifting a radio or television program?
fair enough, although a licensing system sounds around a million times easier.
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Not to nitpick, but wasn't it a
Didn't generalise anything about the US from michael moore except the gun laws, which I gather would have been represented reasonably accurately, laws being a fairly finite thing and all.
Sorry, having never been to the US I was going by michael moore's bowling for columbine where he opens a bank account and gets given a gun. within about an hour... not much time for any real background checks in an hour.
Gun legislation is also handy for preventing diagnosed psycho's from being allowed to use them.. as well as convicted murderers etc.
/Australian gun owner
Then again, if guns were banned for psycho's in the US then I guess profits would take a serious hit.
When you consider the tools he had to gather his data with compared to the tools we have now it's what most people would consider damned near spot on.
For number 1 it's a simple case of rtfa ;-)
RTFA, the stick has 29 songs, video clips, commentary etc etc etc. NOT just a regular album
It's news because they are talking large scale power generation, not individual homes or even towns indoor heating.
fine then, doesn't have all but still has enough to keep charging hunting taxes etc.
You mean... effectively like every capitalistic economy in the world?
Except he still has the virtual "property" you lout, and therefore has effectively doubled his money if the island's market worth is still the same.
The point he was making is that sitting down with SCHOOLS, institutions that are supposed to teach, y'know, real things and deciding what you want your child to be taught to believe is wrong. Another post said it much better, everyone can have their own opinion, but you can't have your own facts.
Only because you can't think up anything we didn't come up with first