Actually I don't know that. Sure, labor governments have a long history of not finishing projects either on time or at all, but this project is just stupid enough to actually be implemented.
I voted for them at the last election, based mainly on their other policies. I knew that the filtering was something they were going to do, but if I had of know it was going to be this bad, I would of changed my vote.
Conroy has to get with the times and to stop using the 'nothing to hide' argument (in another light here: if you don't agree with us, they you are a pedo).
I'll point out here, but this is aimed at Enderandrew's post a couple down. Australian's don't have the right to free speech. We have a concept of free speech and there are some laws supporting it, but its nowhere near the level that America does.
A schedule isn't a list. A schedule takes into account information such as who would watch the shows, what time that demographic usually watches TV and what advertising can be shown at that time.
Like juiceboxfan said, I also think its stupid to prevent the publishing of a schedule, but just calling it a list is a reductio ad absurdum.
I would rather they 'plan' a trilogy, as opposed to releasing a game, and then deciding to milk it. Too many great games and movies have sequels that suck because of the post-planned trilogy.
I do agree with you about the bullshit of not having a concrete ending. I would much rather a story in three distinct parts, or at least the first game 'ends' with the second and third more closely tied together.
BTW: Your sig taught me about Saori Yoshida. Um, thanks?
I'll add to this quickly: I went to buy a new game for my Wii the other day, had a look at the games, saw a couple of EA games (Madden, etc). While this game itself would of been great to buy, I didn't buy it because of the crap that EA does.
To be fair, I do agree that a large portion of the customers "don't care" about DRM, but its more that most people don't know about it and don't know why its a bad thing until it bites them.
I would argue that 99.8% of people in the world don't even care that EA exists, but I don't see that figure being shouted out anywhere.
I had always considered it odd that many companies repackage their *.1 products, when selling the 6.0 and then giving a patch would be a cheaper way for all involved (including the manufacturing).
Of course, its not a technical problem, as can be seen with Windows. Their kernel has only had a minor version upgrade in the last 3 (or 4?) versions. To the guy in the story, I would recommend that if its weird for you to consider a 6.0 product to start with, call it the 1.0 internally, but let marketing do what they do.
Maybe not h0tm4il, but what about hotmailsecure.mine.ru, or www.hotmail.mine.ru? Not everyone knows that Russia is a key area for phishing, and almost nobody technical would get the link between.ru and Russia anyway. Most people wouldn't be able to tell you how a URL is formed (the combination of little and big endian can be very confusing), and even if you get the basic concepts, there are other techniques that can be used to obfuscate the URL.
I pay my own bills as well. It helps to budget, helps manage money flow and also helps ensure that I know where my money is going.
My car payments are automatic, but currently its the only one. The loan is with my bank, so should there be a hassle, I only need to call one place to work it out, and there isn't an option for them to say 'not out fault'.
The article has a pretty good indication. Its proof of concept now (at least, there could be real world implementations in the government that aren't public). It can intercept any information going to a targeted address (but not from). That makes it pretty serious.
Sorry, my bad for the 'lingo'. I was put on part-time, 3 days a week. 3/5 is 0.6, which is what my position counts as. If there are two departments, one with 50 part time staff, and one with 50 full time staff, if you just count the number of employees, both departments have the same available employees, although in reality there is a big difference.
Of course, if you are talking about the ratio, then 2:200 is 1:100, while 2.6:200 is about 1:77, so the ratio of employees to IT staff went down.
I used to work for local government and before my position was created, there were 2 IT staff for nearly 200 staff in total. The ratio went down when I started (although I was still only part time), when we had a whopping 2.6 IT staff for around 200 staff in total.
For anything to get done outside of 'everyday stuff', we had to bring in consultants. It doesn't surprise me that larger places don't increase their IT support relatively.
It wouldn't be the guys running NoScript, it would be someone breaking into the site, uploading an exploit and then that exploit runs after every single NoScript upgrade. Which, if you have NoScript, you'll know that they have an 'update incrementally, frequently' policy.
Less than the security factor, its really annoying that NoScript opens its page after every upgrade, especially combined with the previously mentioned upgrade policy.
I knew that putting "century" was technically wrong, however the point remains. In order for lots of little things to build up and cause a larger effect, it takes time.
A link was given by Enigma2175 regarding the destabilized climate. Its the main reason why its referred to as 'climate change' by most (at least, here in Australia it is), and not 'global warming'.
I will freely admit that I don't know much about the science behind the climate change models, however the model I really care about is the "More carbon dioxide in the air" + "less trees to get rid of carbon dioxide" equation. I don't know if any severe climate change is caused by this, but I think that we should be polluting less anyway to ensure that this planet is safe in the years to come.
Its just like that other century where we industrialized every aspect of human life and began polluting on a grand scale... oh wait, that has only happened once?
Not every theory requires historical evidence, and if you have to ask what evidence the climate change scientists are using, you obviously haven't looked at the issue at all.
I'm not saying that every climate change theory is right (that most certainly isn't the case), but there is real work done behind this. Its a pity that only the most exaggerated claims get put into newspapers, as they make the case 'for' seem alarmist.
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That says that all ISPs will need to 'offer' a cleen feed. I took that, as people will have the option to use a filtered service.
Mandatory filtering is a recent backflip by the government, one that I completely disagree with.
Actually I don't know that. Sure, labor governments have a long history of not finishing projects either on time or at all, but this project is just stupid enough to actually be implemented.
I voted for them at the last election, based mainly on their other policies. I knew that the filtering was something they were going to do, but if I had of know it was going to be this bad, I would of changed my vote.
Conroy has to get with the times and to stop using the 'nothing to hide' argument (in another light here: if you don't agree with us, they you are a pedo).
I'll point out here, but this is aimed at Enderandrew's post a couple down. Australian's don't have the right to free speech. We have a concept of free speech and there are some laws supporting it, but its nowhere near the level that America does.
A schedule isn't a list. A schedule takes into account information such as who would watch the shows, what time that demographic usually watches TV and what advertising can be shown at that time.
Like juiceboxfan said, I also think its stupid to prevent the publishing of a schedule, but just calling it a list is a reductio ad absurdum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_windows#Timeline_of_releases
Ironic enough?
Apparently the kernel did a major upgrade for Vista, but before that, it was 5.* for a while
I would rather they 'plan' a trilogy, as opposed to releasing a game, and then deciding to milk it. Too many great games and movies have sequels that suck because of the post-planned trilogy.
I do agree with you about the bullshit of not having a concrete ending. I would much rather a story in three distinct parts, or at least the first game 'ends' with the second and third more closely tied together.
BTW: Your sig taught me about Saori Yoshida. Um, thanks?
I'll add to this quickly: I went to buy a new game for my Wii the other day, had a look at the games, saw a couple of EA games (Madden, etc). While this game itself would of been great to buy, I didn't buy it because of the crap that EA does.
To be fair, I do agree that a large portion of the customers "don't care" about DRM, but its more that most people don't know about it and don't know why its a bad thing until it bites them.
I would argue that 99.8% of people in the world don't even care that EA exists, but I don't see that figure being shouted out anywhere.
I had always considered it odd that many companies repackage their *.1 products, when selling the 6.0 and then giving a patch would be a cheaper way for all involved (including the manufacturing).
Of course, its not a technical problem, as can be seen with Windows. Their kernel has only had a minor version upgrade in the last 3 (or 4?) versions. To the guy in the story, I would recommend that if its weird for you to consider a 6.0 product to start with, call it the 1.0 internally, but let marketing do what they do.
100% of the people I just asked agreed with you on that.
I totally agree with your comment.
Why not put some ads on the side of the page, and use content from THE EMAIL ITSELF to pick context-aware ads....
Brilliant!
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Maybe not h0tm4il, but what about hotmailsecure.mine.ru, or www.hotmail.mine.ru? Not everyone knows that Russia is a key area for phishing, and almost nobody technical would get the link between .ru and Russia anyway. Most people wouldn't be able to tell you how a URL is formed (the combination of little and big endian can be very confusing), and even if you get the basic concepts, there are other techniques that can be used to obfuscate the URL.
Something stays the same from yesterday. More news on this breaking story at 6
Sounds more like a cleverly disguised advertisement to me.
Sorry, really bad use of slang there. Its about one fifth of the average wage here.
I live in Australia, and I'd kill for a 250Gb plan that doesn't cost half of the average weekly wage.
You should note also, that those plans are for 50gb to about 100gb. We don't have 250gb caps here...
Here I thought market research died with the invention of mass-advertising.
Great to see them actually test out a product, and further, fix their product before launching it.
I pay my own bills as well. It helps to budget, helps manage money flow and also helps ensure that I know where my money is going.
My car payments are automatic, but currently its the only one. The loan is with my bank, so should there be a hassle, I only need to call one place to work it out, and there isn't an option for them to say 'not out fault'.
The article has a pretty good indication. Its proof of concept now (at least, there could be real world implementations in the government that aren't public).
It can intercept any information going to a targeted address (but not from). That makes it pretty serious.
I put in some fake credentials to test it out, but unfortunately the email address asdf@asfd.com was already in use...
Sorry, my bad for the 'lingo'. I was put on part-time, 3 days a week. 3/5 is 0.6, which is what my position counts as. If there are two departments, one with 50 part time staff, and one with 50 full time staff, if you just count the number of employees, both departments have the same available employees, although in reality there is a big difference.
Of course, if you are talking about the ratio, then 2:200 is 1:100, while 2.6:200 is about 1:77, so the ratio of employees to IT staff went down.
I used to work for local government and before my position was created, there were 2 IT staff for nearly 200 staff in total. The ratio went down when I started (although I was still only part time), when we had a whopping 2.6 IT staff for around 200 staff in total.
For anything to get done outside of 'everyday stuff', we had to bring in consultants. It doesn't surprise me that larger places don't increase their IT support relatively.
It wouldn't be the guys running NoScript, it would be someone breaking into the site, uploading an exploit and then that exploit runs after every single NoScript upgrade. Which, if you have NoScript, you'll know that they have an 'update incrementally, frequently' policy.
Less than the security factor, its really annoying that NoScript opens its page after every upgrade, especially combined with the previously mentioned upgrade policy.
I knew that putting "century" was technically wrong, however the point remains. In order for lots of little things to build up and cause a larger effect, it takes time.
A link was given by Enigma2175 regarding the destabilized climate. Its the main reason why its referred to as 'climate change' by most (at least, here in Australia it is), and not 'global warming'.
I will freely admit that I don't know much about the science behind the climate change models, however the model I really care about is the "More carbon dioxide in the air" + "less trees to get rid of carbon dioxide" equation. I don't know if any severe climate change is caused by this, but I think that we should be polluting less anyway to ensure that this planet is safe in the years to come.
Its just like that other century where we industrialized every aspect of human life and began polluting on a grand scale... oh wait, that has only happened once?
Not every theory requires historical evidence, and if you have to ask what evidence the climate change scientists are using, you obviously haven't looked at the issue at all.
I'm not saying that every climate change theory is right (that most certainly isn't the case), but there is real work done behind this. Its a pity that only the most exaggerated claims get put into newspapers, as they make the case 'for' seem alarmist.