Definitely not the case for a large percentage of people in need of aids in Australia. While some of the major private health insurance providers offer some rebates on hearing aids, it's only on their absolute top-tear premiums, and rarely cover the full cost of the aids (although it depends on which aids you need). Medicare (public health system) offers nothing.
Australian Hearing will supply aids to people under 26, and I believe pensioners do get some support also. Between 26 and 60, however? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
My partner managed to get new aids recently through some government grants as she needs them for work, but even that's been discontinued now... and the aids she needs are usually more like $5,000 per ear.
IANAL, but I do work in computer (and mobile phone) forensics.
While no one piece of evidence "proves" an entire case (even fingerprints on a murder weapon), it's typically the collective mass of evidence which makes the case.
The great thing about mobile phones is that they are, typically, personal devices. While people commonly share desktop (and to a slightly lesser degree, laptop) computers, it is much less common for people to share a mobile phone.
That said, it's certainly not impossible, and if a suspect raised the "shared phone" defence, I would certainly go looking for any indication that another person had used it - internet history, logged in accounts and many other forensic artifacts could be used to either support or refute such a claim.
In Australia, we have laws regarding both possession and accessing CP. At a state level (in Victoria, at least), we have similar laws to those in Canada. Specifically, (from the Crimes Act (Vic) 1956, we have laws against:
Producing: "A person who prints or otherwise makes or produces child pornography..." (S68)
Procuring: "invites a minor to be in any way concerned in the making or production of child pornography"... (S69), and
Posession: "A person who knowingly possesses child pornography..." (S70)
At a commonwealth (country) level, we also have laws against accessing CP - specifically "Using a carriage service for child pornography material" (Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 S474.19) - which includes accessing, making available, etc.
Sure, there are practical issues with charging people with the accessing offences, but the laws are definitely there...
They've been pretty clear that while they'd like the hard core gamer, they're really after people who aren't really gamers or people who are no longer gamers
and I think they're doing quite well with this goal! I'm definitely not a hard core gamer, but I used to enjoy gaming back in the days of Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem. I think my problem with most games these days is there's such a steep learning curve before you can actually enjoy the game - the Wii makes it so much easier, because the controls are much more natural. Since when is cross, a square, a triangle and a circle a good example of natural mapping?
I may not be looking at buying a Wii of my own just yet - but the Wii is definitely further up on my "gadgets I'd like to own" list than any other game system in recent years.
Work in the "sign language to spoken language" translation is definitely being done. There have been gloves (similar to the one "Amy" wears in Congo) which have had some success.
My studies are mostly based in Auslan (Australian Sign Language), but I believe all sign languages have five elements to their signs:
Handshape
Orientation
Location
Movement
Expression
So, basically, the body location is just as relevent in JSL as any other sign language - change it, and the whole sign can have a different meaning.
There's plenty of examples in Auslan of changing one of the HOLME elements in a sign to make a completely new sign - change the orientation of "Not Yet", and it becomes "F&^k you", change the facial expression when signing "Rat", and it becomes "Orgasm", and other more boring examples...
I have had issues with getting Gmail to work through my university's proxy (and no, it's not a javascript problem), but accessing gmail through the address https://mail.google.com/ (as opposed to http://www.gmail.com/ always works (through that proxy, anyway).
Leaving a lot of the stupidness of this idea asside for a moment (e.g. can a US law *really* banish porn from.com forever? Who decides what is porn?, etc...).... Perhaps this is a stupid question, but even if somehow *every* porn site gets booted out of every TLD but.xxx, what's to stop them not using a domain at all?
What's to stop me hosting a porn site with just an IP address?
While I admit it would be sensible for amazon to group various editions of a CD/book/whatever and NOT suggest them multiple times, selecting "I own it" should solve your problem.
That is, of course, until the sex industry comes along...
Using it too much might *cause* blindness!
(Disclaimer: May or may not be scientifically accurate.)
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Definitely not the case for a large percentage of people in need of aids in Australia. While some of the major private health insurance providers offer some rebates on hearing aids, it's only on their absolute top-tear premiums, and rarely cover the full cost of the aids (although it depends on which aids you need). Medicare (public health system) offers nothing.
Australian Hearing will supply aids to people under 26, and I believe pensioners do get some support also. Between 26 and 60, however? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
My partner managed to get new aids recently through some government grants as she needs them for work, but even that's been discontinued now... and the aids she needs are usually more like $5,000 per ear.
IANAL, but I do work in computer (and mobile phone) forensics.
While no one piece of evidence "proves" an entire case (even fingerprints on a murder weapon), it's typically the collective mass of evidence which makes the case.
The great thing about mobile phones is that they are, typically, personal devices. While people commonly share desktop (and to a slightly lesser degree, laptop) computers, it is much less common for people to share a mobile phone.
That said, it's certainly not impossible, and if a suspect raised the "shared phone" defence, I would certainly go looking for any indication that another person had used it - internet history, logged in accounts and many other forensic artifacts could be used to either support or refute such a claim.
In Australia, we have laws regarding both possession and accessing CP. At a state level (in Victoria, at least), we have similar laws to those in Canada. Specifically, (from the Crimes Act (Vic) 1956, we have laws against:
At a commonwealth (country) level, we also have laws against accessing CP - specifically "Using a carriage service for child pornography material" (Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 S474.19) - which includes accessing, making available, etc.
Sure, there are practical issues with charging people with the accessing offences, but the laws are definitely there...
and I think they're doing quite well with this goal! I'm definitely not a hard core gamer, but I used to enjoy gaming back in the days of Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem. I think my problem with most games these days is there's such a steep learning curve before you can actually enjoy the game - the Wii makes it so much easier, because the controls are much more natural. Since when is cross, a square, a triangle and a circle a good example of natural mapping?
I may not be looking at buying a Wii of my own just yet - but the Wii is definitely further up on my "gadgets I'd like to own" list than any other game system in recent years.
Work in the "sign language to spoken language" translation is definitely being done. There have been gloves (similar to the one "Amy" wears in Congo) which have had some success.
I've found a paper on Australian research into Auslan recognition with "PowerGloves", for instance. And I know there's plenty of other research out there!
As for ones which recognise sign language from a camera, I haven't heard of it...
My studies are mostly based in Auslan (Australian Sign Language), but I believe all sign languages have five elements to their signs:
So, basically, the body location is just as relevent in JSL as any other sign language - change it, and the whole sign can have a different meaning.
There's plenty of examples in Auslan of changing one of the HOLME elements in a sign to make a completely new sign - change the orientation of "Not Yet", and it becomes "F&^k you", change the facial expression when signing "Rat", and it becomes "Orgasm", and other more boring examples...
There's a bit about this on wikipedia, too.
I have had issues with getting Gmail to work through my university's proxy (and no, it's not a javascript problem), but accessing gmail through the address https://mail.google.com/ (as opposed to http://www.gmail.com/ always works (through that proxy, anyway).
fuck.eu? But, but... *I* wanted that domain! ...
Ahh, fuck.it.
Leaving a lot of the stupidness of this idea asside for a moment (e.g. can a US law *really* banish porn from .com forever? Who decides what is porn?, etc...) .... Perhaps this is a stupid question, but even if somehow *every* porn site gets booted out of every TLD but .xxx, what's to stop them not using a domain at all?
What's to stop me hosting a porn site with just an IP address?
Isn't that what the "I own it" checkbox is for?
While I admit it would be sensible for amazon to group various editions of a CD/book/whatever and NOT suggest them multiple times, selecting "I own it" should solve your problem.
That is, of course, until the sex industry comes along... Using it too much might *cause* blindness! (Disclaimer: May or may not be scientifically accurate.)