Just out of curiosity, has anyone got the idea of where Stephen Conroy got the idea from? I'm thinking in terms of the bigger worldwide picture of who benefits from a lack of free speech, assuming that we are a guinea pig for a controlled internet in a western country. I'm sure that Conroy didn't come up with the idea himself and has very large incentives to see this plan come to fruition. So think of who is pulling the strings of our politicians, are there any readers knowledgable to answer this as I'm afraid I can't already supply you the answer.
This issue basically disillusioned me with wikipedia to the point that it was more trouble than it was worth trying to contribute to the site. When there are literally hordes of people constantly patrolling the ENTIRE SITE for images that are not 100% certain to be public domain and orphaning them so they get deleted if undefended by the uploader, there is no chance of even unofficially putting decent images on there. Many, many people there either sleep with a copyright statutes under their pillow or use image orphaning as a way to curry favour and be promoted to admin status so a barren, near image-less wikipedia is the victory that the hordes of copyright nazis fought long and hard for.
Come on, copyright infringement is a back-door way of guarding the old physical media empire the record and movie companies were built on. It was (I assume) meant to target people mass producing counterfeit copies and unethically earning money through that. A person who technically infringes copyright (the letter of the law rather than the spirit) by uploading a copy (or parts of one) to a few people for free happens to have a pre-digital law that (technically) says that they fall into this category.
So because of this pre-existing law on the books you believe they should be punished. And when there are legal ways to listen to music or watch a film for free (borrowing a CD or DVD from a library) it gets kind of confusing whether it is morally wrong to enjoy content for free. It becomes a matter of where the media companies decide which method of consuming content is morally wrong (and people like you buy it).
You can see why people such as myself may consider it morally wrong to profit from other people's content but don't consider it morally wrong to enjoy the content for free. And it is therefore morally wrong to punish people for enjoying content for free as strangely there are ways to do this which no-one has any problem with whatsoever. It will be wrong to enjoy content for free when libraries are abolished and the only way to access content of any sort is to buy it.
Looking through the slideshow, she does appear to be ageing in some ways even if she hasn't changed much physically. If she survived into old age I imagine she still would have wrinkly skin and white hair etc. From the information available it looks like rather than not ageing, she hasn't grown up.
I thought this stupid fucking thing was being swept under the carpet. Conroy should collect his internet villain award once pages start being blocked on computers across the nation. Maybe the debate shouldn't be about censorship but rather having a controlled internet, censorship seems to be the cover for using Australia as a testbed for finally getting rid of free speech on the web.
I wonder how much of this is singling out someone who looks like they won't fight back (eg. a nerd). Would the ATM serviceman threaten to tackle someone who would be likely to threaten something similar back?
I tried to make Gnome look more like Windows. I tried an Ubuntu live CD (version 4 I think) that was on the front of a magazine, I still muck around various distros from time to time but the only use I've found for it is as a rescue disc.
I don't jog but hike (basically walking on rough inclined surfaces), I wonder if these make you as prone to injury as running shoes. In all honesty all you really need from them is extra grip, waterproofing depending on the season, and enough of a sole to cushion rocks and pebbles (which those thongs/flipflops/jandals the mexican is wearing might be thick enough to provide). Thick boots with a raised heel may be the wrong approach.
I was hoping that Paul Moller had gotten of his ass and done the flight test he's always got planned for the future, but it's just a newer version of something that's been around since the 50's.
As probably 15 people have mentioned before me, the only names that can be voted on are Earthrise, Legacy, Serenity and Venture. And it's groanworthy (as some who hasn't watched Firefly) that Serenity has 86% of the vote because of its connection to Firefly.
It's a bit like when an American school allowed the students to pick the name of the school and chose Springfield Elementary.
I had wondered why LEDs were so expensive, for example Acriche LEDs that can be run directly off 240/110V AC were about $US 40 the last time I checked. I guess they're cheap enough for torches (which translates as 'flashlights' for you American geeks who don't know about the outside world) but lighting a home is still something for the extreme enthusiast, especially as all the projects I've read about use an AC-DC converter for every individual array (eg. kitchen, bathroom, front porch etc.). Would take many years to pay off I imagine.
It's one step down the road, the only way to cure out current transportation (and global warming) woes is to drive electric cars that run on 100% non-polluting sources. I wonder if enough attention and funding is being paid to the various forms of solar power generation (arrays of mirrors, solar cells etc.).
Or a simpler way of putting it is that the opposition party forms their own "cabinet" that mirrors the real portfolios (eg Environment Minister, Treasurer). A way of saying "if we were in power right now this is who would be Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy", in Nick Minchin's example.
I wonder if this will signal a return to the days of a slowly dying Apple , I used macs in high school during the "height" of this era. I suppose if nothing else Apple without Jobs would know not to churn out a multiple and increasingly boring line of beige boxes that only the diehard Mac community buys. I suppose if nothing else the iPod division should keep them in the black indefinitely.
Or worse for people with anxiety disorders, your brain gets overstimulated until it starts to "shut down", producing a zombie-like state, provided you don't have a panic attack before then and escape to somewhere less crowded.
I can't believe IE still has 70% market share, I bet 68% of those still put up with ads and pop-ups (young-uns probably didn't experience the internet before those were rampant). From some quick research it looks like around half of that uses IE 7 which I assume is less prone to pop-ups at least. Having used Firefox since the first beta I can't believe that it's STILL a fringe browser even today (1 in 5). I suppose there's vast hordes of people with basic computer skills out there who consider IE 6 or 7 to do a sufficient job to look up the weather or run a Google search.
They're pretty much the only ones enjoying a white Christmas in the southern hemisphere, although it's probably not wintery even for them with 24 hours of sunlight.
I have to point out that Slashdot does seem unoriginal when you have RSS feeds of sites like Ars Technica and Science Daily.
If they pumped that money into the state government school systems, I wonder what effect reduced class sizes, free materials, extracurricular programs etc. would have. Possibly a lot more than sending crates of laptops across the nation.
I would agree with speedlaw, who (in a metropolitan area) doesn't look at their speedo needle every 30 seconds or have a fear of major intersections (which often have a combined speed and red light camera).
Apparently not wearing your seatbelt can attract around a $250 fine in South Australia. And there was a police blitz this year which cost me a court appearance and $515 when one put the plate number of my unregistered car through their computer.
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone got the idea of where Stephen Conroy got the idea from? I'm thinking in terms of the bigger worldwide picture of who benefits from a lack of free speech, assuming that we are a guinea pig for a controlled internet in a western country. I'm sure that Conroy didn't come up with the idea himself and has very large incentives to see this plan come to fruition. So think of who is pulling the strings of our politicians, are there any readers knowledgable to answer this as I'm afraid I can't already supply you the answer.
This issue basically disillusioned me with wikipedia to the point that it was more trouble than it was worth trying to contribute to the site. When there are literally hordes of people constantly patrolling the ENTIRE SITE for images that are not 100% certain to be public domain and orphaning them so they get deleted if undefended by the uploader, there is no chance of even unofficially putting decent images on there. Many, many people there either sleep with a copyright statutes under their pillow or use image orphaning as a way to curry favour and be promoted to admin status so a barren, near image-less wikipedia is the victory that the hordes of copyright nazis fought long and hard for.
Come on, copyright infringement is a back-door way of guarding the old physical media empire the record and movie companies were built on. It was (I assume) meant to target people mass producing counterfeit copies and unethically earning money through that. A person who technically infringes copyright (the letter of the law rather than the spirit) by uploading a copy (or parts of one) to a few people for free happens to have a pre-digital law that (technically) says that they fall into this category.
So because of this pre-existing law on the books you believe they should be punished. And when there are legal ways to listen to music or watch a film for free (borrowing a CD or DVD from a library) it gets kind of confusing whether it is morally wrong to enjoy content for free. It becomes a matter of where the media companies decide which method of consuming content is morally wrong (and people like you buy it).
You can see why people such as myself may consider it morally wrong to profit from other people's content but don't consider it morally wrong to enjoy the content for free. And it is therefore morally wrong to punish people for enjoying content for free as strangely there are ways to do this which no-one has any problem with whatsoever. It will be wrong to enjoy content for free when libraries are abolished and the only way to access content of any sort is to buy it.
Looking through the slideshow, she does appear to be ageing in some ways even if she hasn't changed much physically. If she survived into old age I imagine she still would have wrinkly skin and white hair etc.
From the information available it looks like rather than not ageing, she hasn't grown up.
I thought this stupid fucking thing was being swept under the carpet. Conroy should collect his internet villain award once pages start being blocked on computers across the nation.
Maybe the debate shouldn't be about censorship but rather having a controlled internet, censorship seems to be the cover for using Australia as a testbed for finally getting rid of free speech on the web.
"If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump" - Harlan Ellison
"do they think they can violate my copyright and get away with it?" - Ursula K. Le Guin
Yes, why don't you try threatening pirates and see what happens.
I wonder how much of this is singling out someone who looks like they won't fight back (eg. a nerd).
Would the ATM serviceman threaten to tackle someone who would be likely to threaten something similar back?
I tried to make Gnome look more like Windows. I tried an Ubuntu live CD (version 4 I think) that was on the front of a magazine, I still muck around various distros from time to time but the only use I've found for it is as a rescue disc.
I don't jog but hike (basically walking on rough inclined surfaces), I wonder if these make you as prone to injury as running shoes.
In all honesty all you really need from them is extra grip, waterproofing depending on the season, and enough of a sole to cushion rocks and pebbles (which those thongs/flipflops/jandals the mexican is wearing might be thick enough to provide). Thick boots with a raised heel may be the wrong approach.
It all comes out properly in Opera, I have this installed on my computer as an alternative browser.
I was hoping that Paul Moller had gotten of his ass and done the flight test he's always got planned for the future, but it's just a newer version of something that's been around since the 50's.
As probably 15 people have mentioned before me, the only names that can be voted on are Earthrise, Legacy, Serenity and Venture. And it's groanworthy (as some who hasn't watched Firefly) that Serenity has 86% of the vote because of its connection to Firefly.
It's a bit like when an American school allowed the students to pick the name of the school and chose Springfield Elementary.
I had wondered why LEDs were so expensive, for example Acriche LEDs that can be run directly off 240/110V AC were about $US 40 the last time I checked.
I guess they're cheap enough for torches (which translates as 'flashlights' for you American geeks who don't know about the outside world) but lighting a home is still something for the extreme enthusiast, especially as all the projects I've read about use an AC-DC converter for every individual array (eg. kitchen, bathroom, front porch etc.). Would take many years to pay off I imagine.
It's one step down the road, the only way to cure out current transportation (and global warming) woes is to drive electric cars that run on 100% non-polluting sources. I wonder if enough attention and funding is being paid to the various forms of solar power generation (arrays of mirrors, solar cells etc.).
I thought this might have been an article on Daemon Tools...
Or a simpler way of putting it is that the opposition party forms their own "cabinet" that mirrors the real portfolios (eg Environment Minister, Treasurer).
A way of saying "if we were in power right now this is who would be Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy", in Nick Minchin's example.
I wonder if this will signal a return to the days of a slowly dying Apple , I used macs in high school during the "height" of this era. I suppose if nothing else Apple without Jobs would know not to churn out a multiple and increasingly boring line of beige boxes that only the diehard Mac community buys.
I suppose if nothing else the iPod division should keep them in the black indefinitely.
Or worse for people with anxiety disorders, your brain gets overstimulated until it starts to "shut down", producing a zombie-like state, provided you don't have a panic attack before then and escape to somewhere less crowded.
I can't believe IE still has 70% market share, I bet 68% of those still put up with ads and pop-ups (young-uns probably didn't experience the internet before those were rampant).
From some quick research it looks like around half of that uses IE 7 which I assume is less prone to pop-ups at least. Having used Firefox since the first beta I can't believe that it's STILL a fringe browser even today (1 in 5).
I suppose there's vast hordes of people with basic computer skills out there who consider IE 6 or 7 to do a sufficient job to look up the weather or run a Google search.
But then in the depths of winter there's nothing to cheer you up, it's business as usual.
Fortunately practically all of the southern hemisphere residents are at latitudes that don't experience a severe winter.
They're pretty much the only ones enjoying a white Christmas in the southern hemisphere, although it's probably not wintery even for them with 24 hours of sunlight.
I have to point out that Slashdot does seem unoriginal when you have RSS feeds of sites like Ars Technica and Science Daily.
I wonder what percentage of those are simply placing their laptop on a computer desk and using it like a regular computer.
The way timothy worded it makes it sound like someone died but it was a person of minor importance.
If they pumped that money into the state government school systems, I wonder what effect reduced class sizes, free materials, extracurricular programs etc. would have.
Possibly a lot more than sending crates of laptops across the nation.
I would agree with speedlaw, who (in a metropolitan area) doesn't look at their speedo needle every 30 seconds or have a fear of major intersections (which often have a combined speed and red light camera).
Apparently not wearing your seatbelt can attract around a $250 fine in South Australia. And there was a police blitz this year which cost me a court appearance and $515 when one put the plate number of my unregistered car through their computer.
So the boneheaded laws probably are enforced.