On the other hand, if you plug a regular 2 or 3 button mouse into your Mac, you have all the right click context men goodness that you miss if you can never remember to press the shift? ctrl? apple? (which f*&cking key is it again - I know it's one of you!) key.
I'm not surprised. Since the sale of Telstra many of the line techies have been riffed and those left are under enormous pressure to get repairs done as quickly and cheaply as possible. Add that to the debacle with the faulty sealant on the cans and it is surprising that any lines work at all.
The situation is getting to the point where many people that I know are going back to sneaker net - myself included. Sneaker Net with DVD-Rs and massive USB drives.
The agenda is this...
Sitting ALP government needs Senator Fielding's vote in the senate to get legislation through. Senator Fielding's Family First Party (religious right -neo con types) holds the balance of power in the senate. Fielding wants a mandatory block on all porn in case some child stumbles onto it. The ALP see this as an easy win to get this guy on board. It's nothing to do with porn, illegal content or anything else. It is totally about securing this guys senate vote. You can read about his lobbying activities at www.stevefielding.com.au. This article [pdf 27k] pretty much covers it. With choice quotes such as this
"FAMILY FIRST has campaigned for the past two years for mandatory filtering
at the ISP level, which a government report found was 'feasible' and which is the
only way we can use filtering to help protect all children from pornography.
"Mandatory filtering offers some protection to all children, even if their parents
do not opt to take up a particular filtering scheme. The danger with the current
proposals is that not all parents will take up the option and children will continue to be exposed to Internet pornography."
Mod this guy up. At last someone besides me gets it! This is exactly the reason why Labor is pushing ahead blindly with it. A quick peruse of Senator Fielding's website (www.stevefielding.com.au) finds a number of media releases explaining that he has been lobbying for mandatory filters for over two years.
Putting you car into neutral at 70mph sounds like a good way to get yourself killed, but hey, if it saves a few dollars.
In Australia, diesel cars such as Jettas are becoming hugely popular, even with the 20-30 cent per litre price premium. I test drove the Citroen C5 in a 2.0 litre petrol and the diesel. There is no comparison - the diesel has tons more torque, is quieter and uses less fuel. With the introduction of low sulphur diesel fuel here, the market is being swamped with low emission, "clean diesel" cars. This is a good thing as diesels are ideally suited to Aussie driving conditions.
"except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger"
...and therein is the catch...and the opening for your Patriot Act. You do realise that you Americans have actually been at war for the last seven years? That isn't even counting the "War on $emotional_cause". That is only the so called "War on Terror" power consolidation exercise. By making almost the entire population potential combatants, it would appear that this opening may be being exploited.
We knew that this was coming when DHS started training the firemen to spot terrorists.
"The Homeland Security Department has been secretly testing a pilot scheme in New York in which firefighters are trained to identify suspicious material or behaviour. If successful, the programme will be extended to other large cities."
I'm only surprised it's taken this long for the abuse to become public.
Right click link scanner component, select "Disable" from menu. No more link scanner.
Right click component, select "Ignore Component State" from menu. No more nags from AVG State or Windows Security Centre.
Done
where I have my kids run as normal users, not administrators
And there you have hit the nail on the head for so many problems. I have the kids running as normal users in XP and haven't had to clean up a virus since. I got plenty of bitching about not being able to install stuff, but that has subsided and the bonus is that I get to vet the games/toys/apps/addons that they want to install, as they have to come to me to install it, thereby giving me some more parental control. I know that there are some programs that wont play nice without admin. In general they are poorly written and undesirable on the kid's PC anyway. (Queue flaming about essential apps x,y & z that need admin just to execute)
Speed cameras have no bearing on probability of a driver failing to stop for a red light. Perhaps you are thinking of "Red Light Cameras", which are likely to discourage drivers from running said red lights and are a Good Thing(tm). I'm of the opnion that speed cameras actually increase the probability of a collision for two reasons: 1 - speed cameras are generally positioned where the general flow of traffic is likely to be exceeding the posted speed limit. This means that drivers brake to ensure that they are under the limit as they pass the camera, then they accelerate again once past the camera. 2 - whilst doing step 1, said drivers are now looking at their speedometers, rather than watching where they are going, whilst their speed and the speed of vehicles around them is changing. Now apply this to a busy arterial road and throw 40 km/hr school zones into the mix and you have a high volume of traffic, mostly looking everywhere but where they are going.
That's kind of what happened here in AU. After years of drought and everyone (mostly) minimising their water use to save what was left, the water utilities put up their prices claiming people weren't using enough!
Tel$tra aren't restricting anything per se. What this is all about is that Tel$tra BigPond charge for data as well as bandwidth. They also charge for backhaul, so your 200mb plan (for $29.95 / month for 24 months) includes all traffic in both directions. Now, while this sounds crap, they do provide some areas of hosted content that are not included in that 200mb. There is FileArena, which provideds Australian mirrors of popular files. There is also GameArena, which has popular game downloads (demos/patches/etc) as well as game servers. The reason I use the 200mb example is because that is the plan that has been pushed heavily through the media for the past couple of years. From TFA it would appear that OO has been removed from FileArena. Sucks if you are on the 200mb plan. Most people that have a clue stay as far away from Tel$tra as is possible, so I find it most surprising that "an IT veteran with more than 25 years experience in the IT industry" would go anywhere near BigPond. Telstra are blood sucking leeches and this kind of move is not in the least be surprising. Although not unmetered, if you want a fast Australian mirror of this sort of thing, first port of call should be http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ which is only accessable to Australians.
"Warning: Boot Camp Beta is a prerelease software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. Do not use Boot Camp Beta in a commercial operating environment or with important data. You should back up all of your data before installing this software and regularly back up all data while using the software. Your rights to use Boot Camp Beta are subject to the acceptance of the terms of the software license agreement that accompanies the software."
It seems to me that there is a lot of "this may or may not work - be careful" written in this document. That alone should suggest that it is not entirely stable as well as being beta. Whilst I don't have a copy of the EULA handy, I do recall a mention that the "limited time" referred to is December 2007. Whether it will continue to function after then, I do not know, but I hope it does, as I want to wait a bit longer before buying Leopard.
I had a customer a few years back, which was a non profit organisation. The director just rang up Microsoft and they sent her a big box containing 5x Windows XP Pro, 5x Office Professional, Windows 2000 SBS and various other goodies. No charge. YMMV, but it appears that Microsoft has a no cost licencing program for non profit organisations and charities. All that is required is for the organisation to ask.
Fire breaks generally are used as a point to back burn/fire from, not as a break to stop the travel of the fire. They also help to create "fire blocks"- kind of like a residential block - where the entire fire block is taken out if a fire is ignited in one. Regardless, these fires appear to be mainly grass fires in extreme conditions with what we used to call "crossover" (humidity is less than temperature in deg C). Firebreaks are not much use fighting grass fires with 100km/hr winds and less than 5% humidity). As a side note, most structures are lost in bushfires not from the actual fire front, but from ember attack or residual fires left burning on the property after the fire front has passed.
I think you will find that this amendment is specifically directed at redressing the situation where non US residents are being detained indefinantely in US military bases outside of the United States, without trial or appeal. Namely, the "enemy combatants" that the US has rounded up in their "war on terror". One may think that there is a good case for such an amendment so as to demonstrate to the rest of the world that their mantra of justice, freedom and liberty is not just talk.
No need for probably cause here...
Here in New South Wales, Australia, we have random breath testing (RBT), where the police set up a testing station with a group of HWP cars (usually on a busy arterial road) and pull over groups of cars at a time for licence and breath testing. There is no prior observation of the vehicles, the officers just walk out into the traffic and direct the cars to pull over. Drug testing in this manner is on the agenda too. At first I was opposed to this RBT idea, but now that I am older and wiser and have been hit by a couple of drunks, I think it is actually a good idea. Despite the cries of civil libertarians at the time, I haven't see any abuse of this system. They pull you over, sometimes check your licence, get you to blow in the machine and you drive off. A stop rarely takes more than a minute.
Now, I don't have exact data close to hand, but I do recall this was introduced with a huge media campaign back in the late 80's and whilst we do still get some drunk drivers, there was a significant reduction in the number of drunks on the road.
The limits here are 0.05 for regular drivers, 0.02 if you drive a heavy vehicle and zero if you are a provisional (new) driver.
I, for one, have a company cell phone and find it great not having a phone bill to pay. I'm not a heavy user and am allowed some personal use. I realise that this doesn't apply to everyone, but quite a few people want a phone to just make phone calls and send/receive SMS. Those of us that fall into this category neither need nor want all the bells and whistles. In most cases, a company phone only needs to be a phone, do SMS and have bluetooth. Any more than that is fluff that generally doesn't help you do your job. If you need 24 email, then get an email device like a Blackberry or even get the system to email you an SMS via OnlineSMS. Corporations aren't happy with having cameras in phones in case you photograph something you shouldn't and don't want you having MP3s in case you load something you shouldn't. I understand that I don't speak for all, but many people just like the KISS principle. I just received a new Nokia 6233 and it's a great phone, but all I will ever use it for will be phone calls, SMS and dialing in remotely on the notebook from time to time.
The whole premise behind the FCC was that if spectrum was unregulated you would have a tragedy of the commons were everybody would pollute it so much that it would become unusable. However in practice that has turned out to be a complete and absolute lie.
I'm afraid that this statement is provably false. Here is but one example. Whilst I am not across how things are in the US, here in Australia, 27mHz CBRS (Citizens Band Radio Service) is unregulated, as is UHF CBRS. When it was regulated in the 80s, you could actually use CBRS to communicate. We even had inspectors that would "look after" people with linear amplifiers and other trouble makers. Since the regulation was abolished, CBRS is virtually unusable, with numerous antisocial persons blocking the channels with music, abuse and whatnot. It took a couple of years, but as people gave up on 27mHz and went to UHF, the deadheads followed. Now both segments of CBRS are useless. Quite a few of the people I used to know migrated to Amateur (HAM) radio and the others just gave it away altogether. HAM and 27mHz marine are still regulated and are more than usable.
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"men goodness"? Where the hell did my "u" go?
On the other hand, if you plug a regular 2 or 3 button mouse into your Mac, you have all the right click context men goodness that you miss if you can never remember to press the shift? ctrl? apple? (which f*&cking key is it again - I know it's one of you!) key.
including lib_lang_nz may help!
That is true, but his vote is required by the government to get legislation through the aforementioned senate.
I'm not surprised. Since the sale of Telstra many of the line techies have been riffed and those left are under enormous pressure to get repairs done as quickly and cheaply as possible. Add that to the debacle with the faulty sealant on the cans and it is surprising that any lines work at all.
The situation is getting to the point where many people that I know are going back to sneaker net - myself included. Sneaker Net with DVD-Rs and massive USB drives.
With choice quotes such as this
it would be very funny if not so serious.
Mod this guy up. At last someone besides me gets it! This is exactly the reason why Labor is pushing ahead blindly with it. A quick peruse of Senator Fielding's website (www.stevefielding.com.au) finds a number of media releases explaining that he has been lobbying for mandatory filters for over two years.
Putting you car into neutral at 70mph sounds like a good way to get yourself killed, but hey, if it saves a few dollars.
In Australia, diesel cars such as Jettas are becoming hugely popular, even with the 20-30 cent per litre price premium. I test drove the Citroen C5 in a 2.0 litre petrol and the diesel. There is no comparison - the diesel has tons more torque, is quieter and uses less fuel. With the introduction of low sulphur diesel fuel here, the market is being swamped with low emission, "clean diesel" cars. This is a good thing as diesels are ideally suited to Aussie driving conditions.
We knew that this was coming when DHS started training the firemen to spot terrorists.
"The Homeland Security Department has been secretly testing a pilot scheme in New York in which firefighters are trained to identify suspicious material or behaviour. If successful, the programme will be extended to other large cities." I'm only surprised it's taken this long for the abuse to become public.
Right click link scanner component, select "Disable" from menu. No more link scanner.
Right click component, select "Ignore Component State" from menu. No more nags from AVG State or Windows Security Centre.
Done
...there's no reason for you to look
Speed cameras have no bearing on probability of a driver failing to stop for a red light. Perhaps you are thinking of "Red Light Cameras", which are likely to discourage drivers from running said red lights and are a Good Thing(tm). I'm of the opnion that speed cameras actually increase the probability of a collision for two reasons: 1 - speed cameras are generally positioned where the general flow of traffic is likely to be exceeding the posted speed limit. This means that drivers brake to ensure that they are under the limit as they pass the camera, then they accelerate again once past the camera. 2 - whilst doing step 1, said drivers are now looking at their speedometers, rather than watching where they are going, whilst their speed and the speed of vehicles around them is changing. Now apply this to a busy arterial road and throw 40 km/hr school zones into the mix and you have a high volume of traffic, mostly looking everywhere but where they are going.
That's kind of what happened here in AU. After years of drought and everyone (mostly) minimising their water use to save what was left, the water utilities put up their prices claiming people weren't using enough!
Tel$tra aren't restricting anything per se. What this is all about is that Tel$tra BigPond charge for data as well as bandwidth. They also charge for backhaul, so your 200mb plan (for $29.95 / month for 24 months) includes all traffic in both directions. Now, while this sounds crap, they do provide some areas of hosted content that are not included in that 200mb. There is FileArena, which provideds Australian mirrors of popular files. There is also GameArena, which has popular game downloads (demos/patches/etc) as well as game servers. The reason I use the 200mb example is because that is the plan that has been pushed heavily through the media for the past couple of years. From TFA it would appear that OO has been removed from FileArena. Sucks if you are on the 200mb plan.
Most people that have a clue stay as far away from Tel$tra as is possible, so I find it most surprising that "an IT veteran with more than 25 years experience in the IT industry" would go anywhere near BigPond. Telstra are blood sucking leeches and this kind of move is not in the least be surprising.
Although not unmetered, if you want a fast Australian mirror of this sort of thing, first port of call should be http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ which is only accessable to Australians.
I had a customer a few years back, which was a non profit organisation. The director just rang up Microsoft and they sent her a big box containing 5x Windows XP Pro, 5x Office Professional, Windows 2000 SBS and various other goodies. No charge. YMMV, but it appears that Microsoft has a no cost licencing program for non profit organisations and charities. All that is required is for the organisation to ask.
Fire breaks generally are used as a point to back burn/fire from, not as a break to stop the travel of the fire. They also help to create "fire blocks"- kind of like a residential block - where the entire fire block is taken out if a fire is ignited in one. Regardless, these fires appear to be mainly grass fires in extreme conditions with what we used to call "crossover" (humidity is less than temperature in deg C). Firebreaks are not much use fighting grass fires with 100km/hr winds and less than 5% humidity). As a side note, most structures are lost in bushfires not from the actual fire front, but from ember attack or residual fires left burning on the property after the fire front has passed.
I know it isn't build in, but Virtual Dimension does provide this functionality on Windows rather well.
I think you will find that this amendment is specifically directed at redressing the situation where non US residents are being detained indefinantely in US military bases outside of the United States, without trial or appeal. Namely, the "enemy combatants" that the US has rounded up in their "war on terror". One may think that there is a good case for such an amendment so as to demonstrate to the rest of the world that their mantra of justice, freedom and liberty is not just talk.
No need for probably cause here...
Here in New South Wales, Australia, we have random breath testing (RBT), where the police set up a testing station with a group of HWP cars (usually on a busy arterial road) and pull over groups of cars at a time for licence and breath testing. There is no prior observation of the vehicles, the officers just walk out into the traffic and direct the cars to pull over. Drug testing in this manner is on the agenda too. At first I was opposed to this RBT idea, but now that I am older and wiser and have been hit by a couple of drunks, I think it is actually a good idea. Despite the cries of civil libertarians at the time, I haven't see any abuse of this system. They pull you over, sometimes check your licence, get you to blow in the machine and you drive off. A stop rarely takes more than a minute.
Now, I don't have exact data close to hand, but I do recall this was introduced with a huge media campaign back in the late 80's and whilst we do still get some drunk drivers, there was a significant reduction in the number of drunks on the road. The limits here are 0.05 for regular drivers, 0.02 if you drive a heavy vehicle and zero if you are a provisional (new) driver.
I, for one, have a company cell phone and find it great not having a phone bill to pay. I'm not a heavy user and am allowed some personal use. I realise that this doesn't apply to everyone, but quite a few people want a phone to just make phone calls and send/receive SMS. Those of us that fall into this category neither need nor want all the bells and whistles. In most cases, a company phone only needs to be a phone, do SMS and have bluetooth. Any more than that is fluff that generally doesn't help you do your job. If you need 24 email, then get an email device like a Blackberry or even get the system to email you an SMS via OnlineSMS. Corporations aren't happy with having cameras in phones in case you photograph something you shouldn't and don't want you having MP3s in case you load something you shouldn't. I understand that I don't speak for all, but many people just like the KISS principle. I just received a new Nokia 6233 and it's a great phone, but all I will ever use it for will be phone calls, SMS and dialing in remotely on the notebook from time to time.