By the sounds of it the ISP will be implementing the filter, which means you don't need to download or install anything.
Yeah maybe. The only filter they have at the present is the client side one. ISP level filters are trivial to get around unless you do massive port blocking, while filters at the level of (for example) a school internet gateway can afford to be much tighter.
The bottom line is that we don't really know what they want to do and I personally doubt Stephen Conroy does either.
Stephen Conroy was on the TV talking about this tonight. It looks like they will make a list of sites which "promote violence and distribute child pornography and instruct ISP's to redirect http requests to them.
There is a lot of handwaving in this. Don't mention torrents or proxies. I would be very surprised if they try to block major porn sites which have a mix of content. Conroy has had his photo opportunity. Probably nothing more to see here.
I could have sworn that there were studies that showed that people with safety features tended to drive more recklessly.
A long time ago I read an interview with the guy who invented the mini. He hoped initially that its better handling would improve road safety. Instead it just allowed drivers to corner faster and there was no improvement in safety.
It is probably better this way because if you "protect" the employment relationship (like Europe), you basically make employers very fearful of hiring anyone.
I work for a French company, but under Australian employment rules. I French co-worker told me that in France employers like to hire experienced people because it is less risky. If you take on a young person and they don't work out you are pretty much stuck with them.
He identified this as the cause of much youth unemployment in France.
Yeah its a bit like the flying cars. Trying to solve problems with solutions which sound cool but which don't really make sense in the real world.
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4) High density solid state storage: 8 gigs on a SD card the size of my thumbnail
5) Mobile phones. Talk to anyone from just about anywhere, whenever you want
6) LED lighting. Christmas lights this year were totally over the top. The lights you can attach to your person or your home are no longer limited by light globe technology or cost
re 2) The web really goes beyond anything projected for IT in the past. Few writers envisaged a situation where anybody could publish pretty much any media from pretty much anywhere and have any other person access it. Consider teenagers and myspace as a simple example. The forecasts from 1950 talked about ordering more milk from the supermarket computer, but nothing as emergent as what we have today.
The RIAA tracks your DNA and listens to everything you hear through implanted microphones, extracting micropayments wirelessly for everything you hear.
Cycling to work the other week through the Melbourne CBD I followed this car being driven by this guy who seemed transfixed by the GPS attached to his windscreen. He can't have had good GPS coverage because there were tall buildings on all sides and he slowed right down before each intersection, presumably to wait for his navigation system to catch up. Then he got a red light (that happens if you go slow enough) and stopped 10 metres back from the stop line, apparently with all his attention on the GPS.
I use one too, but I try to make am firm distinction between tactical and strategic navigation.
But it did bring back an article I read more than 20 years ago. It was about the useless scripting language which developers had to use to develop apps for the Newton. When the API comes out it could be a total joke, if that is how Apple want to play it.
And, yes, those new appliances will mostly run Linux. What else?
The funny bit is that even the openmoko makes it a pain to run a different OS. On a PC you just set the BIOS to boot from an external device and off you go. On all handheld devices you have to take a punt on re-flashing the bootstrap in eprom. Get it wrong and the device is bricked.
I don't see why these devices should not support pc-like behaviour.
It sold out in Myer stores (the only retailer) within a couple of days of the initial release. I read reports of schools buying them by the dozen and families buying one for each member of the family.
The last I heard they were getting more in just before Christmas but a lot of those had been pre-sold in December. I don't think Linux is a negative for the people who buy this product. They like the fact that it has open office out of the box, which is a bigger money saver than the OS.
I think that the genetic origin of handedness is greatly exaggerated.
After I started to develop RSI in my right hand I switched my mouse to the left which helped a lot. Since then I have found that I can do most things with my left and that I don't really have a strong right handed bias.
But I have noticed that my brother's three year old son is very strongly right handed. Much more so than my son or myself. I just don't know if this is caused by genetics or learned behaviour.
I'm not sure on the official status, but the Apple store in Myer downtown has been remodelled and it's basically exactly the same as the real Apple stores, complete with black-shirted Apple employees.
I only go to the Myer computer section these days to see if the Asus Eee is in stock.
Thats OK. It seems silly to me that crashing the application gives you access to the desktop. The GUI should really fail to a dead screen, and the desktop/management interface should be on a different device. The ATC application I work on is like that. If you shut it down you get a bare X server, nothing else.
It was my best experience with the self service checkout, by far:)
Just plain retail. Selling stuff which is not worth hacking.
My local Big W store, on the other hand, has these self service checkouts. You scan the products yourself and put them on some kind of weight verification thing, then spend five or 10 minutes doing a credit card transaction. While my wife was trying to get that to work I took a look at another terminal where the POS application had apparently crashed, leaving an interesting windows desktop with a working touch screen mouse. The staff didn't appreciate my attempted repair though, in fact there were so many people keeping an eye on that broken terminal they could have run a whole line of manual checkouts.
Anyway if a real apple store opens here in Melbourne I might take a look but I can't see myself buying anything there.
On the other hand, it seems silly to replace motorcycles (already quite fuel-efficient due to their light weight) while leaving gas-guzzling cars and SUVs in the fleet. Why not replace all patrol cars with hybrids? They can run on battery around town, and switch over to ICE for the high-speed chases (obviously you'd want something beefier than a Prius).
Somebody I work with recently bought a Prius. He says it uses less fuel than his motorbike.
The difference between Australia and most other countries is that Australians firmly believe that the Government works for them, not the other way around.
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Yeah maybe. The only filter they have at the present is the client side one. ISP level filters are trivial to get around unless you do massive port blocking, while filters at the level of (for example) a school internet gateway can afford to be much tighter.
The bottom line is that we don't really know what they want to do and I personally doubt Stephen Conroy does either.
For a laugh I should request filters for installation on NetBSD 4.0
Stephen Conroy was on the TV talking about this tonight. It looks like they will make a list of sites which "promote violence and distribute child pornography and instruct ISP's to redirect http requests to them.
There is a lot of handwaving in this. Don't mention torrents or proxies. I would be very surprised if they try to block major porn sites which have a mix of content. Conroy has had his photo opportunity. Probably nothing more to see here.
But electric bikes are just becoming practical.
A long time ago I read an interview with the guy who invented the mini. He hoped initially that its better handling would improve road safety. Instead it just allowed drivers to corner faster and there was no improvement in safety.
I work for a French company, but under Australian employment rules. I French co-worker told me that in France employers like to hire experienced people because it is less risky. If you take on a young person and they don't work out you are pretty much stuck with them.
He identified this as the cause of much youth unemployment in France.
Yeah its a bit like the flying cars. Trying to solve problems with solutions which sound cool but which don't really make sense in the real world.
4) High density solid state storage: 8 gigs on a SD card the size of my thumbnail
5) Mobile phones. Talk to anyone from just about anywhere, whenever you want
6) LED lighting. Christmas lights this year were totally over the top. The lights you can attach to your person or your home are no longer limited by light globe technology or cost
re 2) The web really goes beyond anything projected for IT in the past. Few writers envisaged a situation where anybody could publish pretty much any media from pretty much anywhere and have any other person access it. Consider teenagers and myspace as a simple example. The forecasts from 1950 talked about ordering more milk from the supermarket computer, but nothing as emergent as what we have today.
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Cycling to work the other week through the Melbourne CBD I followed this car being driven by this guy who seemed transfixed by the GPS attached to his windscreen. He can't have had good GPS coverage because there were tall buildings on all sides and he slowed right down before each intersection, presumably to wait for his navigation system to catch up. Then he got a red light (that happens if you go slow enough) and stopped 10 metres back from the stop line, apparently with all his attention on the GPS.
I use one too, but I try to make am firm distinction between tactical and strategic navigation.
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Great article. Especially with the dig at Pete Doherty towards the end. I think he is making an important point with that example.
For a start, your post is not OT.
But it did bring back an article I read more than 20 years ago. It was about the useless scripting language which developers had to use to develop apps for the Newton. When the API comes out it could be a total joke, if that is how Apple want to play it.
Hard to see how it could be "a couple of miles" if you are working with microcells on every second or third intersection.
Have a look at the post count on eeeuser. Posts about windows installs are significant but not overwhelming.
Android is Linux. OSX is BSD. Apple hardware is locked down, not the OS.
The funny bit is that even the openmoko makes it a pain to run a different OS. On a PC you just set the BIOS to boot from an external device and off you go. On all handheld devices you have to take a punt on re-flashing the bootstrap in eprom. Get it wrong and the device is bricked.
I don't see why these devices should not support pc-like behaviour.
It sold out in Myer stores (the only retailer) within a couple of days of the initial release. I read reports of schools buying them by the dozen and families buying one for each member of the family.
The last I heard they were getting more in just before Christmas but a lot of those had been pre-sold in December. I don't think Linux is a negative for the people who buy this product. They like the fact that it has open office out of the box, which is a bigger money saver than the OS.
After I started to develop RSI in my right hand I switched my mouse to the left which helped a lot. Since then I have found that I can do most things with my left and that I don't really have a strong right handed bias.
But I have noticed that my brother's three year old son is very strongly right handed. Much more so than my son or myself. I just don't know if this is caused by genetics or learned behaviour.
Victoria. It must have been Big W in Maribyrnong.
I only go to the Myer computer section these days to see if the Asus Eee is in stock.
Thats OK. It seems silly to me that crashing the application gives you access to the desktop. The GUI should really fail to a dead screen, and the desktop/management interface should be on a different device. The ATC application I work on is like that. If you shut it down you get a bare X server, nothing else.
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It was my best experience with the self service checkout, by far
Just plain retail. Selling stuff which is not worth hacking.
My local Big W store, on the other hand, has these self service checkouts. You scan the products yourself and put them on some kind of weight verification thing, then spend five or 10 minutes doing a credit card transaction. While my wife was trying to get that to work I took a look at another terminal where the POS application had apparently crashed, leaving an interesting windows desktop with a working touch screen mouse. The staff didn't appreciate my attempted repair though, in fact there were so many people keeping an eye on that broken terminal they could have run a whole line of manual checkouts.
Anyway if a real apple store opens here in Melbourne I might take a look but I can't see myself buying anything there.
Somebody I work with recently bought a Prius. He says it uses less fuel than his motorbike.
The difference between Australia and most other countries is that Australians firmly believe that the Government works for them, not the other way around.