It can also be used to remote de-energise (and subsequently re-energise) a location duing a load shedding event. The ability to do so selectively allows them to leave life support customers turned on, and the ability to bring them on in small batches reduces the chance of the network failing to come back online gracefully.
BTW the other common reason poeple have their power turned off is when there is a change of resident and the property is vacant for a period of time. This will no longer require them to send someone out to remove/replace the primary fuse.
Over recent years people, especially young people, have gradually become accoustomed to posting more and more information about themselve on teh interwebs. Teenagers in particular have become aclimatised to this lesser expectation of privacy - it's almost as if they need to post about an event to validate that they have experienced it (SS or it didn't happen).
Whether intentional or not, these poeple are being trained not to expect privacy for themselves or anyone else - aided by the media and modern celebraties for whom there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Andy Warhol said everyone would get their 15 minutes of fame, these kids have somehow been convinced that privacy = being a nobody, and everybody should be a somebody (famous).
I'm reading this article from a workstation running IE6, because that's the SOE for where I work. Non SOe software which is not authorised (and alternate browsers are not authorised) are heavily and actively policed.
I'm guessing they chose to cite rape and child ponography because they are emotional issues that people generally hold strong opinions about in the real world.
With current technology, it is unlikely (but not impossible) that you would find yourself in a situation where you would be as emotionally invested in your avatar where an attack would be personally damaging on an emotional level. As technology improves and people associate more closely with their online representation, it increases the likelyhood that an assult on your virtual self will begin to equate to an attack on your real self.
Take the world portrayed in the Surrogates, would an murder or rape of a surrogate be perceived as being an assult on the person? How much better does technolgy need to get before we hit that boundary?
Most societies have concepts which are taboo. Many of these revolve around bodily function. The social convention is that you don't do or discuss these things in public.
What is society really, but a series of rules that allow us to occupy a small space together without killing each other.
Taboos evolve with society, most people today would be more confortable discussing their sex life than their paycheck. Money itself is now considered obscene.
Corollary for the GP - you may not realise it but even some women watch porn, fantasie (have you seen the size of the Mills and Boon romance market) and some even mastubate too.
I'm pretty sure that "Australian politician" doesn't mean paranoid, misinformed and dangerously ignorant jerk"... but I could be wrong
Possibly means "madder than a cut snake" and "couldn't lie straight in bed". Conroy is not helping the image.
Sometimes you get the impression they have forgotten that Australia is supposed to be a Representative Democracy - they are supposed to represent the views and interests of the electorate - NOT thier personal views.
I shouldn't have to run tunnelling software to access simple webpages. What they are proposing is mandatory filtering of all internet traffic - it's not something you click a check box to opt out of - that's what "Mandatory" means.
Oi! As an Australian I object to you speaking on my behalf in claiming we like censorship. I'm pretty sure if I did a straw poll among my friends they would pretty much all be against it. Even the parents with young children.
I'm in support of the rating of content so that consumers can make informed choices (and take personal responsibility for those choices), but it is not up to the government to decide that certain content is took challenging for me to accept/tolerate/understand. That way bad things lie.
You obviously never used on of the original Apple Extended Keyboards, which had a great action on them and were fabulously durable. I kept using one right up until the loss of the ADB port.
The video issues on the P52xx deserve a special place in hell for the QA engineers who OK'd the product, however I always hated the P7220 more from the point of view of a tech. I would have said the PB190/5300 laptops (contemporaries of the P52xx) edged the Performas out for number of batch issues.
On the topic of PowerMacs, I had several great powermacs, and there were several generations of great designs. They don't deserve to all be slammed.
I wonder what their definition of success was. Take the 20th Anniversary Mac for example, they were a limited edition item which had a waiting list. Sounds pretty successful to me.
The Mac Portable is another example which I would have said was a market leader and what they learned from the luggable became the PB100 line which was hugely successful.
Sounds like a variant on a printer Xerox were working on a few years back. Refer to entry on UV printers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_(computing)#Inkless_printers).
I've seen plenty of printers with a 1M impression lifespan, but you're not going to buy them for $200.
I used to implement printrooms with digital printers producing several million impressions per month (we used to joke they needed to do a minimum of 1 million just to keep the engines running smoothly) but they are hundreds of thousands of dollars per device not including the operating costs.
Of course they're different. You can give it away free. You can import it yourself. Posession isn't an offence. All three of these would be illegal if it were actually banned.
Dont assume that possession is legal - did you know that owning more than 50 X-rated titles is illegal in Victoria?
I am currently browsing this thread on a work computer using IE6 - the corporate mandated and only available SOE browser. I made passing comment once to ITS about installing FireFox or IE8 and the response was unambiguously negative.
I know I was a C cup at age 14... The practical non-existence on commercial internet in the'80s didn't stop guys who were significantly old than me hitting on me then. Censoring pictures of small busted women won't stop people from being perverts now.
Apple are a successful manufacturer/vendor of consumer products. They have an above average track record of creating products consumers want. It is of no benefit to them to create a product that consumers don't want to buy. Their main growth in recent years has been in consumer appliances.
I don't get why the anti-Apple-fanboys feel the need to prove that non-geeks will decide on what consumer products to purchase based on the same super-geeky criteria they use.
Slashdot Mirror
It can also be used to remote de-energise (and subsequently re-energise) a location duing a load shedding event. The ability to do so selectively allows them to leave life support customers turned on, and the ability to bring them on in small batches reduces the chance of the network failing to come back online gracefully.
BTW the other common reason poeple have their power turned off is when there is a change of resident and the property is vacant for a period of time. This will no longer require them to send someone out to remove/replace the primary fuse.
Another potential benefit is precise outage management allowing for much faster identification of outage patterns to allow for faster rectification.
Slashdot. Where size matters. Smaller is beter - and I'm referring to your user ID.
This pisses you off as a father of daughters... how do you think us women gamers feel?
Over recent years people, especially young people, have gradually become accoustomed to posting more and more information about themselve on teh interwebs. Teenagers in particular have become aclimatised to this lesser expectation of privacy - it's almost as if they need to post about an event to validate that they have experienced it (SS or it didn't happen).
Whether intentional or not, these poeple are being trained not to expect privacy for themselves or anyone else - aided by the media and modern celebraties for whom there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Andy Warhol said everyone would get their 15 minutes of fame, these kids have somehow been convinced that privacy = being a nobody, and everybody should be a somebody (famous).
Singin' this'll be the day that I... (rolls 2d6 to save...) die...
Everyone knows a saving throw is a d20 roll...
I'm reading this article from a workstation running IE6, because that's the SOE for where I work. Non SOe software which is not authorised (and alternate browsers are not authorised) are heavily and actively policed.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation.
I'm guessing they chose to cite rape and child ponography because they are emotional issues that people generally hold strong opinions about in the real world.
With current technology, it is unlikely (but not impossible) that you would find yourself in a situation where you would be as emotionally invested in your avatar where an attack would be personally damaging on an emotional level. As technology improves and people associate more closely with their online representation, it increases the likelyhood that an assult on your virtual self will begin to equate to an attack on your real self.
Take the world portrayed in the Surrogates, would an murder or rape of a surrogate be perceived as being an assult on the person? How much better does technolgy need to get before we hit that boundary?
Most societies have concepts which are taboo. Many of these revolve around bodily function. The social convention is that you don't do or discuss these things in public.
What is society really, but a series of rules that allow us to occupy a small space together without killing each other.
Taboos evolve with society, most people today would be more confortable discussing their sex life than their paycheck. Money itself is now considered obscene.
I can't remembe the names of the characters of the top of my head, "Blade" was one of them I think. The UBER hackers in the movie Hackers were asian.
Hack the Planet!
Corollary for the GP - you may not realise it but even some women watch porn, fantasie (have you seen the size of the Mills and Boon romance market) and some even mastubate too.
Do you think I broke his little brain.
Come on, surely Tasmania is the Australian Arkansas
South Australia is more the Australian Idaho
I'm pretty sure that "Australian politician" doesn't mean paranoid, misinformed and dangerously ignorant jerk"... but I could be wrong
Possibly means "madder than a cut snake" and "couldn't lie straight in bed". Conroy is not helping the image.
Sometimes you get the impression they have forgotten that Australia is supposed to be a Representative Democracy - they are supposed to represent the views and interests of the electorate - NOT thier personal views.
Strikes me as particulary poor naming for a knife. It needs something sharper.
I shouldn't have to run tunnelling software to access simple webpages. What they are proposing is mandatory filtering of all internet traffic - it's not something you click a check box to opt out of - that's what "Mandatory" means.
Oi! As an Australian I object to you speaking on my behalf in claiming we like censorship. I'm pretty sure if I did a straw poll among my friends they would pretty much all be against it. Even the parents with young children.
I'm in support of the rating of content so that consumers can make informed choices (and take personal responsibility for those choices), but it is not up to the government to decide that certain content is took challenging for me to accept/tolerate/understand. That way bad things lie.
You obviously never used on of the original Apple Extended Keyboards, which had a great action on them and were fabulously durable. I kept using one right up until the loss of the ADB port.
The video issues on the P52xx deserve a special place in hell for the QA engineers who OK'd the product, however I always hated the P7220 more from the point of view of a tech. I would have said the PB190/5300 laptops (contemporaries of the P52xx) edged the Performas out for number of batch issues.
On the topic of PowerMacs, I had several great powermacs, and there were several generations of great designs. They don't deserve to all be slammed.
I wonder what their definition of success was. Take the 20th Anniversary Mac for example, they were a limited edition item which had a waiting list. Sounds pretty successful to me.
The Mac Portable is another example which I would have said was a market leader and what they learned from the luggable became the PB100 line which was hugely successful.
Sounds like a variant on a printer Xerox were working on a few years back. Refer to entry on UV printers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_(computing)#Inkless_printers).
I've seen plenty of printers with a 1M impression lifespan, but you're not going to buy them for $200.
I used to implement printrooms with digital printers producing several million impressions per month (we used to joke they needed to do a minimum of 1 million just to keep the engines running smoothly) but they are hundreds of thousands of dollars per device not including the operating costs.
Of course they're different. You can give it away free. You can import it yourself. Posession isn't an offence. All three of these would be illegal if it were actually banned.
Dont assume that possession is legal - did you know that owning more than 50 X-rated titles is illegal in Victoria?
I am currently browsing this thread on a work computer using IE6 - the corporate mandated and only available SOE browser. I made passing comment once to ITS about installing FireFox or IE8 and the response was unambiguously negative.
I know I was a C cup at age 14... The practical non-existence on commercial internet in the'80s didn't stop guys who were significantly old than me hitting on me then. Censoring pictures of small busted women won't stop people from being perverts now.
Apple are a successful manufacturer/vendor of consumer products. They have an above average track record of creating products consumers want. It is of no benefit to them to create a product that consumers don't want to buy. Their main growth in recent years has been in consumer appliances.
I don't get why the anti-Apple-fanboys feel the need to prove that non-geeks will decide on what consumer products to purchase based on the same super-geeky criteria they use.