Richard Buckland is currently working on internet voting and the security involved around that.

Fionnbharr Davies is actually an ex-student of Richard.

I know this being a UNSW graduate and a student of Richard as well :)

Fionnbharr was quite the unusual character but quite devoted to his studies cause he just found it fun. No surprises here that he enjoys lecturing for the same reasons!

... would take less burst shots than amateurs since they would know when to take a shot after having already framed it in their mind.

Amateurs (and enthusiasts like myself) can often use burst shooting for shoot-and-pray. Hopefully amongst those photos something good came out!

I don't think the results were spoiled as such. More that the 'fun' of betting on who would top the list was spoiled - especially given that some betting outlets halted bets on the list as a consequence of the analysis.

Microsoft is licensing out the SUSY theory?

TFA says that it violates two UN rules/moratoria with mention of one that limits ocean fertilisation projects... and probably something about not doing this sort of thing for commercial gain.

Can anyone else shed some light as to what was actually violated? Especially with the business man (George) in charge of the project claiming that such moratoria are "myths" and don't apply.

A link within these advertisements leads to a website that is designed to push Loozfon on the user's device.

FinFisher can be easily transmitted to a Smartphone when the user visits a specific web link or opens a text message masquerading as a system update.

Based on that, it'd be simple websites telling people to download some installer/apk.

Depends on what was modified.

Identify the module(s) impacted by the change required for the fix. Apply the fix. Test the fix works, then regression test the modules. Given small system then there's probably no problem for a 10 hour turn around - right?

So a My Little Pony hacked up Chrome?

I await the fan art for this visual image!

To find the ice, a rover thus must operate as close to the dark poles as possible, but not so far that it can't use solar arrays for power, Whittaker said. Polaris thus has three large solar arrays, arranged vertically to capture light from low on the horizon. The solar arrays will be capable of an average of 250 watts of electrical power.

So, I guess it'll be in craters that are shadowed by the depth of the walls of the crater, but by not too deep of a crater so as long as the panels are taller than them?

Which I found amusing at first, especially since I run a Mac ;)

The first time they called, I hung up immediately since I had better things to do. The second time, though, I got fairly annoyed at the guy who sounded like he was on the other side of the world in a shack somewhere. I wanted to probe him and ask questions - he claimed to be calling on behalf of my ISP, but did not disclose a name. He wouldn't answer any of my queries and kept on talking and talking - until silence and hung up.

And here I was planning on setting up a Virtual Machine and let them tinker with it to see what they did if they ever called me again - guess that ain't going to happen any more!

Freedom of speech? What's that?

The location of the server doesn't matter when it comes to defamation law in Australia. The test case was Dow Jones & Co. Inc. v Gutnick.

Despite the article in question that allegedly defamed Australian Joseph Gutnick, was published by an American company and provided via American servers, the case of defamation was allowed to be tried in the Australian state of Victoria. The key point being that the defamation occurs at the place the communication is received (in this case, Australia), not where it is stored.

Ah right, yep - I see. I wasn't quite launching it properly :)

That all said, it looks fantastic running at 2560x1440!

Well, while the site is being hammered, I'll post this here...

Running here on a Mac, the application pops up an error window after the opening text sequence: http://puu.sh/12dax and exits.

Seriously, the headline had me thinking it was about a fight over food supplies in space with issues regarding commercial vendors to supply NASA or something.

Greatly disappointed :(