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  1. Re:Slashdotted on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 1

    The site's kinda running again now, albeit a bit slowly. Don't all go clicking at once now. :)

  2. Re:Silent Electors? on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what special functionality would be needed for silent electors.

  3. Re:Another Below the Line helper on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, this site's good too. Had I known it existed a few weeks ago when I started working on mine I may not have bothered. ;)

  4. Re:It's actually 84 on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 1

    I think it might be illegal to encourage people to vote informally though!

  5. Re:Slashdotted on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're really keen, then the list of candidates that the AEC publishes includes telephone numbers for all of them, and email addresses for many of them. In case you can't find any useful information online, you can always ask them their position on the issues you think are relevant.

  6. Re:Slashdotted on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I could ssh to the machine, I would. :)

  7. Slashdotted on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK that didn't take long. The site seems to be slashdotted already. Perhaps it wasn't a good idea for it to be serving 500KB @font-face referenced fonts from my little VPS. :) Once everybody's stopped clicking the link, I'll try moving the static data over to something that can handle it, like an Amazon S3 bucket.

  8. Re:"First Female PM" is not news. on Australia Gets Its First Female Prime Minister · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First female PM, sworn in by our first female Governor General, too. Also she is an avowed atheist. I think that's a first for an Australian PM, too.

  9. Re:Conroy on ABC's Q&A next Thursday on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 1

    That's a good point, regarding the election promise for it to be an optional filter. Do you have a reference for that? I want to ensure my facts are correct for my question.

  10. Re:Conroy on ABC's Q&A next Thursday on Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll be in the audience. Suggestions on the most effective way to point out flaws in the proposed censorship regime welcome. :)

  11. And now WebKit is at 100/100 on Acid3 Race In Full Swing, Opera Overtakes Safari · · Score: 2, Informative
  12. But if you are Edison Chen... on The $54 Million Laptop · · Score: 1

    ...then maybe that's a reasonable value to ask for. :)

  13. Re:Whats this got to do with HTML5? on Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary" · · Score: 1

    s/a element/a element/, sorry

  14. Re:Whats this got to do with HTML5? on Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary" · · Score: 1

    HTML 5 is going to have a element, and some people want support for a particular codec to be mandated so that you can have a video that will play in all browsers.

  15. But with mininova on The Pirate Bay About To Relaunch Suprnova.org · · Score: 5, Insightful

    who needs suprnova?

  16. Yes they can on Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War? · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Punctuation Abuse? on Novell "Forking" OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    That's called Poisoning the well.

  18. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on CCP and White Wolf Games To Merge · · Score: 1

    Was I the only one to think that the title claimed that the Chinese Communist Party was to merge with a games company?

  19. Re:Not such a bad idea... on Vista Licenses Limit OS Transfers, Ban VM Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tell that to the Gnome people. :/

  20. Re:Snakes... on IronPython 1.0 is Born · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, just because you haven't watched the movie yet!

  21. Snakes... on IronPython 1.0 is Born · · Score: 4, Funny

    on a VM!

  22. Re:many SVG implementations get the work they need on Decent Multi-Format SVG Converter? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Incidentally Batik now has support for SMIL animation in SVN, which will be included in the next release.

  23. Batik error with baby tux on Decent Multi-Format SVG Converter? · · Score: 3, Informative
    The reason that Batik doesn't handle the baby tux file is that there is indeed an error in it. On line 90, the transform attribute doesn't have a closing parenthesis in it. Quoting from SVG 1.1, one of the things that must be done when the document is "in error" is:
    A highly perceivable indication of error shall occur. For visual rendering situations, an example of an indication of error would be to render a translucent colored pattern such as a checkerboard on top of the area where the SVG content is rendered.
    Batik stops document rendering at that point and pops up a message indicating the error. Not many UAs do this, actually, and many actually just choose to ignore errors. This is likely one of the causes of the difference in behaviour you are seeing.
  24. Re:Trying to make the web a better place. on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 1

    It is every man's duty to do so. :) (I have to remember to bring that poster in to my office so I can stick it on my door...)

  25. Re:SVG vs. flash... format vs API? on Flash Makes Splash in Gadgets · · Score: 1

    SVG 1.2 is coming along, bringing with it the netowrking APIs and so forth to make it a more serious application platform. Though Adobe is typically quiet about new releases of their SVG plugin, work is going on in the background. After some licence owrries, Thomas is back working on Batik, implementing SVG 1.2 features.

    SVG is getting big support from mobile vendors. See the list of shipping and upcoming phones that support SVG.