apart from suing google for breach of IP?

Well 1/2 the issue with customs cards is they use the word illegal and don't give you the definitions etc, If you ever have watched the "customs" shows you'll see that 95% of the people don't believe they are doing anything wrong, let alone aware of it...

I am Australian, and have read quite a few stories press releases etc on this subject. The BIG problem with these cards is, illegal to "import" and illegal to "posses" in australia is different. Meaning while it might be legal to own some types in Australia, it's illegal to bring them in (ie import) into the country, and they don't tell you what is what, This is one of the main reasons there has been a large uproar over the issue down under.

There's two set's of rules, they aren't telling you which one is which, and don't give good examples, it's basically a trap

yes, but it'll have the side effect of putting produce prices though the roof.

But when you think about, i trunk can do the work of 100 men in a day, would the carbon footprint be more or less then the 100 men doing the same job?

I read the article, and in doing reference checks in the digital age, esp when there is a large chance of fraud, that checking domain reg's etc only came in last. It's not hard to program in automatic checking, and by the sounds of it, would stop how easy this type of scam would be implemented. Also they could do reverse phone number checks etc as well. I'm quite sure if they had that information automatically populated during an application, any attempts to defraud the companies would be found out with alot less time.

That's funny, when borderlands came out, i got it off steam for $30. Just checked steam again, and yup, it's $79.99, It's obvious that they are charging different amounts for different countries now as well. (in australia for reference) It's cheaper in EB games down at the local mall (even when not on special). go figure..

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If i'm going to paying a mothly fee for pirated music, i'll be sure to download my allocation's worth every month, after i've then paid for it then haven't i?

But why delete them instead of closing them, and possibly adding a post back to one of the main threads.

Deletion of threads just indicates they have something to hide.

I've always though that each person should have two votes, and that two rep's from each "Area" should represent that area, if it was done that way, it would be impossible for one party to get complete control, and then there'd have to be compimizes across the board, if you don't have complete control, you have to start listening (or making deals) with others to get your points across.

But changing the system like that would require those in power to do so, and do you think they'd give it up ?

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No that is not the real world answer. If you don't get your application working in IE, the people will go find one that does. You might get away with not working in IE if your only designing for the tech crowd, but if your designing for business or the public, then your killing your own business before it's started.

But at the end of the day, if the customers ask for it, you give it to them. I have worked in corp land, and honestly i can fully understand it, having to do full testing cycles to ensure it won't impact on current workflows, take workstations offline or softwares used by the staff. Depending on the amount of software / image types you have, this can take 1-2 weeks, having to start a testing cycle everyday increases the man hours needed to insane amounts. In the end, when a cycle like that patches that aren't considered highly critical are ignored, and that just makes the problems even worse in the long run.

if you're doing nothing wrong, then why does the Government want to know?

Well, i'm not doing anything wrong, but i may be, or may not be doing things i might be ashamed of!

Conroy (the guy who's doing this -along with the filter), accused google of stealing every bodies bank details with their wifi devices. In saying that, i don't think we have to worry about an encryption bill, he obviously has no idea that encryption exists...

*IF* you bothered to look, you'll see that while it is googles own advertising platform on all of their products, they DO display ads from 3rd party networks,
In my adsense account, i even have an option to allow 3rd party ads via the google network, (my account -> account settings -> "Third Party Ads Preference" for reference).
Been able to show 3rd party ads on my own website via google's own network defeates alot of what people are saying here.
In *my* website i get to choose my ad provider if i want one. In my iphone app, i have to use apple's ad network, i built the app, why should i be restricted to apples own software/property for how to monitize it? locking out analytics for 3rd parties makes them useless, i'm not going to want to show ads about uk tv shows to american visitors and vice versa, this means any ads showen will be poorly targeted because of this, and the income per click is going to be extremely low.