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Comment Re:The terrorist won. (Score 2) 217

When it comes it airport security, pretty much.

There's $AU630M in extra funding to security agencies, some of which will be spent on the latest high-tech toys at airports. Australia doesn't currently do finger-printing or eye scanning but expect that to be standard for any flights bound for the USA.

Obama, or rather his 3-letter agencies, will be keen to insure "terrorists" never get on a flight to US airspace, which involves sympathetic nations rolling out new protocols and technologies in each departure terminal.

Comment Re:Uh seriously? (Score 2) 71

If they'd stuck with the original formula that contained traces of cocaine, of course...

In South American regions coca is available over the counter in dry leaf form (for mastication during highland walks) and in tea bags, obviously at lower concentrations than the white powder rich folks snort.

Comment Re:Dual Typing? (Score 1) 165

Type inferred languages often allow you to sidestep type inference by explicitly declaring the types using a semicolon following the declaration.

Microsoft's TypeScript follows that convention when augmenting ecmascript, e.g.

function add(left: number, right: number): number {
        return left + right;
}

Comment Re:Compiled Strongly-typed Languages -vs- Scripts (Score 1) 165

(I believe he was referring to Haskell.)

Java's boilerplate isn't a great advertisement for static typing. For a more modern perspective running on a virtual machine, F# and Scala provide OO semantics atop a Hindley-Milner-Damas inspired type inference but with perhaps too much esoteric functionalness for the average mortal!

One wonders if RoR would have existed if someone had managed to craft a killer web framework on, say, Ocaml a decade ago.

Comment Re:They need to get their shit together (Score 1) 169

The current federal government panders to polluting industries and skeptics, particularly to luddite senior citizens. A 20% renewable target nationwide is ahead of schedule, which prompted lobbyists to commision a report favouring a roll-back because it would hurt big business.

We have a bypartisan 5% emissions reduction by 2020. Yes, 5%, which is a joke of a target if they were actually serious.

Comment Re:Works particularly well in SA/Victoria (Score 1) 169

Thanks, South Aussies!

I'd hate that this importation would be an excuse for Napthine (or whoever's runing the place post November) to sit on their hands and do nothing. The Coalition government in Victoria slashed climate action in response to Gillard's carbon tax at the federal level.

I would hope both sides launch policies during the state election campaign as a response to Abbott and Palmer repealing the legislation, since Direct Action is dead.

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