The original report from the trial, mentioned in the summary, said this very thing. Yet the government called it a glorious success and rushed through decisions to implement it.
That said, there are a LOT of open source games that are terrible. But I wonder how many concept pitch games there are that we never see, that are terrible?
Imagine is exactly right, because the blacklist will be secret. The explanation being that having a list of RC material available will encourage people to view it... except they won't be able to...
Incidentally, for the people who think this filter is about blocking child porn, consider this: Child porn is illegal, and is the jurisdiction of the federal police. The blacklist will not be maintained by the police, and any ILLEGAL content is to be submitted to the police. The RC filter list is only for UNDESIRABLE content, content that is NOT illegal.
It also covers material on ‘radio or television or broadcast on the Internet’. ‘Broadcast’, at least as it is defined in Commonwealth legislation, covers audio or visual transmissions but not text and static images (see s 6, Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (Cth)). So this requirement would cover radio and television stations and probably podcasters as well.
It is important to note that this legislation does not require each commentator on a website to be named. It requires the publisher of the site (or a responsible person) to be named.
That is a larger percentage then I expected. I wonder if the statistics were collected by asking people if they used it, and the percentages were more the amount of people who knew they should be.
I have had problems, often there are files missing that show up the next day. I'm using Netspace's mirror, which mirrors the au mirror I think (which is Optus hosted).
Oh, and apt-cacher-ng is good for caching apt packages. You point your LAN machines at the machine with apt-cacher-ng running, and it does the fetching and caches locally. This is particularly useful because you can point apt-cacher-ng at different sources (or multiple, but I'm not sure how that works) and the LAN machines just see the packages as now being available, without having to point each machine at the other mirror.
I'd just like to say, that ndiswrapper does what it does so (reasonably) well because NDIS specifies a basic set of functionality. They can't wrap any driver, just ones that stick to NDIS, versus ones that use the whole Win32 driver interface. AFAIK, I Am Not A Driver Developer, etc.
I can't see this getting off the ground, because there is no way any administrator or supporter with political backing could say "Yes we are going to send a man to Mars, but we'll leave him there". Even if the plan goes on to include autonomously dropping facilities to build himself a way off the planet, it won't matter, because the media and public reaction won't get past the abandonment part.
I'd personally lay it at the people owning the Blu-Ray (some Consortium?). They are the ones responsible for the Profiles, and should have specified a different logo to be used between the versions. At least an overlaid 1.0 and 1.1 over the corner of it, or some such.
Similar to the DVD-Video / DVD-ROM, and the CD Digital Audio logos. And USB logos, don't they include 1.1 and 2.0? Or at least "High Speed" and something else (which I never could keep straight).
I understand the point of people saying "It's Profile 1.0, not Profile 1.1, it does what it says on the box". But most customers won't look at that. They just see the BluRay logo, see the adverts for BluRay (which no doubt show off the features included in Profile 1.1) then want to know why their BluRay player can't do what the advertisement told them.
At the least, it's misleading advertising. The Profile 1.0 player being defective is a bit of a stretch, but it's not unfounded.
Interesting, I've noticed since upgrading to Gutsy my laptop (with ATI video chipset) wouldn't suspend, would shut down the PCMCIA WiFi card but then leave me at a blank screen (blinking cursor, I think, not in front of it right now). I hadn't played with it yet though. I thought it might be because I modified the sleep/resume scripts slightly, when I was having some issues with said wifi card, ndiswrapper, WPA and sleeping.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev alojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
You got me. I did a search for html tags, without quite thinking about the acronym as a whole. And as a stinger, you say the whole site is in fact irony! Very well done.
With our job, we have a similar thing. Lately we've been working on conceptual space vehicles, both lunar and orbital. And we are always told to put in flames. And rumble or sounds as spacecraft seperate. And lens flares. Don't forget the lens flares.
"No prior art" is being waved about as being the only significant aspect, and they are hoping no-one realizes the patent was rejected due to being obvious (or, not non-obvious).
As prior art is the usual counter-argument to patents, since it can be clearly proven to someone without expertise in the field, it seems unusual that one has actually been rejected due to being obvious. And since people are so used to hearing about prior art being the significant factor, it may sway a few people.
Slashdot Mirror
The original report from the trial, mentioned in the summary, said this very thing. Yet the government called it a glorious success and rushed through decisions to implement it.
Well played sir, well played indeed.
I agree. Neither is OpenCiv.
That said, there are a LOT of open source games that are terrible. But I wonder how many concept pitch games there are that we never see, that are terrible?
Imagine maintaining that blacklist!
Imagine is exactly right, because the blacklist will be secret. The explanation being that having a list of RC material available will encourage people to view it... except they won't be able to...
Incidentally, for the people who think this filter is about blocking child porn, consider this: Child porn is illegal, and is the jurisdiction of the federal police. The blacklist will not be maintained by the police, and any ILLEGAL content is to be submitted to the police. The RC filter list is only for UNDESIRABLE content, content that is NOT illegal.
Not least because having all YouTube traffic go through a proxy/filter would dramatically up the hardware requirements.
Possibly because the law didn't say what the Attorney General said it did.
http://www.efa.org.au/2010/02/02/sa-electoral-amendments-and-anonymity-online/
From the article:
It also covers material on ‘radio or television or broadcast on the Internet’. ‘Broadcast’, at least as it is defined in Commonwealth legislation, covers audio or visual transmissions but not text and static images (see s 6, Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (Cth)). So this requirement would cover radio and television stations and probably podcasters as well.
It is important to note that this legislation does not require each commentator on a website to be named. It requires the publisher of the site (or a responsible person) to be named.
That is a larger percentage then I expected. I wonder if the statistics were collected by asking people if they used it, and the percentages were more the amount of people who knew they should be.
Thank you!
That is truly remarkable, there are points in the song that mesh really well with the action on screen.
Dwarf Fortress is way ahead of them: "I think I made fish too hardcore" --Toady One
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Carp
I have had problems, often there are files missing that show up the next day. I'm using Netspace's mirror, which mirrors the au mirror I think (which is Optus hosted).
Oh, and apt-cacher-ng is good for caching apt packages. You point your LAN machines at the machine with apt-cacher-ng running, and it does the fetching and caches locally. This is particularly useful because you can point apt-cacher-ng at different sources (or multiple, but I'm not sure how that works) and the LAN machines just see the packages as now being available, without having to point each machine at the other mirror.
I had forgotten all about that, but now I remember! Thanks for the reminder.
I thought that too.
I'd just like to say, that ndiswrapper does what it does so (reasonably) well because NDIS specifies a basic set of functionality. They can't wrap any driver, just ones that stick to NDIS, versus ones that use the whole Win32 driver interface. AFAIK, I Am Not A Driver Developer, etc.
I can't see this getting off the ground, because there is no way any administrator or supporter with political backing could say "Yes we are going to send a man to Mars, but we'll leave him there". Even if the plan goes on to include autonomously dropping facilities to build himself a way off the planet, it won't matter, because the media and public reaction won't get past the abandonment part.
No man left behind!
I'd personally lay it at the people owning the Blu-Ray (some Consortium?). They are the ones responsible for the Profiles, and should have specified a different logo to be used between the versions. At least an overlaid 1.0 and 1.1 over the corner of it, or some such.
Similar to the DVD-Video / DVD-ROM, and the CD Digital Audio logos. And USB logos, don't they include 1.1 and 2.0? Or at least "High Speed" and something else (which I never could keep straight).
I understand the point of people saying "It's Profile 1.0, not Profile 1.1, it does what it says on the box". But most customers won't look at that. They just see the BluRay logo, see the adverts for BluRay (which no doubt show off the features included in Profile 1.1) then want to know why their BluRay player can't do what the advertisement told them.
At the least, it's misleading advertising. The Profile 1.0 player being defective is a bit of a stretch, but it's not unfounded.
And while we're at it, we should also honour the evil bit.
Interesting, I've noticed since upgrading to Gutsy my laptop (with ATI video chipset) wouldn't suspend, would shut down the PCMCIA WiFi card but then leave me at a blank screen (blinking cursor, I think, not in front of it right now). I hadn't played with it yet though. I thought it might be because I modified the sleep/resume scripts slightly, when I was having some issues with said wifi card, ndiswrapper, WPA and sleeping.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev alojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
You got me. I did a search for html tags, without quite thinking about the acronym as a whole. And as a stinger, you say the whole site is in fact irony! Very well done.
With our job, we have a similar thing. Lately we've been working on conceptual space vehicles, both lunar and orbital. And we are always told to put in flames. And rumble or sounds as spacecraft seperate. And lens flares. Don't forget the lens flares.
"No prior art" is being waved about as being the only significant aspect, and they are hoping no-one realizes the patent was rejected due to being obvious (or, not non-obvious).
As prior art is the usual counter-argument to patents, since it can be clearly proven to someone without expertise in the field, it seems unusual that one has actually been rejected due to being obvious. And since people are so used to hearing about prior art being the significant factor, it may sway a few people.
Yes it is, as /. , north of the sea of memes, with a coast on the viral straights.
Can it remove the noise commonly used in CAPTCHA images? Will this be the next weapon in the war against spammers?