Not long. And then the government will have a pretty hard time when finally actual something bad happens and they really need to use these investigative tools. I think tho this will be the breaking point with the censorship debarcle and all.
I think its quite cute given the curcumstances. And it was a speeding ticket which is a fair bit nastier than a parking ticket. Ive had my share of blatant revenue tickets and would love to do the same. He should link it to 4chan for the bluff city pedo department.
Amen to that. You only need to go over to groklaw.net to see how patents get raped. Patent are supposed to help new ideas get a foot in the market but instead are being used to stilfe progress and innovation. The whole patent system needs to be torn down and started again from scratch.
Patenting genes is just wrong. I know these companies spend alot in research but you shouldnt just be able own a gene. Cancer is a battle everyone needs to come together and fight on the same team.
I'm interested to see this put to some scientific testing to see how acurate this method actually is. I think its crazy still and i'm just glad my government here in the UK is a tad more sane. I saw another article today about it now being an offence to take photos of police uniformed or plane clothed. Crazyness.
All I know is that for more than ten years I made good money removing malware from Windows boxes. In all fairness tho Windows 7 is a much better effort at a secure OS but saying that 'hackers' are making such comments is just not all that believable. Any serious geek will tell you the long sorded history of windows and all its memorable virii, malware and hacks is nothing to be proud of but I guess if you start telling people what you want them to think and keep at it one day it will stick. I think a few statistics should set the record straight.
Why not take your processes and ideas overseas and do your treatments elsewhere? It sucks that this guy got done by a patent troll but as others have pointed out you have to be prepared, especially in the US where greedy companies are on the prowl for other peoples ideas. This shouldnt stop this group from moving to another country and continuing their good work. If people want these kinds of treatments, they will travel. And if a patent troll is going to try and milk the whole thing for all its worth its probably cheaper in the long run to go overseas anyway. I'd be very public about it all. So what happend to the prior art? Doesnt documented prior research and proven results trump a patent?
> I mean, I agree with filtering stuff on graffiti
WTF?? Why? Two of my favourite sites is streetsy.com and woostercollective.com, both street art sites featuring *shock* graffiti. Why on earth would anyone want to manditorily ban Australia from some of the best new art and artists of our time? Please explain
Well Seth Green aka Robot Chicken and part of the Family Guy team has made some pretty funny piss takes on Start Wars. As long as its just that it could be ok. I dont know how far you can really stretch it out tho. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
The difference is, for every 4 stupid things the US introduces, 3 are fought and 2 are shot down. For that amount, UK introduces 2 stupid things and both pass with little or no opposition.
You forget the shear volume of stupid bills put up for adoption in the US compared with the UK.
The proposed filter has nothing to do with the practicality of removing such things as pornography, assisted suicide, illicit drug information. It is simply selling the idea that these things will no longer be accessable by children. A recent poll found that most everyday Australians didn't really care too much about the idea of a manditory filter and thought it would be a good idea in the sense that it would protect children. This is exactly what the government wants and is marketing too. And the christian lobby just loves the idea. The actual reality of the whole thing is another matter entirely. Unfortunately as everyone on slashdot knows, within days every preschooler, n00b and computerphobe will have the knowledge to bypass the whole thing making it more of a speedbump than a preventative measure. Conroys crew have already bitten off way more than they can chew with their Australia wide FTTN plan. Good luck to em I say because I see a world of fail comming labours way.
Student who want to use laptops legitimately should not be punished by those who don't. And as others have pointed out, students traditionally doodled or read books or slept so why should this be any different. I think some of the older lecturers are stuck in old ways which are inevitably counter productive. Laptops do more good than harm. Besides its up to the student to pass the exams and it is not the lecturers job to 'nanny' students.
Paypals AUP states as part of its AUP "prohibited activities" that you may not receive payments relating to the *sales* of goods that "infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction". Keyword here being sales. Given that cryptome does not actually sell anything and paypal is used for donations only makes this act by paypal to be somewhat unwarranted I would have thought. Even tho companies tend to do as they please. Will be interested to see what happens.
I completely agree. And as the government takes away freedoms as they are doing the people will revolt. I am certainly not voting for labour in the next election and I think almost all geeks will be doing the same. I am glad to see google stick it to them.
You can register a.com.au with your own name as has other ministers such as Kate Lundy (katelundy.com.au). If these guys were smart they would have found another Stephen Conroy and got him to register it with his own ABN and justified it as a PR website. But I think to be honest, this site would have been pulled regardless. That's just the way it goes.
If your after internet access around London, you can pick up a prepaid USB 3G modem from the local shops (Tescos, etc) and you should find they sell a decent range of geek goods and supplies, some supermarkets even sell laptops, etc. Internet cafes are not something I've seen a lot of but I havent really looked to be honest. I'd bring your laptop (I brought both of mine and use them ever day) You'll should find a few open wireless networks around the place. I haven't been anywhere yet that I haven't been able to borrow some internets. I bought a linksys wrt54gs and put ddwrt on it to use as a personal ap bridge in my apartment. It works a treat. For gettings around it's worth buying a GPS, tomtom, etc as the city is a bit of a maze. If you've got an iPhone, you could run tomtom on it. Bookmark journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk as its very handy for planing trips on public transport (works great via WAP). If you need some converters for your power adapters (most are 100-240v), you can pick them up for a few dollars off ebay. I bought two packs of 5 for about $10. Have fun.
Very true. It's just annoying that a drug that is so detrimental to health is treated as a lesser evil than say pot or LSD or even ecstasy which have almost no fatalities. And then for the big drug companies to sell us an "antidote" on top of the cancer treatment is just missing the point. I guess I am trolling the obvious but I think it would be easier to stop the tobacco trade then sell a patch. And I'm a smoker. Maybe just a ever increasingly bitter one.
Spend billions on cigarettes, then billions on NicVAX and then likely billions on cancer treatments. All while smoking is still legal? I think we are still doing it wrong. If the government was serious, they would make tobacco a scheduled drug. Wouldn't they?
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If its what they have to do to get porn, they'll learn pretty quick.
Not long. And then the government will have a pretty hard time when finally actual something bad happens and they really need to use these investigative tools. I think tho this will be the breaking point with the censorship debarcle and all.
I think its quite cute given the curcumstances. And it was a speeding ticket which is a fair bit nastier than a parking ticket. Ive had my share of blatant revenue tickets and would love to do the same. He should link it to 4chan for the bluff city pedo department.
In the UK we get a link to www.BP.com/OilLeakResponse - quoted as "Info about the Gulf of Mexico Leak. Learn more about how BP is helping"
Amen to that. You only need to go over to groklaw.net to see how patents get raped. Patent are supposed to help new ideas get a foot in the market but instead are being used to stilfe progress and innovation. The whole patent system needs to be torn down and started again from scratch.
Patenting genes is just wrong. I know these companies spend alot in research but you shouldnt just be able own a gene. Cancer is a battle everyone needs to come together and fight on the same team.
I'm interested to see this put to some scientific testing to see how acurate this method actually is. I think its crazy still and i'm just glad my government here in the UK is a tad more sane. I saw another article today about it now being an offence to take photos of police uniformed or plane clothed. Crazyness.
All I know is that for more than ten years I made good money removing malware from Windows boxes. In all fairness tho Windows 7 is a much better effort at a secure OS but saying that 'hackers' are making such comments is just not all that believable. Any serious geek will tell you the long sorded history of windows and all its memorable virii, malware and hacks is nothing to be proud of but I guess if you start telling people what you want them to think and keep at it one day it will stick. I think a few statistics should set the record straight.
Why not take your processes and ideas overseas and do your treatments elsewhere? It sucks that this guy got done by a patent troll but as others have pointed out you have to be prepared, especially in the US where greedy companies are on the prowl for other peoples ideas. This shouldnt stop this group from moving to another country and continuing their good work. If people want these kinds of treatments, they will travel. And if a patent troll is going to try and milk the whole thing for all its worth its probably cheaper in the long run to go overseas anyway. I'd be very public about it all. So what happend to the prior art? Doesnt documented prior research and proven results trump a patent?
Patent trolling/squatting should be outlawed internationally.
Link to the report here http://www.lmsd.org/documents/news/100503_ballard_spahr_report.pdf
I really wonder how much this so very carefully woven report cost. It's quite a piece of work.
Out of curiousity I put backtrack in to ebay and what do you know, theres half a dozen backtrack 4 dvds for sale as Hacking Operating System.
But no rerturns accepted!
Correct me if i'm wrong but these guys look like epic patent trolls - http://www.acaciaresearch.com/pressreleases.htm
> I mean, I agree with filtering stuff on graffiti
WTF?? Why? Two of my favourite sites is streetsy.com and woostercollective.com, both street art sites featuring *shock* graffiti. Why on earth would anyone want to manditorily ban Australia from some of the best new art and artists of our time? Please explain
Well Seth Green aka Robot Chicken and part of the Family Guy team has made some pretty funny piss takes on Start Wars. As long as its just that it could be ok. I dont know how far you can really stretch it out tho. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
The difference is, for every 4 stupid things the US introduces, 3 are fought and 2 are shot down. For that amount, UK introduces 2 stupid things and both pass with little or no opposition.
You forget the shear volume of stupid bills put up for adoption in the US compared with the UK.
The proposed filter has nothing to do with the practicality of removing such things as pornography, assisted suicide, illicit drug information. It is simply selling the idea that these things will no longer be accessable by children. A recent poll found that most everyday Australians didn't really care too much about the idea of a manditory filter and thought it would be a good idea in the sense that it would protect children. This is exactly what the government wants and is marketing too. And the christian lobby just loves the idea. The actual reality of the whole thing is another matter entirely. Unfortunately as everyone on slashdot knows, within days every preschooler, n00b and computerphobe will have the knowledge to bypass the whole thing making it more of a speedbump than a preventative measure. Conroys crew have already bitten off way more than they can chew with their Australia wide FTTN plan. Good luck to em I say because I see a world of fail comming labours way.
Student who want to use laptops legitimately should not be punished by those who don't. And as others have pointed out, students traditionally doodled or read books or slept so why should this be any different. I think some of the older lecturers are stuck in old ways which are inevitably counter productive. Laptops do more good than harm. Besides its up to the student to pass the exams and it is not the lecturers job to 'nanny' students.
Paypals AUP states as part of its AUP "prohibited activities" that you may not receive payments relating to the *sales* of goods that "infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction". Keyword here being sales. Given that cryptome does not actually sell anything and paypal is used for donations only makes this act by paypal to be somewhat unwarranted I would have thought. Even tho companies tend to do as they please. Will be interested to see what happens.
I completely agree. And as the government takes away freedoms as they are doing the people will revolt. I am certainly not voting for labour in the next election and I think almost all geeks will be doing the same. I am glad to see google stick it to them.
Wouldn't the obvious thing to do is shut the email account down and watch for people trying to log into it?
You can register a .com.au with your own name as has other ministers such as Kate Lundy (katelundy.com.au). If these guys were smart they would have found another Stephen Conroy and got him to register it with his own ABN and justified it as a PR website. But I think to be honest, this site would have been pulled regardless. That's just the way it goes.
If your after internet access around London, you can pick up a prepaid USB 3G modem from the local shops (Tescos, etc) and you should find they sell a decent range of geek goods and supplies, some supermarkets even sell laptops, etc. Internet cafes are not something I've seen a lot of but I havent really looked to be honest. I'd bring your laptop (I brought both of mine and use them ever day) You'll should find a few open wireless networks around the place. I haven't been anywhere yet that I haven't been able to borrow some internets. I bought a linksys wrt54gs and put ddwrt on it to use as a personal ap bridge in my apartment. It works a treat. For gettings around it's worth buying a GPS, tomtom, etc as the city is a bit of a maze. If you've got an iPhone, you could run tomtom on it. Bookmark journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk as its very handy for planing trips on public transport (works great via WAP). If you need some converters for your power adapters (most are 100-240v), you can pick them up for a few dollars off ebay. I bought two packs of 5 for about $10. Have fun.
Very true. It's just annoying that a drug that is so detrimental to health is treated as a lesser evil than say pot or LSD or even ecstasy which have almost no fatalities. And then for the big drug companies to sell us an "antidote" on top of the cancer treatment is just missing the point. I guess I am trolling the obvious but I think it would be easier to stop the tobacco trade then sell a patch. And I'm a smoker. Maybe just a ever increasingly bitter one.
Spend billions on cigarettes, then billions on NicVAX and then likely billions on cancer treatments. All while smoking is still legal? I think we are still doing it wrong. If the government was serious, they would make tobacco a scheduled drug. Wouldn't they?