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Submission + - Australian Internet Filtering Scheme Gets Green Li (theage.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @02:20AM

An anonymous reader writes: Yes, folks, it's true: the Australian Government, on the back of the technical trials, has declared that it will be introducing legislation to make Internet filtering mandatory for all Australian ISPs. Watch the speed of Australian 'net access slow significantly; innocent websites get blocked; and the bad guys accessing the stuff they want regardless. Sigh. Anybody have a good job going in New Zealand, by any chance?

Submission + - Google.org Demonstrates Tech against Deforestation (goodcleantech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @02:15AM

An anonymous reader writes: The philanthropic arm of the search engine giant, Google.org, presented a technology that could help prevent deforestation during the International Climate Change Conference or COP15 in Copenhagen. The idea is to utilize images captured by Google Earth as data to study the current condition of forests using software developed for the very task. For the demonstration, Google collaborated with scientists Greg Asner and Carlos Souza, both of whom have developed software of their own.

Submission + - Internet Censorship for Australia gets greenlight. (smh.com.au)

Submitted by taksraven on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @02:14AM

taksraven writes: The Australian Federal Government has announced that it is going to go ahead with plans to filter the internet for all Australians. This is despite the fact that it has been shown by previously released lists, that more than just child porn sites would be blocked.

Submission + - Australian Gov introduces mandatory ISP filtering (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by Sharky2009 on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @02:06AM

Sharky2009 writes: The Australia Government will introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act to require all ISPs to block Refused Classification (RC)-rated material hosted on overseas servers. The introduction of mandatory ISP-level filtering follows the release of the Enex TestLab report which trialed the viability of ISP-level filtering among nine Australian ISPs.

Submission + - Will Retiring Baby Boomers Swell FOSS?

Submitted by SomebodyOutThere on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @02:04AM

SomebodyOutThere writes: I am a baby boomer college math teacher who loves programming and is within a few years of retirement. There are a few things I want to do when I retire: read more novels, travel, and, most of all, contribute to free, open-source software projects. I’m sure I won’t be contributing many new ideas, but I can code, write documentation, and generally help out around the house. I wonder, are there be thousands like me? If so, will the FOSS movement become overwhelming as we become free to devote some serious time to it? Is this already beginning to happen?

Submission + - Manditory Net filter to be introduced in Australia

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @01:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: New legislative amendments to be introduced to the Broadcasting Services Act when parliament resumes next year could see all internet service providers block refused classification-rated material hosted on overseas servers.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/isp-filtering-plan-to-go-ahead/story-e6frgakx-1225810665832

Submission + - Australian internet censorship to go ahead (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by rocketpants on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @01:58AM

rocketpants writes: Hot on the heals of the proposed, and long awaited R18+ rating for games in Australia, the government has announced it will proceed with it's controversial internet filtering policy. Legislation will be introduced next year to force ISPs to filter all refused-classification material.

Submission + - Results in for Oz Internet censorship test (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @01:46AM

angry tapir writes: "After much delay the Australian federal government has released the results of Enex TestLab's test pilot into mandatory ISP-level content filtering, finding that a technically competent user could circumvent filtering technology based on the site blacklist. Testing also revealed that ISPs filtering only the blacklist during the trial had no noticeable performance degradation that could be attributed to the filter itself. The news comes as the government finally considers allowing adults to play R18+ rated games."

Submission + - Mandatory ISP-Level Filtering report released (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by Sharky2009 on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @01:45AM

Sharky2009 writes: After much delay the Australian Federal Government has released the results of Enex TestLab’s test pilot into mandatory ISP-level content filtering, finding that a technically competent user could circumvent filtering technology based on ACMA’s blacklist.

The report also finds that the majority of filtering technologies, when correctly installed, enable the filtering of additional content with minimal or no performance impact.

Submission + - Australian internet filtering going ahead? (yahoo.com)

Submitted by andolyne on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @01:41AM

andolyne writes: With the release of the ISP filtering trial today (http://www.dbcde.gov.au/funding_and_programs/cybersafety_plan/internet_service_provider_isp_filtering/isp_filtering_live_pilot) it looks like the Australian Government is moving ahead with their plans to force ISP to filter the internet for all users.

Comment Re:Simple Explanation: Darwin was bombed in 1941 (Score 1) 1093

by highways on Saturday December 12, 2009 @11:10PM (#30419342) Attached to: The Limits To Skepticism

I stand corrected.

Comment Simple Explanation: Darwin was bombed in 1941 (Score 4, Informative) 1093

by highways on Saturday December 12, 2009 @10:41PM (#30419156) Attached to: The Limits To Skepticism

A little history. Darwin was bombed and mostly flattened in 1941 by the Japanese during WWII. And, most likely, the weather station with it.

Hence, it was probably re-built at a different site with different local effects.

Next?

Comment So are many off-the-shelf medications (Score 2, Interesting) 177

by highways on Sunday October 18, 2009 @04:10AM (#29782655) Attached to: The Medical Benefits of Carbon Monoxide

It doesn't surprise me. Whilst many substances are unsafe at any dosage (e.g. mercury), some things are downright deadly in large quantities.

Like Paracetamol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol_toxicity Apparently, it's one of the worst ways to die.

And warafin, an excellent anti-blood clotting agent is also used as rat poison.

Comment Re:Eurosoft PC Check (Score 1) 274

by highways on Saturday October 10, 2009 @10:17PM (#29708111) Attached to: Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware?

DON"T OPEN A POWER SUPPLY UNLESS YOU KNOW THE LARGE CAPACITORS INSIDE ARE DISCHARGED - THEY CAN MAKE YOUR ARM MUSCLES CONTRACT HARD ENOUGH TO BREAK YOUR BONES. .

Only if you're in a 110V country like the USA.

In Australia/UK/EU where it's 230-250V, a stuff-up can mean DEATH.

No, really - 240V will kill you. If you're lucky, you might only get scorched nerves.

Submission + - RIAA's "Sanctions" Motion in Lindor Denied (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer on Friday October 09, 2009 @03:53PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: When the RIAA decided to drop UMG Recordings v. Lindor, a case against a Brooklyn woman who had never used a computer, it asked the Court to impose 'discovery sanctions' against Mrs. Lindor and against her counsel, Ray Beckerman (known here as NewYorkCountryLawyer), claiming that they had engaged in misconduct regarding discovery. The defendant's response (PDF) pointed out to the Court that each of the RIAA's accusations was false. Concluding that the RIAA's claims of misconduct were 'largely overstated', the Magistrate Judge, in a 13-page decision (PDF), has recommended that the plaintiffs' motion for sanctions be denied. The Magistrate recommended that the RIAA be permitted to withdraw its case 'without prejudice'.

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