How does the GPS determine who is driving? Maybe I have a car that is driven by me during the day, and my daughter or wife at other times. And, what on earth does _where_ you drive have to do with anything? Should those people that _must_ drive in an accident prone area really be punished by paying higher premiums?
Given that it's Australia, the data will be in an incompatible format, the people acessing it won't know what any of it means and the system that is supposedly gathering the data will be just making the shit up.
If you really want to know what we are up to just buy it from china.
Yes, because Australia is a backwater nation that encodes all data in incompatible and undocumented formats of our own design. *rolls eyes*
Why on Earth should my telephone calls (source and destination) be logged and retained indefinitely? A "framework governing the user of the data"? Are you crazy? Any national framework governing the use of the data is next to useless. Once the data are there (recorded) no "framework" will guarantee how the data are used in the future. If I want to telephone my mother there is NO REASON AT ALL to log this. Indeed, if I want to telephone my drug dealer (I actually don't use drugs, but it's an example), there is NO REASON AT ALL to log that either. There is no "positive" (as your comment suggests) to this stupid proposal.
Don't hand over anything to this looter school. Atlas Shrugged is becoming more true everyday.
What is this? It's the second time today I've read on/. the term "Atlas Shrugged" in different stories. Is is a new meme? Quote of the month? From what I can find using Google the term isn't even very insightful.
After reading the article and the comments on this page, I have decided to give up. I've smashed two of by backup HDDs with a hammer, unplugged my headphones and placed them on my dog (he may eat them later), glued all my install CDs together with superglue and placed it near the front door so I can use it as a doorstop, removed mingw and eclipse, downloaded visual C++ express, deleted visual c++ express, repartitioned my primary hard drive to contain 42 partitions, rewired my box to avoid having to use the stupid PSU (CPU now connects directly to a wall socket), eaten a pen (quite tasty, but the ink stain around my mouth is annoying), smashed my keyboard because it's not necessary anymore -- I will just touch my monitors; smashed my monitors and thrown them out the door because they did not support touch, put the mouse in my underpants (I dunno why, but it does feel good). Bought a Commodore 64 off of EBay.
How can there be a last digit of pi? If you think about it, the question "what is the last digit of pi?" doesn't make sense even if you're not a mathematician. Mathematically there are an infinite number of points around a circle. Therefore, as pi depends on that, there are an infinite number of decimal places in pi. Now, in reality there may indeed be a physical limit to how many points may lie upon that circle and in that case the precision of pi would end at x decimal places and if that were the case then the last digit of pi would truly exist.
Correction, from the NE. They come from up in what appear to be mountains. Their starting points (it's a tree-like system) have no apparent sources of water though, so maybe it's melting glacial ice.
This got modded funny? What is wrong with the people on this website?
It's full of immature ACs who are too afraid to stand behind what they say, I suspect. *shrug*
I'm going to (again!) respond to my own post.
If you're one of those Anonymous Cowards who can't put a name behind your beliefs, then your belief or opinion is worth nothing. Sometimes anonymity is necessary for one reason or another. However I do believe that the majority of AC posts here (/.) are posted anonymously because the poster is either a troll or has so little self confidence that they're not sure if their belief will be "accepted" or not, and don't want to face criticism. *If* you fucking believe something, *If* you are passionate about something, then fucking post it without hiding. If you can't post it without hiding behind the AC (and this obviously excludes people who post AC for legitimate reasons) then you doubt your own "belief" or "opinion" and why should anyone take you seriously.
I'm not posting this anonymously because I stand by my beliefs, opinions, assertions, whatever. People might mod me down. Who cares?! I certainly don't because conveying my message is more important to me than some crazy moderation system. I have no idea what is wrong with people these days. If you have something to say (and it doesn't jeopardise your position, or whatever), then just fucking say it and stop hiding. If there is no valid reason to hide and you choose to hide anyway, then your belief and values can't be that strong. Can they?
Sorry for replying again. But if you are sincerely sorry and regret your troll, man up and put your name to the apology. I accept that you may be sorry, but hiding behind the cloak of anonymity means your words and your somewhat cowardice[1] "apology" bear little weight IMO. Cheers, Craig [1] Cowardice because you can't even put your first name in the response as the most minimal gesture.
Well, it's a bit late now, isn't it AC! Sheesh. Geez... I'm not even going to respond to you any further.
To Ilya: R.I.P To Ilya's family, friends, colleagues and associates: I offer my condolences and wish you peace also and wish you the strength to get through this.
History: The Australian Labor Movement (Unions) required legal financial membership of the appropriate union. They would issue a membership card printed and signed in black ink.
Usage: Unions would place work bans upon various employers or work sites where the employer used non-union labor/practices. They would also place bans for political reasons. The term "black ban" means Union members not allowed to work for or at an employer or work site. The term is non-racist.
Exactly! Words never change meaning, as we all know!
I'm sure you'll also support my quest against people who use the wrong definition of undertaker (originally meant entrepreneur, not this bastardised meaning of the funeral guy!, and doctor (what as we all know really means teacher, not medical doctor!). I'm always the first to correct people whenever they use the wrong definitions of these words. Long live the originalists!
A word of warning - if you talk about "throwing a faggot on the fire", be very careful who's within earshot.
I am sure that would be an aw[e]ful sight to see. It might even be terr[or]ific! Fortunately those who know about spelling might be able to help because they... well, know how to cast the spell (how else could they write!) to fix these things. Now that I cast my mind back, there might be something else relevant there, but I cannot be sure. What's so wrong with being full of awe, anyway? It's not as if going either way is going to make much difference.
Those too lazy to take advantage of it, or develop some other skill than being surly and unhelpful, as Fry's associates tend to be, can work for minimum wage and suck it. If that's elitist, so be it. The world doesn't owe anyone a living.
Why do you think they owe it to you to be helpful?
"...But how long will it continue to be able to do so?"
When the general view of "Freedom" is defined better by some other state, then I feel the power will shift. Right now, we hold the best definition, which is why we are favored. Whether that shifts or not entirely depends on our Governments continuance of tasteless discourse to destroy what many have given their life to defend. Our Military proves we are no match, but it will be the cancer of Government that will ultimately eat us to the bone.
Wow; the best example of cognitive dissonance I've ever seen. You think you have the best definition of freedom but then go on to say you government promotes "tasteless discourse to destroy what many have given their life to defend". But, your "military proves you (we) are no match". Your government will "eat us to the bone". What was your original point again? Oh, that your government has the best defined general view of freedom. Umm. Huh? "What you talkin' about Willis?" Get off my lawn.
I should add that not all of our "ancestors" treated them as "second class" citizens. Many did in fact treat the indigenous peoples with respect And, for those who did not, I suspect their actions were maybe a response to fear (FUD) rather than any true dislike or feeling of superiority. Cheers
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. Or when you drive, and where
How does the GPS determine who is driving? Maybe I have a car that is driven by me during the day, and my daughter or wife at other times. And, what on earth does _where_ you drive have to do with anything? Should those people that _must_ drive in an accident prone area really be punished by paying higher premiums?
Given that it's Australia, the data will be in an incompatible format, the people acessing it won't know what any of it means and the system that is supposedly gathering the data will be just making the shit up.
If you really want to know what we are up to just buy it from china.
Yes, because Australia is a backwater nation that encodes all data in incompatible and undocumented formats of our own design. *rolls eyes*
Why on Earth should my telephone calls (source and destination) be logged and retained indefinitely? A "framework governing the user of the data"? Are you crazy? Any national framework governing the use of the data is next to useless. Once the data are there (recorded) no "framework" will guarantee how the data are used in the future. If I want to telephone my mother there is NO REASON AT ALL to log this. Indeed, if I want to telephone my drug dealer (I actually don't use drugs, but it's an example), there is NO REASON AT ALL to log that either. There is no "positive" (as your comment suggests) to this stupid proposal.
Yeah, I did ok in life, even had something to do with VoIP later on - you're probably using my code. But you don't even know my name.
Umm, I think we do, Doug
Don't hand over anything to this looter school. Atlas Shrugged is becoming more true everyday.
What is this? It's the second time today I've read on /. the term "Atlas Shrugged" in different stories. Is is a new meme? Quote of the month? From what I can find using Google the term isn't even very insightful.
*Psychotria shrugs*
I actually liked it. I wonder what that says about me
With my iPhone. At least that's an open platform.
After reading the article and the comments on this page, I have decided to give up. I've smashed two of by backup HDDs with a hammer, unplugged my headphones and placed them on my dog (he may eat them later), glued all my install CDs together with superglue and placed it near the front door so I can use it as a doorstop, removed mingw and eclipse, downloaded visual C++ express, deleted visual c++ express, repartitioned my primary hard drive to contain 42 partitions, rewired my box to avoid having to use the stupid PSU (CPU now connects directly to a wall socket), eaten a pen (quite tasty, but the ink stain around my mouth is annoying), smashed my keyboard because it's not necessary anymore -- I will just touch my monitors; smashed my monitors and thrown them out the door because they did not support touch, put the mouse in my underpants (I dunno why, but it does feel good). Bought a Commodore 64 off of EBay.
I feel much better now.
How can there be a last digit of pi? If you think about it, the question "what is the last digit of pi?" doesn't make sense even if you're not a mathematician. Mathematically there are an infinite number of points around a circle. Therefore, as pi depends on that, there are an infinite number of decimal places in pi. Now, in reality there may indeed be a physical limit to how many points may lie upon that circle and in that case the precision of pi would end at x decimal places and if that were the case then the last digit of pi would truly exist.
Correction, from the NE. They come from up in what appear to be mountains. Their starting points (it's a tree-like system) have no apparent sources of water though, so maybe it's melting glacial ice.
Have you seen the aqueducts feeding it from the NW? Fascinating.
I'm more interested in the huge (looking at the scale bar) series of what appear to be dams of water just to the west of the site.
This got modded funny? What is wrong with the people on this website?
It's full of immature ACs who are too afraid to stand behind what they say, I suspect. *shrug*
I'm going to (again!) respond to my own post.
If you're one of those Anonymous Cowards who can't put a name behind your beliefs, then your belief or opinion is worth nothing. Sometimes anonymity is necessary for one reason or another. However I do believe that the majority of AC posts here (/.) are posted anonymously because the poster is either a troll or has so little self confidence that they're not sure if their belief will be "accepted" or not, and don't want to face criticism. *If* you fucking believe something, *If* you are passionate about something, then fucking post it without hiding. If you can't post it without hiding behind the AC (and this obviously excludes people who post AC for legitimate reasons) then you doubt your own "belief" or "opinion" and why should anyone take you seriously.
I'm not posting this anonymously because I stand by my beliefs, opinions, assertions, whatever. People might mod me down. Who cares?! I certainly don't because conveying my message is more important to me than some crazy moderation system. I have no idea what is wrong with people these days. If you have something to say (and it doesn't jeopardise your position, or whatever), then just fucking say it and stop hiding. If there is no valid reason to hide and you choose to hide anyway, then your belief and values can't be that strong. Can they?
Cheers
This got modded funny? What is wrong with the people on this website?
It's full of immature ACs who are too afraid to stand behind what they say, I suspect. *shrug*
Sorry for replying again. But if you are sincerely sorry and regret your troll, man up and put your name to the apology. I accept that you may be sorry, but hiding behind the cloak of anonymity means your words and your somewhat cowardice[1] "apology" bear little weight IMO.
Cheers, Craig
[1] Cowardice because you can't even put your first name in the response as the most minimal gesture.
Well, it's a bit late now, isn't it AC! Sheesh. Geez... I'm not even going to respond to you any further.
To Ilya: R.I.P
To Ilya's family, friends, colleagues and associates: I offer my condolences and wish you peace also and wish you the strength to get through this.
Regards
Craig
And what about people like me who have 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 or more personalities (sometime less)? It's going to be terrible :-(
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_the_saying_Black_Ban_originate
Origin: Australia (Circa 1925)
History: The Australian Labor Movement (Unions) required legal financial membership of the appropriate union. They would issue a membership card printed and signed in black ink.
Usage: Unions would place work bans upon various employers or work sites where the employer used non-union labor/practices. They would also place bans for political reasons. The term "black ban" means Union members not allowed to work for or at an employer or work site. The term is non-racist.
Yes, yes, yes. But you neglect to consider whether or not the MP has shares in the software provider company.
Exactly! Words never change meaning, as we all know!
I'm sure you'll also support my quest against people who use the wrong definition of undertaker (originally meant entrepreneur, not this bastardised meaning of the funeral guy!, and doctor (what as we all know really means teacher, not medical doctor!). I'm always the first to correct people whenever they use the wrong definitions of these words. Long live the originalists!
A word of warning - if you talk about "throwing a faggot on the fire", be very careful who's within earshot.
I am sure that would be an aw[e]ful sight to see. It might even be terr[or]ific! Fortunately those who know about spelling might be able to help because they... well, know how to cast the spell (how else could they write!) to fix these things. Now that I cast my mind back, there might be something else relevant there, but I cannot be sure. What's so wrong with being full of awe, anyway? It's not as if going either way is going to make much difference.
Those too lazy to take advantage of it, or develop some other skill than being surly and unhelpful, as Fry's associates tend to be, can work for minimum wage and suck it. If that's elitist, so be it. The world doesn't owe anyone a living.
Why do you think they owe it to you to be helpful?
"...But how long will it continue to be able to do so?"
When the general view of "Freedom" is defined better by some other state, then I feel the power will shift. Right now, we hold the best definition, which is why we are favored. Whether that shifts or not entirely depends on our Governments continuance of tasteless discourse to destroy what many have given their life to defend. Our Military proves we are no match, but it will be the cancer of Government that will ultimately eat us to the bone.
Wow; the best example of cognitive dissonance I've ever seen. You think you have the best definition of freedom but then go on to say you government promotes "tasteless discourse to destroy what many have given their life to defend". But, your "military proves you (we) are no match". Your government will "eat us to the bone". What was your original point again? Oh, that your government has the best defined general view of freedom. Umm. Huh? "What you talkin' about Willis?" Get off my lawn.
The Cro Magnon man, aka the modern human, is considered to have appeared abotu 35 000 years ago.
Given the fact in the article, shouldn't we conclude the Australian aboriginals are, for instance, neanderthals by origin?
Not really. The other option is to revise Cro-Magnon's "appearance".
I should add that not all of our "ancestors" treated them as "second class" citizens. Many did in fact treat the indigenous peoples with respect And, for those who did not, I suspect their actions were maybe a response to fear (FUD) rather than any true dislike or feeling of superiority. Cheers
You might treat them as second class citizens. Your friends might. Your parents might. Our ancestors certainly did.
I do not. Stop speaking for all of "us"; you just might find yourself in the minority.