My school forced me to buy the 2nd edition where 'fail' is a noun.

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Pirate Party Australia currently does not have the number of exclusive members required to register with the Australian Electoral Commission. This status is unlikely to change before the next election.

We do have a handful of more liberal minor parties that one can vote for, though most Aussies have never heard of them. Two that spring to mind are the Liberal Democratic Party and Australian Sex Party. Of course there is always The Greens, but who wants to undo centuries of human achievement and plunge back into the dark ages.

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Don't tell the Koreans that.

In Korea, you are age 1 the day you are born. To complicate things further (as with Japan and many other Asian countries) you report the age you are turning in that year (the year being Lunar in Korea and Solar and Japan). So if a child is born on the last day of the year, the very next day that child is already 2.

So if you ever ask a Korean their age, you should ask them for their 'international age' which will be 1 to 2 years lower

The only Australian bank that I use has the following setup-
Login: Primary Account Number
Password: 5 characters, A-Z 0-9 (no lower case)
Account locks after 3 incorrect attempts.

As a measure against the key-logger, the password is entered by clicking on a virtual keyboard which repositions itself on the screen randomly after each click.
Can not login without Javascript enabled. This measure is useless on mobile devices though as the virtual keyboard fills the entire screen and thus can not be repositioned. If an attacker found a chink in the armour that would allow multiple password attempts without locking the account (likely, as this appears to be done in script), a brute-force will likely succeed in a very short amount of time.

On the plus-side, I am informed of ALL login attempts and transactions via SMS and must login and enter a one-time-pad to authorize larger transactions. I am also given the previous login time and date upon login and a separate code is required to add a new payee or for overseas transfers.

FTFY

This is interesting. Many people have come to me over the years for tech advice, especially when purchasing new hardware. Up until today, any time a person in the creative arts asked my opinion on what machine they should buy I have unequivocally affirmed that Mac is the best choice - despite being an avid PC user. After reading this, I feel a little guilt for possibly misleading some people into making a bad purchasing decision. I have been ignorant to much of apple development as of late because I despise the iDevices and the culture that follows them, and as such, have dismissed anything written by pro-apple technophiles.

To see a film-maker/geek like Freddie make this giant shift when his entire livelihood is determined by the tools he has at his disposal is a big thing. Certainly an eye-opener.

Part of Freddie's argument was that there is no longer a Mac vs PC as they are identical in terms of hardware. This leaves just the PC architecture for the desktop. With Apple neglecting a large portion of desktop users and Microsoft focusing on its non-desktop-centric 'Metro' UI I am curious as to the future of desktop computing. Will we see the demise of the desktop or will we see a little cooperation between the Linuxes to really make a consumer-friendly well marketed product? I had previously expected Shuttleworth's Ubuntu to make it big on the desktop but the Ubuntu philosophy has shifted and the company seems to be looking to Microsoft for inspiration (WTF!?). Ditching Kubuntu (the best stepping stone Canonical had to offer to Windows users) and shifting to Unity means that Canonical no longer has a viable alternative for the desktop market and is taking the approach of its competitors in creating an interface that can be used on as many devices as possible.

The industry really needs a kick up the arse. Where do I go if I need a serious, reliable, responsive yet highly customizable machine with a wide-range of software for my work? I thought long and hard about this question before coming to the solution: 2002.

I have been using Qubes for some time and have used it as the starting point for my own desktop. Qubes is a customized Xen kernel booting a customized linux kernel as Dom0 (or Host). It currently uses a modified Fedora for the Dom0 as Fedora has best support for various Xen tools, comes with a scriptable installer (Anaconda), and plans adoption of Wayland to replace the unsecure X protocol.

I hated Qishr the first time I had it but was forced to drink it as an espresso was $13 USD where I was working. I got introduced to a merchant who would sell an 800ml thermos of Qishr + espresso for $2 USD (including the thermos) and saved a trip in to the city. Left the region 3 years ago and still miss it (the coffee). Back to guzzling espresso with its low caffeine content. The closest I can come now is an Aeropress of spiced ground coffee topped up with a double espresso - but can't grind so fine without jamming up the filter.

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