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Comment Re:Sorry... (Score 1) 270

The step up is, as was originally identified, that RSVPs and event information are centralised. Instead of sending out updates to everyone, you place the information in a central location and people choose how they use it.

For example, when I'm invited to a facebook event it sends me an email (because I've asked it to). When I put myself down as attending, the event then appears on my calendar (because I've asked it to). If the time changes, it sends me an email but it also automatically changes on my calendar. If I decide not to go, I say "not attending" and it removes itself from my calendar. The organiser has a list of "yes", "no" and "maybe" attendees that can be used for a door list. The organiser can send a message just to the "maybes" a week out and say "hey, in or out, I need to know." All of this without having to duplicate information or use a data source that might be out of date. Sounds like an advance to me.

Comment Re:This is abstincence vs. harm reduction (Score 1) 790

So stage 2 starts. Society drifts. Everyone is always impaired. Moral and ethical bases shift. This has a real impact on the effectiveness of the work force, on education, on everything.

You're right, everyone will spend their whole lives on ex, just like how everyone who drinks spends their whole life drunk.

Comment Re:Oh goody (Score 1) 790

Nice try.

Rights guaranteed by UDHR which are really controls on the actions of non-government others:

  • Art II: freedom from discrimination
  • Art III: life, liberty and security of person
  • Art IV: freedom from slavery
  • Art XII: privacy and freedom from interference
  • Art XX: freedom of association
  • Art XXIII: right to equal pay for equal work
  • Art XXV: health care
  • Art XXVI: education

It's a nice idea that the only effect of a right is to entitle an individual to act in a particular way without interference from others. Unfortunately that's not how rights are defined. Rights are merely inaliable entitlements: things to which everyone is entitled, their entitlement to which cannot be removed.

Comment Re:Eh? (Score 1) 478

Sick ass child fuckers are a cancer and it would not be unconstitutional to hunt them for sport and fun.
Perhaps the judge is sympathetic to the molester because the judge is one as well. This should be investigated thoroughly and publicly.

I must not feed the trolls. I must not feed the trolls.

Comment Re:It depends (Score 1) 390

It leads me to the following question: "is there a place where we can buy ebook in a non-crappy drm encumbered format ?"

And this is the thousand dollar question!

I have an eeepc and a Nokia N900, both of which run linux. All I want is an ebook store that will sell me books I can read on either device - doesn't have to be both. One or the other will do. And I'll pay too. I just want my books NOW and I want them linux-readable. Is that so much to ask?

Comment Re:Is Conroy's Behaviour Evil? (Score 1) 158

His website has a tag cloud which shows the most popular search terms on his site.

He has removed "isp filtering" from the tag cloud to hide its popularity. He hasn't removed any links or documents. All he's done is prevent filtering from appearing as a search term, regardless of how popular it is.

At the very least it is dishonest because it implies that certain things (e.g. the popular national broadband network) are of greater interst than filtering, even when that may not be the case.

Comment Re:This is a random comment. (Score 1) 395

sure, limit as n approaches infinity is zero. But it does so from the positive side only, so for all n less than infinity, probability is greater than zero.

Infinity isn't a number like twelve or a googol or ackerman's function called with graham's number as the arguments. It's just that thing which is greater than everything in an infinite set. However, in terms of "an infinite number of dice rolls" the REAL intent of this statement is to talk about any arbitrarily large number of dice rolls. However since the number of dice rolls is always determinable and is necessarily countable, the number of rolls will always be less than inf.

If I wasn't typing on my phone right now I'd give you a formal proof but latex is tough at the best of times.

Comment Re:Ill bet this will happen (Score 1) 467

There is only one consumer-grade DSL router with end-to-end IPv6 support and it's manufactured by Cisco.

Well, yes, if you insist on having your modem and router in one box, you're going to cut down your options a lot.

Fair point.

Having said that, every operational device I've seen in Aus is a DLS modem plus NAT and 802.3 router. Most also do 802.11 and many VoIP. All-in-one is popular here ;).

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