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  1. Leagalise "Sheep love" on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    I'm quite sure this is simply a way to legalize sexual relations with sheep. Politicians couldn't be seen to propose this, but left open to the general population of NZ it'll find it's way in there.

  2. AJAX VS Portlets on Ajax Is the Buzz of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    What are peoples oppinions on AJAX vs Portlet development. Portal Server as immature, buggy, expensive and a real pain to develop for.
    My current client has is implemeting a web app with web app style navigation and 1 portlet per page bcause the architects fucked it up, the UI people have no idea about portal projects and they wont change it now.

    Ajax would have been a much better solution for my client as the only thing they are gaining is asynchronous updates to part of a page (the portlet)

    Thoughts?

  3. Re:Breach Of Contract Is Not A Crime on End User License Gems · · Score: 1

    Also in australia for a contract to be binding proof must be supplied that the contractee has:
    A) seen the contract
    b) read the contract
    c) understood the contract.

    I just clicked through... no contract

  4. Auscert on Australia Vulnerable to Korean Hacking Army · · Score: 1

    I wonder what Auscert would have to say about this?

  5. My tinfoil hat... on FDA Approves Implantable RFID for Patients · · Score: 1

    Wont protect me from this one...
    Any one know where I can get a tin foil track suit?

  6. Happens all the time on Political Cybersquatting Or Free Speech? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not? Companies do this to each other at any chance they get. People make money by registering domain names and selling them at inflated prices to companies you'd expect to own them. Still when I go to a site that's not what I'm expecting e.g. looing for a proxy server it bugs me. So it's probably turning voters against him.

  7. My Experience on One Terrible Job: IT Manager · · Score: 1

    As an analyst, I am required to stay back as late as the managers "Incase im needed" just because I own a copule of design areas, So the hours are similar.
    The pay is worse.
    The responsibility is the same, who gets credit for sucess and ass kicking for failure?

    I did a search to find out what Contracted PM's get. the only one that turned up in london is a Siebel project (Im on one atm). Bet the pay is awesome.

    So If I aspire towards IT management, how shit does that make my job now?

  8. Re:Could be a good thing on China Rewards Porn Snitches · · Score: 1

    Could be a bad thing, if chinese porn spammers start forwarding all thier email to the government and getting paid or it.

  9. Dan Brown on Air Force Researching Antimatter Weapons · · Score: 1

    Has no one read Angels and Deamons? Dont you know what will happen when the pope gets his hands on this stuff!!!

  10. Re:Do-Not-Mail List on SCO Gets More Desperate; Sends More Letters · · Score: 1

    if we could get sco blacklisted with spamcop for sending spam email about licensing linux, and find the postal equivalent, maybe this whole thing will blow over.

  11. eye_for_an_eye on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Well thats the last time any one bails steve fosset out.

  12. Right to bear arms on DIY Cruise Missile Grounded · · Score: 1

    Surely there is no constitutional right to arms in NZ? im sure they could have charged him with something else. Non payment of taxes is not going to prevent someone else doing this.
    Perhaps in the gun happy US it would have been legal, and possibly the worst place for this to happen.

    I wonder how he could ever test this missile?

  13. Re:A testament to crypt() on The Death Throes of crypt() · · Score: 1

    Further info on DES.

    DES was built based on the lucipher cypher along time ago, it was based on a 64 - 8 bit keyspace and uses both permutation and substitution. it encrypts a padded out 64 bits of plain text with the key. it can be used in cypher block chaining mode to encrypt streams of data.
    The DES algorithm runs the exact same permutations to decrypt and to encrypt in the same order.
    Tripple DES is preffered over double DES as double des can leave to much information about the plain text (digraphs and trigraphs i think, cant remember).

    There, I did remember something from my Internet Security subject

  14. Re:Powerbook dropped down the stairs on What's the Hardiest Hardware You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    wow, i saw a mate drop his from knee height in its bag, and it split the top of the case!

  15. Re:Missing from the list on Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO · · Score: 1

    good link, i would have put that one in the top 5.

  16. Re:Mr Hellwig on More Damning SCO Evidence At Groklaw · · Score: 1

    What does his contract state? thats the question.
    Mine says any code i produce in or out of office hours is the property of the firm. Good fodder for the lawyers.

  17. Managed internet service in schools on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    I work part time in a primary school while I study.

    There are rules that teachers impose such as the ones presented in the original post.

    But more restrictive are things at the education department level. about what we can and cannot put on the schools web site (ie pictures of the kids), sites can be blocked.. even to the point that google images searches are blocked altogether because of porn.

    I do use squid and iptables as the only gateway (pointing at the parent cache run by the department) and it does require individual logins. I have never had to check the logs for who was looking at what.

    chat is blocked, but I have writen a simple chat program that the kids use internaly. It also logs conversations.

    I dont like the fact that they have no privacy, I do like the fact that I have done my best to prevent nasty things from happening so that when something does i have a leg to stand on

  18. Re:Preferential voting system on E-Voting Done Right - In Australia · · Score: 1

    case and point:
    It happens regularly that while one party get more votes overall, another party wins. makes no sense to me.
    and seeing as voting is compulsory over here, the simplicity of a while loop to donkey vote for you would be nice.

  19. Re:Seriously... on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    hell no, thats what a 2 iron is for.

    but I think that, by american standards, this gives australia the right to invade the US and occupy the country, overthrow the government and steal all the oil.

  20. National Privacy Principals on Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Australia has National Privacy Principals which among other things forces companies that gross 3mil plus PA to inform users that data is being colledted and stored and for what purpose. it also must allow a person access to any data that is stored about them.
    There is also a bill in parliment that will do more and will have hefty penalties.

    I dont know exactly what XP sends to microsoft, other than SN details but the average user trusts MS and for the moeny they pay for a license they should be able to.

  21. Re:Tooltips on reality on High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory · · Score: 1

    • A restart button on conversations.

    • killall command at meetings.

    etc.
  22. Re:Can't remember where you put them on High-Tech Glasses Help Improve Memory · · Score: 1

    They did, twice already, read b4 u post

  23. Re:How many hops? on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    We certainly didnt get much tech info on this in the cnn article.
    What hardware was used for routing? what routing algorithms? how many hops, and what effect did latency have?

    All very important issues when you consider it's primary use in future will be for faster fragging in cs :)

  24. Re:geekiest of the geekiest? on C-64 Diehards Relive History · · Score: 1

    for each geek in theCakeLine{...

  25. Re:like the metric system on IBM, Brazilian Government Launch Linux Effort · · Score: 1

    (American comment)
    Metrix System? New Zealand ? never heard of them!