While it is quite possibly more about the copyright attatched to the five interlocking rings. It should be noted that here in Oz there is something of a furore over a missing advert on the TV network thats showing our Games coverage. Channel 7 had booked and accepted payment (made solely from public donations) for a free tibet advert to be shown before and after the olympic closing ceremony. They later claimed that no such ad had been booked, which changed very quickly to we didn't have time once the reciepts and scheduling documents were provided to the network and its rivals. There have been several other 'reasons' supplied by channel 7 for the missing ad now. However, the organisation getup.org.au has been a bit of a thorn in the side of politics lately, and as a grassroots activism endeavour it has been highly successful if not a bit far on the left, with some dubious links to the labour party.
Guess my point is, don't put it past the IOC to have this pulled for its content both political and copyright. IMHO if they can get a major aussie network to break a contract, it's going to be no different for youtube.
I went to japan end of january 2007, had to use on of those index finger scanner things, might have been part of my work visa don't know. As to the states bit, I made the assumption it was because my fingerprints, the actually reason they gave me was that my biometrics didn't match up, I was the one who bought it up in a joke with customs guy. He followed on with it for a while amongst other things (why are you here? what are you studying? is this your passport? why are you not travelling on your british passport? Where else have you been?). I had just been round europe, and been to russia on my british passport after Japan.I only had two visas in my Aussie passport japan and thailand, and only russia in my british. But i figure that would be fairly common so it could have been his entertainment or he might have a thing for flirting agressively with people that look like hippies.
But, thanks I didn't know that. When I hit the States again next year I'll kick up shit if they feed me that again. Cheers.
I got one of these new fandangled passports a few years ago when I went to Japan, got fingerprinted electronicly at customs and thought nothing of it, with all the post 9/11 sentiment it sucks but i can't see it going away now. Anyway point is I'm an ex chef (still part time while at uni), so when I flew into newark to go visit my girlfriends parents with her in Fargo I get hustled into an interview room. I thought it was on account of being heavily tattoed and having dreadlocks and being under 30. Anyway, I get grilled by this mean assed gentlemen from customs about how I got this passport. Turns out the damage done to my hands over the course of two years, meant that thier software didn't match the biometric that Japanese customs had put on there. Got sorted out eventually, 2 hours nearly missed my connection from JFK. Was more bemused than anything, US customs don't get Aussie humour thats for sure.
Lots of people work in Oncology my GF is an RN, has been for about 8 years. I work in the same ward doing patient transport, to put myself through uni. We both smoke and drink, we finish work we're bummed we go to a bar with everyone else from the shift. Hey guess what, almost all the RN's including the Nursing director smoke when they drink. No-one smokes before work or during, however after working ten hours doing some rather depressing work, you go for a beer to blow off steam. The RN's I work with have about as many vices as the Chef's I used to work with when I did that.
So do you feel like taking your little rant into hospitals like GW's oncology ward and abuse the staff?
The irony about france and their language institute is that they more or less created this guy.
The whole idea of Japan avoiding westernisation seems kinda fruitless though, manga and anime often use western features for their aesthetic, and faux western culture is extremely populer, you should go there for christmas its just bizzare.
Mr. Walters is defending Clinton Raymond McCowen, who is facing charges that he created and distributed obscene material through a Web site based in Florida. The charges include racketeering and prostitution, but Mr. Walters said the prosecution's case fundamentally relies on proving that the material on the site is obscene.
How exactly is google trends going to clear him of racketeering and prostitution? Just curious.
....a slap for this. I've got friends who have aspergers (one of them a really talented and succuesful IT professional), and a cousin with autism. Its a really hard thing to deal with for families and all concerned, he's "lucky" because he's got it light. To raise a child with autism takes guts and commitment, I take my hat off to her. Furthermore, to take a stand against crackpots while juggling your own domestic issues is admirable, and certainly doesn't deserve a legal slap in the face for trying to a) educate people through her blog and b)debunk crackpot theories that only seek to gain monetary gain through litigation and not practical solutions. I think this lawyer has watched to many movies and wants to get a sex change. Its a shame this woman had to go through this kind of shit in the first place. Makes me glad that frivolous litigation has reached such absurd levels in Australia yet.
Assuming that somebody actually cracks this (true AI), and assuming they were from the states; what would happen if they open sourced or gave it to another Govt other than their own? Would it instantly fall under the tech restrictions that the US seems to lay on anything remotely advanced, like VISTA? I'm just asking, not trolling. My tinfoil hat prickles when an institution like DARPA starts poking around, that's all.
Precisely what I was getting at. Also the latency/ bandwidth thing is getting cleared up a little. There are new cables getting layed that should ease the traffic somewhat. Although I doubt it will really have much impact on the domestic market. Though getting through the 1024K/sec barrier would be nice on adsl.
In all seriousness I've often wondered why they don't just slap server farms and data centres in the australian desert, well any for that matter. Solar power galore (almost no cloud cover in central Oz), and if the miners get paid to go live out there and work for $$$, surely if you cut out alot of your overheads IT guys would take big bucks to do it. Offer the work to Residency applicants even to cut the wage. Also there are enough big mining outfits out that way, so they would probably relish being able to out-source their IT needs. y
I realise that the trial is but a blip on the horizon. However, given the fact that he's getting slapped with 60 odd charges, even if he gets nailed for only a couple, done concurrently, don't you feel that he's going to come out the back end of the penal system sore, hardened and career? What comes out will be far more threatening than what went in, wouldn't you agree?
Frank Abignail was a kid who turned himself into a criminal and should have known better. This kid, like most, did not consider school to be inside of societies legal constraints. That's a serious error of judgement and if he'd been aware of the consequences then his actions may well have been different. Yet it's not necessarily the criminal act it's being made out to be. Yeah, he doeas deserve an ass kicking, but punishment should be fitting.
Making an example of people just means that other people will be more careful to avoid getting caught. Look at Plato's Dialogue on the Ring of Gyges Plato was damn astute for his time, and got the morality of the masses down to a fine art.
How much better did any of us know at 18, can you legally drink in the US at 18? So why if your not treated as a full member of society should you be expected to behave and be punished as one? I'm not advocating a break with SCT, it's done the world a lot of good. However, I am questioning it.
You know deontology has some good points and all. But aplying Kantian philosophy to an 18 year old by throwing him into a cell for 10-30yrs for fraud is ridiculous. No-one got hurt, sure he needs to be punished but hell make it relevant. He was flunking school and essentially cheated through him in a minimum security jail and leave him there till he gets his A+ average in his exams and then let him out. Justice and morals have their place in society, but this is just taking the piss. If it was white collar crime for millions, say here in australia you'd get a two year minimum security sentence for ruining thousands of lives. Thats more or less saying hey mate, bad luck you got caught better luck next time. Meanwhile a kid makes a big mistake and they take most of his life from him?
I have a similar issue with opera. It is my browser of choice, although i'm unfortunately on XP rather than Ubuntu or some such. My uni webpage doesn't script properly for opera. When the JAVA is enabled for my MYUNI aplication i just get a the menus and not the content. And clicking menus just leads to further menus. Furthermore MYUNI doesn't work with Firefox, so presently i'm stuck with IE which is just, well unpleasant. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as using multiple browsers just seems illogical to me.
Cheers Pat
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Guess my point is, don't put it past the IOC to have this pulled for its content both political and copyright. IMHO if they can get a major aussie network to break a contract, it's going to be no different for youtube.
This is slashdot, everyone will have the same mp3
His name was Robert Paulson.
There fixed that for you.
But, thanks I didn't know that. When I hit the States again next year I'll kick up shit if they feed me that again. Cheers.
I got one of these new fandangled passports a few years ago when I went to Japan, got fingerprinted electronicly at customs and thought nothing of it, with all the post 9/11 sentiment it sucks but i can't see it going away now. Anyway point is I'm an ex chef (still part time while at uni), so when I flew into newark to go visit my girlfriends parents with her in Fargo I get hustled into an interview room. I thought it was on account of being heavily tattoed and having dreadlocks and being under 30. Anyway, I get grilled by this mean assed gentlemen from customs about how I got this passport. Turns out the damage done to my hands over the course of two years, meant that thier software didn't match the biometric that Japanese customs had put on there. Got sorted out eventually, 2 hours nearly missed my connection from JFK. Was more bemused than anything, US customs don't get Aussie humour thats for sure.
So do you feel like taking your little rant into hospitals like GW's oncology ward and abuse the staff?
excuse me are you lost?
The whole idea of Japan avoiding westernisation seems kinda fruitless though, manga and anime often use western features for their aesthetic, and faux western culture is extremely populer, you should go there for christmas its just bizzare.
How exactly is google trends going to clear him of racketeering and prostitution? Just curious.
....a slap for this. I've got friends who have aspergers (one of them a really talented and succuesful IT professional), and a cousin with autism. Its a really hard thing to deal with for families and all concerned, he's "lucky" because he's got it light. To raise a child with autism takes guts and commitment, I take my hat off to her. Furthermore, to take a stand against crackpots while juggling your own domestic issues is admirable, and certainly doesn't deserve a legal slap in the face for trying to a) educate people through her blog and b)debunk crackpot theories that only seek to gain monetary gain through litigation and not practical solutions. I think this lawyer has watched to many movies and wants to get a sex change. Its a shame this woman had to go through this kind of shit in the first place. Makes me glad that frivolous litigation has reached such absurd levels in Australia yet.
That would never work. These guys would be easily bribed with lavish gifts, like cookies and milk. That would never happen with SCOTUS.
Where I'm from that would be most unpleasant, not mention unsanitary!!
Assuming that somebody actually cracks this (true AI), and assuming they were from the states; what would happen if they open sourced or gave it to another Govt other than their own? Would it instantly fall under the tech restrictions that the US seems to lay on anything remotely advanced, like VISTA? I'm just asking, not trolling. My tinfoil hat prickles when an institution like DARPA starts poking around, that's all.
does one find me a swashbuckling Galatic Virgin, arggh...
Just in, man stabs himself in mouth with BBQ fork instead of beer, while barbequeing. The dangers of multitasking,News at 8.
Yeah but they make great executive jackets
Cthulu. You've got to lay of this colour co-ordination habit . You'll get paranoid.
Precisely what I was getting at. Also the latency/ bandwidth thing is getting cleared up a little. There are new cables getting layed that should ease the traffic somewhat. Although I doubt it will really have much impact on the domestic market. Though getting through the 1024K/sec barrier would be nice on adsl.
In all seriousness I've often wondered why they don't just slap server farms and data centres in the australian desert, well any for that matter. Solar power galore (almost no cloud cover in central Oz), and if the miners get paid to go live out there and work for $$$, surely if you cut out alot of your overheads IT guys would take big bucks to do it. Offer the work to Residency applicants even to cut the wage. Also there are enough big mining outfits out that way, so they would probably relish being able to out-source their IT needs. y
I realise that the trial is but a blip on the horizon. However, given the fact that he's getting slapped with 60 odd charges, even if he gets nailed for only a couple, done concurrently, don't you feel that he's going to come out the back end of the penal system sore, hardened and career? What comes out will be far more threatening than what went in, wouldn't you agree?
Hell if he has m4d 5k1775 they should put him to work instead.DARPA are having a wee shortage, so i'm told.
Making an example of people just means that other people will be more careful to avoid getting caught. Look at Plato's Dialogue on the Ring of Gyges Plato was damn astute for his time, and got the morality of the masses down to a fine art.
How much better did any of us know at 18, can you legally drink in the US at 18? So why if your not treated as a full member of society should you be expected to behave and be punished as one? I'm not advocating a break with SCT, it's done the world a lot of good. However, I am questioning it.
You know deontology has some good points and all. But aplying Kantian philosophy to an 18 year old by throwing him into a cell for 10-30yrs for fraud is ridiculous. No-one got hurt, sure he needs to be punished but hell make it relevant. He was flunking school and essentially cheated through him in a minimum security jail and leave him there till he gets his A+ average in his exams and then let him out. Justice and morals have their place in society, but this is just taking the piss. If it was white collar crime for millions, say here in australia you'd get a two year minimum security sentence for ruining thousands of lives. Thats more or less saying hey mate, bad luck you got caught better luck next time. Meanwhile a kid makes a big mistake and they take most of his life from him?
I have a similar issue with opera. It is my browser of choice, although i'm unfortunately on XP rather than Ubuntu or some such. My uni webpage doesn't script properly for opera. When the JAVA is enabled for my MYUNI aplication i just get a the menus and not the content. And clicking menus just leads to further menus. Furthermore MYUNI doesn't work with Firefox, so presently i'm stuck with IE which is just, well unpleasant. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as using multiple browsers just seems illogical to me. Cheers Pat
Or it might be my spelling. oops.