Politicians have legal immunity against defamation actions for statements that they make in parliament due to parliamentary privilege.

The author and the publisher can both be responsible for libel. When suing for monetary damages, it's usual to sue the party with the most money.

There's hundreds of years of case law that says the author and the publisher are both responsible for libel.

In this case the court had to decide if the news organisations were considered "publishers" of comments posted on their boards. The paintiffs argued that since the media organisations had professional moderators who were actively deleting other posts on their boards they were exercising an editorial function. The courted decided they were were liable as publishers in this case.

If I recall correctly, the original judgement was based on the fact the companies had hired professional moderators and there was clear evidence that they were removing hundreds of other offensive posts. If they had been doing no moderation at all they might not have lost the case. By engaging in active moderation of other posts, it looked like leaving the defamatory posts up was a deliberate decision for which they were legally responsible.

As an Australian, I think the statement that our healthcare system is free to be gross oversimplification that is misleading. Large parts of the Australian healthcare system are free but large parts are not free. There's a thriving private health care system in Australia alongside the public system. There's a reason that 44% of Australians have private health insurance to supplement their free health care. Our system isn't really rational, it's a political compromise. One party gets into power and tweaks the system the one way and then a few years later the other party gets into power and tweaking things the other way.

Maintaining the Windows kernel as a VM is a lot less effort as you can stop writing new hardware drivers. I don't think Microsoft are planning to do that any time soon except for possibly the Hyper-V Dom-0.

While that is true, you are missing the point. They have written a relatively small amount of code to interface their hypervisor with the Linux kernel in the root partition. Using the Linux kernel in their Dom0 equivalent means they can rely on a vast number of hardware drivers in the Linux kernel that are maintained by $someone_else. It's a net benefit.

What I see is developers following the open source process. Most companies who write code for the Linux kernel do so for their own benefit.

There's probably no value for anyone but Microsoft at this stage. If they never distribute the binaries outside of their own Azure datacentres, they wouldn't even have an obligation under the GPL to distribute the source code.

  We don't know Microsoft's intentions for this code. It might be just an experiment that never goes into production. It's probably an effort to increase reliability of their Azure servers while decreasing the cost of maintaining hardware drivers.

If you look at Australia you will find that the 5G is still being rolled out. It's only in selected areas of the large cities and in some regional towns. There are rural areas of Australia that don't have 4G coverage, only 3G.

The current statistics reflect the fact that most people don't yet have 5G capable phones so there's plenty of capacity for the few who do. Wait a year or two until the 5G networks are operating at capacity and it will look more like 4G does today.

It's not like htop. Htop doesn't monitor system calls that process make.

It looks a bit like strace, but probably more like bpftrace since it's based on eBPF and BCC.

> where is that EVER stated as a purpose?

How is that even relevant?

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.

The official power supply is still a wall-wart. The stated power requirement has gone up from 2.5A to 3A.

To anyone who used Microsoft Word in the 1990s or early 2000s this story is entirely believable.

That article doesn't mention any technical problems with HVDC transmission lines. It's about political and planning problems. The political problems stem from conflict between the central and regional governments.

It seems that China doesn't have a fully national electricity grid, rather a collection of regional grids that are partially connected. Some regional governments are acting to protect their region's local generation in the face of cheaper imported electricity. As a result there's a high rate wasted solar and wind power and new renewable projects have slowed.

The Chromecast is first and foremost an inexpensive device. My guess is that new silicon with AV1 support would not meet the Chromecast price-point for a few years.

There was no Chromecast Ultra replacement announced today - presumably the eventual replacement will have AV1 support.