The government releases a software package called e-tax every year which you can use to file your tax thingy.
Unfortunately, it's Windows only, which I reckon is a pretty slack effort by the Tax Office. I mean the program isn't all that complex and could easily be ported.
If anyone from.au is using a free electronic solution that's as good as e-tax, or at least adequate, hit me up with the info!
Did it occur to you they maybe just add up the total number of personal number entries in the white pages for each district or whatever, then subtract that from the total population?
O.K so I glossed over unlisted numbers, but they could also gather that data from telcos. Just call up the telco and ask how many people they have subscribed. Add them all up, subtract that from the total population.
O.K I'm probably too late for the mods to take ths up, and as such nobody will notice this, but I'll try anyway.
Everyone has been mentioning the superior featureset of Opera, saying its innovative, listing things like good CSS support, the instant back/forward caching, but they forgot one!
Auto-refresh! This is the best feature EVER you can set a page to refresh every N seconds, do you know how useful that is for forum whores and the like?
O.K so all of my bias, etc aside. I think this is a good idea for HP. Let's think about it.
1. Assuming a semi stable enviroment (which I class WinXP MCE as) the user will probably never see much of a difference between Linux or MS. They won't see the underlying difference.
2. There is no equivalent of MPlayer for linux that won't get HP in trouble. If they start selling off these things with linux on them they'll have to use MPlayer to get any sort of decent functionality and MS/Apple/everyone else will sue the pants off them.
3. Linux is inherently OSS. It isn't going to be as easy to build DRM checking into it as it is for Windows MCE. Now I'm not sure if HP is onto a good idea or not, but let's say it is. So this thing gets big, and without DRM they become a target for the RIAA. Now they aren't in a situation like Apple/iTunes, but things could still get ugly.
I think this is a potentially a very cool thing, but you have to admit it's immensley funny if you think about it.
Five Pioneer R&D guys sitting at a table, thinking what they are going to do with Blu-Ray. One of them looks down at his bag of nacho's... look's up at the picture of the DVD, then back at the Nacho's.
I wonder how they work out the values for the source they steal. Is it just based on how long it took them to get it, or do they have a formula like the Ed Norton one in Fight Club?
This is a reply to this post, and the one a bit further down stating the same thing.
It works both ways. If some enterprising individual were to leave a SINGLE mature male marijuana plant in a field of hemp, every single seed resulting from that pollen would be a marijuana seed, not hemp.
In fact, trends on the overgrow forums, etc already show some people are doing this. Among stoners, naturally growing hemp (what Jefferson called Indian Hemp plant) has been nicknamed "ditchweed" because you often find it growing in ditches on the side of US highways.
Now, male plants need to be removed from a marijuana grow so they don't pollenate the buds and you get "sinsemilla" (seedless) buds full of THC and CBN. Which means they need to be destroyed, which can be difficult sometimes, so people are leaving their male plants in ditchweed patches, just for fun basically. Law enforcement doesnt bother because it looks exactly the same, but all the new plants that sprout in a years time from the seeds are marijuana plants, not hemp.
They don't "just get larger than most chimps", the articles state that while they are chimps from a specific family, their behavioural and "nesting" traits are a variation on both gorilla and chimp traits.
That's neither sensationalist nor is it "totally common".
O.K so I know I'm replying late and I will probably be missed by the mods but who cares.
Firefox is getting big. I'm in Australia, so I know our Law & Order episodes are behind you in the Americas, but a few nights ago watching an episode of SVU I saw one of the detectives pull open her laptop, and run a google search. As soon as she did it, I noticed she was using Firefox for win32!
If it's getting used in show props as a realistic tool, it means people in non-nerd industries are looking at it. That means its getting really big!
Everyone is saying "Not too earth shattering" or "My browser already does this!".
Who doesn't think google can do it better? Of course this will be a glorified "I'm feeling lucky" but google can probably make big bucks selling keywords, to the likes of movies promoters for new release movies (like AOL).
This isn't the biggest chunk of news ever, obviously, but haven't we all seen something LESS newsworthy on/.?
That's only if the Postgres team doesn't accept my patch entitled "Reproductive Organs for Postgres", aimed squarely at those who love Postgres so much...well...you guys get the idea.
No, but seriously, the blurb says this is low latency, how that's the case, I fail to see. First client wants to send a HTTP GET or something similar via Tor, so every packet involved needs that info, plus a little bit extra to get it to the next node, plus a little bit more so the end node knows where it needs to be in the end on the return. So that's two extra little bits, then the stuff gets sent one node across which takes its info off and puts new info on.
Where is the low latency here? All this peeling/adding layers to peel off must be fairly time consuming. I'll admit I quite like the idea, and as soon as I click Submit I'm going to download and try it, but I fail to see how this can be faster than say, InvisibleIRC (IIP) was.
Telstra's IT head wanted to run Linux to cut costs. In a business they figure things out using a cost-benefit ratio. In fact, most human beings do this.
Microsoft simply offered them a deal with better cost-benefit ratio. Telstra aren't going to be downloading ISO's, they would be buying something like SuSE or RedHat. So Microsoft simply discounts prices, and Telstra has cut costs, without needing to move everything across to a new system.
As an Aussie, it's my duty to hate Telstra, but the headline is so very wrong.
I just read my own post and realised I forgot to make a point. The point was, maybe the reason Intel and AMD have slowed down on their roadmaps is because we have a over abundance of CPU horsepower at the moment?
As I wait for the skin to grow back on my eyes from this horrible colour scheme, I can consider the information in the story summary.
We're obviously starting to see a convergence between the industrial processor market and the end-user one. I mean three years ago you would get a dual 3.2GHz (1.6 * 2) system to host a medium sized website, and that kind of horsepower is probably still adequate today. So what kind of apps (I mean, apart from Doom 3) do end users need this kind of grunt for? 3GHz? 3.6GHz? 4Ghz?! If Architects could use AutoCAD 2000 on a 950MHz cpu, without complaint, what has changed? Obviously a speed increase is nice, but three or four times that?
Are we going to see a point where the convergence turns to over taking, and end-user CPU's need to be faster than a lot of corporate stuff?
p.s: I'm aware of shit.slashdot.org, no karma whores please.
Ukranian hackers? Backdoor access to his router, internet connection and personal network?
Firstly, it was a freaking wireless music player, not a router. Secondly, even if it was, how does that give "Ukranian" hackers access to his personal network? I've never seen a hardware router that could sniff packets or would divulge any personal information, or connect to other computers on the network in file retreival mode (the closest thing to this is passive upload TFTP). The best they could do is shut the internet off.
I might be wrong (didn't RTFA), but does this really seem viable?
I mean you take a train sized vehicle off tracks and put it on the road, and there's all sorts of trouble. Most roads are rated to handle a specific weight vehicle. I mean you wouldn't even be able to navigate train sized vehicles on any street except the widest straightest ones.
Then you look on the other side, what if the train-car thing is smaller? Then there's no point! The whole attraction of trains is the amount of stuff they can carry compared to trucks. If people want a "smaller than train" vehicle, they'll hire a big truck!
I hope I'm wrong, but I see this going down the same path as that tourbus car that can also act as a boat.
They can't control them, they can simply view them. You don't "control" CCTV, its a simplex system. The cameras are there, and you view input from the camera.
Speaking as someone who sysadmin'd at one of the top five universities in my country, I can say that most universities are like this.
Security is lax, well, because the information that someone would want to steal is usually already available on the various faculty websites.
The only things I can think of that are actually worth securing ARE secured. Who cares if these guys can change someones email password. Most uni students don't even use their supplied email addresses, and they are usually only used as a redundant means of sending out marks. I wouldn't be worried about the CCTV monitoring either. It's not like the CCTV was viewing some "restricted" area of the university. Want to see what's going on? Walk down there and take a look. *gasp*.
I'm probably being a troll (I can't even tell anymore) but honestly, most university security is so lax because there simply isn't that much data that requires securing.
That's just we all needed. As if a bunch of nerds quoting monty python if high pitched shrill nasal voices, followed by raucous laughter wasn't bad enough, now they'll be singing it.
In the beginning, God created the universe, and saw that it was good. And God created Man, and Man developed Windows 3.1. Angered, God sent a UDP packet flood filled with His wrath to destroy the sins of man.
Time went on, and once again mankind became wicked and corrupt. Arrogantly, a tower was built of such size and breadth that it was said that it would reach the Gates of heaven, and it was named the tower of Win32. God punished the wickedness of man by releasing a plague of worms o'er the land, and caused the tribes of men to be unable to interoperate. The tribe of Noob called their language Me98. The tribe of Sadmin called their language Entie2000, or Ekspee in certain regions.
And time went on in that manner for some time. But yet again, mankind became frought with sin, and God sent a savior, whom he named Linus. But the descendents of the tribe of Redmond had Linus berated under the rule of Pontius PHB.
And God spake, "fsck this", and made Linux the True System of the Universe. And he didst pipe all sinners into/dev/null, and he didst give those of kind spirit very high "nice" priorities.
(disclaimer I copied this from someone elses slashdot post a long time ago)
Doesn't this strike anyone else as pretty, well..useless?
Cellphone in a wrist-watch? How do I dial a number when I want to make a call? Or did someone suddenly decide the caclulator digital watch was a good model to follow?
Or is there some attachable keypad you use to dial the number? Wait. You mean like a current phone and some handsfree earpieces, a speakerphone, or even a bluetooth headset?
Inside ear-rings? Sorry, but I've seen the photos of that corporate executive lady who spent three or four hours on her cell every day. Nice cancerous ring around the ear section of the skull.
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In the same boat down here in .au land.
.au is using a free electronic solution that's as good as e-tax, or at least adequate, hit me up with the info!
The government releases a software package called e-tax every year which you can use to file your tax thingy.
Unfortunately, it's Windows only, which I reckon is a pretty slack effort by the Tax Office. I mean the program isn't all that complex and could easily be ported.
If anyone from
Anyone care to explain what this is, to those of us too lazy to read the article, and ignorant enough to not already know what it is?
Fine. Subtract it from the total number of households from the last census.
Did it occur to you they maybe just add up the total number of personal number entries in the white pages for each district or whatever, then subtract that from the total population?
O.K so I glossed over unlisted numbers, but they could also gather that data from telcos. Just call up the telco and ask how many people they have subscribed. Add them all up, subtract that from the total population.
O.K I'm probably too late for the mods to take ths up, and as such nobody will notice this, but I'll try anyway.
Everyone has been mentioning the superior featureset of Opera, saying its innovative, listing things like good CSS support, the instant back/forward caching, but they forgot one!
Auto-refresh! This is the best feature EVER you can set a page to refresh every N seconds, do you know how useful that is for forum whores and the like?
O.K so all of my bias, etc aside. I think this is a good idea for HP. Let's think about it.
1. Assuming a semi stable enviroment (which I class WinXP MCE as) the user will probably never see much of a difference between Linux or MS. They won't see the underlying difference.
2. There is no equivalent of MPlayer for linux that won't get HP in trouble. If they start selling off these things with linux on them they'll have to use MPlayer to get any sort of decent functionality and MS/Apple/everyone else will sue the pants off them.
3. Linux is inherently OSS. It isn't going to be as easy to build DRM checking into it as it is for Windows MCE. Now I'm not sure if HP is onto a good idea or not, but let's say it is. So this thing gets big, and without DRM they become a target for the RIAA. Now they aren't in a situation like Apple/iTunes, but things could still get ugly.
I think this is a potentially a very cool thing, but you have to admit it's immensley funny if you think about it.
Five Pioneer R&D guys sitting at a table, thinking what they are going to do with Blu-Ray. One of them looks down at his bag of nacho's... look's up at the picture of the DVD, then back at the Nacho's.
The rest is history.
I wonder how they work out the values for the source they steal. Is it just based on how long it took them to get it, or do they have a formula like the Ed Norton one in Fight Club?
This is a reply to this post, and the one a bit further down stating the same thing.
It works both ways. If some enterprising individual were to leave a SINGLE mature male marijuana plant in a field of hemp, every single seed resulting from that pollen would be a marijuana seed, not hemp.
In fact, trends on the overgrow forums, etc already show some people are doing this. Among stoners, naturally growing hemp (what Jefferson called Indian Hemp plant) has been nicknamed "ditchweed" because you often find it growing in ditches on the side of US highways.
Now, male plants need to be removed from a marijuana grow so they don't pollenate the buds and you get "sinsemilla" (seedless) buds full of THC and CBN. Which means they need to be destroyed, which can be difficult sometimes, so people are leaving their male plants in ditchweed patches, just for fun basically. Law enforcement doesnt bother because it looks exactly the same, but all the new plants that sprout in a years time from the seeds are marijuana plants, not hemp.
They don't "just get larger than most chimps", the articles state that while they are chimps from a specific family, their behavioural and "nesting" traits are a variation on both gorilla and chimp traits.
That's neither sensationalist nor is it "totally common".
O.K so I know I'm replying late and I will probably be missed by the mods but who cares.
Firefox is getting big. I'm in Australia, so I know our Law & Order episodes are behind you in the Americas, but a few nights ago watching an episode of SVU I saw one of the detectives pull open her laptop, and run a google search. As soon as she did it, I noticed she was using Firefox for win32!
If it's getting used in show props as a realistic tool, it means people in non-nerd industries are looking at it. That means its getting really big!
Everyone is saying "Not too earth shattering" or "My browser already does this!".
/.?
Who doesn't think google can do it better? Of course this will be a glorified "I'm feeling lucky" but google can probably make big bucks selling keywords, to the likes of movies promoters for new release movies (like AOL).
This isn't the biggest chunk of news ever, obviously, but haven't we all seen something LESS newsworthy on
That's only if the Postgres team doesn't accept my patch entitled "Reproductive Organs for Postgres", aimed squarely at those who love Postgres so much...well...you guys get the idea.
Tor - The internet onion!
No, but seriously, the blurb says this is low latency, how that's the case, I fail to see. First client wants to send a HTTP GET or something similar via Tor, so every packet involved needs that info, plus a little bit extra to get it to the next node, plus a little bit more so the end node knows where it needs to be in the end on the return. So that's two extra little bits, then the stuff gets sent one node across which takes its info off and puts new info on.
Where is the low latency here? All this peeling/adding layers to peel off must be fairly time consuming. I'll admit I quite like the idea, and as soon as I click Submit I'm going to download and try it, but I fail to see how this can be faster than say, InvisibleIRC (IIP) was.
Somehow I doubt this is the case.
Telstra's IT head wanted to run Linux to cut costs. In a business they figure things out using a cost-benefit ratio. In fact, most human beings do this.
Microsoft simply offered them a deal with better cost-benefit ratio. Telstra aren't going to be downloading ISO's, they would be buying something like SuSE or RedHat. So Microsoft simply discounts prices, and Telstra has cut costs, without needing to move everything across to a new system.
As an Aussie, it's my duty to hate Telstra, but the headline is so very wrong.
I just read my own post and realised I forgot to make a point. The point was, maybe the reason Intel and AMD have slowed down on their roadmaps is because we have a over abundance of CPU horsepower at the moment?
As I wait for the skin to grow back on my eyes from this horrible colour scheme, I can consider the information in the story summary.
We're obviously starting to see a convergence between the industrial processor market and the end-user one. I mean three years ago you would get a dual 3.2GHz (1.6 * 2) system to host a medium sized website, and that kind of horsepower is probably still adequate today. So what kind of apps (I mean, apart from Doom 3) do end users need this kind of grunt for? 3GHz? 3.6GHz? 4Ghz?! If Architects could use AutoCAD 2000 on a 950MHz cpu, without complaint, what has changed? Obviously a speed increase is nice, but three or four times that?
Are we going to see a point where the convergence turns to over taking, and end-user CPU's need to be faster than a lot of corporate stuff?
p.s: I'm aware of shit.slashdot.org, no karma whores please.
Oh come ON!
Ukranian hackers? Backdoor access to his router, internet connection and personal network?
Firstly, it was a freaking wireless music player, not a router. Secondly, even if it was, how does that give "Ukranian" hackers access to his personal network? I've never seen a hardware router that could sniff packets or would divulge any personal information, or connect to other computers on the network in file retreival mode (the closest thing to this is passive upload TFTP). The best they could do is shut the internet off.
You're talking crazy.
I might be wrong (didn't RTFA), but does this really seem viable?
I mean you take a train sized vehicle off tracks and put it on the road, and there's all sorts of trouble. Most roads are rated to handle a specific weight vehicle. I mean you wouldn't even be able to navigate train sized vehicles on any street except the widest straightest ones.
Then you look on the other side, what if the train-car thing is smaller? Then there's no point! The whole attraction of trains is the amount of stuff they can carry compared to trucks. If people want a "smaller than train" vehicle, they'll hire a big truck!
I hope I'm wrong, but I see this going down the same path as that tourbus car that can also act as a boat.
They can't control them, they can simply view them. You don't "control" CCTV, its a simplex system. The cameras are there, and you view input from the camera.
Speaking as someone who sysadmin'd at one of the top five universities in my country, I can say that most universities are like this.
Security is lax, well, because the information that someone would want to steal is usually already available on the various faculty websites.
The only things I can think of that are actually worth securing ARE secured. Who cares if these guys can change someones email password. Most uni students don't even use their supplied email addresses, and they are usually only used as a redundant means of sending out marks. I wouldn't be worried about the CCTV monitoring either. It's not like the CCTV was viewing some "restricted" area of the university. Want to see what's going on? Walk down there and take a look. *gasp*.
I'm probably being a troll (I can't even tell anymore) but honestly, most university security is so lax because there simply isn't that much data that requires securing.
That's just we all needed. As if a bunch of nerds quoting monty python if high pitched shrill nasal voices, followed by raucous laughter wasn't bad enough, now they'll be singing it.
In the beginning, God created the universe, and saw that it was good. And God created Man, and Man developed Windows 3.1. Angered, God sent a UDP packet flood filled with His wrath to destroy the sins of man. Time went on, and once again mankind became wicked and corrupt. Arrogantly, a tower was built of such size and breadth that it was said that it would reach the Gates of heaven, and it was named the tower of Win32. God punished the wickedness of man by releasing a plague of worms o'er the land, and caused the tribes of men to be unable to interoperate. The tribe of Noob called their language Me98. The tribe of Sadmin called their language Entie2000, or Ekspee in certain regions. And time went on in that manner for some time. But yet again, mankind became frought with sin, and God sent a savior, whom he named Linus. But the descendents of the tribe of Redmond had Linus berated under the rule of Pontius PHB. And God spake, "fsck this", and made Linux the True System of the Universe. And he didst pipe all sinners into /dev/null, and he didst give those of kind spirit very high "nice" priorities.
(disclaimer I copied this from someone elses slashdot post a long time ago)
Doesn't this strike anyone else as pretty, well..useless?
Cellphone in a wrist-watch? How do I dial a number when I want to make a call? Or did someone suddenly decide the caclulator digital watch was a good model to follow?
Or is there some attachable keypad you use to dial the number? Wait. You mean like a current phone and some handsfree earpieces, a speakerphone, or even a bluetooth headset?
Inside ear-rings? Sorry, but I've seen the photos of that corporate executive lady who spent three or four hours on her cell every day. Nice cancerous ring around the ear section of the skull.
This kind of makes me angry. I'm going to quote fight club here, feel free to flame away.
"The things you own, end up owning you."