Comment Re:I'd love to ! (Score 1) 601
Something I noticed in Diaspora when you download your info from it is that it includes public RSA keys for all your contacts, plus your own public & private key pair. I thought that was a good idea.
Comment Re:National ID again? (Score 1) 116
australia doesn't have a string identifier per citizen yet then(soc sec number or whatever, something assigned at birth to separate you as you)?
Australia has a Tax File Number which you apply for when you start work -- or rather start paying tax. TFN is supposed to be confidential between you and the Tax Office, though in practice any organisation that has some effect on your taxable income will ask for it. Not having/providing a TFN means you'll be paying the highest tax rate.
There were plans to create the Australia Card, back in the day, but it didn't get passed by the Senate and hence the TFN was born
Comment Re:I dont care of WallStreet likes linux (Score 2, Insightful) 339
So you don't have a pension / 401k.
Or a bank savings account.
Poor you.
Comment Re:At least one big difference (Score 3, Insightful) 364
Is it? I've been trying to find a recent source release for Android
I think the best you can say is that Android *was* open source.
Comment Re:for the wrong reasons (Score 1) 135
You're
Comment Re:for the wrong reasons (Score 1) 135
Your right. That's the job of their Records Management staff.
Comment Good Luck with that (Score 1) 432
I'm assuming the politics at RMIT haven't changed that much. Students are not clients of ITS, so good luck with getting them to do anything for you. About the only way you can get them to do anything useful is lobby your School's or Portfolio's Director of IT and get them to argue with ITS for you.
Comment Re:Enough is enough... (Score 2) 47
Richard Hammond
Comment Re:Golf Diesel (Score 1) 576
This one is pretty good too:
http://www.streetfire.net/video/5th-gear-crash-test-between-a-old-car-and-a-new_134903.htm
Comment Re:No org, corporate or not, will have privacy (Score 1) 379
Actually, a corporation IS a person. Not a natural person, but certainly a legal person.
Comment Re:surveillance society (Score 1) 329
As we fall deeper into a surveillance society, with cameras pointed at your front door, auto-logging of your car plates everywhere you drive, and (this is completely true) police helicopters with inferred[ sic ]/heat sensors flying over your house that can see through walls
If anyone is able to fly over your house and see inside with infrared sensors then you really are not fullfilling you responsibilties to the environment and should invest in much better insulation.
Honestly, the money you invest will more than pay for itself in reduced energy bills.
And you'll be able to hide from IR survalance.
This is one where tin-foil may actually work - especially if you put the shiny side down.
A Broadband Survey That Asks the Right Questions 120
Lauren Weinstein writes "I've just deployed the first ever Broadband Survey under the auspices of GCTIP, which asks questions that the FCC neglected to ask about service types, promised vs. actual broadband speeds, user satisfaction (or lack thereof) with their ISPs and local ISP competition, etc. I'm already finding the detailed comments many persons are leaving on the survey form to be extremely illuminating and with sufficient participation I'm hoping my reports from this data will be useful to the Internet community broadly."
Comment Re:Prepare for the appeals! (Score 2, Informative) 252
There is still the High Court. The Supreme Courts in Australia only have jurisdiction over State matters.
Comment Re:How about something new? (Score 1) 922
I love the bit of subtly in your post there
Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249
sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"
