Just over a year ago, myself and some mates ran some external cat5e from my house, to my neighbours house (two houses along) to join our networks.
We knew all the laws regarding separating from power, depth of trenches, what sort of cable and conduits etc. to use, so we did it. One of us had an open cabling registration, and five of the other six were in the middle of our cabling course, so legally we were covered there.
It worked great, I put up pictures on popular aussie geek site Whirlpool and thought nothing of it.
A couple of months later I had a call from someone at the ACA. They had seen the pictures and wanted to come inspect it. I thought we were done - I didn't think they'd fine us, but I thought they'd definitely tell us to rip the cable down.
As it happened the cable: (a) was under 500m in length (b) did not cross onto public property (c) did not carry internet traffic
So it was all fine by them - and it is still going strong! Full story at my site.
Agreed. Triple J rocks - make sure you check Hack as well - their news and current affairs half hour, not the regular shit you see on the news etc. It's also available via podcast.
Star gate is less less then 2 eppisodes behind over here in austrlia. but most of us now have 8mbit adsl so i wouldnt be suprised.
You have an interesting definition of "most". 8mbit plans have been available for about 3 weeks, from one ISP, which has probably installed the gear in less than 10% of the total number of DSL enabled exchanges in the country.
Not to mention it is "up to 8mbit" ie. as fast as your line can handle, usually tops out between 5mbit-7.5mbit for most.
I would call 0.1% of Australians having >1.5mbit a gross overestimation.
Congratulations, you learned how to use a wiki. Your edit would most likely have been removed shortly afterwards. Tell us which article you vandalised and I can check.
Australia is a BIG country, expect huge variations in temperature. Tasmania is cold as is Melbourne and you'll freeze your balls off.
I'd expect most people from north-eastern US or southern Canada would find Melbourne or Tasmania quite nice. (As an example, it doesn't snow in populated areas in Australia - only really the mountainous areas.) It's cold in winter, but great in summer. As opposed to Queensland, where its great in winter, stinking hot in summer - how is that any better?! Just depends what you're used to I guess.
(To tell the truth, many people south of Brisbane would find Tasmania quite nice, but they haven't actually been here, they just listen to the weather jokes..)
"Modified consoles will be banned, and information about those banned machines will be tracked to prevent them from connecting to the service again."
I've always wondered how this was supposed to be a threat? I'm not a heavy online gamer, in fact I hardly play online, and haven't done it since I had my xbox modded a month ago, so it doesn't mean a huge amount to me. But when they deal out threats like the above line, it means there are two options:
* They don't ban me, I continue paying A$8.95 a month, and can play my occasional online game and run XBMC * They ban me, they don't get my $8.95 a month. I continue playing games (though not online) and continue running XBMC.
(Not to mention, the fact that copied games can be played offline, but not online, means that people like me may be more likely to just copy games if they aren't allowed to play online.)
So they are threatening to not take my $8.95 a month? And that disadvantages me.. how?
1. Versioning: If I say I got something from the 1975 Encyclopaedia Brittanica, you can go and check that I got my reference right. Then you can check if the fact was right in that version. With wiki, if I say I got it from the 20.2.2002 wiki, simply finding out if I got the quote right can be a problem.
3. Editorship: Most other sources have clear lines about which author is responsible for a whole article, and one person who is responsible for seeing that facts are preserved and false statements are reviewed. There is no clear line of responsibility in a wiki article.
3. Every edit made to an article is recorded - username if logged in, IP address if not. The IP's may be hard to track, but you can check a user's information page or contact them on their talk page.
What I wonder, is: Do Kiwi's want to be called Australlian?
That's like asking if Canadians want to be called erm, American (as in American from the USA, not American from the Americas).
Australia the continent is the same as Australia the country. New Zealand isn't physically part of a continent but it is generally classed as part of Oceania or Australasia.
"We got within 1.5 km of this confluence before being asked to leave by the Army. As it turns out, the confluence is in the middle of a live firing range and it is not safe or legal to visit it without assistance from the Army."
Well if it is any consolation, a register user can request any previous anonymous edits be added to the user account history. (This requires a few checks, such as making sure the user IP matches the anonymous IP, etc) but it *is* done.
Check the page history for Earth. Sooo many people have added the test "Mostly harmless" to the start of it.. and each new person who does it, doesn't check the edit history, and doesn't realise that they are NOT the first person to think of it!
Town? City of 100,000. 12th biggest in the country. (Obligitary USA comparison: The rank compares with San Francisco CA, or Jacksonville FL; as a percentage of national population it compares with Philadephia PA or Pheonix AZ; the actual population with Athens GA, Green Bay WI or Burbank CA) But anyway...
The LBP was more a political stunt (the electorate of Bass was a marginal seat, with 30-40 votes difference).
All that the LBP (Launceston Broadband Project) did was give you a discount of A$38.50 per month on your ADSL. It was great when it first started and the only provider was Telstra (A$80-90 for 3Gb) and we got it at A$55. (cheap at the time). Then Telstra opened it up to resellers, but at shocking rates, so that the other resellers had to charge (say) $150 for 1Gb. Then Telstra had to change their rates, so other providers could provider it more affordably, 3Gb for $70 or 10Gb for $100 were common prices. But the LBP changed their rules then... you had to use Telstra! (Since then, ADSL had got considerably more affordable, though Telstra has remained just as pathetic)
LBP also provided you with another ADSL account, which was like a private internet, just gave you access to local servers (file mirrors, and local events, such as concerts at the Uni etc were webcast). Unlimited traffic. Good concept.. but you had to disconnect from the internet to connect to the LBP. Completely fucking useless. Why not just provide the content on the internet itself, and make it free traffic for LBP users!
Not a single bit of internet filtering happened at all.
Anyway, not much to do with DMCA, but a rant nevertheless!
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Just over a year ago, myself and some mates ran some external cat5e from my house, to my neighbours house (two houses along) to join our networks.
We knew all the laws regarding separating from power, depth of trenches, what sort of cable and conduits etc. to use, so we did it. One of us had an open cabling registration, and five of the other six were in the middle of our cabling course, so legally we were covered there.
It worked great, I put up pictures on popular aussie geek site Whirlpool and thought nothing of it.
A couple of months later I had a call from someone at the ACA. They had seen the pictures and wanted to come inspect it. I thought we were done - I didn't think they'd fine us, but I thought they'd definitely tell us to rip the cable down.
As it happened the cable:
(a) was under 500m in length
(b) did not cross onto public property
(c) did not carry internet traffic
So it was all fine by them - and it is still going strong! Full story at my site.
Agreed. Triple J rocks - make sure you check Hack as well - their news and current affairs half hour, not the regular shit you see on the news etc. It's also available via podcast.
I would've thought a portable (USB/Firewire) hard drive would be easier?
Star gate is less less then 2 eppisodes behind over here in austrlia. but most of us now have 8mbit adsl so i wouldnt be suprised.
You have an interesting definition of "most". 8mbit plans have been available for about 3 weeks, from one ISP, which has probably installed the gear in less than 10% of the total number of DSL enabled exchanges in the country.
Not to mention it is "up to 8mbit" ie. as fast as your line can handle, usually tops out between 5mbit-7.5mbit for most.
I would call 0.1% of Australians having >1.5mbit a gross overestimation.
You could always do what Rob at Cockeyed.com did :)
Congratulations, you learned how to use a wiki. Your edit would most likely have been removed shortly afterwards. Tell us which article you vandalised and I can check.
Australia is a BIG country, expect huge variations in temperature. Tasmania is cold as is Melbourne and you'll freeze your balls off.
I'd expect most people from north-eastern US or southern Canada would find Melbourne or Tasmania quite nice. (As an example, it doesn't snow in populated areas in Australia - only really the mountainous areas.) It's cold in winter, but great in summer. As opposed to Queensland, where its great in winter, stinking hot in summer - how is that any better?! Just depends what you're used to I guess.
(To tell the truth, many people south of Brisbane would find Tasmania quite nice, but they haven't actually been here, they just listen to the weather jokes..)
The difference being, cocaine use by adults in Australia isn't legal. Also, people can't just download the cocaine from the internet.
"Modified consoles will be banned, and information about those banned machines will be tracked to prevent them from connecting to the service again."
I've always wondered how this was supposed to be a threat? I'm not a heavy online gamer, in fact I hardly play online, and haven't done it since I had my xbox modded a month ago, so it doesn't mean a huge amount to me. But when they deal out threats like the above line, it means there are two options:
* They don't ban me, I continue paying A$8.95 a month, and can play my occasional online game and run XBMC
* They ban me, they don't get my $8.95 a month. I continue playing games (though not online) and continue running XBMC.
(Not to mention, the fact that copied games can be played offline, but not online, means that people like me may be more likely to just copy games if they aren't allowed to play online.)
So they are threatening to not take my $8.95 a month? And that disadvantages me.. how?
XBMC is a far greater benefit than XBL.
1. Versioning: If I say I got something from the 1975 Encyclopaedia Brittanica, you can go and check that I got my reference right. Then you can check if the fact was right in that version. With wiki, if I say I got it from the 20.2.2002 wiki, simply finding out if I got the quote right can be a problem.
3. Editorship: Most other sources have clear lines about which author is responsible for a whole article, and one person who is responsible for seeing that facts are preserved and false statements are reviewed. There is no clear line of responsibility in a wiki article.
So far as these two issues go:
1. You can reference old versions of articles easily, such as this article on Ronald Reagan "frozen in time" on 3rd June this year.
3. Every edit made to an article is recorded - username if logged in, IP address if not. The IP's may be hard to track, but you can check a user's information page or contact them on their talk page.
Come on then, what happens in 24 series 4?
What I wonder, is: Do Kiwi's want to be called Australlian?
That's like asking if Canadians want to be called erm, American (as in American from the USA, not American from the Americas).
Australia the continent is the same as Australia the country. New Zealand isn't physically part of a continent but it is generally classed as part of Oceania or Australasia.
You don't need to be a professional writer to post on a Wikipedia talk page.
Why not?
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=-41&l on=147
"We got within 1.5 km of this confluence before being asked to leave by the Army. As it turns out, the confluence is in the middle of a live firing range and it is not safe or legal to visit it without assistance from the Army."
Doesn't beat the snail mail spam that I received recently...
(no, its not goatse)
Well if it is any consolation, a register user can request any previous anonymous edits be added to the user account history. (This requires a few checks, such as making sure the user IP matches the anonymous IP, etc) but it *is* done.
Whats the problem? Just register an account.
Check the page history for Earth. Sooo many people have added the test "Mostly harmless" to the start of it.. and each new person who does it, doesn't check the edit history, and doesn't realise that they are NOT the first person to think of it!
Of course they do.
.. and don't forget North Korea is region 5, surely you can fit that in there somewhere as well!
(Not sure if South Korea is 2 or 5).
Ummm, don't hold your breath.
Thats what i thought when the DMCA came out... "It won't affect me, I'm not in the US"
Town? City of 100,000. 12th biggest in the country. (Obligitary USA comparison: The rank compares with San Francisco CA, or Jacksonville FL; as a percentage of national population it compares with Philadephia PA or Pheonix AZ; the actual population with Athens GA, Green Bay WI or Burbank CA) But anyway...
The LBP was more a political stunt (the electorate of Bass was a marginal seat, with 30-40 votes difference).
All that the LBP (Launceston Broadband Project) did was give you a discount of A$38.50 per month on your ADSL. It was great when it first started and the only provider was Telstra (A$80-90 for 3Gb) and we got it at A$55. (cheap at the time).
Then Telstra opened it up to resellers, but at shocking rates, so that the other resellers had to charge (say) $150 for 1Gb.
Then Telstra had to change their rates, so other providers could provider it more affordably, 3Gb for $70 or 10Gb for $100 were common prices. But the LBP changed their rules then... you had to use Telstra! (Since then, ADSL had got considerably more affordable, though Telstra has remained just as pathetic)
LBP also provided you with another ADSL account, which was like a private internet, just gave you access to local servers (file mirrors, and local events, such as concerts at the Uni etc were webcast). Unlimited traffic. Good concept.. but you had to disconnect from the internet to connect to the LBP. Completely fucking useless. Why not just provide the content on the internet itself, and make it free traffic for LBP users!
Not a single bit of internet filtering happened at all.
Anyway, not much to do with DMCA, but a rant nevertheless!
At least Australians and Americans have something in common - we are both having our laws written by someone we didn't elect.
Watashi no chinchin wa hoshii desu ka.
(Though I guess I don't count, being Australian rather than American.)