Yes, they are. A proposed plan from the Motor Trader's Association for the Australian Government to provide a $3000 voucher towards the purchase of a new car, if you take your vehicle (which is more than 10 years old) to the wreckers.
just like people blame their internet slow down and disconnections on ISPs overselling far beyond their hardware capacity and creating unnecessary network overhead through the use of traffic monitoring/filtering & packet shaping technology?
I'm fairly sure that's much less of a problem here in Australia than in America - off the top of my head, I can't think of any ISP in Australia offering plans without either a) Shaping after a clearly defined quota b) Excess Usage charges past a clearly defined quota
If there is, then I doubt it would last for long as everyone flocks to it.
maybe i'm wrong, and Australians are more receptive to the voice of reason than Americans are. but then again, a rational society would not be facing this dilemma, since they wouldn't put anyone in power who'd even be considering this kind of nationwide internet censorship.
It was more a choice of who did we want less - the ones who were bent of destroying the rights of workers, or the ones who were going to get rid of the legislation that was destroying those rights.
Hopefully, the senate will modify the law to be sane (that is, mandating that all ISPs have the ability to provide clean feeds service to those who want it, and let everyone else have their Internet as usual). Unfortunately, given the senate's track record since the changeover, I don't think it's likely without enormous public pressure.
There's a way to prevent this - set the Home Button to go to Home when double clicked - this simply drops it back to the PIN request (Or, if it's in iPod mode, bring up the basic iPod controls)
Yes, I may be in Australia, Anime Backwater of the Western World, but I like to keep up to date. The new Record of the Lodoss Wars series is quite good. It fleshes out a lot of material which was left out of the original series from 1991. Another one which is very interesting is Nazca.I've still got one volume to watch, but it's quite interesting. It's getting me thinking, but it still has plenty of fight scenes.
I never said that RIAA was evil. I was just saying that they aren't thinking it through properly. The only use they can see (or that they admit to seeing) for the software is MP3 distribution. Unfortunately, they failed to take action when the MP3 genie escaped, and it's too late for them to put the cork in.
I'm talking about the wider implications of Napster/Gnutella. I don't often get excited about the possibilities of software. But Gnutella, well, there's some definite possibilities for the future of the internet as a whole here, and everyone can benefit.
This does, however, include the Warez/MP3 crowd. Got to take the bad with the good.
The RIAA is being extremely short-sighted. They're attempting to stamp on Napster, Gnutella et al because they can be used to distribute MP3 files. Big deal, so can Sneakernet, which is more insidious because it can reach people without Internet access. But enough sarcasm for a moment. I'm certain that some of you at least have considered the possibilities that Napster and Gnutella provide. here's a couple off the top of my head. (Forgive me if these aren't possible due to technical considerations, but I'm an idea man. Also, I'm probably going to work more on Gnutella than Napster, because I haven't actually used Napster. Alst G is open source, so it'll be easier to play with.)
My first thought is that this is a great product for big business. This system can be applied to provide indexed file sharing over a corporate intranet without needing a central web server. With a bit of tinkering, it could even be adapted to a secure file indexing and transfer network for corporations with multiple sites (link it with PGP for encryption?). You'd probably want a client version of the software (but that shouldn't be too hard, right?).
Second, it is feasable that a Unix daemon could be made to allow the. Connect up to the network, and you suddenly have access to the major FTP sites as well, all searchable from your own system.
OK, so maybe I'm an idealist. But you have to admit, the possibilities are exciting.
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That came up in the various stories I read yesterday about this issue - and I'm more inclined to believe IBM's side of the story.
Yes, they are. A proposed plan from the Motor Trader's Association for the Australian Government to provide a $3000 voucher towards the purchase of a new car, if you take your vehicle (which is more than 10 years old) to the wreckers.
just like people blame their internet slow down and disconnections on ISPs overselling far beyond their hardware capacity and creating unnecessary network overhead through the use of traffic monitoring/filtering & packet shaping technology?
I'm fairly sure that's much less of a problem here in Australia than in America - off the top of my head, I can't think of any ISP in Australia offering plans without either
a) Shaping after a clearly defined quota
b) Excess Usage charges past a clearly defined quota
If there is, then I doubt it would last for long as everyone flocks to it.
maybe i'm wrong, and Australians are more receptive to the voice of reason than Americans are. but then again, a rational society would not be facing this dilemma, since they wouldn't put anyone in power who'd even be considering this kind of nationwide internet censorship.
It was more a choice of who did we want less - the ones who were bent of destroying the rights of workers, or the ones who were going to get rid of the legislation that was destroying those rights.
Hopefully, the senate will modify the law to be sane (that is, mandating that all ISPs have the ability to provide clean feeds service to those who want it, and let everyone else have their Internet as usual). Unfortunately, given the senate's track record since the changeover, I don't think it's likely without enormous public pressure.
There's a way to prevent this - set the Home Button to go to Home when double clicked - this simply drops it back to the PIN request (Or, if it's in iPod mode, bring up the basic iPod controls)
I don't know about anyone else, but when I was watching the Pirates of the Carribean trailer I caught myself looking for a Giant Monkey Head...
Well, Linux 3.11 would be a development kernel, so we'd have the same guarantee of stability...
Yes, I may be in Australia, Anime Backwater of the Western World, but I like to keep up to date. The new Record of the Lodoss Wars series is quite good. It fleshes out a lot of material which was left out of the original series from 1991. Another one which is very interesting is Nazca.I've still got one volume to watch, but it's quite interesting. It's getting me thinking, but it still has plenty of fight scenes.
I never said that RIAA was evil. I was just saying that they aren't thinking it through properly. The only use they can see (or that they admit to seeing) for the software is MP3 distribution. Unfortunately, they failed to take action when the MP3 genie escaped, and it's too late for them to put the cork in.
I'm talking about the wider implications of Napster/Gnutella. I don't often get excited about the possibilities of software. But Gnutella, well, there's some definite possibilities for the future of the internet as a whole here, and everyone can benefit.
This does, however, include the Warez/MP3 crowd. Got to take the bad with the good.
The RIAA is being extremely short-sighted. They're attempting to stamp on Napster, Gnutella et al because they can be used to distribute MP3 files. Big deal, so can Sneakernet, which is more insidious because it can reach people without Internet access. But enough sarcasm for a moment. I'm certain that some of you at least have considered the possibilities that Napster and Gnutella provide. here's a couple off the top of my head. (Forgive me if these aren't possible due to technical considerations, but I'm an idea man. Also, I'm probably going to work more on Gnutella than Napster, because I haven't actually used Napster. Alst G is open source, so it'll be easier to play with.)
My first thought is that this is a great product for big business. This system can be applied to provide indexed file sharing over a corporate intranet without needing a central web server. With a bit of tinkering, it could even be adapted to a secure file indexing and transfer network for corporations with multiple sites (link it with PGP for encryption?). You'd probably want a client version of the software (but that shouldn't be too hard, right?).
Second, it is feasable that a Unix daemon could be made to allow the. Connect up to the network, and you suddenly have access to the major FTP sites as well, all searchable from your own system.
OK, so maybe I'm an idealist. But you have to admit, the possibilities are exciting.
No, Britain decided not to include that when they passed our constitution.
For some reason, people who are aware of what technology is and is not capable of don't seem to get elected to parliament here.