" A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) is an Internet service provider or an Internet content host; and
(b) is aware that the service provided by the person can be used to access particular material that the person has reasonable grounds to believe is:
(i) child pornography material; or
(ii) child abuse material; and
(c) does not refer details of the material to the Australian Federal Police within a reasonable time after becoming aware of the existence of the material."
The Australian Attorney-General's Department goes on to say:
"The amendments do not impose an obligation on ISPs and ICHs to take additional measures to ensure their services are not being used in this way, for example, by monitoring usage. If a person complains to an ISP or ICH about material that is obviously not child pornography or child abuse material, the ISP or ICH will not be under an obligation to make a report to the AFP."
The law also exempts activities such as verifying content, gathering information for site lists and content filters, and other practical reasons to access the material. This law is related to an international effort to combat online child porn called the Virtual Global Task Force. Part of the intent behind such legislation is to foster the awareness among potential perps that the internet is not really the anonymous playground they imagine. The VGTF also set honey traps where instead of a download, offenders are greeted by online agents. I bet that's a buzz kill. All in all, if Big Brother is going to be out there, this is the kind of shit he should be doing. I might be able to muster up some nanite of sympathy for the poor sick fuck who 'can't help himself' from looking , but the evil puss suckers who hurt and terrorize children FOR MONEY have broken the compact of civilized humanity society. Karma is as karma does. In the end, what does it say about us if we can't protect our children?
Since 1991 my business has required almost constant travel. My stays in an area range from a couple of weeks to 6 months, I noticed a long time ago that Blockbuster's prices varied widely from town to town. If there was a thriving local video market, Blockbuster's prices were competitive. If they were the only game in town you payed through the nose. Independent rental stores in most places couldn't compete against BB's corporate slack for long and soon enough went under. Of course, prices at your local BB then went up. Market share is everything. You could ask if it's fair, without a doubt it's legal. Now those folks pay top rates to rent the corporation's bland catalog of current selections. Anyone else notice that although the rise of the dvd format has lowered the cost of owning movies, the cost of renting movies (at least in the brick and mortar world) continues to rise? Right now there's a price war in online rentals. Care to speculate whether BB or Walmart would even be in the business without Netflix? Care to speculate on prices if Netflix goes belly up? Hell, BB even gives you free rentals at their stores - wouldn't want you to get out of the habit of stopping by. But hey that's just doing good business - right?
Well I think companies should get some credit for risking their ass on ideas that are good for their customers. So all things being equal - or even fairly close to equal - I say dance with the one that brung ya. And that's Netflix.
In 1977 the United States announced the successful underground detonation of an atomic weapon made from civil plutonium - in 1962. In a Department of Energy publication on weapons nonproliferation it says "Virtually any combination of plutonium isotopes -- the different forms of an element having different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei -- can be used to make a nuclear weapon." The report goes on to say "While reactor-grade plutonium has a slightly larger critical mass than weapon-grade plutonium (meaning that somewhat more material would be needed for a bomb), this would not be a major impediment for design of either crude or sophisticated nuclear weapons." It even evaluates how the ability of the organization building the weapon affects the scenario - " At the lowest level of sophistication, a potential proliferating state or subnational group using designs and technologies no more sophisticated than those used in first-generation nuclear weapons could build a nuclear weapon from reactor-grade plutonium that would have an assured, reliable yield of one or a few kilotons (and a probable yield significantly higher than that)."
That's a bad thing, but what really worries me is that the management of the Sellafield plant are probably right that the missing material was not removed from the facility. They are using the plutonium in the creation of Mixed OXide fuel (MOX), a mixture of plutonium- and uranium oxide fit for normal nuclear power plants. The process involved includes various complicated cutting, soaking, and moving activities which must be done remotely due to the extreme radiation hazard. Due to the reactions of the various substances involved, this process also results in accelerated and unusual state changes in the materials. So they're not really sure what happened to the stuff - where it may be lying around or how much of it has turned into what - even though it is still under their control. There wasn't an accounting error - they can't account for the stuff because their accounting system doesn't work. They don't understand the process well enough to predict the outcome. And that scares me.
And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! I've seen enough of the overbilling, broadband blocking, monopoly craving sons of Bells to last me a lifetime. I quit doing business with Qwest because I could not abide the thought that part of my monthly payment was going to be used to pay the legal fees of some of their top executives charged with consumer fraud. I guess I don't mind paying for the prosecution (like I have a choice) but paying for the defense seems a bit like bringing KY to the prison shower.
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You are right. The law states:
" A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) is an Internet service provider or an Internet content host; and
(b) is aware that the service provided by the person can be used to access particular material that the person has reasonable grounds to believe is:
(i) child pornography material; or
(ii) child abuse material; and
(c) does not refer details of the material to the Australian Federal Police within a reasonable time after becoming aware of the existence of the material."
The Australian Attorney-General's Department goes on to say:
"The amendments do not impose an obligation on ISPs and ICHs to take additional measures to ensure their services are not being used in this way, for example, by monitoring usage. If a person complains to an ISP or ICH about material that is obviously not child pornography or child abuse material, the ISP or ICH will not be under an obligation to make a report to the AFP."
The law also exempts activities such as verifying content, gathering information for site lists and content filters, and other practical reasons to access the material. This law is related to an international effort to combat online child porn called the Virtual Global Task Force. Part of the intent behind such legislation is to foster the awareness among potential perps that the internet is not really the anonymous playground they imagine. The VGTF also set honey traps where instead of a download, offenders are greeted by online agents. I bet that's a buzz kill. All in all, if Big Brother is going to be out there, this is the kind of shit he should be doing. I might be able to muster up some nanite of sympathy for the poor sick fuck who 'can't help himself' from looking , but the evil puss suckers who hurt and terrorize children FOR MONEY have broken the compact of civilized humanity society. Karma is as karma does. In the end, what does it say about us if we can't protect our children?
Excuse me please.
I'm new here.
Is that what they call a "troll"?
Since 1991 my business has required almost constant travel. My stays in an area range from a couple of weeks to 6 months, I noticed a long time ago that Blockbuster's prices varied widely from town to town. If there was a thriving local video market, Blockbuster's prices were competitive. If they were the only game in town you payed through the nose. Independent rental stores in most places couldn't compete against BB's corporate slack for long and soon enough went under. Of course, prices at your local BB then went up. Market share is everything. You could ask if it's fair, without a doubt it's legal. Now those folks pay top rates to rent the corporation's bland catalog of current selections. Anyone else notice that although the rise of the dvd format has lowered the cost of owning movies, the cost of renting movies (at least in the brick and mortar world) continues to rise? Right now there's a price war in online rentals. Care to speculate whether BB or Walmart would even be in the business without Netflix? Care to speculate on prices if Netflix goes belly up? Hell, BB even gives you free rentals at their stores - wouldn't want you to get out of the habit of stopping by. But hey that's just doing good business - right?
Well I think companies should get some credit for risking their ass on ideas that are good for their customers. So all things being equal - or even fairly close to equal - I say dance with the one that brung ya. And that's Netflix.
In 1977 the United States announced the successful underground detonation of an atomic weapon made from civil plutonium - in 1962. In a Department of Energy publication on weapons nonproliferation it says "Virtually any combination of plutonium isotopes -- the different forms of an element having different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei -- can be used to make a nuclear weapon." The report goes on to say "While reactor-grade plutonium has a slightly larger critical mass than weapon-grade plutonium (meaning that somewhat more material would be needed for a bomb), this would not be a major impediment for design of either crude or sophisticated nuclear weapons." It even evaluates how the ability of the organization building the weapon affects the scenario - " At the lowest level of sophistication, a potential proliferating state or subnational group using designs and technologies no more sophisticated than those used in first-generation nuclear weapons could build a nuclear weapon from reactor-grade plutonium that would have an assured, reliable yield of one or a few kilotons (and a probable yield significantly higher than that)."
That's a bad thing, but what really worries me is that the management of the Sellafield plant are probably right that the missing material was not removed from the facility. They are using the plutonium in the creation of Mixed OXide fuel (MOX), a mixture of plutonium- and uranium oxide fit for normal nuclear power plants. The process involved includes various complicated cutting, soaking, and moving activities which must be done remotely due to the extreme radiation hazard. Due to the reactions of the various substances involved, this process also results in accelerated and unusual state changes in the materials. So they're not really sure what happened to the stuff - where it may be lying around or how much of it has turned into what - even though it is still under their control. There wasn't an accounting error - they can't account for the stuff because their accounting system doesn't work. They don't understand the process well enough to predict the outcome. And that scares me.
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BSOD
And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! I've seen enough of the overbilling, broadband blocking, monopoly craving sons of Bells to last me a lifetime. I quit doing business with Qwest because I could not abide the thought that part of my monthly payment was going to be used to pay the legal fees of some of their top executives charged with consumer fraud. I guess I don't mind paying for the prosecution (like I have a choice) but paying for the defense seems a bit like bringing KY to the prison shower.